# Chapter 3027: Mila's Time Travel!
Mila was going to bring the completed Vendor Cloth and Small Stool back to the past!
This was the most critical point in making up for the past!
Jiangnan couldn't interfere with the past from the five-dimensional Life Forbidden Zone; he would be blocked by the truth. Having Mila do this was the only correct solution...
Mila kept smiling the whole time, hugging everyone one by one, making her final farewells!
Jiangnan opened his mouth, wanting to say something more, but Mila shook her head, raised her index finger, and pressed it against Jiangnan's lips, her eyes full of tenderness:
(∗❛ั◡❛ั) "It's enough. I know very well that no one can replace my place in Jiangnan Gege's heart..."
"So I know that no matter what happens in the future, Jiangnan Gege will come and save me, right?"
Jiangnan's eyes reddened as he nodded heavily!
Mila smiled: "That's enough. Let me go. Turn dreams into reality. I've been training in the Time Abyss for so long, all for this moment..."
Jiangnan had indeed cultivated for over three hundred years in the Celestial Palace Star Domain, but the time Mila had spent in the Time Abyss was far longer than that!
After all, she had been using time turbulence to accelerate her cultivation, not even knowing how many times faster it was!
"I'll reach the Cosmos realm and bring you and Lan Bao'er back!"
Mila chuckled: "I can't wait to see Jiangnan Gege again in the future. Remember to tell me all the interesting things that happened while I was gone, okay?"
"And... Mila doesn't want to become an old woman. I want to look like a little loli. Don't mess that up, Jiangnan Gege!"
Jiangnan smiled bitterly: "I remember, how could I mess that up?"
Mila nodded with a smile: "Then... let's begin!"
Li Bing's expression was serious: "I've told you several times before. After placing the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool, come back. Don't change anything else in the past. Otherwise, the current dreamlike reality might no longer hold true!"
"Also, when you come back, don't return to the wrong time node. Return to this current time node, after you've left, understand? Don't come back too early!"
Mila raised her hand indicating she was okay, she remembered everything!
Li Bing then turned to Jiangnan: "After Mila fills it in, the time loop will be complete. The dreamlike reality will become the only reality, and the original reality will cease to exist..."
"Perhaps, except for you who can transcend reality, we will all forget everything from the original reality, as if it never existed. So... be prepared..."
Jiangnan took a deep breath, his expression firm!
"Understood..."
Mila squinted: "Then... I'll start now!"
At that moment, Mila's Star Devourer level aura burst forth. Golden light wings spread behind her, and the shadow of a sundial appeared behind her head!
Brilliant time crystal sand wrapped around her body!
"Star Devourer Technique: Time Traveler!"
In an instant, Mila's body was enveloped in dense golden light, and both the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool were also wrapped under the golden glow!
The sundial shadow behind her head reversed its pointer!
In a flash, Mila's figure vanished from everyone's sight, leaving only specks of golden light particles in the air!
Jiangnan's eyes tightened: "Has she already gone back?"
Li Bing nodded: "Yes! Gone back to the past. If all goes well, Mila will return soon..."
"I hope everything goes smoothly!"
Everyone swallowed nervously. Time system abilities were truly terrifying! Being able to travel through time and space?
...
At this moment, the world Mila saw had changed. Everything in the world was rapidly reversing. Buildings went from existing to non-existence. With a thought, she charged out of the Dimensional Gap and arrived in the Xing Kong World!
Broken stars were reassembling, and the stars in the dark domain were also restoring themselves. Everything that had happened in the world played out in reverse before Mila's eyes!
Mila could feel the telomerase in her body rapidly depleting!
This was like going back to the past; of course, the consumption was enormous!
Mila felt that in the reversing world, golden specks were growing more numerous. These specks moved and danced, rushing toward her, faster and faster!
They continuously struck Mila's body!
The light specks before her grew brighter and brighter. In a daze, Mila found herself atop a surging, endless golden river!
Countless specks converged into a river, flowing at a steady pace. In some extremely small areas, the flow speed was faster or slower, or even still!
These were areas where time had been affected by various factors, changing the flow rate!
But the long river of time flowed evenly as a whole, as if nothing could stop its flow!
Now, Mila was like a golden butterfly flying upstream against the river of time, heading to the past, changing the past!
Mila was also tense, constantly calculating the consumption of telomerase in her body!
It should be enough!
While calculating, Mila also looked down at the past in the river of time, making sure she didn't overshoot her target!
Just then, Mila suddenly felt an unusual fluctuation!
She couldn't help but turn her head and look behind!
There, on the river of time, a huge golden light spot was burning with blazing light flames, traveling upstream at an extremely terrifying speed!
Flying from the future to the past, like a golden meteor flying in reverse!
Its speed was astonishing, hundreds or thousands of times faster than Mila!
It even plowed a ripple across the golden river!
Mila's face turned pale. What was that thing?!
She was also horrified to find that the golden light mass was heading straight for her! An extremely dangerous feeling surged in her heart!
Mila stopped caring about anything else, burying her head and flying nonstop, flapping her light wings, her mind full of questions!
What was that golden light mass? How could there be something else on the river of time? Could there really be something like a Time Management Bureau?
