After walking out and taking only a few steps, Qin Yang looked at the sundial ahead, several hundred zhang across, and his footsteps paused slightly.
"Damn."
It was already too late to go back and silence the witness.
With a thought, he vanished with his head lowered.
Meanwhile, the clone who had been reading and preparing lesson plans continued reading. In his perception, it had merely been like a brief lapse of attention.
The finely controlled memory cleansing allowed Qin Yang to precisely erase the instant before he appeared.
But no matter how precise it was, no matter how flawless the memory connection, the mind itself would inevitably have a momentary break. It was no different from an ordinary person unconsciously shifting their attention for an instant.
Even for some powerful experts, as long as they constantly thought like Qin Yang did, such a shift in attention while not on guard was perfectly normal.
But the problem was that he was not an ordinary person, and the clone was even less an ordinary foolish clone.
The moment the clone noticed that brief lapse, he immediately raised his head and looked through the window toward the enormous sundial in the distance.
The sundial was several hundred zhang wide, like a gigantic compass. Its layers were clearly divided, using a series of factors such as the length and direction of the central giant needle's shadow as references to form an enormous timekeeping artifact.
The Chief Director of the Great Ying Divine Dynasty's Directorate of Celestial Observations had personally delivered it to Hu Liang Academy as a gift. That was what they said, anyway. In truth, it was a divine dynasty artifact that one of Qin Yang's clones had custom-made for Meng Yi.
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