Chapter 3073 Rain in Troubled Times

Laplace recounted some memories she saw in the Sea of ​​Mirrors.

Among them, he emphasized "one man, one beast, and half a city".

The so-called "one man" refers to a wizard suspected to be a time system.

From the perspective of the picture recording, it should come from a water curtain hanging in the sky, and the scene it reflects.

The water curtain may be a water dome, or it may be a sea of ​​sky. Because of the angle, it is not clear what the specific situation is. But the ground scene reflected by the water curtain can be clearly seen.

On the ground, there is a witch wearing a colorful cloak. She moves quickly on the treetops and quickly passes through a forest.

But her movement is not the displacement seen by ordinary people, but a strange shift.

Before each big step, she will present two phantoms.

For example, if she wants to go to a treetop 500 meters away, she will first present a rainbow phantom a at the target point, and this phantom a is stationary.

After Phantom A appears, a rainbow Phantom B will appear at a distance between Phantom A and her body, which is about 250 meters. Although Phantom B also stays in the same place, it is dynamic, as if running.

Shortly after the two phantoms appeared, the cloaked witch teleported from the original place to the location of Phantom A.

After the cloaked witch arrived at the destination, the two phantoms disappeared.

Simply speaking, this is a teleportation. Angel did not see any clues, but Laplace was very sure that this was a kind of time ability.

It seems to be a space-based teleportation, but it is actually the use of time-based abilities.

She used Phantom A to simulate the location where she finally arrived at the target point, which is a "result"; she used Phantom B to simulate the scene when she moved, which is a "process".

After the process and result of the movement, the "event logic" is established; once she starts to move, the "time logic" is also established; if the appearance logic is fine, then the final "practical result" will definitely succeed, and this practical result is to reach the destination.

This creates a scene similar to space teleportation, but it is not teleportation, but an illusion that deceives the logic of time.

Although Laplace described the situation in detail, Angel was confused.

After talking about "one person", the second memory picture Laplace mentioned was "a beast".

This beast refers to an unknown monster.

Its body shape is like a snake; but Laplace did not see its specific appearance, including the pattern style, scales or no scales, whether the head shape is triangular or elliptical... etc., because its whole body is shining like a rainbow, blocking the sight.

This snake is very strange. It was seen by Laplace when he was looking at the "scenery".

At that time, Laplace did not deliberately look for special memory pictures in the empty mirror sea, but stared at a picture nearby. This picture has no characteristics, and it shows "the calm sea under the moonlight".

Originally thought it was just a very ordinary picture, but suddenly, Laplace saw an illusory shadow above the sea, and this shadow looked like a snake.

Just as Laplace's eyes were fixed on the somewhat illusory snake in the picture, the next second, the snake appeared beside Laplace.

Yes, it literally means that the real snake came near Laplace's body.

It drilled out of the picture of the Sea of ​​Mirrors, and directly turned from virtual to real, and showed a real body in the mirror domain.

Laplace was shocked at the time. It was also the first time she saw a creature jumping out of the picture directly.

And after the snake appeared in the mirror domain, it was still unclear what it looked like, and its whole body was covered by rainbow light. After it appeared, it looked around.

It glanced at Laplace, and then at the floating Sea of ​​Mirrors around it.

"It turned out that it was observed by the creatures in the mirror domain. No wonder it fell out of the time gap... The Sea of ​​Mirrors is really dangerous. There are still creatures that can survive here."

"It's so unlucky. Forget it, I'll go back first."

The glowing snake muttered these two sentences to itself, and then turned into a rainbow streamer and disappeared.

Laplace went to see the "calm sea under the moonlight" again, and did not find the shadow of the other party in the picture.

This incident had a great impact on Laplace. She never thought that the object she was observing would jump out of the picture and face her... But because the other party appeared beside Laplace in person, she caught the other party's breath.

Later, by chance, Laplace finally confirmed that the breath on the other party was... the power of time.

The above is the story of "one beast".

However, the story of this "one beast" was more confusing to Angel than the previous story of "one person".

Moreover, Laplace was also vague in some places. For example, how did Laplace determine by chance that this was the power of time?

Laplace was unwilling to explain in detail, so Angel naturally couldn't ask, and could only limit the scope of his thinking to the story itself.

After thinking for a while, Angel asked: "Are you sure that those two sentences were said by it?"

Laplace: "It is certain that it is not spoken with words, but a special kind of thought wave."

After confirming that the two sentences were said by the glowing snake, Angel fell into thought.

From the other party's words, two pieces of information can be captured: First, it seems to know the mirror domain and the sea of ​​empty mirrors. Second, it clearly mentioned that it was observed.

From the meaning of the words, it seems that the snake fell out of the time gap because it was "observed".

As long as it is "observed", its characteristics will change.

This reminds Angell of a famous experiment on Earth that Jon once talked about...

In the end, Angell still didn't figure out what this ability of "being able to get away with it in the time gap without being observed" is. He is still very vague about the ability of the time system, so he can only put it aside for the time being.

The example of "one man and one beast" mentioned by Laplace before is actually outrageous, and the "half city" mentioned at the end is even more outrageous.

Laplace doesn't know where the "half city" is.

The perspective of the half city comes from a glass installed on the top of the human city clock tower, because this clock tower has only one glass, and there is only one glass in the direction facing it.

Therefore, the scene presented in the picture is only the "half city" reflected by the glass.

But through this half city, Laplace saw a very strange scene.

At first, it felt like a very ordinary human city...or a small town, because there were no tall buildings. From the perspective of half of the city, the tallest building was just a cathedral, and the highest point of the church was actually not as high as the bell tower.

