Chapter 426 Time and Space Transfer

Chapter 426 Time and Space Transfer

The long period of high mental concentration did keep the Tige team alert for a few hours, but the consequence of this was that when they fell asleep because they could not hold on any longer, it was difficult for them to wake up after a thorough rest.

As time went by, before dawn, everyone inevitably fell asleep due to mental fatigue, even Gloria, but compared to the Tig people, her physique was better. Before she fell asleep, she glanced in the direction of the pond and saw nothing changed. Then she fell asleep like the Tig people.

“Tick-tock…tick-tock…”

"Well..."

I don't know how long it was before it started to rain. The rain was not heavy, the kind that wouldn't get you completely wet even if you stayed outdoors for a long time. But the raindrops falling from the sky were very cold, and had a refreshing effect. Soon, Gloria and several Tigris, who had no cover over their heads, woke up.

Reaching out to wipe the raindrops off her face, Gloria stood up from the ground. She walked to the edge of the pond and looked down. The pool of liquid had not changed much, but it should have cooled to a normal temperature. The liquid surface was calm, and the alloy-like luster made the liquid look no different from a mirror. Some raindrops could be seen bouncing off after falling on the surface, and then being absorbed into the liquid.

The few Tigr people who woke up woke up their other companions. They looked around and found nothing unusual. Based on their observations of the sky and the surrounding brightness, it should be some time in the morning. Because of the rain and temperature changes, some fog appeared around, but it was not very thick and would not block the view.

"What time is it now?"

"The visibility is a bit low. It's raining, and the surrounding towers are blocking the view. So I can't really calculate it for now. But based on the brightness around us, it should be a few hours after we fell asleep, probably early morning."

"It's a bit strange, it seems like no one has been around."

"Really? The beam of light last night was so big that it could be seen from almost the entire dukedom. Since those unlucky guys came last night, no one has come here anymore?"

The ground where everyone was located was somewhat different from other places in the castle. The ground everywhere in the castle was paved with stone slabs, but because this place was a secret execution ground, the ground was normal mud. Since last night, the air had been very warm and a little humid. Although it was not enough to make the muddy ground, it was too easy to leave footprints.

"I don't think something is right. Look here."

Hai looked around and finally focused his attention on a certain spot beside the pond. He immediately asked others to go over and take a look.

"What's going on here? Nothing special, right?"

"Yeah, there's nothing here, no footprints or anything."

"Wait a minute, isn't this the place where we saw those unlucky guys passing by yesterday? It's been a few hours, there was no wind last night, and the rain just started, and it wasn't heavy. Where are their footprints?"

Wu seemed to have thought of some information. He stared at the ground in surprise. The soil was a little soft, very suitable for leaving footprints, but as Wu said, there was nothing at this location now.

"And... where are those crude, makeshift signs you made last night?"

"I don't know. Did someone come here last night? Or has he recovered?"

As the only two women in the team, they quickly became close friends after last night. They gathered with the others and began to discuss the anomalies in the surrounding environment. If the footprints could be explained by the wind blowing them away at night, then the disappearance of the signboards was completely unreasonable.

"Maybe it got blown over by the wind and fell in?"

"That's impossible. When I stuck them into the soil, the tips went at least ten centimeters into the soil. The entire height of the signboard is less than half a meter. If it was blown down by the wind, we couldn't have been unaware of the wind of that strength. Besides, even if we were sleeping so soundly that we didn't feel anything, there should have been a few holes on the ground, but they disappeared."

The surrounding environment has indeed undergone a lot of changes. Not only the edge of the pond, but the entire location seems to be more or less a little bit off.

"Why do I feel... this place is more..."

"Older?"

"Yes! That's what I mean. I remember very clearly the... um... what was the name of that stage over there that we saw last night?"

"The gallows? What's wrong with it?"

"I went up to take a look yesterday. Apart from some traces of friction from the ropes, it's pretty solid overall. It's not brand new, but at least it hasn't been used for very long, at least not more than three months. But how about you take a look now?"

The gallows was not far from where everyone was standing. It was only a few steps away. After walking over, they found that the wooden structure on it had rotted away, and the metal parts were also rusted. The metal rod used to open the trap door had also broken due to severe rust. As for the rope that was still there last night? Even the wood and metal were not spared, let alone these.

"This wood is somewhat similar to the wood we usually use. If it is similar to our wood, even if we take into account the outdoor moisture and light conditions, it would take at least more than a year for it to rot like this. As for metal, I don't know."

"This metal is very common. It is a low-grade artificial alloy that appeared very early in history. If this metal corrodes to this extent, it will take about a year, similar to wood."

"But this is obviously wrong? They were fine last night?"

"Is there an abnormal time and space transfer phenomenon here?"

"That may be possible, but if we need to confirm it, we have to leave this location and investigate."

"But if there really is abnormal space-time instability, will we lose contact with other people if we leave this location?"

"We can't rule out this possibility, why don't we wait a little longer."

As the leader of the Tige team, Xin suggested to confirm the number of people first to see if anyone was missing. Fortunately, all the members were there. After discussion, they finally reached a consensus that in order to avoid mistakes, no one should leave this position for the time being. But after solving this problem, they soon faced a bigger problem.

"What about those signals we sent out yesterday? Will they become ineffective due to the time-space shift? Can we still contact rescue?"

