Chapter 667: The Wonderful Ecology of Jielin (Part 2)

After resting in the snail's belly for five hours, the howling of the strong wind outside gradually stopped.

Mu You looked out through the snail's transparent body. The knife wind had ended, but the weather was even more gloomy.

Wind is the head of rain. According to the clues left by the Fool Ancestor, after the 'knife wind', it will be followed by the 'time rain'.

[The giant snail let out its last wail, and there was a bit of relief in the painful cry. ]

[You looked up and saw that the snail's body had been pierced by crystal thorns and its health was extremely weak. Finally, it was freed in this last wail. ]

[The snail's body softened and shrank quickly like a melted candle. In the blink of an eye, only the outer shell and a layer of dry transparent film were left. ]

[In the abdominal cavity, many small animals began to line up and walk out of the dead body of the snail, each holding an egg ball in their hands. ]

[You were about to get up and leave, but the other animals around you turned back to look at you, staring at your empty hands, scratching their heads anxiously, reminding you that you forgot something. ]

[You looked at the many eggs left on the ground and picked up one. The other animals let you go and continued to line up to leave with their eggs. ]

[You followed the animals and came to the exit of the shell. ]

[The sky was overcast, and the raindrops fell quietly. At first it was a drizzle, but soon the raindrops became clear and the rain was getting heavier. ]

[The rain wet the ground, splashing the fragrance of the soil, and the raindrops gradually bounced on the ground to form a layer of mist. ]

[The animals hurried out of the shell one by one, and quickly scattered in the raindrops, but they did not go far away immediately, but hid under the leaves, rocks, mounds and other shelters around them. ]

[The snail eggs they each carried were left in the open space near their hiding place, allowing the raindrops to pour on the eggs. ]

[On the top of the snail shell behind you, a cocoon quickly formed, and a blue butterfly hatched from the cocoon, spread its wings and flew into the depths of the forest, leaving only a dry and cracked shell. Do you want to pick up the molt? ]

"No."

Mu You did not pick up the molt, because the snail shell would disappear after picking up the molt, and he still needed the shell to protect him from the wind and rain.

At this time, watching the actions of these small animals outside, Mu You was thoughtful.

[You stretched your hand out of the snail shell and reached out to the rain curtain in front of you. ]

[Several bean-sized raindrops fell in your hand. ]

[Warning: Because your skin is directly exposed to the rain, your lifespan is rapidly decreasing. ]

Mu You glanced at the remaining lifespan on the panel, and his lifespan was reduced by seven days in an instant.

And just now he just caught about seven drops of rain, which means that each drop of rain will consume one day of his lifespan?

At this consumption rate, if you stand directly in the rain, you will have to endure at least hundreds of raindrops per second, which means that you will lose about half a year of life per second.

If you don't have much life left, and you can't find a place to shelter from the rain, it is easy to die suddenly if you stay in the rain for a while.

However, this consumption of life is not all bad.

Mu You has discovered that this kind of raindrops does not directly burn life, but speeds up the passage of a person's time. Every time you endure a little raindrop, it is equivalent to skipping a day on your timeline!

Then, some things that originally took time to achieve will be completed naturally in this process, such as: faith conversion!

Before entering the Ring Forest, Mu You returned to Dawn City and invested 103,950 divinities in the statue, officially raising his star level from seven stars to eight stars.

These more than 100,000 divinities that have just been invested need to be fully converted into order faith before they can continue to be upgraded to nine stars.

There are only two ways to convert faith, either to kill high-star monsters crazily, or to rely on 5 points of automatic conversion every day and use enough time to achieve it.

Originally, Mu You needed to kill more than 600 eight-star monsters to complete the conversion of faith. If he went to find monsters to kill one by one, it would take at least several months.

But now, with the current rain of time, he can choose the second method: stand directly in the rain, let his time fly, and quickly convert faith.

According to the automatic conversion rate of five points a day, 100,000 points of faith would have taken more than 54 years to convert.

And now, he only needs to stand in the rain for less than two minutes to complete this process!

Thinking of this, Mu You decisively let the character walk out of the snail shell and step into the rain.

[You take off the black angel covering your body, and your body directly steps into the rain curtain. ]

[The cold raindrops hit your face and body without hindrance, and your lifespan begins to decline rapidly...]

Mu You observed the panel. The current lifespan reduction rate is about 150 days per second, and it takes about two seconds to spend a year.

At the same time, the number behind the "Faith Conversion" column of the panel really began to increase rapidly at a rate of 700 to 800 points per second!

