When Lu Cang heard Ansu ask for his soul again, he couldn't help but laugh inwardly.
It felt like watching a dog go right back to eating its own shit.
Future Simulation still couldn't be used in these ruins, and divination couldn't reveal what would happen after he opened the door.
"Ansu."
"What do you think is behind this door?"
"From what I understand, this door is a prison holding time. What do you think it means to hold time prisoner?"
Ansu asked, "Time can be imprisoned?"
"But going by what you're suggesting, perhaps it means there are many people like you whose time is stored inside."
"Every stretch of time you experienced before being reset was stored away by some special means."
"Time must be conserved. You can't lose part of it out of nowhere. If you're being reset over and over, perhaps the time you lose is filling up some other place."
"Maybe it's behind the door."
Ansu's words were quite profound.
"But you can't be the only one who entered these ruins."
"Perhaps the others who entered them are like you. Their time, which should have kept moving forward, is instead constantly going backward..."
Lu Cang thought it over.
The information Euynri had shown him did mention that someone had returned from the Third Area.
She had also said that time in the Third Area was constantly resetting.
But you could leave after staying there for a while.
Thinking about it now, had the person who came out actually been her?
"How many souls do you need to open this door?" Lu Cang asked.
Ansu spoke again. "I can't be sure. I can only try. The laws governing this door are strange."
Lu Cang said, "Then forget it."
As his thoughts gradually fell into place, Lu