Twelve days ago.

Seven figures wearing grey cloaks passed through the giant beast's esophagus and came to the pitch-black stomach wall.

The gray-robed figure wearing a vortex mask raised his hand lightly, and two huge purple vortices opened at the same time, one of which drew all the seawater in the stomach wall into it, and the other blocked the esophagus to prevent the seawater from outside from rolling in.

In just a few seconds, the seawater in the stomach wall was drained.

Wang Mian raised his head and stared at the [Yi Yuan] deeply pierced into Chen Yangrong's chest, and the slowly rotating ring of light at its tail, his eyes narrowed slightly...

"Captain, that knife is exactly the same as yours?!" Xuanwo looked at the knife on Chen Yangrong's chest, then looked at the [Yi Yuan] on Wang Mian's waist, and said in shock, "Could your knife be a couple's knife?"

"..." Wang Mian said helplessly, "That is [Yi Yuan], but it does not belong to this time."

Tianping frowned and thought for a long time, "Could it be that the knife is..."

"Yes, it should be the sword of 'me' from the future that the Nightfall team encountered before." Wang Mian nodded.

"That's amazing, Captain!" Qiangwei said excitedly, "Doesn't that mean that you will definitely break through and become a god in the future?"

"Of course. The captain is about to break through the ceiling of humanity. How far is he from becoming a god?" Yue Gui responded.

"It's hard to say. As the timeline changes, the future will also change." Wang Mian shook his head.

"You mean, if you in the future return to the present to change the timeline, it will affect your future?" Tianping asked doubtfully, "But if the present is changed, the trajectory of the future will also be deviated. What if he doesn't become a god in the end and doesn't return to the present, then the present will not be changed...won't a paradox appear?"

Wang Mian shook his head and said, "You are talking about the traditional 'Grandmother Paradox', which is different from the principle of my [Time Thug].

There is a God of Time in every pantheon in the world, but their ruins are also somewhat different. The [Time Thug] that Kronos gave me is a 'disordered maniac outside of time'. After possessing this ruin, even if I go back to the past to change history, the changes in the timeline will not affect my established past.

To put it in terms of the grandmother paradox, even if I go back in time and kill my grandmother, I will not disappear because of her death..."

"Then can you go back to the past and change history without restraint?" Xuanwo opened his mouth in shock.

Tianping walked behind him, patted him on the back of the head, and couldn't help cursing, "What nonsense are you talking about? The captain just went back to the past and changed history twice, and it has become... How can this be without a price?"

"There is indeed a price." Wang Mian nodded slightly, "The causal backlash caused by tampering with the timeline will greatly reduce my lifespan. The further back in time I go, the greater the butterfly effect caused by changing the timeline, and the more horrible the reduction in lifespan will be.

The two previous times when I went back in time, although the time of going back was no more than one day, the butterfly effect caused was too strong, so cumulatively, it shortened my lifespan by nearly twenty years. "

Wang Mian went back in time twice, both times he went back a few hours to the past to warn the Night Watch of the coming of foreign enemies. Although the time he went back was not long, tens of millions of people were able to survive because of his advance warning. Such a huge force of cause and effect backlash was added to his body, and the loss of his lifespan was naturally to an extremely terrifying level.

Looking at Wang's graying temples and haggard face, everyone in the Masked Team fell silent.

When Wang Mian went back in time for the first time, he was less than 20 years old. Even though his life span was shortened by several years, he was still young and strong, so they did not notice it. But it was not until Wang Mian went back in time for the second time some time ago that they found that Wang Mian had obviously aged...

They also guessed that this might be the sequelae of Wang Mian's time travel, but they never expected that the price would be twenty years of life.

How many twenty years can we have in our life?

After two time trips, Wang Mian, who should have been only 26 years old, jumped directly to the age of nearly 50. His best and most precious youth time disappeared in just a moment.

As if he noticed that the atmosphere among the crowd was a little heavy, Wang Mian smiled slightly and said:

"Don't be so pessimistic. I am the agent of the God of Time. Maybe after I become a god, I can have an endless lifespan."

Wang Mian's consolation did not seem to dispel the depressed mood of the crowd. The vortex's eyes swept over the crowd. After a moment of silence, he scratched his head and laughed: "Captain, don't forget us after you become a god!

Although it doesn't necessarily mean that we can stay young forever, but it shouldn't be too much to extend our vacation for a few days, right?"

Hearing Xuanwo's joke, everyone rolled their eyes, and the originally dull atmosphere became lively again.

At this moment, the old man who was nailed to the stomach wall by Yi Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

"A few rats sneaked in..." Chen Yangrong said calmly, "If you want to live, pull out the knife from my chest. When I get out, I will repay you..."

The moment his voice echoed in the dim space, the spirits of the [Masked] team immediately tensed up. They looked at each other, and Wang Mian's voice quietly emerged in the minds of the others.

"My future self has inserted [Yi Yuan] into his chest. There must be something wrong with this old man... Let me sense the timeline hidden in that closed loop. You guys help me delay time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Mian slowly closed his eyes, connected his own divine ruins with the [Yi Yuan] on Chen Yangrong's chest, and quickly flipped through the timeline in the flowing circle.

Xuan Vortex nodded imperceptibly, turned to look at the old man on the stomach wall, and said in a dumbfounded manner:

"Repay? Really? What can I repay?"

Chen Yangrong was stunned, as if he had not expected that someone would actually believe this nonsense, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Wow! I met a fool!

"Supreme power, endless life... whatever you want, I can give it to you!"

"Supreme? How high? Higher than 'Klein'?"

“It’s much higher than that.”

"Wow, you're awesome!"

“…”

During the meaningless conversation between the two, Wang Mian's brows became more and more furrowed. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly opened his eyes and his expression became more solemn than ever before.

"Shit..." He looked up at the dark stomach wall and muttered to himself.

"What's wrong?"

Qiangwei noticed the change in Wang Mian's expression and asked with some concern.

Wang Mian turned around, took a deep breath, calmed his chaotic thoughts, and spoke seriously:

"From now on, you must listen carefully to every word I say..."