"What happened?"
"I think I just disappeared?"
"I feel like I had a dream. I went backward through time until I was back in my mother's womb, and then... that was it."
"I called my boyfriend. He said we went through a time reversal!"
"Huh? Twitter's working again?"
"I'm from Huaxia, and I can confirm that time really did reverse just now."
"Time reversed? Like what happened in Universe Country? That's unlikely. Even if time had gone back by just one minute, I couldn't be standing here. Besides, the people caught in the time reversal in Universe Country remembered it afterward. I don't remember a thing."
"Fake. If time really reversed, how would anyone in Huaxia know? Don't tell me the whole world was affected except Huaxia!"
"..."
Once the vast current of time reached the point where the reversal had begun, the people and things it had erased reappeared on Blue Star.
In a daze, they felt as though they had just woken from a strange, impossibly long dream.
Many took to the internet to discuss what had happened and why so many people had suddenly "dreamed."
Some Huaxian netizens who had gotten past the firewall saw this and immediately took on the role of Confucius, ready to teach the foreigners a thing or two. They explained that time had reversed across the Nine Worlds and that those foreigners had nearly been reduced to sperm and vanished.
But few foreigners believed their explanations. Many challenged them online.
The reason was simple. If time had reversed across the Nine Worlds, how did the Huaxians know? Wasn't Huaxia part of Midgard, one of the Nine Worlds? If time reversed, they should have been affected too. What, the Nine Cauldrons and their Barrier had protected them? Well, the foreigners had gods protecting