Chapter 1 I'm Late, Sorry...

"Mr. Suren, I'm sorry, I'm late..."

Yuta's sorrowful and self-reproachful sobs echoed in the space.

Suren's first reaction was that he was hallucinating.

He immediately tried various methods, but found that he was not in an illusion at all, nor was he affected by some special psionic field.

The attribute panel was all normal.

Right now, everything was real.

And at this moment, the sound of sobbing continued in his ear.

"I came as soon as I received the communication signal, but you..."

Suren was sure it was Yuta's voice.

She was crying very sadly.

Am I dead?

Listening to the content of her words, Suren realized something: Yuta saw his body, that's why she was crying so sadly.

But it seemed to be missing a key link, which made the scene very strange.

I'm clearly alive and well, why would "Yuta" say I'm dead?

Moreover, where is the sound coming from?

.......

Suren's mind raced.

Hypothesis 1: What I heard was a hallucination (basically ruled out)

Hypothesis 2: It really is Yuta, or some other 'Yuta' speaking (√)

In an instant, he had an analysis of the current situation in his mind.

After excluding the first hypothesis, his thoughts automatically went to complete the various logical causes and effects of the second possibility.

The wolf claw amulet hanging around Suren's neck was Yuta's true name, Wolf Claw, and he already had some mysterious connection with her.

Suren didn't know what caused him to hear Yuta's telepathic conversation, but it was probably because of this wolf claw.

So, Yuta is here and saw my body?

But why can I hear her speak, but I can't see her?

Suren ruled out that he was now in a soul state.

He thought, could it be something like a "gramophone"?

No!

A chaotic timeline?

Suren realized something instantly.

I'm not dead now, so could there be a possibility: what Yuta saw was the "future" me?!

.......

Yuta is in this tunnel, even in front of my eyes!

But not in the same timeline.

But after I died?

Because of some special power, I heard her cries across time and space.

"So... I'm going to be trapped and die here?"

Suren came to a conclusion, and his eyes immediately became serious.

The Black Crow would give a warning, which means that there must be some "fatal danger" in this space.

There is no doubt about this.

Isn't Yuta outside? How could she appear in the cursed space?

A thought flashed in Suren's mind, and he instantly understood that she probably sneaked in for the sake of the Daru tribe's inheritance. This silly girl was probably afraid that he would worry, so she didn't tell him.

But now is not the time to think about this.

If he really died in another timeline, Suren had to figure out the cause of his death as soon as possible, perhaps he could avoid it now and survive.

He tried calling Yuta, but found that she couldn't hear him.

"Yuta" saw his body, the best way is to ask her in person.

He can also confirm whether his guess is correct.

But the sound can only travel in one direction, so how can he let her know?

Suren saw the wolf tooth amulet on his chest, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately thought of a method.

"That's right! Since my body is still there, it means that the wolf tooth amulet is still there..."

Suren's eyes turned quickly, he tore off the amulet, and then engraved a line of small characters on it: "I am Suren, Yuta, I can hear you. If you see it, tell me what you see."

He quickly engraved this line of words, his eyes flickering with anticipation.

If it was as he guessed, Yuta saw his body in the later timeline.

Then, she should also be able to see the words on this wolf tooth!

........

Just the next moment after engraving the words, the sobbing sound in his ear suddenly stopped!

Yuta on the other side seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then said with tears of joy: "Mr. Suren, is that really you?"

Suren was overjoyed when he heard this: I guessed right!

He quickly engraved another sentence on the wolf tooth: "It's me! Can you see the words on the ground?"

The wolf tooth was too small after all, so he also wrote some words on the ground: "I may be caught in a space with a chaotic timeline. Please describe in detail what happened and what you saw."

Just after these two sentences were written, Yuta's response really came from the air: "I can see it! I'm sorry, Mr. Suren, I didn't listen to your instructions and secretly entered the cursed space..."

Sure enough, this was as Suren thought, this Druid lady sneaked in.

