Mu You looked at the Fairy Queen strangely, and then at Vivian.
He had asked Vivian before how she came to the Heart of Time. Vivian said that when she was studying black magic with the forest spirit and studying the time system, she seemed to have accidentally touched some kind of time. The rules were pulled here by a strange force.
But at this moment, listening to the tone of this fairy queen, it seems that she is very familiar with Vivian, and the relationship is very unusual...
“You are my favorite passer over the years. I was even ready to promote you to a permanent assistant, but you resolutely chose to leave, which made me sad for a long time.”
The Fairy Queen smiled seductively, looked directly at the crow, and looked up and down: "Look at you, go out and make yourself look like this... But it doesn't matter, I still have a place for you now, You understand that mortal life will eventually end, and only with me can you obtain true eternal life."
"Thank you for your kindness, but I have to disappoint you. I have no interest in eternal life. I just brought my disciple here today. He needs to enter the time cage." Vivian declined the invitation without any fluctuation in her tone and made the introduction. Muyou for a while.
The Fairy Queen glanced at Mu You next to Vivian and said with a smile: "But why should I help your disciple? You know how precious the time cage quota is. What I value is you, not yours." disciple…"
“Unless, you promise to stay...”
The Fairy Queen smiled, her tone unhurried and unhurried, and she seemed to have made up her mind about Vivian.
Vivian sighed, as if she had expected this scene, and closed her eyes: "If you insist on this... then fine, I promise..."
“Vivian…”
Mu You immediately wanted to stop it.
He still doesn't know what the purpose of this time cage is, but even if it can really help him perfectly integrate the time bones, he can't go in at the expense of Vivian's freedom.
Besides, many people have been to this place before, and they have gained the ability to respond time, which means that it is not necessary to get the goblin queen's permission to enter. There must be other ways. If they are rejected, they will just find a way.
Mu You immediately wanted to refuse, but before he could finish speaking, he felt someone pull him from behind.
Looking back, it was Lin Xue. Lin Xue did not speak, but shook her head at him, indicating that he should stop talking.
Mu You was a little strange, but he also knew that Lin Xue, like him, would definitely not let Vivian suffer. So stopping him at this time was probably because he had read something.
Thinking of this, Mu You said nothing more and looked at the Fairy Queen, waiting for her reaction.
Sure enough, the Fairy Queen seemed to notice the little movements of the two people. She frowned and curled her lips and said: "It's boring. You actually brought a mind-reading divine authority with you. It's too shameless..."
Then facing Vivian's confused look, the Fairy Queen spread her hands: "Okay, I admit, I was just joking. The position of the time cage has been reserved for him a long time ago. I just want to test you. See how important this disciple is to you..."
"Now it seems that you really value him, and you are actually willing to trade your lifelong freedom for his future achievements..." The Fairy Queen said, casting a resentful look at Mu You.
Mu You had no time to care about this, but looked at the Fairy Queen strangely: "Did you know we were coming?"
"Of course, after all, you are the second person chosen by Shidie in tens of thousands of years. The moment you officially became the son of Yueji in the Moon Lake, I immediately felt it. From then on, I knew that sooner or later you would I will come here, so I have reserved two vacancies for you early." The Fairy Queen said.
Can you still see what’s going on in Moon Lake?
Mu You was a little surprised, and subconsciously glanced at the palace where he was: "What exactly is this place, and what does it have to do with Moon Lake?"
“This is the Heart of Time, the time center of the entire world. As for its relationship with Moon Lake…”
The Fairy Queen pondered for a few seconds and smiled: "You can simply understand it as the relationship between the brain and the heart of the same person."
Mu You could vaguely understand that the 'people' she mentioned here should refer to the 'world will', the brain and the heart. In other words, both here and Yuehu are the most important components of the world will, and both are indispensable.
"What about you? Who are you?" Mu You looked at the Fairy Queen again.
"Me? I'm just a humble worker. I got benefits, so I just worked for the boss behind the scenes." The Fairy Queen spread her hands.
Mu You wanted to ask something else, but the Fairy Queen didn't want to say any more. She waved to a few people, turned around and floated back: "Follow me."
