Cheng Shi arrived at the edge of the world.
[Time] is often used to deduce the world and constantly align with the "experimental time" of the real universe.
On his way here, Cheng Shi kept replaying the words Time had spoken to him in his mind, so much so that he became somewhat lost in thought. Looking up, he saw a figure in the void, but that figure was definitely not Time; it was...
"PhD!?"
Cheng Shi was shocked: "What are you doing here?"
That's right, that figure is Wang Weijin!
At this moment, he was facing away from Cheng Shi, his body slightly tense. After hearing Cheng Shi's voice, he slowly turned around, his face still showing some shock, and he looked extremely stiff.
He seemed to be holding something in his hands, and as he turned around, he instinctively hid it behind his back. Seeing this, Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat.
"What happened that you came to see [Time]? Where is He?"
The doctor took a deep breath and shook his head.
"He..."
Before the doctor could even begin to speak, Cheng Shi's mind went completely blank.
His five senses suddenly went haywire; he lost sight of what was happening before him, and his hearing became confused. He could no longer hear the doctor's voice. At that moment, only one sentence remained in his mind:
"I will leave when you need me."
Cheng Shi trembled. Although he knew this moment would eventually come, and although he knew that the Fear Faction's "sacrifice" was for the sake of the world, he still felt "betrayed" when it actually happened.
They will eventually leave him.
They won't even notify themselves.
"He...left?" Cheng Shi asked, his voice heavy with suppressed grief.
The doctor nodded, his expression grave, and extended his hand from behind his back. In his hand was something Cheng Shi could never have imagined.
"This is......?"
“A pointer.” The doctor picked up the extremely ordinary pointer with a complicated expression and said to Cheng Shi, “It looks more like an hour hand.”
I don't know what this means, but I know it's definitely not something He left for me; it's meant for you.
Praising a foolish joke.
"......"
Hour hand?
[Time] Did you leave behind a clock hand when you left?
At this moment, when He had become the representative of the "Covenant" and almost dictated the entire world, He finally acknowledged the identity He had once fabricated: Lord Clock.
For a moment, Cheng Shi was also stunned. A sense of absurdity dispelled his sadness. He remained silent for a moment, then asked again:
Where did He go?
"I don't know, but I praise this foolish play."
"...What exactly happened? And how did you get here, Doctor?"
Cheng Shi was extremely curious. Logically speaking, the Doctor and Time had no connection whatsoever. Their only connection was that the Doctor would repeatedly use the power of Time in his experiments. But was this thing worth Time summoning to meet with him before leaving?
Why would you give this only chance to part ways to the doctor, instead of to yourself who is concerned with the future of the world?
No, that's not right. Time has silently protected the world for so many years, it would never do something useless at the most crucial moment. So the doctor's appearance must have some profound meaning, or even be a clue to the answer.
Thinking of this, Cheng Shi's gaze became even more solemn.
“Tell me everything that you just went through, word for word, Doctor. This is very important.”
As the number one on the list of the most intelligent "Truth" players, even if he wasn't as outstanding as Wei Mu, Wang Weijin was still considered the pinnacle of intelligence in this "Game of Faith." He naturally knew that everything he had experienced was unusual, so he solemnly recounted everything he had just witnessed, including things that happened before he came.
"Not long ago, I was replicating Serius's experiment on the emergence of divinity in the laboratory. You once said that faith is the only clue to deciphering the current state of theocracy, so I thought I would personally experience the emergence of new power that Serius had successfully achieved."
Just then, Time summoned me, without warning or reason.
Those eyes, as deep as black holes, opened above my head. They gazed at me and said:
Look at me, don't blink.
I was taken aback and didn't understand, but I did as instructed, because I knew that time was not the enemy of fools, and that fools were to be praised.
So we began to stare at each other for a long time. For someone like me who is often immersed in the process of experimental observation, not blinking is not a demanding requirement. Moreover, I have never had the opportunity to observe a deity like this before. So as I watched, I became immersed in it and began to instinctively analyze the 'divine information' hidden in those eyes.
I always thought that the Eyes of Gods were merely a manifestation of will, an abstract expression. However, I was wrong. I discovered that the Eyes of Time are actually physical entities—a pair of black holes!
Black holes are not normally observable, but the distorted and leaping arcs of time around those eyes depicted the wonder of black holes for me. They were not super-dense stars in the traditional sense, but rather a collection of fragmented time that was constantly being folded and compressed.
If I were to describe it using the concept of "death," I would prefer to call it the graveyard of time.
There has long been a view in academia that the ultimate end of a black hole is an infinitely compressed singularity. However, based on my observations through the "Eye of Time," I discovered that there are intermittent yet undeniable temporal rifts within those black holes.
Yes, the black hole seems to have shattered. No, a more accurate explanation, in line with game comprehension, is that the endless accumulation of time 'corpses' overloaded the time graveyard, causing the time that should have been buried within it to distort and burst apart. This explosive force even gave the 'dead' time a slight, illogical possibility of resurrection, thus capturing it in the instant it attempted to escape, becoming a time rift.
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