According to Lin Qiye's original idea, this maze should have no way to the "future". Everything is just fragments of time that started from the destruction of the Gate of Truth a hundred years ago and spread outward... In other words, this maze corresponds to the beginning of the future. The starting point is "now".
But after listening to Lina's description of the maze, Lin Qiye hesitated again... Since this is an upside-down pyramid, its top floor should occupy the largest area, and Lin Qiye is always pursuing the downward direction. path, exploration of the uppermost levels is very limited.
Who can guarantee that at the top of this upside-down pyramid, in a place that you have not explored, there is no way to the "future"
After Lin Qiye hesitated for a moment, he picked up Lina and walked towards the direction where the number "3" was in his memory.
As he stepped onto a piece of ice, a "3" appeared under his feet. Lin Qiye looked back. Here, he could see all the numbers he had carved with his own hands, because the time here was longer than all the past. back.
But there were no other sword marks left around the word "3", because after Lin Qiye arrived here, he directly turned back to explore in the direction of the "past".
Lin Qiye followed the original method and started to move forward, exploring left and right in order, and carved marks on the corresponding ice surface according to the number of sword marks that could be seen in his eyes.
"-1.25", "2.5", "4", "2.75"…
As the sword marks continued to spread around, Lin Qiye went further and further away from the "past".
But looking at the entire ice field, less than half of the ice surface is now carved with sword marks... In other words, near the entrance of the maze, Lin Qiye still has a large area that he has not explored.
He kept moving around the river entering the maze, but most of the numbers he carved still started with "-". Time passed, and before he knew it, the largest number he found had turned into "37".
When Lin Qiye stepped onto the last piece of unmarked ice, he looked back and saw all the numbers.
He gently carved a number on the ice beneath his feet, "38."
This is the farthest "future" that Lin Qiye can find... But after he finished all this, nothing strange happened at all.
The cold wind blew through the dead ice field, and above the dense numbers, Lin Qiye stood there, motionless.
"Alas..." After an unknown amount of time, he sighed.
It seems that his idea is wrong... there is nothing at the end of the "future".
To break this deadlock, perhaps we can only approach it from another angle.
Just as Lin Qiye frowned and thought, Lina's eyelashes on the side trembled slightly. After a moment, she slowly opened her eyes.
"Are you awake?" Lin Qiye's voice sounded.
Lina held her forehead and sat up from the ice with difficulty, her face a little pale.
"Where are we?"
"Near the entrance of the maze, time here is the most broken. Even Vishnu can't find us."
"oh… "
"How are you?"
"Fortunately... It's just that my mental strength is a bit overdrawn and it will take some time to recover." Lina rubbed the corners of her eyes.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye asked in confusion, "How did you summon King Arthur?"
"He allowed me to summon his... And this sword in the stone originally has part of the time ability, which can connect him with me in the past, allowing me to mobilize part of his power. The only drawback is that my body will Can’t hold it up.”
"No wonder..." Lin Qiye nodded.
Lina's peripheral vision swept around and saw sword marks all over the ground, and a look of confusion appeared in her eyes: "What are you doing?"
"Looking for the end of the 'future'..."
Lin Qiye stated his thoughts. The latter thought for a moment and shook his head:
"This method alone is not enough... Time fragments not only exist on a plane, they are three-dimensional. For example, there is another time more than a few meters above our heads. If we want to use this exhaustive method to find the end of the 'future', It takes too much time and effort.”
Lin Qiye was startled, looked up at the void above his head, and frowned slightly: "I see... If that's the case, the amount of this project is indeed too large."
But then, he seemed to remember something and looked at Lina, "Isn't your sword in the stone able to sense the flow of time? Can you find the direction of the 'future'?"
Lina thought for a while, "I'll try."
She held the hilt of the Sword in the Stone with her slender fingers, closed her eyes for a moment, and pointed uncertainly at the sky above Lin Qiye.
"It seems... right above you. I don't know how high it is."
Directly above
Lin Qiye looked up at the sky. The chaotic light and shadow also shrouded the sky, making people dizzy just by looking at it.
"Go up and have a look." The wings behind Lin Qiye spread out, and with a strong shake, his figure suddenly flew up. Lina followed closely behind with the sword in the stone in hand!
Five meters, ten meters, one hundred meters, two hundred meters...
As the height continued to rise, Lin Qiye shuttled through countless fragments of time. A slight dizziness flickered one after another, giving him the illusion of not being able to tell the direction. However, he still endured the discomfort and leaped straight upward!
The moment he passed through a fragment of time, a mysterious glimmer of light flashed, and the two figures disappeared without a trace at the same time!
…
Lin Qiye felt as if his eyes were blurred, and the world around him turned into black and white.
At this moment, even gravity disappeared without a trace, and a feeling of weightlessness lingered in his heart. He waved his wings and looked back, only to see countless floating fragments of time flickering silently in this black and white world.
From a distance, these time fragments gathered together look like a cone of light. The apex of the light cone is a broken portal. Countless time fragments are released from this portal and spread outward. The further away from the portal, the longer the time. The more broken it is, the denser it becomes.
If you look at it from the other direction, it is no different from the upside-down pyramid described by Lina.
"Is this the whole picture of the time maze..." Lin Qiye looked at the light cone in front of him and muttered to himself.
As he thought, the entire time maze was created due to the shattering of the Door of Truth a hundred years ago, and it ran through hundreds of years of history. They had just been traveling through these fragments of time one after another.
Lin Qiye waved his wings and led Lina from the edge of the light cone to the door of truth at the top. As long as they wanted to, they could even directly enter any piece of time from here.
"Where... exactly is this place?" Lina stared at this scene in confusion, her eyes full of confusion.