The cultural relics displayed in the museum were indeed different from other things; destroying one means losing one cultural relic forever.
After Lin Xiao’s reminder, Bai Lixin didn’t dare to act recklessly.
Fortunately, these cultural relics were quite bulky. After circling around the fourth and fifth floors, he lost track of the cultural relics.
When he shook off the resurrected armor and returned to the third floor, Lin Xiao was no longer there.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
The familiar sound rang out once again.
This time, it came from the other side of the corridor.
Bai Lixin learned from previous experience. This time, he didn’t rush over but called the black and white scarecrows to come over.
The black and white scarecrows still retained their fear of Bai Lixin and didn’t dare show any negligence when carrying out his orders.
After a brief explanation from Bai Lixin, they moved toward the corridor where the “click-click” sound was coming from. Bai Lixin stood by the Queen’s statue, listening carefully for any movement.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click-click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
Visual, auditory, and sensory inputs coordinated with each other.
After the brief “click” sound, there was a slightly prolonged “click-click” sound, followed by the “click” sound appearing in another corridor.
Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes and snapped his fingers.
A black scarecrow quickly flew out of the corridor, glanced at Bai Lixin standing in the middle, and then rushed towards another corridor.
After the black scarecrow passed, Bai Lixin closed his eyes and waited quietly for further developments.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click-click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
After another prolonged “click-click” sound, the “click” sound appeared in the corridor where the white scarecrow was. It probably didn’t expect that there was a monster waiting there, this time, the “click” sound didn’t last long before emitting a prolonged “click-click” sound.
Then, the “click” sound appeared in the corridor where the black scarecrow was.
Within a very short time, the “click” sound moved again, appearing in the corridor where the white scarecrow was.
With each move, the prolonged “click-click” sound rang out faster and faster.
Bai Lixin could almost confirm that the prolonged “click-click” sound was a signal for the unknown monster to release its skill.
Every time this sound occurred, it would move to a different location.
However, under the pressure from the black and white scarecrows, it seemed to have fewer places to move to.
Bai Lixin opened his eyes and snapped his fingers in the air.
The black and white scarecrows simultaneously emerged from both corridors and came to Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin whispered a few words to them in a voice that only one person and the two monsters could hear. Then, the black and white scarecrows nodded and once again went into the two corridors.
After a brief ceasefire, the “click-click” sounds resounded once again.
This game of hide-and-seek lasted for several minutes.
Finally, after a series of prolonged “click” sounds, there was no more movement.
The sound ultimately remained in the corridor where the black scarecrow was.
Bai Lixin smiled in the darkness, then turned and walked into the dark corridor.
The black scarecrow stood in front of Exhibition Hall 35, its dark body almost blending into the surrounding darkness. The towering and grotesque scarecrow stood there, its pitchfork carried a sense of killing intent. It was even more terrifying than the demons in the abyss.
However, upon seeing Bai Lixin, such a scalp-tingling monster instinctively took a step back and bowed to him respectfully.
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In the live broadcast room:
[God Xin is too good! Who wouldn’t want to shout “Dad” to God Xin after seeing him? Others can only kill monsters, but God Xin has now conquered them.]
[However, I’m curious about where God Xin summoned these three monsters from. I know there’s a ranch copy, but the scarecrows there look different from these ones. These black and white scarecrows seem to be of a much higher level than those straw monsters in the ranch copy.]
[Didn’t God Xin just have a conversation with that little black furry monster? “Dad Misfortune”, “Dad Xiao Tou”, “Family”, “Nine Years Compulsory Education.” I was so confused, I felt like I had missed out on an important plot.]
[Everyone, remember when the Shentian Guild provoked God Xin before, and God Xin didn’t show up for several days? I inquired, and it seems that during that time, God Xin wasn’t hiding, he was missing. And he wasn’t the only one missing; the vice president of the Xinhuo Guild, Zhou Guang, was missing too. Oh, I heard there was also a very powerful newcomer who went missing with them.]
[I have a bold guess. Judging by the time they went missing, isn’t it just enough time for a copy run? So, is there a possibility that God Xin went into a copy? As we all know, once inside a copy, we are cut off from information here, so God Xin probably didn’t know that the Shentian Guild was provoking him.]
[The appearance of the three monsters today and their conversation are evidence. It turns out God Xin wasn’t hiding, he just went into a copy, and we misunderstood him.]
[But there’s a flaw. If you go into a copy, even if you perform poorly, you should at least advance to a higher floor. This applies to ordinary people, let alone God Xin. God Xin and Zhou Guang’s floors haven’t changed during this time, so how do you explain this?]
