How long had he been in the Time Stop Zone?
Joseph did not know.
Time became meaningless here.
Whether Feathered Ones or Curse Worms, as long as they were here, their lives would not drain away naturally.
Joseph remembered that a biology teacher had once said the power of time was closely tied to the life of living beings.
When tired, one slept; when hungry, one ate. And as life aged and moved toward death, these processes formed segments of time.
There was a timer inside every living being.
Perhaps it differed from individual to individual, but the process from birth to death was largely the same.
To better cooperate and coordinate with one another, everyone agreed on a unified time, and so when dawn came, they knew to get up; at noon, they ate on schedule; after night fell, they naturally went to sleep.
In the Yao Clan Civilization, people unified their agreed-upon time with one another until it became a habit shared by the entire populace.
But the Time Stop Zone had no soil for unified time.
Feathered Ones and Curse Worms would not naturally age or die. Even if they did nothing at all, even if they simply found a little hollow and lay there, unless a Black Matter disaster struck or someone else attacked, they could continue living forever.
Perhaps it was also because of this immortality that most places in the Time Stop Zone displayed a kind of lifeless stagnation, with large numbers of Curse Clan members and Curse Worms sitting utterly motionless day after day.
Stillness was the most common posture here.
Everyone was too lazy to move.
This made Joseph wonder whether it was precisely because of this trait that the Time Stop Zone found it difficult to give birth to civilization in