"Turns out, you couldn't see the stars here..."
Nan Xiaonan stared blankly at the pitch-black night... She was still on the rooftop of an elf's house somewhere along the street, waiting for Mr. Luo, who should have arrived by now. As she waited, she grew a little sleepy, so she simply lay down for a while.
Suddenly, a wave of light swept past.
Nan Xiaonan shuddered all over, then her body began falling downward... She landed on her bottom, probably because that part was heavier.
It clearly hurt a lot.
But compared with the pain in her bottom, everything before her eyes was obviously far more shocking... She raised herself like a caterpillar and looked up.
What she saw was a shabby, dilapidated street... There was no one around, only ruins in every direction—even the building where she had been staying seemed to have collapsed long ago.
And not just recently... It had been a very long time.
She looked down. Beneath her body was a battered wooden puppet... The puppet's face had long since been eroded by the years, leaving it blurred beyond recognition.
"This..."
A pillar of light rose from the summit of the divine mountain in the distance.
"...The real Elf Village?" Doctor Gels was stunned at first, then frowned. "What do you mean? Are you saying the Elf Village we've always been in is fake?"
"It can't exactly be called fake." Boss Luo thought for a moment. "It's more accurate to say that it's an Elf Village that once existed."
"Once existed... once existed?" Doctor Gels lowered his head in thought. Then he looked toward the motionless Mayfair of the First Day. As though he had realized something, he blurted out, "Time... Today's time has already passed! It's tomorrow now! Now it's tomorrow!"
"It's