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"Is it difficult to get food here?" Lin Yi asked.

"Shh!" The silver-haired boy immediately turned around and lowered his voice.

"Keep your voice down, they're very sensitive to sound!"

Lin Yi pursed his lips.

Does this kid have no idea how tall this building is? How could these monsters possibly pick up such a small sound?

However, seeing how frightened the child was, Lin Yi lowered her voice.

"As for food..." the boy hesitated, seemingly unsure how to phrase it.

"Difficult, yet not difficult."

"Oh? What do you mean?"

The boy looked again at the constantly spinning and melting dial.

"Look at the longest hand," the boy said, pointing to the clock.

"When the longest hand reaches 12 o'clock, a 'door' leading to other cities will appear below the dial."

"The city behind the door is different every time; it contains abandoned food and all sorts of monsters."

"Grandpa Juli said that the cities behind those doors come from different worlds, and our food is basically brought back from those cities."

"However, each time you go in, you only have one hour. If the longest pointer doesn't come back by the time it reaches one point, you'll never be able to come back."

As he spoke, the silver-haired boy suddenly became somber, his voice filled with sorrow.

Could it be that one of the child's family members didn't come back? Lin Yi wondered.

The silver-haired boy was lost in his sad memories, and Lin Yi did not interrupt him.

This sounds like a somewhat eerie otherworld.

Time City...

The boy said that people who come here will forget where they originally were, but he himself has not forgotten where he came from.

What's going on? Have I forgotten something else?

Lin Yi frowned and thought for a while, but didn't get an answer. If he really forgot, he probably wouldn't even notice. After all, if he had already forgotten, how could he recall it without any clues?

So what exactly sent me here, and what is its purpose? It couldn't possibly be to make me melt this dial so that these creatures trapped in the City of Time can be freed, could it?

"The little one is right."

The old man's voice, which I had just heard not long ago, rang out again.

The old man in the tattered sack that Lin Yi had seen before, the one the silver-haired boy called Grandpa with super strength, appeared behind the two of them at some point.

Lin Yi wasn't surprised this time, but judging from the old man's tone, he had obviously heard everything from beginning to end.

It was a bit scary; I hadn't sensed the old man's presence at all.

Wait a minute, the silver-haired child himself didn't sense it before, but the monsters below could. How is that possible?

Lin Yi's heart sank. In this situation, there was a high possibility that the two people in front of him, whether the old man or the little boy, were not physical entities.

"Grandpa with super strength!"

Upon seeing the old man appear, the silver-haired boy was clearly delighted, though he still remembered to keep his voice down.

"Hey, little one, how have you been lately? Have you been hungry?"

The old man's attitude towards the child and Lin Yi was quite different.

Smiling, the old man patted the silver-haired boy's head, then rummaged in his tattered burlap sack for a while before pulling out two packets of biscuits and handing them to the boy.

"Go ahead and eat with your sister."

"I understand! Thank you, Grandpa!"

The silver-haired boy readily complied, as if he knew his powerful grandfather had something to say to the young man in front of him. After saying goodbye to Lin Yi, he ran off.

Lin Yi watched the silver-haired boy disappear into the shadows before turning his gaze to the old man.

"What, does the old man have something to add?"

The old man gave a soft "oh".

"Now you're willing to listen to the old man? You're not in a hurry to run away anymore?"

Lin Yi was taken aback and didn't know what to say, except that he was old.

"Boring." The old man clicked his tongue when he saw that Lin Yi didn't refute him.

He also walked to the edge of the building, stood next to Lin Yi, and looked down at the wandering monsters.

"The little child said they forgot where they came from, and that's true."

"But there is a way to go back," the old man said.

"What method is it?" Lin Yi immediately asked.

The old man glanced at Lin Yi. "What? Trying to get information from me for free?"

"Uh..." Lin Yi was taken aback, thought for a moment, and then stuffed something into the old man's hand.

The old man looked down and gave the compressed biscuits in his hand a strange look.

"Did that little baby give this to you?"

Lin Yi nodded.

The old man weighed the compressed biscuits in his hand, sighed, and put them away.

"Sigh...that little kid is still too kind."

"You don't even know what your own food will be like for tomorrow, yet you still manage to give me a whole cookie..."

"Alright, I wasn't planning on taking anything from you anyway. Since you've already given it to me, then this old man will say something."

Lin Yi: "..."

If you weren't planning to take it, then give it back!

The old man ignored Lin Yi's questioning gaze and looked into the distance.

"Those who come here are people who have forgotten their past."

"The reason they came here is because their memories are lost in the past."

"Those memories have transformed into all things, hidden within the city."

"It could be a table, a chair, a building, or a grain of sand."

"And the way to leave here is very simple."

"Finding who you are, where you come from, and your missing memories and past will allow you to leave this place..."

After listening, Lin Yi's mind became clear.

So that's how it is?

Is it because this place holds memories that I once lost or sealed away?

Was the person who sent me here trying to help me regain this memory?

That makes sense.

But to just dump yourself here without a word, that's really appalling.

"Then how do we find these lost memories?" Lin Yi asked.

"Of course, we'll try them one by one!" the old man said matter-of-factly.

"We don't know what things are formed from memories, so we can only test them one by one."

"If you're lucky, you might find a memory, but it might not be your own, and you can't integrate with it or use it!"

"So many years... um, how many years..." The old man frowned and counted for a long time.

"Forget it, I've lost count. This old man has never seen a single person regain their memories and leave this place."

Lin Yi was speechless again.

Then why the hell did they say leaving was so easy?

"Wait, that's not right. The old man seems to have left before?"

"Huh? Holy crap, I don't remember..."

As the old man continued talking, he started acting strangely again.

Well, here we go again, fighting with both sides.

The old man was a complicated character; it was hard to tell if he was faking it or if his mental state was genuinely like that.

The information we have is still too limited, and we don't know if it's been falsified or not.

Finding his memories seems to be what Lin Yi needs to do now; only by finding his memories can he leave this place.

I wonder how things are going over there in the Space Ruins, and what the ratio of time to space is like here.

Don't look back and think that centuries have passed since you left the space ruins; that would be absurd.