We stood before the tree stump, utterly dumbfounded.
A tree had once stood here. Later, it had been struck by lightning, and after many more years, it had become the stump we saw now.
What Gou Dan had seen during the day was this tree before it had been struck.
So... he really had come looking for us during the day, and he really hadn't seen us, because when he came, this place hadn't been in the present time and space at all, but many years in the past. We had no idea exactly which year, though.
This was completely beyond our understanding. It wasn't an ordinary paranormal incident at all.
This had to count as a supernatural incident, just like the black hole created by the Sin Domain Map.
"How was that possible..."
Zhang Rong and the others were already bewildered, their mouths hanging open. "If daytime and nighttime are two different times and spaces, why hasn't anything we see during the day changed?"
I thought for a moment, then said, "If we call our own time and space A, and the one Gou Dan sees during the day B, then we've been in A all along. We've never reached B, so everything we see is exactly the same, whether it's day or night."
"The question now is... which time and space does this boy belong to..."
We all looked at Gou Dan.
If he belonged to our time and space, A, then he alone could see B Space-Time during the day.
If he belonged to B Space-Time, then he was someone from many years in the past, and the village he lived in was a village in B Space-Time as well.
Only at night could he see us in the future-the us in A.
I crouched down and