Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

After taking the items, Lin Yi teleported away without lingering.

Tungsten Frost guessed correctly; Lin Yi did indeed need to activate the Source Cube. However, Lin Yi wouldn't wait six hundred hours.

Six hundred hours is several days' worth of time. By the time the source block is activated, it will be too late.

So Lin Yi teleported back to Time City.

The Time City, whose watch face Lin Yi had retrieved, was as clear and bright as when he left, and the fog in the sky was gone.

"Hey, you're back again after only a short time?"

As soon as they landed in Time City, an old man with a cane came to greet them.

Lin Yi was slightly surprised and looked the old man up and down.

"Hey, old man, didn't you go to sleep? You woke up so soon?"

The old man is the watch face, and also the consciousness of the City of Time.

When Lin Yi put the watch back, the old man quickly fell into a deep sleep. He had thought the old man would sleep for a while. He hadn't expected him to wake up so soon.

"Say those things." The old man brandished his cane, and Lin Yi noticed that he was in much better condition than when they first met.

"Alright then." Lin Yi nodded. "You can get back to work."

He needs to find an open space to activate the source block.

Six hundred hours is too long to wait, but Time City makes up for that.

Having obtained the watch face, Lin Yi can adjust the flow of time in Time City. Six hundred hours can be compressed into six hours.

"Hey, don't be busy yet, I have something to tell you." The old man quickly grabbed Lin Yi when he saw that Lin Yi was about to leave.

"Is there something you need?" Lin Yi stopped and turned around suspiciously. "What could you possibly need?"

"Look at what you're saying, what kind of talk is that?" The old man blew his beard and glared, looking displeased.

Lin Yi chuckled, and after calculating the time, realized it wasn't too tight, so he asked with interest, "Alright, tell me about it."

"Ahem." The old man cleared his throat. "It's like this."

"I've lived in Time City for so many years, and I've always had this idea."

I want to go out and see the world.

"..."

"No, please continue, I didn't quite understand," Lin Yi said, puzzled.

"Tsk, what's so hard to understand?" The old man pointed to himself, then to the top.

"I want to go out and see the world, to travel!"

Lin Yi was even more puzzled.

"Then go ahead and do it. What's the point of telling me this?"

"What do you mean? Do you want me to take you outside? Or do you want me to recommend a fun place?"

Although Lin Yi found it strange that the old man thought that way, he didn't care what the old man thought; if he wanted to go, then so be it.

I never expected that a consciousness would have a hobby of traveling.

"I didn't ask you to take me outside," the old man said, "I just needed your permission."

Lin Yi waved his hand with a somewhat strange expression: "Okay, I agree, you can go."

To be honest, the old man was still as strange as before, and he only acted normally for less than half a day while Lin Yi was looking at his watch.

"Hey, that's not what I meant." Seeing Lin Yi about to leave, the old man quickly reached out to stop him.

Lin Yi was helpless.

"What's wrong now? Can you just say what you want to say all at once?"

"Um... take out the watch face. There's a pattern on the back. You have to erase it before I can leave."

Lin Yi took out a watch face from the alternate dimension. On the back of the watch face, there was indeed a complex diamond pattern.

Lin Yi hadn't paid attention to the pattern before, but now that the old man mentioned it, he sensed it.

This perception was significant; the pattern actually contained some energy from the magical side.

Is it related to the magic of the Vishanti lineage?

Lin Yi's heart stirred. The pattern was constantly reconstructed under his perception, and its function and principle were slowly revealed to him.

All of this happened in a single second.

After understanding the meaning of the pattern, Lin Yi did not erase it, but instead turned to look at the old man.

The old man had no idea what Lin Yi had done; in his view, Lin Yi had only looked at the pattern.

The old man felt that Lin Yi's gaze was too aggressive, and began to look away.

Lin Yi stood there, staring at him.

The old man whistled and awkwardly rubbed his fingers together.

Lin Yi remained unmoved.

After a while, the old man couldn't continue playing and finally sighed.

"Sigh, it seems you won't let me leave unless you explain things clearly."

The old man turned around, looked up at the sky, his back view conveying a sense of determination and desolation.

"Fine! I'll tell you then."

"This dial design... wait, wait?!"

Before the old man could even finish two sentences, he suddenly felt a sense of relief wash over him.

The invisible chains that had bound him for years vanished in an instant.

Surprised, the old man turned around and saw that Lin Yi had already erased the pattern on the back of the watch face.

The old man hadn't expected Lin Yi to do this. He opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse, and asked, "Do you know what this pattern represents?"

"I know," Lin Yi said nonchalantly as he put the watch face away again.

"You knew? You knew and you still did it?" The old man's voice changed.

He had assumed that Lin Yi was unaware of the importance of the pattern, which was the magic circle that bound him to the City of Time.

After the magic circle is destroyed, the old man will be freed, and Time City will lose most of its functions, leaving only its role in regulating time and environment.

He didn't think he could fool Lin Yi. After all, he said it was easy to erase the pattern, but it was a magic circle. Without using his abilities or the watch's permissions, he couldn't erase it.

Lin Yi shrugged, looking completely innocent. "Didn't you tell me to do this?"

"You..." The old man's mouth opened and closed, seemingly unable to understand Lin Yi's actions at all.

"Alright." Lin Yi laughed; the old man's surprised expression was truly amusing.

"It's just a magic circle. What? Time City will still function without you, it'll just have fewer functions."

"What do you mean by lacking some functions?" the old man retorted in a hoarse voice.

"Didn't you see the watch face's functions? Time City can act as a large-scale event controller, influencing the time flow of even multiple parallel universes!"

"I've seen it, but I don't need it."

"Alright, enough nonsense. Go do whatever you want. You don't need me to take you anymore, right?"

"You..." The old man couldn't speak again.

"Stop with the 'you, you, you' thing, I have something to do, that's all."

Lin Yi grew impatient and ended the conversation.

That pretentious old man, even without the Time City, Lin Yi can already influence the flow of time in the multiverse. He doesn't need the Time City's help at all.

Therefore, the old man's departure and the functional failure have little impact.

He didn't have time to chat with the old man about this stuff; he had important things to do.

Behind him, the old man watched Lin Yi's departing figure. His initial surprise gradually subsided, and then he smiled with relief.

"Good, good, good lad."

"I never expected this day to come so suddenly and so easily."

Looking up at the sky, the old man's voice gradually faded, turning into a muttering to himself.

"Well, that's good. My wish has been fulfilled. I should go and see that bastard. I wonder how he's doing now."