When Ling Chuan saw that his mental pollution had been absorbed, he was first stunned, then stared at Lu Ning with wide eyes, somewhat surprised and uncertain.

"You...you really are Lu Ning? The ability to absorb mental pollution, in my memory, only Lu Ning can do that."

Lu Ning nodded: "I am Lu Ning."

Ling Chuan's expression kept changing, his expression was very complicated, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, and sometimes blank.

Lu Ning silently watched Ling Chuan, waiting for him to accept reality.

As Ling Chuan's expression shifted, more footsteps approached.

Lu Ning turned his head and saw Aishalin and the others walking over.

Lingchuan also noticed the footsteps.

When he turned around and saw Aishalin and the others, he was taken aback at first, then burst into laughter.

He laughed until tears streamed down his face: "So you're all still alive? Hahaha! You're all still so young? Hahaha! So it turns out I'm the only one who's about to die!"

The crowd frowned, looking warily at the seemingly insane old man before them.

Lu Ning explained, "He is Ling Chuan."

Even though they had some suspicions, everyone's pupils still contracted slightly upon hearing Lu Ning's confirmation.

They found it hard to believe that Ling Chuan, who was so handsome and even spirited just a month ago, had become like this.

Aishalin was the first to react. She frowned and asked, "Lingchuan, what happened to you?"

Ling Chuan laughed for a long time before gradually calming down.

He took a deep breath and asked in return, "So, I was the only one who was teleported here by the spatial rift before?"

The group exchanged glances.

An Lan nodded and said seriously, "Did you encounter another version of us?"

Ling Chuan laughed: "Hehehe... I don't know either."

He pointed to his head and said with a smile, "In my memory, after I teleported here, you all came too."

The crowd's gazes turned serious.

They were all somewhat taken aback.

They watched as Ling Chuan was swallowed up by the spatial rift.

Clearly, Ling Chuan had arrived here at that time.

However, they did not come with Ling Chuan at that time.

As a result, in Ling Chuan's memory, they were also transported here?

"Is someone impersonating us?" Su Qi asked, frowning.

An Lan seemed thoughtful, then asked somewhat ambivalently, "Let Ling Chuan continue. What happened next?"

"Later? Later, 'you' and I discovered that this was Base City 65, which was our destination. We investigated Yan Bing's whereabouts here."

"Did you find it?" An Lan asked Ling Chuan with sparkling eyes.

Ling Chuan shook his head: "No. Time is chaotic in these ruins, which can accelerate the passing of life and may also make people younger, but that's very dangerous."

An Lan and the others exchanged glances.

This is the same as what they knew before.

Steve asked, somewhat puzzled, "Then why don't you go outside?"

Ling Chuan glanced at Steve, then seemed to notice something and carefully examined Steve's face.

Then he smiled, and his laughter grew louder and louder.

"Hahaha... I still remember you, Steve! You were the first one."

Steve: [?_??]

Ling Chuan laughed and said, "We did consider leaving this ruin and going to a place where time is normal, but it wasn't possible."

Everyone was taken aback. An Lan frowned and asked, "Why not?"

“Because time is cyclical.” A ferocious look appeared in Ling Chuan’s turbid eyes.

He said through gritted teeth, “Every time we try to leave the ruins, we end up back where we started. Everything seems to be back to normal. We’ve even tried destroying the rubble, the ruins, and everything else we can see. But when the time loops, everything goes back to normal.”

The air became quiet.

Hearing Ling Chuan's words, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Su Qi frowned and said, "You mean, as long as you want to leave this ruin, time will reset? Everything will return to normal?"

Ling Chuan nodded: "Mm."

An Lan frowned and said, "If everything can be reset, why have you become like this?"

Ling Chuan paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "I wasn't precise enough. I should say, besides us..."

At this point, Ling Chuan glanced at Lu Ning and the others, and chuckled: "...Just think of me and some unknown thing, something like you, as beings? Every time time loops, everything else returns to normal, but we don't. The time of the ruins is eroding us, and Steve was the first to show signs of abnormality."

He scrutinized Steve's face, his smile sending a chill down Steve's spine.

"Steve is getting old and will die soon."

Everyone looked at Steve, their brows furrowing and their expressions growing increasingly serious.

As Lingchuan said, Steve was indeed ravaged by time.

He looks much older now than when he first entered Base City 65.

She used to look only in her early twenties, but now she looks like she's in her thirties, or even close to forty.

Ling Chuan scrutinized Steve, his expression growing increasingly strange, and laughed, "Hahahaha! That's exactly the expression! Steve, back then when you realized you were getting older, your expression was exactly the same as it is now! Honestly, are you sure you're not hallucinating? Or is this my final burst of energy before I die? I can't tell anymore."

Everyone else was terrified by Ling Chuan's words, but Lu Ning remained as calm as ever.

He began, "We really are, go on."

Ling Chuan nodded, then said, "In the fifth month after we were teleported here, Steve died of old age."

"Wait!" An Lan interrupted Ling Chuan.

The others also frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"You said three months? But you've only been here for about a month. Even if time passes faster here, it shouldn't be three months."

Hearing this, Ling Chuan was stunned. His eyes widened. "So, according to you, I've only been gone for a month?"

Everyone nodded.

Ling Chuan couldn't help but burst into laughter again: "Only a month? I remember thirty years have passed!"

The expressions on everyone's faces grew increasingly strange.

One month is equivalent to thirty years?

After a moment of silence, An Lan spoke again, "Go on, what happened after Steve died?"

Ling Chuan said, "As Steve was being eroded by time, Elder An... you were also eroded by time. However, you were lucky. Your time was reversing, and you happened to be quite old, so when Steve died, you were back in your prime."

Anlan and Steve both fell silent.

The expressions of the others also changed.

Lingchuan was not with them, and their experiences were even different.

However, Ling Chuan revealed the time erosion caused by Steve and An Lan.

It was as if Ling Chuan had witnessed it with his own eyes.