Chapter 490 Reversing Time and Space

Chen Ke came under the wall clock. The black wooden clock body had faded a little, and the plastic dial cover had also turned yellow. This was a big clock that his grandfather bought when he was still in his prime, and he had used it for nearly half a century.

The pendulum swung regularly, but the seconds did not move at all. Chen Ke was very curious, so he moved a stool from the side and stepped on it, wanting to study it carefully.

After groping around the side of the clock for a while, Chen Ke opened the cover on the surface, reached out to hold the pendulum to stop it from moving, and placed a winding key under the pendulum box.

This old-fashioned wall clock needs to be wound up every once in a while, otherwise it will go slower and slower, and the time will be inaccurate.

Chen Ke inserted the key into the hole on the dial, and twisted it hard a few times, imitating the way his father wound up the clock before. In an instant, the sky outside made a ding-dong sound.

The bell rang seven times and then stopped. Chen Ke didn't know what it meant, but when he looked at the dial, he suddenly found that the clock scale on it was not the numbers from 1 to 12, but the years that were crowded together.

Originally, 2009 was engraved at the 12 o'clock position, and 1859 was at the 6 o'clock position. At the 9 o'clock position, there was a line of crossed-out numbers. Chen Ke recognized that it was 2006.

These were the three time periods that Chen Ke had been to, and the dial was empty outside the scales of these three years.

On the minute hand scale, there were 12 small scales between 2009 and 1859. Chen Ke guessed that this represented the months. There were only 12 months, among which the first three months and the last three months were red, and only the range from April to July was marked with black scales.

Chen Ke pinched his chin and thought about it, and understood a little bit of the meaning. This clock was a recorder of his travel time, and the years he had been to would be marked on the dial. So, it meant... he could manually adjust the clock and minutes to go back?

Then the function of this clock is no different from the life portal? I wonder if you need a soul to travel through time with this clock?

But Chen Ke felt something was wrong. This clock must not be that simple. He studied the dial again and suddenly understood the difference between this clock and the life portal!

Although the portal ability allows Chen Ke to return to the era he has been to, time itself is uncontrollable.

He still remembered that when Xu Jing took him through time, he used a pocket watch to locate the time and used a mirror to convert time and space. The wall clock in front of him was Chen Ke's pocket watch.

He tried to move the hour hand on the dial. Chen Ke first tried to move the longest minute hand, but found that he couldn't move it. It seems that he has to follow the order... He turned to move the clock and slid it to the position of 1859.

Nothing changed...

Chen Ke tried to move the minute hand again, but found that the minute hand still couldn't be moved, so he gave up and gently moved the pendulum to make the clock go again.

At this time, the bell rang again in the sky outside, ringing 12 times in total. When the bell stopped, the sound of carriages and pedestrians talking came from the window.

Chen Ke jumped off the stool curiously and walked to the window to look out. He wanted to open the window, but he couldn't open it. Moreover, the window glass seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and the situation outside was blurry.

Through the blurry window, Chen Ke could see the endless stream of carriages and pedestrians on the street. He could also hear the newsboy standing at the crossroads shouting the news of the day, and several pedestrians who looked like workers were carrying long things and buckets and walking hurriedly.

"This is... Langdon!" Chen Ke recognized this familiar street scene at once. I wonder how Jacob's eyes are?

The pocket watch is there, but what about the mirror? Xu Jing traveled through time and space through the mirror. What should Chen Ke do? He came to the door and took out the key. Maybe, just open the door?

Chen Ke held the door handle, brewed his emotions, and then pushed the door open.

A chill hit him, the pale sky cast white sunlight, and a smell of coal dust and soil rushed into Chen Ke's nostrils. Outside the door, pedestrians and carriages were passing by one after another. This was Langdon in 1859, for sure.

Chen Ke wanted to go out, but there seemed to be a transparent air wall on the door frame, forcibly blocking him in the house.

"Not allowed to go out?" Chen Ke was puzzled.