[Could it be that they are in a punishment copy similar to the “Time Cage” before? If it were a normal copy, shouldn’t we be able to see it from the live broadcast room? Anyway, I was glued to the live broadcast room these days and didn’t find God Xin’s live stream. Did you find it?]
For a moment, the barrage was filled with comments like “I didn’t find it either” one after another.
[So, the truth is, not only was God Xin not hiding like a turtle, but was also unluckily involved in a punishment copy with no rewards? And just after escaping from the punishment copy, he received news of being hunted down by the Shentian Guild? Isn’t this the real-life version of “stick your head out, get chopped; pull it in, get chopped”?]
[Uh… listening to you, God Xin seems quite miserable.]
[Ahem, brother, be confident. Remove the “seems,” you’re truly insulting God Xin.]
[God Xin: Your analysis is correct. Next time, refrain from analyzing.]
Zhou Guang looked at the barrage and pushed up his glasses.
Although they didn’t mention the sandwiched copy world, the viewers accidentally hit the nail on the head and guessed something close to the truth.
Xia Chi who was beside him nudged Zhou Guang’s arm and came closer, blinking his bright eyes with a silly look. “Brother Zhou Guang, what really happened in the copy? Tell me, I’m really curious.”
Zhou Guang pursed his lips tightly, vowing not to speak.
Would he personally admit that he had turned into a little girl wearing a floral dress?
No way.
He wouldn’t say it even if he were beaten to death!
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The black scarecrow turned sideways to make room for Bai Lixin.
Exhibition Hall 35 was where the Kiss of the Sun Crown was displayed.
Unlike the armor exhibition hall earlier, this hall displayed items symbolizing the glory of the royal family .
Scepters, garments, sacred swords, jewelry, and more.
In the center of the hall, the platform where the Kiss of the Sun should be displayed was empty, contrasting sharply with the array of exhibits.
The black scarecrow stood at the entrance of this hall to inform him that the “click-click” sound had disappeared into this exhibition hall.
Or rather, the “click-click” sound hadn’t disappeared but had hidden itself.
Bai Lixin rotated his flashlight, scanning each illuminated area meticulously, not missing any corner.
Everything seemed normal, with no disharmony.
The exhibits were placed in their respective positions, there was no residue of gray powder on the ground, and the clocks were ticking perfectly.
The hour hand was fixed slightly above “11”.
The minute hand was slowly advancing towards “3”, and the second hand was ticking according to its set rhythm.
Bai Lixin stared at the clock on the wall for a while, then raised the scythe and hooked the slightly high clock off the wall.
The round clock felt heavy in Bai Lixin’s hands, and his fingertips could feel the coolness of the metal.
He put away the scythe, grabbed both sides of the clock with both hands, and kept scrutinizing it.
Time passed second by second.
The second hand moved steadily.
The young man seemed completely drawn to the clock in his hand, forgetting his task and having only this item in his eyes.
The surroundings returned to silence, even the young man’s steady breathing could be heard clearly.
The audience in the live broadcast room held their breath.
Bai Lixin’s slender index finger gently traced the cold surface, treating it as if it were a cherished treasure.
Suddenly, he had a dagger in his hand.
His wrist rose and then swiftly fell, stabbing towards the clock face.
Just when the sharp tip of the dagger was about to touch the surface, the three hands inside the watch suddenly began to tremble slightly but violently. The second hand stopped with a tremor and seemed to want to move backward from its tip.
Bai Lixin’s hand was as fast as lightning. Before the second hand could retreat, the dagger pierced through the glass surface, accurately stabbing at the connection point between the three hands and effectively cutting off their movement.
The three hands suddenly shook like sieves, pressing into the clock. With their trembling, the tips of the hands brushed across the surface, emitting a series of sharp “click-click” sounds.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
After a few shakes, the hands, like dying embers, suddenly collapsed. From the position of the dagger, they fell onto the clock surface one by one, with no vitality.
“It seems you found the source of the ‘click’ sounds,” Lin Xiao walked in at some point.
He didn’t make a sound, not even a breath. If he hadn’t taken the initiative to speak, Bai Lixin wouldn’t have noticed the extra person here.
Bai Lixin subconsciously glanced at the black scarecrow.
The black scarecrow moved back slightly, lengthening the distance between him and Lin Xiao, seeming reluctant to get closer to him.
Bai Lixin stuffed the clock into Lin Xiao’s hand. “Where were you just now?”
