Chapter 2566
The Girl in the painting prefers shiny things, and of course, those fifty watches mostly feature dazzling and colorful gemstones, glittering under the lights, with every edge emanating the glow of wealth.
"Come quickly!" The Girl in the painting beckoned him hurriedly as she saw him, then walked a few steps back to pull him over, pointing at the row of clerks holding trays, "I want these!"
Shi Potian’s eyes were filled with envy, almost drooling, secretly giving the Girl in the painting a thumbs-up.
"Buying so many watches is useless." Xu Huo said, "Just buy a couple for fun and that’s enough."
He casually scanned, selecting a hair clip and a wristwatch.
The Girl in the painting shook her head, indicating she liked all of them and wanted to buy them, "My money is all stored with you."
Xu Huo smiled, "Your money was spent on food, drinks, and play earlier, now you should actually owe me."
The Girl in the painting was shocked, she didn’t believe it; she secretly asked Sima Xiao’er last time about how much money she had, and Sima Xiao’er said that the Special Defense Department had approved a fund for her that she could access anytime.
"That’s in the hometown." Xu Huo said casually, "But if you want to buy more, you can. First, pick five items, every half an hour, you need to adjust all the watches purchased to District 001’s standard time."
"Ten items require adjustments every twenty minutes, twenty items every ten minutes, thirty items every five minutes."
He sat on a chair, tapping the hair clip with his fingers, the dial trembled slightly, and the second hand skipped a beat, "First, calculate how long is five minutes, and how much time it takes to adjust a watch."
The Girl in the painting often played games; although she didn’t care much about time, she could vaguely estimate time.
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Similar to wormholes that can fold space achieving rapid crossing over distances, "curve time" is the same, curve time is also bent and jumping, it accompanies and is born alongside "time."
Of course, "time" is merely a concept proposed by humans for understanding material change conveniently; if we remove this concept, then it can be seen as two forces interweaving, when one force interferes with another, the two forces intersect to produce a peculiar phenomenon, which is what humans understand as "time-space travel."
Additionally, the author believes that whether it is time or curve time, both are concepts not deeply understood or controlled by humans since the concept of "time" often corresponds to a space, only influencing a space can truly be considered as affecting "time," otherwise, it cannot be said to truly affect "time."
And the principle of the occasionally appearing time-related items in the game is simple, they merely use certain special minerals to inadvertently affect the surrounding space in a small range, technically not truly interfering with "time," since the "time" of the entire space does not change because of it.
"Isn’t this nonsense?" Other players also reading the book couldn’t help but tap the page and laugh at the explanation about "time" at the end, "Time-related items can make the time of a small range slow down, even though the whole space isn’t changed, the affected matter must become different from surrounding matter, how can this not count as influencing time?"
"Time isn’t just targeted at large spaces with none in small spaces."
Advanced players, even without Super Evolution, will at least understand a bit, moreover, it’s a simple concept since humans started imagining traveling through the river of time since gaining wisdom.
"It’s a book signing event, if you don’t like it, move aside!" A fan angrily looked at the player," No one invited you here!"
"Jing Shi" has numerous fans, and many glared at him with hostility, some even clamored for him to leave.
"I’m just expressing an opinion, what’s the matter? Is one not allowed to speak?" The player said, "Does this book only accept positive reviews?"
Among those maintaining order were Jing Shi’s loyal fans, a woman with pinned hair approached him, smiling, "Sir, please do not disrupt our normal signing event order."
Outer Zone players also laughed, folding their arms, "What are you going to do if I don’t leave?"
"Guests from afar, if you don’t leave, we’ll have no choice but to make way for you." The female player turned to the queuing fans and asked, "We are the hosts here. As hosts, would everyone be willing to give way to this guest?"
The fans were easygoing, grumbled a couple of times then voluntarily moved to the side, proactively clearing the player out of the queue.
The passage in front of the signing venue was already spacious, not hindering other guests’ passage, now the fans posting themselves at the corners made it even more spacious; the player who separated from the queue stood out, attracting the warm gaze of passersby.
The player didn’t mind, shrugged, and went to browse other stores.
Xu Huo stayed in the queue and finished reading a book, and when it was his turn, he was invited by the staff into a special signing room where an old lady who looked about sixty or seventy sat at a desk, lifting her glasses when receiving the book, "Didn’t expect this book would have Outer Zone readers so soon. What would you like written in it?"
Xu Huo thought for a moment, "Jumping Time. I’ll read this book myself, no need for a name."
Jing Shi smiled and wrote down those five words, then handed the book back to him.
"Your handwriting is beautiful." Xu Huo said as he took the book and looked at it, then asked, "I’ve finished reading the book and I’m curious about one thing. Why do you think influencing time in a small range doesn’t count as truly affecting time? I’ve seen Time Force kill a person, turning someone to ashes in a few breaths. Wouldn’t this be considered affecting the time of the current space?"
"What you described is technically borrowing time," Jing Shi said, "Borrowing time doesn’t truly count as affecting time, it’s merely two temporal forces briefly coexisting due to space appearing with gaps. For humans, the basic units of time should be districts, planets, or a space, a wormhole."
"Truly affecting time means when one space’s time completely envelops another space."
"At this level, perhaps even the Game Government couldn’t achieve it, right?" Xu Huo said.
Jing Shi smiled slightly, "Time isn’t a substance, don’t measure it in quantity. What I’m saying about small-range parallel time isn’t related to influencing time quantity."
"Is it the presence and vanishing of time?" Xu Huo followed up, "Is there really time vanishing?"
"Where there’s presence, there naturally is vanishing," Jing Shi said, just then the staff approached to remind her, she apologized, "Seems we can’t chat longer."
"Thank you." Xu Huo closed the book and left the signing room.
Putting the book in his luggage compartment, he went out looking for the Girl in the painting. She and Shi Potian entered a luxury goods store, under the clerk’s selling pitch, purchased lots of embedded and special metal watches.
When Xu Huo stepped in, almost fifty pieces were already laid out in front of the two.