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There is this kind of time node cycle in many movies, TV dramas and novels. From a certain moment to a certain moment, it can be regarded as two points, the beginning is the first point and the end is the second point.
If the first point to the second point is viewed as a line, then the time loop connects the "start" of the first point to the "end" of the second point, and the original line is connected into a loop. , so after triggering the key to the second point, it will return to the first point again, and the loop will continue endlessly.
This is just a film and television drama's setting and conjecture about the invisible existence of the fourth dimension of time. Although people live on a four-dimensional level with time, the senses of the body and consciousness can only be regarded as three-dimensional creatures. Time travel or return In the past, it was always just conjecture and there could be no real answer.
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Gu Xing didn't expect that he would encounter a time loop that only existed in movies and TV series, but considering that there are even existences like Qi Qi in the world, there is nothing surprising about encountering such a thing.
After all, when he came, he had already prepared that this place was a mysterious phenomenon that violated the laws of nature that could be explained by existing human science.
Gu Xing's first question now is how to get out of this time loop.
"I have gone through three cycles now. The three cycles were all after I killed the last person in the village, my five senses were blurred, and then I returned to the starting point."
Gu Xing analyzed the phenomena observed in the three cycles, "This is the point when I saw someone in the village in front and someone suddenly appeared behind me. In other words, from here I officially entered the cycle. So, how to break the cycle? …”
Gu Xing thought for a moment and frowned.
His current knowledge is that of a high school student. The problem of time loop is too profound for him. He cannot understand and explain it with his current knowledge, let alone find a way to bring out the time loop.
These thoughts only lasted for a moment in his mind. From the outside, he just threw his arms and rolled the burly man behind him down the mountain.
After he beat the burly man down the mountain, the "people" behind the burly man just glanced at him, and then changed indifferently to a "person" behind the burly man. A fat middle-aged woman came up to ask him.
"Are you leaving or not? If not, can you please just stay out of the way?"
This middle-aged woman was holding a hairy thigh, which was cut off at the root and dripping with blood. Her feet were also wearing black socks and leather shoes.
After Gu Xing looked at the middle-aged woman for a moment, he tried to ask: "Where did you get the things in your hands?"
As he spoke, he looked at the bloody thigh held by the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman suddenly became wary and looked him up and down: "He let us eat it himself!"
"I was asking where you got it?"
Gu Xing frowned slightly and asked again.
Since this time loop is a mysterious phenomenon, he has some doubts about whether it will be like the last time he was in Coffin Village, where no one was dead and everything here was his illusion.
Unfortunately, the last time I was in Coffin Village, the brain cell activity had not exceeded 10%, and the five senses had not qualitatively changed. It is not easy to compare the feelings then and now, otherwise I should be able to discover more information.
"He made us eat it himself!"
The middle-aged woman replied again, with a wary look on her face, as if she didn't understand what Gu Xing said.
Gu Xing frowned when he saw this, and asked again, but the other party still said the same thing.
Gu Xing thought for a while, then changed the question and asked, "What are you doing?"
After speaking, Gu Xing glanced at the village ahead.
This time, the middle-aged woman had a different answer.
The middle-aged woman smiled strangely and replied: "I'll eat you."
As soon as he finished speaking, all the "people" behind the middle-aged woman had strange smiles on their faces.
Different from the crazy shrill smiles before, the smiles of these things this time were so weird that it made people's scalp numb.
In the village ahead, "people" came out one by one and walked towards Gu Xing, with the same weird smiles on their faces as the "people" in front of Gu Xing.
These people walked over slowly and sandwiched Gu Xing in the middle of the mountain road. They didn't do anything but looked at Gu Xing's weird smile.
If it were an ordinary person, I'm afraid they would have been driven crazy by these weird smiling faces.
But Gu Xing didn't, he just looked at the weird smiling faces of these "things" thoughtfully.
"What conditions were triggered again..."