Lin Xiao: “I’ve been here all along, I just didn’t come out.”
He continued nonchalantly, “I believe that as long as it’s you, you would definitely find the source.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘This is called stealing the fruits of other people’s labor.’
Lin Xiao examined the broken clock in his hand. “So, this is the source of the sounds? How did you find out?”
Bai Lixin: “Didn’t we block it in the corridor before? From the traces it left behind, it shifted positions, but neither of us noticed.”
“It escaped under our noses, and I considered a few possibilities.”
“The first possibility is that it’s very fast, too fast for the naked eye to keep up.”
“The second is that it can teleport.”
“The third is a bit bizarre; it can make others ignore its existence.”
“Of course, I quickly dismissed the second possibility, leaving only the first and third.”
“I found that if we personally track the sound, we might be led by the nose, just like we were with the armor we encountered earlier. How does the saying go? ‘If you don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, you are living on this mountain’. Because tracking it myself might lead to missing some clues, I brought in the black and white scarecrows to track it while I observed from the outside.”
“Sure enough, I discovered a problem. Every time it changes position, there will be a prolonged ‘click-click’.”
“And I also confirmed that it doesn’t fit the first guess, so only the third guess remained.”
‘Under the continuous search of the black and white scarecrows, the frequency of its movement increased, indicating it was afraid of being found. So, it should be in a place where people couldn’t ignore it.”
“I also made a very special discovery.”
“There’s no time gap in its movement.”
“For example, when a mage uses teleportation skills to move between two places, there is a time delay and a life cannot appear in two places at the same time. But it did, and the speed was so fast that time overlapped.”
“I then speculated that this ‘click-click’ might be able to pause time. And there was a high probability it is a clock.”
“After making this guess, the doubts lingering in my mind were instantly resolved. The faint ‘click’ sounds we heard on the ground was actually the sound of the hands rapidly moving on the ground. Because they are small and light, with a small contact area with the ground, they produce that sound.”
“The powder is the grayish rust residue dropped from their connection points, so you smelled the rust.”
“If it can control time, even the inconsistent testimonies of the two guard teams at the beginning have reasonable explanations.”
“When I was stabbing it with the dagger just now, it had a momentary thought of moving backward. I guess it wanted to rewind time to prevent my dagger from stabbing down.”
“As long as it controls time well, it can make the first guard team complete the handover. Then by making the second team and the crowd’s time rewind, the second guard team will go back to the time before the handover was completed. Since their time has moved backward, they naturally forget that they have completed the handover.”
“Then, pause or accelerate time to create a ten-minute blank period.”
“That’s why the testimonies of guard teams A and B didn’t match, why Team B said the time changed from four o’clock to four-ten when they entered the exhibition hall, and why no one saw how the guards exchanged shifts.”
Bai Lixin licked his somewhat dry lips and pointed to the shattered dial in Lin Xiao’s hand. “It’s all because of it.”
Lin Xiao had another question: “How can you be sure it’s this one? There are clocks hanging in every exhibition hall in the museum.”
Bai Lixin beckoned to the black scarecrow.
He was close to Lin Xiao, and the black scarecrow was somewhat reluctant. After hesitating for a moment, it reluctantly moved to Bai Lixin’s side.
It stretched out its wrist and opened its dark palm.
In its palm lay a pile of batteries.
Bai Lixin: “After I guessed that the mischief was caused by a clock, in order to identify which clock it was, I told them to remove the batteries from all the clocks in their respective corridors. Of course, it was during the interval when the ‘click-click’ moved to the other side, so as not to alert the ‘click-click.’”
“A clock without kinetic energy won’t move. At this time, whoever is still working diligently is the real ‘click-click’.” Lin Xiao’s eyes flashed with admiration. “To think of so much in such a short time, you’re truly remarkable, Bai Lixin. I’m far inferior to you.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Is this your excuse for hiding and watching the show, huh?’
Lin Xiao patted the damaged surface of the clock. “So, these three hands are the real ‘click-click’? These hands, to say they’re foolish, they came up with such a grand scheme to manipulate us. To say they’re clever, they fell into their own mindset and thought that a clock must always rotate, so even if the clock had no batteries, they had to keep moving diligently.”
“Suffering from hard work.”
The three hands inside the dial trembled slightly, seemingly deeply moved by Lin Xiao’s words.
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In the live broadcast room.
[Wow, it’s actually a time-controlling monster! I’m shocked for a whole year, brothers.]
[Who could have thought of this? It’s absurd.]
