Learn one small skill every day

Emma sighed: "It's obvious that today is Shi Yan's restart point. We don't know when we entered her sphere of influence."

"then you……"

Bai Miao subconsciously looked at the Zero Hour Lock and found that the progress had increased by 15%!

In other words, the conditions for Shiyan to restart will be triggered in fifteen days, returning to today.

But Emma was able to clearly recognize that time had restarted?

"I am unaffected by the Time Smoke. I think Captain Noah considered the Time Smoke's ability to restart when he designed me, and added modules that make me unaffected."

"Only in this way can the Endless Energy be prevented from being dragged into the endless loop of time smoke without its knowledge."

Bai Miao now thinks that Noah is a genius.

How many things did he actually take into account?

Is finding the three parts something he can definitely accomplish?

Is he really that confident in entrusting the future to a group of his clones?

"Unfortunately, when the loop started, I didn't realize why the loop condition was triggered."

What are we doing before the loop starts?

"Fifteen days later, you are chatting with a fisherman, asking about the whereabouts of Shiyan as usual. An hour after you say goodbye to him, the restart begins."

"There must be something wrong with that fisherman."

Bai Miao felt that something was really strange.

Does that mean I won't be able to see the fisherman for another fifteen days?

Wait... what about my skills today?

Bai Miao checked the skill he had drawn today, and the answer he received shocked him.

Ship piloting LV2.

But Bai Miao clearly remembered that he had never learned this skill before.

Could it be that the skill I draw... will remain the same throughout the cycle?

I drew the Ship Driving skill in the last cycle, and I drew it again in this cycle, so my skill level has increased by one level.

The skill-drawing system is also unaffected by time-based smoke.

This thing is way beyond standard...

If I cycle through it a few more times, wouldn't I be able to quickly level up my skills to a very high level, and max out the Zero Time Lock?

That's what I think, but I need to think twice before actually taking action.

Emma can sense time loops. Would she allow me to deliberately mess around with things?

However, one could certainly use the excuse that they are looking for a way to break the loop.

Even if we fail, we can always start over. Emma knows whether this path will work or not.

I'll conduct the experiment myself, and Emma will confirm the results.

"In short, let's have a ministerial meeting. Tell everyone what has happened in the past fifteen days. We really need your intelligence."

Emma did not refuse.

He had no idea that he was immune to the smoke circulation ability before it was triggered.

Watching Bai Miao's retreating figure, an idea suddenly popped into Emma's mind.

Could it be that I was created just to serve as a record to remind Shiyan when he activates his abilities?

At the ministerial meeting, Bai Miao asked Emma to explain in detail all the details of the past fifteen days.

It included where it stopped, who it spoke to, and even the content of the conversation.

“Let’s retrieve the Navigator first… They’re useless now. We’ve entered a loop, and what we need to do now is for everyone to come up with ideas and implement them, and finally Emma will tell us if the loop will be triggered again.”

Emma relaxed her clenched fist and slowly nodded: "Yes, Captain."

Chapter 136 Cycle, Recharge

Most of the time spent at sea is tedious and monotonous.

Emma meticulously recorded every word she spoke to others during this period.

Emma spoke for nearly ten hours in total.

If she weren't a machine, she probably wouldn't be able to remember so many details.

If an external speaker function is added, it should be possible to watch these fifteen days from a first-person perspective.

After Emma finished speaking, the other ministers also memorized the content and promised to go back and look for any suspicious points after the meeting.

Bai Miao was of little help in this matter.

I can't remember.

I can't remember it at all.

Bai Miao could only select the most critical events to analyze, such as the operations management department launching a salvage operation five days later, seeing a meteorite fall from the sky a few days later, and then talking to the fisherman.

It restarted shortly after the conversation.

Bai Miao felt that the biggest suspicion should be about the meteorite, and that his conversation with the fisherman was most likely just a coincidence.

As the person who knows Shigen the best, Kaguya took the initiative to take on the responsibility of helping everyone resolve their confusion.

In fact, Bai Miao was very concerned about the specific conditions under which Shi Yan's judgment would fail.

Does she want to personally confirm that the conditions have been met? Or is this failure also not something she can decide?

