Chapter 28: The Nineteenth Cycle of Time (IV)
From the beginning, the biggest enemy before Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun was not the thugs or the bombs, but time.
Each time loop, from the first few minutes to the final thirty minutes when the clock stops rewinding, gives the two young men more time to move, but too little time to adapt.
Not to mention the many opportunities for time cycling that preceded it, even if they were outright wasted.
From the moment they realised that something had to be done to fix it, they had to reflect on their last 'mistake' almost as soon as they opened their eyes, and then correct and adapt their responses to their last mistake, and make new plans.
All their experience and solutions are based on every mistake, which often leaves little time for reflection, let alone implementation.
There were times when they regretted it afterwards, but in retrospect, given the urgency of the situation, there was no other option but to do what they had done at the time.
If they had waited to think about the pros and cons and weigh up the best options before doing so, the car would have exploded.
Before that, they had time cycled eighteen times and died a dozen times, each time in a short process, but these time cycles and deaths were not entirely meaningless.
It was these numerous failures that led to the most detailed and well thought out plan of the two young men.