Starting With Contract Pets

Chapter 321: Time Ghost

We’re finding Ultimate Invincible? the elf turned its head and asked. Don’t we need to find the time inheritance? What if someone else gets it?

“Of course, we need to find the time inheritance, but we don’t have any relevant clues. If we were to run around blindly in the center of the city, who knows if we’d be exposed to danger.”

After a pause, he continued speaking. “While we look for Ultimate Invincible, we can also explore the city and gain some understanding of the situation here. If we can find your friend, we’ll have an extra guide. Isn’t it more convenient for us to look for the so-called time inheritance at that rate?”

The most important thing was that they had no way of verifying if that so-called time inheritance truly existed.

Even Dick had never seen it before.

“Mewl~” I think Ah Bai is right. The fox nodded.

“Howl~” I have no objections, either, the elf said.

“Roar!” Then let’s set off! The dino raised its head.

He nodded and then turned to address Planet Eye. “Send out some clones to monitor the surroundings. Report back if they find out something.”

“I understand.” 1314 immediately made fifty thousand clones of itself.

Having been promoted to the emperor grade, it could now make up to one hundred thousand clones; its detection ability had also greatly been enhanced.

Its infinite computing power could support it to process a lot of data, too.

Seeing the clones turn into hummingbird-sized Electromagnetic Satellites, which flew in all directions, Su Bai suddenly thought of a SciFi concept.

“Your clones already have a certain amount of computing power and wisdom, right? Is there any way for them to imitate the approach of the Von Neumann probe?”

The so-called Von Neumann probe was a spacecraft capable of replicating itself in a special shape. After it was launched, it could use the surrounding materials to copy itself and launch the copies into farther places. By copying itself repeatedly, its number could grow exponentially.

Even if it was a galaxy, it might only take tens of thousands of years for it to complete a full exploration.

This was a very high-tech machine. It was incredible for a detector to be capable of replicating itself, for there were too many difficulties to overcome before being able to do so. In fact, even basic smelting of materials was already extremely difficult to accomplish.

This was not mentioning the manufacturing of electronic components, incorporating of chips, and finally the assembling of the machine itself.

Civilizations that could generally do all that were fully capable of controlling a galaxy.

Planet Eye: “Reporting to Ah Bai, I can’t do that currently. Technology of that level requires strong artificial intelligence. Although my clones have wisdom, they can’t compare to a strong artificial intelligence.”

“Okay.” Su Bai nodded, not surprised at this result. While it was particularly difficult for his pet to do that at present, it would be another matter once it reached the sovereign grade.

After all, Planet Eye could solve the most difficult artificial intelligence problems. As its level increased, the computing intelligence of the clones would increase a lot as well.

The reason why he paid attention to this was that possessing such ability would make it very easy for him to explore the endless void in the future.

He had Purple Jade continuously send out signals with its mobile phone and then passed everything to Planet Eye, which locked on Ultimate Invincible’s location through this method.

“Reporting to Ah Bai: That cell phone signal is located north of this city.”

In a short while, Planet Eye had determined the direction.

“I see; let’s go!” Su Bai turned to the north of the city and said.

…

At the same time, many other people also came to this city of Rome.

To the south of the city, a group of eight eastern faces passed through the moat and came to the city.

If Su Bai were here, he would definitely be able to recognize a lot of faces.

There was Xiao Yulong from the Imperial Dragon Clan, Zhou Ling’an from the Zhou family, Wang Yize from the Wang family, and Wei Qingqing from Giant Kraken Gymnasium.

With the exception of Wei Qingqing, who was a well-known representative of one of the top ten peak gymnasiums, all the others were the five top royal families of the Rabbit Kingdom, and some were other first- and second-rate offspring of influential families.

Judging from the formation, it was obvious that the leaders of this group were Wang Yize and Wei Qingqing.

“It seems that many people in the west have already entered in advance, and there are whirlpool clouds in the sky on the eastern side of the city. A pet has apparently just broken through. We have to hurry up.” Wei Qingqing looked at the road leading to the east of the city.

