"Shhhh "Phila in front of the test bench turned around, made a silent gesture to Pannis, and turned back again, focusing on the experiment at hand, ignoring Pannis, who had already entered the door. The moment Fila turned around, Pannis saw his face clearly, closed his eyes, and let out a long sigh in his heart. Because, he saw Fira again, not the old Fira who was so old that it was extremely difficult to eat and walk, and would wheezing when he said a few words, his face was full of wrinkles and age spots, and even his eyes had become cloudy, but the mature and wise in his memory, indifferent to people, fanatical about knowledge, and a powerful demigod who could turn tens of thousands of undead into dry bones with a finger stretched out.

From the outside, Fira has not changed at all, she is still in her thirties, due to the long time without sunlight, her skin has the unhealthy pale that belongs to the mage, although her body is thin, but her back has always been straight, revealing her inner pride and confidence. His fingers are slender and powerful, and the tips of his fingers are holding the experimental apparatus in each of them, and at this time he is dripping the purple Y body in a crystal bottle into another crystal bottle, and the hands that carry out the C work are stable like a boulder, and the dripping Y body has almost no unevenness in terms of speed and volume. It's hard to imagine that Fira, who seems to have come out of her memory now, is the old man who leaned on the recliner more than ten days ago and could die at any time.

Pannis closed his eyes and sighed deeply, but when he opened them again, he began to wonder if he was delusional, because before his eyes, Fira suddenly became two. One of Phila had already turned around and started to continue his experiment, while the other Phila kept the silent movement, walked out of the body of Phila who was doing the experiment, changed from a phantom to an entity, and walked in front of Pannis, saying dissatisfiedly as he did a hundred years ago: "You broke in again when I was doing the experiment, fortunately I was prepared, otherwise you would have interrupted my train of thought." ”

Pannis looked at Phila in front of the test table, and then at Fila in front of him. It was discovered that the two Fira were obviously performing different movements, and did not interfere with each other in any way. He had a lot of questions in his heart, but at this time, he could only put the doubts in his heart first, and the corners of his mouth twitched reluctantly. He smiled and said, "Didn't you ask your maid to tell me, you are waiting for me in the old place, of course I can only break in and look for you, otherwise do you still want me to stand at the door and wait for you?"

"Hmph. Fila snorted heavily, pointed to the chair next to him and said, "Anyway, it's not the first time you've interfered with my experiments. I'm too lazy to bother with you, this experiment of mine is coming to an end, you can sit down and wait for a while, it won't be too long. Kindness...... It's still the same as before, do you want green leaf tea? the unflavored kind?"

"You remember, I want green leaf tea. Pannis was not polite, and sat down directly in the chair, and in the process of sitting down, the Phila in front of him had changed from two to three, and the second Fila pulled the chair opposite him and sat down. Just as he made the gesture of pulling the chair open, the figure suddenly seemed to blur, and under the gaze of Pannis, it divided into two, one continued to pull the chair and sat down steadily, and the other walked towards the small cabinet with tea sets on the wall.

"You've finally made it. Pannis leaned back in his chair and stared at each of the three Fira who were performing different movements for a while, and sighed and said, "What kind of state is this? It's not like a clone or an illusion, it should be time magic, but what is it? Have you pulled your future to do things for you now?"

"No, no, no, that's stupid. It would lead me to repeat what I am doing in the future, which is meaningless, and I would never do that. The second Fira shook her head and said, "As for the current state, it is difficult to explain it to you in detail if you don't understand time magic. To put it simply, I cut off my state in time by prefunding a part of my time, so that I can appear here and there at the same point in time. I'm experimenting, I'm talking to you, I'm pouring tea for you, can you understand that?"

"Of course not. Pannis shook his head vigorously, and his fast hair was about to throw out the afterimage: "How can I understand such a strange and headless explanation, this is too difficult for me." Don't say it's me, I don't think whoever sits here will be able to understand what you're saying. ”

"Then I can't help it, that's the simplest explanation. Phila said helplessly: "If you want to explain in depth, it is estimated that the basic knowledge part will take a year or two, I don't think you want to listen to it, right?"

"Thank you so much, I don't listen. Pannis reached out and took the teacup from the third Fira, and before he could say anything, he saw the third Fira put the teapot on the table, and abruptly returned to nothingness. Pannis narrowed his eyes and asked softly, "Why did you last so much less than the second one?"

"Because the tea has already been poured. It was the first Fira who answered, and at this time he seemed to have finished the experiment, and was cleaning up the various utensils scattered on the test table, and from his body, three selves were separated again, one walked to the coat rack in the corner of the room to change another clean black robe, the other turned to the sink on the other side, and carefully washed his hands, as for the third, he walked directly to the opposite side of the test table, bowed his head and recorded the process and data of the experiment in his notebook.

"Now that the tea has been poured, there is no need to continue to maintain consumption. The second Phila still sat firmly opposite Pannis, and said in a cold tone that Pannis was familiar with: "After all, it is an abnormal state, and if you want to maintain it, you need to have consumption, and these consumption can be less or as little as possible." However, you have to admit that this technique is too convenient. ”

"yes, it's a bit too convenient. Pannis smiled wryly, looking at the five Philas in the room, each doing their own thing, and felt his head getting bigger and bigger: "I can't figure out which one is really you." ”

"So you don't even understand that it's all me, I'm just doing different things at the same time. Phila shook her head and said, "Everything I do, including my existence itself, is not fake, and when I don't need to consume any more, I can decide which state I want to terminate at any time, and the effects caused before the termination will not disappear, such as now." ”

With his explanation, Fira, who was doing the experiment just now, and now is tidying up the test table, finished her work and disappeared out of thin air, while the test table he had sorted out was still neat and tidy, and nothing had changed. (To be continued.) )