Cheng Lin took a deep breath and clicked on the dark blue icon on the screen.
A simple screen opening delay, followed by the familiar background picture of the universe.
The dynamically rotating starry sky, the endless stars are like the fine sand in the Ganges River, and the dark universe is like the long silent river, swallowing up so many lives and civilizations.
If you watch this background animation for a long time, you will occasionally catch the fleeting light.
Cheng Lin once speculated whether the background image was a real starry sky or a corner of the universe, but he was never able to confirm that at least it did not overlap with the image of the universe observed on Earth.
In front of this dynamic background image, there is a red button and the line of small words below:
[At every moment, there are a million possibilities for the direction of civilization]
After that, only the "History Library" in the lower right corner is left, and nothing else.
Cheng Lin first opened the history database and took a look.
There are no new changes.
Inside are four deductions: "Doomsday (Heavenly Fire), Reincarnation (Suirenshi), Wasteland (Besieged City), and Myth (Saint)".
"I wonder what it is this time? Is it another type of world destruction?"
Cheng Lin thought secretly.
I looked out the window, the night was lonely, the time had entered mid-August, and these two days were the full moon, and the moon above the 16th Spiritual Land seemed to be more beautiful and refined than other places.
The moonlight was like water, the street lights by the river were on, and some lapels were meditating with their eyes closed.
There was a gentle breeze at night, and the sound of wind blowing in the woods could be heard in the distance, as well as the chirping of insects in summer.
It's very peaceful and a good environment for deductions.
Cheng Lin no longer hesitated, reached out and gently pressed the red button.
immediately……
An extremely familiar vibration appeared, and the whole house was trembling, but Cheng Lin's body was firmly stuck to the floor. With his body control turned on, he completely ignored this level of vibration. The window emitted a dazzling white light, and the room was flooded with a sea of light.
Cheng Lin just remained motionless.
[Start to deduce the direction of civilization in this world...]
[The chapter will open in 10 seconds... 10, 9, 8...]
…
The white light in the room dispersed.
The tremor disappears.
Cheng Lin instinctively looked out the window, and his heart moved slightly.
"Cultivation..."
The room became quiet.
At the same time, familiar information emerged in his mind:
[There are countless crises hidden in the universe. A meteor can also bring bad luck or luck. The eyes of the gods scan all directions. Many accidents cannot be avoided and are anticipated in advance. The probability of civilization being hit and destroyed is far higher than that of it starting from scratch.
There is a greater birth, so we say that every civilization is a lucky person who treks on the ice. If he is not careful, he will break through the ice floe]
[Among the many laws of the universe, time is always a special one. Even on the path of spiritual practice, the control of time is an area that only advanced beings can touch.]
[First there is the universe, and then there is time, space and matter. From a certain perspective, time is also a kind of matter, and matter always undergoes all kinds of wonderful and incredible changes]
[For example...time stops]
…
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, Cheng Lin heard a thin buzzing sound, which came from outside.
To be precise, it comes from the distant universe.
Comes from the depths of the endless starry sky.
The next moment, the whole world went silent.
Cheng Lin looked out the window.
The moonlight is still bright, but the sound of the wind rustling in the woods and the chirping of insects in summer have disappeared.
Very suddenly, it was as if the world had been pressed on pause.
In other words, through the lens through which Cheng Lin peered into the world, the whole world was frozen into a photo.
"Time stops?"
Cheng Lin made a sound in surprise.
Is it so interesting?
[Just now, the time dimension of your world was distorted by some mysterious force, so the world paused]
[You feel very happy in your heart, some strange thoughts come to you, and you decide to go out and take a look]
Cheng Lin skillfully opened the door and then stepped outside.
Turning around, the room turned into a transparent safe house again.
Cheng Lin turned to look around and found that the world had really paused.
A circle of ripples swayed on the lake in the distance and lingered for a long time. The man-made waterfall further away was forcibly frozen in the air. The water vapor was like solidified white mist, emitting cold light under the moonlight.