Vivian flew to Mu You’s shoulder: “Follow her.”
Three people followed.
The Fairy Queen led several people to the center of the palace. Directly under the giant square, a row of invisible stairs appeared automatically, and at the other end of the stairs, at the bottom of the square, a door was revealed.
Stepping up the stairs, several people entered the interior of the cube.
To Mu You's surprise, there was actually a pure white world in the square.
The space is blocked off by corridors with white walls, forming a three-dimensional maze.
"Watch my steps and don't take the wrong route, otherwise you will fall into the void timeline and be unable to come back." The Fairy Queen warned and continued to lead the way, but she followed a very weird trajectory, often Repeatedly turning back and forth in one place, or going around in circles, with no structure at all.
But just walking around in such a disorderly manner, after walking for a few minutes, he led them out of the maze in a daze.
Deep in the maze, at the center of the entire giant block, what appeared in front of the four people was a small block that was only as tall as one person. It was also suspended on the ground and had almost the same shape as the giant block seen in the outside world.
However, this small square is covered with dense cracks, and more than half of the upper right side of the entire square has disappeared, just like a Rubik's cube that has been violently struck, with only one third left. The remaining body of one was also in pieces, with a large number of small prismatic fragments floating on the surface.
“As you can see, this is the essence of the Heart of Time, the time center core of the world.” The Fairy Queen sighed.
As Mu You approached the cube, the time pocket watch in his body suddenly fluctuated violently. This was an attraction similar to the homing instinct, urging him to keep getting closer to the cube.
Vivian looked at the cube in front of her and frowned: "The damage to the Heart of Time is more serious than before..."
"Yes. That's why I say that the quota to enter the time cage is very precious. Every time the time cage is opened, the damage to the heart of time will be deepened again." "And now, the heart of time has almost fallen apart. On the edge, we have used all the power at our disposal to carefully maintain its integrity. Even so, it is estimated that we can only open the cage two to three times at most before it will completely collapse." said the Fairy Queen.
“What happened here?” Mu You asked.
He didn’t expect before he came that the so-called ‘Heart of Time’ would actually be crumbling to this point.
No wonder Zuoqiu was being chased by the Time Guard for so long just because he stole a fragment here. The Heart of Time has reached the brink of collapse, and every remaining fragment here is important.
And once the time center collapses, the order of the entire world will also be in chaos.
“It’s a long story.”
The Fairy Queen said: "You might as well sit down and listen to me tell a story first."
“A long time ago, in an isolated desert, there lived a little boy named Shi. There was no living thing in the desert except him.”
“Although he only grew up with white sand, the little boy had a simple mind and mixed the sand into clay to shape characters and animals. Even if he played with these clay figurines with monotonous shapes and colors every day, he could still have a lot of fun. "
"In this way, the little boy played with mud in the desert every day, and gradually transformed the entire desert into a mud field covered with clay figures. He also built his own house in the desert, and lived a monotonous but boring life year after year. Living a carefree life, the little boy is always the innocent little boy."
“Until one day, a colorful stone floated from the sky. Compared to the desert, which was only black, white and gray, this stone was so gorgeous and beautiful in the boy’s eyes.”
“The boy took the stone back home as a treasure, and in order to repay the boy, the stone told him that it could help him transform the environment and make the world he lived in more colorful.”
“The boy readily agreed, and the colorful stones were indeed true. The black and white mud field was quickly transformed into a colorful valley, with green grass and everything competing.”
“The boy was pleasantly surprised by the beauty of this world at first, but soon he found that his monotonous existence was incompatible with this colorful new world.”
“When the boy noticed something was wrong and wanted to stop the transformation of the colored stones, he found that the transformation could no longer be stopped.”
"He was like an ignorant child who lit a piece of hay on the grassland and danced while watching the beautiful flames. He thought he was in control. However, the flames quickly burned into a prairie fire. Not only could it no longer be extinguished, but even he could not To be burned together to ashes..."
"What happened next?" Xiaoya couldn't help asking, with a worried look on her face, as if she had entered the perspective of a little boy.
