The edge of the Dream Forest is overgrown with various colors of 'Dream Grass' and 'Dream Flower', which are illusory products formed by the long-term accumulation of dream elements around it.

At this moment, the pink dream-eating tapir was lying on the grass in front of the forest, its long nose was on the surrounding flowers and plants and sucked violently, its face was intoxicated, and its mouth let out a satisfied hum, as if it had swallowed.

And on the back of the dream-eating tapir, Mianmian lay motionless on the soft fur, sleeping without knowing who was in a good place, his mouth slightly open, and a rhythmic snoring sound came from his mouth.

"What's going on with this girl?" Mu You walked up to the Dream Eater Tapir and pinched the little girl's face, trying to wake her up.

It's a pity that the little girl didn't show the slightest sign of waking up, but frowned slightly, a look of pain appeared on her little face, and she muttered inexplicably: "...... No, don't...... I really don't want to do it anymore...... ...... vomit"

After they walked out of the forest just now, they all woke up for the first time, only sleeping, but they also walked out of the forest, but they were completely asleep, and they couldn't wake up.

"She shouldn't have come out of her dreams." Vivian flew to Mu You's shoulder and glanced at the girl: "However, it doesn't look like a dangerous dream." ”

Mu You looked at the Dream Eater Tapir, and probably guessed the cause and effect: the sleep mechanism of the Dream Forest was obviously ineffective against the Dream Eater Tapir.

And the little girl followed the dream tapir into the forest, with the dream tapir there, she had no chance to encounter a nightmare, but she was unable to fulfill the dream owner's wish, so she was trapped in the dream.

The reason why she was able to come out was all because the dream-eating tapir took her to lie down and win.

"Don't worry, she will wake up naturally when the dream is over."

Vivien looked back at the fog on the other side of the prairie: "It's better for her to stay here, she can save a lot of trouble." ”

Mu You understood what Vivien meant, and then they were going to the Heart of Time, which was obviously a bit dangerous.

"You just take her here and wait for us." Mu You patted the head of the dream tapir and admonished.

The little mirage raised its nose to indicate that it had heard, and continued to lie down in front of the grass, sucking the grass beautifully.

"Let's go."

The four of them did not stay any longer and continued on their way.

Follow Vivian through a white mist on the grassland in front of her, and behind the mist, what appeared in front of several people was a huge 'clock' city.

The reason why it is called the City of Clocks is because the city in front of it, all the elements, are all made up of various clocks.

The walls and all the buildings in the castle are inlaid with clocks of different sizes, including retro wall clocks and pocket watches, as well as modern watches, alarm clocks, and electronic watches......

Even the white clouds in the sky are made up of elongated and distorted displays of time.

Mu You looked up and took a closer look, and found that even the sun in the sky was actually a large pocket watch shining with golden light.

Mu You and the three of them were a little stunned, they didn't think before they came that the so-called Heart of Time would be such a subversive city.

Vivien had already stepped out first, and the three of them hurriedly followed.

However, at the moment when Mu You stepped out of the fog and entered the outskirts of the city, he suddenly felt a heavy body.

Looking down, he found that his body was quickly condensed, and all the equipment and props he carried with him had also turned into entities together, and he no longer needed to use his spirit to manifest it.

"This isn't a dream?" Mu You looked at Vivien strangely, he could feel that he was now a real body.

"The Heart of Time is only hidden in the dream world for self-preservation, it does not mean that it is also a product of the dream world, as long as you step into the scope of the Heart of Time, the dream body will turn back into the real body." Vivien said, "Of course, the Heart of Time does not have a direct exit to the outside world, and when you go back, you still have to leave the dream world. ”

After listening to this, Mu You thought about it and tried to retreat into the fog.

Sure enough, his body quickly blurred again, turning back into a dream state, and when he stepped out of the fog again, he turned back into a physical entity.

The circle of fog outside the city is like a dividing line between reality and dreams, one step away, two completely opposite states.

"I see......" Mu You nodded.

There seems to be no difference between the entity and the dream body, but in fact there is a big difference, and the dream body does not have to worry about encountering danger, at most, it is to wake up in reality, and the body will not have any risk.

And turning back into an entity means that you will be injured and will die, so you can't just wave it next.

The four of them walked towards the clock city in front of them, and all kinds of flowers and trees grew along the road, and to their side, all the fruits on the trees and the flowers that bloomed among the flowers were all big or small clocks.

Everything in the city seems to show the core element of the city: time.

"These tables ...... It seems to be all bad......" Xiaoya looked curiously at the clock hanging above a big tree on the side of the road.

