“This is…”

Lin Shuo's eyes slowly swept across the surrounding scenery and murmured: "2020?"

Behind me was the vast white fog that could not be seen at a glance. It was obviously the 1-01 penalty area where northern Jiangsu City was located, completely shrouded in the mysterious fog.

And the foot is not a road, but a wide cement open space. The gray-white floor looks a bit old. A semicircular high wall of barbed wire can be seen not far away, surrounding the open space nearby. Surveillance cameras can also be seen near the barbed wire.

At this time, a surveillance probe in the distance aimed at this direction, and a female voice suddenly rang through the loudspeaker:

"Welcome back, No.961 Tinder, Ms. Tong Momo, please wait in place, and there will be relevant personnel to answer in ten minutes."

Then, he returned to peace.

"Wait, someone will come from the supervision base soon."

Tong Momo glanced at Xia Yi's body on the ground next to him again. The shroud was obviously left in the penalty area.

Lin Shuo didn't say anything, staring at the autumn day in the sky, then slowly closed his eyes, as if feeling the cool and pleasant autumn wind and temperature.

"How is it?" Tong Momo asked with interest: "How does it feel?"

"How can you feel?"

Lin Shuo opened his eyes, shook his head and said, "Just let me think deeply."

"What?" Tong Momo said curiously.

Lin Shuo turned his head and glanced at her, but didn't say anything. He suddenly reached out and pinched her chin. His thumb gently rubbed his lips, and then pinched her cheeks, making her open her mouth.

Tong Momo's fair and pink face looked a bit scary, and he quickly knocked off his palm and glared at him fiercely.

"Why are you teasing me? Believe it or not, I will poison you?" She threatened with a very fierce look.

Lin Shuo didn't care, but looked at the thumb that touched her lips just now and whispered: "You just ate oil, but now you don't have any left, and you can't see it on your teeth."

Tong Momo hummed, "Yes, didn't I say it? Except for fire thieves and items with time characteristics, no matter dead or living things, they cannot enter the forbidden area."

"Then what you eat?" Lin Shuo asked, "Are you still here?"

Tong Momo was slightly stunned, touched her belly, and said, "Uh... it seems to be gone."

"Then is the energy converted after you eat the food and digest it, still there?" Lin Shuo asked.

"It should... it's still here." Tong Momo thought for a while and said, "I didn't have much strength after a big fight in the morning, but after eating, I was very energetic, and now I am."

"Is that right?" Lin Shuo narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking.

"What's wrong?" Tong Momo said in confusion.

"Don't you find it strange?"

Lin Shuo looked up at the clear sky and said, "It's late at night in the penalty area, but it's day outside the penalty area. Where do you think the sunlight in the penalty area comes from? Does the sunlight outside the penalty area pass through the fog? Since the time inside and outside the penalty area is not synchronized, if the source of the sunlight is outside the penalty area, the time flow rate is 600 times, and the sunlight outside the penalty area for half a day should last for 300 days."

"Yes." Tong Momo was also a little confused.

Lin Shuo said again: "When we came out, the temperature in northern Jiangsu was 7 degrees Celsius at night, and it was about 20 degrees here. The temperature inside and outside the restricted area was different. Where did the night wind in the restricted area come from?"

Tong Momo's head hurt a little, and she said helplessly: "This... I am an ancient person. I have only lived in modern times for a few years. I have just started high school. How could I know?"

Lin Shuo smiled and said, "I probably guessed something."

"You don't have to explain it to me." Tong Momo waved his hand quickly and said, "You should talk to those scientific researchers who specialize in researching the restricted areas. I'm illiterate."

Lin Shuo laughed silently and then said softly: "However, I do have some things to confirm first."

A gust of autumn wind blew by, rolling a yellowed fallen leaves floating from a distance and falling to the ground.

...

Ten minutes later.

A group of people suddenly walked up from the barbed wire wall not far away. They were a group of two rows of soldiers carrying guns and live ammunition, with uniform steps and well-trained. There was a man and a woman in the middle of the two rows of soldiers.

