Chapter 271: Coincidence & Necessity
Ilt lay on his stomach, staring blankly at the empty corridor in front of him, not knowing for a moment how to react.
"Tia! Wonder! ”
Ilt shouted loudly, his voice echoing around the mine walls, but no one else was heard. Ilt knelt on the ground, his hands supporting his body, his eyes trembling,
"What went wrong? This simply cannot be the case here! This is the 'Corridor of Time', yes! It's the 'Corridor of Time'! So, what exactly happened to Tia and Kira? It's not the problem with this cloister, then what's going on?! ”
On the other hand, when Alan fell into the black hole, he was rescued by Ilte's 'empty ring' and returned to the place where they were lying on their stomachs before they fell.
"Hmm"
Alan clutched his forehead, as if he hadn't recovered from his previous fall.
"Ilte, Ilte, Ilt!"
Alan shouted loudly towards the dark hole, he didn't expect that Ilt would throw the empty ring under him, and he didn't expect that Ilte, who was so smart and conceited, would give himself the chance to be saved without any security. Alan blamed himself a little, no, deep self-reproach, that he had so much regard for the friendship between him and Ilte. He asked himself, if the 'empty ring' was with him, would it still be him who was kneeling here? The answer is clear, it is absolutely impossible, if the 'Empty Ring' is with him, he will definitely make the same decision as Ilte! Allen's breathing gradually calmed down, and now all he could do was use the only hope in his hand to save Ilte. Only, what can be done to save Ilte? If he can't see the root of the matter, he can't save anyone. Alan opened his right hand, which had been holding the 'empty ring' firmly, and the small silver ring came into Alan's eyes.
"The feeling of an infinite corridor that cannot be repaired, a cave that cannot be repaired, and an infinitely falling black hole is very close to a kind of consciousness-oriented blinding, similar to a means of the time corridor, but, I can't be sure yet, but eight or nine are not far from ten, I can only gamble!"
Alan recalled the whole process of entering the bell body, and the analysis process was similar to that of Ilte, and soon realized that this might be the 'Corridor of Time', if this was the case, then Ilte's situation was not dangerous, the Corridor of Time was a trick to deceive people's eyes after all, and the infinite fall was actually probably because they were trapped in a certain space. Alan squeezed the 'empty ring' again, and seemed to have made a decision,
"Since this is the structure, then to save Ilte, we have to go down again, as long as there is an 'empty ring', we can return here again."
Alan glanced at the dark breach, then at the small silver ring in his hand, jumped down. Endless falling, no wind, no change in time and space, some are just the panic of the body falling, just when Alan looked around, looking for Ilte, the 'empty ring' in his hand suddenly trembled, Alan as if he had been shocked, let go of his palm! The small 'Empty Ring' fell instantly, and a huge circular entrance appeared under Allen again!
"Isn't it?!"
This is a situation that Alan did not expect at all, the 'Empty Ring' actually resisted the space here, and the moment he fell into the 'Empty Ring', Allen suddenly realized that in this place where time and space are unstable, what a stupid idea to use the 'Empty Ring' that uses the gap in time to create an exit to save himself and Ilte. It's easy to fall into the gap in time and drift forever.
The opening created by the huge 'Empty Ring' turned into a little starlight after Eren fell in, and disappeared into the darkness
A drop of water fell on Alan's cheek, waking him up from his slumber. Alan struggled to get up from the ground, and with a 'ding' sound, the 'empty ring' rolled from his body to the ground, Alan shook his head laboriously, reached out and picked it up, and the person gradually recovered from the dizziness.
"Where is this?"
Alan looked around, this is a mine cave, but on the surrounding mine walls, countless clocks hang there, there are old-fashioned mechanical clocks, there are also relatively new clocks that use ore to charge energy, all kinds of forms, all styles, densely hung there, but if you look closely, it seems that all the clocks are not moving needles. Alan checked his body, nothing was abnormal, and Mistetin was also hanging from his waist intact. He tied the empty ring to the sides with two leather ropes, hung it around his neck, and got up to explore the cave. The surface of the bell is as smooth as new, without a trace of dust, it seems that someone has deliberately cleaned it, Alan raised his vigilance, but there seems to be no entrance and exit here, it is a completely closed space, and he fell into this place completely because he misused the 'empty ring',
"Could this be where the third floor is?"
Alan looked at the clock in his eyes, thinking that everything that had happened before seemed to be related to time, and he felt more and more that this place should be the third layer they were looking for. It's just that why isn't there anyone here? Alan examined the cave carefully, and found that there was nothing unusual in the cave except for the clocks that didn't go.
"The appearance of this bell is somewhat familiar."
Alan stood under the rock wall on the side, looking at a huge clock that looked like a bell was embedded in the mine wall, and when he looked closely, it was exactly the same as the bell at the entrance!
"Hmph, that's a trick."
Alan climbed to the side of the bell, and the only difference between the bell and the entrance was that the clock face here was intact. Alan removed the clock face and found that there was a solid mine wall behind it, so he reached behind the clock, found the knob for debugging, and twisted it clockwise. The bell began to move, and with countless click, click, click, all the clocks on the rock wall went up!
"Time is stopped here, and the 'Time Corridor' will prevent anyone who wants to enter here, how did you get in?"
A voice came overhead, and Alan looked up to see a glittering object slowly descending in front of him. It was a ball of light, or a mass of consciousness that seemed to have been hidden in the darkness above her head, and only appeared in front of him after determining Allen's behavior.
"Who are you?"
Alan asked.
"It doesn't matter who I am, you haven't answered my question yet." (To be continued.) )