Chapter 43: Confession
Sure enough, it cycled again...... Hearing Aurel's answer, Lumian was not at all surprised.
So far, this is the third cycle he can remember, and based on his own experience and the mysterious lady's reminders, he has a preliminary summary:
"The time limit of the cycle is until the twelfth night;
"The spatial constraints of the circulation are the village of Cordu and the surrounding area;
"The character restriction of the cycle is that you can't kill the parish priest.
"These are the three key points of the cycle......"
Thinking of this, Lumian looked at Aurel and asked thoughtfully:
"Sister, if you were to write a novel about a time loop, where would you put the key to unwinding the loop?"
"Suddenly asking such a question, and calling my sister very well......" Aurel looked Lumien up and down suspiciously, "came up with a deceitful new story?" ”
"Sort of." Lumian replied sincerely.
Oroel frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said:
"From the novelist's point of view, or from the point of view of normal logic, the most crucial part of the cycle is certainly in the last scene, because it is both the end of this cycle and the wedge of the next, the clasp that connects the end and the beginning, without which it is impossible to make the time flowing in a straight line a closed circle.
"If you think about it, if you go back in the loop, there will always be a first time, and it must have been something that happened at the last minute that caused the restart of time."
Twelfth Night? Lumian agreed with his sister's speculation, nodded, and asked instead:
"So why can't the most critical part be the first day of the cycle? You have to ask why the cycle starts at this point in time, right? ”
Aurel laughed:
"It's your forte to make up a short story to fool a few people temporarily, but you can't do this kind of content that requires rigorous logic and rich knowledge.
"The reason why the first day of the cycle is the first day may only be because the force that caused the cycle, or the energy, can only cover this day retroactively from the last day, which is like the probability of the cycle is not the whole world, but somewhere, it's not that you don't want to, you can't do it."
Lumian actually thought of this, he just thought that his knowledgeable and well-informed sister should be able to come up with a different answer.
Aurore thought for a moment and added:
"If the cycle is not a completely closed circle, and there is still an interaction between the outside of the ring and the inside of the ring, for example, the information inside can be transmitted, and the people outside can come in but not leave, then the first day of the cycle may be counted from the day when the outsider happens to enter, so as not to have a 'place' when the cycle is repeated, of course, it can also force the outsider to do what will be done after the first day of no action, and there are too many ways to make up similar stories."
Lumian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he wanted to praise his sister loudly.
He suspects that the entry of Leah, Ryan, and Valentine caused the cycle to begin on the afternoon of March 29.
If that were the case, the twelfth night might have become the tenth night, the ninth night, or of course, the thirteenth night, because the outsider's "intrusion" had become the twelfth night.
It's all possible, and it needs to be verified by Lumian himself.
He fully agrees with his sister's reasoning just now, believing that something must have happened in "Twelfth Night" to cause the cycle to occur, and only by figuring out what happened at that time can it be possible to find the key to breaking the cycle.
Therefore, Lumian decided not to touch any anomalies in this cycle, and Lent also found an excuse not to join the Blessing Parade, and stayed "An'an" until the twelfth night.
But he also can't do nothing, time doesn't allow.
Unless Lumian breaks the cycle after the twelfth night this time, he will have to rush for time in the next cycle.
A complete cycle lasts for twelve days, and when this cycle is over, the probability of the outside world discovering an anomaly in Kordu Village is skyrocketing, and the most left for Lumian to solve the problem is a complete cycle, not even one.
In order to stop the anomaly in a single cycle, he must have enough information to have a full understanding of the information of the entire village.
It is necessary not only not to detonate the anomaly, but also to investigate the problem...... Lumian couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart:
What's the difference between this and a clown walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff?
It's not a good thing to have both.
Seeing that he had not spoken for several seconds, and as if he was already making up a story, Aurel raised his hand and waved:
"I almost forgot to make dinner!"
"Wait a minute." Lumian looked at Aurel with a serious and solemn expression.
O'Horore suddenly "tsk":
"I smell the smell of mischief."
Lumian said bluntly:
"Aurel, uh, sister, we're actually stuck in a loop."
"Heh, just learned to use it on your sister and me?" Aurel is angry and funny.
Sometimes, people still need a little credit...... Lumian said with a smile while sighing silently:
"At least you can listen to the story I made up first, okay?
"Why don't you give it a score by the way?"
Aurore looked out the window at the still bright sky:
"Okay."
Lumian started with his meeting with Leah and other outsiders, and used the form of an outline to say that he stayed awake in a dream, entered a unique ruin, and became a "hunter" by hunting monsters and gaining extraordinary characteristics.
He didn't hide the thorn ring motif that locked his chest, as it might have involved the key to the time loop - he saw the same symbol in the parish priest, and killing the parish priest caused time to reset early.
Aurel smiled at first, thinking that her brother had made it up very creatively, but as she listened, her expression became serious, because there was a lot of knowledge that Lumian should not know.
