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"That was something you accidentally saw in your memory during a moment of resonance... hey."
"Ahhh Gaia!! Sister Bluebell, say something! Why are you just watching?! Say something for me!"
"Pfft, cough cough... I think it's better to keep the captain's name intact, how about... Three-Soul Latis?"
"What's that name?! It sounds like some kind of evil monster from some kind of ruins..."
"If I can't think of anything, how about we call them the Three La Girls?"
"Ugh! I feel a suffocating sensation, like I'm being entangled..."
"Hmph, such high standards, you give me one!"
"Hehe, her name is Haiyue Xiaola..."
"...Can't the three of us come up with a more normal name?"
"Oh dear, we'll think about it on the way... Look, there's a building ahead, let's go take a look! Sister Sai Leng, drive!"
"Okay, okay, sisters, hold on tight, our new journey is about to begin!"
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[This trip has ended. You are now proceeding to the checkout page...]
[Comment: When you were young, you always dreamed of being the eternal king of Bayinbuluke. Time has passed, your eyes have developed 400 degrees of myopia from watching Pornhub, your back has become weak from being a Holy Grail connoisseur, and your right hand is covered in calluses and no longer has the feel of its former self...]
Even so, your heart remains young. Whenever you see track codes like IPX-177, a fiery blaze ignites within you, fueling your craving for an exhilarating race. Speed and passion should be etched into every man's DNA—it's your innate, ambitious instinct!
But when your route changes from a specific racetrack to the unpredictable highway, can you still maintain that fiery driving feel of 300 km/h? Life is not just about short bursts of speed, but also about long-distance sustain! Seven laps in one night at seventeen is nothing special, but being able to race at seventy, that's true manly romance!
During your long journey, you will meet many like-minded people. They are not only companions on a part of your journey, but also an integral part of your future path. You will be walking on a path that everyone has guided you on. This is indeed an extremely exciting emotional experience!
In short, in this temporarily concluded competition, you have ultimately become the champion of life. Your opponents are no longer the humans and other races you encounter along the way, but a contest of life and death, and of time itself. Keep going! Your journey in life continues. With burning passion, surpass everything that lies ahead!
[The coordinates of the Bone Spirit Realm have been updated.]
You can obtain one of the following options:
1. The title awarded based on a comprehensive evaluation during this trip.
2. The achievements awarded based on a comprehensive evaluation during this trip.
3. Any talent acquired during the talent gamble in this trip.
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"Phew... It's like waking up from a long dream!"
Latis jumped out of bed, glanced at the sunlight outside the window, immediately opened the simulator, and began checking the current time.
[Atlantic time: Thursday 3:06 PM]
"Only... a minute has passed?"
Latis gasped, and just as he was about to reflect on the gains from his interdimensional journey, he couldn't help but turn his attention to the issue of time difference.
"So, when I first went to the Bone Spirit Realm, it didn't feel like only a short while had passed in real time..."
He murmured to himself, pulled out a chair in front of the table, and sat down.
"So, what Sai Leng said about tens of thousands of white moons does indeed match up. It's not because the simulator itself sped up the progress of that plane, but because the time flow between the Bone Spirit Realm and Atlantis is just that exaggerated?"
“Amazing…” Latis stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, then suddenly his eyes lit up, and he murmured:
"Could it be that the rate of time flow is related to the power level between planes?"
He scratched his head, took out a blank scroll, and began to write and think as he wrote:
"In the Bone Spirit Realm, reaching the God Realm is merely the beginning of stepping out of a planet, so the power ceiling of this plane must be much higher than the God Realm..."
"In the world of Exploration, ship girls are a special species whose strength is immeasurable. When their human bodies merge with the ship's body, they may directly surpass the realm of gods; in the world of Terry, an Il god resides outside the plane. Although the people in the plane lack knowledge, their power is comparable to that of gods, but the path to godhood is blocked by the Il god..."
"In Atlantis, although the strongest are crowned with the title of Legend, surprisingly, the dividing line between Legend is only the sixth ring. The number of strong people above the sixth ring is not large, and for some unknown reason, the boundary between the seventh, eighth and ninth rings has become blurred. Perhaps among all the Legendary strong people, the ninth-ring strong people who are close to the God Realm... are no more than a handful?"
After comparing the two, Latis immediately discovered the overall situation of the Atlantic power system. The path to advancement beyond the legendary level was very unclear, and the various scattered sources of power had reduced the upper limit of Atlantic mages to only around the seventh ring.
"I hadn't noticed it before... Thinking about it now, it is indeed very strange."
He pondered for a moment, and although he had a few ideas, he couldn't make a definitive conclusion about any of them, so he had to keep them to himself for the time being.
"In general, it seems that the higher the power limit, the faster time flows... Well, it's not certain yet. If I go to a world with a lower power limit in the future, I can confirm this hypothesis."
Latis nodded, glanced at the prompt in the simulated text that was still waiting for him to make a choice, and fell into thought.
"Bone Spirit Realm... White Moon... Time-Space Flow. To be honest, although I connected the Time-Space Flow with that pale curtain after being stirred by so many things I saw and heard, I still can't figure out what kind of existence it is."
He recalled what he had seen and heard at the time and frowned slightly.
"From my perspective at the time, it was indeed a huge curtain, but if I got further away, really far away... it seemed like the curtain started to curve a little?"
He slowly abstracted his conjecture in his mind, and muttered to himself as he picked up the blank scroll and began to roll it up.
"Boundary...curvature...if we are all on planets, spheres...hmm?"
Latis looked at the white sphere he had rolled up in his hand and paused, stunned.
"Could it be... that the spacetime flow has such a spherical boundary? All planes are within it... and the outermost planes will come into contact with this boundary?"
