The instant it happened, centered on Green's laboratory, there came a buzz, and the power abruptly went out.
At dusk, with the clamor and bustle brought by electricity gone, the city seemed exceptionally quiet. It should have been a beautiful afternoon, yet modern people, restless and anxious inside, had no mood to appreciate the beauty of the twilight.
"Oh, damn it, the Wi-Fi's gone! What the hell, why is there a blackout? Haven't those power companies already taken enough money?"
"No matter the reason, no matter who did it, restore the electricity immediately!"
In only a few minutes, the anxious public nearly blew up the power bureau's phone lines.
Here with Green, the bizarre changes in the flow of time were clearly perceptible. From superficial time, it shifted into half-step time, then into the illusion of True Time and Superconducting Time. Once Superconducting Time entered illusion, the once calm and stable world of real matter and energy seemed to gain some wondrous abnormalities that should not have existed.
This was already an interlayer between reality and illusion!
A two-headed fish swam out of a black rift. Its yellow scales were streaked with black patterns, while its twin fins and long tail constantly swayed. What was strange was that the two eyes on one of its heads were mechanical clock dials, while the two eyes on the other were electronic digits. It possessed no intelligence and merely swam instinctively. In its time-unit field of vision, Green and the others were nothing more than motionless existences, just as Green and the others in the material world saw mountains and trees. There were simply too many such illusory creatures of time for it to be remarkable.
Yet just as the two-headed fish was about to swim into another temporal rift and vanish, Old