Chapter 667: The Wonderful Ecology of the Ring Forest (Part II)
After resting in the snail's belly for five hours, the howling of the wind from the outside world gradually stopped.
Mu You glanced out through the snail's transparent body, the knife wind had ended, but the weather was gloomy and even more dangerous.
The wind is the head of the rain, and according to the hint left by the ancestor of the fool, the 'sword wind' is followed by the 'rain of time'.
[The giant snail let out a final wail, a cry of pain with a hint of relief.] 】
[You look up, at this moment, the snail's body has been pierced by crystal piercing, and its health is extremely weak, and it is finally relieved in this last wail. 】
[The snail's body is like a melted candle, quickly softening and drying up, leaving only the outer carapace and a dry transparent film in the blink of an eye. 】
[In the abdominal space, many small animals began to line up to walk out of the snail's dead body, each holding an egg ball in their hands. 】
[You are about to get up and leave, but the other animals around you are looking back at you, staring at your empty hands, scratching your ears and cheeks one by one, all reminding you that you have forgotten something. 】
[You looked at the egg balls that were still a lot left on the ground, and picked one up, and the other small animals let you go, and continued to line up and leave with their egg balls. 】
[You follow the critters to the exit of the carapace.] 】
[The sky was cloudy, and the raindrops fell quietly, at first it was still drizzle, and soon the raindrops became clear, and the rain became heavier and heavier. 】
[The rain hit the ground, splashing the fragrance of the earth, and the raindrops gradually bounced a layer of mist on the ground. 】
[The small animals hurriedly walked out of their carapaces one by one and quickly scattered in the raindrops, but they did not immediately go far, but hid under the surrounding leaves, rocks, mounds of earth and other shelters that could shelter from the rain. 】
[The snail eggs they each carried were left in the open space near the hiding place, and let the rain pour on the eggs.] 】
[At the top of the snail carapace behind you, a cocoon quickly took shape, and the blue butterfly hatched from the cocoon, spread its wings and took off, and flew into the depths of the forest, leaving only a cracked shell. Do you want to pick worms? 】
"No."
Mu You didn't go to pick up the worms, because the worm and snail shells would disappear, and he also needed this carapace to protect him from the wind and rain.
At this time, looking at the actions of these small animals outside, Mu You was thoughtful.
[You reach out of the snail shell and reach out towards the rain curtain in front of you.] 】
[A few bean-sized raindrops fall on your hands.] 】
[Warning: Your lifespan is rapidly decreasing due to direct skin exposure to rain.] 】
Mu You glanced at the balance of the life span of the panel, and the life span was reduced by seven days in an instant.
And just now he just received about seven drops of rain, that is, each drop of rain will consume his life for a day?
At this consumption rate, if you stand directly in the rain, you will have to withstand at least hundreds of raindrops per second, which is about half a year's life per second.
If the balance of life is not much, and you can't find a place to shelter from the rain for a while, it is indeed easy to die suddenly if you get drenched in the rain for a while.
However, this consumption of life is not all bad.
Mu You has already discovered that this kind of raindrop does not directly burn life, but is speeding up the passage of time for a person, and every little raindrop that he bears is equivalent to skipping a day directly in his timeline!
Then, some things that would have taken time to achieve will be completed naturally in this process, such as: faith transformation!
Before entering the Ring Forest, Mu You returned to Dawn City and invested 103,950 divinities in the idol, officially raising his star from seven stars to eight stars.
The more than 100,000 divinities that had just been invested needed to be fully transformed into order beliefs before they could continue to ascend to the Nine Stars.
And there are only two ways to convert beliefs, either to kill the high star monster like crazy, or to rely on the automatic transformation of 5 points a day and use enough time to achieve it.
Originally, Mu You needed to farm more than 600 eight-star monsters to complete the transformation of faith, and if one only went to find monsters to kill, it would take at least several months to farm.
But now, with the current rain of time, he can choose the second method: stand directly in the rain, let his time fly by, and quickly convert his faith.
At the rate of automatic conversion at five o'clock every day, it would have taken more than 54 years for 100,000 points of faith to be converted.
Now, he only needs to stand in the rain for less than two minutes to complete the process!
Thinking of this, Mu You decisively let the character get out of the snail shell and step into the rain.
[You take off the black angel covering your body, and your body steps directly into the rain curtain.] 】
[The cold raindrops slapped on your face without hindrance, and your lifespan began to drop rapidly......]
Mu You observed the panel, and the current lifespan reduction rate is about 150 days per second, and it will take about two seconds to spend a year.
At the same time, in the 'Faith Transformation' column of the panel, the numbers behind it really began to increase at a rate of seven or eight hundred points per second!
