Lu Ban and Xia were completely confused.

They sat on the metal equipment and watched people coming and going.

There are quite a few giants on this small island.

Even though they were all wearing yellow clothes and looked similar from a distance, Lu Ban still roughly remembered the guy who had brought them back.

"…The pollution has finally been stabilized, but this is not the end. The real battle is about to begin."

The giant came back after a while. He didn't take off his coat. From his hood, one could see that he was sweating all over and seemed very tired.

"May I have your name?"

Shia asked.

"Me? My name is Song, you can call me Lao Song, Yang and I are very good friends."

The giant sat next to the device and pulled out a gray tube from it, connecting it to a small metal box on his clothes.

After a moment, accompanied by the sound of something moving, Lao Song let out a long sigh of pleasure, and his whole body relaxed, with the sweat disappearing.

Lu Ban guessed that this might be some kind of cooling device, and perhaps it could also relax the nerves.

Although Old Song said that the outer gods were not a big deal, the process of civilization fighting pollution was always extremely difficult. There were also many dead bodies on the beach, and the problem could not be solved by just a few words.

He must have been under a lot of pressure.

"Song, I want to discuss something with you."

At this time, another giant with a more burly figure came to Lao Song. He patted Lao Song who was resting and said.

"For the next three rotations, you stay here and don't go anywhere."

"Why?"

When Old Song heard this, he immediately sat up.

"I just received news that Chen has died."

The man’s words stunned Old Song, and he looked at him in disbelief.

"What did you say?"

"During the retreat, the construct collapsed due to the disturbance of the Outer Gods. At least the concentration of [Alienation] pollution spread and surrounded his team. As a scholar in the team, he was the last one left. He and another team member were eroded by the pollution and stayed there forever."

He explained, his voice trembling slightly.

"So, Song, you are now the only scholar in our area, and you can no longer go to the front line."

"But... I need to process the disturbance data. Ordinary team members cannot resist when the pollution spreads. Without scholars, the danger of controlling the pollution will increase by at least 30%."

Lao Song tried to argue, but he soon realized that this proposal was the best option.

"We can no longer afford to lose the last scholar. The Tavel Time Anchor requires the authority of scholars to continue to operate and shut down. If you also die, we will be trapped here forever until others discover this and look for the time point of the anchor to find us."

The giant continued.

Old Song lowered his head, nodded slightly, and watched the other party leave.

"scholar?"

Lu Ban asked curiously.

"You are a scholar?"

"...Yes, you may not know that the role of a scholar is not just someone who studies knowledge, but a core assistant of a legion. Without scholars, we would lose our way when traveling in foreign lands, and it would be difficult to use some divine equipment including the Tavel Time Anchor."

Old Song said, pointing to the silver pile in the sea.

"And the time anchor points also need to rely on scholars to provide coordinates. If the scholars are lost, the people in the time anchored by the Tavel time anchor will lose contact with the outside world, and it will be very difficult for people outside to find the people here."

"Why?"

Lu Ban asked subconsciously.

Now it seems that Lao Song is quite willing to talk to these "experimental subjects". Although he doesn't know what experimental subjects refer to, it is at least a good opportunity to get some knowledge.

It’s free anyway, so just listen to it.

"Heh, you may not quite understand what a time anchor is."

Old Song straightened up his body, grabbed a handful of sand and sprinkled it on the surface of the metal equipment.

"Just now I grabbed some sand and scattered it here, causing it to accumulate here. It's like the Outer Gods have polluted this foreign land, and our job is to stop this. So, we will use the Tavel Time Anchor to intercept this period of time and anchor the time from before the first grain of sand fell to after the last grain of sand fell."

“As a result, my hands did spill some sand, but the Corps had already properly disposed of all the sand and put it back on the beach during the anchoring time, so in the end there was not a single grain of sand on the table.”

"In fact, the time from when I spread the sand to when it falls is very short. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to completely move the sand away. Therefore, we need to anchor the time. Although the sand only falls for one second, we actually experienced hundreds of years in the anchored time to complete this task."

"After hearing this, you should understand that time may be anchored at any moment of this second. Even if people outside know that we are anchored at this moment, if we don't know the specific anchor point, we can only be in two similar but completely different anchor points, and cannot affect each other."

After hearing Lao Song's explanation, Lu Ban thought of the plan they had discussed before on how to rescue Trist.

However, that plan required that no one witness Trist's death to avoid a closed loop of fate. But according to Lao Song, even if the thing had already happened, as long as the corresponding time anchor point could be found, it could be anchored, and a way could be found to solve the problem before leaving.

Of course, the premise is that the problem can be solved.

Judging from Lu Ban's "timeline", the island should have been polluted a long time ago, and then discovered by these giants and anchored in time. But since he can see the He Island which has not been polluted, does it mean that the efforts of these giants should have been successful?

But he soon realized that this was not certain, because these giants were actually still trying to fight against the Outer Gods who were about to awaken. Their anchoring only temporarily isolated the pollution. If they failed, then with the death of the last giant in the time anchor point, the pollution here would completely leak out and bring destruction to the island.

"How long have you been here?"

Shia noticed this and asked.

"How long? According to the time of this world, it should be about... 7,000 years?"

Old Song did a casual calculation.

"Seven thousand years..."

This was an extremely long time for both Xia and Lu Ban.

During this time, these giants faced the awakening of the Outer Gods, and even controlled the pollution that would have spread in an instant for seven thousand years.

The skills, strength, and perseverance these people possess far exceed their imagination.

Lu Ban quickly thought of an existence.

That is the realm of glory.