The little lapels on the lakeside square are still in a meditating posture, but if you look closely, you will find that they have stopped breathing. On a mountain road on the left, two staff members are walking with fruit plates, but they are frozen in this moment out of thin air.
, they stepped out with one foot and could no longer land, and their posture of turning around to chat and laugh with their colleagues was frozen.
"Really stopped?"
Cheng Lin was surprised. He walked along the path and waved it in front of the staff. He found that it was like a sculpture and had no life at all.
He walked along the path, and the people working in many rooms on both sides were frozen.
The whole world's time stopped at this moment, and only Cheng Lin was left looking at everything in surprise.
[You look at this scene in surprise, deeply interested, and at the same time start to think, wondering when time will stop]
[Suddenly, you find that some new changes have taken place in the world. Some lower beings are unbound by time, while higher beings are still imprisoned. This is the result of the distortion of the time dimension]
Information comes to mind.
Time to unbundle?
While Cheng Lin was wondering, he suddenly discovered that the world was "alive" again.
The disappearing insect chirping resounded, the ripples on the lake surface in the distance spread out, the waterfall also started flowing again and made a gurgling sound, and the time was stopped after one minute.
No, it was not completely lifted. Cheng Lin discovered that although those inferior beings and matter lacking intelligence were unbound by time, the intelligent life still stopped.
Humanity in the entire spiritual land is still frozen, even Susie and Koda Duck by the lake have not returned to normal.
"This can no longer be called time stopping, but targeted solidification, or to put it another way, different levels of life have different concepts of time, so the time of intelligent life has been stopped, but lower life has not."
Cheng Lin thought secretly.
This involves a relatively mysterious field, regarding the interpretation of time by different life scales, but in the deduction, these do not seem to be very important.
In short, time has been stopped for all intelligent life in the world.
[You witnessed this change and had some guesses in your mind. However, the world did not stop because of your thoughts. The world remained in a frozen state. After a while, it was dawn. After a while, it was dark again. One day passed.
The time has not ended yet]
Cheng Lin only saw that the night suddenly dispersed and turned into day. The sun rose from the east and passed over the head and then set in the west. The whole process was fast-forwarded, so the sky became dark again, and there was almost no change in the entire spiritual land.
.
"No, there are changes."
Cheng Lin took a closer look at the two staff members stopped on the mountain road.
In the fruit bowls in their hands, the fruits have wilted a lot, which proves that the moisture is being lost, and their skin has also become darker, which shows that although their time has stopped, their bodies are still aging.
"Why is this? They are aging?"
Cheng Lin was surprised.
[A question arises in your mind, but you are the only advanced intelligent being in this world, so you can’t find anyone to answer it for you, haha]
[When you were speechless, another three days passed, and the time stopped and it didn’t end]
Cheng Lin: "..."
Next, the information in my mind began to flash across the screen quickly.
The content is very unified:
[Ten days later, the time stop has not ended]
[One month later, the time stop has not ended]
[One year later, time has not ended yet]
…
[Ten years later, time has not ended yet]
[One hundred years later, time has not ended yet]
While this information was scrolling through Cheng Lin's mind, he witnessed more than 30,000 sunrises and more than 30,000 sunsets.
In just a blink of an eye, the two staff members in front of him turned into a pile of bones.
The bones were then buried by overgrown plants.
Yes, a hundred years later, plants ruled here.
Grass and trees spread down from the surrounding peaks, covering the blue, red and white wooden houses on the mountains. Then some houses began to collapse. Although most of them were still there, they were submerged by the sea of plants.
The road disappeared, Cheng Lin was surrounded by grass and vines, and the two piles of bones became plant nutrients.
The valley has completely turned into a paradise for plants and lower animals.
However, the pause is still not over.
The sky above his head was still switching between night and day at an extremely fast speed. Cheng Lin quietly raised his head and stared at the sky, watching this strange scene.
One hundred and eighty thousand sunrises.
One hundred and eighty thousand sunsets.
In the blink of an eye, five hundred years have passed.
【Five hundred years later, the time stop is over】.m.