Chapter 712 Time

The clock on the roof had a face five meters in diameter, divided into three layers. The outermost layer was marked with twenty-four numbers, seemingly representing twenty-four hours. The second layer had twelve numbers, just like a real clock. What was strange was the innermost layer, the dial filled with fine writing, half pure black, half pure white, seemingly symbolizing day and night.

"Does this clock record dream time?" Chen Ge's gaze lingered on the dial for only a few seconds, because he saw that the woman who had been standing next to the black and white mask man was slowly walking towards it.

Above the outermost dial, three hands were crookedly pointing in different directions, with the thickest hand resting horizontally in the center of the dial, and the paper mask woman simply sat on it.

Her skirt was fluttered by the dream's wind. Wearing a paper mask, she gazed into the distance, swinging her bright red high heels, with the entire dream world beneath her feet.

"What is she doing?" Chen Ge and the man wearing the animal mask watched curiously. The woman had a special feeling about her that they couldn't describe.

As they speculated, the woman slowly raised her hand. The moment the hands on the clock face crossed, a series of chimes sounded, and the innermost dial began to turn with her finger, all the hands falling into the black area.

In that instant, the entire deep dream seemed to change. Chen Ge and the others walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down. After a brief silence, the "human head balloons" that had been sleeping in the various building rooms all flew out!

The flying thoughts were like birds leaving their nests. The various faces and expressions of the thoughts were flying in the streets. Countless shadows intertwined, like a moving dark cloud. This dark cloud continued to spread outward, the grimacing, hate-filled human head balloons, as if hunting, frantically surged toward the more distant streets, seemingly endless!

Everyone who saw this scene felt their scalp tingle. Even Chen Ge and the man with the animal mask stared wide-eyed, incredulously watching the woman wearing the paper mask.

"Surprising, isn't it? I was shocked when I first saw it..." The man with the black and white mask said, "She controls the time of the deep dream. Even if it's less than one percent of the entire deep dream, it's enough for her to run rampant in this city."

"Control the time of the deep dream?!"

Chen Ge and the others were shocked. Although they had only seen the tip of the iceberg of the deep dream, it was undeniable that this dream world was extremely dangerous. The countless human head balloons alone could easily overwhelm them completely.

"Who exactly are you?!" Chen Ge held the skull-crushing hammer, but his heart was incomparably cold. The two people in front of him were unimaginable, with unpredictable means. Even with a Red Specter accompanying him, he felt he had no chance of winning.

"Us?" The black and white mask man thought for a moment. "Actually, I should be asking you that question."

The black and white mask man looked at Chen Ge, Jiang Xuan, and the animal mask man, and slowly said, "There's a reason Little A and I came here to bring the night of the deep dream, but more importantly, we sensed a power that distorts time..."

He couldn't help but sigh, "It's hard to imagine what kind of existence can distort the time of a world? That is the highest rule in the world. Even if we possess a treasure known as reincarnation, we cannot reverse time, we can only move forward with time."

"So, when time was distorted, we entered the deep dream, and then we met you."

Chen Ge and the others were stunned and asked at the same time, "What do you mean?"

The person in front of them spoke vaguely. Distorting time, could such a thing really exist?

The black and white mask man looked at them with a serious expression. "It means that the three of us were originally in different time and space. Perhaps we would never have the chance to meet in our lives, but now, someone has distorted time, forcing us to meet in this deep dream!"

He stated his speculation, but was met with silence.

What is time? It is one of the highest rules in the universe. If it was just changing time in a game, that would be fine, but the deep dream was obviously not. This is a world that exists between reality and illusion, and only the two major rules of time and space can run through it. But this black and white mask man said that the time in this world was distorted, and people who do not belong to the same timeline meet here!

This was too incredible. It was unimaginable what kind of existence could do this.

"Does this kind of power really exist?" The man wearing the animal mask asked. His soul carried a cloud of fog, as if he were a god hiding in the darkness.

But even such a man whom even Red Specters could not see through was seen through by the black and white mask man, who revealed that he was just an ordinary person.

The black and white mask man shook his head and said, "I don't know either. If it's just a few seconds of time for a single individual, we have the means to do it, but the time of an entire world has been distorted, so that specific creatures gather in one place. Such power is unheard of."

He could be considered knowledgeable, his own identity and methods were extraordinary, and he also held the supreme treasure, the Mirror of Reincarnation, but even they could not change time on such a large scale.

"The other party made us meet here, and specially chose to meet in the deep dream, there must be some reason, perhaps the answer lies in this deep dream." Chen Ge looked at everyone, and then looked into the depths of the deep dream, and couldn't help but say.

"What you said makes sense, but where should we start?" The man with the animal mask said. He felt that Chen Ge was a trustworthy person. After all, someone who could be friends with a vengeful ghost and have the vengeful ghost voluntarily protect him, was definitely not an evil person.

Just like him, he was also able to influence a group of vengeful ghosts with sincerity and turn them into family.

Chen Ge pondered for a moment, and then actually looked at Jiang Xuan, and slowly said, "Can we make an assumption that the black hand behind the scenes has calculated everything, and now everything has not exceeded his expectations."

"You mean, he... no, his main body, might know some clues, so he entered the deep dream under your influence?" The man with the animal mask instantly understood Chen Ge's meaning.

They hadn't forgotten what the black and white mask man had said before, Jiang Xuan was just a wisp of a remnant soul, and his main body was somewhere in the deep dream. If the black hand behind the scenes really calculated everything, then Jiang Xuan's main body might be one of the clues.

After all, they knew the others. Just like the man with the animal mask, he knew Shen Luo and the others. Among the three teams, only Jiang Xuan was a complete stranger.

"But according to you, if my main body knows any clues, then it must also be within the calculations of the black hand behind the scenes, so why would he arrange for me to come in? What's the point of doing this?" Jiang Xuan didn't refute, but followed their line of thought to speculate.

"Who knows what that kind of existence is thinking? With the other party's power, it would be a matter of a single thought to kill us all, why bother to distort time?" The black and white mask man shook his head and said. It wasn't that he was pessimistic, even if he was facing worldly fate, he would dare to fight, but the situation this time was different. What they were facing was likely an existence that transcended fate and was completely free from the constraints of rules.

But although they didn't understand, they could be sure that there must be a deeper meaning to this. It was impossible to distort time and have people from three timelines meet in the deep dream without any meaning at all...

"Since you say so, then next, we'll go look for my main body first?" Jiang Xuan asked.

"Okay." The man with the animal mask said. He had no objection to this. The black and white mask man possessed power far greater than theirs, and could even see through the power granted to him by the shrine at a glance. If the other party really wanted to target them, there was no need to go to so much trouble.

So he was willing to believe the other party's speculation.

"Okay, but we may have to wait for a while, our other members haven't arrived yet." The black and white mask man said, they still had two members, but after contacting them, they still hadn't arrived.