After checking the watches, the three captains fell silent.

Even Kansai, who had the most grumpy temper and had a deep prejudice against Neo before, showed a dignified expression at this time.

Of course, he may not really have a prejudice against Neo, but a real perception.

"Three hours, we are three hours behind." Anthony immediately shouted behind him, "Check the watch, Xingkong school time!"

Kansai also immediately shouted: "Do it."

Neo raised his head, glanced at the starry sky, reached out and tapped the blue shell next to his ear: "Fanny, check the time."

Soon, the results of the school hours on both sides came out. .

Anthony and Kansai are in the early one o'clock, and Neo's side is in the early four o'clock.

Although the two sides were face to face, there was a time difference of three hours, and even the starry sky above their heads was different.

"What's going on?" Anthony looked at Neo.

Cance asked, "Neo, what did we do for the next three hours?"

As the captain of the Whip of Order team, the most basic professional quality and basic knowledge are still not lacking. Of course, they will not keep shouting "This is impossible, this is impossible, all this is a scam..."

Now that the weird situation has arisen, the thing to do now is to try to solve it as much as possible.

Neo opened the mouth and said: "You entered the Ales castle manor, and you left the manor after more than an hour. I had someone stop your convoy and found that there were only people left who didn't see you in the car. Wait for me to lead When the team came back on their way back, they saw you driving over here."

"So, we have already entered the mission goal?" Anthony looked thoughtful.

Kansai asked, "What's in the manor?"

"I don't know." Neo shook his head.

"you do not know?"

"I didn't enter the manor because I felt it was dangerous, so I decided to give up this mission."

"So, just me and Anthony's two teams entered the manor?"

"Yes."

Kansai licked his lips and said: "If you are the benchmark, we are ourselves three hours ago, so no matter what we do now, we can't change the established ending?"

Neo raised his hand and interrupted Kansai: "I think we should not discuss this kind of philosophical issue now, but focus on reality."

Anthony asked, "Neo, what do you think happened?"

"I suspect that there is something mysterious in Ales Manor that has affected you."

Kansai was surprised: "A sacred artifact that can manipulate time?"

Neo glanced at Kansai and asked, "Do you know what the Time Hallows mean?"

Although the Time Hallows and Time Artifacts have always been circulated, it has never been confirmed that they really appeared. It is not that there are no churches in the church world that worship and believe in gods related to time, but they are all small churches without exception. The gods believed in may be false and do not exist.

Because of time, there is no way to go against the current or control it.

From era to era, the gods have studied and dabbled in time, but they all failed in the end.

Although the gods will not stand up and take the initiative to explain that my research has failed, but just look at how many gods and orthodox churches have been annihilated in that era, it is enough to prove that no **** has really mastered it so far.

Therefore, the Time Hallows has always been just a concept, known by many people, and even presented in literary works long ago, but in reality, no trace of it has been found at all.

Anthony asked, "Then what do you think?"

"I guess, you may have been deceived, or you may have been bewitched, resulting in the current situation."

"Us?" Anthony immediately asked, "Why do you think you haven't been bewitched?"

"Because my team did not enter the manor."

"How do you know that you didn't enter the manor? What if you went in, but were deceived into thinking that you didn't go in?" Kansai asked immediately.

Neo stopped talking.

"If it's just that we were deceived and bewitched, why did you appear in front of my eyes?"

Anthony reached out and grabbed Kansai, signaling him to stop talking, and turned to Neo and said, "We will follow your command, and Kansai's team and I will follow your command."

"Why..." Kansai was obviously very dissatisfied, and now he understands that Neo has belittled their situation from the beginning but picked himself out, obviously wanting to lead the situation as a "savior" Three squads.

That's why he deliberately kept saying "you" and "you" without mentioning that there might be problems on his side.

Neo smiled and said: "Because I won't hand over the command of my team, and because I don't like to hand over my destiny to others, you can choose to act on your own and continue along this road to Ales Castle Manor , you do your thing, I do mine."

"We are willing to unite!" Anthony said.

Kansai muttered "hooligan" in his mouth,

But he also shouted: "Okay, I will follow your command, what is the first step?"

"You two teams stay where you are, and I lead my team to the intersection of the railway tracks ahead, trying to catch the train back to York City."

Kansai immediately shouted: "Do you want to confirm whether there is a problem on your side? If there is no problem, you just took your people back?"

Neo nodded and said, "Yes."

"you!"

Anthony immediately grabbed Kansai and said, "Okay, we will follow your arrangement."

Kansai's chest was bulging with anger, but he stopped talking.

In this situation, if the Neo team can really return to York City, at least they can ask the God Cult for help and invite a more powerful department to solve the problem here, so that they can be saved.