He thought for a moment, then murmured uncertainly:
"Could that be the boundary and end of the universe? But why is there a spacetime flow containing countless memories and life and death... If the simulator also gained its simulation ability because it was within it, just how powerful is that spacetime flow? Does it possess all the information in this universe?"
"..."
Latis paused for a moment, scratched his head, and couldn't help but complain:
"It's a pity that I, La, only know how to beat dust, but I haven't studied cosmology!"
He let out a long sigh, as if he were gazing at the ocean with a sense of helplessness.
"Why can't we do philosophy? Why can't we do physics? Besides sex, is there nothing else we can do to fight the Greys?"
Latis pondered for a moment, then slammed his hand on the table in regret, pounding his chest and stamping his feet, saying:
"Damn, after thinking it over, the only skill I have is being a master of mobile games, damn it!"
Chapter 270 The nth day without A'te, missing her
After reviewing the discoveries in the Bone Spirit Realm, Latis rubbed his hands together, reactivated the simulation panel, and chuckled.
"Now comes the harvest time that everyone has been waiting for!"
He tossed the crumpled blank scroll into the trash can, and was about to look for some Eper Fruits on the table to satisfy his cravings after being starving for dozens of days in the Bone Spirit Realm, when he remembered that his half-elf was still away on a business trip and had not yet returned, so naturally there was no food for him.
"Damn it... Latis, Latis, how did you become such a spoiled brat? Don't let the fairies spoil you! If you want to eat, you'd better fend for yourself! You haven't even let the fairies taste Chinese food yet! Fine, enough of that. I'm only good at making instant noodles..."
Latis shook his head, feeling extremely thirsty after the long journey. He stood up from his chair, pushed open the door, and walked towards Ateliers's room, continuing to ponder as he looked at the simulation panel.
"Achievements, titles, and any talent... at first glance, it seems like I should choose the 'safe word' talent, but let me calm down first..."
He placed his hand on the doorknob of the half-elf's room, but before he could push it open, the magic circle at the door sensed the elven blessing within him and automatically opened the door.
"While invincibility is indeed invincible, is it really that useful to me? Its short duration and the need for pre-chanting are significant drawbacks. In situations where there's no time to say the safety words, it becomes practically useless..."
Latis stepped into the room, his well-organized thoughts freezing instantly upon seeing the dozen or so hooded coats hanging in the closet.
"Am I super?"
He stared in astonishment, scratched his head vigorously, and couldn't help but mutter:
"No, is this the wardrobe a normal elf should have? This looks like the wardrobe of a shady alchemist!"
Feeling a pang of embarrassment that he might have inadvertently offended Yashutia, Latis quickly added:
"Of course, besides our own, that one feels like it could strut around town wearing an abstract Pikachu suit..."
He shook his head, silently adding the plan to buy new clothes for the half-elf to his mind, and then walked to a corner of the room, looking at the plant stand under the sunlight.
The plant stand isn't very big; it's probably where Arte cultivates new plant varieties. Latis doesn't know much about it, but she's heard that Arte will give the seeds to Frico for large-scale planting after cultivating some superior varieties.
He glanced at the dozen or so potted plants on the plant stand. These pots were of different sizes and depths, clearly made by Arte to suit the different growing environments of the plants.
"The Eperfruit she gave me hasn't been planted in large quantities within the mage territory yet; I wonder where it's planted..."
Latis murmured, his gaze following the memo on the flowerpot, searching for the half-elf's bedtime fruit that he placed in his room every day.
"The improved potato version has had the numbing sensation removed, but after Ms. Kurosawa tried it, it was discovered that raw potatoes seem to be poisonous to humans?... Mark: Further improvements needed." ...What? So you've been eating raw potatoes all this time?! That's terrifying!
He gasped, then looked down.
"The roses my brother gave me, naturally bred offspring..." *cough cough*, this is too embarrassing to read... Hmm? What is this? "An improved chili pepper, currently without the prickly sensation, which my brother should like even more. The next generation's breeding direction is to add some plant juice and sugar..."
Latis scratched his head, picked a chili pepper from the lush string of peppers, and took a bite.
"What? This chili has no flavor?"
He glanced at the sign again at "Remove the stinging sensation" and couldn't help but loudly complain:
"You idiot elf, don't mess with the chili pepper's DNA!"
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After looking around, Latis found a small apple tree near the bed. The tree blended visually with the vines on the wall, which was why he hadn't noticed it at first.
"That's it..."
He plucked an Epper fruit from a drooping branch, took a big bite, and the juicy, crisp taste made him feel as if he had been brought back to life from his long journey through the Bone Spirit Realm. Before he knew it, he had finished the fruit in two bites.
"I ate too fast, I haven't even tasted the flavor yet, it feels like something's missing..."
Latis picked another one, intending to eat it later, when suddenly his gaze stopped and landed on the memo on the side of the flowerpot.
"...The third generation of hybrid Epper fruit has increased the nutritional content of the pulp, but it has also slightly thickened the peel, just a little bit... I hope Big Brother won't be able to taste it (?-ω-`) Mother Goddess, please make Big Brother's taste buds a little less sensitive..."
"You stupid elf..." Latis subconsciously rubbed the Epper Fruit in his hand, then muttered to himself:
"The problem is, I really can't taste the difference!"
He shook his head and quickly finished reading the remaining text.
"The Epperfruit is indeed very suitable for supplementing Big Brother's nutrition. He works so hard every day and has to study so much. Studying is really too difficult! Hmm (?-ω-`) I'll secretly leave a kiss on the Epperfruit. This is all for my love for Big Brother!"
Latis paused for a moment, then unconsciously touched his lips.