[Absurd yet very logical, I’m impressed.]
[If it were any other player, they probably wouldn’t have figured out this answer no matter how hard they tried.]
[,It’s a pity, such a high IQ monster met God Xin and is ruined for life.]
[God Xin is still so awesome, adding another touch to his fame!]
[‘Suffering from hard work’. Family, I’m broken, I’m going to start slacking off now.]
[This line hits hard.]
[The busier you are, the poorer you are, it’s me they’re talking about, wuuuu.]
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Lin Xiao: “Now that the culprit is found, where is the stolen Kiss of the Sun?”
He looked at the broken clock in his hand. “Can it speak? Or can we hear its words?”
Bai Lixin thought for a moment. “Actually, our task is considered complete now. The task was only to find out the true culprit of stealing the Kiss of the Sun, not to find the Kiss of the Sun. But if we want to know what it’s expressing, I’ve come up with a way, follow me.”
Lin Xiao followed behind Bai Lixin downstairs, and the black and white scarecrows followed them obediently.
However, the two monsters kept their distance from them, with the white scarecrow even burying its head into the chest of the black scarecrow, showing great fear.
Bai Lixin silently glanced at Lin Xiao’s calm face.
These monsters seemed to be very afraid of Lin Xiao.
Bai Lixin asked directly, “It seems like the monsters are all afraid of you.”
Even the hands of the clock in Lin Xiao’s hand were shaking uncontrollably.
Lin Xiao seemed to have said something when the armors were chasing him earlier.
Lin Xiao didn’t hide anything and directly pointed at his own back. “It should be related to what’s on my back. Monsters seem to be very wary of me. Monsters come in many varieties. Through my observation, I found that monsters continuously accumulate dark energy inside them with their killings and malice.”
“The more killings and brutality, the more dark energy they accumulate.”
“Products of the underworld such as ghosts have this dark energy themselves.”
“The more dark energy a monster has, the more afraid of me it is. Just like how darkness instinctively fears light, they also fear me.”
“As for those who are monsters themselves, some have little dark energy, so they’re not very afraid of me.”
Bai Lixin: “What about people who have killed many? Are they afraid of you?”
Lin Xiao: “It’s a bit uncomfortable for them to be around me. But it depends on the situation. Some people kill villains and are full of righteousness, so they don’t feel uncomfortable. Some people, although they haven’t killed anyone directly, have caused countless deaths because of their actions and are filled with many evil thoughts. They would feel strange if they’re around me. But they don’t know where this strangeness comes from, they just feel uncomfortable.”
Bai Lixin pondered, “In other words, you emit some kind of aura that makes evil beings feel fearful. But this aura fundamentally doesn’t harm them, it just makes them feel oppressed.”
Lin Xiao: “Yes, that’s one way to understand it.”
Bai Lixin’s gaze passed over Lin Xiao’s shoulder. “The coffin in the Nine Dragons Carrying The Coffin empty should be empty, right? What’s inside?”
Lin Xiao’s aura might be related to the existence in the coffin.
Lin Xiao’s eyes flickered, and his voice fluctuated slightly. “You’re really smart, you hit the nail on the head . The coffin contains my lover’s child.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The Nine Dragons carry Coffin. Anyone who can make nine dragons carry them is definitely not an ordinary person.
Moreover, the existence in there is the nemesis of evil, with a sacred aura that evil dare not approach.
It’s either a saint or an emperor.
The lover’s child…
A child has reached such a level, then what kind of person is Lin Xiao’s lover?
He knew Lin Xiao’s identity must not be simple, but he didn’t expect it to be so legendary.
Perhaps Lin Xiao’s lover is an emperor, and Lin Xiao was once a loyal general by the emperor’s side, which is why he has so many scars on his back.
Those scars might be all from Lin Xiao’s glorious achievements.
After saying that sentence, Lin Xiao pursed his lips, apparently not wanting to continue speaking.
Seeing this, Bai Lixin didn’t continue to ask, but walked alongside Lin Xiao to the second floor.
At this moment, Dr. Garner was shrinking in the corner, stiffly facing off with the little black furry monster in front of it, with rejection written all over his face.
He had been listening to the movements above with his ears perked up. Sometimes, he heard the faint “click click” sound, sometimes he heard the metallic “clang clang clang”, and he seemed to have heard Lin Xiao say not to damage the cultural relics.
Have the relics come to life?
For a moment, he didn’t know who to worry about.
Was it Bai Lixin?
No, it’s the relics.
