"Back..."
As the hazy feeling surfaced in his mind, everything around him grew solid. Han Su immediately picked up his phone.
Date: September 12, 2724.
After silently processing it for a few seconds, Han Su looked slightly surprised. Wait, why have I come back to this point in time?
He glanced around. He was in a cramped, narrow prison cell, at the D7 Experimental Base under Li Moses's control.
And the date was one day before the Qinggang City Destruction War.
That was why he was surprised. He had expected to return to an earlier point in time.
The effect of Mechanical Fragment No. 02 could now more or less be confirmed: it gave him a buffer of several days on the timeline.
On his previous Life Path, he had captured Count Albaris and used him as a sacrifice, which had given the fragment a certain amount of energy. So it made sense that this time he had returned to a point before the Qinggang City Destruction War.
But he had originally estimated he would return to the tenth or eleventh. How had he arrived only one day earlier?
Then, after turning the thought over in his mind, he understood.
Mechanical Fragment No. 02 had indeed bought him five or six days of leeway. But when he was in Giant Horn City, he had already reached the fourteenth, and the time on that Life Path had also counted toward his lifespan.
So, returning to his main Life Path was equivalent to subtracting two days from the fourteenth, bringing him back to the twelfth.
Different Life Paths were like different ladders.
And the timeline was the length of each ladder.
The effect of Mechanical Fragment No. 01 was related to the different ladders, while Mechanical Fragment No. 02 affected their length.