The young Xu Qiuyan had a mind as mature as mine had been when I was young.
In her own words, she did not know how long she had stayed in the Void Realm.
There was no concept of time in the Void Realm. Though I knew it was not entirely without time, the passage of time here was much slower than outside.
In other words, even if she had been in the Void Realm for a long time—perhaps ten or twenty years by our world's reckoning—her actual physical age might not have increased by even a year here.
I did not know the principle behind it. The Doctor only said that time did not exist. If it had to be said to exist, then it could be controlled in the future, and perhaps even reversed.
Scientists were all madmen.
But without that madness, the progress of civilization could never have reached where it was today.
Of course, whether rapid development of civilization was a good thing or a bad thing was hard to say. The development of anything was a double-edged sword; where there was good, there was also bad.
"You still haven't told me how you ended up here."
She looked at me and replied, "I had originally planned to leave this place and return to our world, but when I arrived here, I discovered that the spacetime node had become chaotic. After examining it, I concluded that it had probably been deliberately damaged."
I narrowed my eyes. "He said you left on your own, without saying goodbye."
"Really? That's what he said?" She sneered, her face showing a hint of contempt.
"Oh? Is there something else going on?" I felt that the relationship between those two youngsters was not as I had imagined, nor was it like