The cultural relics displayed in the museum were indeed different from other things; destroying one means losing one cultural relic forever.
After Lin Xiao’s reminder, Bai Lixin didn’t dare to act recklessly.
Fortunately, these cultural relics were quite bulky. After circling around the fourth and fifth floors, he lost track of the cultural relics.
When he shook off the resurrected armor and returned to the third floor, Lin Xiao was no longer there.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
The familiar sound rang out once again.
This time, it came from the other side of the corridor.
Bai Lixin learned from previous experience. This time, he didn’t rush over but called the black and white scarecrows to come over.
The black and white scarecrows still retained their fear of Bai Lixin and didn’t dare show any negligence when carrying out his orders.
After a brief explanation from Bai Lixin, they moved toward the corridor where the “click-click” sound was coming from. Bai Lixin stood by the Queen’s statue, listening carefully for any movement.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click-click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
Visual, auditory, and sensory inputs coordinated with each other.
After the brief “click” sound, there was a slightly prolonged “click-click” sound, followed by the “click” sound appearing in another corridor.
Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes and snapped his fingers.
A black scarecrow quickly flew out of the corridor, glanced at Bai Lixin standing in the middle, and then rushed towards another corridor.
After the black scarecrow passed, Bai Lixin closed his eyes and waited quietly for further developments.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click-click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
After another prolonged “click-click” sound, the “click” sound appeared in the corridor where the white scarecrow was. It probably didn’t expect that there was a monster waiting there, this time, the “click” sound didn’t last long before emitting a prolonged “click-click” sound.
Then, the “click” sound appeared in the corridor where the black scarecrow was.
Within a very short time, the “click” sound moved again, appearing in the corridor where the white scarecrow was.
With each move, the prolonged “click-click” sound rang out faster and faster.
Bai Lixin could almost confirm that the prolonged “click-click” sound was a signal for the unknown monster to release its skill.
Every time this sound occurred, it would move to a different location.
However, under the pressure from the black and white scarecrows, it seemed to have fewer places to move to.
Bai Lixin opened his eyes and snapped his fingers in the air.
The black and white scarecrows simultaneously emerged from both corridors and came to Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin whispered a few words to them in a voice that only one person and the two monsters could hear. Then, the black and white scarecrows nodded and once again went into the two corridors.
After a brief ceasefire, the “click-click” sounds resounded once again.
This game of hide-and-seek lasted for several minutes.
Finally, after a series of prolonged “click” sounds, there was no more movement.
The sound ultimately remained in the corridor where the black scarecrow was.
Bai Lixin smiled in the darkness, then turned and walked into the dark corridor.
The black scarecrow stood in front of Exhibition Hall 35, its dark body almost blending into the surrounding darkness. The towering and grotesque scarecrow stood there, its pitchfork carried a sense of killing intent. It was even more terrifying than the demons in the abyss.
However, upon seeing Bai Lixin, such a scalp-tingling monster instinctively took a step back and bowed to him respectfully.
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In the live broadcast room:
[God Xin is too good! Who wouldn’t want to shout “Dad” to God Xin after seeing him? Others can only kill monsters, but God Xin has now conquered them.]
[However, I’m curious about where God Xin summoned these three monsters from. I know there’s a ranch copy, but the scarecrows there look different from these ones. These black and white scarecrows seem to be of a much higher level than those straw monsters in the ranch copy.]
[Didn’t God Xin just have a conversation with that little black furry monster? “Dad Misfortune”, “Dad Xiao Tou”, “Family”, “Nine Years Compulsory Education.” I was so confused, I felt like I had missed out on an important plot.]
[Everyone, remember when the Shentian Guild provoked God Xin before, and God Xin didn’t show up for several days? I inquired, and it seems that during that time, God Xin wasn’t hiding, he was missing. And he wasn’t the only one missing; the vice president of the Xinhuo Guild, Zhou Guang, was missing too. Oh, I heard there was also a very powerful newcomer who went missing with them.]
[I have a bold guess. Judging by the time they went missing, isn’t it just enough time for a copy run? So, is there a possibility that God Xin went into a copy? As we all know, once inside a copy, we are cut off from information here, so God Xin probably didn’t know that the Shentian Guild was provoking him.]
[The appearance of the three monsters today and their conversation are evidence. It turns out God Xin wasn’t hiding, he just went into a copy, and we misunderstood him.]
[But there’s a flaw. If you go into a copy, even if you perform poorly, you should at least advance to a higher floor. This applies to ordinary people, let alone God Xin. God Xin and Zhou Guang’s floors haven’t changed during this time, so how do you explain this?]
