While Cyril stared at the Red Priest card on the table in front of Klein and muttered to himself, Justice Audrey noticed that Sun Derrick looked troubled and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Sun, is something on your mind?"
"Did something go wrong with the expedition to the half-collapsed temple?"
Derrick took a deep breath and steadied himself before quickly describing what had happened in the memories he had just regained. "Under the Chief's leadership, we reached and explored the half-collapsed temple. No one was hurt during the expedition, but..."
He pressed his lips together and took several more deep breaths before continuing. "But we've repeated the same events five times already, and we're about to begin exploring for the sixth time."
"Before I received Mr. Fool's reminder just now, I hadn't noticed anything. I had no memories of any of the previous expeditions."
"The five expeditions so far all ended the same way, but each had some differences in the details."
"During the first expedition, all the beast-skin lanterns suddenly went out outside the half-collapsed temple. We didn't encounter that in any of the later expeditions."
"During the second, one of us lost control and almost ate the beautiful but dangerous mushrooms growing in the corners of the walls, but the Chief stopped him in time."
"During the third, that strange little boy, Jack, told us more. During the fourth, he transformed without warning. On the fifth, the temple completely collapsed while we were exploring its underground area, blocking the exit."
"Each time, the Chief killed the little boy named Jack, and then everything went back to when we were resting outside the ruined city, preparing to explore. It all started over."
"All this time, the City of Silver exploration team and I have been living through the same life over