The other houses were all very ordinary red walls and white roofs.

The characteristics of the whole town are probably clean, tidy and mediocre.

But soon, the picture changed drastically: thick dark clouds suddenly floated in the clean sky, and then a torrential rain fell from the thick clouds and sprinkled on the town.

As the heavy rain fell, this originally ordinary town began to change.

The rain was like a brush painting lead dust. In the blink of an eye, the clean and tidy town was covered with thick moss, and the walls of the houses that were originally very white began to show mottled marks.

The most obvious change is the towering church... its top has collapsed.

There is no external force to destroy the top of the church. Judging from the picture, there is only one reason for its collapse: aging.

It is not just the church and the houses that are aging, but also the people living in the town!

From the picture, we can clearly see that a young man who is wiping the dust from the outer dial of the top of the clock tower, under the heavy rain, his skin began to age and spots appeared on his body. In just a few seconds, he crossed the dimension of time and became a vicissitudes of life.

After a few more seconds, the old man continued to age and eventually turned into a skinny corpse. Because of the weight loss, coupled with the strong wind and heavy rain, the corpse was blown off and finally fell to the ground and turned into a remnant.

This scene is already very surprising, but what is even more surprising is that this heavy rain not only makes people age.

In fact, at the top of the clock tower, that is, on the outside of the glass, there is not only the young man wiping the dust. There is also a middle-aged hunchback uncle standing on the edge of the clock tower.

He was originally directing the young man where to wipe.

But unexpectedly, a sudden heavy rain turned the young man into a skeleton.

The middle-aged hunchbacked uncle was shocked by the scene in front of him and sat down on the ground. Fortunately, there was a handrail next to him, otherwise he would have fallen off the top of the tower.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the middle-aged hunchbacked uncle was actually exposed in the rain, but the magical thing was that he did not age in the rain, but became younger.

In just a few seconds, the uncle's hunchback disappeared, his height increased, and his sallow skin became white and elastic.

Soon, a young man who looked a bit like the uncle appeared in the picture.

The heavy rain came quickly and was heard quickly. At this time, it had begun to slowly subside.

But before the heavy rain stopped, the uncle was still getting younger. Youth was not the end. A few seconds later, he appeared in the appearance of a teenager.

After a few more seconds, until the heavy rain stopped, the middle-aged hunchbacked uncle turned into a six or seven-year-old child. If he hadn't been wearing that oversized shirt, and if Laplace hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, no one would have thought that a middle-aged man would return to his childhood in a few seconds.

This rain, just from the changes of these two people, seems to give people a kind of rule: the old will become younger, and the young will become older.

But in fact, it is not the case. There are also old men who turn into bones in the blink of an eye. Similarly, there are also children who turn into babies in the blink of an eye and eventually disappear, wiping out traces from the world.

So, this is not a regular rain. Its changes, from the perspective of this "half city", are completely random.

The only thing we know is that this rain contains the unknown power of time. It integrates into this city and also changes this city...

This is the story of "half city".

It can be said that this is the most outrageous in "One Man, One Beast and Half City", but it is also the most consistent with Ingres's imagination of the power of time.

In the previous "one man and one beast", Ingres still needs Laplace to explain, or think about it himself, to understand the barrier of the power of time. But this "half city" directly demonstrates the power of time. It not only changes the color of the earth and the buildings, but also causes irreversible growth and aging of the living.

This is the power of time.

Although Ingres can understand "half city" the most, it is also "half city" that scares him the most.

Because according to the theory that the Black Earl had told him before, this kind of direct change of external time is impossible for ordinary wizards, and legendary wizards can't do it either.

This time rainstorm is either an unknown miracle wizard's method... or it may be the effect of a mysterious object.

The reason why it is speculated that it is related to the mysterious object is that Angel knows that the Prophet's Temple has housed a strategic-level mysterious city with a Hoopa coefficient of up to 75, called "City of Samsara".

This city of Samsara evolved a city from prosperity to destruction in three days. After three days, everything is reset, the destroyed things disappear, and all people and things will change to three days ago.

Of course, this mysterious object is not just a three-day reincarnation on the surface. It can be used as a strategic-level mysterious object of the Prophet's Temple, and naturally there are deeper effects.

But just talking about this surface effect, we can know that this "City of Samsara" must be related to the power of time.

The rainstorm in "Half City" represents both rebirth and destruction... If it is not the work of a miracle wizard, it may be caused by a mysterious object.

As for the source of the mysterious object, Angel does not know, but it may be... rain.

Mysterious objects are never limited to the outside. It may be a city, a heartbeat, or even a ray, or a budding concept.

Since mysterious objects can have various forms, it may be a heavy rain.

Of course, all this is Angel's guess.

However, having said that, there is another reason why Angel guessed that "Half City" is a mysterious object, that is, it is missing a point.

The man and the beast in front have the iconic rainbow light of the time system.

The phantom created by the cloaked witch exudes a strange rainbow light; and the snake that will appear when observed also exudes the glory of the rainbow... Angel remembers that the rainbow silk thread and the rainbow pattern on his head made by Ex in the underground arena are also rainbow light.

It seems that this strange rainbow light has become the symbol of the time system.

But this light did not appear in "Half City".

But it is impossible to say that the rain in Half City has nothing to do with time. Such an obvious difference made Angel have different guesses.

But no matter whether this guess is right or not, the time system ability learned from Laplace can also show the magic of the time system.

Anyway, when Angel finally left the heart space, he was still immersed in the fantasy of the weird ability of the time system. . Le Wen