Chapter 1780: Chapter 1780: Can Ti Flow Backward?
The magician, naly the man in the trench coat, glanced at him, “You’re really fearless.”
Xu Huo smiled, “Risk and reward are proportional.”
He was genuinely surprised to see the man in the trench coat and didn’t expect to encounter the magician whom Moth Arts had always been seeking in such a fortuitous way. Moreover, the magician who had disappeared as a Rank-A player according to Moth Arts was now a Super Player and had a connection with He Pu.
“Have you advanced to Rank-B?” The magician didn’t inquire if he had another way to escape.
Xu Huo adjusted his posture, “No, the number of Rank-C copies is insufficient.”
Under normal circumstances, the difficulty of upgrading an advanced dungeon is slightly higher than that of a low-level instance, and the number of instances he completed wasn’t many, unlike the players in Zone 014 who surged in numbers.
“You seem to be in good condition, there’s no need to linger in Rank-C instances; if the instance rating is high enough, completing two Rank-B ones will suffice.” The magician beckoned the waiter to order while saying, “First, digest the potion and improve your evolution rate.”
Xu Huo nodded; at least he needed to nurse his body well before entering another instance.
“Can you still eat?” The magician took the nu from the waiter, asking without looking up.
“Can’t digest it.” The potion didn’t completely relieve the pain, and eating would just make him vomit.
The magician didn’t sympathize with him at all and ordered a table full of dishes. His appetite was hearty, yet his deanor while eating was refined.
Xu Huo simply lay down on the sofa. Due to the magician’s presence, the players who had boarded earlier and in the middle of the journey all quietly left, making the environnt relatively safe despite it being a Rank-B train.
He hardly moved all afternoon and evening. The magician left midway but returned shortly.
They barely conversed in between. The magician’s aid to Xu Huo was limited to looking after an old friend’s disciple; he himself had no bond with Xu Huo.
Xu Huo was sensible enough not to bombard him with questions. The magician accompanying him on this train ride was purely to ensure his survival.
They arrived peacefully at the next morning. After breakfast, the magician said to him, “Two more hours to Zone 011, you return yourself. I’m getting off in ten minutes.”
Xu Huo paused, “Aren’t you going to see the castle?”
“Everyone’s dead, whether I see it or not makes no difference.” The magician’s attitude remained unchanged, showing little interest in paying respects to He Pu. However, he added a bit of human touch, advising, “Life requires adventure, but it’s also precious, don’t let your life slip away so early.”
Xu Huo took the packed prop from Zone 019 out of his hand, “I have discretion, won’t keep troubling you.”
The magician chuckled, “You’re not honest at all, alright, you’re Fan Xiao’s heir; I don’t mind looking after him. I’ll make you a magician when I’m free.”
“But for the tracking and positioning of a magician to be effective, the two wormhole points mustn’t be too far apart. You got lucky this ti.”
Xu Huo also felt it was all thanks to luck this ti. He didn’t know when he fell into the trap; if he used the ticket then, whether ‘Three Seconds of a Lifeti’ would activate or how it would activate was uncertain.
Having never encountered such a situation, he consulted the magician.
“If a prop can reverse the ti on your body, and you happened to die as you entered the station, in this case, you can live; the effect is personal, with no influence on surrounding objects, you escape the super props the instant you die.” The magician affird and further added, “Large-scale ti-reversal props are similar, but if you’re reversing in Zone 019, unless you rewind ti to before the super props pierced your heart, no number of reversals will work.”
“Crossing space can just circumvent this rule. Normally, large-scale ti-reversal props can cover an area, a space; when they activate, they rewind the ti of both the user and the space the user is in back together. Although you’ve just arrived at the station, the ti-reversal props lack the ability to make you cross space, so ti only rewinds for you and the current space.”
“The premise is you have to die at the station.”
The magician clearly already anticipated what he was thinking, “The ticket’s transportation ti is very short, but it won’t necessarily transfer a corpse to the station.”
Xu Huo understood it ant that if he died while the transport was effective, he might be abandoned in so space within the process.
Thinking for a mont, he asked, “If that’s the case…assuming the prop activates after I enter the station, what happens to players who enter during the ti backtracking?”
According to the magician’s explanation, the prop only affects him and the current space, so within the station, reversing three seconds back, those players who arrived during those three seconds should not exist at the station. However, the ti-reversal prop cannot cross space, so players arriving at the station during this period would still remain at the station, creating a contradiction for overall space-ti reversal.
“Most likely they would just stay at the station.” The magician quickly answered this question, “The ti-reversal props aren’t as powerful as you imagine. At least, going from nothing to sothing, or sothing to nothing, these matters are tough. When existence problems arise, ti and space will self-adjust.”
“Almost requires good luck to determine whether sothing will definitely exist or not, depending on specific situations?” Xu Huo grasped the concept, and paused, “Can ti really be crossed in dinsional gas if ti-reversal can revive the dead?”
He had just comprehended Ti Force, understanding that ti could only move forwards. Even altering an object’s state via Ti Ray could only accelerate or decelerate ti, but absolutely couldn’t rewind, which contradicted super props like ‘Three Seconds of a Lifeti.’
This was what puzzled him all along, as if a ti-reversal prop like ‘Three Seconds of a Lifeti’ could exist, theoretically, Dr. Wu should be able to return to the past to save his wife and daughter, rather than making their deaths into various scenarios placed in different instances.
It was possible, of course, that the effect of ti-related props worked differently, perhaps like an alternative prop that anticipated the holder’s death risk, creating an illusion to achieve a saving and ti-reversal effect.
However, the magician gave him a definite answer, “Ti can flow backward.”
Xu Huo looked at him in surprise.
The magician waved his hand dismissively, “The backward flow I ntioned isn’t the sa as you think. Ti cannot be freely crossed; you should know from the instances, different zones have greatly varied ti speeds, moving forward is easy, going back is hard.”
“Even returning to your original zone from a high-speed dungeon, the ti passed on the player wouldn’t change, nor would they grow younger.” Xu Huo said, “This is completely different from the effects achieved by ti-reversal props.”
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