Chapter 1844
by 林方方Chapter 1844 Time Number Axis
Lin Qiye withdrew his gaze and carved a “0” on the ice beneath his feet with the Amatsukumono sword.
As everyone was preparing to continue forward, Lin Qiye’s command changed this time:
“How many people are there now?”
Number 22 scanned with his eyes, “Including you, five in total.”
Although Number 22 didn’t know what Lin Qiye was up to, he clearly understood more about this time labyrinth than they did. In this situation, he naturally wouldn’t go against Lin Qiye.
Lin Qiye nodded, “One person walk one step straight ahead, one person walk to the left, one person walk to the right, and after walking, everyone stay in place without moving.”
Although everyone was confused, they still followed his instructions. Three figures vanished into thin air.
Lin Qiye spoke to the remaining Number 22:
“You, follow in the footsteps of the person in front, then come back, without missing a single step.”
Number 22’s brows furrowed tightly. After hesitating for a moment, he still walked forward one step, his form disappearing from Lin Qiye’s sight.
One second, two seconds…
Lin Qiye stared at the direction where Number 22 had disappeared, silently counting the time. Just then, a hand patted him on the shoulder from behind.
Lin Qiye’s pupils suddenly contracted, and he violently slashed the Amatsukumono sword behind him!
Clang——!!
A long sword blocked Lin Qiye’s blade, and Number 22’s angry curse rang out:
“What are you doing? It’s me!”
Seeing Number 22’s face, Lin Qiye’s gaze focused, “When did you come back?”
“Just now!” Number 22 said matter-of-factly.
Lin Qiye conducted this experiment only to explore whether a person could return to the previous place after taking a step into another time-space. From Number 22’s situation, the answer was affirmative.
He first walked forward one step, arriving at another time, then stepped back, returning to the time where Lin Qiye was. This indicated that in this labyrinth, time was bound to space.
Lin Qiye took a step forward and saw the lesser god who had first disappeared. He looked back from here,
Only to see that not far away on the ice surface, a “0” was clearly visible, but there was no trace of the “1”.
“The time corresponding to this ice surface is between 0 and 1…”
Lin Qiye muttered.
He casually carved a “0.5” on the ice surface beneath his feet.
Standing on this ice surface, he could see the 0, indicating that the time when 0 was carved was “before now,” but he couldn’t see the 1, indicating that the time corresponding to the ice surface with the number 1 was later than the current time—the event of him carving 1 had not yet occurred.
These numbers represented the time sequence corresponding to each space. If time corresponded to a number line, then the “0” that Lin Qiye initially carved would be the starting mark on this number line. The further the number, the more it represented the future; the earlier the number, the more it represented the past.
Using this method, they could artificially mark the time sequence corresponding to each ice surface in the labyrinth, finding the pattern of the labyrinth in both time and space dimensions!
This was the simple method Lin Qiye had thought of to solve the time labyrinth.
The only flaw was that the clocks and other timing devices Lin Qiye had brought here had all stopped in the labyrinth. Otherwise, he could even use these clocks to calculate precisely the time span between each ice surface.
After carving 0.5, Lin Qiye went to the ice surfaces where the other two lesser gods were and carved “2” and “-1” respectively.
Looking at these numbers that appeared and disappeared across the ground, Number 22 seemed to realize something and fell into thoughtful silence.
Everyone continued with this pattern, slowly advancing through the time labyrinth. More and more numbers were marked on the ground, and the timeline was cleverly presented before everyone in this form.
After Lin Qiye carved the “-14” mark and was about to continue forward, a sudden change occurred!
Number 22 gave a look to the other main gods and lesser gods, then quickly flashed away from Lin Qiye’s side, rushing toward the unmarked left side!
His form instantly disappeared.
Almost simultaneously, the other gods unhesitatingly flashed to the left, successively vanishing into time.
In the time labyrinth, moving just about a meter could instantly enter another time. This was undoubtedly an extremely simple escape method for them. As long as they crossed several meters in a very short time, they could easily shake off Lin Qiye. Even he wouldn’t be able to know which time they had entered.
They moved so fast that Lin Qiye had barely raised his head before they had already disappeared without a trace.
Lin Qiye looked in the direction they disappeared, showing no intention of pursuing.
He shook his head and spoke softly:
“A bunch of fools…”
…
Number 22 and the three others moved in one direction, passing through several different times before stopping.
From a spatial perspective, they had only moved about forty to fifty meters, but from a time perspective, no one knew how much time separated them from Lin Qiye… days? months? or years?
After confirming that Lin Qiye hadn’t caught up, all four of them sighed in relief.
Regardless, they had finally escaped from the terrifying Commander Lin, and the sword hanging over their heads had completely disappeared.
“Holy Lord, I think I’ve figured out the pattern of this place!” Kubera excitedly spoke up.
Number 22 glanced at him, “Did you need to say that? After so long, even an idiot could see it!”
“After watching him operate a few times, I realized this labyrinth isn’t that difficult,” another main god nodded. “Once you understand the essence of the labyrinth, you just need to keep marking the path, determine the time positions, and you won’t get lost.
Even without him, we can continue forward, and with more people and faster speed, we should be able to solve this labyrinth earlier than him!”
What this main god said was exactly what Number 22 was thinking. Since they had already learned the method to pass through the labyrinth, there was naturally no need to be free labor for Lin Qiye. After all, with four people, their solving speed would be four times that of Lin Qiye!
This meant they could even solve the path ahead in advance, then hide in a certain time to ambush Lin Qiye!
“To be safe, let’s move further away from that guy’s advancing direction. Now we only have four people, and even together we might not be his match,” Number 22 said, looking at those number marks that were within reach.
Everyone nodded in agreement, following behind Number 22, gradually advancing in a direction away from Lin Qiye…
After a long time, when they could barely see the marks left by Lin Qiye, they began to carve on the ice surface, imitating Lin Qiye’s method.