"When the Red Moon descended, all living creatures slaughtered one another, and giant beasts revived... So the purpose of this Time Loop was to prevent this giant beast from coming back to life?"
After listening to King Mask's account, every member of Mask Squad stood frozen in place.
"That's right." King Mask nodded.
Through the looping timeline, King Mask had already uncovered every secret of this Fishing Village. He could also guess why his future self had set up a Time Loop here. Likewise, he was the only person present who understood just how serious the situation was.
So far, he had already reversed time twice. No one knew better than he did how terrifying the backlash of Time Sequence Thug was. Since his future self had been willing to burn away his lifespan to return here and use a loop to lock down time, it meant that once this giant beast revived, it would trigger an unimaginably horrifying butterfly effect...
The best way to resolve an error was to stop it before it ever happened.
"So you discovered it..." Seeing that Mask Squad had learned the truth, Chen Yangrong, embedded between the stomach walls, shook his head regretfully. "In that case, you should know what will happen if you don't pull out that blade, shouldn't you?"
"What, bribery didn't work, so now you're threatening us with death?" Vortex laughed loudly. "You really underestimate us. We've weathered so many storms over the years. Do you think one little threat from you is enough to scare us?"
Vortex looked at Chen Yangrong disdainfully, then silently took half a step back. He nudged King Mask with his elbow and asked in a lowered voice:
"Captain, what do we do? We're not really going to die here, are we?"
King Mask's brow furrowed