Everyone looked at the dead bird on the ground and fell silent.
"This is..." Baili Pangpang stared at the scene, frozen where he stood.
Lin Qiye and An Qingyu swiftly looked up at the sky. Four or five birds were tangled together in the distance, shrieking miserably as they attacked one another. Tattered feathers stained with blood drifted continuously from the sky, carried away by the wind...
One bird after another was pecked and sent plummeting down. In the end, only a single blood-soaked bird remained alive in the sky.
It let out a sharp cry, flapped its wings unsteadily, and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
"I think I know how those insects died..." Cao Yuan muttered.
"They were killing each other?" Lin Qiye frowned at the corpses of insects and ants in the dirt pit, his eyes full of confusion. "Why?"
An Qingyu fell silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't know."
"Right." Just then, Shen Qingzhu seemed to think of something. "You said this place's time is a loop. When it reaches the end, every person and object here will be reset and return to their initial state...
What about us?
Will we return to the starting point too?"
Hearing this question, An Qingyu thought seriously before speaking with a grave expression. "If things here really are as I guessed—a Time Loop that constantly 'ends' and 'restarts'—then we most likely won't be able to return to the beginning of this period.
It's like an adventure game. When you save at a certain stage, the system only records and preserves the state at that exact moment. We're outsiders who entered afterward, and this save file contains no information about us. Once time here reaches its end and restarts...
We'll be like dust clinging to the loop,