“There’s no way. Western families have been operating in secret for too long. We’ve finally found a shortcut to get in quickly.” Zhou Ling’an shook her head and sighed.

“Okay, stop talking nonsense and let’s go directly to the center of the city. This time, the pet egg and inheritance must be obtained. I think that everyone knows how important it is for our family’s plan,” said Wang Yize indifferently. He had a black iron sword strapped on his back. After speaking, he took the lead to walk out and approach the city.

Xiao Yulong and the others nodded and followed his steps. This time, there was nothing to lose. Once this rare and extreme time inheritance was obtained, it would greatly benefit the matter that their families had been planning for a long time. It could greatly improve their success rate.

…

On the other side, Su Bai took his pets to the north of the city. When he came in, he did not have to go through Rome to reach north and traveled from the eastern side, instead.

All the way from the east to the north of this city, he met with no danger. The city was quiet as if there were no monsters at all.

Most of the surrounding houses had long collapsed. At this time, they had all become drab and dilapidated. The streets were full of cars which were already rusty and covered in crimson rust, with black plants growing wildly on the rust.

The houses fared better and did not have many plants; the sides of the road were different, though, as they were covered with the black plants, eventually destroying the hard cement.

These were not the most depressing, though, the most desolate were the bones that were about to decay. These were human bones, which could be seen everywhere on the roadside.

Judging from this scene, everyone should have died in an instant during the disaster a hundred years ago.

This was because the cars on the road were neatly lined up, just like during normal traffic. There were no signs of people making preparation for doomsday and fleeing for their lives.

“Howl!” Ah Bai, look ahead. Something is wrong!

As they reached the north of the city, the elf suddenly howled.

Su Bai looked up and saw that the houses in front had already experienced the kind of weathering that could only appear after three or four hundred years.

The contrast between the two areas was very obvious, and it seemed that the further they went, the older the area looked.

“Roar!” The flow of time in this place is different!

Little Tyrant raised its head and looked at him. Do we still want to go in?

“Let’s go in and have a look. If it doesn’t work, we can come out. We can’t give up halfway, but we can speed it up,” said Su Bai after thinking about it.

While they talked, he released the Starry Omnivore Kraken. With this pet of his, the place could directly be swallowed if something bad occurred. After all, its current ability to devour was already strong enough to destroy an entire world.

Even if time could not be swallowed, it could still swallow space, drawing the law of nothingness against the law of time.

Also, even if these were not possible, as long as the kraken bought them some time, they could leave by teleporting away.

After all, the clones of Planet Eye were practically everywhere in the city at this point, so there would be no problem when they wanted to leave.

Although the power of time was terrifying, there was no way to restrict space transmission.

“Onom!”

Starry Omnivore Kraken walked in the forefront, looking like a foodie exploring the way.

As they walked deeper and deeper, the flow of time inside became faster and faster, and the houses also became more and more dilapidated.

“Roar?” Ah Bai, what’s that?

Little Tyrant pointed to some crystal flowers, which had suddenly appeared on the side of the road. These crystal flowers had all grown from human skulls and had a touch of time and fluctuated with power.

In this depressing atmosphere, the mental fluctuations were very noticeable and gave them a faint sense of fear.

They also seemed to feel fear at the sight of these flowers.

[Flower of Startling Time: This is a spiritual flower that has come to possess the power of time due to an intelligent lifeform dying in the rapid passage of time. Each flower has a terrifying dreamy realm, which contains the power of time and the spirit.]

“Don’t touch them; we have to speed up. The flow of time here is already a thousand times that of the outside world.” Su Bai maintained his eyes in front as he said this. Although this time flow was nothing to his pets, he himself could not stay long.

He did not have that much lifespan to consume.

Jumping directly onto Planet Eye, he let it float in the air and quickly moved toward the central area.

Along the way, they saw many Flowers of Startling Time. The nearer they were to the center, the faster the flow of time.

When Su Bai saw the central area, the flow of time was already ten thousand times that of the outside world, which meant that it would only be one year after ten thousand years here.

When he reached the central area, he finally understood the reason for the fast flow of time in this place.

