In the afternoon, Carmen walked into the bookstore.

Tianyi was still sitting behind his old desk, reading a book and drinking coffee.

It seems that every time someone visits, he is in this state.

But in fact, those who are really familiar with him understand that when you have the idea of ​​visiting him, he already knows when you will come, so it is difficult for you to judge what he is doing in normal times.

"What a rare guest." Tianyi took the initiative to say hello to Carmen.

Carmen walked to the desk, and without sitting down, stood and said, "I want to see Lance."

"Well..." Tianyi said in a deep voice, "I'm really polite to let someone do something when you open your mouth."

Kamen said: "You can make a condition, and I can agree to anything."

Tianyi didn't even raise his eyelids, but he still looked at the book, picked up the coffee and took a sip, and then said, "Every girl, don't say such lines at all times."

"I didn't want to ask for anyone..." Carmen continued, "A week after Lance disappeared, I found the sacrificer and asked him about the origin and whereabouts of Lance. Then in the past few months, I did a lot of research to find ways to track Lance, but I finally came to only one conclusion..."

"That is, 'I am the only one on earth who can help you,' right?" Tian Yi said.

"Of course..." Carmen continued, "You have already mastered the situations I mentioned through the Book of Heart."

"I'm not Zilin. My dependence on the Book of Heart is not as strong as you think." Tianyi said, "I can know what you just said through simple reasoning... In fact, from the moment you walked into my bookstore, to the few seconds between the word "sparse guest" popping out of my mouth is the whole time I spent on reasoning."

"Okay, it's all right." Kamen said, "Can you help me?"

"Of course." Tianyi responded in a casual tone, "No matter what you say, you are a direct descendant of an old friend of mine. He has done a lot of things for me this time, without a single complaint. I should still give him this favor, but..."

As soon as he changed his subject, Carmen asked anxiously: "Is there any difficulty?"

"I have nothing to do with it, but you are the one who has the difficulty." Tianyi continued, "You have been doing research for several months. With your intelligence that is comparable to Lance, you should have understood that human beings..., both the body and the soul, cannot travel between two parallel universes safely, even those with extremely high abilities cannot."

"Indeed, I know this." Kamendao, "but there should be exceptions that I don't know, aren't it?"

"Haha... That's right." Tianyi smiled and put down the book, took another sip of coffee, and said slowly, "First of all, there are some methods of traveling directly with the body on the 'Daomen'. Those who "ascend" in ancient times are those who found the method; however, the methods of the 'Daomen' all depend on the 'opportunity'. Some people start from practicing boy skills and practice until they die of old age and fail, and some people practice casually for half a year and traveling... With your overly serious personality, it should not be suitable for this path."

"What else?" Kamendao.

"Also, a few god-level abilities whose abilities are just related to time travel, can also travel safely." Tianyi replied.

"It seems that I'm not suitable for this." Kamendao.

Tian nodded: "Or, you can use the power of 'ghosts and gods'."

"Are you?" Carmen asked directly.

"I... are not." Tian Yidao, "at least it is not the kind of ghosts and gods in the 'magic' system. By the way, there is no such high-level ghosts and gods in the real dimension of our universe. Unless you die and go to another dimension, you may have a chance to meet a few."

Kamen said: "I have to die first?"

Tianyi waved his hand: "No need, because there is another way, that is 'science'."

"I have already studied the 'science' method." Kamendao, "But... I think what you are talking about is something that I don't know, something that exceeds the current level of human civilization, right?"

"That's it." Tianyidao.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Kamendao, "I can set off now."

"Don't be anxious." Tian Yi said, "There are a few more things I have to explain to you first."

"Tell me." Carmen was still very anxious.

Tianyi said: "Generally speaking, if you go, you can't come back."

"Lance is not here, why should I come back?" Carmen asked back in a tone of course.

Tianyi smiled again and said, "My method can only ensure that your soul and memory are intact, but your body will be crushed into basic particles in the universe during the journey, so when you get there, you will possess someone who has just died like "resurrecting the corpse."

Carmen thought for a while and continued: "Does that mean I might possess a dying person who is being rescued in ICU, such as a patient with a late-stage tumor, a victim of a traffic accident, a person with a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, etc."

This is indeed a question she has to consider. If she had just traveled over and died after two minutes of rescue, or traveled to someone who had not had the ability to move, or became paralyzed or vegetative after being rescued... Then she would have gone in vain.

"You can rest assured that I will say hello to the 'friend over there' and ask him to arrange you in a little girl with a physiological age close to Lance." Tianyi said, "If you have a need, I can even ask him to take special care and arrange you to the home of a rich man. After all, there are billions of people on the earth over there. It is not difficult to find a time point for a daughter with a daughter to die unexpectedly."

"Can you choose the time point?" Carmen asked.

"Of course." Tianyidao, "'Time' is not linear, and traveling between two parallel universes can go to any time point; for example, a universe a person traveled to the b universe and spent 20 years and traveled back, he might not return to the 1920 year of the universe a. He might return to the 1900 year of the universe a, return to the day he left, or return to 1980, or 1400 year."

"So that's it." Carmen pondered for a moment, and continued, "but you just said you would arrange me to be with someone whose physiological age is close to Lance, so there is a time limit, right?"

"Yes." Tianyi said, "because I plan to send you to Lance some time shortly after he returned."

"Well..." Carmen thought for a moment and thought, "Although I have heard from the priest, I'll confirm... Lance is still a child in the 'over there, right?"

"It's about 10 years of physiology." Tianyi replied, "but the psychological age is much older than you."

