Chapter 2476 Clock Forest

After an unknown amount of time, Angel fell from the golden light.

He closed his eyes tightly, his cheeks pale.

After a few seconds, Angel suddenly opened his eyes, but before he could see the surrounding situation clearly. He covered his chest, propped himself up from the ground, and retched violently to the side.

This retching lasted for more than half a minute.

However, Angel had nothing in his stomach after all, and he only vomited out sour gastric juice after vomiting for a long time, but no matter what, at least he felt that his breathing was smoother than before.

"The second time... the second time..." Angel's voice full of resentment floated out from his teeth.

When he was swallowed into the stomach of the Dalmatian before, he experienced an unprecedented rolling, and he felt very uncomfortable at the time. This time was even worse, Angel himself didn't know how many times he rolled, as if he had rolled from last year to this year.

Even with his current physique, he could be tortured to retching, which shows how unforgettable this rolling was for Angel.

After the tightness in his chest eased a little, Angel raised his head and looked around.

This look made Angel's eyes stunned.

Clocks.

Countless clocks.

Round, square, flat, slanted, as big as morning stars, as small as rings, cracked, half embedded in the void, glittering, dimmed...

Various clocks filled this unknown void.

And Angel was in a corner of this "clock forest".

There was a void under his feet, but inexplicably, a piece of luminous velvet grew where he stepped. Angel walked tentatively, and the glowing velvet would automatically grow where his feet landed as he moved, without the danger of falling into the void.

Although the situation of velvet growing out of thin air under his feet was very strange, considering that this was the belly of a Dalmatian, anything could happen, so Angel ignored it.

He believed that these glowing velvets should be just insignificant details.

What the Dalmatian really wanted him to see might be this "clock forest".

These clocks have various styles, some are exquisite and some are simple. At first glance, Angel did not find anything surprising. The only thing they have in common is that they are all still.

Since the Dalmatian brought him here, Angel firmly believed from the bottom of his heart that his appearance here should be designed by the Dalmatian, so the Dalmatian should want him to see something or do something here.

Thinking of this, Angel stood up.

He walked towards the nearest clock.

It was a somewhat dim clock with rotten hands. Located at the outermost edge of the clock forest, it looked like a decoration made by a down-and-out noble to support the facade.

No matter how he looked at it, Angel did not see anything special about this clock.

After hesitating for a second, he decided to reach out and touch it. He had touched the clock outside before, and it might be the same for the clock here.

But when Angel reached out, he found that he had grabbed nothing.

This clock is not real.

It is illusory.

Angell was stunned for a moment. As an illusion wizard, he had never found anything illusory about this clock before. Except for being a little worn out, in his eyes and in his spiritual vision, this was a real clock.

Angell couldn't help waving his hands back and forth beside the clock. Even though everything he touched was illusory, Angell still couldn't see any trace of illusion.

Is this perhaps a higher level of illusion?

Or, is this not an illusion, but Angell's ability can't touch the entity?

Angell couldn't come up with an answer, and could only attribute it to the magical ability of the Dalmatian.

Since this clock is illusory, what about other clocks? Angell didn't dwell on one place for too long, but continued to walk towards another clock.

Square clock wheel... illusory.

Heart-shaped pocket watch... illusory.

Gorgeous wall clock... illusory.

Angell moved forward and touched all the way. No matter whether it was a clock as tall as a building or a small pocket watch, no clock was real, all of them were illusory.

Although these clocks have very distinctive appearances, Ingres really can't see any value worth studying carefully. He can only move forward.

As Ingres moves forward, the clocks around him begin to become more refined, and there are more glowing clock wheels.

However, no matter how refined and dazzling, they are still just coated with a layer of gorgeous appearance, and the inner shell is still illusory.

Perhaps because there are too many illusory clocks and he didn't find any focus worthy of attention, Ingres's thoughts began to diverge in strange directions. For example, at this time, he was thinking: If he were a watchmaker, he might be very happy here. In the future, he doesn't need to think about designing clocks for people. The plans are completely one by one, and they can be different every day.

With all kinds of irrelevant ideas, Ingres continued to move forward. After walking for an unknown period of time, he suddenly saw a huge spire clock in the distance.

The clock seemed to support the world, so big that it was unimaginable.

When Ingres saw this clock for the first time, an idea immediately emerged in his mind: there, there might be the destination!

Angel didn't care whether this idea was a premonition or a cognition forced into him by the Dalmatian. Anyway, he had nowhere else to go, so he might as well go over there and take a look. Maybe he could really find some clues.

Angel did not hesitate, and even quickened his pace.

In the void, the swaying glimmering velvet grass was born and died under Angel's feet, like a signpost, shining all the way to the vicinity of the huge clock.

When he came here, Angel immediately knew that he had come to the right place.

Because when he entered the area around the spire clock, all the stationary clocks and pointers began to jump.

Tick-tick-tick

The sound of various pointers jumping resounded throughout the sky.

However, these clocks that had begun to jump were still illusory, at least Angel could not touch them.

He could only continue to move forward, and with the ticking sound of time passing, Angel came to the vicinity of the spire clock step by step.

When he arrived here, the clocks around him began to become sparse. In the past, a large number of clocks could be seen every one or two steps, but here, clocks might not be seen even after hundreds of steps.

But as long as the clocks exist around the huge clock, they must be dazzling and gorgeous.