From a mechanical determinism perspective, if the occurrence of a certain event would lead to the fulfillment of the failure conditions set by the time smoke, would the restart begin after this time event?

Holker has demonstrated that the future can be predicted through calculation, although it may be affected by some external factors, but this is enough to show that the future can be predicted.

"Captain, Shiyan's time loop is similar to a save/load mechanism. The entire loop starts from the moment the event that caused the failure occurred. You need to understand this. Now that we're already trapped in the loop, we need to figure out what caused it, and then slowly figure out how to break the loop."

"In other words, we entered a loop without any clue, and the thing that caused the loop may not have been caused by us, but may have been far away, and we were just affected by it."

Kaguya nodded solemnly: "That's how it is."

The location did not change during the journey, meaning that until the day of the cycle, it did not approach the area where Shiyan was located...

"In short... in the days when no special events occur, we will proceed according to the original plan, try not to cause any additional changes, and control all possible variables."

Using the controlled variable method to find the point that causes the loop is the only method Bai Miao can think of at the moment.

The news of the time loop was not shared with the other crew members, and Bai Miao did not want to cause unnecessary chaos.

For the first five days, everything proceeded as usual, the only difference being that Bai Miao told Emma which numbers had problems with surveillance each night.

This adds another layer of confirmation.

On the day of the salvage operation, the items recovered by the Operations Management Department were exactly as Emma had described: life support capsules, various parts, and some jewelry. Even the salvage time was accurately predicted by Emma.

So Bai Miao then prepared to deal with the meteorite.

“Gongni, it’s time to take out your treasured Gungnir and use it. Emma, ​​help Nebeybivo confirm the location of the meteorite’s impact. We’ll try to break it before it hits the ground.”

"Ok."

……

"Captain...we've restarted the loop."

"?"

Bai Miao hurriedly checked the durability of the Zero Hour Lock and found that it had actually increased by 25%!

In other words, I spent 25 days in an abnormal period!

Bai Miao wondered if the skills he drew each day would also change with the cycle.

Ship piloting LV3.

In addition, there are several LV2 skills that I have never seen before.

What is the cycle length?

Bai Miao hurriedly asked.

"This is the second time. The first time was fifteen days... the second time was ten days..."

"then you……"

Emma sighed: "I am unaffected by the Time Smoke ability..."

What are we doing before the loop starts?

Emma frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and said, "We were attacking a meteorite that had fallen from the sky. In the last cycle, you thought the meteorite was the cause of the cycle, so you planned to use Gungnir to shatter it."

"Fortunately, Gungnir's strength easily destroyed the meteorite, but unfortunately, shortly after the meteorite turned into a shower of sparks and fell to Terra, time was restarted."

"In short, let's have a ministerial meeting. Tell everyone what has happened in the past twenty-five days. We really need your intelligence, especially what exactly happened during the first cycle."

Emma gave Bai Miao a meaningful look and slowly nodded: "Yes."

“Emma, ​​you experience each cycle with your memories. The key to finding each cycle lies in the differences between each cycle. You can selectively pick out the differences between two cycles without going into every detail.”

Bai Miao patted Emma's shoulder gently: "I understand the responsibility you are in now, so let's work together to find the key to breaking the deadlock."

Emma lowered her head slightly: "Yes, Captain, I understand."

The ministerial meeting proceeded as scheduled, and Gong Ni seemed quite proud that his Gungnir could easily shatter a meteorite in mid-air.

Bai Miao slammed his hand on the table: "Did I say all this to make you happy? Think about what's really going on!"

"Did the meteorite break apart and worsen the event? I feel that the time loop caused by the meteorite can be confirmed."

Viner raised her little hand: "The meteorite fell on Terra, and the aftershocks destroyed the civilization that Shiyan lived in. So she restarted, and we happened to be in the region of this civilization, so we were also included in the loop. The second time, we shattered the meteorite, causing it to fall everywhere. The fragments directly destroyed the civilization that Shiyan lived in. Makes perfect sense, right?"

Bai Miao had considered this possibility, but the problem was, if it really was caused by a meteorite, how could it be resolved?

Should we push it back?

"So this time, shall we try to send the meteorite... uh, back into space? How's your research on the anti-gravity device coming along?"