Gu Xing felt like he was playing a horror RPG game. Different actions would trigger different effects. He assumed that he was an ordinary person and how he would react to this situation before and now. .
The words "I let you eat" are one trigger, and asking what these things are for is another trigger.
The former should be a condition that is difficult to trigger. After all, most people don't have the kind of force he has. At that time, it was just a casual response, which was a coincidence.
The triggering conditions for the latter are very large.
Most people will almost always ask similar questions when they don’t know the reason.
In other words, the most likely situation that ordinary people will encounter is the current situation where everyone is surrounding themselves with weird smiles.
"No wonder he went crazy and hanged himself..."
Gu Xing looked around, looking at these things standing still, looking at him smiling strangely, and thought to himself.
Being looked at by hundreds of people in such a strange and terrifying way is really a test of one's psychological quality.
Gurgle Gurgle ~
As he thought, Gu Xing's body slowly swelled up.
Since the established conditions have been triggered, it seems that there is no way to save it, so he can only start over...
Five or six minutes later.
"Crack!"
Standing in the bloody remains and the bodies lying in all directions, Gu Xing twisted the neck of the last person, and his five senses blurred and he returned to the "starting point" again.
"Are you going to move forward? Please don't block the road!"
The impatient question of the burly man came from behind.
Gu Xing made way without saying anything this time, and then after the burly man and others passed, he turned around and went down the mountain road.
But he just passed a corner - that is, he turned from the back, came here, and saw the corner of the village.
The next moment, Gu Xing's five senses blurred and he returned to the starting point just now.
"Are you going to move forward? Please don't block the road!"
The impatient question of the burly man came from behind again.
Gu Xing frowned.
"Is it not possible to return the original route... If so, how about this?"
Gu Xing began to try.
He first followed the "plot" and made way for the burly man and a group of "people", then followed them to the village, blending in with the crowd and observing secretly, until the big iron pot at the entrance of the village boiled, and the group of things called him again to discuss how to eat him deliciously, then Gu Xing took action and killed all the "people", and then his five senses blurred and returned to the starting point again.
The fifth cycle.
"The one in front..."
"Bang!"
The burly man asked impatiently again from behind, but before he could finish asking, Gu Xing punched the burly man in the temple and killed him.
Then, Gu Xing started to try again.
"Returning is not possible, and following is not possible either, so will there be different results if different "people" are killed in the end?"
This conjecture came into his mind, so Gu Xing began to verify it.
In the five cycles, Gu Xing has memorized the number of these things. There are 136 of them in total. After excluding the last four people killed in the previous five cycles, Gu Xing began to cycle again and again...
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
Five senses are blurred, back to the starting point.
The sixth cycle.
"No."
...
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
Five senses are blurred, back to the starting point.
The seventh cycle.
"No."
...
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
Five senses are blurred, back to the starting point.
The thirty-ninth cycle.
"No."
...
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
Five senses are blurred, back to the starting point.
The seventy-eighth cycle.
"No."
...
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
Five senses are blurred, back to the starting point.
The one hundred and twenty-first cycle.
"No."
...
Cycle over and over again.
Gu Xing looked focused and serious as if he was doing some experiment.
"Snap!"
Twist the neck.
The five senses were blurred, and he returned to the starting point.
The 132nd cycle.
"It still doesn't work."
After the last experiment, Gu Xing kept all 136 people until the end and killed them again, but the result did not change. He returned to the starting point again and continued the cycle.
"Are you going to move forward? Can you please stop blocking the road?"
The burly man behind him asked impatiently for the 135th time.
Gu Xing frowned, and there was a hint of irritation in his eyes.
In order to verify what he thought in his heart, he pursued efficiency and started to act quickly, killing all these things in just two or three minutes.
But 136 times of two or three minutes is equivalent to five or six hours.
Although Gu Xing's [body] cells representing the degree of physical health have reached 6%, and his physical recovery ability is far beyond that of ordinary people, he did not feel tired for five or six hours in a row, but he could clearly feel the consumption of physical strength.