“Roar!” Sister Jade, isn’t that your friend, Ultimate Invincible? Little Tyrant pointed to a figure lying on the ground in front and asked.

Purple Jade glanced at the figure and then at the mobile phone wrapped in the stream shield not far away. Several dictionaries were basically also wrapped in the spiritual power ball. Indeed, this should be Ultimate Invincible’s body.

Ah Bai, is he dying?

The elf looked at the figure below, having not expected that this would be the case when it finally saw Ultimate Invincible.

Su Bai looked at Ultimate Invincible as well. It was floating two or three meters above the ground and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Its appearance was very similar to the Time Demon outside the city; it also looked like a Gengar, but it was white and not black.

It was like a rare heterochromatic ghost.

However, it seemed to be in a state of unconsciousness at this moment. Its life force, along with the aura of the law of time, was steadily fading away. In fact, the acceleration of time around it was caused by itself.

This rich law of time was not what it had perceived but rather its origin.

At this time, its body was almost transparent and on the verge of dissipating. It was as if it would turn into a puff of smoke and dissipate at any time. It could be seen that it had been in this state for a very long time.

No wonder it had not replied for a while despite the elf’s continuous contact. This was probably the reason.

What was pitiful was that the law of time on itself had changed the flow of time in the surroundings, further hastening its pace of death.

“I don’t know; let me look.”

Su Bai shook his head lightly and checked the fellow’s information.

[Time Ghost: A time-ghost dual attribute monster, born at the birth of this time mystery world. It is the king of all Time Ghosts; it has a strong time and possesses the power of ghost origin.

Later, for some reason, a special relic of the original time came to this world, suppressing it and turning it into the watchman of the vestige inheritance.

Due to the world turbulence, the vestige opened ahead of time. The imprints left in the Time Ghost were broken as a result, and a large amount of time was absorbed by the original vestige, causing the Time Ghost to fall into a near-death state.

Now, only the indoctrination of a large amount of time can save the Time Ghost and stop the plundering of the original vestige.]

Power of time?

Seeing that a large amount of time power was needed, Su Bai found things a little difficult. Where could he find so much power of time?

However, he could not leave it to die, either. Not to mention how adorable this fellow was, he must also find a way to save it, at least for Purple Jade.

Judging by the two’s previous chats, this fellow was quite the cute and adorable creature.

Ah Bai, is it hopeless?

He did not speak for a long time, so Purple Jade could not help but worry. In fact, it could feel that this Time Ghost, which was about to die, was Ultimate Invincible. After all, the elf was a Limitless Beauty.

It did not want to see its friend die on their first meeting.

“No, there’s still hope. Let me give it a try.” Su Bai shook his head.

He jumped to the ground and took out a small vine from the contract book, which was the Vine of All Things Absorbed.

“If it can absorb the power of this world’s time, then this Time Ghost can still be saved.”

As he said that, he put the Vine of All Things Absorbed on the ground. The spirit settled in it, guiding it to take roots and absorb this world’s law of time.

Really? Purple Jade flew over and looked at the Vine of All Things Absorbed.

“Let me try. The time flow here is fast; we happen to have some time.”

Su Bai nodded.

Fortunately, this time had a fast flow rate, so it gave him more time.

After the Vine of All Things Absorbed was planted, the roots spread throughout the entire city and then to the ends of the world in a short time.

As something made by the World Vine, it could really draw the power of time.

With the spread of the root system, the strong breath of time gradually appeared on the Vine of All Things Absorbed. Some transparent vines constructed entirely by the power of time also grew.

After about half a day, a small transparent time-attribute spiritual fruit appeared on the vine.

Upon seeing the transparent fruit with a diameter of less than half a centimeter, Su Bai smiled happily and patted the elf’s worried face. “Don’t worry. This little fellow can be saved.”

“Howl!” Thank you, Ah Bai!

The elf happily threw itself into his arms and rubbed against him affectionately.

“Haha! It’s a small thing. I also like this fellow very much.”

Su Bai laughed and then poured all his mental power into the Vine of All Things Absorbed.