"Boo hoo hoo... Weâre done for, theyâre all waiting for us..." Li Wenxi said with tears in her eyes, "I donât want to go over, you go for me."
"What are you saying?" Xu Xin pulled her up and headed over there.
The two of them soon arrived under the treehouse on the other side and were pulled up.
Everyone had gathered once again.
The crowd looked at them with slightly ambiguous expressions.
"Itâs understandable," Xu Ying whispered to them with a chuckle, "Sis-in-law just had her genes improved, thatâs indeed... Ah!"
Xu Xin smacked her on the head: "Shut up!"
"Yingying!" Li Wenxi began pulling at Xu Yingâs mouth.
"Stop... stop pulling me! I deliberately didnât go out with you guys! You should be thanking me!"
"What did you say!"
"Alright, alright, even though we have a lot of time, we canât be this lazy," Ji Chaoyang clapped his hands and then looked at Xu Xin, "Did you get in touch with Lou FeiâEr and the others this time out?"
Xu Xin shook his head slowly: "No, we couldnât get in contact. If it were in area 188, I could still use my map to locate them, but they are in area 1. So, I plan to..."
He looked at Xu Ying, whose face was being pulled by Li Wenxi: "Take Yingying with me to go and check out area 1."
"Me?" Xu Ying grabbed Li Wenxiâs hand, "Yeah, with my teleportation ability, I can avoid risks and ensure safety from such a distance, and if we find them, I can quickly bring them back."
Ji Chaoyang nodded: "Then this task is yours. Everyone, now that Xu Xin and Li Wenxi are back, thereâs something we need to discuss, especially Xu Xinâs and Li Wenxiâs opinions."
"Huh? What is it?" Li Wenxi was taken aback and pointed to herself, "Especially me? I donât even know much about the World Tree. Youâve all been here for half a month, so you should decide these things. I donât have any opinions."
"No, now only you, Xu Xin, and Xu Ying have had a relatively direct experience with this," Ji Chaoyang said.
Wen Guixin looked at Ji Chaoyang: "Youâre talking about the hundredfold time thing, right?"
Ah...
Xu Xin and Li Wenxi exchanged a glance.
Indeed, the difference in time flow inside and outside was something they experienced profoundly.
Ji Chaoyang nodded: "Thatâs right, we need to consider whether we should tell the other survivors about the hundredfold faster time flow."
"Oh? We havenât told the other survivors yet?" Li Wenxi said in surprise.
"No, we havenât. Weâve only told a few people," Ji Chaoyang said, "because this could cause dissatisfaction among everyone."
"Why would this... ah." Li Wenxi suddenly understood, "The time flow is too fast, it equates to accelerated aging compared to people in the outside world."
She had been somewhat worried about this before too.
"Exactly," Zhao Xiaochuan shrugged, "As they say in myth, a day in heaven is a year on earth. For us, itâs one day outside, a hundred days inside. Itâs the outside world that has become the heavens."
...Come to think of it, Ali, thatâs really the case.
For those of them who had injected the genetic agents, the fast flow of time inside wasnât a big deal.
But for those ordinary people...
Isnât it just accelerated aging?