Chapter 2099: Chapter 2099: The Increase of Ti
"Now even the clocks on 17th Street are running backward, what does this an?" Wang Ling said, "6th Street and 18th Street are in the sa state? Is the city’s ti symtrical?"
"It seems so." Xu Huo nodded. Pumpkin City is symtrical, everyone knew that when we got the map. There are 23 streets from left to right, except for the middle straight line, 12th Street. The other streets correspond to each other, with 1st Street corresponding to 23rd Street.
The ti after 9:17 PM is clearly chaotic, so they just looked to both sides on 16th Street, and the direction of the clocks is different. Their tikeeping tools are still functioning normally, but due to the vague perception of extended ti and the lack of external assistance, they cannot determine the exact ti now. Besides, in Pumpkin City after 9:17 PM, ti seems to no longer have an accurate definition.
"Why did you send ng Wenguang to 6th Street?" Tang Ming asked. "When we were on 17th Street, the clocks on 16th and 18th Streets were moving in opposite directions. Shouldn’t he have chosen 7th Street as the location? Did you figure out the pattern of ti?"
"Actually, the pattern is quite simple." Xu Huo watched the clock on 17th Street, which had already started to run backward. "A backward-moving clock represents the past, while a normally running clock represents the future. If we go to 19th Street now, the clock on 18th Street will still be running normally, which ans we’ve surpassed ti."
Tang Ming frowned, and Wang Ling had already figured it out. "You’re saying that ti on each street increases sequentially. The ti on our tikeeping tools is accurate, and it’s now 10:36 PM. Clocks on streets with ti earlier than this point run backward, while clocks on streets with ti later run normally. We’re right on the boundary of correct ti?"
"That should be correct." Xu Huo said.
"Then why do the people over there see the clock moving correctly?" Tang Ming asked. "If ti increases, shouldn’t it be unified?"
"I’m also thinking about this question." Xu Huo randomly pulled out a map from the street side, continually examining the layout of the streets.
Based on the current situation, after 9:17 PM, starting from 12th Street, each street outward delays ti by about 15 minutes. So when they walk from 12th Street to 13th Street, the ti on 13th Street should be around 9:32 PM. Moving to 14th Street, it would be 9:47 PM, and so on to 18th Street, where the clock change from moving forward to backward on 17th Street occurs because the ti point for 17th Street should be at 10:32.
But this is very contradictory to what they now understand about the Ti Force.
It’s known that different Wormhole Points have different ti flow rates, so so areas have slightly advanced ti while others are slightly delayed, which is understandable. Normally understood, it ans that the ti flow rate on 12th Street is a bit slower, while the ti flow rate on the other streets is a bit faster, each street faster than the last. So this presents a contradictory issue—the players themselves have not undergone ti jumps.
If the ti flow has changed, their tikeeping tools should sense the different ti as they cross the streets and make adjustnts. But to date, their tikeeping tools continue to operate according to the ti on Zone 011, also on Pumpkin City’s 12th Street. Of course, his current judgnt is based on the movent direction of the street clocks, and there is no exact comparison ti. Perhaps the ti on the later streets is not different from 12th Street; it’s just Pumpkin City presenting this phenonon to make players make such a judgnt.
From realizing the clock and street ti issues to now, the players have not genuinely felt a change in ti. Yet the gradual change in street and clock serves as a real reminder to them that sothing is indeed different, or perhaps Pumpkin City is trying to remind them of sothing, only they haven’t realized it yet.
Exceeding the current ti, the directions of the clocks on the left and right sides differ. But if they are still on the previous street, the clock direction is normal. This ans content seen by different people depends on their location. Pumpkin City has made such a distinction, seemingly indicating that the ti on different streets is indeed different...
Xu Huo felt a bit confused. Different streets had different ti distinctions, but the street clocks where the players were located operated normally. When they crossed the streets, they didn’t have any special sensations...
At this thought, he suddenly paused. There was no particular feeling regarding the flow of ti, and even the tikeeping tools hadn’t changed, which could give the illusion that Pumpkin City was just playing tricks. But the ti here is definitely not normal, because every ti he crosses a street, he feels a tingling sensation.
But if ti has changed, exactly where has it changed?
This doesn’t seem to be just a simple issue of different ti flow rates...
"Any findings?" ng Wenguang had returned.
"One good news, one bad news." Wang Ling said. "The good news is we roughly know that the ti difference on each street is about fifteen minutes. The bad news is that this doesn’t help our current predicant at all."
Even knowing this situation, they still don’t know what it actually ans, nor do they have any idea what to do next or how to do it.
"Isn’t this good news?" ng Wenguang asked. "If we go forward two streets and then co back, wouldn’t we be able to achieve ti-space travel?"
Everyone was quite speechless, not even wanting to argue this issue with him. Yue Rui said, "Brother ng, it’s not like that. The streets have the ti difference, not the players. The ti difference on different streets doesn’t affect us, and we cannot affect the ti difference."
It has already beco commonly accepted by players that different spatial ti flow rates exist in the ga world. Based on this, players have further accepted ti-space travel, naly that the players’ ti will not rewind. Even if a person spends years in a space with a faster ti flow rate, while only a few days pass in their original space, returning does not an they have traveled through ti, because the two spaces are independent. The ti experienced by the player has not changed accordingly. Thus, it seems like returning to an earlier ti, but the ti is still later than when the player left the original area, which cannot achieve ti reversal.
"Wasn’t Dr. Wu trying to make ti flow backward to prevent the murder of his wife and daughter?" ng Wenguang was puzzled. "Maybe this space’s solution is exactly that."
"Did you change the outco after you returned early to the scene?" Tang Ming asked. "Just now, when you walked back and forth on the street, did ti rewind?"
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