Chapter 1681: Successfully Mastering Time Power
It not only extended beyond this space, but could even connect to other dimensions to alter the time state along that ray. That was why Bao Yu and the believers who had stormed the temple suddenly turned to dust—the moment they were struck by the time ray, the time on their bodies instantly passed through decades or even centuries, making survival impossible.
This was similar to what Xu Huo had encountered in Zone 011. Back then, a player struck by a time ray had suddenly suffered a fracture. Thinking back to Carmen Field's words, it could be inferred that Super Evolvers could control rays to connect with time rays from other dimensions outside this space. Once the two time rays connected, they would influence each other unidirectionally or bidirectionally, granting the time ray a special attack power. However, the degree of this influence was not controlled by the player—it depended on the time flow rate within the nearby existing space.
So what was different about the rays within the Primordial Stone?
It seemed to still be the same as Carmen Field's five-in-one ray, only the fluctuations of the ray were less regular.
Xu Huo closed his eyes, carefully sensing the different feelings these rays brought. Over and over, he recalled what had happened in the temple—the fingers that stirred the rays, the five rays merging into one without any apparent change, and the rays that connected to other spaces and then returned, splitting from one into a hundred...
These things flickered continuously in his mind. As his brain operated at high speed, an image that seemed never to have existed in his memory suddenly froze. It was a piece of honeycomb, neatly placed in a wooden box. A small knife reached in and cut off a hexagonal cell from the very edge.
A very small piece—maybe gone with a single lick. But when it was brought closer, he realized that the opening of this tiny cell was at least the size of a pea. And when the knife scraped again at the cell's opening, seven even smaller cell openings appeared inside. This small piece of honeycomb, which he thought would be gone in one lick, was actually composed of seven cells.
There were no bees that small.
Xu Huo thought so.
But a face both familiar and unfamiliar appeared in his memory. A man in a white lab coat said to him gently, "Everything you see is made up of smaller things. It's just that your cognition has no concept of smaller objects, so you don't know what form they take. But you can imagine a form for them."
"Just like you think there are no bees that small in the world, and that one cell can't possibly hide seven more cells. You take what you believe as fact."
"Most people in the world do the same."
Taking what you believe as fact...
Fabricating a form for the unknown...
Xu Huo opened his eyes. His index finger hooked onto a time ray released from "Angel's Eyes," then his thumb pressed down hard. When his two fingers separated again, the time ray on his index finger split in two. Then he used his index finger to touch his middle finger, splitting off a third, then a fourth, a fifth... Just like Carmen Field, he connected five differentiated time rays to the Primordial Stone.
This was not the end. He brought his hands together, and the five fingers of his left hand each separated an identical time ray from the corresponding fingers of his right hand. In this way, one ray split into ten. On the surface, they were no different from the original time rays, but in actual perception, they had indeed been separated. It was like a single time ray being divided into smaller units, and any one of the ten separated lines could drive this basic unit, acting like a more delicate point of leverage.
After repeated attempts, Xu Huo was finally able to confirm that by subdividing the basic unit of the time ray, his sensitivity to time rays had increased. Controlling a single time ray became easier. It was like several rubber bands tied together—pulling them all together could certainly move the object on the other end, but pulling just one of them could also move it. And this had nothing to do with the muscle strength needed for a single pull. The more refined the division, the broader the range he could control.
Of course, he couldn't change the flow of time itself. But with "Angel's Eyes," controlling the time rays to record a certain time segment within a small area was no problem.
Then he tossed a pebble forward. He grabbed all the time rays in the area the pebble had passed through and was about to pass through, held them for five seconds, then released them. In this way, within the range of "Angel's Eyes," everything that happened in the twenty or so cubic spaces during those five seconds of the pebble flying and landing was recorded and repeatedly replayed under the effect of the item.
However, this was already an inherent function of the item "Angel's Eyes." It was just that before, it had been random, and now it could be controlled manually.
As for the other space rays in this space... Xu Huo put away "Angel's Eyes" and looked out from his position. Unlike the slightly chaotic and uneven time rays within the item's range, the time rays elsewhere were mainly vertical and horizontal. They were not as dense and irregular as space rays. Viewed as a whole, it was as if this space had been cut into countless cubes.
After being able to refine time rays, even the time rays that originally stood alone in space showed subtle changes in his perception. Of course, these were not changes in appearance, but from their fluctuations, he could clearly feel that the rays that had recorded the past were different from the surrounding time rays. Moreover, this fluctuation would also affect the time rays that intersected with it. In this way, without directly touching that particular time ray, he could trace the past through the intersecting time rays affected by the fluctuation.
Naturally, this might be similar to the time rays Xu Huo released by controlling "Angel's Eyes." The rays around that ray also bore the function of recording the past. It was just that his level of evolution had been insufficient before, so he couldn't perceive it.
As for how they achieved the item's effect, he still didn't know.
At this moment, he sensed a time ray descending from the sky on a nearby street, landing precisely at the two-hundred-meter limit of his perception range.
It was a time ray distinctly different from the others. The power surging within it pulsed like a heartbeat, especially eye-catching.
Xu Huo quickly walked over. From a distance, he saw a pile of uneven dust at the spot where the ray had passed through.
This was a Chaos Space. It was nothing unusual for a time ray to connect to time rays from other dimensions. He took out "Angel's Eyes" again and studied this ray more carefully. However, it soon disappeared, bringing him no gains.
But for now, knowing that it was clearly different from ordinary time rays was enough.
Xu Huo shifted his focus back to the space rays.
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