Hearing this, everyone present was stunned at the same time.

"Disjointed times, closed areas, material ...... that appear out of thin air" Cao Yuan muttered for a moment, as if thinking of something, "Why does it sound so much like ......"

"'Human Circle'?!" Lin Qiye's pupils shrank slightly.

Originally, Lin Qiye didn't realize this at all, but as soon as An Qingyu said this, Lin Qiye immediately recalled what happened when he was in Japan.

As An Qingyu said, all the special points they have discovered so far are too similar to the characteristics of the "human circle", but the two are completely different levels of existence in terms of size and scale. There are tens of millions of people living in Japan's "human circle", and the area is even more terrifying, and this small fishing village is less than 100 people, and it is only a palm-sized place.

"But that doesn't make sense?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment and shook his head again and again, "Shouldn't the 'human circle' be attached to a certain artifact?" Also, where does the energy that sustains this 'circle of people' come from? There shouldn't be a huge soul drain reserve like Japan, right? ”

"Qiye is right, although this place is very similar to the 'human circle', it is not a 'human circle'."

An Qingyu took out a crumpled piece of paper from his arms and spread it on the ground, and everyone gathered around to watch it carefully.

"I sneaked into the kiosk of this fishing village last night and found this purchase list." An Qingyu stretched out his finger and pointed to the entries on it, and said seriously, "This commissary is purchased once every three days, where each kind of goods comes from and how much it costs, which is clearly written on it." ”

"What does this mean?" Baili asked in confusion.

"It shows that these supplies did not appear out of thin air." Lin Qiye replied, "If it is a 'human circle', these materials should appear in an unbelievable form, and in the eyes of the people who live in it, it should be similar to a miracle, just like in Japan's 'human circle', all the electrical energy is burned by the Yaga Mirror, and then supplied to the [Pure Land] to enter the city and other power equipment."

But it's different here, the supplies here are actually produced somewhere else, and then transported into the village. ”

"But...... Isn't it closed here? How did these goods get in? Cao Yuan became more and more confused when he heard this, and he pointed to a few names on the purchase list, "Also, haven't these companies gone bankrupt a long time ago?" How can you still buy them? ”

"Here's the problem." An Qingyu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "I thought about it all night last night, sorted out all the possibilities, and there is only one possibility that can explain all this......"

Everyone held their breath and waited for An Qingyu to give an answer.

"Here, trapped by time."

Looking at everyone's blank expressions, An Qingyu continued to explain, "Judging from the current signs, this is indeed a village that existed more than fifty years ago. A commissary that buys goods from the outside every three days, a fisherman who goes out to sea every day to catch fish, and a father who waits for his son to come back from going out...... They work from sunrise to sunset, and if you ignore the boundaries around the village, this is an ordinary fishing village.

However, time here, for some reason, is disconnected from the outside world, forming a closed loop. ”

An Qingyu picked up a branch from the ground and drew a straight line and a circle.

"If the normal flow of time is a straight line forward, then time in this village is a circle that connects head to end.

When this time comes to the end of the closed loop, it is like pressing the reset button, and all people and things will return to the starting point and continue the cycle.

During this time, it may be one day, or it may be two days, or three days...... In the case of more than 50 years in the outside world, everything here is circulating in these days, the materials are endless, people do not age, everything that happens in these days will be repeated over and over again. ”

Hearing An Qingyu's bold conjecture, the rest of the [Nightfall] team was stunned, and even Lin Qiye was a little incredulous:

"A closed loop of time that has existed for more than fifty years? Is it really possible? ”

"Humans can't do it, but God ...... Maybe. An Qingyu glanced at this fishing village and continued, "I suspect that there is someone or something in this fishing village that triggers the law of time and maintains the operation of the closed loop of time. ”

Time......

Hearing these two words, for some reason, Lin Qiye's mind once again resurfaced the figure of the silver-haired old man who was floating alone in the waves.

Does this Wang Mian, who is suspected to be from the future, have anything to do with the current situation of this fishing village?

"But if all this is really man-made, then what is his purpose?" Shen Qingzhu, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, "This is just a small fishing village that exists on the border of Great Xia, there is nothing special, why spend such a big price to create a closed loop of time here?" ”

"Aside from time, isn't there really anything special here? Or have we not found out yet? An Qingyu asked rhetorically.

At this moment, Lin Qiye seemed to think of something, "Yes." ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Lin Qiye.

"Last night, I communicated with the nocturnal creatures in this fishing village and scattered around looking for clues, but I soon found ......"

A touch of night spread in Lin Qiye's eyes, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the dirt under his feet, and the night tore open the surface of the earth, revealing the heavy layer of soil below.

In the soil, insects and ants were scattered among them, and their stumps were scattered, and their deaths were extremely miserable.

"Dead." Lin Qiye continued, "First the ants, then the centipedes, and then the bats...... In one night, all the nocturnal creatures died. ”

"It's not just nocturnal creatures." An Qingyu closed his eyes and sensed for a while, his expression was extremely solemn, "The few mice I planted last night with 'fish fingerling' are also dead......

"What's going on?" Baili Chubby scratched his head and said half-jokingly, "What's special about this place is that it automatically eliminates harm?" ”

As soon as Baili Chubby's voice fell, something fell heavily on his head, and then fell to the ground, grinning in pain.

"What is sneaking up on the master?"

Baili Chubby rubbed his head and looked down, and the whole person was suddenly shocked.

At his feet, a scaly bird fell to the ground weakly, with a blush in its eyes, flapping its almost broken wings like crazy, rolling to the edge of Baili's chubby shoe, and pecking him hard.

After a few seconds, the bird lay motionless on the ground, lifeless.