Chapter 708: It Seems Like a Lifetime Ago

"What kind of reason is that?"

After hearing what Lin Xue said, Vivian shook her head with a headache.

Combined with the abnormality of Lin Xue along the way, Vivian actually realized her feelings for Mu You.

Mu You was her disciple who was raised by her, and Lin Xue was the granddaughter entrusted to her by Al. Vivian treated both of them as her own children. If it was normal, she would not object to the sparks of love between the two children, but would be happy to see it happen.

But in the current situation, Vivian, as an elder, did not want the two to go in with such a frivolous reason, because she knew how dangerous the time cage was.

Mu You also looked at Lin Xue in surprise.

This is an extremely dangerous and time-consuming thing. Lin Xue and Xiaoya are willing to go in and accompany him. He is very grateful.

However, is there some ambiguity in what Lin Xue said just now?

'Don't want to give up this position' refers to the position to enter the time cage?

This opportunity is indeed very precious. As long as you stay in there for more than 500 years, you can obtain the extremely practical passive ability of "Time Observer". In the past, so many big figures scrambled to go in for training, just for this ability.

But, Lin Xue is also interested in this ability?

Since Mu You met Lin Xue, she has always been more Buddhist in her pursuit of various extra powers, and rarely takes the initiative to fight for anything. This time, she is so active that Mu You is a little surprised.

"Don't worry, Vivian, if there is any danger in there, I will send Xiaoxue out as soon as possible."

Mu You noticed the worry in Vivian's eyes and smiled to comfort her.

Just now, the Fairy Queen mentioned that as a trialist, Mu You's scene is built with him as the core, and he can send the people he brings in safely out at any time.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xue frowned and looked at him after hearing this: "Since I have decided to go in with you, I will definitely not leave you alone halfway."

"It would be best if you can go directly, I mean if..." Mu You laughed dryly.

"There is no such if. No matter what happens, I will accompany you to the end." Lin Xue's tone was particularly serious.

"Uh..." Mu You was a little surprised. Lin Xue seemed to be particularly strong today...

Listening to the conversation between the two, Vivian sighed, knowing that she could no longer persuade them.

"You two can go, but just in case, activate the archiver first."

Vivian took out a short metal stick from the space ring.

This is a special prop that the clones got in the Bitter Garden. After touching it, it can store all the current states including attributes, data and even memory. No matter what it becomes in the future, as long as the previous "archive" is activated, everything can be immediately restored to the state at the time of saving.

This thing has been kept by the herbalist before. Before Vivian left this time, she took the current situation into consideration and asked the herbalist for the archiver before leaving.

"Okay." Mu You nodded.

After all, they were going to a "cage" that tortured their spirits. It would not hurt to save a file in advance. Once they suffered mental trauma in it and found that their spirits were in trouble after they came out, they could use the archiver to easily recover.

Lin Xue did not refuse.

They both touched the archiver and saved their current status.

Then Vivian told them some precautions in the time cage, and they were ready to set off.

In the distance, Xiaoya stared blankly at Mu You and Lin Xue who were ready to leave, feeling an inexplicable loss in her heart.

For some reason, from the moment Lin Xue spoke before her, she felt that her heart suddenly became empty, as if she had quietly lost something important, and it was something that she might never find again if she didn't keep it...

"Boss! Sister Xue! Actually, I... I also..." Xiaoya suddenly spoke.

In the distance, Mu You and Lin Xue, who had already walked to the cube, stopped when they heard the voice and turned back to look at her.

"Me too..."

When the two turned back at the same time, Xiaoya was stunned for a second. Looking at the two standing side by side, she sighed helplessly, a look of relief flashed across her face, and she changed her words at the last moment.

"I am also... worried about you..."

"You must come back safely!"

"I will."

Mu You smiled: "Don't worry, it won't take long, about five seconds, you will see us again."

In the time cage, 1000 years is equal to 1 second in the outside world, and 5000 years will end in about 5 seconds.

"Well... I'll wait for you!"

Xiaoya murmured softly, watching the two walk to the heart of time.

Mu You opened the order space, took out the time bone from it, held it in his hand, and then looked at Lin Xue. The two stretched out their hands at the same time and touched the surface of the block.

The next moment, a burst of white light emerged, and the two disappeared on the spot.

