Yama Reborn-Chapter 632 - 629: [Jumping into Time]

Alive!

Chen Nuo is not dead, he is still alive!

For now, although this answer is not detailed enough, it's enough for Lu Xixi at this moment!

For Lu Xixi, the biggest fear hidden in her heart over the past two months was that she would do everything franticly to find Chen Nuo.

And ultimately, receive a result of "Chen Nuo is already dead".

If that happened, Lu Xixi would really go crazy!

Now, although the Gray Cat's answer is not detailed, it at least clearly states: Chen Nuo is alive!

Alive, that's good!

If he's alive, then everything she did wasn't in vain.

Alive, she will be able to find him eventually!

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Lu Xixi held the Gray Cat as if recklessly risking her life.

Letting the Gray Cat absorb her life element little by little.

In just a short ten minutes, Lu Xixi's face visibly paled.

Like someone who has just recovered from a serious injury or illness.

Like when she fought a fierce battle with the Octopus Monster's clone in the Underground World, leaving her badly injured and exhausted.

On the other hand, the Gray Cat's condition seemed much improved.

Its breathing became stable and strong.

But the Gray Cat still did not awaken.

Even though Lu Xixi was not afraid of death, she knew that solely relying on herself to supply life elements to the Gray Cat was not enough.

If this continued, she herself would be too weak to sustain it, and if she were to be drained to death, wouldn't it all be a disaster?

Immediately, Lu Xixi brought back Corot and placed him next to the Gray Cat.

However…

Lu Xixi quickly discovered that even in its sleep, the Gray Cat would not absorb Corot's life elements.

She pondered for a moment and guessed a possibility: the Gray Cat would not absorb Corot's life elements probably because Corot himself did not possess power, his power came from the Mother Clone.

Then…

Lu Xixi promptly made a second choice.

Once again, this woman, when going mad, completely disregards everything!

Lu Xixi ran directly to the hospital.

In the hospital, two strong beings were lying down.

The Wizard and the Son of the Sun.

After being rescued from the Underground World battle, these two have been in a coma.

At this moment, Lu Xixi, without hesitation, gathered the two together in a ward and placed the Gray Cat beside them.

Then…

The Gray Cat began that special "breathing" once more.

After about a minute and a half, the Wizard, who had been lying on the hospital bed for two months and gotten slightly plump, visibly thinned.

His face even turned pale.

Lu Xixi immediately moved the Gray Cat to the Son of the Sun's side.

The Son of the Sun held on for about a minute, then even his breathing became faint.

Lu Xixi quickly moved the Gray Cat away again.

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The two human-shaped batteries were exhausted, further absorption might endanger their lives.

Lu Xixi looked at the still unconscious Gray Cat, clenching her fists in agitation.

After all, the Gray Cat absorbed life elements from Lu Xixi, the Wizard, and the Son of the Sun.

The life elements from three top-tier humans.

The unconscious Gray Cat finally opened its eyes again.

Its gaze remained cloudy, still appearing on the brink of complete exhaustion.

Then, it slightly moved its mouth, the Gray Cat struggled to say a sentence.

This sentence, Lu Xixi understood.

Once again, she called over the hospital doctors, after entrusting the two guys in the ward to their care, Lu Xixi dashed out of the hospital with the Gray Cat.

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The wind roared, Lu Xixi carrying the Gray Cat had already flown out of this small African country, swept towards the central African continent.

The fierce wind swept across the sky, Lu Xixi periodically used her spiritual power to explore the ground.

Finally, under a gust of wind, Lu Xixi lowered her altitude while carrying the Gray Cat, landing about twenty meters in the air.

Beneath them lay a rolling river, and on the vast grasslands, the desolation of autumn's arrival was pervasive.

A massive herd of shadows was quietly moving and migrating across the grasslands.

This was a herd of African wild buffalo, numbering at least a thousand heads.

