Chapter 261

Seeing the message, Lin Qi fell into thought.

The hypothesis Herta provided was quite imaginative.

It was also a direction Lin Qi hadn't considered before.

When leaving Jarilo, the two had already divided up the work.

Herta would continue researching how to communicate with other group members.

Lin Qi, meanwhile, would look for new material.

For example, Qiongsang — to see if, by studying it, he could achieve sending objects To another world.

Now Lin Qi had obtained Qiongsang.

Herta had also found a direction.

After some thought,

Lin Qi felt it was really possible that it was a matter of time flow rate.

After all, no one had ever decreed that the time flow rate of different worlds had to be the same.

And considering it from this angle also explained very well why the messages sent over had never received a reply.

At first,

Lin Qi had thought it was a "translation" problem.

That is, the other world had no Synesthetic dream beacon, so they might not understand.

Now it seemed it wasn't only that.

The best proof was that sending "pictures" to other group members also got no response.

But if the time flow rate was different, that would explain it very well.

Additionally,

since the "chat group" was built upon the foundation of the Synesthetic dream,

and the Synesthetic dream itself was already ten times faster compared to reality,

if there was still a time flow rate difference between reality and In another realm,

then for the people In another realm, the messages they sent over would be even more obscure and difficult to understand.

After some deliberation,

Lin Qi felt this possibility was very high.

There was just one problem.

【Lin Zhong Qi Wu: I basically agree with your hypothesis, it's just… why can we communicate with Elysia? Is the time flow rate the same? Or is it because she comes from the "past"?】

【Herta: Both are possible.】

【Herta: Anyway, the next research direction is this.】

【Herta: I seriously suspect that the time flow rates of different other worlds might also differ, not be a fixed value. But there should be a standard — what kind of world flows fast, what kind flows slow.】

【Herta: Also… can you still reach Elysia?】

【Lin Zhong Qi Wu:???】

With regret, Lin Qi sent a message to Elysia.

But the result was just as Herta had said.

No reply.

He could only unilaterally receive a burst of garbled information stream.

The kind the Synesthetic dream beacon couldn't translate either.

Even with manual translation and decryption, still no useful information could be found.

As if it were just a useless blob of noise.

In other words,

the only other-world member in the group who could be communicated with had "lost contact."

"Strange."

"How did we lose contact just like that?"

Lin Qi was a bit puzzled.

He couldn't help but speculate.

"Because she comes from the past? Is it a timeline issue?"

"If that's the case, then it'll be quite a search — we might never find her."

"It's also possible that because of my interference, the future changed, so…"

"Right!"

Lin Qi hurriedly looked up the list of Jarilo engineers.

He was looking for the name "Walter Yang."

Very soon,

this mechanical engineer was found by Lin Qi.

But after finding him, Lin Qi's brow furrowed even tighter.

Because this meant multiple possibilities.

Either his influence on Elysia hadn't changed anything, so that the "previous civilization" was still destroyed, and thus Walter could continue to be born and appear in Honkai: Star Rail,

as far as Lin Qi knew,

only when the "previous civilization" was destroyed would a new civilization be born, and then the "trial" of Honkai would begin anew.

If Elysia had successfully changed everything, then the previous civilization wouldn't have been destroyed.

How could Walter possibly appear?

So the mechanical engineer working here should have vanished in an instant.

Not even the slightest trace of him would remain.

But right now, Walter is completely unaffected.

Therefore.

Either Elysia failed, or nothing changed at all.

Or the timeline was disturbed…

Giving rise to a "parallel world"?

Thinking of this.

Lin Qi realized his understanding of space-time was still rather shallow.

Space he could already manipulate, but only within this universe.

Time he could also control to some extent, but only within the synesthetic dream.

If space and time were combined, he was still a complete novice.

He hadn't even crossed the threshold.

Suddenly.

Lin Qi thought of something.

"The total amount of Creation Path power — as an Aeon's, I can check it!"

"If the total has decreased, then the Elysia I influenced has been utterly destroyed."

"If it hasn't…"

With this thought, Lin Qi hurried into the synesthetic dream.

Using the authority of the Aeon of Creation, he began to investigate.

Better not to have investigated.

The moment he checked, it gave him a tremendous shock.

Because the total amount of Path power had not only failed to decrease — it had actually risen!

And by a quite considerable amount!

Coupled with the fact that recently, no new Pathstrider had joined.

Or rather, among the relatively powerful Pathstriders, only Elysia had appeared recently.

So the conclusion was reached.

Elysia wasn't dead!

Not only was she not dead, she had very likely pulled in some equally powerful members onto the Path of Creation!