It's not that Kansai doesn't understand the stakes here, he's angry because of Neo's eating behavior.

Neo turned around and returned to his team members. The captains of the two sides did not shy away from the members of their respective teams in the previous conversation, especially Kansai’s voice has been very loud, because in this situation, it is meaningless to hide his subordinates. thing.

Let everyone know the situation in front of them. On the one hand, they can gather ideas to come up with solutions, and on the other hand, they can better command their subordinates to execute some unimaginable orders on weekdays.

Most importantly, if the dilemma is established, it means that no one can escape, which is also a way to improve cohesion at this time.

Neo glanced at the crowd and said, "I need a player to join the opposite team now, if we fail to return, he can serve as a coordinate point when we turn back.

Anyone who is tired of life and wants to take risks can take the initiative to stand up. If no one is willing, then we will draw lots. Except for me, 15 of you will draw lots to choose one person. "

Everyone knows that the person who stays will take a great risk. In this weird situation, it is the most correct choice to leave and enter a safe place as soon as possible.

Karen did not speak or choose to stand up, preferring to accept the draw.

However,

Richard took the initiative to take two steps forward and shouted:

"Captain, I'll stay!"

For a moment, everyone's eyes fell on Richard. Richard straightened his back and rubbed the soles of his boots under his feet, pretending to be "what a big deal".

Karen looked at the newcomer Memphis, and Memphis also raised his feet and prepared to step forward.

At this moment, Marlowe stepped forward. To be precise, Marlowe stepped out a little slower than Richard.

Marlow reached out and grabbed Richard's shoulder, pulled him back, and said:

"Captain, I'll come. I know formations. If you need to contact me then, it will be more convenient."

"Okay, you stay, the rest, move on."

Neo's team staggered with Kansai and Anthony's teams on the road.

Marlowe stayed.

At the same time, at the end of the team interlude, two new players followed. They were members of Anthony's team and Kansai's team. Obviously, those two captains also made the same arrangement as Neo.

There is no communication, no mutual introduction, those who stay stay, those who follow follow, the two sides just get further and further apart.

Finally, the crossing of the railroad tracks arrived, and everyone stood by the railroad tracks waiting for the train to Yorktown.

Yorktown is a big city and sits on York Harbour, so trains are frequent even at night.

Not long after, a freight train came.

"boarding."

Everyone got on the train.

Karen, Richard, and Memphis stood at the junction of a carriage.

"This mission is tricky," Karen said.

Richard said, "That's true."

Memphis nodded.

"Did you find nothing unusual?" Karen asked.

Richard said: "No, although I have paid attention to the surrounding situation, but still not."

Memphis shook his head.

The train kept going.

Karen suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the distant scenery. He was getting closer and closer to the densely lit place before, but it seemed that in the blink of an eye, the densely lit place became farther away in an instant.

Karen grabbed the edge of the carriage with one hand, leaned out, and saw that the position he was about to arrive in front of him was the intersection of the railroad tracks where he and others had boarded the train earlier.

It's... back again.

"get off!"

When the captain's order came, everyone jumped off the train one after another, watching the train continue to move forward.

"On foot!"

A new order is issued.

Everyone started to walk on foot, and after walking for more than 20 minutes, everyone returned to the original starting point.

Richard said nonsense: "We seem to be unable to get out."

Memphis said, "We probably didn't leave at all."

Karen looked at Memphis and asked, "Are we hypnotized?"

Memphis shook his head and said, "It's more complicated than this."

At this time, a few crows landed in front of them, and they were pacing there. Neo walked over and waved his hand, and all the black crows disappeared. Obviously, these were the news released by the captain, but the news could not be delivered.

Everyone seems to be trapped in this huge well. Although there are no edges and corners around, the slippery moss is more likely to make people despair.

Li checked his watch and said, "It's almost five o'clock, and it's almost dawn."

Karen asked, "Richard, what time is it?"

"Oh, five o'clock...huh? It's half past midnight!"

The same exclamation was also issued from other positions in the team. Obviously, Richard was not the only one who noticed the time change.

Karen raised his head and looked at the starry sky above his head. He was actually not familiar with the astrology, but he could feel that the stars in the sky seemed a little different from before.

Soon, the results of the school hours came out, and it was indeed less than one o'clock in the morning.

This means that it is not only this place that everyone can't get out of, but also time.

"They're gone!" Fanny yelled.

Everyone immediately got up and looked around. After confirming the number of people, there were 15 people including the company leader.

The team was originally composed of the captain plus 12 staff members and 3 non-staff members, with a total of 16 members. After Marlowe who stayed in those two teams was removed, there were 15 members.

Everyone else was there, but the two players who were sent by the two teams were missing. Karen didn't know their names, but he was sure that the two had come with him and boarded the train together.