Lu Xixi looked at the Gray Cat in her hand, lightly tossed it, and a sphere of power enveloped the Gray Cat, landing it on the grass…

Then, Lu Xixi quickly ascended in altitude, swiftly retreating to a distance of at least five hundred meters.

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A breath-like sound, carrying some kind of eerie power, gently spread over the grass with the wind!

Subsequently, the once half-yellow and half-green grass, centered on where the Gray Cat was lying…

Rapidly, countless tiny life elements were extracted!

The half-yellow and half-green wild grass began to quickly dry up!

And this life-element gathering force continued to extract life from a wider area…

The herd of African wild buffalo inhabiting the grassland seemed driven by some innate survival instinct, sensing a trace of dangerous air.

With shouts and roars, the buffalo herd began to run, trying to escape.

However, the absorbing force quickly encompassed them…

One buffalo after another, its body visibly withering, followed by a staggering decrease in their running speed.

Finally, one, two, three…

The buffalo fell to their knees on the grass one by one.

The once agile bodies, full of wild vitality, became frail…

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Lu Xixi widened her eyes, witnessing all this from afar.

She instinctively felt a twinge of fear—a primal, instinctual fear of this life-draining power.

This is the fear of lower life forms towards such an unstoppable power of higher life forms.

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After a full twenty minutes, the life-element gathering force gradually disappeared, and even the last ripple finally subsided.

Only then did Lu Xixi fly closer once more, landing on the ground.

Looking at the distant herd of African wild buffalo, except for the few fortunate ones who detected the danger early on and ran away fast, the rest…

Almost ninety percent of the buffalo herd had collapsed on the grass.

Their once robust bodies now appeared aged and their flesh dry.

Lu Xixi felt a twinge of reluctance, but soon, she shook her head, pushing this thought out of her mind.

To save Chen Nuo, Lu Xixi is willing to do anything, even things that outraged the heavens!

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Several minutes later, Lu Xixi landed in front of the Gray Cat.

The Gray Cat finally looked considerably better, though still emaciated, its breathing was stable, and its eyes were open, looking fully awake.

"Can you talk? If not, I can take you to find another group of wild animals," Lu Xixi said hurriedly.

The Gray Cat struggled to support its body, as if trying to stand, but after wobbling a few times, it eventually fell and lay on the grass.

After a gentle sigh, the Gray Cat spoke in a weak voice: "No need… I've saved my life. In the future, I can slowly recover myself… there's no need to commit more of such murderous acts.

If there's a chance to reduce such acts, reduce them as much as possible."

Lu Xixi frowned and said: "You only killed a few hundred cows.

Previously, to dig you out, over 30,000 people at the construction site ate and drank for two months. The meat consumed was also from hundreds of livestock."

The Gray Cat shook its head: "That's different. Killing for food is driven by the food chain, it's the trend of nature.

Killing for the sake of killing is a kind of utter indifference and torment from higher life forms towards lower life forms.

Doing too much of that numbs the human feeling."

Lu Xixi frowned: "You're not human anyway."

"But I need to retain human emotions," the Gray Cat shook its head. "Alright, I can speak now, you've been waiting anxiously enough, let me quickly tell you the important matters."

Lu Xixi immediately sat in front of the Gray Cat: "Where is Chen Nuo? He…"

"First, Chen Nuo is alive.

Second, he is not in this world right now, and I also don't know where he is."

The Gray Cat's answer made Lu Xixi's forehead immediately furrow.

Not in this world? But still alive?

"What does that mean?

Weren't you fighting the Mother Clone together? Then an earthquake happened underground; it should have been the turmoil caused by your battle.

You were buried underground, so is Chen Nuo..."

The Gray Cat immediately said, "He is not underground and wasn't buried like I was.

If he were underground, I would definitely encourage you to keep digging down.

But the truth is... he isn't there."

Lu Xixi took a deep breath, suppressing the anxiety in her heart, and said slowly, "Alright, I won't interrupt you. Try to make things clearer."