...

Consciousness returned from a chaos.

Mu You suddenly woke up, but felt empty under him, and fell to the ground.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Mu You sat up blankly and saw a familiar metal short stick in his hand.

Looking around, there was a pure white space around him, and in the center of the space, a broken block was floating abruptly.

On the ground not far from the block, a crow and a little goblin lay weakly on the ground. The crow was motionless, and the little goblin turned his head with effort and looked in his direction, with a flash of shock in his eyes.

Except for these two little creatures, the entire space was empty, with no living creatures.

Mu You stared at the crow on the ground, his mind in a mess, and his consciousness and memory gradually returned.

Until a certain moment, he woke up belatedly.

Mu You finally remembered his identity and experience, and also remembered the identity of the crow on the ground: "Vivian?"

Mu You was startled, rushed over and picked up the crow on the ground.

Fortunately, the crow was still alive.

At this time, Vivian was extremely weak, and the magic power in her body was almost exhausted. She couldn't move her whole body, and she didn't even have the strength to turn her eyeballs to look at him.

Without time to think about it, Mu You hurriedly input magic power into the crow's body.

With the infusion of abundant magic power, the dying crow finally gradually recovered its spirit, and its head mechanically turned half a circle and looked at Mu You.

"You... are back..."

"Vivian, what happened? Didn't I enter the time cage? Why am I back again?" Mu You asked.

Vivian opened her mouth, but she seemed to have not recovered the strength to speak. The Fairy Queen beside her answered for her: "You have passed the experience of the time cage..."

"Passed?" Mu You was stunned. He had been in it? But he had no impression at all...

Mu You then remembered the short stick in his hand.

Archiver!

Yes, he activated the archiver, and his body returned to the time of saving, so he lost the memory of being in the cage...

But, what happened that he actually needed to use the archiver to rewind?

"Where are Xiaoya and Lin Xue? And what's wrong with you? I just left for five seconds, how come you have become like this?" Mu You was at a loss.

His goal is to stay in the time cage for five thousand years, which is only five seconds in the outside world. It should be just a blink of an eye. Why has the outside world changed so much?

"Five seconds?"

The Fairy Queen smiled bitterly and said with a strange look on her face: "Do you know how long you have been in there?"

"How long?"

"Today is the thirty-fifth day since you entered the Heart of Time..."

"Thirty-five...days?" Mu You was stunned.

He stayed in the time cage for more than a month?

Moreover, this refers to the time in the outside world, 35*24*60*60, a total of 3024000 seconds, calculated based on the fact that one second is equal to one thousand years inside, the result is... 3.02 billion years!

He stayed in the time cage for 3 billion years? ? ?

"How is it possible?" Mu You shook his head subconsciously. No matter how confident he was, he thought he could stay in it for tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years at most. Hundreds of millions of years? Even if he was an iron man, he would become a living fossil...

"Yes, I want to know too, how is it possible? 5000 years is already the highest record of the time cage in the past, and you stayed in it for hundreds of millions of years... This is no longer something that can be explained by a word "miracle", this is a real miracle..."

The Fairy Queen looked at him with extremely strange eyes: "I finally understand why the world will choose you as the spokesperson..."

Mu You was frightened by the Fairy Queen's eyes, but at this moment he didn't care about these and glanced around.

"Where are the others? Why aren't Xiaoya and the others here?"

"Xiaoya, they've gone back..." Vivian spoke hoarsely, as if she had finally recovered a little.

"Ordinary people can't stay in the City of Time for too long, otherwise they'll get lost. When I found out that you didn't come out immediately after entering, I sent a guard to send her back to reality."

The Fairy Queen helped Vivian explain: "During the month you were in the cage, I needed to keep watch over the Heart of Time to maintain its stability. I couldn't get away. Vivian stayed and temporarily managed the order of the City of Time for me, but because she couldn't get any energy supply in here, she became weaker and weaker after a month. If you came back a little later, she might really be 'starved' to death."

Mu You understood what she meant. Vivian's current body needed magic power to maintain its shape. Before, he and Lin Xue took turns to provide daily magic power for Vivian, but this time he and Lin Xue entered the time cage at the same time, without a source of magic power. When the magic power in her body was exhausted, it was the moment she died.