[Could it be that they are in a punishment copy similar to the “Time Cage” before? If it were a normal copy, shouldn’t we be able to see it from the live broadcast room? Anyway, I was glued to the live broadcast room these days and didn’t find God Xin’s live stream. Did you find it?]
For a moment, the barrage was filled with comments like “I didn’t find it either” one after another.
[So, the truth is, not only was God Xin not hiding like a turtle, but was also unluckily involved in a punishment copy with no rewards? And just after escaping from the punishment copy, he received news of being hunted down by the Shentian Guild? Isn’t this the real-life version of “stick your head out, get chopped; pull it in, get chopped”?]
[Uh… listening to you, God Xin seems quite miserable.]
[Ahem, brother, be confident. Remove the “seems,” you’re truly insulting God Xin.]
[God Xin: Your analysis is correct. Next time, refrain from analyzing.]
Zhou Guang looked at the barrage and pushed up his glasses.
Although they didn’t mention the sandwiched copy world, the viewers accidentally hit the nail on the head and guessed something close to the truth.
Xia Chi who was beside him nudged Zhou Guang’s arm and came closer, blinking his bright eyes with a silly look. “Brother Zhou Guang, what really happened in the copy? Tell me, I’m really curious.”
Zhou Guang pursed his lips tightly, vowing not to speak.
Would he personally admit that he had turned into a little girl wearing a floral dress?
No way.
He wouldn’t say it even if he were beaten to death!
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The black scarecrow turned sideways to make room for Bai Lixin.
Exhibition Hall 35 was where the Kiss of the Sun Crown was displayed.
Unlike the armor exhibition hall earlier, this hall displayed items symbolizing the glory of the royal family .
Scepters, garments, sacred swords, jewelry, and more.
In the center of the hall, the platform where the Kiss of the Sun should be displayed was empty, contrasting sharply with the array of exhibits.
The black scarecrow stood at the entrance of this hall to inform him that the “click-click” sound had disappeared into this exhibition hall.
Or rather, the “click-click” sound hadn’t disappeared but had hidden itself.
Bai Lixin rotated his flashlight, scanning each illuminated area meticulously, not missing any corner.
Everything seemed normal, with no disharmony.
The exhibits were placed in their respective positions, there was no residue of gray powder on the ground, and the clocks were ticking perfectly.
The hour hand was fixed slightly above “11”.
The minute hand was slowly advancing towards “3”, and the second hand was ticking according to its set rhythm.
Bai Lixin stared at the clock on the wall for a while, then raised the scythe and hooked the slightly high clock off the wall.
The round clock felt heavy in Bai Lixin’s hands, and his fingertips could feel the coolness of the metal.
He put away the scythe, grabbed both sides of the clock with both hands, and kept scrutinizing it.
Time passed second by second.
The second hand moved steadily.
The young man seemed completely drawn to the clock in his hand, forgetting his task and having only this item in his eyes.
The surroundings returned to silence, even the young man’s steady breathing could be heard clearly.
The audience in the live broadcast room held their breath.
Bai Lixin’s slender index finger gently traced the cold surface, treating it as if it were a cherished treasure.
Suddenly, he had a dagger in his hand.
His wrist rose and then swiftly fell, stabbing towards the clock face.
Just when the sharp tip of the dagger was about to touch the surface, the three hands inside the watch suddenly began to tremble slightly but violently. The second hand stopped with a tremor and seemed to want to move backward from its tip.
Bai Lixin’s hand was as fast as lightning. Before the second hand could retreat, the dagger pierced through the glass surface, accurately stabbing at the connection point between the three hands and effectively cutting off their movement.
The three hands suddenly shook like sieves, pressing into the clock. With their trembling, the tips of the hands brushed across the surface, emitting a series of sharp “click-click” sounds.
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
After a few shakes, the hands, like dying embers, suddenly collapsed. From the position of the dagger, they fell onto the clock surface one by one, with no vitality.
“It seems you found the source of the ‘click’ sounds,” Lin Xiao walked in at some point.
He didn’t make a sound, not even a breath. If he hadn’t taken the initiative to speak, Bai Lixin wouldn’t have noticed the extra person here.
Bai Lixin subconsciously glanced at the black scarecrow.
The black scarecrow moved back slightly, lengthening the distance between him and Lin Xiao, seeming reluctant to get closer to him.
Bai Lixin stuffed the clock into Lin Xiao’s hand. “Where were you just now?”
