The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Li Can's body rose from the ground, remaining parallel to the giant, shimmering golden clock opposite him.

From Jack's perspective, Li Can is positioned exactly in the center of the time compass.

Li Can was still reciting the lengthy formula, and sweat dripped down his forehead again, as if this matter was very exhausting for him.

Jack remained completely still, watching intently, not daring to make any move that might disturb him.

"despair."

"despair."

"despair."

The pointer kept spinning, and the sound grew louder and louder, reaching right up to one's eardrums and giving one a headache.

"Time archive".

"Open the passage!"

Li Can lowered his voice and finally successfully applied the law of time. This was the third formula of the law of time: time archiving.

At the same time, he cleverly used his [coordinate point] prop in conjunction with the law of time.

This way, he can preserve the experiences he had with Jack during this period, freeze time, and then go back in time to the moment when he was still on Earth before he officially set off.

After he returns from Earth, he can seamlessly continue the NPC rescue plan with Jack.

If he didn't do that, he would go back to the past and have to relive the process of meeting Jack all over again.

If it's the same, then we have to go through the same process again, which is worse than just killing him; it's just too agonizing.

In fact, Li Can could also directly use two time laws: one, [Time Freeze], to preserve Jack, and the other, [Time Rewind], to return to the moment when he said goodbye to A Yun on Blue Star.

However, that would be too costly.

Given his current control over the laws of time, if he were to use two heaven-defying laws in succession, it would backfire to the point that he would directly trigger a near-death moment.

Li Can is currently at his busiest time, and he doesn't want to abuse his body like this; there's no need for it.

Fortunately, I also have a [Coordinates] item. With a little cheating, I can use it in conjunction with Time Freeze to rewind time and return to Earth for a short while.

Then time bounces back to the instance.

Lee Chan has secretly practiced these cheating tricks in private for the past few years, and has also practiced many other combinations in private.

They all worked every time.

"despair."

"despair."

"despair."

As Li Can closed his eyes, it was as if all the scenery around him was instantly packaged into a 'compressed file'.

The various causes and effects between her and Jack in the past rewind, yet do not disappear, always artificially controlled by others within the limitations of this "compressed package".

"It's done!" Li Can opened his eyes, his gaze brightening. Then, the passage opened by the [coordinates] appeared before him.

Li Can knew that time was of the essence and he didn't have much time to waste this time, so he quickly strode inside.

All that remained was a fleeting glimpse of Jack's back.

Disappeared completely.

"Where are you going, Mr. Player?" Jack asked, his face full of shock, his mouth agape in a questioning "O" shape.

The enormous golden time compass remained in the instance space; Li Can did not take it with him.

The passageway with the coordinate point in the center of the compass still stands there.

Jack watched helplessly as Li Can appeared and then left.

The moment the pointer of the time compass was frozen, all the people and things inside the instance were also frozen and archived.

Jack maintained the same posture as when Li Can left.

This time, it wasn't that he didn't want to move, but that he was completely unable to move.

……

"Hoo..." Li Can slowly exhaled.

He looked around at his surroundings.

Ah Yun, in the form of a cloud, drifted through the mountains and forests, with several small butterflies flitting around her, and Ah Yun played with them.

Not far from the mountains and forests, there is a dungeon vortex that is neither too big nor too small.

He and Ayun are currently moving in that direction.

This was the scene a few minutes before Li Can entered this solo instance.

"Success!" Li Can was secretly pleased.

Even though it was such a soft exclamation, A-Yun still managed to catch it.

"What?"

Ayun only turned around to look at Li Can, who had been walking behind her, and immediately noticed something was amiss.

The Li Can of this moment is completely different from the one before.

He now possessed an aura of the laws of time.

"Hey, let me smell you. Where did you come from... Don't speak yet, shh..."

Ayun circled around Li Can, who had just returned, sniffing frantically until she couldn't help but sneeze.

Li Can refrained from speaking.

"Sure, you must have encountered something interesting in this solo instance. Hmm... it has a 'time freeze' vibe to it."

"There's also a faint hint of [time reversal] and [time travel]... No, it's neither of those..."

Ayun was a little confused. It was really strange that there was a scent in here that he couldn't smell either.

"It's my coordinate point." Li Can didn't hide anything and directly explained his entire experience of this solo dungeon run.

After hearing this, A-Yun felt a bit overwhelmed.

"Is that so...? Then we do need to make good use of these NPCs. If used well, they can achieve unexpected results."

"As for the problem you mentioned, I do have a solution."

Ah Yun was acting mysteriously.

It shook itself with a bouncy sound, scattering its cloud-like body into a light drizzle.

In this dense little forest, Ayun began to experience localized rainfall.

Based on the tacit understanding he had developed with A-Yun over the years, Li Can quickly found a glass jar in his empty gashapon capsules and placed it in the rainwater to catch the spill.

In no time at all, the glass jar was filled.

"This jar is leftover from when we were eating canned yellow peaches that had a shelf life of thirty years."

Li Can held a glass jar still bearing the logo of a certain brand of canned yellow peaches in her hand, and sighed somewhat.

Even canned goods that had a shelf life of thirty years before the apocalypse are now only three or four years away from their end.

That is to say, he and Ayun have good digestive systems and are not afraid of poison at all.

If this were an ordinary person, they would have died of food poisoning in no time.

"But, Ah Yun, why did you suddenly start raining? What can this rainwater be used for?" Although Li Can knew that the rainwater must be useful, he still had doubts about how it could be used.

"Try shaking the bottle."

"Okay." Following A-Yun's instructions, Li Can shook the glass jar a few times.

He didn't fill the jar to the brim with rainwater; there were still gaps inside.

Therefore, as soon as you shake it, you can see the clear rainwater shimmering inside.

As Li Can swayed around, he noticed that the rainwater began to change its form, transforming from a liquid into individual raindrop-shaped crystals.

"I see……"

Each tiny crystal is only the size of a grain of rice.

They collided together, making a crisp, tinkling sound.

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