And every time he returned to the starting point, the physical strength he consumed was not replenished.
If he continued to cycle like this, he would have to face some problems, such as physical strength, food, sleep, and so on.
This made him start to get anxious.
"Is my thinking wrong... No one of these things can be left to the last to be killed. If I change my thinking... Whoever is killed first at the beginning, I don't know if there will be a trigger condition?"
Although he started to get anxious, Gu Xing was still not panicked.
After changing his thinking, he started his verification again...
Five or six hours later.
"Hu... Hu..."
Gu Xing stood in the pile of corpses covered in blood, holding a "person" by the neck in his palm-leaf fan-sized hand and lifting the other person up.
He looked at the flushed face of the "person" in his hand, and said to himself with a slight breath: "The last verification result..."
As he spoke, he exerted force on his hand.
"Crack!"
The neck was twisted off, and the body was put down with a "bang".
Gu Xing squatted down and gasped.
After a moment, he felt his five senses blurred, and the impatient questioning that he was tired of hearing came from behind again.
"Will you move forward? Can you please not block the road?"
"Is it still not working..."
Gu Xing squatted on the ground, panting slightly, looking a little tired, and the anxiety in his eyes became more intense.
Failed again.
He has cycled through it two hundred and seventy-two times.
This seems to be an infinite loop.
Neither guess changed anything.
"Let's change our thinking again..."
Gu Xing stood up and looked at the mountain where he was and the surrounding mountains.
"If we can't go back, is there a way elsewhere?"
Just do what comes to mind.
Gu Xing no longer killed people, but began to focus on the village and began to try to leave from all directions.
However……
Back to the starting point!
Back to the starting point!
Back to the starting point!
Back to the starting point!
…
Verified again and again, returning to the starting point again and again, the endless cycle still continues.
After more than a hundred cycles, Gu Xing still couldn't leave here and was still stuck in the cycle.
"Can the person in front of me go? Can you please stay out of the way!"
The burly man asked impatiently again from behind.
Gu Xing's eyes were filled with a violent light, and his anxiety and exhaustion made him look like he would fall into hysterics at any time.
However, in terms of brain, Gu Xing's reason is still suppressing and analyzing the complex desire information generated by the body.
"It doesn't work in all directions. As long as you exceed a certain range of the village, you will return to the starting point. It is useless to destroy all the houses in the village. We must change our thinking..."
Gu Xing changed his mind again. After making other attempts, his mind returned to the previous different order of killing.
"One hundred and thirty-six things, different head kills and tail kills are useless. Is there a specific order that needs to be killed correctly?"
Gu Xing frowned.
If we follow this idea and there are no clear clues and conditions, we can only use the "exhaustive method" to verify it slowly, which will be a very huge number.
But without verification, there is no other way now...
"Can the person in front of me go? Can you please stay out of the way!"
While thinking about it, the burly man asked impatiently from behind again.
Gu Xing also tried not to give way or reply, but the burly man behind him responded by repeating this sentence in an impatient tone, really like a game NPC with a fixed program.
When Gu Xing heard the burly man's impatient inquiry, his tyrannical eyes flashed fiercely. He stood up suddenly, grabbed the burly man's head and hit him with a headbutt!
"Boom!"
Blood spattered and dyed Gu Xing's forehead red.
The burly man closed his eyes and fell to the ground with a "bang".
Blood slowly flowed from Gu Xing's forehead down the bridge of his nose. He looked at the humanoid things in front of him with cruel eyes, and he immediately made a decision in his heart!
Verify, verify!
So what if the exhaustive method has a huge number of verifications? It’s not an infinite quantity! So what if there is an unlimited number? !
Use your limited life to pursue the ultimate bloom!
This is the spirit Gu Xing learned from his master Zhan Fuping!
Even if the number is infinite, he is not willing to do nothing.
give up?
He never thought about it!