Lin Xiao: “I’ve been here all along, I just didn’t come out.”
He continued nonchalantly, “I believe that as long as it’s you, you would definitely find the source.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘This is called stealing the fruits of other people’s labor.’
Lin Xiao examined the broken clock in his hand. “So, this is the source of the sounds? How did you find out?”
Bai Lixin: “Didn’t we block it in the corridor before? From the traces it left behind, it shifted positions, but neither of us noticed.”
“It escaped under our noses, and I considered a few possibilities.”
“The first possibility is that it’s very fast, too fast for the naked eye to keep up.”
“The second is that it can teleport.”
“The third is a bit bizarre; it can make others ignore its existence.”
“Of course, I quickly dismissed the second possibility, leaving only the first and third.”
“I found that if we personally track the sound, we might be led by the nose, just like we were with the armor we encountered earlier. How does the saying go? ‘If you don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, you are living on this mountain’. Because tracking it myself might lead to missing some clues, I brought in the black and white scarecrows to track it while I observed from the outside.”
“Sure enough, I discovered a problem. Every time it changes position, there will be a prolonged ‘click-click’.”
“And I also confirmed that it doesn’t fit the first guess, so only the third guess remained.”
‘Under the continuous search of the black and white scarecrows, the frequency of its movement increased, indicating it was afraid of being found. So, it should be in a place where people couldn’t ignore it.”
“I also made a very special discovery.”
“There’s no time gap in its movement.”
“For example, when a mage uses teleportation skills to move between two places, there is a time delay and a life cannot appear in two places at the same time. But it did, and the speed was so fast that time overlapped.”
“I then speculated that this ‘click-click’ might be able to pause time. And there was a high probability it is a clock.”
“After making this guess, the doubts lingering in my mind were instantly resolved. The faint ‘click’ sounds we heard on the ground was actually the sound of the hands rapidly moving on the ground. Because they are small and light, with a small contact area with the ground, they produce that sound.”
“The powder is the grayish rust residue dropped from their connection points, so you smelled the rust.”
“If it can control time, even the inconsistent testimonies of the two guard teams at the beginning have reasonable explanations.”
“When I was stabbing it with the dagger just now, it had a momentary thought of moving backward. I guess it wanted to rewind time to prevent my dagger from stabbing down.”
“As long as it controls time well, it can make the first guard team complete the handover. Then by making the second team and the crowd’s time rewind, the second guard team will go back to the time before the handover was completed. Since their time has moved backward, they naturally forget that they have completed the handover.”
“Then, pause or accelerate time to create a ten-minute blank period.”
“That’s why the testimonies of guard teams A and B didn’t match, why Team B said the time changed from four o’clock to four-ten when they entered the exhibition hall, and why no one saw how the guards exchanged shifts.”
Bai Lixin licked his somewhat dry lips and pointed to the shattered dial in Lin Xiao’s hand. “It’s all because of it.”
Lin Xiao had another question: “How can you be sure it’s this one? There are clocks hanging in every exhibition hall in the museum.”
Bai Lixin beckoned to the black scarecrow.
He was close to Lin Xiao, and the black scarecrow was somewhat reluctant. After hesitating for a moment, it reluctantly moved to Bai Lixin’s side.
It stretched out its wrist and opened its dark palm.
In its palm lay a pile of batteries.
Bai Lixin: “After I guessed that the mischief was caused by a clock, in order to identify which clock it was, I told them to remove the batteries from all the clocks in their respective corridors. Of course, it was during the interval when the ‘click-click’ moved to the other side, so as not to alert the ‘click-click.’”
“A clock without kinetic energy won’t move. At this time, whoever is still working diligently is the real ‘click-click’.” Lin Xiao’s eyes flashed with admiration. “To think of so much in such a short time, you’re truly remarkable, Bai Lixin. I’m far inferior to you.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Is this your excuse for hiding and watching the show, huh?’
Lin Xiao patted the damaged surface of the clock. “So, these three hands are the real ‘click-click’? These hands, to say they’re foolish, they came up with such a grand scheme to manipulate us. To say they’re clever, they fell into their own mindset and thought that a clock must always rotate, so even if the clock had no batteries, they had to keep moving diligently.”
“Suffering from hard work.”
The three hands inside the dial trembled slightly, seemingly deeply moved by Lin Xiao’s words.
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In the live broadcast room.
[Wow, it’s actually a time-controlling monster! I’m shocked for a whole year, brothers.]
[Who could have thought of this? It’s absurd.]
