Zero hour at midnight.
Horror movie viewing time is over.
All the actors woke up from their bedroom beds.
Except for steel men like Mallory, the others have not broken down or gone insane yet, not because of how strong their willpower and tough their nervous systems are.
But the powerful script has repaired all their damage from mental to physical, making it impossible for them to break down and go insane.
This is where the time prison is really sick and scary.
Mallory woke up from bed and immediately rushed to the kitchen.
No matter what damage was done to everything in the house at twelve o'clock noon, zero hour will return to its original state, back to the way it was before it was destroyed.
So, the ribs soup and marinade in his pot were still there.
While hitting the fire to heat up the rib soup, Mallory found a plastic bag to fill up a large bag of lo mein.
After quickly eating up a large bowl of ribs and roots and drinking a large bowl of soup, Mallory put on his armor and leg armor, picked up the alloy nail hammer, and set off with the large bag of lo mein.
There was no sound from Liu Yin's room, and Mallory didn't check on her.
She couldn't die anyway.
After leaving the door, Mallory went straight to the white fog ball.
After coming to the running corridor, Mallory took off his leg armor armor and put it on the back platform along with the alloy nail hammer and his reserve food, and then he started the extreme running for the day.
Again and again, he failed.
Again and again close to the target.
The further back in front of the more difficult.
But the time of the extreme run was lengthening, from five minutes and ten seconds, five minutes and fifteen seconds, five minutes and eighteen seconds, nineteen seconds, twenty seconds ...
The closest distance to the target has also been continuously being closed, from two and a half meters to two and a half meters, two and a half meters, two and a half meters, two and a half meters, two and a half meters, two and a half meters ...
Mallory has been squeezing the extreme potential of his body.
The energy drink saved him a lot of time, so he didn't have to rely on rest to recover the stamina consumed by extreme running.
Finally, when his time index was about to be depleted, he earned just over 1,000 time index points because of the speed boost from running and extreme running for more than five minutes.
Time index acquisition and consumption reached a dynamic balance, so Mallory no longer have to delay to go back to hunt giant rats for replenishment, can keep running.
Even later, after each run after the consumption of energy drinks, can still have a balance.
The amount of balance also from a dozen to dozens, to more than a hundred, more than two hundred ...
When Mallory was forcibly transported back by the white fog ball at noon, he had increased the duration of his extreme run to six minutes, reducing the shortest distance between him and his target to two meters.
The human body's potential is really far more powerful than humans realize, just not being squeezed to the limit like this.
At half past eleven, Mallory returned to the big house on his own from the teleportation fog ball on the platform, skinning and decomposing the other bear rhino quickly and cooking it on.
Liuyin became very quiet and barely spoke to Mallory.
Mallory also did not have time to talk to her, he was very busy, so busy that he could not use one second as two seconds.
...
At 12 noon, another round of torture began.
This time, the bugs were all over the place.
They are everywhere, pervasive, indestructible, so that all actors have nowhere to escape, these bugs eat their skin, into their bodies, swimming in their bodies, and even bite open the bone into the bone marrow, bringing them extraordinary evil pain evil itch enjoyment.
Compared with them, the real world mosquitoes, bedbugs, lice, ticks and the like are simply pedestrian, not worth mentioning.
...
Zero hour, Mallory carry weapons and equipment and food out, continue to run.
The full-speed run lasted longer and longer, and the distance to the target location was getting closer and closer, and the time index surplus from the full-speed run was getting bigger and bigger, and Mallory felt his leg muscles were getting more and more developed, and his body endurance was getting longer and longer, and his whole body was full of inexhaustible energy.
When he walked in the white fog, he did not even need to look at his watch, there are giant rats dare to sneak up on him, are in the moment of appearance by a hammer to fly killed on the spot.
At 12:00 noon, a new round of torture began.
Every day is different.
However, everything is the same.
For Mallory, there is no difference in essence, except that pain is pain.
As for the mental collateral damage, he has been completely immune to it.
His mind is now all over the running, noon, afternoon and evening time, for him is the time to sleep.
Each severe pain would wake him up, but, as long as there was an interval in between, he was able to put himself to sleep during that interval.
He even liked it here.
Unlike the boring daily wait on the stone pillar, here he was busy, had a goal, a quest, and could see himself getting stronger gradually, although it was still unclear what the use of this getting stronger was, but he knew that just getting stronger was good.
Liu Yin seems to have become a walking corpse, no longer talking to Mallory every day, and Mallory has no time to talk to her anymore, first at first, she ran in the treadmill room, and then she walked out of the room by herself.
Then later, Mallory found that she also bought a set of leg and arm armor, as well as an alloy nail hammer, and the corpse of a giant rat on the kitchen floor of the house.
And then, when Mallory returned from the fog sphere, she had fried the giant rat meat and redeemed vegetables, and placed them on the dining room table along with beer for Mallory to take for himself.
Mallory was relieved that she seemed to have found a purpose in life.
Although it was all forced, it had finally led her to this step.
...
Ten days later.
Mallory downed another energy drink.
Began a new round of running.
During the last round of running, he had extended his full-speed run to ten minutes, and the distance between him and the platform where the treasure chest was located had been closed to just one centimeter.
He had been here in the last centimeter for a whole day.
However, he now had a strong feeling of foreboding.
He felt that this time, he would be able to cross this last centimeter and reach the other side of success.
In fact, now he was not so much looking forward to what treasures would actually be in the treasure chest.
Because, his ability to run, his legs well-developed rippling muscles, is his biggest gain in the past ten days.
If you can return to the real world, Mallory feels that in the sprint event, he can try to arm wrestle with Bolt, long-distance running events are also very confident to win the Olympic championship.
Mallory's hunch was right.
He really crossed the last centimeter this time, successfully leaped onto the platform and stood in front of the glowing treasure box.
On the platform, there is a hole that leads to deeper.
But what Mallory was looking forward to now was ...
What kind of treasure does the treasure chest contain?