Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

Seeing that Lin Yi was getting impatient, the old man stopped keeping him in suspense.

The old man gestured towards the downstairs area before continuing, "Don't be fooled by their slow movements; killing them won't be that easy."

"Try it if you don't believe me."

Lin Yi looked down at the so-called monster on the ground again.

He doesn't believe a single word the old man says anymore.

No matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary zombie-like monster.

Forget it.

Lin Yi casually picked up a small stone from the ground and flicked it into the air with his finger.

The pebble vanished silently into the air and reappeared a moment later on the body of a whimpering, wandering monster downstairs.

With a muffled thud, the pebble pierced a large hole through the monster.

The monster fell to the ground with a thud, twitched twice, and then became still.

Lin Yi looked at the old man expressionlessly.

The old man didn't mind, chuckled, and pointed along the ground with his cane.

Then Lin Yi's expression turned serious.

The monster, now only half its original size, seemed to be under some kind of spell; its tattered body appeared to be reversing time, slowly reverting to its previous state.

In no time at all, it transformed back into a wailing monster and continued to roam.

Oh no, he looked around, seemingly puzzled as to where the attack had come from.

Lin Yi let out a soft "Eh," this was quite interesting.

Lin Yi touched a small pebble again, this time with more force.

The pebble struck the monster again, and this time, it whistled through the air and shattered the monster into pieces.

Lin Yi thought to himself that he probably wouldn't recover now.

But the next second, countless powders flowed in the air as if time had reversed, and in the blink of an eye, they reassembled into the monster from before.

The monster still retained its memories of what had just happened and was angrily roaring around, searching for the source of the attack.

After searching for a while without success, he angrily shoved a thud into the back of one of his stunned companions before continuing on his way.

"You can see that now, can't you? These monsters are, to some extent, very difficult to kill," the old man said, his voice tinged with mockery.

Lin Yi frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked thoughtfully at the city center, at the constantly melting watch face.

The hands on the dial rotate counterclockwise.

Is the monster's regeneration related to this?

After being damaged, the dial will reverse the monster's time, so theoretically, these monsters are immortal and will always remain within a certain time period!

"Oh? Young man, you haven't already figured something out, have you?" The old man looked somewhat surprised when he saw Lin Yi looking at the watch face. He seemed not to have expected that Lin Yi would be able to guess that it was related to the watch face.

"Is it that hard to guess? This monster is clearly like time is flowing backwards. Combined with the counter-clockwise rotating hands on the dial, isn't the answer obvious?"

"Hey old man, if I destroy that dial, will these monsters be unable to rewind time?" Lin Yi asked, squinting at the dial with eager anticipation.

However, no immediate action was taken.

Deep down, I felt it wasn't that simple.

If destroying the dial could completely kill the monster, the dial wouldn't have lasted this long; it would probably have been destroyed long ago.

Or, to put it another way, would destroying the dial cause the city to collapse? And would these creatures also perish?

The old man curled his lip: "You can't just destroy a watch face like that. If you have the ability, you can try."

"Oh? Really?"

This was somewhat different from what Lin Yi had expected.

"Are you sure this is okay? It would be ridiculous if I accidentally smashed the clock face and the city collapsed."

The old man gestured for him to proceed.

Lin Yi had a guess.

It seems that it's not that no one has tried before, but they just haven't succeeded.

Lin Yi stretched his shoulders, and this time he didn't look for pebbles or anything like that.

This dial looks big and strange. The pebbles are probably useless, so there's no need to waste your energy on them.

With the Dimensional Gem offline, Lin Yi can only use his own energy.

Energy is poured into the palm and compressed, gradually forming a glowing energy ball.

The light wasn't particularly dazzling, but the destructive power it contained could easily destroy an area within a hundred miles.

On his first attempt, Lin Yi didn't dare to infuse too much energy into the device; otherwise, he could easily pop out the energy of a shattered star.

Feeling that the energy had been gathered sufficiently, Lin Yi looked up at the watch face and, without saying a word, made a long throw.

The ball of light was thrown from Lin Yi's hand and flew straight toward the watch face, its speed increasing rapidly.

Lin Yi watched with his arms crossed, while the old man stood by with a look of anticipation.

Under their watchful eyes, the ball of light quickly collided with the dial.

But the expected explosion did not occur.

At the moment of contact, the sphere of light seemed to disappear into some space, and with a soft "plop," it was "swallowed" by the dial. A ripple appeared on the dial's surface for less than half a second.

Nothing happened...

Lin Yi could also sense that he had completely lost contact with the light sphere.

"How about it?" The old man had an expression that said he knew this all along.

"...Not so good, old man. This watch face can actually take attacks?"

The old man shook his head: "Then I'm not sure. Over the years, countless people have tried countless methods, but not once have they been able to cause any damage to the dial."

"Now you know why the old man isn't worried?"

Lin Yi gave an "oh" and once again condensed a ball of light in his hand.

But this time was different; the light sphere in his hand shone brighter than before.

Whether it's absorbing energy or attacking, we'll find out by trying again.

If something can devour everything within a hundred miles, then what about something that can destroy stardust?

The light gradually became extremely dazzling. At first, the old man could still make eye contact, but now, even with his eyes closed, he felt like crying.

"Holy crap, kid, what are you doing?!"

The old man was getting anxious.

"Stop right now! You'll attract the attention of those monsters!"

But it seemed too late; Lin Yi's sphere of light shone like a sun rising again in the darkness.

Endless light burst forth from the building, illuminating the entire city as far as the eye could see. All the monsters noticed the light and looked over.

"Too late, old man." Lin Yi cut off the energy output and tossed the ball of light in his hand.

The aura emanating from the sphere of light startled the old man.

After tossing it twice, Lin Yi smirked and then threw it forcefully toward the watch face.

The ball of light drew a dazzling trail in the air, streaking across the sky like the sun, before striking the dial once more.

Boom!

At the moment of contact, a strange noise suddenly came from the dial.

"This is?"

Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.

What did he see?

As Lin Yi had anticipated, the ball of light did not cause any real damage to the dial.

The ball of light was still "swallowed" by the dial.

But, the moment it was swallowed! A pointer that was originally moving counterclockwise paused for a moment and then started moving clockwise!

However, after only one movement, it started rotating counterclockwise again.

Lin Yi's energy ball, possessing the destructive power to shatter stars, caused the hands on the dial to move one notch clockwise.