Light and shadow change, the world spins.

The smell of incense lingered in the room, Li Qing opened his eyes leisurely, got up, and did the "warm-up" action after returning according to Xiao Jin's request.

There is an incense burner not far in front of him, and there is a pot of green plants on both sides of the incense burner, this kind of green plant leaves that Li Qing can't name are like tiger claws, with clear veins and strong stems, and silky smoke floats out of the furnace, these smoke are absorbed by the tiger claw-shaped leaves, after absorbing these smokes, the tiger claw leaves are like dry seedlings with sweet rain, gently swaying from side to side, swaying, exuding bursts of fragrance.

When it comes to the roots, this fragrance is no different from the smell of incense, only thinner, and the tiger claw leaf is like a special device, through which it is filtered and diluted, and the calming effect of the fragrance can be maximized.

Directly opposite Li Qing is a strange mirror, the world in the mirror is upside down from reality, the purpose of which is to ensure that after getting out of the trial realm, the transcendent who participates in the trial can see themselves in the mirror for the first time, and use this as a "road marker" to locate the real world.

Such a trial room is expensive, in addition to the incense that is said to cost 10 yuan of alliance coins to burn for one minute, this strange glass mirror turned upside down is not cheap, but the combination of these two things is not as valuable as the two-sided mother clock hanging above the mirror.

These two clocks, one large and one small, are connected to each other, the big one is the same as the ordinary clock, twelve hours, hour hand, minute hand, second hand, are not unusual, but the minutes and seconds are calculated more accurately, this is nothing, the key is the small clock connected with the big clock, it does not record how long the reality has passed, but the time experienced by the transcendent who has entered the trial realm.

The clock only has five scales, and the craftsmanship and technology are classified by the Alliance, which is undoubtedly another typical result of the cooperation between a gunman and a bachelor.

As a branch of the Special Investigation Bureau with a formal establishment, there is only one such trial room in Fuyong, and the members of the branch only have one chance to use it for free in their lives, and every time they use it in the future, they need to pay a large amount of usage fees, although it is settled in alliance currency, but this cost is huge, even for the extraordinary person with outstanding ability to absorb gold, it is difficult to bear.

Looking at himself in the mirror with his head on his feet and feeling the obscure essentia fluctuations in the mirror, Li Qing's mind gradually became clear and at the same time, he also had some curiosity in his heart, when he moved his gaze up, he saw that the two clock faces, one large and one small, showed different times, this curiosity was even stronger.

'Solve the problem of stuck neck in many ways. ’

Li Qing swore that he was looking at these two objects from a purely transcendent scientific point of view, and not for any money-oriented commercial purpose, but unfortunately, just as he wanted to further explore the mysteries, the door of the trial room was pushed open from the outside, and it was Xiao Jin, the discipline inspection committee member of the Fuyong branch looked suspiciously at Li Qing, who was holding a stool in front of the mirror and stretched out his arms, for a long time, before he spoke:

"What are you doing?"

“……”

Li Qing was silent for a long time, and then he silently wiped the surface of the Zimu clock with his raised hand, "The branch is my home, I see that there is some dust on the surface of this clock, so I want to clean it." ”

He can't say that he wants to take down the bell and study it well, even if this is Li Qing's true thoughts, but to others, it is somewhat untenable, and judging from the bits and pieces observed when Li Qing communicated with Gu Changming, Xiao Jin, a member of the discipline inspection committee, can be described as jealous and hateful for embezzlement of public property, maybe it is the nature of men, Li Qing does not want to leave a bad impression in Xiao Jin's heart.

"Really?" Good-looking brows frowned slightly, Xiao Jin pointed to the ground, "You come down first, the maintenance and cleaning of the Zimu clock is responsible for a special person, and its management needs to be carried out in accordance with the "Code for the Management of Precious and Extraordinary Items", so you don't have to worry about it." ”

The corners of Li Qing's eyes twitched, he jumped down stupidly, and obediently put the stool back in its original position.

Xiao Jin took out a pen and paper from his arms, looked up at the letter clock, and made a record, but when she really saw the content presented on the clock face, the discipline inspection committee member who was always cold in Li Qing's impression actually showed a rare look of surprise, and her cherry lips opened lightly, and she unconsciously let out a soft sigh.

"The child and mother clock shows that your severing coefficient is as high as 32.4."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and scribbled something in her notebook.

When he was taught in Ningpu, Song Qiu was certainly erudite, but it was impossible to cover everything, although he didn't know what the deep meaning of this ratio Xiao Jin said, Li Qing just stood quietly aside, without making a sound to disturb, and when he didn't understand, he generally chose to keep silent as much as possible.

Xiao Jin didn't care about him, after making the first key data record, she put down the notebook and pen in her hand, walked to the upside-down mirror, stretched out her hand and fiddled with it for a while, when she turned around, the surprise in her eyes was even worse.

This time, she deliberately glanced at Li Qing, and then went to the incense burner, first dropped three drops of light cyan liquid on each of the two pots of green plants on both sides of the incense burner, and then opened the lid of the stove to check the loss of the incense.

