The complexity people experienced when trying to understand time mainly came from their inability to establish an absolutely perfect reference point for it.
For example, the traces left by Cheng Shi's Dice in the underground Experiment Field just now represented the future to Cheng Shi in the present, who had yet to visit the Experiment Field. But to Cheng Shi, who had returned to the surface through the power of retrospection, they represented the past.
But whether future or past, in front of the Elusive Chip, all these locations were traceable, and the time between them was very short.
That was why Cheng Shi had returned. He had not even reached the lumber warehouse in the west of the city. He had merely snapped his fingers from a suitable distance, and his entire body had appeared at the corner of a corridor in the underground laboratory.
At that moment, the only thing he was worried about was whether his intrusion would cause the three Grand Scholars who had once blocked him to discover him again. But as it turned out, this infiltration was even more perfect. The Grand Scholars were all busy in the Experiment Field, methodically preparing for the experiment in time reversal. The only experimental material they had at that point was the Desolate Walker.
Cheng Shi repeated his old trick. He hid one of the scholars, changed into the scholar's clothes, and swaggered into the Experiment Field once again.
This time, he did not cause any disturbance. Instead, he went straight beneath the experimental platform where Wollente was and asked the guard scholars to report the experimental data.
The scholars were not fools. What experimental data could someone responsible for maintaining the outer Experiment Field possibly know? The granularity of spatial dust particles?
They drew their staffs