Players Please Get In the Car

Feeling the gaze from behind, Xu Huo lowered his head slightly and shook his head at the painter.

The painter pouted in disappointment and ran to find other apprentices to play with. It seemed that except for these three players, the others were from Area 001. They could play with Xiaochuan, so they went to the entertainment room upstairs during the break.

At dinner time, the apprentices ate in the big restaurant. Xiaochuan was in charge of the reception. The painter ate with them. Mr. Xi and Master Cong ate in their own rooms. Xu Huo ate with Jingshi in the small restaurant on the second floor.

Most of the topics they talked about were about time. After experiencing the special space of the night tour copy, Xu Huo linked this special space with the power of time.

The last time the power of time evolved, he felt how powerful it was. The power of time mobilized by the evolver could not even be avoided by similar items. At that time, he believed that the power of time was far superior to the power of space, at least in the game world involved by players. However, this encounter refreshed his cognition. It’s not that the higher power of space does not appear in the daily game, but that players are insensitive to it, just like ordinary players are to the power of time.

"These two forces can definitely interfere with each other," Jing Shi said, "Time is meaningful only to humans. When the dimensional train crosses different spaces, the folding of space will also interfere with time. Just like what I said, when the new time covers the old time, the old time is hidden in the angle of space. There must be such time at the intersection of space, but it is hard to say how they are intertwined."

"Is this the true meaning of curve time?" Xu Huo seemed to be asking a question, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

Jing Shi smiled and said, “There are very few people who can capture the truth. Part of my understanding of them comes from my imagination.”

"If it were you, what would a space like where the forces of time and space interfere with each other be like?" Xu Huo asked.

"If such a place really exists, it must be an extremely peaceful place." Jingshi said.

Xu Huo paused for a moment, then realized that time and space interfered with each other, and places like dimensional storms would definitely collapse and would never be able to exist for a long time. If such a place could exist, time and space would always maintain a certain balance that could not be easily broken, and they would fall into silence.

Thinking of this, his shoulders sank slightly. That spatial channel was special, so his common sense about the power of time might be wrong. Miscalculating the location where the power of time would fall was the least costly mistake...

"What's wrong?" Jing Shi looked at him, "Is this matter so difficult to understand?"

"No," Xu Huo shook his head, "I just thought that I had inevitably made a mistake, and it was just luck that the worst happened."

Jing Shi smiled and said, "This is your luck. I hope you will always have this kind of luck."

Master Cong would polish parts for an hour after dinner, and the apprentices had to follow and learn during this period. Jingshi had given notice in advance, so Xu Huo and the painter could go and watch.

Coincidentally, the thing Master Cong is going to polish today is an hour hand.

Although the sophistication of machines can far exceed that of humans, the handmade traces left by master craftsmen are what more people pursue. Therefore, Master Cong with superb skills is sought after. Xu Huo has checked his information on the JiXin terminal. Many masters in the same industry have said that he has extraordinary talents in both material selection and production. The watches he made have special arcs, which are an effect that cannot be achieved no matter how others imitate them or how the machines are debugged.

There was a very simple grinder in the room. Master Cong was sitting there in his work clothes, rolling the hour hand on the grinder again and again. The repetitive action made people feel boring and impatient just by watching it for a long time, but he did not pause at all, repeating it persistently like a machine, even though the hour hand was already perfect in the eyes of others.

During the whole process, Master Cong did not say a word. The apprentices simply took notes and observed with the terminals. No one asked any questions. Everyone watched attentively.

The first one to become impatient was the painter. After looking for a while, she felt bored and sneaked out of the room. Xu Huo didn't really come here for the craft, so after a while he found a seat in the back and sat down, listening to the sound of polishing over and over again through the crowd.

After a while, the female player and her companions also sat next to them. They drank tea and listened to the monotonous voice, but their attention was still on Master Cong.

Xu Huo understood that if the skill was simply too sophisticated to be worth the players from the A-level wormhole points coming all the way here to learn it, there must be some other reason.

"Buzz!" Accompanied by a grinding sound, Xu Huo suddenly paused in drinking tea, and then looked above the crowd. At a distance of ten meters, he clearly felt the power of time in the air vibrate.

His earliest understanding of the power of time was based on the power of space, so his basic understanding was also rays. Provoking the time rays to resonate with the surrounding time forces was the first method he learned to directly use the power of time. At this moment, although no time forces from other spaces were introduced, Master Cong did affect the time force.

Why?

Master Cong is just an ordinary person. He was just polishing a tool. Why did he trigger the power of time? Did he know? Could he feel it?

Xu Huo observed the old man's expression. Because of his long period of concentration, sweat had already seeped out of his forehead, and the skin on his face and hands was slightly red. He was not simply repeating the polishing process, but was excitedly perfecting an item, so there was some joy in his eyes at this time...

Regardless of whether he himself can perceive the vibration of the power of time, this resonance with the power of time after gradually getting into the groove is very strange, because Master Cong himself is not trying to mobilize the power of time, he is just repeating the act of polishing the hour hand.

However, soon the time force around him vibrated again, and as he became more and more excited in polishing, the frequency of the vibration became higher and higher. At first, only a few single time rays vibrated, and then they gradually expanded the range like a pulled net. After a few minutes, every time Master Cong passed the hour hand across the grinder, the time rays would resonate and gradually cover the entire room.

Xu Huo leaned back in his chair, supporting his chin with one hand, feeling the power of time resonating again and again, feeling the pull of the hour hand, and gradually sinking into this strange time.