19. Eternity
"He's dead."
Lin Shuo stood in front of Xia Yi's head, looking at the smile that appeared at the corner of the other party's mouth after his eyes gradually diluted in the sun, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that the 'mysterious power' that had been hidden in him all along, and only activated when he restarted every day, suddenly fluctuated at this moment, enveloping his eyes.
There seemed to be a faint change in his vision.
Immediately, he saw that a strange substance as illusory and formless as a mist suddenly floated out of Xia Yi's corpse, condensed on its own, and turned into a large number of particles with substance, which fell to the ground one after another.
A small pile of slightly illusory transparent sand was formed.
"Sands of Time?" Lin Shuo understood.
"This is the Sands of Time."
Tong Momo next to him clasped his arms with both hands, looked at the sand of time on the ground, and nodded slightly: "It seems that although this evil eagle's time talent is a preliminary awakening, it should have been trained for a long time, and it has actually formed so many sands of time...... Even though it's just the most ordinary quality, it's pretty good. β
"How do I absorb it?" Lin Shuo asked.
"You can absorb it when you touch it, and it is estimated that you can't absorb much, and your ability can be stabilized."
Tong Momo said, holding ten fingers of her hands in front of her chest, and looking at Lin Shuo with blank eyes, "The sand of time left behind after you absorbed it, let's divide it?" You contribute the most, you take eighty percent, give me a little soup? β
"I'll leave it all to you."
Lin Shuo shook his head slightly and said, "If I didn't have you, I wouldn't be able to leave, so it would be a reward." β
"How's that going to work?" Tong Momo immediately said: "That's it, five or five, one and a half of us." β
"Whatever you want." Lin Shuo did not refuse.
Originally, he wanted to use this thing as an apology for killing her eight times before, but she didn't want to, so forget it.
Tong Momo smiled: "I'm welcome, I'm just about to change into two clothes that fit, thank you." β
Lin Shuo didn't say anything, walked to the small pile of sand of time and squatted down, and then slowly stretched out his hand and touched the pile of sand of time.
The mysterious power dormant in his body was suddenly aroused, surging out along his fingers.
The small pile of sand of time seemed to melt, and suddenly it turned into a strange mist, quickly merging into the mysterious power in his body.
In a short time, a quarter of the pile of sand in front of him disappeared.
And Lin Shuo also felt that this mysterious power had become a lot clearer, from almost impossible to sense, to he could clearly sense its existence, and it seemed to have stabilized.
He could feel it...... With just one thought, he can invoke this mysterious power.
"How? Is it stable? Tong Momo asked.
"Hmm."
Lin Shuo nodded slightly and said, "Now I can control it independently." β
"What is the form in which your talent for time manifests itself in you?" Tong Momo said curiously.
"Form?" Lin Shuo glanced at her.
"Everyone's time, talent, strength, and form are different." Tong Momo said: "Some are snakes, some are rivers, some are candles, and some are clocks...... There are all kinds of them, as long as you activate them, you will know. β
Lin Shuo suddenly remembered that every time his ability was activated, countless illusory things would appear in his mind.
But it was too illusory for him to see what it was.
"Why don't you try?" Tong Momo suggested.
Lin Shuo pondered for a moment, nodded, took out his mobile phone first, and turned on the detailed time.
It's 12:15:11 a.m. on Nov. 10.
Immediately, his mind moved, and he attracted his own mysterious power of time.
Just for an instant, under his gaze, everything around him seemed to stand still, and the time on his phone also stopped at 11 seconds.
Then, as soon as he felt a flower in front of him, he 'saw' a myriad of illusory things coming to his mind.
Sundials, hourglasses, water clocks, mechanical clocks, quartz clocks, digital electronic clocks, atomic clocks......
All the tools he knew about measuring time could be found in his mind at this time, and countless timekeeping tools were fixed at the beginning, that is, zero.
Immediately after that, all the timekeeping tools suddenly began to change.
The shadows of the sundial change and rotate rapidly, the hourglass pours sand at an alarming speed, the hands on the clock turn at great speed, and the digital time on the electronic clock flickers and changes......
The sound of water droplets, sand falling, the clatter of gears...... At this point, it became even more urgent.
Time keeps jumping, like a hemorrhoid patient who has been killed for thousands of years.
In a trance, Lin Shuo felt a mysterious force enveloping his consciousness, passing through the gap of illusory time, and seemed to be shuttling towards the future.
He could feel that he could stop at any time as long as he had a reason.
This means that he can travel to any moment in the 'future that he can reach' at any time.
However, Lin Shuo wanted to try to see how far into the future he could jump to.
Here, time is the unit of length.
The myriad of timekeeping tools are constantly changing, and the time scales they span are getting bigger and bigger.