"What happened? Didn't you say we could leave in five thousand years? Why did we stay in there for so long?" Mu You looked at the Fairy Queen and asked.

"I don't know... we can't see what happens in the time cage." The Fairy Queen shook her head: "I only know that the girl carried you out."

"Girl? Are you talking about Xiaoxue?" Mu You was stunned, and then he realized, by the way, where is Xiaoxue?

It's understandable that Xiaoya has gone back, but Lin Xue entered the cage with him, why is it that only he can be seen and not Lin Xue at this time?

"No, or maybe, that is not her, but her from another world..." The Fairy Queen muttered to herself at this time.

"What do you mean? What do you mean by her from another world?" Mu You frowned.

"Just now, about three minutes ago, the girl named Lin Xue suddenly broke into the Heart of Time from the outside." The Fairy Queen said.

"Break in from the outside?" Mu You heard it strange. Lin Xue and him entered the time cage. Even if he sent her out in the middle, she should have appeared directly inside the cube space. How could she come in from the outside?

"That's why I said that she might not be the Lin Xue of our world."

The Fairy Queen pondered, "When she came in just now, she saw us and wanted to save Vivian first. Unfortunately, she tried and found that she couldn't touch us or communicate with us, so she had to give up... Now I think it's because she and we are in different world lines. It's just because of the special nature of the City of Time that the two worlds temporarily intersect here..."

"What happened next?" Mu You didn't really understand. At this time, he was more concerned about Lin Xue's situation.

"After that, she walked to the Heart of Time, opened the entrance to the Time Cage, and jumped in alone..."

"But only half a second later, she appeared again, carrying you who had lost consciousness on her back..."

The Fairy Queen looked at Mu You with a strange expression on her face and said, "At that time, you had lost all your memories in too long a time, forgot who we were, and even forgot who you were. Your eyes were so vicissitudes that you looked like a living dead person... But even in this situation, your consciousness has not sunk, and you still maintain a kind of vitality that seems to be there and not there..."

The Fairy Queen looked at Mu You again with that unbelievable look: "It's unimaginable. After 3 billion years, even if it's a piece of stone, it should have weathered into ash long ago, but you can still..."

"Where's the girl?" Mu You didn't have time to listen to her exclamation, and asked about Lin Xue's situation.

"After that, the girl put the archiver in your hand and helped you activate it... Then, she disappeared." The Fairy Queen said.

"Disappeared?" Mu You was shocked: "You mean she... died?"

"I don't know if she died, anyway, she disappeared suddenly like a soap bubble... But I said that she was from another world line, and she has nothing to do with us."

"How can she have nothing to do with us..." Mu You frowned.

'Another world', if it really exists, Lin Xue from that world came here specifically to rescue him, obviously knowing who he is and what happened to him...

The most important thing is: where is their own Lin Xue? Could she also...

"Don't worry... Xiaoxue is still alive." Vivian suddenly spoke.

"How do you know?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

After a short rest, Vivian recovered some of her vitality and could speak normally: "Because, before that Xiaoxue left, she gave me a 'reassuring' look, meaning that I should not worry... This look made me sure that she was actually our Xiaoxue, but for some reason, she drifted to another world..."

"Anyway, you go back and take a look... If you are right, she should be at your home now..." Vivian said.

"Okay."

Mu You didn't really understand what he said, but he didn't have time to think about it. He picked up Vivian and ran towards the exit.

But he remembered something after running a few steps. He turned around and looked at the Fairy Queen who was busy in front of the cube.

"Sorry, we... have to go back first..." Mu You was a little embarrassed.

The damage to the Heart of Time was obviously more serious than before he went in. It was all thanks to the Fairy Queen's efforts to maintain it that it didn't collapse.

At this time, they achieved their goal, but left a big mess here. It was really inappropriate to run away without helping others clean up first.

But he was really worried about Lin Xue's situation and wanted to run home immediately.

"Oh, forget it, you guys are also an eyesore. It's better for me to work alone... Go, go..." The Fairy Queen muttered a few times, shook her hand in disdain, and drove the two away.

"Thank you..."

Mu You thanked him sincerely, hugged Vivian and jumped out of the cube, and ran straight to the outside of the City of Time.

The Fairy Queen's voice came from far behind: "Remember to consolidate your divine power over time when you return..." (End of this chapter)