The manifold folk had been born long, long ago, but each person's time was different. By their method of reckoning years, describing it became quite strange.
In High-Dimensional Spacetime, ordinary ways of counting years were completely unusable, because even a single manifold apart could produce an enormous difference in the flow of time. Here, it was perfectly normal to go out on a trip and return home to find that one's grandson's grandson had already been born. Thus, the concept of "Absolute Spacetime" did not exist here.
All the "manifold folk" clearly understood this. They knew that even casually shifting their bodies could cause enormous discrepancies, and casually crossing through low-energy regions could result in something like "a glance spanning a thousand years." Thus, ordinary methods of timekeeping were meaningless.
So the simplest "generation-counting method" was born: counting how many generations they had propagated. Since the manifold folk reproduced at a constant rate, this allowed them to distinguish how much time each of them had experienced.
This was actually rather mysterious. Because of time, some manifold folk had already experienced millions of generations, while others were still in their first generation. In other words, some had already set foot in, or even crossed through, the Low-Energy Vacuum Region, while others had remained inside the very real Mexican hat all along, not having taken a single step outside.
Laqi's current time was called "Amo's 4121st Generation." In other words, beginning with an ancestor named Amo, they had propagated for 4,121 generations.
At present, Laqi was conducting his research. He had discovered a mysterious location.
A cylinder woven together from countless freely connected points of light linked different dimensions and different times.
Each point of light pulsed freely in its own rhythm. That was a manifestation of "randomness," much like particle clouds