Lying in bed resting, Bai Ling looked at the ceiling and couldn't help but sigh about how busy life had been recently.
"So tired."
"When I was little, I always fantasized about having so superpower or encountering sothing unusual to change my boring life."
"But I really didn't expect it to be in this form."
With the arrival of eternal night, the world seed to have fallen into apocalypse. Even inside the barrier it was like this - what about those unprotected cities covered by black mist?
The girl pondered various questions and fell into a deep sleep.
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Not long after
Lin Xinyao pulled off Bai Ling's blanket. Seeing Bai Ling still hadn't woken up, she sat on top of her.
"Wake up!"
Seeing Bai Ling still had no reaction, she rubbed her cheeks. Still no reaction, so she couldn't help but complain:
"Looks alive on the surface, but actually left a while ago."
"What nonsense are you saying?"
Bai Ling rubbed her eyes, saying groggily:
"It's not dawn yet. Let sleep a bit more."
Lin Xinyao felt speechless and pulled Bai Ling up to sit.
"It's eternal night now. Where would dawn co from?"
"If you don't get up, Su Wanying can't be saved!"
Hearing this, Bai Ling instantly woke up and grabbed Lin Xinyao's shoulders.
"I'm ready!"
Lin Xinyao brought Bai Ling to the Sand of Ti once again. Unlike before, the crimson color on the Sand of Ti had beco much more prominent.
It had changed from a sacred hourglass to a bloody hourglass.
"Only one chance. If you still can't find in the river of ti, give up on this idea. Understand?"
"..."
【You won't listen anyway, but I still have to put on an act to avoid being noticed by Fate】
Lin Xinyao opened the passage to the river of ti again and instructed:
"Rember, you can only go in once. Understand?"
"Okay!"
Before Bai Ling touched the light, Lin Xinyao still hugged Bai Ling's head like last ti, staring directly into her eyes.
【First ti】
"Go ahead."
Bai Ling touched that ray of light. The familiar sensation ca as she wandered in the river of ti. Now she seed able to control her body a little - she who previously couldn't move at all could now control her arms.
"My hands can move?"
Scenes of light and shadow played before her eyes at very high speed. Bai Ling understood she was moving rapidly through the river of ti. Just then, Bai Ling saw a blood-red scene that gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity, so she reached out and grabbed toward it.
"I can reach it!"
The mont she touched that light screen, Bai Ling was pulled in by trendous force. She slowly opened her eyes and found herself in a crimson city.
"Where is this?"
Standing up, Bai Ling wandered through the city, but her heart remained calm.
As if extrely familiar with this place, the girl wound around and skillfully ca to a location.
There was a hooded figure with their back turned. Bai Ling placed her hand on their shoulder, touching it.
"Hello?"
"Don't touch !"
That person seed startled. In that instant, all the flesh and blood around began writhing - the entire city was alive!
"They're all dead, all dead."
"Who are you?"
Bai Ling didn't know why the person before her gave her a familiar feeling, didn't know why she could find this place, and felt no fear toward the bloody scene around her.
"I... who am I?"
The girl held her head and crouched on the ground, muttering continuously:
"Right, who am I? Who am I?"
The girl suddenly paused and asked back:
"Wait, who are you?"
The girl stood up as if suddenly enlightened.
"There's still a chance, still a chance!"
Just as the hooded girl was about to turn around, Bai Ling's belt also ran out of energy. Even without pressing the button, the belt automatically pressed it for her, returning to Maze City.
The familiar scene appeared before Bai Ling.
"Rember, you can only go in once. Understand?"
Bai Ling forced herself to endure the discomfort from entering the river of ti.
"Okay!"
Before Bai Ling touched the light, Lin Xinyao still hugged Bai Ling's head like last ti, staring directly into her eyes.
【Second ti】
"Go ahead."
Coming here again, unlike last ti, Bai Ling had good news and bad news.
Her arms could also move now - that was the good news. The bad news? Bai Ling found she was starting to hear so whispers. Different from the Blood Witch's, these whispers were more aggressive, constantly echoing in her mind.
"My head hurts so much."
Looking at the constantly flashing scenes before her, this ti Bai Ling no longer tried to touch them but attempted to avoid them. Since she was searching in the river of ti, she surely couldn't enter ti itself, right?
But she could only move her wrists and hands after all. Before long, she was still pulled into a scene.
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"Rember, you can only go in once. Understand?"
Bai Ling found that even after leaving the river of ti, she could still hear those whispers, though she couldn't make out what they were saying.
"Okay!"
Before Bai Ling touched the light, Lin Xinyao still hugged Bai Ling's head like last ti, staring directly into her eyes.
【Third ti】
With continuous entry, those whispers beca increasingly clear.
"Don't..., or..., ...die!"
【Tenth ti】
"Don't..., or else..., ...die!"
【Ninety-ninth ti】
"Don't co again, or He will descend personally, and everyone will die."
【Who is He】
【Nth ti】
Bai Ling appeared at different tis, witnessing the endless battles between humans and anomalies. After countless tis, she could finally control her body in the river of ti, no longer drifting with the flow, able to stop and rest. The whispers in her mind had also beco normal speech.
"Haven't I made myself clear enough? How many tis do I have to tell you - don't co here anymore!"
"Who are you?"
"Who I am doesn't matter. Don't try to enter here anymore. Understand?"
"But I have reasons I must co."
"Just for one mortal? If sothing goes wrong, do you think it's worth it? You will be... in the future."
"It's worth it."
"..."
"Hmph, if that's the case, then I won't care about you anymore."
Bai Ling had just mastered her whole body. Previously unable to move, this ti she could finally walk freely in this river of ti.
She walked for a very long ti - days? Months? Or years? There was no concept of ti here. Bai Ling couldn't rember how long she had walked.
Until a starry sky appeared before her eyes. She rembered seeming to have been here before.
"You've co?"
A familiar female voice sounded, as if having waited for her for a long ti.
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