She continued: "I suddenly received a designated route from you in the communicator, asking me to come over... I came, and then I saw you... no, a corpse. There was a wolf claw amulet on the corpse that I gave you, and then I thought it was you."

"..."

Suren's mind went blank again when he heard this.

So it was my body that contacted Yuta with the communicator, and she found this place?

What's going on, did the corpse rise?

......

Suren quickly engraved another line on the ground: "What else?"

Yuta in another time and space saw the words on the ground, and obviously hoped that it was not Suren's body.

But after she looked carefully, she probably suspected that she was caught in an illusion or something else, and her tone became uncertain, saying: "It's a mummy, like a corpse that died of natural aging, very old, very old. It seems...it really is your body. Mr. Suren, are you a dead soul now?"

A mummy that died of natural causes?

Suren's eyes turned when he heard this.

Which means, I didn't die accidentally, but was trapped to death?

No!

If there are no accidents, Suren feels that he can still have at least a hundred and eighty years of life.

Moreover, the food reserves simply cannot support natural death.

Doubts flashed one after another.

Suren's brain was running at high speed.

He instantly eliminated some wrong logic.

Then the only possibility is that there is some kind of strange "chaotic timeline" in this space, which made "myself" suddenly die of old age?

.......

When Suren thought of this, he immediately realized that the problem was very big.

Since he is not dead now, then what he thinks about is self-rescue.

"If it's really my own body, since I made a communicator to contact Yuta, then I must have considered something. I will never let her take risks... even, 'I' know very well that I will die."

Suren knows himself too well.

He quickly thought of something, and engraved another line of words: "Yuta, check the corpse's storage ring to see if there is anything like a notebook."

As Suren spoke, he also took out his notebook and began to record everything that was happening now.

Perception can be deceived, and even memory can be distorted, erased, and tampered with by some extraordinary powers.

But a "bad pen" will not!

This stupid method sometimes has miraculous effects in some special situations.

And Suren himself has a habit of taking notes, he thought that if he was trapped in a maze, he would definitely leave notes to solve it!

After this line of words was engraved, Yuta's response really came from the air: "Huh... there really is!"

Suren felt like he had grasped the key point, and immediately engraved the words: "Read what's on it."

.......

"Yuta, you received the communication, which means you must have sneaked in. You... when you see this notebook, it means that the delayed communicator I made can still work after two hundred years of erosion. Tsk tsk, the craftsmanship is not bad... At the last moment of deciding to step out of the space, I recalled my life. Although it was short, it was wonderful. I never regret that I came here. I wrote this passage because I left something for you, and some words... By the way, don't be sad. I also like you very much."

When Suren heard Yuta read this passage from the notebook, he once doubted that he had heard it wrong.

Did "myself" really write such seaman's words?

So this is what I think about in despair?

In the air, Yuta was already sobbing while reading.

She continued to read.

"You must want to know what happened and why I died here. If there are no accidents, I am now a mummy? I hope it won't scare you. If I guessed correctly, I am trapped in a 'time anomaly', where the time ratio is 1:3700 to the outside world. That is to say, if I stay in the space for one day, the normal space is equivalent to ten years passing. And I stayed for more than twenty days, if I really want to go out, my body will instantly age two hundred years. So, what you see should be a corpse that died of old age."

So that's how it is!

When Suren heard this, he immediately realized the whole story.

He suddenly looked up at the cursed space around him, and a sentence of fuck blurted out in his heart.

Damn it, staying here for a day is equivalent to ten years outside?

No wonder I would be trapped to death.

But at the same time, he also looked forward to it.

Because according to his own character, he would definitely not wait to die, but would try to figure out how to crack this space.

Moreover, since he left a notebook, it means that there must be a detailed process of cracking it!

......

Yuta continued to read: "I explored every part of the maze and found a way to crack it, but it was too late. I spent more than twenty days in this space to crack it. After coming out, it was more than two hundred years. If I had been hiding in the space all the time and didn't come out, I could probably live a long time. But when I came out at that time, it would definitely be a pile of dust, and even the corpse would not be left... In my life, I will never live in vain. So, I plan to walk out. This is the way I choose to leave this world, with a calm mind. Don't be sad either. When you see this notebook, it will also prove that everything I deduced is correct. If you encounter similar troubles, you can also go out according to this method."