Li Qing could see clearly, at the moment when the pale cyan liquid dripped down, the tiger claw-shaped leaves of the two pots of green plants trembled obviously, and the sturdy stems shrank inward after the instant expansion, and the whole plant looked a little embarrassed, and the spirit of the two pots of green plants was obviously not restored.

After doing these things, Xiao Jin wrote something in the notebook, and then put away the notebook, looked up at Li Qing, his beautiful face was a little solemn, and said: "I originally planned to wait for you to return from the trial realm and the team will go on a mission together, but judging from the feedback from the son-mother clock, the upside-down mirror, and the incense of the gods, ......."

She wanted to speak and stopped, and after a moment of silence, she said, "Your situation is a little complicated, in this way, you go with me to see Team Gu first,"

As he spoke, Xiao Jin took the lead out of the trial room, and Li Qing quickly followed, following closely behind.

As the footsteps of the two faded away, the trial room returned to its former tranquility, no one knew that after Li Qing and Xiao Jin left, about a quarter of an hour later, the sound of the key turning suddenly sounded in the silent space.

The black shadow pushed the door in, and his glowing eyes scanned the trial room for a week, and then his actions were exactly the same as Xiao Jin's talents.

"Strange, really weird......"

……

"Team Xiao, what is my situation like? I didn't feel any discomfort when I came back from the Trials Realm, and the line between reality and the Trials Realm was clear. ”

On the way to Gu Changming's office, Li Qing still didn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked out loud.

Xiao Jintou explained without replying: "The preciousness of the trial room lies in the extraordinary items in it, the child and mother clock, the upside-down mirror and the condensing incense, without these three things, the trial room is just a closed space with no characteristics, these three extraordinary items, in addition to helping us stay awake in the trial realm, make correct judgments, and increase our chances of clearing the trial realm, more importantly, is 'record'." ”

Li Qing frowned slightly.

Xiao Jin glanced at Li Qing deeply, and said: "For the trialist, clearing the trial realm is the top priority, but after clearing the customs, the trialist is still not the previous trialist, and whether there is any change in his mental state is also very important to the people around him." ”

According to the current view of the transcendent academic community, everything that happens in the trial realm is a pure spiritual evolution, and its root lies in the underworld induction between the transcendent and the corresponding sequence obelisk, which exists based on essentia, and everything that happens in the trial realm will have different effects on the transcendent spirit, which can be drastic, soft, instantaneous, or long-lasting, explicit, or imperceptible...... The spirit is inherently intangible, insubstantial, and unpredictable, and it is a matter of course that it is unpredictable.

Where the sequence appears, the transcendents actually already know that opening the trial realm for trials will have an impact on their spirit, thinking, and personality, but this qualitative concept has to fall into quantitative measurement, but it is still after the appearance of the bachelor sequence, and it is not a direct judgment, so far, what the bachelors have done is only to measure a few data, and then combine it with the actual situation, and make a rough judgment.

In this step of measuring data, as long as there is a corresponding device, it is not difficult, but the next "combined with the actual situation", this kind of ambiguity is often the most troublesome.

Xiao Jin only thought that Li Qing frowned because he was worried about the unknown changes in his spiritual world, but he didn't know that what Li Qing was worried about was not his own mental changes at all, but how much those so-called devices and instruments had peeked into his situation.

"The Zimu clock records the time experienced in reality and the time experienced in the trial realm, and the ratio of the latter to the former is called the separation coefficient, that is to say, the time you experience in the trial realm is 32.4:1 compared to the experience time in reality, and after 32.4 hours in the trial realm, one hour is spent in reality, according to the research data released by the Vientiane Council, under normal circumstances, the ratio of second-order transcendents should not exceed 14."

"What happens if it exceeds it?"

Xiao Jin was not stingy, and said eloquently: "Higher than this value, it means that your spirit is extraordinarily active, and the perfection of the evolved world, that is, the trial realm, is far beyond the level that you should reach at this stage, which is not a good thing, and the second item, the reversal coefficient measured by the inverted mirror ......"

Li Qing listened silently, reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, these things were not taught to him by Song Qiu, and even in some places, Xiao Jin's views and Song Qiu's ideas still conflicted, perhaps it was the state of mind brought by the sword spirit branch of the swordsman sequence, Song Qiu has always advocated that "the heart is great, and the reason is this".

While talking, the two walked through the corridor of the Fuyong City Public Security Bureau building and came to the outside of Gu Changming's office.

Without knocking on the door, Xiao Jin directly pushed the door in, and put the open notebook on Captain Gu's desk under Gu Changming's gaze.

"This is the situation after Li Qing's return, the son-mother clock, the upside-down mirror and the feedback of the incense, I suggest that Li Qing cannot participate in this mission."

It is an objective "can't", not a subjective "don't".

Gu Changming glanced at it, his expression was surprisingly calm, and he pushed the notebook back in front of Xiao Jin, "I just came back from the city government building, and the news from the front line is that Zhangping has fallen, which is a month earlier than the time estimated by the alliance's top management." ”

He slowly stood up, his five fingers spread, and his hands supported the table, "The combat power of the Northern Federation is stronger than we imagined, according to this estimate, the destruction of Fuyong City is only within this half a month, but before that, ......"

Gu Changming turned his head to look at Li Qing, "The situation in Ningpu may be even worse. ”

(End of chapter)