Chapter 740 Frame Skip

Chen Ke wandered around Xiaoyao City for a few days, walking through all the streets in the city, but he did not find any traces of the foundation. Not to mention the iconic headquarters building, he did not even see any units related to psychic power on the street, which formed a strong contrast with the Opportunity City in 2009.

One is the era of the first few years of the 20th century, with traces of psychic organizations all over the streets, and the other is the future more than 100 years later, but the streets are no different from around 2010.

If there are any noteworthy points, it is quite obvious.

Chen Ke observed that the change of day and night in this era is very strange. Day and night add up to 24 hours, which is fine, but the switch between day and night is instantaneous... The sun is always at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and 12 hours later, it immediately becomes the moon... Then it repeats over and over again, there is no morning, noon, and afternoon, and there are only two periods throughout the day.

He observed the working hours of an office building and the clock of a street cafe, and judged that the people here went to get off work and left work between 8 and 18 o'clock. However, the throughput of the crowd in any building definitely exceeded the carrying capacity of the entire building. The building with a capacity of 1,000 people seemed to have 2,000 people.

And walking on the street, he always had an illusion of "insufficient frames". Walking on the road, the pedestrians and vehicles around him would occasionally "stuck" a few frames. In one second, it seemed that several frames were replaced.

Chen Ke felt that those who played competitive games should be very painful in this world, because this world has "unstable frames" and there are redundant pictures mixed in it, and the people living here are not aware of it, only they can detect it.

Chen Ke began to try to capture the "replaced" frames. He found a viewing platform by the inner river, sat on a bench beside it, staring at the endless stream of people in front of him, the buildings reflecting the white sunlight, and the car frames blocked on the roadside, capturing the occasional stuck moment.

The freezes didn't happen very often, and he waited for every freeze with great concentration. What Chen Ke had to do was to catch that moment of "pause" and then stop time to see what happened.

He propped his elbows on his knees, crossed his hands, rested his chin, and observed carefully. He controlled the range of time's standstill around the small bench. There were a few times when he almost succeeded.

Chen Ke continued to observe silently. When people passed by, they would cast strange eyes at him, but Chen Ke ignored them. He watched attentively, waiting for the instant freeze in front of him.

Whoosh...

After a long period of concentration, when Chen Ke's eyes were frozen again, he immediately stopped time.

"Portal list updated: 2137-A..."

Sure enough!

The things in front of him did not change. The buildings, streets, and cold white sunlight were all the same, but the crowds and traffic on the streets were all replaced.

Chen Ke found himself in a strange state. He held up the small space-time around the bench. He was a being beyond time, so he was not affected. However, the chair was in a superposition state.

The world in front of him was like a hole. The largest area in the career was 2137-B where he and Thor were, but there was a space-time distortion effect similar to a funhouse mirror. Behind the black circular faded filter was 2137-A.

Two worlds overlapped... No, Chen Ke shook his head. This was not two worlds... but a world torn into two sides AB by some force. Two waves of people lived in one world, interweaving space-time.

No wonder the throughput of those buildings was problematic. This was the reason.

Chen Ke stood up. The bench behind him turned gray and flickered wildly. He saw pedestrians around him passing through the space-time hole in front of him, entering from the left and exiting from the right. People would disappear for a short moment, but they did not feel anything. This was the mortal trapped by time.

He walked forward and suddenly got into the hole, bumping into another pedestrian. The man stumbled and sat on the ground, and the fedora hat on his head fell off.

Chen Ke stood there, looking back at the bench where he was sitting. There was a white woman sitting on it, as if she had seen something, with a surprised expression.

"Watch your step?! Where did you come from?" The pedestrian picked up his hat and yelled at Chen Ke.

He waved his hand to apologize and looked around. This was still where he was before, but the world line had changed from B to A.

Chen Ke accidentally completed a "frame jump", skipping the freeze and entering a new world.

2137 is really not simple... No wonder Xu Jing and Lin Yayin didn't know each other, but they both swore that their timeline was the most advanced. Could it be that there are really two foundations here...?

Chen Ke seized the opportunity of the next freeze, opened the hole again, and jumped back to 2137-B. The bench in front of him was empty.

Is it a parallel time and space? No, time doesn't work like this. Chen Ke believes that this is a cognitive illusion. There is only one year 2137, but people are divided into two parts, living in the second before and after each other, and cannot perceive each other.

Chen Ke shuttled between the two sides of the world, looking for traces of the foundation. At the intersection of the two dimensions, Chen Ke found some clues.

He only needs to stop while shuttling through the hole, so that half of his body is in A and the other half is in B, and a new scene will appear in front of him.

A gray line emerged under his feet. The city was filled with traffic and crowds, but no living creatures could be seen. The white sun would turn golden. This was the gap between A and B in 2137. The sun would slowly move its trajectory as time went by.

It seemed that only in this gap could the flow of time be normal. Chen Ke tried to slowly withdraw from the two worlds on the white line, and then let his body completely squeeze into this third dimension.

Here was a deliberately hidden space and time. Chen Ke spent a few more days shuttling through this deserted city, standing in the gap of time and observing the real world.

In the end, all the clues pointed to a black building standing in the downtown area of ​​the city square. When Chen Ke switched to the A or B world, the building did not exist in the original place.

Chen Ke stood in front of the building and saw that it was towering into the sky. There were no windows on the stairs. The height was about 40 floors. Compared with the magnificent commercial buildings built around it, it was not particularly high, but the whole building was dark, giving people a feeling of depression.

He scanned the building with his psychic vision, and found that it blocked all psychic perception abilities.

All the answers were here. Now, he knew that all he had to do was walk in.