As soon as the news came out, everyone inevitably became agitated. This is indeed a reasonable speculation, or it is possible that they have been busy for so long, which is equivalent to doing a thankless and useless work.

"Quiet first! Think about it carefully, maybe we are just overthinking it, and rescue should be on the way. Xinle, what do you think?"

"Well... our position is still the same as yesterday... If it was yesterday, our position has not changed, and it is still the same as before, so even if there is a problem, at most it is a time error. So if you think about it this way, our signal should have been sent out, but I don't know when we received the support of these signals. But based on the information we can currently understand, that is, the surrounding stone buildings are still intact, and the degree of corrosion on the gallows, the signal we sent "last night" may have been more than a year ago. But if this is really the case..."

"So our rescue came a year ago?!"

"Indeed, this possibility is the greatest..."

The sudden news undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to everyone, but it was not a complete disaster. The signal transmitter made by Sinler was still at his feet, and there was no sign of wear and tear due to time. What they needed to do now was to find an alternative energy source and send the distress signal again.

And there was no need to look for an alternative energy source, because they already had a suitable one in front of them... At least it was something in its current state.

"So we have to leave here now and look for other energy supply alternatives, but... the risk is indeed not small."

"But this is all we can do now..."

"Wow."

"Hey! What are you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself!"

While the Tigris were discussing countermeasures with each other, Xin noticed that Gloria beside her had walked out. She didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when she saw Gloria walk into the pond out of the corner of her eye, she couldn't help but shout out.

"It's not that troublesome. I think you don't need to go out and you can find alternative energy."

"You! Wait a minute..how come you're okay?!"

Everyone immediately gathered around the pond. They saw Gloria kneeling in the deadly liquid, seemingly groping for something, but Gloria was fine and not hurt at all.

"Ah, I found it."

Soon, Gloria seemed to have found something at the bottom of the liquid and lifted it out of the surface. Then everyone, including Gloria, witnessed a very strange scene.

Gloria held a half arm in her hand. It looked like it had not grown or repaired completely, but the shape of the arm had already appeared, and the palm at the end had grown to a recognizable shape. But its current state was very unique. Although the forearm to the elbow had almost recovered, the part behind it still remained in the form of liquid, and they could not be separated. In other words, although Gloria held the half arm in her hand and lifted it out of the liquid, it was impossible to take it out of the liquid.

"this..."

"Huh! It seems that I was right. This guy should have regained consciousness now. Although the degree of recovery is not enough for him to speak, simple communication is enough. Isn't that right, big guy?"

The palm of the half giant's arm in Gloria's hand slowly moved. Although the fingers could not be completely closed due to insufficient repair, it could be seen that this guy raised his thumb to express his agreement with Gloria's words.

"Oh my god... this guy is actually still alive... I... I need to digest this, I need to sit for a while..."

The fact that this guy was still alive really shocked all the Tiggers. In fact, Gloria was the same. Although she had heard Han Zu say many times that he had experienced many similar serious injuries and was fine in the end, it was the first time for Gloria to witness the whole process with her own eyes.

When the time had almost come back to normal, Engineer Sinler returned to the pond holding the signal transmitter. He roughly understood the method Gloria had mentioned before, which was to use the liquid Han Zu, which now had sufficient energy, as a stable energy supply device, and then send out a distress signal again.

"That's kind of what I mean, can you... um sorry, I don't know if you can see me."

The half arm was growing faster and faster, and this time it gave a thumbs-up gesture, indicating that it had fully understood the information Sinler had explained, and also agreed to use itself as a signal transmitter power supply device.

"So what do we do? Find a, uh... container to put this... excuse me, put him in?"

"I don't think it would be that troublesome. Just set up the signal transmitter beside the pond, and then put the metal tubes used to transmit energy into the liquid."

"Is this... possible?"

"It doesn't cost money to try anyway."

"Well then..."

Since Han Zu and Gloria had no objections, Xinle did as they said. Soon, the signal transmitter was set up and the last step was to start supplying power.

As the metal tubes used to transmit energy were extended into the liquid Han Zu, the latter began to steadily transmit energy to the signal transmitter. Soon, the energy reached the threshold. With the humming sound of the machine, the signal transmitter was successfully started and the distress signal was sent out again.

The successful sending of the signal made everyone feel relieved. Perhaps it was compensation for their bad luck. Just three hours later, the people who were hiding at the entrance of the secret passage because of the heavier rain saw several huge spots of light appearing in the dim sky, rapidly approaching their position.

As the huge spots of light flew out of the clouds, they saw a familiar-looking aircraft flying towards them.

"Okay! Okay!!"

It was a small armed landing ship of the Tige people.

Moreover, more spots of light were entering the clouds. It seemed that this rescue was very powerful. Not long after, more than a dozen armed landing ships controlled the airspace where everyone was located and were rapidly approaching the ground, preparing to land.

"Um, Captain, why do I feel like things are getting bigger?"

Sinler scratched his head and pointed at the increasing number of armed landing ships in the sky. After about a few minutes, a faint hum of a huge engine was heard in the distance. Everyone looked up and saw that a huge, main gunboat of the Tig people had actually entered the atmosphere. The huge ship was clearly visible even in this position.

Everyone looked at each other, completely confused as to what was going on.