Garbage Time
Beyond the Starry Flower Remains, in a pitch-black star field, about thirty Survivors from various worlds slowly raised their heads.
In their hands, they either held up energy cores with exaggerated energy levels or brought out rare and precious materials they had created with their own Talents.
In the Void, white threads flowed, as if drawing something.
Their time is being taken away.
It can't be called deprivation. The moment they crossed the Jump Gate and became playthings in the hands of the [Silk Woman], their time no longer belonged to them. This was simply returning time to the [Silk Woman].
Ripples spread across the Void, and countless white threads converge and intertwine, layer upon layer, constructing a giant pure white cocoon suspended in deep space.
Just as at the end of the first era, the [Silk Woman] began to conceive herself anew.
She opened her eyes and looked at the world.
"[Lan Cijiu], [Scholar]... [Lan Cijiu]'s timeline has become Disordered Trajectories, falling into some strange state of spacetime, which is nothing to fear. It's the newly arrived [Wu Guang]..."
The departure of [Lan Cijiu] is extremely good news. This guy wasn't strong in combat, but he loved to cause trouble.
If it weren't for the disguised anomaly of [Lan Cijiu]'s ascension attracting her and simultaneously concealing the approach of the Chaos creatures, [Silk Woman] would have already ascended within the core of the Blue Giant.
But the core of the Blue Giant has disappeared, leaving only her backup plan.
More than 30 Survivors were scattered in various places, and some of them even gathered together, forming a super-powerful production system.
Scholars can create a terrifying soul production line by constructing among several Survivors, so it's natural that [Silk Woman] could also construct such a line with so many Survivors.
The Talent of a survivor is never a simple contest of strength versus weakness. The synergy and interaction of multiple Talent systems is a unique and powerful mechanism for Survivors, where 1+1 is greater than 2.
In the previous era, Su Luo fled in panic when faced with more than a dozen avatars gathered by [Sai Wangli], because the opponent's Talents were perfectly coordinated, and their combat power exploded layer by layer.
Perhaps this is also a consideration in the fact that different survival areas in the Survival World are difficult to communicate with.
Those powerful Talents combined are extremely impressive, at least in terms of development.
Some Survivors are able to create a perpetual motion machine on their own level. For example, the Green Lotus Survivors from the previous era could increase their energy and become stronger the more they used it under certain conditions.
With the support and rotation of other Survivors, the Cycle, creating round after round of positive feedback, causing the total mass energy to surge exponentially, allowing the survivor to ascend from the ground by stepping on their right foot.
This method is actually not very meaningful; it merely relies on the energy amplified by Talent and does not significantly improve strength.
But what [Silk Woman] needs most right now is energy.
The immense mass energy from all directions flowed continuously into the giant white cocoon along the pure white ribbons. The goal was to condense into a standard Fixed Star.
She was asleep inside.
Those Survivors who were no longer useful began to slowly decay, eventually turning into Ethereal.
Instead, time began to flow erratically on [Silk Woman]'s body, and in an instant she arrived at [Fallen God], as if she had been there before.
Taking away other people's time to make her own time slip away uncontrollably is not [Silk Woman's] survival Talent.
The calamity of the [Fallen God] passed quickly through her life, vanishing in an instant.
For ordinary people, seemingly endless energy was being consumed in large quantities, and she began to race wildly down the path of becoming a [Fallen God].
Su Luo and the others walked out of Brutus's prison and returned to the real world.
"Large Dungeons have entered a period of low activity," Su Luo said first.
The distance between Starry Sky is too vast. The powerful Survivors still on the field are all very far away, and it would take at least half a day to travel there at the speed of light.
The fighting had lost its meaning for Su Luo; no amount of killing could end the Large Dungeon sooner, and he had no interest in extinguishing his Future chances of survival.
No, I'm still somewhat interested. Su Luo is interested in the elimination of the Rainbow Badge, but she can't personally take action.
Why not use this time to accumulate [Fallen God] and do more research?
There was just too much stuff in the Large Dungeon; Su Luo knew she couldn't possibly digest it all in a short time.
What's wasted time for others is Su Luo's prime time.
It's just...
"Once those two hundred-odd Survivors got stuck somewhere, the Large Dungeon had already entered its garbage time phase."
As Ye Zizhen spoke, her senses remained focused on what was behind her.
Behind him, the dark door was wide open, but there was nothing inside.
Su Luo had just explained everything to him, and he was confirming the feasibility of Su Luo's plan.
"There shouldn't be any problem," Ye Zizhen confirmed after a while.
"If something unexpected happens to you in the Future, can your Talent transmit information to you?" Su Luo asked abruptly.
Based on past observations and information, Ye Zizhen's information about the Future was incomplete and without any apparent reason.
At least Su Luo believes that Ye Zizhen's understanding of the Future likely stems from the subjective feelings and advice of a particular individual.
Her behavior suggests she's Crossing, which is why there are still many Survivors on the World Channel who believe Ye Zizhen actually Crossing back in time.
Looking at the Talent type in conjunction with this, Su Luo felt that her guess was pretty accurate.
Ye Zizhen didn't answer, or perhaps she couldn't answer.
Su Luo glanced at Song Shige, who was still cultivating, and seemed to be deep in thought.
A moment later, Su Luo took the Laboratory wreckage out of the Dreamscape, pieced it together, and sculpted a passable prototype of a spaceship, abandoning the security spaceship she had originally intended to use.
If they continue using the security ships, they may not be able to catch up with Fu Li and his group, which could ultimately lead to a deviation from the plan.
The original Laboratory was abandoned halfway through Xiao Luo's renovation, and it was no longer worthy of Su Luo's current state.
In other words, Su Luo will have to find a new Laboratory again. After returning, she will need to use the power of White Dwarf to build a new Laboratory.
That was a huge undertaking, because Laboratory materials couldn't be handled as casually as promotion materials.
Conventional material structures have already reached their limits; he must break free from traditional materials science and study the fusion of Mana and other extraordinary systems with dense celestial matter to create entirely new systems.
"[Degenerate Materials Science], is there any existing knowledge I can learn? I don't have enough time to research it myself..."
Su Luo began to feel troubled.
The prerequisite for Learning Gains is learning itself.