An Eye For An Eye

"Time loop?" Jin Jiuchi echoed with a blank face. He felt like he had heard that term somewhere during their months of studying and researching, but right now he could not think of anything on top of his head.

Shen Nianzu shot him a speechless look. So all that cramming was for nothing, then. He checked the time, realizing that they had wasted almost five minutes of the allocated twelve. With a resigned exhale, he finally decided to forsake this loop. "Okay, let's take this time to clear our heads and make a plan for our future course of action," he clapped his hands together. "I will make it simple. Right now, we are stuck in this specific sequence of events. We will go back to the beginning again and again, reliving the same events over and over… until we manage to break the cycles and achieve a different outcome. Are you with me so far?"

Jin Jiuchi blinked, processing the information. "The different outcome you're talking about is…"