After passing these illusory and gorgeous clocks, Angel stood under the huge clock.

When he came here, it was as if something was triggered, and a deep and tall shadow slowly emerged from the top of the huge clock.

When he saw this shadow, Angel was stunned.

Although he couldn't see the true appearance of the shadow, Angel was so familiar with the outline and the casual sitting posture!

When he first met the time thief, the other party was like this, sitting on the top of the time wheel in the same posture.

He is the time thief?

The time thief also came to the belly of the Dalmatian?

Is the time thief here for me? Is it possible that I have to make an extraordinary choice at this time?

Angel was a little confused. He didn't seem to make a choice now. Generally speaking, doesn't the time thief appear to steal choices?

Or did the time thief foresee that he was about to make a choice, so he came here to wait for him in advance?

This doesn't seem to be the style of the time thief... Angel has heard about the time thief from many people. He basically won't show up when you make a choice. Once you make a choice, the other choice will naturally be stolen by him.

This is the routine of the time thief, his style, and a restrictive rule.

At least other people have never seen the time thief show up in advance when the choice has not yet appeared.

What's going on in front of me?

When Angel was suspicious, a crisp bell sound broke through the limit and came from the distant periphery.

When this bell sounded, Angel felt his heart began to beat rapidly for some reason.

The time thief sitting on the top of the huge clock wheel suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the bell.

"There is a mark that triggers the choice." The time thief muttered in a low voice: "Let me see."

As soon as the voice fell, a round clock was suddenly pulled from the periphery to the near side by the time thief.

It was this round clock that made a crisp sound at this time.

Angell looked at the familiar round clock, his heartbeat getting faster and faster... He always felt that this round clock had a great connection with himself.

It was as if the round clock represented himself.

High above, the round clock in the hands of the time thief suddenly began to emit golden light. The time thief took a deep sniff and said in a playful tone: "Tsk tsk, the overflowing honey of time is really sweet... It seems that it is necessary to go and see it."

Angel also saw the golden light. For some reason, when he stared at the golden light, a picture emerged in his mind.

That was the scene when Sanders said goodbye to him not long ago when he decided to return to the mist belt.

At that time, Angel was saying with a firm look: "What I said before, watching the process of the disordered things being promoted, although it was just a temporary excuse, but when I said it, I had a hunch that the choice to return was not wrong."

"Even, this hunch is so strong... It's like making a choice that can change the road of life."

After listening to Angel's words, Sanders was silent for a moment, and slowly said: "Since you think this choice is important, then eliminate all possible interference and follow what you think in your heart."

The golden light dissipated, and the picture also dissipated from Angel's eyes.

Angel looked at the time thief on the high ground, and then looked at the round clock emitting golden light.

At this moment, he suddenly understood.

Everything he saw now was not what happened in the current time and space.

It happened not long ago when he made the choice to return to the mist belt.

This is why he suddenly had a sense of fate when he chose to return to the mist belt before. Because of that choice, the mark of the time thief was activated, and he paid attention to himself.

And the reason why Angel felt that the round clock was closely related to him was probably because it was actually the clock of his destiny, but it was materialized by the time thief.

Everything was clear.

Angel also roughly understood that the time thief in front of him was not real. He was just the time thief of the past materialized by the Dalmatian.

However, Angel still didn't understand why the Dalmatian materialized such a picture.

Was it telling him that the time thief had watched him not long ago?

But if the time thief really watched him and stole his choice... the time thief should show up, right? Even if he doesn't show up, at least he should give some compensation! The time thief will pay a price for stealing other people's choices. This is a kind of balance.

But when Angel made his choice, he neither saw the time thief nor received any compensation.

Why?

Did the time thief suddenly give up paying attention to him?

Angel continued to watch with doubts.

Then, he saw that the time thief was indeed preparing to go to Angel's location, and even saw how the time thief manipulated the circular clock to open the time wheel door on the clock.

But at the most critical moment, the time thief suddenly retracted his hand.

His fingertips were pricked when they touched the time wheel door.

A drop of golden blood fell from his fingertips and fell into the void...

The time thief looked at the disappearing golden blood and squinted his eyes and said: "If I go, I will have a bad premonition... Could it be that if I go, I will encounter..."

The following words suddenly became blurred.

It was as if someone was messing up time and space and didn't want Angel to hear it.

Angel could only see that the time thief didn't open the door of the time wheel again. This might be the reason why Angel made the choice but the other party didn't show up.

When the time thief retreated to the top of the huge clock, the disrupted sound returned to normal.

Then, Angel saw that the time thief was looking at the round clock wheel with interest.

"Let me see, who does this clock represent?"

After saying that, the time thief's head suddenly turned slowly and looked down at Angel.

At this moment, the past time seemed to be intertwined with the present time.

And the eyes of Angel in the present time and space met the eyes of the time thief in the past time and space without any hindrance.

"Woof woof"

At the moment when Angel and the time thief looked at each other, Angel heard a familiar dog barking, which seemed to be a Dalmatian barking.

At the same time, the surrounding picture suddenly began to blur.

The clock forest, the huge clock wheels, the swaying golden light and the tall figure of the time thief... all became blurred after the rapid barking of the Dalmatian.

Soon, all the images around disappeared, including the clock and the time thief.

But Angel still saw the corners of the time thief's lips raised at the last second before the image disappeared, and the chuckles and whispers that could reach his ears across the past and future.

"Oh, it's you, boy."