"How can time be stopped?"
"How can one travel through time?"
"How can one escape time?"
"How can one perceive time?"
"How can time be released?"
"—What is this? A brain teaser?"
At dinner, Xiao Xiao looked curiously at the questions on the parchment before Zheng Qing. He adjusted his glasses and muttered, "I feel like I've seen these questions somewhere before."
"Really?!"
Zheng Qing's spoon paused slightly in midair. A lump of mashed potato hanging from it immediately began to slide down slowly under the pull of gravity, but he paid it no attention. Instead, he hurriedly explained, "—At the end of this afternoon's Introduction to Dimension School class, the professor wrote these five questions on the blackboard as our homework. He'll call on us during the next class..."
When he finished, he looked eagerly at the short wizard, hoping this great Doctor could help him solve the problem.
"Are graduate students' homework assignments really this casual?"
The Fat Wizard, who was stuffing a bacon sandwich into his mouth nearby, lifted his head with an envious look. His voice was slightly muffled. "I feel like just two words could answer every question you listed..."
"What two words?" Zheng Qing looked at Xin in great surprise, his spoon still suspended in the air.
"Magic."
The Fat Wizard speared a piece of boiled broccoli with his fork and casually tossed out those two words. "Magic can stop time, magic can enable time travel, magic can escape time, magic can let you perceive time, and magic can even release time... right?"
Plop.
The mashed potato in Zheng Qing's spoon finally gave way and fell back onto the plate.
"Mm... that actually sounds kind of reasonable."
He ignored his mashed potato and looked back at Xiao Xiao, pondering the Fat Wizard's answer. "Isn't