At this time, a line of small words popped up in the upper right corner of his eyes: Your life span is 0.

Oh... I know. This life countdown refers to how long you can stay in different time and space. It's just that the gods don't understand the vocabulary of human language, so they can only use some words that they think have similar meanings to replace them, which causes confusion in understanding.

Chen Ke immediately beat his chest and stamped his feet. If he had not been misled by the countdown prompt at Xijin Building, and had entered the fantasy dream center first, obtained the dimension pocket and the ability to actively travel through time, and listened to the old man of the oracle sect explain the world view, maybe the beginning would be much simpler...

"Can I change the text display of this countdown?" Chen Ke said to himself.

Of course no one answered him.

"Change it to the world residence time." Chen Ke thought about it.

The countdown words in the corner of his eyes changed from "your remaining life" to "world residence time".

"Okay, I won't panic now..." Chen Ke said, took out a painful soul and crushed it, and 50 hours were credited to his account, just like using the computer in an Internet cafe, so he can play in the outside world for 50 hours again.

After recharging, the air wall disappeared, and Chen Ke walked out the door and looked at both ends of the street. Some pedestrians looked at him strangely, but quickly looked away.

He turned around and found himself standing in front of a small cafe, where the guests were talking loudly.

"This is the first time I've taken the initiative to travel through time... It feels very dull..." Chen Ke muttered to himself. He spoke Chinese, and his voice was not loud, so no one could understand him.

Chen Ke realized that when he opened the door and traveled to 1859, the door was borrowed from the door of the tavern behind him, that is, it was not a door built out of thin air. From an outsider's point of view, Chen Ke came out of a building in their era.

This is much more convenient, at least there is no need to consider hiding his traces of traveling through time.

"The question is, how to go back?" Chen Ke thought secretly.

He thought about it, does it mean that he has to wait for these 50 hours to be consumed before going home? This is too much of a loss, how inconvenient.

In 1859, Chen Ke had nothing to do, and it was not like he was going to find Jacob now. He turned around and closed the door of the cafe.

"Let's try and see if my guess is right." Chen Ke muttered to himself and opened the door of the cafe again. The scene behind the door was not the cafe, but a room in the Dream Center Apartment.

"It's done... it's done... this is definitely the safest safe house in the world!" Chen Ke was overjoyed and laughed out loud, striding in.

After he closed the door, several Langdon citizens who saw Chen Ke's strange behavior ran to the door of the cafe, opened and closed the door, with unfathomable expressions on their faces.

Chen Ke returned to the room, jumped on the stool again, and began to fiddle with the dial. This time, he was going back to the City of Opportunity.

The City of Opportunity can not only adjust the clock, but also the minutes, but Chen Ke found that the range of the minute hand was limited to between April and July, that is, after robbing the bank and after returning from 1859 with Xu Jing.

Chen Ke moved the minute hand to July. According to Xu Jing, people who transcend time will not be affected by time modification, so even if he goes back to an earlier time, the other Chen Ke is doomed to die.

"No, no... I can't go back to July..." Chen Ke shook his head. He had seen Diana being killed by Balder through future observation, and also saw Lucina being tortured by Asra's people. He wanted to go back to an earlier time and space to prevent all this from happening.

He moved the minute hand to April, which was almost the time when he returned from the 2006 death world, and before he met Li Moyang.

The consortium, the foundation, the angel sect, and Asra, these forces all have their own intentions. In the past, Chen Ke didn't understand this complicated relationship, nor did he know his position in it, so he didn't have his own position.

At that time, he just wanted to be someone else's knife and mix into the extraordinary level to get more information and figure out how to erase the countdown of life. But now, Chen Ke has known his fate, and his significance far exceeds these organizations.

Chen Ke adjusted the wall clock. In the city of opportunity in 2009, that bright afternoon, the day he first met Li Moyang, the sky outside rang with bells. This time, he wanted to go back and start over, reversing the fate of the two women and the world.