The Eighteen Levels of Hell: Lying is Forbidden Here

Qiu Yinong: Hiding.

The rest of the people: Protecting her.

Chen Ran and the Handsome Rogue Youth, on the other hand, were in quantum entanglement inside and outside the Gymnasium Storage door.

Very obviously, these eighteen people were all very conceited, believing in their own predictions of the future.

And this prediction, however, was within a time loop; there existed both a set trajectory and unknown variables.

Simply put:

The number of people is not affected by the time loop, but it might affect their deduction.

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The second day of the loop.