"Later, the innocent boy gradually awakened to the awareness of self-preservation in the pain of smoke and fire. He dug a fire break around his house to prevent the fire from burning into his home. This way he saved the last remaining life for himself. A place to survive.”
“But that’s not enough. From time to time, tall creatures would rush out of the fire, rush into the boy’s home, bully him, wreak havoc in his home, even break open the boy’s flesh, and violently take away one of his limbs. A bone.”
"As a result, the boy became increasingly thin and weak, and it was even difficult to stand. Death was only a matter of time. But no one wanted to die, and he was scarred. The boy finally decided to resist, so he began to silently plan and cultivate his own power, hoping that someone would Being able to rush into the fire, retrieve his lost bones and blood, and make him strong again..."
The Fairy Queen spoke silently.
Mu You basically understood after hearing this.
The little boy refers to the world will of the original world. It is nothing else but the time incarnation of the original world.
The colored stone refers to the divine stone that brought the divine system to the world of high heaven. As soon as it landed, it began to spread the divine system throughout the world.
The original world did not stop it, or in other words, there was no thought of stopping it at all, because the original will of the world was just a hazy consciousness that would not actively change the world and let it develop naturally. Therefore, evolution was extremely slow. Countless years have passed, and the world still has only very monotonous species and colors.
This is just like the ecology he saw in the Ring Forest. The closer to the center of the Ring Forest, the more monotonous the colors of the creatures and the simpler the shapes. Before there was no divine system, the world was such a boring scene.
Without any resistance, the divine system has so easily transformed most areas of the world.
But only in the aspect of time, the transformation of the divine system has encountered obstacles, because the entire time system has been occupied by the 'little boy' in advance. If you want to completely transform the time system, it means that the boy, who is the original world, must first be transformed. The will is destroyed.
Fortunately, the little boy "awakened" in time and built a "moat" for himself, which was the ring forest, protecting his last living space.
After that, there is a long tug-of-war between the two world systems, revolving around the competition for the ‘time’ of this world.
The divine system wants to completely occupy time and has launched various levels of siege on the little boy's home. The little boy is desperately trying to protect the remaining time, because this is the foundation of his existence and he has no way out.
But no matter how hard the boy tried to protect him, time was still being taken away little by little because of the huge difference in size between the two sides.
The result presented is that there is only one third of the heart of time left in front of you. The lost parts are basically the parts taken away by the divine system in various ways...
“The will of the world is not a specific individual, nor can it be embodied as a physical person to do things. What it can do is to subtly change the direction of the world through its influence on the entire world ecology.”
“But this influence is very slow and often cannot keep up with the changes in the world. Therefore, the will of the world needs a group of believers on its side to do things for it, and it also needs an agent to replace it. Will, lead this group of people.”
At this time, the Fairy Queen looked at Mu You: "And you are the spokesperson chosen by the will of the world. The original world invested a large part of its resources in you, which created your existence.
In return, what you need to do next is to try your best to get back the occupied time and return it to the heart of time to restore stability to the heart of time. "
Mu You was noncommittal about this. He stared at the half-broken white square in front of him for a while, and suddenly said: "Where are these missing parts now?"
"About one-third is naturally occupied by the divine system, which is the current divine power of time. This part is basically the 'now' part of time, but because it has been completely integrated into the divine system, even if Once you obtain divine power, it is difficult to directly restore it to the Heart of Time."
"The other third was snatched away by a group of gods many thousands of years ago. This part is mainly the 'future' part and was cut into six pieces, five of which were taken by the God of Chaos. After succeeding, the remaining piece was taken by the God of Time and merged into the Divine Power of Time." said the Fairy Queen.
When Mu You heard this, he immediately remembered the information Riley told him before: tens of thousands of years ago, a group of gods swarmed into the dream world in a short period of time, probably for this reason.
The God of Order, the God of Time, plus the God of Chaos and a group of his men, started a battle for the fragments of time in the heart of time.
In the end, the result should be a small victory for the chaotic side, grabbing more time fragments. (End of chapter)