Chapter 1823
by 林方方Chapter 1823 Time Labyrinth
You said what?
In the Commander-in-Chief’s office, Lin Qiye frowned and looked up.
“Mountains trembling, strange lights in the sky… and people claiming they saw a divine bird?
“Yes, near Shennongjia. Quite a few people witnessed it.
“Shennongjia… is it a ‘Mystery’?
“It doesn’t seem like it… what kind of ‘Mystery’ could create such a grand spectacle?
Lin Qiye leaned back in his chair, one hand rubbing his chin, as if thinking of something.
“Where is Fang Mo?
“After Xia Simeng’s memorial service, the [Demon] squad has been on standby in Beijing.
“Tell him to come see me now.
“Yes, sir.
Half an hour later, Fang Mo hurriedly arrived at the office.
“Commander, do we have a mission?” Fang Mo asked eagerly as soon as he entered.
“Don’t rush. I need to ask you a few questions first.
Lin Qiye waited for Fang Mo to sit down before continuing, “You told me before that besides you, there are eleven other proxy agents of the Great Xia Immortals, correct?
“Yes.” Fang Mo nodded, “Three years ago, you asked me to find them, remember? But the seal on that cave heaven was still intact, so they hadn’t come out yet.
“Where is this cave heaven located?
“Near Shennongjia.
Hearing this answer, understanding dawned in Lin Qiye’s eyes. He slowly stood up from his seat.
“You said before that the time flow inside the cave is different from the outside world. Three days inside equals one day outside… and the condition to leave that sealed place is for the proxy to reach seventeen years of age?
“That’s right… but when I went there last time, the seal seemed to have been modified by the Heavenly Venerable. I don’t know what the exact conditions for leaving became.
Fang Mo sighed, “The other eleven brothers and sisters are like me, not only proxies of the Immortals but also carrying the souls of divine beasts… if they could emerge, Great Xia’s fighting power would increase significantly.
Lin Qiye paused for a moment.
“They have already come out.
Fang Mo was stunned. “What??
“Last night, the mountains near Shennongjia trembled and strange lights appeared in the sky. That should be the scene of the cave heaven’s seal breaking…
Fang Mo’s eyes immediately lit up. “That’s great! I’ll go find them and bring them back right away!
He was about to turn around when he suddenly stopped in his tracks, as if remembering something.
“Wait… if the time flow in the cave heaven hasn’t changed, then they must have been living in there for sixteen or seventeen years?
“Yes.” Lin Qiye nodded, “Theoretically, they should be about my age now…
Fang Mo’s expression immediately became somewhat awkward.
He vaguely remembered how, a few years ago, they were all accepted as disciples under Yang Jian, with a group of children following behind him calling him “big brother”… Back then, he was the oldest among them. Now, even the youngest would be several years older than him.
A group of people about Commander Lin’s age calling him big brother… it felt rather strange.
“You were their senior brother back then, so it’s most appropriate for you to bring them back.” Lin Qiye noticed Fang Mo’s strange expression and asked, “What’s wrong? Is there a problem?
“…No, no problem.
Fang Mo shook his head, said goodbye to Lin Qiye, and walked out the door.
Just as he left, another figure hurriedly approached.
“Commander, they’re back!” Min Junliang’s voice reached the room before he did.
“Who?
“Wang Mian and Lu Wuwei!
…
The deep red cloak swept through the corridor as Lin Qiye quickly walked to the medical ward’s door and stopped.
At that moment, a white-haired figure slowly raised his head from the chair in front of the door, his aged face filled with exhaustion.
“How is he?” Lin Qiye asked with a frown.
“No life-threatening danger, just lost a lot of blood,” Wang Mian answered. “This is already after I continuously slowed down his time flow. Otherwise, with that amount of bleeding, he wouldn’t have made it back to Great Xia.
“What about you?
“I’m just depleted of divine power and lost some lifespan. Otherwise, I’m fine.
Lin Qiye’s eyes fixed on Wang Mian. “So, what exactly did you encounter?
With Wang Mian, the God of Time, present, even if they encountered danger in the mist, they should have been able to escape safely. Nothing below the Supreme Realm should have been able to threaten them.
And in the current mist, there were almost no Supreme Gods. Who could have injured them like this?
A bitter look appeared in Wang Mian’s eyes.
“The Door…
“Door?
“After we left Great Xia, we kept moving south following Lu Wuwei’s ability, and eventually arrived near Antarctica…
Upon hearing the word Antarctica, Lin Qiye’s gaze sharpened.
Antarctica again?
A hundred years ago, the mist originated from Antarctica. Going further back, the Hero King Gilgamesh also discovered the ice-sealed Ancestral God Temple in Antarctica.
When a place is simultaneously connected to both the mist and the Ancestral Gods, there must be some enormous unknown mystery there. Lin Qiye knew this… but he hadn’t expected that Nyx would also be in Antarctica?
Could this be the reason she never appeared in the world and had all her causality severed?
“After arriving there, Lu Wuwei’s ability seemed to be interfered with. We kept circling around Antarctica… After circling for several days, we accidentally entered a mysterious space.
There, time seemed to have stopped. Even I couldn’t freely reverse or modify the flow of time. Not only that, but time would also undergo unknown changes as we moved…
Listening to Wang Mian’s description, Lin Qiye’s frown deepened. He couldn’t help interrupting:
“What do you mean by ‘undergo unknown changes as you moved’?
Wang Mian thought for a moment and explained differently: “Let me put it this way. Generally, time and space exist simultaneously. They can influence each other through special means. For example, spatial movement beyond the speed of light can traverse the river of time; or by folding time to an extreme degree, one can reach any place in space…
But for time and space to influence each other requires very strict conditions. It’s very difficult to achieve in the outside world. However, in that place, this threshold seemed to be lowered significantly.
When you step forward, your time might rewind five seconds; when you step to the right, you might jump two years into the future…
In short, it was like a time labyrinth. Any spatial movement would inevitably cause temporal effects.
“A time labyrinth?
Lin Qiye murmured these words. “Even you, the God of Time, couldn’t break the rules of that place?