Butβ
When time traveled a distance of 11 hours, 45 minutes, and 48 seconds, this mysterious power was only nearly half consumed, and the countless timekeeping tools came to an abrupt end.
It's like a clock with stuck gears, and like a truncated river of time, it can't move forward anymore.
Lin Shuo could feel that the more distant future was a dead nothingness.
Jumped for nearly 12 hours, and the time power was consumed by nearly half?
Lin Shuo vaguely understood.
Originally, this mysterious power could allow him to travel exactly 24 hours later, but it stopped at 11 hours, 45 minutes, and 48 seconds, because from this time on, he ...... in the future It doesn't exist anymore!
That is...... Death.
He tried to step back 'one minute' and let the mysterious force let go of his consciousness.
Immediately, Lin Shuo's consciousness gradually woke up in the chaos, countless illusory timekeeping tools disappeared, and his vision suddenly became clear.
As he expected, he was in the school dormitory, sitting at his desk under the bed.
The dimly lit table lamp in front of me illuminates the anime posters on the wall.
The electronic clock on the wall is 00:00 on November 11, 2013.
He broke the cage of time once again and traveled to 'tomorrow'!
Then, a slightly teasing voice rang out from the side:
"Brother, I'm sorry, buddy is just Singles' Day this year, hey, what's the use of being handsome, you still ......"
Without waiting for this voice, which had been repeated countless times, to finish speaking, Lin Shuo directly and habitually clenched his fists, and slammed it over with a fist very smoothly, sending a customary 'little red flower'.
"Oops!"
Roommate Ren Yan snorted in pain, and before he could finish the rest of his words, he covered his nose and sat on the ground, looking at him stunned.
"Brother, this may be the last time I hit you."
Lin Shuo looked at his roommate with a sincere face, and sighed: "I'm leaving, next time I beat you, I don't know how long it will take, it's still a little unaccustomed......
Ren Yan looked at him with a bewildered expression, completely incomprehensible.
"Don't worry, I'll try my best to save you, and I'll definitely punch you hard at 'Real Tomorrow'."
Lin Shuo smiled at him, didn't say anything, and got up and walked to the balcony of the dormitory.
Above the night sky, the faint fog was dissipating.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking silently in his mind.
"In this way, once my time power is activated, I can travel to the future, while the real me is in a static state."
"Before the ability is stable, I can't control the mysterious power, and every time I restart at 0:00:1, I will activate it directly when I awaken, so 24 hours after crossing the limit in one breath, it is 0:00:1 of 'Tomorrow' Singles' Day."
"And now, with my abilities stabilized, I can travel to any time in the next 24 hours......"
"It stands to reason that I activated my ability from 12:15:11 am on the 10th, and I should be able to travel to 12:15:11 am on the 11th, but I only crossed the time scale of 11 hours, 45 minutes and 48 seconds, and I couldn't move forward."
"Calculate the time, 12:15:11 in the morning on the 10th, plus 11 hours, 45 minutes and 48 seconds, which is exactly close to 0:1 on Singles' Day."
"Well, it's only a second before the mass extinction."
"It's a bit strange that it's only one second away, and this day of the time loop has always been one second short of a full day, exactly one second less?"
"Leave this ...... aside for now"
"It seems that the prerequisites for traveling to the future are...... At the point in time when I traveled to the future, the 'future me' was still alive. β
"It's just that I don't know for a while, if I don't die, how long will I be in the 'future'?"
"Try this next time, my time power is only half consumed, and I should be able to continue to activate it after I go back......"
Lin Shuo stood in front of the railing of the balcony, watching the fog in the endless night dissipate, and thoughts flashed through his mind.
Soon, a minute had passed.
As always, the light source that came out of nowhere suddenly covered everything in front of him with a strange light like dusk.
In this splendid and silent twilight, everything is moving towards the end of the years......
The brilliant light of the dusk tried to erode Lin Shuo, but the power of time in his body barely sheltered him from being eroded by that terrible twilight.
This time, perhaps because of his stable ability, he found that he had an easier time resisting.
The time spent in this mass extinction is a little longer than before.
After his roommate had completely turned into weathered bones, the power of time in his body was still not exhausted, and there were still some remnants.
"If I keep growing, maybe I'll survive this mass extinction?"
This thought flashed through Lin Shuo's mind.
Then he laughed to himself, if everything was destroyed in this mass extinction, what was the point of him still alive?
Gradually, his time power also tended to dry up.
Just when he was about to run out, Lin Shuo was suddenly slightly stunned.
He heard a mysterious voice sound, it seemed to be in the sky, and it seemed to be whispering, it seemed to be everywhere, as if it was conveying something to the worldβ
"Eternal ......"
Before Lin Shuo understood a word, he felt that his time power had been exhausted, and he was completely engulfed by the twilight-like light in an instant, and he lost consciousness.