Two minutes later, Mu You's life span was 55 years, and the 100,000+ divinity of the 8-star had been transformed into order faith in this short interval. As long as the character returns to Dawn City, he can be promoted to 9-star at any time!

This is definitely a pleasant surprise. Before coming to Jielin, Mu You had never thought that there was such a magical rain in the world, which directly saved him several months of monster hunting time.

Back to the point, at this time, the faith conversion was completed, but Mu You was not in a hurry to return to the snail shell to avoid the rain, because he suddenly found another bigger surprise:

As the rain continued to fall, the growth of the seeds of time in the three theocratic figures in his mind began to rise quietly!

Mu You stared at the panel and confirmed repeatedly. He was right. His seed of time value was only 0.3% originally, but just when it was raining, it quietly jumped to 0.4%!

The rain of time can make the seeds of time grow?

Mu You was surprised and surprised. You know, this is the Ring Forest, which uses the world rules of the original world. It is the most repulsive place in the world to the divine system. In theory, the local things in the Ring Forest will not affect the abilities under the divine system.

Could it be that the seeds of time are not just abilities under the divine system?

Wait...

Mu You suddenly realized that the pocket watch did not seem to be suppressed in the Ring Forest...

Now he is in the third level of the Ring Forest, which has already entered the scope of the Ring Forest. Under the suppression of the Ring Forest, all his divine powers are greatly suppressed at this time. Even the pen of order and the law of order are difficult to write complete order runes here.

However, the time pocket watch can still be retraced normally, and the longest retracing time is still ten seconds, and the power has not been reduced at all.

Of course, the pocket watch is special. The pocket watch is used in reality. After retracing the time, the time of the entire world will be reset together, so the game character will also retrace along with it.

Mu You couldn't tell for a moment, is it because he used the pocket watch in reality, so it is not affected by the Ring Forest? Or is the pocket watch itself not suppressed by the Ring Forest?

If the pocket watch is thrown into the Ring Forest at this time and the game character is asked to press it, can the time be retraced normally?

Unfortunately, the pocket watch has lost its entity and transferred to his body, and it cannot be taken out for verification.

After thinking about it, Mu You suddenly took out the endless spinning top.

Mu You had tried this spinning top before. After rotating it in reality, it can enter the world of stop, but the mobile phone will stop running and become static. All buttons and touch screen reactions stop, making it impossible to operate the game.

Therefore, the Endless Gyro can only be used in reality in theory and cannot help the Fool Game. For this reason, Mu You did not think of equipping the game character with a gyro from the beginning, after all, the equipment bar is very limited.

But at this time, the gyro can be used to test the influence of the Ring Forest on the time rules.

Mu You let the character return to the snail shell, waited for a moment, sent the gyro into the game, and assembled it.

[You activated the Endless Gyro, the rain curtain in front of you stopped as if the pause button was pressed, and you entered the world of cessation...]

As he clicked to use the gyro, such a prompt popped up in the game, and in reality, everything also paused.

Obviously, he successfully entered the world of cessation.

Mu You looked at the phone.

At this time, the phone had fallen into an inoperable static state again because of the world of cessation, but the last prompt popped up, indicating that the Ring Forest had also entered the world of cessation, and the Ring Forest would not affect the operation of the Endless Gyro.

Mu You waited for a moment, and after ten seconds, the world of cessation ended, and the phone automatically resumed operation.

And the prompt [End of the World of cessation] also popped up in time in the game.

Now Mu You can confirm it thoroughly: the problem is not with the time pocket watch, but with the divine power of time itself!

Time is a very special divine power.

Countless years ago, the divine stone from outer space fell, bringing the divine system to the high world. The rules of the divine system and the rules of the original world are in opposition and repulsion everywhere, and even in space they are squeezing and occupying each other.

Most of the rules and areas of the original world have been occupied and covered by the divine system, but only time is something that both worlds have, and the time flow rate of the two world systems is exactly the same.

Therefore, only the divine power of time is the common law under the rules of the two worlds, and it is also the only channel that can connect the two opposing systems.

Thinking of this, Mu You decisively let the character walk into the rain again and continue to get wet.

In the previous two minutes, only more than 50 years of life consumption, his seed of time grew by 0.1%. This speed is not slow. If he can rely on this rain to increase the seed of time to 100%, he will wake up with a smile in his dreams!

Of course, Mu You also knew that it was unlikely. The Seed of Order could be increased to 100% because his divine power of order was complete, and he had obtained a small part of the divine power of time, so the growth rate would probably have an upper limit.

Sure enough, Mu You watched the panel for a while in the rain, and soon found that the growth of the Seed of Time began to slow down. At the beginning, it could be increased by 0.1% in two minutes, and then it took three minutes, four minutes... The time for each increase of 0.1 became longer and longer. If it continued like this, sooner or later there would be a moment when it would stop growing.

