"I heard time is different from what we know. The time in our space is like a 'straight line,' while in some spaces, it's a 'curve,'" Xu Huo said.
He had once seen that "curved time" himself. It had appeared right before his eyes, plain as day. But in the end, "Curved time" had no concrete definition. Even if it could manifest in some form before people, no one could understand it.
That didn't stop people who had heard of it from using it as the basis for their fantasies about traveling through time and space.
But after experiencing Temporal Evolution, Xu Huo had become increasingly convinced that time could not be crossed. Even if Players traveled through Wormhole Points where time flowed at different speeds, even if only a few days passed in their Sub-district while months or even longer passed in a Dungeon Sub-district, time's effects on Players did not change. Even if they returned to their own Sub-district and seemed to have gone back to the past, they had actually just moved forward while time passed more slowly for them.
Xu Huo possessed the time-based Super Artifact "Three Seconds of Life" and had seen "curved time" with his own eyes. He had suspected that Dr. Wu might be searching for a point where curved time could be crossed, so he could return to the past and save his wife and daughter. But "curved time" still didn't fit with what Xu Huo knew.
"I don't understand curved time," Shen Liang said, waving a hand. "I just heard about it from a Player I met. He seemed to have known for a long time that this place was connected to Dr. Wu. He also said Dr. Wu might have completed a jump through curved time, which is why he