Chapter 845 - 32: Wizard World – Hiri’s Psychological Shadow
The time flow speed in the Dungeon World varies, some faster, some slower, but all relative to the real world.
The time flow speed in the real world is the slowest of the slow.
Gu Mo is pondering whether he can improve this situation, for instance, by setting up another Time Barrier around Fantasy Land. Perhaps he can’t change the normal time flow speed between the two worlds, but at least he can specifically adjust the time flow speed of Fantasy Land...
Back in reality, quite a few years have passed.
Spiritual Qi hasn’t revived, Extraordinary hasn’t awakened, the mysterious hasn’t returned, except for the shared remains of the Land of Dreams, and countries barely confirmed some so-called "truths," beginning to consider how to take advantage of them... The overall world change is neither too big nor too small, progressing according to Gu Mo’s previous thoughts.
The most intuitive thing is that the global environment has become more peaceful, or more restrained.
To the extent that the United States, since its founding, is about to break a twenty-year streak of not participating in wars... It has always been at war or on the path of war throughout its over two-hundred-year history, with only a mere sixteen years without launching wars.
Now suddenly this time has shot up from sixteen years to the verge of breaking twenty years—
Imagining how peaceful the global environment has been in these years...
Although some people are worried, suspecting Americans can’t change their nature, fearing they might be brewing something big with no actions in recent years...
Meanwhile, in other areas, quite a few technologies have seen some strange advancements, making people exclaim in confusion. Countries have also apparently greatly increased their interest in history and archaeology, starting to emphasize digging up everything that happened on their own soil, unsure if they just want to increase cultural value or are searching for something.
Of course, from an ordinary person’s perspective, the change is more narrow and specific.
For instance, a fact from an objective standpoint, which is that Gu Mo is already thirty years old this year...
It’s indeed worth congratulating, getting younger the longer he lives is quite interesting. It’s just that he himself has no particular feelings, but his family has started to feel anxious. Even if the older generation is quite open-minded, they inevitably still think the path of life should go this way or that way...
Gu Mo went home once to visit the two elders.
The two elders’ mentality is relatively young, possibly due to consecutive use of life-extension prescriptions, their bodies not only showing no signs of aging but also having a reverse growth trend. But under his careful control of the medicine dosage, the process is silent and subtle.
As if a prescription was originally able to directly boost decades of youthful vitality, consuming it directly can have immediate effects, but the complete power is split to effective dozens of times, a little today, a little tomorrow...
Under the little-by-little accumulation, the effect still isn’t negligible.
Yet because this process was extended, the change happens subtly, maybe today looks slightly better than yesterday, tomorrow the spirit appears even better, unknowingly noticing the change totally, the two elders seem even younger than a few years ago.
As time passes, and Gu Mo grows older, the two elders show more concern for his situation, hence their attention is somewhat taken.
After giving them some updates and dealing with their urges, he leaves home somewhat headache-ridden.
A lot of troublesome matters are still piled up...
After hesitating for a moment, he doesn’t choose to immediately return to Fantasy Land but rather wonders what to do next. Although the most difficult hurdle is passed, it doesn’t mean everything afterward will go smoothly... He doesn’t want a repeat in the real world.
"Hmm?"
Just when Gu Mo is standing on the sidewalk of a small town, thinking seriously about countermeasures, suddenly light flickers in the air in front of him, space seems torn apart.
At this instant, nearby passersby take notice.
Some can’t react quickly, with somewhat bewildered expressions; others are astonished, exclaiming in shock, looking around incredulously, and instantly quickly raising their phones to aim at this direction.
"Hiri? What’s this... Is there something urgent?"
Gu Mo raises his eyebrows slightly, his Mind Field expands in an instant, encompassing all sides—
Makes surrounding passersby ignore this phenomenon, fade this witness memory...
Also conveniently modify recorded machine footage too in a moment’s work...
What once required considerable effort, and thoughtful maneuvering, now takes but a moment of thought, the power of thought smears reality freely, and the scale and precision are vastly different from before.
Regarding this, Gu Mo is already quite accustomed, totally ignoring the ambience forcibly restored around and slightly startled by the Demon Hunter Girl’s reckless boldness, carefully inspecting her.
Hiri usually doesn’t act directly like this, hurriedly as if lacking spare time to consider other matters, directly teleporting here to find him... What’s happened? Yet when he last returned to the Moon Base, they just greeted each other.