Yuta was probably already crying with pear blossoms and rain, and felt the sadness across time and space, crying while reading: "Wow... Mr. Suren, don't die..."

But Suren had a different feeling in his heart. When he heard this passage, hope immediately rose.

He engraved words on the ground and asked Yuta to read them all out. He was afraid that the signal would suddenly be cut off: "We are not dead yet. But if you don't finish reading, I may really die."

"Myself" once racked his brains and spent more than twenty days to get out, and it probably won't be short to do it again.

One day is equal to ten years, he can't afford it.

Fortunately, fate did not tease Suren, nor did any accidents happen.

When Yuta heard this, she also realized the seriousness of the matter and continued to read the contents of the notebook.

"The following notes are a bit chaotic. I have sorted them out to make it easier for you to read. If you need it, you can go and see what I did at the end of my life. But then again, this 'time anomaly' is quite interesting... This world is wonderful, but unfortunately, life is too short. I understand some of the meaning of death, and I seem to understand some of the meaning of life... If you give me some more time, I will probably make my life more wonderful and let the world know that I have been here... But, there is no probably."

"..."

The following content is mostly about how to crack this "time anomaly".

Suren carefully recorded the cracking methods that "himself" had left behind in his notebook.

He also saw that "himself" had taken too many detours.

Because he had to explore the entire maze and find clues to get out, he wasted too much time.

Now, he only needs to follow the notes of "himself" to save the exploration process.

Before long, Suren finished listening to the method and was sure in his heart: "So that's how I get out..."

With this guide, he is confident that he can get it done in at most half a day!

.......

The notebook has been read here, and in theory, there is nothing important.

What should be explained has been explained, and what should be said has been said.

However, Yuta read a few words on the last few pages that suddenly made Suren's just calmed state of mind feel a chill down his spine again.

"I seem to have forgotten something very important, which makes me feel incredible. How could I do such a thing, what is guiding me to do this? Or did I see something that gave me this idea?"

"Huh... why did I write this passage? Is it because I was affected by some external factors? I can be sure that there is another 'thing' in this space! Something beyond my cognition!"

When Suren heard these few words like "hearsay", his hair stood on end instantly.

Looking at the dark space around him, he couldn't help but think: "Could it be that besides the time chaos, there are other terrifying existences here?"

Fear comes from the unknown.

Since it could make "himself" write those words in the notebook, that thing must exist.

Some kind of monster?

The chaotic laws of the burial ground?

Or something else...?

Suren frowned.

At least that "thing" didn't kill himself in that timeline, it just made him forget something, it doesn't seem to be a big problem?

However, there is one last sentence in the notebook.

"I wanted to find out the source of this feeling, so I carefully searched all the items I carried with me and cleaned them one by one... Then, I finally found an abnormality. I can't even remember how the [Counterfeit Primordial Rune] came from!"

When Suren heard this, he suddenly exploded.

He instantly felt like a ghost was blowing a cold breath behind his neck.

He was surprised to find that he really couldn't remember how that [Counterfeit Primordial Rune] came from!

"I remember, I seemed to have been hit by a monster's illusion, and then I took it off from the stone wall?"

Suren saw the trophy [Thousand Illusion Magic Crystal] in his storage space and recalled the origin of the rune.

Is it that simple?

Taken off from the mural?

It seems that the logic is no problem.

But it seems that it shouldn't be so easy.

Suren immediately realized why "himself" would write that sentence in the notebook.

He then realized that something was missing from his memory.

Not much, but very important.

In this cursed space, there is a "special existence" that he subjectively forgot or ignored.

.......

However, this problem is not the time to think about it carefully.

The time in this space is so amazing, every second wasted is wasting a lot of life.

Suren engraved the last sentence on the ground: "I'm going to crack the space, Yuta, be careful."

A well-behaved response also came from the air: "Okay. Mr. Suren, you... you be careful too."