As expected, it was a cycle again...... Hearing Aurore's answer, Lumian was not surprised at all.
So far, this is the third cycle he can remember, combined with his own experience and the mysterious lady's suggestion, he has a preliminary conclusion:
"The time limit of the cycle is until the twelfth night;
"The spatial limitation of the cycle is the village of Kordu and the surrounding area;
"The character limit of the cycle is that you cannot kill the priest of the parish.
"These are the three key points of the cycle......"
Thinking of this, Lumian looked at Aurore and asked thoughtfully:
"Sister, if you were to write a novel about the time loop, where would you put the key to breaking the loop?"
"Suddenly asking such a question, and calling me sister very well......" Aurore looked Lumian up and down suspiciously, "Thought of a new deceptive story?"
"I guess so." Lumian replied sincerely.
Aurore frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said:
"From the novelist's point of view, or from the point of view of normal logic, the most critical part of the cycle must be in the last scene, because it is both the end of this cycle and the wedge of the next cycle, the button that connects the end and the beginning.
"If you think about it, if you go back in the cycle, there will always be the first time, and it must have happened at the last minute that something happened that caused the time to restart."
Twelfth Night? Lumian agreed with his sister's speculation, nodded, and asked instead:
"So why can't the most critical part be the first day of the cycle? I have to ask why the cycle starts at this point in time, right?"
Aurore smiled:
"Making up a short story to temporarily deceive a few people is your strength, but this kind of content that requires rigorous logic and rich knowledge is not good for you.
"The reason why the first day of the cycle is the first day may be just because of the force that causes the cycle, or the energy, which can only be covered from the last day to this day, which is like the high probability of the cycle is not the whole world, but somewhere.
Lumian actually thought of this, he just thought that his knowledgeable sister should be able to come up with a different answer.
Aurore thought for a moment and added:
"If the loop is not a completely closed circle, there is still interaction between the outside and inside the ring, for example, the information inside can be transmitted, and people from the outside can come in but cannot leave, then the first day of the cycle may be counted from the day when the outsider happens to enter, so that when the loop is repeated, they will not have a 'position'.
Lumian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he wanted to praise his sister loudly.
He suspected that the entry of Lia, Ryan, and Valente caused the cycle to begin on the afternoon of March 29.
If that is the case, the twelfth night may have become the tenth and ninth nights, and of course, it may have been the thirteenth night because of the "intrusion" of outsiders.
This is all possible and needs to be verified by Lumian himself.
He completely agrees with his sister's reasoning just now, believing that something must have happened on "Twelfth Night" to cause the cycle to occur, and only by figuring out what happened at that time can it be possible to find the key to breaking the cycle.
Therefore, Lumian decided not to touch any anomalies in this cycle, and Lenten also made excuses not to join the blessing parade and stayed until the twelfth night.
But he can't do nothing, time doesn't allow.
Unless Lumian breaks the cycle after experiencing the twelfth night this time, he will have to grab time when it comes to the next cycle.
A complete cycle lasts for twelve days, and after this cycle, the outside world discovers that the probability of an abnormality in Kordu Village is a straight line, leaving Lumian to solve the problem at most a complete cycle, not even enough.
And in order to stop the abnormality in a single cycle, he must have enough intelligence and a full understanding of the information of the entire village.
It is necessary not to detonate the anomaly, but also to investigate the problem...... Lumian couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart:
What is the difference between this and a clown walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff?
It's not a good thing to have it and to be it.
Seeing that he didn't speak for a few seconds, as if he was already making up a story, Aurore waved his hand and said:
"I almost forgot to make dinner!"
"Wait a minute." Lumian looked at Aurore with a serious and solemn expression.
Auror suddenly "tsk":
"I smell a prank."
Lumian said bluntly:
"Aurore, uh, sister, we've actually fallen into a cycle."
"Oh, did you just learn it and use it on your sister and me?" Aurore was angry and funny.
Sometimes, people still need a little credit...... Lumian said with a smile while silently sighing:
"At least you listen to the story I made up first, okay?
"Why don't you give it a score by the way?"
Aurore glanced at the still bright sky outside the window:
"Okay."
Lumian started with his meeting with Leah and other foreigners, and used the outline to say that he stayed awake in his dream, entered a unique ruin, and became a "hunter" by hunting monsters, obtaining extraordinary characteristics.
He did not hide the pattern of the circle of thorns that locked his chest, as this could involve the key to the time loop - he saw the same symbol in the Priest, and killing the Priest caused the time to restart earlier.
Aurore was smiling at first, thinking that her brother was very creative this time, but as she listened, her expression became serious, because a lot of knowledge should not be understood by Lumian.