The Gray Cat groaned and shook its head, "I can't explain it clearly because even I don't quite understand.

Simply put, we fought the Mother together.

The way of fighting was beyond what you know.

Then, at the end of the battle, we gained the upper hand; Chen Nuo using a method I found very surprising, defeated the Mother.

But although the Mother Clone was severely wounded, it wasn't killed.

Then, Chen Nuo just grabbed the Mother Clone, and the two of them disappeared together."

Lu Xixi resisted the urge to ask more questions, knowing well, the Gray Cat surely hadn't finished speaking, it was best to wait for it to continue.

Sure enough, after catching its breath, the Gray Cat continued in a weak voice.

"Grabbing the Mother Clone and disappearing together was because the situation was urgent, the Mother Clone couldn't be killed by us, and it planned to escape. Once it ran away, it might, like the battle in Africa a few hundred years ago, be severely injured, escape, and then find a place to hide and sleep.

Then it would be very hard to find it again.

So Chen Nuo disappeared with the Mother Clone.

As for why they disappeared and how they disappeared..."

The Gray Cat struggled a bit, "Lu Xixi, lift me up, carry me to the side of a buffalo's corpse, so I can explain to you."

Lu Xixi didn't understand but still followed the Gray Cat's request, picked it up, and carried it over to the side of a dead buffalo lying on the ground.

"What a pity, such a beautiful life, killed by me." The Gray Cat gazed at the shriveled buffalo, shaking its head with a sigh.

"Actually, earlier you could have chosen not to kill them, if only absorbing part of their Life Force, making them weak but not dead.

Then I could take you to find more herds of wild animals and absorb more in the {weak but alive} manner?"

The Gray Cat looked at Lu Xixi, "A child raised in the city..."

It shook its head, "This is Africa, the wilderness. If a wild animal falls into weakness, it is no different from being killed.

A wild animal in a weakened state cannot escape predation, cannot find food, cannot run, cannot migrate, cannot avoid danger...

Then it is actually doomed.

So, it might be better to kill this batch.

If according to your {weak but alive} method, it would harm more lives instead."

The Gray Cat was indeed weak, after saying a few more words, it began to pant.

After calming its breath, it weakly raised its paw, pointing to the corpse of the buffalo in front of it.

"Watch carefully, I'll give you a demonstration so you can understand how Chen Nuo {disappeared}."

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The Gray Cat's paw waved gently, and the entire visual around the buffalo's corpse seemed to twist.

Lu Xixi squinted, watching intently.

The Gray Cat's tone carried a trace of lost nostalgia, with a seemingly complicated taste, "This life is already dead."

It paused, then its tone seemed somewhat frivolous, "The word {already} is a tense, and the so-called tense is to indicate the state of time, so the tense {already} is to indicate the past has been completed."

The Gray Cat's paw lightly swayed, and a strange {line} seemed to materialize over the buffalo.

Like a faint glowing thread, it slowly extended into the distance.

"This is time, or time line.

But this time line ends here—because the buffalo is dead.

So, its time line only goes back into the past, without a future.

Along this retrospection line, if calculable, about tens of minutes ago, it was still alive and kicking."

The Gray Cat's paw lightly touched a spot somewhere on the {line} tracing into the past.

Then, the corpse of the buffalo suddenly began to regenerate swiftly.

The shriveled body, withered fur, instantly began to rejuvenate.

The shriveled body filled with flesh again, the withered fur regained its luster…

The buffalo slowly stood up, and then…

Lu Xixi stared with wide eyes at the Gray Cat, "You..."

"This is {Time}, a more magical ability than Spatial Ability, the control of time."

The Gray Cat's tone seemingly carried a hint of helplessness, "Everything in the world is on a time line, as long as you can find the time line, and then cut a section, you can through Time Retrospection, return to a certain time node.

What I did was pull back the buffalo's time node a bit, and what you see isn't really it resurrecting.

Rather, it returned to the state it was in an hour ago.