Indeed, as she said, the hands of all the clocks in the tree, and indeed all the clocks around them, seemed to be fixed, and did not beat like a normal clock.

"No, it's not broken."

Vivien shook her head, spread her wings and flew up to the tree, plucking a few clocks from the tree and throwing them to the three of them, then taking off another wall watch and putting it around her neck.

Mu You glanced at the several watches that Vivian had taken off, and found that the times on them were all different, he was 3:40, Xiaoya was 8:11, Lin Xue was 7:05, and Vivian was 10:02.

"What does it mean that it's not broken?" Mu You asked, even if these clocks are taken off, they are still in a static state.

"The clocks are working normally, and the reason why you can't see them moving is because time in this city doesn't flow linearly, but jumps out of order, and every once in a while, everyone randomly jumps to another point in time, of course, the jump is not too large, it must be within 5 hours before and after."

After Vivien finished speaking, she glanced at the watches in the hands of several people: "So, keep in mind the time in your hands at this time, once you find that the others are suddenly gone, only you are still in place, that is, your time has jumped, and what you need to do at this time is to immediately turn the clock in your hands back to the current time, so that you can come back." ”

"Oh?"

Mu You raised his eyebrows, and the clock in his hand directly determined the timeline they were in, which was a very interesting mechanism.

"What if I had two watches with me and dialed them to different timelines?" Lin Xue asked.

Vivien shook her head: "No matter how many watches you bring, only the earliest watch you get in the city represents your time, and the other watches don't count until this watch is lost." ”

"Understood." Lin Xue nodded.

"Let's go." Vivien continued to lead the way.

All three silently wrote down the moment in their hands and followed behind.

Soon, the four of them came to the front of the city.

There were no imaginary guards in front of the city gates, and the gates were open.

The three of them followed Vivien straight into the city gates.

The buildings in the city are dense and messy, and what the three of them didn't expect was that there were many 'people' living in this city.

It's just that they are not normal human beings, but 'clock people': the body is a human body, both men and women, young and old, but they all have a clock around their necks, replacing the original human head.

The time displayed above each clockman's head was different, and the four of them swaggered in, and everyone around them was doing their own work, carrying, repairing, painting the walls, etc., and none of them looked at them as if they were just marionettes.

In addition to these clock people, some smoke beasts with upper body body and lower body smoke can be faintly seen on the nearby streets.

These creatures Mu You has seen, called Time Administrator, a type of smoke beast, once hunted down Zuoqiu and Red Sleeves, and now it is normal to appear in this city of time.

At this moment, the Time Smoke Beast is incarnating as an overseer, armed with a great axe and whip, floating through the city, overseeing the work of the other watchmakers.

As soon as they find someone slacking, they will immediately rush forward and beat the opponent violently, until the slacking cow and horse return to their posts again.

"These are ......," Mu You looked at Vivian with a strange expression.

"These watch people are actually people who have strayed here for various reasons."

"Oh?"

"Creatures who strayed into this place, without anyone to lead them, can easily get lost in the rules of time here, and if they can't get out for a long time, they will gradually lose themselves, and their heads will become clocks, until they completely forget their identity and become slaves of the City of Time, and they will never stop ......working for the city from then on," Vivian said with some emotion.

"How do you know these ......" Mu You was a little strange.

Vivien said that she had been here before, and even knew the origin of these watchmakers......

Coupled with the fact that she said that she herself seemed to have strayed into the heart of time, could it be ......

Vivien shook her head and sighed, "Because I've been a watch man like this before. ”

"Ah......" all three looked a little surprised.

"And how did you get back?" Mu You asked.

Vivien had just said that once she became a watchmaker, she would need to stay here forever to work, but her soul is still alive and well, which means that she must have escaped from here somehow.

"Not all watchmakers have to stay here, some people with a strong obsession with survival will get a chance to enter the 'time cage', if they can complete the test of the heart of time and come out alive from it, they can return to their original appearance, and they can also get some special abilities." Vivien said.

"Time Cage?"

"The heart of this city, and the place I'm going to take you to today, if you want to fuse the time god bones, that will be the place you have to enter." Vivien looked at Mu You.

Mu You nodded. Vivien apparently passed the test, and the ability she gained was her ability to react to time.

Of course, Mu You also knew that this test must be very difficult, and it was definitely not something that could be passed casually, otherwise a time responder like Vivien would be rotten.

"Let's go."

Vivien led the three of them towards the city, and before leaving, she told a few people a precaution.

