Chapter 869 – A Fishing Village Trapped in Time

　　Hearing these words, everyone present froze at the same time.

　　”Disconnected era, closed area, supplies appearing out of thin air ……” Cao Yuan muttered for a moment, as if he had thought of something, “How does it sound so similar… …”

　　”‘Circle of Man’?!” Lin Qiye’s pupils slightly contracted.

　　Originally, Lin Qiye didn’t realize this at all, and when An Qingyu said this, Lin Qiye immediately recalled what happened to him when he was in Japan.

　　Just as Anqing Yu said, all the special points they had discovered so far were too similar to the characteristics of the “human circle”, only that the two existed at two different levels in terms of size and scale. Japan’s “circle of man” within the survival of tens of millions of people, covers an area is even more horrifying to the extreme, and this small fishing village is less than a hundred people, is only a palm-sized piece of land.

　　”But this doesn’t make sense?” Lin Qiye pondered for a moment and shook his head repeatedly, “Shouldn’t the ‘Circle of Man’ be dependent on a certain divine artifact? Also, where does the energy to support this ‘Circle of Man’ come from? There shouldn’t be a huge soul-consuming reserve here like in Japan, right?”

　　”Seven Nights is right, although this place resembles the ‘Circle of Man’, it is not the ‘Circle of Man’.”

　　Anqing Yu pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from her bosom and spread it out on the ground, and the crowd gathered around to take a closer look at it.

　　”I snuck into the kiosk of this fishing village last night and found this purchase order.” An Qingyu reached out and pointed at those entries on it, saying seriously, “This kiosk is stocked once every three days, where each type of goods comes from and how much it costs, it’s all written clearly on here.”

　　”What can this mean?” Baili Fatty asked in disbelief.

　　”It shows that these supplies didn’t appear out of thin air.” Lin Qiye replied, “If it’s a ‘human circle’, all of these supplies should appear in an unimaginable form, and in the eyes of the people living in it, it should be similar to a miracle, like in the ‘human circle’ in Japan, where the Electricity is all supplied by the Yagyu burning souls before supplying the [Pure Land] into the city’s other electrical equipment.

　　But it’s different here, all the supplies here are indeed produced elsewhere and then transported into this village.”

　　”But isn’t …… this place closed? How were these goods transported in?” Cao Yuan listened with growing confusion as he pointed to a few names on the incoming goods list, “Also, didn’t these companies go bankrupt a long time ago? How can they still be fed to them?”

　　”That’s where the problem lies.” An Qingyu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, “I thought about it all night last night, combed through all the possibilities, and there is only one possibility that can explain all of this away ……”

　　Everyone held their breath, waiting for An Qingyu to give an answer.

　　”Here, trapped by time.”

　　Looking at the bewildered expressions of the crowd, An Qingyu continued to explain, “From all the signs so far, this is indeed a village that existed more than fifty years ago. The kiosk that gets goods from the outside world every three days, the fishermen who go out to sea every day, the fathers who wait for their sons who go out to come back …… they work at sunrise and rest at sunset, if you ignore the borders around that village, this is a more than ordinary fishing village.

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

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

　　”If the normal flow of time is a straight line going forward, then the time in this village is a circle with a head and a tail.

　　With the normal flow of time in the outside world, the people here are repeating a certain period of time over and over again, and when that period of time comes to the end of the closed loop, it’s as if the reset button has been pressed here, and all the people and things go back to the beginning, continuing the cycle.

　　This period of time, it may be one day, it may be two days, three days …… in the case of the outside world has already passed more than fifty years, everything here is cycling within these few days, the supplies are endless, and the people don’t age, and everything that happened within these few days will be repeated over and over again.”

　　Hearing An Qingyu’s bold conjecture, the rest of the [Night Curtain] squad was dumbfounded, even Lin Qiye was a bit incredulous:

　　”A closed loop of time that has existed for over fifty years? Is it really possible for it to appear?”

　　”Humans can’t do it, but gods …… might be able to.” An Qingyu glanced at this fishing village and continued, “I suspect that within this fishing village, there is someone or something that invokes the laws of time and maintains the closed loop of time.”

　　Time ……

　　Hearing these two words, for some reason, Lin Qiye’s mind once again conjured up the figure of that silver-haired old man who was floating alone in a boat amongst the waves.

　　Was there any connection between this king face, suspected to be from the future, and the current state of this fishing village?

　　”But if all this is really man-made, then what is his purpose?” Shen Qingzhu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up, “This is just a small fishing village that exists on the border of the Great Xia, there is nothing special about it, so why would he spend such a large amount of money to create a closed loop of time here?”

　　”Other than time, is there really nothing special about this place? Or have we not discovered it yet?” An Qingyu asked rhetorically.

　　Just then, Lin Qiye looked like he thought of something, “There is.”

　　Everyone turned their heads to look at Lin Qiye.

　　”Last night, I communicated the nocturnal creatures within this fishing village and spread out in all directions to look for clues, but I soon realized ……”

　　A flash of night color spread in Lin Qiye’s eyes as he stretched out his hand and grabbed at the dirt under his feet in the air, and the night color tore through the surface of the earth, revealing the thick layer of dirt underneath.

　　Amidst the dirt, an insect ant was sprawled across it, with its limbs scattered about in a miserable state of death.

　　”Dead out.” Lin Qiye continued, “First the ants, then the centipedes, then the bats …… In the course of one night, all the night creatures died out.”

　　”It’s not just the night creatures.” An Qingyu closed her eyes and perceived for a while, her expression was grave to the extreme, “The few rats that I planted the ‘fish seed’ last night, they also died out ……”

　　”What is this situation?” Baili Chubby scratched his head and said half-jokingly, “The special thing about this place is that it automatically removes pests?”

　　Baili Fatty’s words just fell, something landed heavily on his head and then fell to the ground, hurting him straight grin.

　　”What kind of thing sneaks up on little master?”

　　Baili Chubby rubbed his head while looking down, and his entire body suddenly shook.

　　Beside his feet, a scaly flying bird weakly fell to the ground, its eyes tinged with a touch of red, madly flapping its wings that were almost even broken, it tumbled to the side of Baili Chubby’s shoes and pecked him twice with great force.

　　A few seconds later, the bird of prey lay motionless on the ground, losing its life.