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A single wild buffalo, with time retrospective, it can revert to its past form.

Then, if the entire world is rewinded... it can... make the entire world return to a certain point in the past!

This is... Time Ability!"

The Gray Cat said this, but beyond being weak, there was also an indescribable sense of loss in its tone.

Lu Xixi focused her gaze on the buffalo in front of her and asked, "So... Gray Cat! Have you mastered the Time Ability?"

"No, I don't have the Time Ability." The Gray Cat denied very straightforwardly.

It smiled bitterly and said in a low voice, "In fact, I don't know how. What you're seeing now is just a scene I simulated.

That [timeline] was created with my spiritual power and some light effects, it's fake.

This resurrected buffalo, I brought it back using the Life Element.

I was just simulating the concept of [time] to show you.

But actually, what I did is fake—well, you could think of it as a learning effect.

But real Time Ability is precisely the concept I just told you about."

Suddenly, Lu Xixi's heartbeat started to accelerate, and her breathing became rapid, as she looked at the Gray Cat with a complicated expression.

The Gray Cat sighed faintly and said in a low voice, "Yes, you're not wrong.

Your man is no longer in this world.

Because at the last moment, he jumped into [time] with the Mother Clone."

Lu Xixi fell silent.

The Gray Cat raised its head, looking towards the wilderness with a sense of longing.

It chuckled bitterly in a low voice: "What an irony, the Time Ability... even I, a Seed, don't have it.

Even among all the Seeds, only that initial [Zero] mastered this special ability.

Even as powerful as Seed, he couldn't control time.

And Chen Nuo, this guy, he actually possesses the Time Ability!"

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Lu Xixi knew this wasn't the first time Chen Nuo jumped into time.

The last time he jumped into time, Chen Nuo had told her, it was during that plot by [Zero].

Moreover, Chen Nuo indeed acquired some time-related abilities—the source of this ability was from the original owner of Chen Nuo's body, his father, that scoundrel Chen Jianshe.

That guy with the codename Dong Juan.

That guy was a tool that [Zero] crafted single-handedly to trap Chen Nuo.

Back when killing Dong Juan, Chen Nuo was activated by the time ability left within Chen Jianshe's Consciousness Space, completing a time journey.

And afterward, Chen Nuo retained the seed of that Time Ability.

It's just that... Chen Nuo has always been restricted by his strength and couldn't use that ability.

However, during a battle in the Underground World, Chen Nuo's strength clearly soared significantly.

Then...

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"At the end, he jumped into time with the Mother Clone?"

Lu Xixi carefully pondered the Gray Cat's words.

The person and the cat had returned to the Mayor Mansion.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Lu Xixi was cutting a juicy piece of beef to feed the Gray Cat.

"Actually, the way I said it was a bit poetic.", the Gray Cat chewed the beef and said ambiguously, "Actually, at the time, the scene was everyone fighting below, boom boom boom, ping ping pang pang.

Then suddenly, Chen Nuo used a strange ability to severely wound the Mother Clone.

After being heavily wounded, that guy planned to run away.

He first crashed the space of the Underground World and then intended to escape.

Chen Nuo knew that if it escaped, it would be troublesome later, so he went up to cling to it and thought of a way, which was to use time.

To be precise, he used the Mother Clone as a coordinate, and then... rewound time.

Although the Mother Clone was powerful, in the past, it was once weak, once severely wounded, and even once slept.

As long as it returned to a point in time when it was severely wounded and asleep, it wouldn't be able to escape, and then it could be eliminated."

Lu Xixi frowned: "Did Chen Nuo give you any messages?"

"Yes.", the Gray Cat slowly said: "He said he would come back, and asked you not to worry.

Hm, he also said, please take good care of me."

Lu Xixi stared into the Gray Cat's eyes: "You made up the last part, didn't you?"

The Gray Cat: "...Even if I made it up, I'm injured. Is it not reasonable to take care of an injured one?"

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