Two minutes later, Mu You's lifespan has consumed 55 years, and the 100,000+ divinity of 8 stars has been transformed into order belief in this short gap, and then as long as the character returns to Dawn City, he can be promoted to nine stars at any time!
This is definitely an unexpected joy, before coming to the ring forest, Mu You didn't think that there was this kind of magical rain in the world, which directly helped him save several months of monster farming time.
To get back to the point, at this time, the transformation of faith was completed, but Mu You did not rush back to the snail shell to take shelter from the rain, because he suddenly discovered another bigger surprise:
As the raindrops continued to fall, the growth degree of the three divine villains in his mind, among them, began to rise quietly!
Mu You stared at the panel and repeatedly confirmed, it would not be wrong, his time seed value was originally only 0.3%, but when it was raining just now, it quietly jumped to 0.4%!
Can the rain of time make the seed of time grow?
Mu You was both surprised and surprised, you must know that this is the Ring Forest, using the world rules of the original world, the place in the world that most rejects the divine system, theoretically the local things in the Ring Forest will not affect the ability under the divine system.
Could it be that the seed of time is not just a power under the divine system?
Wait a minute......
Mu You suddenly realized that the pocket watch didn't seem to be suppressed in the ring forest......
Now he is in the third layer of the Ring Forest, and he already belongs to the category of going deep into the Ring Forest, under the suppression of the Ring Forest, all his divine power has been greatly suppressed at this time, and even the Pen of Order and the Law of Order have made it difficult to write a complete order rune here.
The time pocket watch, on the other hand, can still be retraced normally, and the longest rewind time is still ten seconds, and the power has not been reduced at all.
Of course, the pocket watch is special, the pocket watch is used in reality, and after going back in time, the time of the whole world will be reset together, so the game characters also go back together.
Mu You couldn't tell for a while, was it because he used a pocket watch in reality, so he was not affected by the ring forest? Or is the pocket watch itself not suppressed by the ring forest?
If you throw the pocket watch into the ring forest at this time and let the game character press it, can you still go back in time normally?
Unfortunately, the pocket watch has lost its physical form and has been transferred to his body, and it cannot be taken out for verification.
After thinking about it, Mu You suddenly took out the endless spinning top.
This gyroscope Mu You has tried before, and it can enter the stop after turning it in reality, but the phone will stop running and become stationary, and all buttons and touch screen reactions will stop, resulting in the inability to operate the game.
Therefore, the endless spinning top can only be used in reality in theory, and it cannot help the fool game, and because of this, Mu You never thought about equipping the game characters with a spinning top at the beginning, after all, the equipment bar is very limited.
But at this time, you can use a gyroscope to test the influence of the ring forest on the rules of time.
Mu You asked the character to return to the volute, waited for a moment, and sent the spinning top into the game and assembled it.
[You activate the endless spinning top, and the rain curtain in front of you stops as if you pressed the pause button, and you enter the stop realm......]
As he clicked to use the top, a prompt popped up in the game, and in reality, everything came to a halt.
Clearly, he managed to make it to the end.
Mu You looked at his phone.
At this time, the mobile phone has fallen into an inoperable static state again because of the stoppage, but the last prompt pops up, indicating that the ring forest has also entered the stop boundary, and the ring forest will not affect the operation of the endless gyro.
Mu You waited for a while, and after ten seconds, the stop ended, and the phone automatically resumed operation.
And the game also pops up a prompt of [End of Stop] in time.
Now Mu You can completely confirm: the problem is not the time pocket watch, but the time theocracy itself!
Time is a very special kind of theocracy.
Countless years ago, the fall of the Outer Heaven Divine Stone brought a divine system to the high heavenly world, and the rules of the divine system and the rules of the primordial world were opposed and excluded everywhere, and even the space was squeezing and encroaching on each other.
Most of the rules and regions of the primordial world have been invaded and covered by the divine system, but only time is something that both worlds have, and the time flow rate of the two world systems is exactly the same.
Therefore, only the theocracy of time is a common law under the rules of the two worlds, and it is also the only channel that can connect the two opposing systems.
Thinking of this, Mu You decisively let the characters walk into the rain and continue to rain it.
In the previous two minutes, the consumption of just more than 50 years of life made his time seed grow by 0.1%, which is not slow, if he can rely on this rain to increase the time seed to 100%, he can wake up with a smile in his dreams!
Of course, Mu You also knew that it was actually unlikely, the seed of order could be increased to 100% because his order divine power was complete, and he had obtained a small part of the time divine power, and his growth level was likely to have an upper limit.
