An even stranger scene unfolded. When Little Girl picked up the music box, it actually split in two. One remained on the desk, while the other rested in her hands.
But as the second music box appeared, the one on the desk stopped moving. The music box in Little Girl's hands began releasing notes instead, slowly starting up in place of the one on the desk...
"Ding-dong, ding-ding..."
[Children, hide-and-seek...]
"Dong-ding-dong... ding-ding, dong-dong..."
[...Little sister's waist aches and aches...]
"Ding-ding, dong-dong..."
[Big brother, big brother, you're so mean~ Laughing at little sister's blunt saw~]
[...]
Holding the music box and humming the Black Nursery Rhyme, she slowly followed alongside the spot where Mao Feiyang had disappeared, passed through the bedroom door, and left the bedroom with every right to do so.
Had Lin Yi been there to witness this, he would have discovered a horrifying closed-loop truth in shock-the Little Girl in the Gallery had only begun appearing from "now."
The reason Mao Feiyang had neither encountered Little Girl nor heard the notes of Amon's Music Box when he entered the Gallery was that neither Little Girl nor Amon's Music Box had been in the Gallery at that time!
Amon's Music Box had only started running after Mao Feiyang wound it up.
And Little Girl, too, seemed to have appeared only after Amon's Music Box started running...
Once Little Girl carried Amon's Music Box down this route and reached the Gallery, she encountered "him," who had just arrived at the Art Building's Gallery with Lao Mo.
A time paradox, a cycle of cause and effect.
Everything seemed to fit perfectly.
Yet it also seemed... that this was how it had always been.
Elsewhere.
When Lin Yi entered the Dream Boundary state, everything around him suddenly grew fluffy, and Little