[Absurd yet very logical, I’m impressed.]
[If it were any other player, they probably wouldn’t have figured out this answer no matter how hard they tried.]
[,It’s a pity, such a high IQ monster met God Xin and is ruined for life.]
[God Xin is still so awesome, adding another touch to his fame!]
[‘Suffering from hard work’. Family, I’m broken, I’m going to start slacking off now.]
[This line hits hard.]
[The busier you are, the poorer you are, it’s me they’re talking about, wuuuu.]
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Lin Xiao: “Now that the culprit is found, where is the stolen Kiss of the Sun?”
He looked at the broken clock in his hand. “Can it speak? Or can we hear its words?”
Bai Lixin thought for a moment. “Actually, our task is considered complete now. The task was only to find out the true culprit of stealing the Kiss of the Sun, not to find the Kiss of the Sun. But if we want to know what it’s expressing, I’ve come up with a way, follow me.”
Lin Xiao followed behind Bai Lixin downstairs, and the black and white scarecrows followed them obediently.
However, the two monsters kept their distance from them, with the white scarecrow even burying its head into the chest of the black scarecrow, showing great fear.
Bai Lixin silently glanced at Lin Xiao’s calm face.
These monsters seemed to be very afraid of Lin Xiao.
Bai Lixin asked directly, “It seems like the monsters are all afraid of you.”
Even the hands of the clock in Lin Xiao’s hand were shaking uncontrollably.
Lin Xiao seemed to have said something when the armors were chasing him earlier.
Lin Xiao didn’t hide anything and directly pointed at his own back. “It should be related to what’s on my back. Monsters seem to be very wary of me. Monsters come in many varieties. Through my observation, I found that monsters continuously accumulate dark energy inside them with their killings and malice.”
“The more killings and brutality, the more dark energy they accumulate.”
“Products of the underworld such as ghosts have this dark energy themselves.”
“The more dark energy a monster has, the more afraid of me it is. Just like how darkness instinctively fears light, they also fear me.”
“As for those who are monsters themselves, some have little dark energy, so they’re not very afraid of me.”
Bai Lixin: “What about people who have killed many? Are they afraid of you?”
Lin Xiao: “It’s a bit uncomfortable for them to be around me. But it depends on the situation. Some people kill villains and are full of righteousness, so they don’t feel uncomfortable. Some people, although they haven’t killed anyone directly, have caused countless deaths because of their actions and are filled with many evil thoughts. They would feel strange if they’re around me. But they don’t know where this strangeness comes from, they just feel uncomfortable.”
Bai Lixin pondered, “In other words, you emit some kind of aura that makes evil beings feel fearful. But this aura fundamentally doesn’t harm them, it just makes them feel oppressed.”
Lin Xiao: “Yes, that’s one way to understand it.”
Bai Lixin’s gaze passed over Lin Xiao’s shoulder. “The coffin in the Nine Dragons Carrying The Coffin empty should be empty, right? What’s inside?”
Lin Xiao’s aura might be related to the existence in the coffin.
Lin Xiao’s eyes flickered, and his voice fluctuated slightly. “You’re really smart, you hit the nail on the head . The coffin contains my lover’s child.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The Nine Dragons carry Coffin. Anyone who can make nine dragons carry them is definitely not an ordinary person.
Moreover, the existence in there is the nemesis of evil, with a sacred aura that evil dare not approach.
It’s either a saint or an emperor.
The lover’s child…
A child has reached such a level, then what kind of person is Lin Xiao’s lover?
He knew Lin Xiao’s identity must not be simple, but he didn’t expect it to be so legendary.
Perhaps Lin Xiao’s lover is an emperor, and Lin Xiao was once a loyal general by the emperor’s side, which is why he has so many scars on his back.
Those scars might be all from Lin Xiao’s glorious achievements.
After saying that sentence, Lin Xiao pursed his lips, apparently not wanting to continue speaking.
Seeing this, Bai Lixin didn’t continue to ask, but walked alongside Lin Xiao to the second floor.
At this moment, Dr. Garner was shrinking in the corner, stiffly facing off with the little black furry monster in front of it, with rejection written all over his face.
He had been listening to the movements above with his ears perked up. Sometimes, he heard the faint “click click” sound, sometimes he heard the metallic “clang clang clang”, and he seemed to have heard Lin Xiao say not to damage the cultural relics.
Have the relics come to life?
For a moment, he didn’t know who to worry about.
Was it Bai Lixin?
No, it’s the relics.