But before she flew far, Mila felt that aura disappear. She looked back and the golden light mass was gone, as if it had never appeared!
Mila grew even more confused, but she let it go. The main purpose of this trip was to deliver the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool!
She looked down at the river of time. She had reached the point when Jiangnan was sixteen. She almost overshot!
Mila ignored everything else and dove headfirst into the river of time...
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Blue Star, Jiangcheng Night. The night was somewhat cold. A full moon hung high in the night sky, the stars sparse, the moon bright. At this time, the moon's color was still a pale white...
The clear moonlight spilled into the small courtyard of Aunt Zhou's house in the alley. The night was quiet, with only the rustling of leaves blowing in the wind, and faint dog barks could be heard in the alley...
Probably Guoguo or Wangcai?
Aunt Zhou and Zhou Yuqing had already gone to sleep. In Jiangnan's rented room, there was no sound either...
It was the year Jiangnan turned sixteen. He had moved out of the welfare home, attended Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, and rented a room from Aunt Zhou...
At this time, Jiangnan's dream had not yet begun...
Next to the rented room, in Aunt Zhou's storage shed, there were piles of odds and ends, along with some things needed for the barbecue stall. It was a bit messy, with many things covered in dust!
The storage room was pitch black, with only the clear moonlight shining in, faintly illuminating the dancing dust motes...
The next moment, Mila's light figure appeared in the storage room, silent, not even disturbing the dancing dust motes!
At this moment, Mila had no physical form. Her figure was strangely distorted, in a state that was not understandable to ordinary people!
She didn't belong here, didn't belong to the past, and others couldn't see her!
Mila's eyes held deep exhaustion. Her gaze searched the storage room for a long time before finally finding the spot where the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool were supposed to be placed!
At that moment, Mila gritted her teeth. She took out the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool she had brought, removing them from the light wrap, and placed them in their proper position!
Throughout the process, a great resistance kept preventing Mila from doing this, but Mila still completed it!
Just these two simple actions consumed far more telomerase than Mila had used to travel back here!
Because this was changing the past. The past now had two items that should never have existed there!
And the price for changing the past would be borne by Mila herself!
"Phew~ Is this done?"
But just this wasn't enough for Mila. She had to see Jiangnan Gege obtain the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool, and successfully bind the system before she could safely go back!
"Hmm~ I wonder what Jiangnan Gege is doing at this point in time. Let me go take a look~"
As long as Mila didn't take action to change any past other than the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool, it would be fine!
Just looking wouldn't hurt. Jiangnan wouldn't see Mila anyway!
Mila's light figure passed through the wall of the storage room and entered Jiangnan's rented room!
The entire room was about 25 square meters, not very big, but Jiangnan kept it neat and tidy!
On the bedside table were stacks of old books, all used by others. Jiangnan had bought them cheaply from the old man at the scrap yard, at cardboard prices, much cheaper than buying new books from school...
On the iron-framed bed, Jiangnan was curled up in a ball, eyes closed, not moving...
Mila peeked at him:
(๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Hmm~ Is Jiangnan Gege asleep?"
But the next moment, a thunderous stomach rumble came. Jiangnan clutched his stomach under the covers, curling up even tighter!
Mila's expression froze!
After holding out for a full half hour, Jiangnan suddenly leaped up from the bed like a carp!
"Ah~ Forget it! I'm starving to death!"
Then he pulled out a cardboard box from under the bed. Inside the box were four packs of Beijing Instant Noodles, half a bag of flatbread (five pieces left, the kind without filling), and a bag of pickled mustard greens that had been eaten but not finished, sealed with a small clip...
Jiangnan looked down, counted the noodles and bread, then reached into the inner pocket of his school uniform, pulled out the crumpled money, and counted it...
A total of 421.50 yuan left...
"I still need to pay for the summer school uniform. Maybe I'll buy a used set too. I can wash it and wear it. I wonder if anyone would sell me one..."
Jiangnan put the money away and silently shoved the cardboard box back under the bed with his foot!
His stomach started growling again!
Jiangnan's face darkened. He punched his stomach twice!
"I know, I know!"
Then, wearing only his underpants, he climbed out of bed, cracked open the door to look next door. The lights were off. Aunt Zhou and Zhou Xiaomei were both asleep...
He had already troubled them enough. They had helped him a lot in various ways. Jiangnan couldn't bring himself to ask if they had any leftovers in the middle of the night...
So he closed the door, went back, and gulped down several big glasses of cold water, drinking until he was full, even bloated!
Then he dove back onto the bed and went straight to sleep!
Curled up into a ball, he muttered:
(◦˘～˘) "Full, full now. When you fall asleep, you won't be hungry..."
"Gotta find a way to make some money. School is so expensive... and then there's rent, tuition fees..."
"Make money... make money... how do I make money..."
As he muttered, Jiangnan buried his head under the covers too. Soon, the covers started trembling slightly. From under the covers came faint sobbing sounds...
"Gurgle~"
In the quiet rented room, all that remained was the sobbing of a poor, impoverished boy and the rumbling of his stomach...
Echoing for a long, long time...