Sure enough, Mu You observed the panel for a while while in the rain, and soon found that the growth of the seed of time began to slow down, and it could increase by 0.1% in the first two minutes, and then it took three or four minutes...... Every 0.1 increase takes longer and longer, and sooner or later it stops growing.
Mu You's lifespan is actually not much, only about a thousand years, but it doesn't matter, there are two lifespans around him.
The watchman and the herb picker, both clones have accumulated a huge lifespan in the daily tasks of the Bitter Garden for four thousand years.
"Quick, who will give me some life." Mu You looked at the watchman.
"Oh? How much? The watchman didn't think much about it, and clicked on the forum transfer interface.
"Let's start with 10,000 years." Mu lobbied.
"Uh......" The beating man looked at him suspiciously: "What are you going to do?" ”
You must know that there are very few places in the high heaven world that consume lifespan, and if Mu You opens his mouth for hundreds or thousands of years, he will not bother to ask, but it will take 10,000 years to come up, and it is still '10,000 years first', as if there is a bottomless pit waiting for him, which made him wonder if the body had suffered some electric fraud incident.
"It's a long story, anyway, let's turn it around first, urgently." Mu You urged.
With just such a speech, his lifespan consumed another few decades.
The watchman didn't ask anything more, and transferred money directly, but then he became vigilant, staring at Mu You's next move, looking at him like a stubborn old man who was suffering from electronic fraud at home, did not listen to the persuasion of his children, and wanted to transfer money.
Mu You didn't know what the watchman was thinking, and at the moment he was happily raining in the game.
The life span is burning rapidly at a rate of two seconds per year, with the 10,000 years that the clone has just turned, Mu You does not panic at all, this 10,000 years is enough for him to wave for five or six hours, and the rain will probably stop at that time, even if it doesn't stop, he can continue to let the clone make money.
In short, with such a good opportunity, he will definitely have to raise the seed of divine power to the point where he can't be promoted.
[You walk in the rain, the rain beats every piece of land in the jungle, and the ring forest at this moment seems to be extraordinarily peaceful. 】
[You see that on the ground in front of you, the snail eggs that were thrown into the rain by the small animals began to grow larger and hatch at a speed visible to the naked eye, and ......]
[Soft snail larvae, burrowing out of the egg ball, wriggling on the wet ground, raising their heads to suck the raindrops falling from the sky, as if this is not rain, but the mother's milk......]
"Oh?" Mu You was a little surprised, it turned out that this kind of rain could help snail eggs hatch? It's no wonder that the animals deliberately put the egg balls in the open space.
Mu You checked the snail egg he brought out, and sure enough, his one had also hatched.
[A mollusc larva hatches from the palm of your hand, along your arm, and struggles to climb up your shoulders in order to better receive the rain......]
[You stretched out your palm, caught a handful of rainwater, and looked at it carefully, I don't know if it was an illusion, you vaguely saw that there seemed to be a large number of familiar blue butterflies in the rain, which were fluttering......]
[The phantom of these mini butterflies, as the rain enters the bodies of the surrounding creatures, you find that the snail larvae in your hands, as well as all the nearby plants and animals exposed to the rain, are growing larger than just now at a speed visible to the naked eye......]
"That's ...... so"
Mu You looked at these few sentences of text description and realized something.
This rain of time will reduce lifespan and is a harmful natural disaster, but this is only for these creatures from the astral realm, and the creatures of the high heavenly world have no concept of lifespan from the beginning.
These creatures in the ring forest do not have a definite fixed time of death such as lifespan, but they also have the concept of 'birth, old age, sickness and death'.
The rain of time does not deprive the creatures here of their lifespan, but rather enhances their growth stage.
From the fact that after the death of each creature before, a moon butterfly would grow in the body, and then to the phantom shadow of the moon butterfly in the rain at this time, it is not difficult for Mu You to speculate that all the creatures in the ring forest are likely to have an illusory moon butterfly, and this butterfly has grown with them since the creature was born.
This kind of butterfly is more appropriate to be called 'time butterfly' than a moon butterfly.
The butterfly that gives time to living beings, when it receives the rain of time, will continue to grow, and the external manifestation is the improvement of the growth stage of the organism, from the embryonic state, to hatching, to the larvae, to the prime of life, to old age, until the body decays, and the flesh is exhausted and dies.
At this time, the moon butterfly will not die with the creature, but will break out of the cocoon, carrying the memories and joys and sorrows of life, flying to the depths of the ring forest and returning to the source of the rain.
After a series of changes, the moon butterfly once again turns into a raindrop of time and lands, enters the body of other lifeforms, continues to grow with the creature, watching the new creatures grow old, sick and die, and then turns into butterflies again, turning into rain, and the cycle repeats itself, never stopping...... (End of chapter)