"They got off the train." Gray said, "The two of them were standing with me all the time, and I was responsible for watching their changes. I remember very clearly that when the captain gave the order, the two of them got off with me. He got off the train and told me his worries about the current situation.

It can be said that just now, they were still by my side, but I didn't realize how they disappeared now. "

"The two of them, have they gone back?" Xie Yao asked, "I mean 'being' back."

Fanny said: "What about Marlowe, if the two of them were 'taken' back, why didn't Marlowe come back?"

"Because it's not the right time to come back," Memphis said.

Everyone turned their eyes to the newcomer.

Memphis did not have social fear, but said seriously: "They should have gone back, and Marlowe should have returned, but the locations they return to are different, and the places they go back to may not necessarily be where we are now. "

"Sorry, I didn't understand..." Fanny said.

"The coordinates are not with us. There may be one or several fixed coordinates. When their time is up, they will be 'back' to that coordinate."

"Then what about us, why are we still here?" Fanny asked.

"Our team may also be moving coordinates now."

"Moving coordinates?" Xie Cao asked puzzled, "Why?"

"I don't know, but I feel that if scattered people are alone, they may be 'returned' to the fixed coordinates, and as long as the number of the team reaches a certain size, we can have mobile coordinates, which will only be returned in time. location, but not spatially."

"Time?" Gray caught the word.

"It is a different form of expression of time. I don't think that the real time has changed. The real time must not have changed. What has changed is our perception of time.

The watch and the starry sky above the head may be all hoaxes. I don’t know what caused all this, but the existence of this phenomenon seems to be deliberately guiding us to recognize the concept of time being cut. "

Neo said: "Memphis is right, don't mention time, don't deepen this concept yourself, I don't think there are any time artifacts in this world, and there is no power of time.

We cannot follow its guidance to recognize and explore, otherwise we will never be able to leave here.

Now, since we can't get out, we will go back, back to the hillside where we stopped to observe at the beginning. I hope Marlowe is waiting to join us in front. "

Neo didn't say that the two teams would join us there, and Karen thought it was probably because Neo didn't think they would show up there, although they would definitely stay there as agreed.

The crowd began to return the same way, and Richard asked Karen in a low voice while walking: "Is there really no Time Hallows?"

"No." Memphis said first, "It is said that the God of Light disappeared in pursuit of the power to control time."

Hearing this explanation, Karen froze for a moment and asked, "Is there an explanation?"

There have always been countless speculations about the ending of the God of Light, and the mainstream of speculation in each period is different. This is normal. god?

A relatively unified cognitive statement now is that the God of Light "disappeared" at the end of the last era or the beginning of this era, and the "disappearance" here also includes the possibility of falling.

"There are many explanations, depending on which one you are more willing to accept." Memphis continued, "Time is a force that even gods are fascinated by."

Because only by mastering the time, can you keep yourself alive in each era without worrying about being annihilated.

Karen couldn't help but think of his golden retriever who spoke that night. It used "lost" to describe the God of Eternity.

But if time is really a power that even gods can't get and yearns for, then what kind of power is it that is acting on my group of people now?

Karen didn't know the answer, and the captain's attempts to contact the outside world also failed. The earliest attempt to get Marlow to send a distress message to the God Cult should also have failed.

If your cats and dogs are around, they should be able to give more analysis and guesses to the situation in front of them.

finally,

Everyone in the team arrived at the place where they met Anthony and Kansai's team for the last time. Not surprisingly, the two teams that were asked to stay here, including Marlowe, disappeared.

Richard ran to the side of the road and checked, and Karen asked, "What are you looking at?"

"When I asked to stay, I rubbed a small hole here with the sole of my boot. I'm sure that's where I was standing, but the hole is gone."

Karen remembered that Richard, who took the initiative to stand up and undertake the task at that time, did move a bit too much in order to show a kind of indifference.

At this time, Karen heard Fanny propose to the captain:

"Captain, I think since we can't get out, let's take a look at Ales Castle."

"Yeah, captain, anyway, it's like this, why don't you go to the castle to see what's inside~lightnovelpub.net~ Gray also suggested.

Neo shook his head and said: "But I think that we have not entered the Ales manor, but it is our greatest advantage now, and I don't believe that its effect can last for such a long time.

Everyone, gather and camp in place! "

The captain ordered to set up camp, and Karen and Memphis walked towards the team. At this time, Karen noticed that Richard had not followed, and was still looking for his small hole.

"Richard, let's go and set up camp." Karen urged him.

Memphis also stopped and looked at Richard.

"Oh, yes, here comes Karen."

Richard clapped his hands, stood up, and then, under the gaze of Karen and Memphis, started running in the opposite direction, shouting as he ran:

"Hey, don't run so fast, wait for me, Karen!"

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