"Ha... OK." Kamen said, "That little girl is fine, or just right..."

I don't know what she thought of, but she rarely showed a bit of evil smile.

"It seems that you have no worries, but you are quite expecting it, so I'll feel relieved." Tianyi said, stood up and opened the door behind him. "The first room on the left side of the corridor, remember to knock on the door... My wife will explain some details about time travel to you, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble when you get there; I'll prepare something later, and call you when you're ready."

Carmen responded and walked into the door. When she passed by Tianyi, she suddenly remembered something and continued, "By the way... I'm talking about no concern..." She stopped, "Although I'm not familiar with my ancestor, the 'an old friend' you are undoubtedly referring to Mr. Clauze Wittstock?"

"It's him." Tianyi replied, "Why, you want to see him before you leave?"

"Is that OK?" Carmen asked.

"Unfortunately, if you came a day or a half early, you could find him in a nearby laboratory. He should have some time to chat with him." Tian Yi said, "But he happened to have some private matters at this moment... Otherwise, you wait for another day and tomorrow..."

"Then there is no need." Carmen interrupted him, "I just asked casually. After all, he is a legendary figure and my ancestor, so I want to meet him... Since it is a coincidence, let's forget it."

After saying that, she took another step and walked into the door.

Tianyi glanced at her back, closed the door, then sat back to the desk, picked up the coffee, and said to himself, "It's better not to see you..." He shrugged, "You two are not like you at all. Your ancestors are much gentler than you. He treats everyone except yourself... He doesn't look like you, so for your own pleasure, chases a little devil across the universe."

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That day, dusk.

In a ward in a hospital.

An old man was sitting in a wheelchair in front of the window, staring at the sunset with a dull look.

And Crowze stood behind him and looked at him silently.

This old man is named Ji Chi.

Half a month ago, he looked only about forty years old, but now, his appearance has become as if he is in his eighties or nineties, and he is extremely haggard, with a look of pain on his face.

There is no doubt that this is caused by Dreya's "curse".

At first, Ji Chang didn't know what Dreya did to him; except that his physical fitness became an ordinary person and he could no longer use his abilities or sense energy, he did not feel anything else abnormal.

Until…the moment he fell asleep.

At that sleep, he only slept for four hours, but in the "dream", he experienced about four months.

The content of the dream is that he plays a survival game on "Tianxuan Island" with the physical fitness of an ordinary person; but in this game, there are no competitors, no people to use, and no intelligent life to communicate, and there are only endless dangers and horrors.

In this dream, he will not "grow" nor awaken any supernatural powers. He is always in the state of an ordinary person.

He could not fall asleep in this dream, but fatigue and pain would accumulate.

He fell down a cliff, feeling the severe pain of the fracture, waiting quietly to die; he fell into a trap, slowly bleed and died; he was torn and eaten by animals; he was caught by monsters, tortured and killed... Every death he experienced was extremely real and painful, and every time when the pain reached its peak, he started the next round of game again.

That night, after waking up, Ji Qi looked in the mirror and found that he had become five or six years older overnight.

Obviously, the huge mental torture has also caused changes in his body, which should have been very long-lived.

He knew that this kind of "dream" was definitely abnormal, and he also speculated that it might be related to Dreya. In order to avoid falling into this terrifying nightmare again, he hurriedly began to use drugs to stop himself from falling asleep.

This method prevented him from falling asleep again for the next four days, nor did he enter the nightmare.

But on the fifth day, something even more terrible happened...

Because of the effect of the drug, although he can "not go through any stage of the sleep cycle of a normal person", he began to experience symptoms of "distractedness".

People like Ji Chang usually don’t get distracted because their brains are very developed and have been trained for many years. He doesn’t daydream like ordinary people or get distracted by thinking about things for a long time. He always thinks rationally.

But refusing to sleep, coupled with the side effects of the medication, ruined his brain and he began to "distract" regularly.

As soon as he was "distracted", Dreya's curse came quietly.

It can be as short as thirty minutes, and as long as an hour. If it is converted into the time in the "dream", that is, every time he is distracted, he will be tortured in that dream from half a month to one month. The number of times he is distracted in a day has gradually developed from three or five times to more than ten times, and there is an increasing trend.

In just half a month, his spirit was broken, and he was awake for only a short time every day. And during the time he was awake, the nursing staff in the hospital could feed him something; his problem with the toilet was basically solved by catheters and adult diapers...

If he is tortured like this, he will probably become a vegetative state in half a month, and will live in that "nightmare" for twenty-four hours a day forever.

Looking at Ji Chang like this, Clauze's mood was also very complicated.

Although they are not related by blood, if we really want to talk about it, Ji Chang is also a descendant of Clauze's adoptive father.

Ironically, Clauze, a man who is not of the blood of the Wittstock family, has adopted this surname for his descendants, while Ji Chang, a man who is really related to the former imperial royal family, has changed his surname.

"Maybe I shouldn't care about this..." When he said this, Crowze had been standing behind Ji Chang for a long time. He finally waited for the moment when the other party came to his senses, and then he spoke, "Maybe this torture is what you deserve, and you should repay the pain you brought to Dreya, but..." He said this and raised his hand, "Forget it, at least in my opinion, it's enough."

As Tianyi said, Clauze is a soft-hearted person. His private affairs today are to give Ji Qian a pleasure and a relief.

However, just as Clauze's hand was about to fall, he seemed to suddenly realize something.

After a brief hesitation, he put his hand down again.
To be continued...