Mu You's life span was actually not much, only about a thousand years, but it didn't matter, there were two people around him who had a long life span.

The night watchman and the herbalist, both clones, had accumulated a huge amount of life span in the daily tasks of the Bitter Garden for four thousand years.

"Quick, who can transfer some life span to me." Mu You looked at the night watchman.

"Oh? How much?" The night watchman didn't think much about it, and casually clicked on the forum transfer interface.

"Let's start with 10,000 years." Mu You said.

"Uh..." The night watchman looked at him suspiciously: "What are you going to do?"

You know, there are very few places in the high sky world that consume lifespans. If Mu You asked for hundreds or thousands of years, he would not bother to ask. But he asked for 10,000 years, and the tone was "10,000 years first", as if there was a bottomless pit waiting behind, which made him wonder if he had encountered some kind of online fraud.

"It's a long story, anyway, transfer it first, it's urgent." Mu You urged.

In the time it took to talk, his life span was consumed by several decades.

The night watchman didn't ask anything else and transferred the money directly, but then he became alert and stared at Mu You's next move. He looked at him as if he was looking at a stubborn old man who was being scammed at home and refused to listen to his children's persuasion and insisted on transferring money.

Mu You didn't know what the night watchman was thinking. At this moment, he was happily getting wet in the rain while playing the game.

His life span was burning rapidly at a speed of two seconds per year. With the 10,000 years that his clone had just transferred, Mu You was not panicked at all. This 10,000 years was enough for him to waste five or six hours. By then, the rain would probably stop. Even if it didn't stop, he could continue to let his clone transfer money.

In short, with such a good opportunity, he must upgrade the Seed of Divine Power until it can no longer be upgraded.

[You walk in the rain, the rain hits every piece of land in the jungle, and the Ring Forest seems particularly peaceful at this moment. 】

【You see the snail eggs on the ground ahead, which were thrown into the rain by the small animals, starting to grow and hatch at a speed visible to the naked eye...】

【Soft snail larvae crawl out of the egg balls, wriggle on the wet ground, raise their heads and suck the raindrops falling from the sky, as if it is not rain, but mother's milk...】

"Oh?" Mu You was a little surprised. It turns out that this kind of rain can help snail eggs hatch? No wonder the small animals deliberately put the egg balls in the open space.

Mu You checked the snail egg he brought out, and sure enough, his one had also hatched.

[A soft snail larva hatches from your palm, along your arm, and strives to climb onto your shoulder so that it can be better watered by the rain...]

[You stretch out your palm, catch a handful of rainwater, and look closely at it. I don't know if it's an illusion, but you vaguely see a large number of familiar blue butterflies dancing in the rain...]

[The shadows of these mini butterflies enter the bodies of the surrounding creatures with the rainwater. You find that the snail larva in your hand, as well as all the plants and animals exposed to the rain nearby, have grown a circle larger than before at a speed visible to the naked eye...]

"So that's it..."

Mu You looked at these few text descriptions and realized something.

This kind of time rain will reduce lifespan and is a harmful natural disaster, but this is only for creatures from the Star Spirit Realm, and the creatures in the High Sky World have no concept of lifespan from the beginning.

These creatures in the Ring Forest do not have a clear fixed death time such as lifespan, but they also have the concept of "birth, aging, illness and death".

The time rain does not deprive the creatures here of their lifespan, but it increases their growth stage.

Since every creature that died before would grow a moon butterfly in its body, and now the rain contains the phantom of the moon butterfly, it is not difficult for Mu You to infer that all the creatures in the Ring Forest may have an illusory moon butterfly in their bodies, and this butterfly has been growing with them since the creatures were born.

Rather than calling this kind of butterfly a moon butterfly, it is more appropriate to call it a "time butterfly".

The butterfly that gives time to the creature will continue to grow when it is watered by the rain of time. The external manifestation is that the growth stage of the organism is improved, from the embryonic state to hatching, to the larvae, to the middle age, and then to the old age, until the body decays and the flesh and blood are exhausted and die.

At this time, the moon butterfly will not die with the creature, but will break out of the cocoon, carrying the memories and joys and sorrows of life, flying to the depths of the Ring Forest, and returning to the source of the rain.

After a series of changes, the moon butterfly will once again turn into a raindrop of time and fall into other creatures, continue to accompany the creatures to grow, watch the new creatures grow old, get sick and die, and then turn into a butterfly again, turn into rain, and repeat the cycle, never stopping...