"I see."
Inside the ward, Elder Old Zhu nodded solemnly.
At this moment, only Old Zhu and Ling Yi remained in the ward.
Everyone else was kicked out by Old Zhu after Ling Yi demonstrated a "magic trick" where a bunch of glasses disappeared and reappeared out of thin air.
"No, Old Zhu, what do you mean by 'I see'?"
Ling Yi has already Binding System. This story follows how he travels through time to earn "Heartache Points," how he gets tricked by the system, and how he travels back in time.
I told Old Zhu everything.
Yes, there was nothing to hide.
There is no need to hide it.
He's completely invincible, except for the fact that he doesn't have the system right now!
There's no need to hide it.
However, what Ling Yi doesn't understand now is Old Zhu's attitude.
"You don't believe me just like that, do you?" Ling Yi asked again.
"Whether you've traveled through time, I don't know, but I believe the claim that this world is Wasted World."
"You believe me?"
"Yes, this is no secret; scientists from various countries have already detected it."
At this point, Old Zhu took a deep breath. "Detection has been made that the universe is dying."
"How did he die?" Ling Yi asked curiously.
"All stars are dying at an unimaginable speed."
Isn't Old Zhu just an ordinary Inspection Bureau?
Isn't discussing this a bit inappropriate?
Could Old Zhu have another identity?
"Stars are the energy source for almost all planetary life. Once a star dies, the planets orbiting it, and all life on those planets, will perish."
"Yes, "Ling Yi nodded. "Anyone who has read the textbook on Man and Nature knows these things."
"The lifespan of stars is generally measured in hundreds of millions of years."
"But starting ten years ago, the lifespan of all observable stars became measured in months."
"What do you mean?" Ling Yi frowned.
"And now, the lifespan of stars is measured in days."
"You mean to say that a star these days will be gone in a single day?"
"Right!"
Old Zhu nodded seriously.
"All the stars that humans can observe are disappearing; every day, vast swathes of them are vanishing."
Oh, Ling Yi understands.
Old Zhu didn't mean that the lifespan of a star has become one day.
Instead, the rate at which stars disappear has changed from being measured in months to being measured in days.
How to understand it is not the point; the point is that the stars are disappearing.
"In just six months this year, 30% of the stars within the observable world have disappeared!"
"Within three years at most, all stars within the observable universe will be extinguished, including our sun."
"The sun? No way? Our sun only has three years left to live?"
Is the Wasted World really that completely ruined?
This is ruined way too quickly.
"Maybe? Why not?" Old Zhu shook his head.
"Many observable stars should have had a lifespan longer than the Sun."
"It was there one second, and gone the next."
"It's like the light suddenly going out, or like someone erasing it with an eraser."
"The sun looks normal now, but who knows if it will go out in the next second?"
Ling Yi looked at Old Zhu intently.
" Old Zhu, where did you get this information from?"
Old Zhu took out a small notebook and placed it in front of Ling Yi.
[ Zhu Wanchun, ID 0725120445, Save the World Society Dafeng City Branch!]
Save the World Society?
" Old Zhu, are you sure this is a legitimate organization?"
"Three years ago, the time your foot massage parlor was raided, I happened to arrest a few members of the Save the World Society."
Three years ago, a foot massage parlor?
Is that so? Ling Yi went to the foot massage parlor so many times, and was caught by Old Zhu quite a few times, that he had long forgotten about it.
"So, the Save the World Society members went to a foot massage parlor and got arrested?"
"That's not the point." Old Zhu, his face darkening.
"The key point is that, for the first time, I heard from these people that the universe is accelerating its death."
"I didn't believe it at the time."
"They also presented evidence: astronomical observation data."
Even so, I still didn't believe it at the time.
"But for some inexplicable reason, after that incident, I bought a telescope."
"I personally observed for six months and witnessed large swaths of light disappearing from the starry sky."
"Many related posts have appeared online, but each time one appears, it gets deleted shortly afterward."
"At that time, I realized that the higher-ups were deliberately erasing relevant information."
"I learned more after I started contacting people from the Save the World Society."
" The Save the World Society is indeed not a legitimate organization; it's just a grassroots organization."
"I didn't do anything outrageous; I was just observing the universe, observing a dying universe."
"Based on our observations, in three years, at most three years, all the stars in the universe will go out, including the sun, and the universe will be completely dead."
At this moment, Ling Yi stood up from the bed.
The hospital gown was a bit too big, making Ling Yi very uncomfortable, so she rolled up the cuffs.
They walked straight out of the ward.
"Where are you going?" Old Zhu asked curiously.
"Discharged!" Ling Yi said without turning his head.
"Damn it, this smell is awful. What kind of talk is this about Save the World or destroying the world in this kind of environment? Don't you think the atmosphere is a bit off?"
Old Zhu chuckled, "That's true."
"However, if you want to be discharged, you need to have some tests done first."
Didn't I tell you I'm all better?
After basking in the sun for almost an hour, Ling Yi felt that his body had almost fully recovered.
She's just a little too thin.
But none of that matters.
As long as Ling Yi resumes a normal diet and gets enough Element.
It will recover quickly.
"We'll have to wait for the test results to come out."
"Alright!"
Ling Yi also wanted to see if his body had truly recovered.
That bastard system! It said I could recover my body with one million Heartache Points!
As a result, after being thrown back into the Wasted World, he disappeared without a trace.
"Don't let Laozi find you, or you're dead."
The examination was expedited, and after more than an hour of processing, Ling Yi received her test results.
Apart from some malnutrition, everything else is normal.
Stomach cancer? Gone.
It's as if I've never had stomach cancer.
After changing into a tracksuit, Old Zhu led Ling Yi into the police car.
"Let's go, let's go to the office and go through the procedures again."
"Seriously, Old Zhu? It's the end of the world, and you're still arresting me?"
"It's not an arrest, it's just going through the motions."
"You've done quite a few things over the years, but none of them have been major. The most serious one is this loan collection company."
"Fortunately, no one was killed. As long as the fine is paid, someone vouches for you, and you come to the station regularly to keep a record, it'll be considered a done deal."
"The key point is that someone needs to act as a guarantor."
"You vouch for me?"
"Yes, I vouch for it!"
"You're so good to me?"
"Because you are the only one who has the hope of saving the world?"