When 'God' Decides To Start Over
Chapter 206 - 120 Crossing the Line

Personal emotional factors can be ruled out, as although Li Xiu is trapped here, his emotions are very stable, and very few things can cause significant emotional fluctuations for him.

External stimuli have also not been discovered as anything that could stimulate him; the room is empty, and there won’t be a donkey kicking him in the head. It’s purely environmental factors, which basically can’t affect Li Xiu.

Regarding chemical agents, Li Xiu is not too sure. There are many gases that are difficult for the human eye to discern, and he might not even see them. Currently, he has no sense of touch or smell, making it probably difficult to discover.

The last and most difficult to detect is whether a magnetic field, energy resonance, or radiation is affecting his brain. He feels nothing, and this is also very hard to detect.

Li Xiu carefully contemplated the information he knew. The child with cerebral palsy survived, but his condition rapidly deteriorated within three days, yet the child with cerebral palsy never mentioned he had spent a long time inside.

Of course, at that time, he no longer had the ability to speak, and even his fingers couldn’t move.

The madman claimed to have stayed in that room for a very long time, whether it be years or even a hundred years; it was certainly not just three days.

Also, what Li Xiu currently encountered: a disappearance of feel, leaving only visual functionality.

Li Xiu could probably confirm that there is some kind of power affecting the brain, causing it to malfunction, thus resulting in his loss of sensation.

If the brain is affected, making that madman feel it lasted many years, why did everyone else die while only he survived?

Why was it that the child with cerebral palsy survived while the strong Spiritual Force Trial Takers could not?

Why did the madman continue counting? He was terrified while counting, so scared he dared not make a mistake in the numbers. Even when counting beyond a billion, under Li Xiu’s interference, he still made no error.

Li Xiu pondered all this, thinking about various possible connections.

According to Mu Yu’s account, the child with cerebral palsy survived because his brain was damaged, affecting his bodily functions. His body gradually became beyond the brain’s control, beginning with facial muscles, then the mouth and eyes, later the speech function, and eventually leading to total paralysis.

Such a brain-damaged child, if indeed invaded by some brain-affecting energy, should have been unable to escape.

Yet his condition worsened, and he escaped.

Li Xiu suddenly thought of a possibility. Perhaps this so-called trial had no temporal end, and the time they perceived in their brains was deliberately distorted, creating an infinite time loop within their brains.

Those affected brains would be trapped in endless time cycles, meaning the trial could never end unless they committed suicide.

The reason the child with cerebral palsy survived was that his brain was already damaged, affecting certain brain functions, thus preventing the infinite time loop that only affects the brain from forming.

So, he survived and escaped, not because he was stronger than others, but because his brain was defected.

However, due to that energy’s influence, the already damaged brain was further damaged, leading to total paralysis.

This already illustrates a crucial problem: that energy is merely the key to opening the brain’s time loop. It is ultimately one’s brain that traps them in time.

But what about the madman? His brain was neither ill nor damaged, theoretically making it impossible to break free from the brain’s time loop.

Li Xiu thought of this and had a sudden inspiration: "Could it be that he discovered the problem of the brain’s time loop and figured out a method to break it? By not harming his brain, that method was certainly not feasible, as he didn’t know which part of the brain needed damage to break the time loop. Carelessness might even kill him, and even if not, becoming paralyzed isn’t much better than death."

"His method should be related to those numbers he was counting, but breaking the brain’s time loop by counting seems far too simplistic." Li Xiu felt it probably wasn’t just the numbers; the madman counted for some specific purpose.

"What purpose was he trying to achieve?" Li Xiu mused over this question.

He knew that if he couldn’t figure out this problem, he would forever be trapped here: one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years. As long as he lived and didn’t commit suicide, he would continue the trial endlessly.

The brain caused his perception of time to almost stop. No matter how much time he felt had passed, for those outside the Gate of Purgatory, not much time had elapsed.

One can imagine the agony experienced by those who participated in the trial, trapped for one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand years in a place devoid of time, sensation, and everything else—such immense horror.

There was once an experiment conducted where a person stayed in an absolutely silent room for a period in exchange for a considerable sum of money, enough to prevent a poor person from worrying about livelihood for years.