"Remember, if these watchmakers talk to you, whatever they say or ask you to do, just ignore them, pretend not to see them, and walk away silently."

The three of them didn't ask why, nodded silently, and followed Vivien.

As soon as Mu You took a few steps, he felt the light and shadow around him change.

Looking up, he was still standing where he was, but Vivien and the others had disappeared without a trace, and the positions of the clockmen around them had changed slightly.

Mu You subconsciously glanced at the clock in his hand.

Sure enough, his time jumped, from 3:40 to 3:10, to half an hour ago.

He hurriedly turned the minute hand back.

The scene in front of him changed again, and Lin Xue and the three of them reappeared, all looking at him, obviously realizing what was happening.

"That's pretty much it, don't be nervous, as long as you don't forget the original time, there is no danger of getting lost." Vivien said.

Then the few people suddenly disappeared every few minutes, but fortunately, with Vivien's guidance, they were not confused, and as soon as they jumped, they immediately turned the clock back, and always kept the four of them acting together.

The problem of time jumping is so easy to solve.

As for the precautions that Vivien just said...... A few people walked all the way, and they had been vigilant about the clock people around them, but no one dared to approach them at all, but wherever they passed, all the watch people would stay away.

"Why do these people seem to be afraid of us?" Xiao Ya looked around a little strangely, those clock people who showed fear.

"It's not that I'm afraid of us, I'm afraid of Mu You." Vivien is on the right track.

"Afraid of me?" Mu You was stunned.

"You forget, you're also an 'administrator', and in the eyes of the clock men, you exude the aura of a 'regulator' like those smoke beasts, and of course they don't dare approach you."

"I see."

Mu You didn't expect that the administrator identity would have this role, no wonder Vivian wanted them to always walk together, with his heavy administrator deterrence, it could naturally reduce a lot of trouble.

The two major troubles were easily solved, and the next road was unimpeded, during which some smoke beasts floated over to observe a few people, but they only glanced at it from a distance, and it should have been seen that they were led by someone, not pedestrians who had strayed, so they didn't come forward to find trouble.

The position of the four of them was Vivian leading the way, Mu You and Xiaoya walking in the middle, and Lin Xue falling a little later.

This was nothing, but Mu You could always feel the gaze from behind him along the way.

He looked back at Lin Xue a little strangely, but Lin Xue turned her face away in advance, and when Mu You turned around, she was looking in the other direction in the distance, concentrating on the scenery.

Mu You had no choice but to turn around and continue walking.

But as soon as he turned his head, the gaze behind him came back to him again.

"Uh......" Mu You's face was a little strange. Even if he didn't look back, Lin Xue had been secretly watching him, he could still feel it.

But whenever he wanted to turn his head to look back, Lin Xue would immediately look away.

Mu You felt strange in his heart, so he simply walked a little slower and waited for Lin Xue to approach.

As a result, as soon as he slowed down, Lin Xue also slowed down, but he didn't stay away, he always kept a distance of a few meters from him, and his movements were very synchronized, as if he could read minds...... Oh no, she knows how to read minds!

Mu You couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply turned around and walked towards Lin Xue, ready to ask her what happened.

"What's the matter, little ...... Uh......"

As a result, before Mu You finished speaking, he saw Lin Xue suddenly disappear in place.

Coincidentally, there was a jump at this time.

Mu You was not in a hurry, and waited in place for a few seconds.

Soon, Lin Xue reappeared.

But instead of appearing in the original position, he appeared in front, next to Xiaoya.

Obviously, she didn't immediately adjust the clock after the time jump, but deliberately took a few steps forward before returning.

Now Mu You can be sure that Lin Xue is indeed deliberately avoiding him.

Why?

Mu You was very dazed, waiting for him to catch up and ask.

Lin Xue was like a prophet, so she came to Xiaoya's ear, and the two chattered about the girl's whisper, and now Mu You couldn't step forward and interject.

Vivian flapped her wings at this time and landed on Mu You's shoulder, looking at Lin Xue in front of her, and then at Mu You.

"You two, quarreled?"

Obviously, not only Mu You could feel it, but even Vivian could see the changes in Lin Xue, so Xiaoya was simple-minded and had not found anything unusual so far.

"No, right...... Should ......"

Mu You spread his hands, he wanted to say no, but Lin Xue's strange performance made him a little uncertain.

"I usually don't ask about you young people, usually no matter who you provoke outside, I will support you unconditionally, but if you bully Xiaoxue, I won't agree." Vivien said.

"I wronged ......"

Mu You couldn't cry or laugh for a while, he obviously didn't do anything...... (End of chapter)