The man is about thirty years old, wearing a navy blue suit, with a clear face like a knife, axe and chisel. His bronze skin is obviously exposed to the wind and sun for a long time. He holds his head up and his chest up while walking, and his steps are strong, making him look more like a sergeant than the soldiers around him.

The woman is in her twenties, wearing a gray professional attire, wearing a pair of glasses on her fair face, looking intellectually mature, and at first glance she is a secretarial job.

When the two soldiers and a man and a woman in the middle came to the front, Tong Momo immediately took a step forward and took the initiative to speak: "Colonel Luo, I have completed the task, please check it."

"Welcome back, thank you for your hard work, Ms. Tong Momo."

The man, "College Luo", nodded slightly, first glanced at Lin Shuo, and then looked at Xia Yi's body on the ground.

When he saw Xia Yi's corpse that had completely turned into a monster, he narrowed his eyes slightly, then looked at Lin Shuo again, and then ordered the soldiers next to him: "Put it away."

Immediately, two soldiers left the line and carefully put Xia Yi's body into the box.

The woman in professional attire who looked like a secretary looked at Lin Shuo and couldn't help asking: "Ms. Tong, this one is..."

"He has the talent for time, which I discovered in the 1-01 penalty area." Tong Momo said with a smile: "Secretary Yang, according to the rules, I should have a lot of contribution value rewards to discover fire thieves, right?"

"If you can become a fire thief, of course you will have a contribution value." The woman in professional attire called "Secretary Yang" nodded.

"That's good." Tong Momo smiled happily.

Colonel Luo looked at Lin Shuo and asked, "I don't know what to call him?"

"Lin Shuo." Lin Shuo said.

"I have a question, please ask Mr. Lin to answer it."

Colonel Luo looked at him with deep eyes and said, "Mr. Lin, the 1-01 penalty area, Jiangsu North City is in the time cycle, you should know now, right?"

"I know." Lin Shuo nodded slightly.

"After the fog blocked the northern city of Jiangsu, have you never thought about leaving the northern city?" asked Colonel Luo.

"I thought about it." Lin Shuo said the truth, "but I can't get out."

"Because his ability is not stable." Tong Momo said, "In the 1-01 penalty area, time was constantly retroactive. Only one day, his ability was constantly awakened and he could not stabilize. It was not until this time when he met me, helped me kill the mission target, and absorbed Shizhisha to stabilize."

Colonel Luo was silent for a moment, but said, "Ms. Tong Momo, maybe you don't know yet. It took about twenty minutes from the time you entered the 1-01 penalty area until you came out."

"What?" Tong Momo was stunned.

Secretary Yang looked at Tong Momo and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his slender fingertips, adding: "To be precise, it is 1152 seconds. The time flow rate in the 1-01 penalty area is 600 times that of the outside world. The internal restart is once every 24 hours. In other words, every 144 seconds, the internal cycle will be cycled, and you have experienced eight time cycles in the 1-01 penalty area."

"Eight cycles?" Tong Momo couldn't help but feel a little surprised and turned to look at Lin Shuo.

Colonel Luo frowned slightly and said, "Ms. Tong, we thought your mission failed and was trapped in the 1-01 penalty area. We wanted to notify other fire thieves to take you out, but we didn't expect that after eight cycles, you came out by yourself. Please explain, what's going on?"

Secretary Yang whispered: "In theory, once the fire thief enters the 1-01 penalty area and does not come out before the time restarts, he will fall into an infinite loop and be trapped in it. For example, an infinite replayed video. Without external intervention, an inherent loop will be formed in the penalty area."

"this……"

Tong Momo was also a little confused.

She also probably understood what the situation was. The 1-01 penalty area was like a movie. She suddenly got into it and became an actor. But at the end of the movie, she failed to leave the movie. Then the movie was replayed again and the same ending was still the same.

Logically, without other external intervention, this situation will continue to cycle infinitely because everything that happens in the movie is part of the movie.

But... after eight cycles, she came out for no reason!

Therefore, there must be other factors that change and break the cycle!

"Lin Shuo?" Tong Momo couldn't help looking at Lin Shuo, "Do you know why this is?"

Lin Shuo faced the eyes of several people and said with a plain face: "No need to guess, it's true that I broke the cycle."
Chapter completed!