By the time Lumian said she had become extraordinary, she finally made a move, raised her right hand, and pinched her temples on both sides.
Her light blue eyes suddenly became dark, but no figure was reflected.
She looked at Lumian for a while, nodded lightly and said:
"Your etheric body has changed a lot, and your life energy and physical state are much more than ordinary people.
"The astral spirit body has changed to a certain extent, but not much......
"Sure enough, it's a 'hunter' who is better at hand-to-hand combat than spellcasting......
"I can't see that symbol and related changes, and I don't dare to look deeper......"
Speaking of this, Aurore puffed out her mouth, and still asked with some doubts:
"Could it be that you deliberately made up such an outrageous story to make me accept that you are an extraordinary person?"
This is typical of Lumian style.
Lumian didn't explain, but talked directly about the occult knowledge that the woman had instilled in him.
Of course, he only briefly mentioned the name and did not elaborate on it.
This is not because he is very moral and principled, and he doesn't even tell his sister before he gets the woman's permission, but the other party is obviously very powerful, and if he really wants to leak precious knowledge to anger her, the time loop may be solved by this, but the person is definitely gone.
"The law of immortality...... Law of aggregation...... Playing the ......" Aurore was dumbfounded.
The illiterate brother in the field of occultism actually mastered this incomparably valuable knowledge!
She has been an extraordinary person for more than five years now, first relying on the diary of Roselle the Great, and later joining that organization, plus her own path has the symbol of general knowledge in the field of occultism, and she will be chased by knowledge from time to time, and then she has mastered the "law of pretense", "the law of the immortality of extraordinary characteristics", and "the law of conservation of extraordinary characteristics".
And now, my younger brother, who has never been exposed to occultism, can actually tell these things, and there is also a "law of extraordinary characteristic aggregation" that he doesn't know!
This ruled out the possibility that Lumian could peek into her sorcery notes.
As an extraordinary person in the "Secret Man" path, Aurore suppressed his desire to know the specific content of the "Law of Convergence", while looking at his younger brother, he asked with doubt, surprise and worry:
"What did you pay to get that lady to teach you this knowledge?"
Magic medicine recipes are all given away for free!
She looked at Lumian again, from top to bottom, from bottom to top, trying to find out what was missing from the other party.
"Nothing." Lumian laughed at himself, "That's how scary it is, I don't know what price I will pay for it in the future, well, I suspect it has something to do with the symbol on my chest and the ruins of that dream, that lady should want me to unlock the corresponding secret."
Aurore said "hmm":
"You continue."
She waited for the "story" to follow with a very serious attitude.
Lumian talked about the owl, about the changes in Lent, about the experience of the siblings in the second cycle, and about how the cycle restarted directly as soon as the two tried to leave Kordu Village.
Aurore listened carefully and said to herself in disbelief:
"Either I was hypnotized by you and told you everything, or time is really looping......"
She began to believe Lumian because she had chosen the name of her "integrity brooch" and was not recorded anywhere, and Lumian could not have known unless she told her brother herself, and she had no impression of it at all.
Lumian strikes while the iron is hot:
"I can also predict that the three foreigners will appear in the old tavern at night, that the priest of this parish will be having an affair with Madame Pualis tonight, and that the shepherd Pierre. Berry has returned to the village, and the three sheep he is taking with him have problems......"
The more Aurore listened, the more solemn he became, and after a while he said:
"Those three foreigners entered the village in the afternoon, and you and I practiced fighting, rested afterwards, and didn't go out at all.
"Well, in the afternoon fighting class, you are still an ordinary person......"
She accepted Lumian's claim that time was cyclical.
If it were someone else, Lumian would smile and say, "I believe it! Believe it! You really believe such an outrageous story", but in the face of Aurore, he was still very restrained.
He then proposed:
"I'm going to go around the village now to see if I can collect more information."
Aurore nodded:
"I will also use my 'eyes' to look around, but this is very limited and very dangerous, and I am not sure there will be any gains."
Lumian waved his hand to show that he knew, and walked out the door.
After walking a few steps, he looked back at Aurore's figure standing in the kitchen, and suddenly thought of the scene of the other party pushing himself to safety among countless undead, and the pain of separation was inexplicable.
He asked subconsciously:
"Sister, why did you adopt me in the first place?"
Aurore replied angrily:
"I don't want to!
"I was just kind enough to give you some food, but you kept following me, I couldn't shake it off, and you helped me do this and that very well...... Who knew you would grow up to be what you are now!
"Do you know how hard it was for me to take a child like you as a girl at that time?"
After listening to Aurore's answer, Lumian wanted to say thank you and praise his sister, but the words were stuffed there, as if they were about to rush to his eyes and nose.
He turned his head and walked towards the village.
(End of this chapter)