Bai Ye paused slightly and swiftly looked toward the source of the abnormal temporal fluctuations.
Though he was clearly inside a sealed laboratory surrounded by heavy silver-white alloy, every material barrier was utterly useless.
His gaze was not fixed on matter at all, but on time itself, which transcended all things!
In the vast void, far to the east.
A towering black mountain stood majestically, piercing the clouds.
It was Black Mountain!
The spacetime surrounding Black Mountain had long since ceased to be smooth. Like crumpled silk, it was layered with tangled folds.
Spacetime Folds!
Within absolutely frozen spacetime, the Spacetime Folds were frozen as well, but they were far too conspicuous.
It was like a mirror-smooth lake whose one corner alone had suddenly erupted in massive waves.
The Cycle came from Black Mountain!
Bai Ye glanced at Doctor A's corpse and instantly understood everything.
The condition for triggering the Cycle was killing Doctor A. Doctor A likely had some device on him that could contact Shelter 189.
The people in the shelter knew that something had happened to Doctor A, so they activated the Cycle.
The Cycle had not automatically begun at a specific time, because this time, he had only spent four minutes in the laboratory.
With a thought, Bai Ye released Time Stop.
The Spacetime Folds above Black Mountain instantly spread outward.
His vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again...
"Brother Ye, you and Sister-in-law finally came down. What were you doing up there?" Li Xiao shamelessly asked for the ninth time.
The terrifying part was that after asking nine times, he had never once gotten the right answer.
"Ask, ask, ask! You've asked nine times already!" Bai Ye snapped at him.
Because of Time Stop, he had preserved his memories from the previous