"Three hundred and twenty years? Why three hundred and twenty..."
The little golden snake instinctively wanted to ask more.
But when it saw Lu Li shoot it a warning look, it immediately shut its mouth:
"Uh, three hundred and twenty it is!"
"Then when should I come pick you up?"
"Pick me up... hmm, you'd come personally?" Lu Li asked curiously.
Once he was sent back into the past, his connection to the present would inevitably be cut off.
If this little golden rogue snake could travel freely between different points in time, it would make for a useful safeguard.
If something went wrong with the "present point in time," he could return from a "past point in time" and save the day or something.
But unfortunately, the little golden snake's answer was far removed from what Lu Li had imagined.
"Though I'd very much like to come get you myself, unfortunately, I can't."
"The way the Authority of Time brings you back is by planting a countdown node on you."
"For example, if you set your return for three days after being sent into the past, then once those three days are up, no matter what state you're in—dead or alive—you'll be sent back to the present."
"Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be the 'present' we're talking in right now."
"That can be set too. For instance, if you spend three days in the past and don't want to return to the 'present' we're speaking in, but instead want to skip directly over that period and go to the 'future' that has yet to happen, that's possible too."
Lu Li frowned.
"So... with the power of your Authority, it's actually possible for multiple 'me's to exist at a single point in time?"
"For instance, the current me