By the time Lumien said she had become extraordinary, she finally moved, raised her right hand, and pinched her temples on both sides.
Her pale blue eyes suddenly became dark, but there was no reflection of her figure.
She looked at Lumian for a while, then bowed her head lightly:
"Your etheric body has changed very much, and your life energy and physical state are much higher than ordinary people.
"There have been some changes in the astral spirits, but not much......
"Sure enough, it's a 'hunter' who is better at hand-to-hand combat than spellcasting......
"I can't see the symbol and the related changes, and I don't dare to look deeper......"
Speaking of this, Aurel puffed out her mouth, and still asked with some doubts:
"You didn't deliberately make up such an outrageous story in order to make me accept that you were extraordinary, right?"
This is typical of the Lumian style.
Lumian didn't explain, but spoke directly about the occult knowledge that the lady had instilled in him.
Of course, he only briefly mentioned the name without elaborating on it.
It's not because he's very moral and principled, and he didn't even tell his sister before he got the lady's permission, but because the other party was obviously very powerful, and if he really wanted to leak precious knowledge and anger her, then the time loop might be resolved, but the person would definitely be gone.
"The Law of Imperishability...... The Law of Aggregation...... Playing the ...... of law, "Aurel was dumbfounded.
The illiterate brother in the field of occultism has mastered this invaluable knowledge!
It has been more than five years since she became an extraordinary, first relying on the diary of Russell the Great, and later joining that organization, plus her own path has a general symbol in the occult field, and she will be chased by knowledge from time to time, so she has mastered the three cornerstones of building an extraordinary world, such as "Acting Law", "Law of Immortality of Extraordinary Characteristics", and "Law of Conservation of Extraordinary Characteristics", so she claims to be an extraordinary person with little qualifications but deep enough knowledge, leaving most of her peers on several streets.
And now, my brother, who has never been exposed to the occult, can tell these things, and he also has the "law of extraordinary characteristics aggregation" that he doesn't know!
This ruled out the possibility of Lumian peeking at her witchcraft notes.
As an extraordinary person in the way of the "Voyeur", Aurel held back her mood to know the specific content of the "Law of Aggregation", looked at her brother, and asked with confusion, surprise and worry:
"What did you have to do to get that lady to teach you this?"
Potion recipes are all given away for free!
She looked at Lumien again, from top to bottom, bottom to top, trying to find out what was missing from the other person.
"Nothing." Lumian laughed to himself, "That's what horror it is, I don't even know what I'm going to pay for it in the future, well, I suspect it has something to do with the symbol on my chest and the ruins of that dream, and that lady is trying for me to unlock the corresponding secret." ”
Aurel gave an "um" sound:
"You go on."
She waited for the rest of the "story" with a very serious attitude.
Lumian talked about the owl, about the mutation of Lent, about the experience of the siblings in the second cycle, and about the cycle that restarted as soon as the two tried the village of Cordu.
Aurore listened attentively, and muttered to herself in disbelief:
"Either I was hypnotized by you and told you everything, or time is really looping......"
She began to believe Lumien, because the name of her "Integrity Brooch" was her own and was not recorded anywhere, and she could not have known it unless she told her brother herself, and she had no memory of it.
Lumian strikes while the iron is hot:
"I can also predict that the three strangers will appear at the old tavern at night, that the parish priest will have an affair with Madame de Poalis tonight, and that the shepherd Pierre. Berry has returned to the village with three sheep with him......"
The more Aurore listened, the more solemn she became, and after a while she said:
"Those three outsiders entered the village in the afternoon, and you and I practiced martial arts, and then rested, and didn't go out at all.
"Well, in the afternoon martial arts class, you were still an ordinary person......"
She accepted the Lumien's argument that time was in a loop.
Changing to someone else, Lumian smiled and said, "Believe it!" Believe! You really believe such an outrageous story", but in the face of Auror, he was still very restrained.
He then proposed:
"I'm going to walk around the village now and see if I can gather more information."
Aurel nodded:
"I'll also use my 'eyes' to look around, but it's very limiting, it's very dangerous, and I'm not sure it's going to be rewarded."
Lumian waved his hand in understanding, and walked out the door.
After walking a few steps, he looked back at Aurel's figure standing in the kitchen, and suddenly thought of the image of the other party pushing himself to safety among the countless undead, and inexplicably the pain of separation.
He subconsciously asked:
"Sister, why did you adopt me in the first place?"
Aurel replied angrily:
"I don't want to!
"I was just kind enough to give you some food, but you kept following me, and you couldn't shake it off, and you were very obedient to help me do this and that, and I relented for a while...... Who knew you would grow like this!
"I was a girl at the time, how hard it was for you to take such a child, do you know?"
After listening to Auror's answer, Lumian wanted to say thank you and praise her sister, but the words were stuffed there, as if they were about to rush to her eyes and nose.
He turned his head and walked towards the village.