Anomaly

Anomaly

Tick-tock!

Tick-tock!

The Time Ghost Eye in Chen Yu's right eye grew increasingly crimson, its deep scarlet resembling a pool of water drenched in red paint. Only the dial markings within his pupil were slowly turning.

As time reversed, Chen Yu felt his bodily functions rapidly recovering!

In less than half a minute,

he had returned to his previous age!

[They should be immortal.]

[The Time Ghost Eye is a ten-star high-level anomaly. Why did you gain its Anomaly Ability after swallowing it?]

[I cannot understand how a human who has never controlled an anomaly can obtain an Anomaly Ability by devouring one.]

[Could this be a new method of control?]

His phone buzzed, every word filled with shock.

"Recovered?"

Even now, Chen Yu was still dazed. The shock the Anomaly Era had brought him was simply too overwhelming.

After a while, he finally collapsed onto the floor, panting heavily, his entire body soaked in cold sweat!

He had thought the stuff on his phone was either a prank or a game pop-up.

Who would have thought it was all real?!

He touched his right eye.

A sticky sensation met his fingers. He tried to control time and restore himself to his original appearance.

Chen Yu felt a surge of energy racing wildly through his body before finally flowing into his right eye.

The next moment, Chen Yu's right eye snapped wide open, a faint red glow flickering within it!

An Lv. 3 flashed through his vision before changing once again into a scarlet Lv. 4!

The Time Ghost Eye had risen from Level 3 to Level 4!

As the words appeared, Chen Yu took out his phone, only to see the content on its screen slowly change.

[Why has the Time Ghost Eye appeared on you?]

[This is not a new method of control! This is direct devouring!]

[After any anomaly is controlled, it retains autonomous abilities. But after devouring the Time Ghost Eye, you directly made it your own!]

[Oh my god, why is this happening? This makes no scientific sense, my friend.]

Even though it could not speak and only displayed faint text prompts, Chen Yu could still sense the Anomaly Game's shock between the lines.

"It can kill me, but I can't kill it? Your game is pretty tyrannical, isn't it?"

Chen Yu snorted and slipped his phone back into his pocket before heading to the classroom.

Since the Time Ghost Eye was far too unnerving, Chen Yu dug out a pair of sunglasses from his backpack to hide it before going to class.

By then, all the students were already in the classroom.

Wearing sunglasses at night naturally drew plenty of laughter.

Chen Yu did not care. He had just gained Anomaly Devouring and had not had time to understand it yet.

He needed to test it out first!

He began using the Time Ghost Eye on a small scale.

He tore up a sheet of paper and placed the pieces on his desk.

Then he stared at the paper with the Time Ghost Eye.

Tick-tock!

Back to ten seconds ago!

Every scrap of paper on the desk seemed to come alive, rapidly sticking itself back together before returning to normal.

Chen Yu looked at the scar on his left hand, left behind from chopping firewood years ago.

Tick-tock.

One second passed, and time rewound five years!

The scar began to twist, rapidly healing until it vanished completely.

However, the skin where the scar had been was white, noticeably different in color from the surrounding skin.

"I've more or less learned time reversal. What about fast-forwarding?" Chen Yu would not casually use it on people.

He took out his phone. The strange text on its screen had already disappeared, and it had returned to normal.

Chen Yu opened a news app.

"If I can fast-forward and rewind time, doesn't that mean I can see news from several hours later?"

"Set it to five hours!"

Tick-tock!

Instantly, pain shot through his left eye, and his entire body felt drained.

Chen Yu groaned and hurriedly covered his left eye!

"Why is this happening?"

Chen Yu asked in surprise.

[Using the Time Ghost Eye consumes mental energy. Mental energy serves as the medium. The broader the scope of time controlled and the higher the existence level involved, the greater the consumption.]

[The host may try fast-forwarding time on a smaller scale.]

A prompt appeared on his phone again.

"I see."

Chen Yu understood and nodded.

The news covered far too broad a range. After all, it could include not only local news, but news from all over the world.

That was why fast-forwarding five hours at once consumed too much mental energy.

"Then set it to two hours."

Chen Yu spoke.

The long hand inside the Time Ghost Eye in his right eye spun as rapidly as a windmill.

The content on the television also began playing at a frantic speed.

Yet with the Time Ghost Eye, Chen Yu remembered everything that played on the television.

Finally, time reached two hours later!

A news report was playing on his phone!

It roughly described a horrific murder that had occurred in a certain class at his school!

What the hell!

Wasn't that my class?!

Chen Yu's expression changed as he hurriedly looked around.

But his classmates were all sitting there perfectly fine. How could that be?!

At that moment, the news anchor produced a list and announced, "The victims who died in this murder case... include Chen Yu. Let us mourn for the victims."

Weren't these all his classmates?

Chen Yu was utterly astonished. He looked up at the classmates on the list, who were sitting safely in the classroom.

And his name was on the list too!

(End of Chapter)