Chapter 2573: Time Sharing Potion

The doctor, who still had his hand on the forehead of the sleeping person, was startled:

"Time travel? No, no, your imagination might be a bit too rich."

"Of course not time travel. Detective, the first step to atonement is to accept your past self and accept reality, rather than trying every possible way to say 'this thing didn't happen.' You must strive to make up for your mistakes and truly repent; this is atonement."

"This young man in front of us did a good job. He wrote a letter, detailing the various problems and contradictions in the garbage school he attended... I mean the Northern Industrial School. There is quite a lot of incredible content in it. This letter will definitely cause him trouble, but the letter was sent out last night, and it is estimated that it will arrive at the office of the police officer in charge of investigating this case this morning."

"Not only that, at eleven o'clock in the morning, a reporter from the Tobesk Morning News will come to investigate him. He spent a lot of money to buy firearms and is now hiding them in the washroom. He will shoot himself when the reporters take pictures for him later, completely blowing this matter up."

"Even if the things in the school are not made public in the end, those two murderers will definitely be severely punished. I wouldn't be surprised if the death penalty is executed immediately."

Dr. Schneider marveled at this:

"Sure enough, this is the interesting part of intelligent life. After suffering a major blow, the personality will always change."

"Various tragedies led to the current situation, but he has embarked on the path of atonement. After he dies, his soul can rest in peace. When he meets his relatives in death, he should also be qualified to leave with them."

Although Xia De's goal had been achieved, he still wanted to chat with the doctor for a few more words:

"Then what are the benefits of atonement? I'm just curious. Things like soul rest should only be useful after death, right?"

The doctor laughed:

"Benefits? It's just to make yourself feel at ease. Don't be so utilitarian about such things. Making a mistake is making a mistake, and so-called atonement cannot change what has already happened. What we can do is face our mistakes squarely and then find ways to make up for the victims caused by the mistakes."

"As for atonement, this is something to tell yourself. Don't think that atonement can solve everything. If you have this thought, you might as well think about what mistakes you have now, and then prevent the mistakes from further expanding."

He patted Xia De on the shoulder:

"Continue to find the next target. It's easy to find 0.2 units of sin."

Xia De nodded and said goodbye to the doctor in the sanitarium. The action this morning didn't encounter any accidents, and there was no special harvest. This was just an ordinary morning.

As for Donald Gunn's plan, Xia De and Dr. Schneider had no right to make choices for others, so they wouldn't interfere.

It's just that because he went to the sanitarium this morning, when Xia De appeared in the elf lady's tree house with breakfast, she wasn't there, and he didn't know what she was doing.

Xia De had to put down the breakfast and continue into the city. When he saw the two ladies at the Accordion Hotel, they were still talking about the story of the three generations of the Cumming family:

"From the timeline, the cause of this matter is undoubtedly the intercourse between James Cumming and Erika in the 1800s; but from the results, James Cumming still doesn't know the ins and outs of the matter to this day, and probably doesn't know his relationship with his 'father,' while Baron Cumming knows everything."

"So, time is a very wonderful thing. Once you rashly get involved with the past, paradoxes are almost certain to appear."

"Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners" was lying on the red-haired girl's lap at this time. It seemed they had already checked the book yesterday.

"Good morning, Xia De."

The ladies greeted Xia De to sit down together, and they seemed to be in a good mood:

"We have read this book. The content in the book is meaningless. However, after inspection, all the pages of this book should come from the same tree. Although you think only the cover is effective, we don't recommend dismantling the book cover separately."

She handed the book to Xia De, and Xia De flipped through it casually:

"Then from last night to now, has Erika, who lived half a century ago, written any words? I saw that in James Cumming's hands, the other party's words could be passed over."

Miss Winslet shook her head while holding the teacup, looking at Xia De looking at the book:

"Not once. We discussed this issue and believe that there might not be any more in the future."

"Erika Cumming and James Cumming being able to exchange information through this book belongs to some kind of inevitable event. You who understand this story should understand what I mean."

Xia De nodded:

"Of course I understand. Perhaps it is precisely because of the existence of this unique relationship that we obtained this book after a series of events. If even one step had been wrong, this book would probably not appear here now... So time is really rigorous."

This was the third tree hole they had mastered. Like the previous two tree holes, it only had one last use left. And before figuring out what would happen after using it, Xia De probably wouldn't use them again.

And now the cabinets leading to three different time points and the wooden door leading to the "teacher's" time point were placed in the rooms of the two ladies respectively. And even with the Keeper-level relics 【Distant Puan Ti Alley】 and 【Lock of Uniqueness】, Xia De didn't want any two tree holes to be placed together.

After all, neither relic could essentially seal the power of "traveling through time," so the storage location of this third tree hole needed to be discussed.

"Why don't you take it home? Anyway, it's just a book."

Miss Dannister suggested, but Xia De shook his head. He didn't want these tree holes to leave the Vesta Woodlands, which would spread the trouble:

"When I go back in a while, I'll go see if the elf lady in the forest is willing to help store it. If she is unwilling, I will put it in another tree hole."

That is, the tree hole connected to the "hidden space," but this would have to consider whether if someone popped out of it, they would accidentally discover the secrets of the hidden space and the "space maze."

"Xia De, this unusable book is not important for the time being. What's important is tomorrow's matter."

"You shouldn't have planned to meet the Ringed Shushi who threatened Baron Cumming alone tomorrow, right? The other party knows the tree hole. Even if he is not from the Tree Hole Association, he won't be a good person."

The red-haired girl asked him, but Xia De asked Miss Winslet again:

"Did the witch in the council who is very good at potions say what the potion in the box is?"

The black-gray-haired lady nodded and handed the empty teacup to Miss Bell on the side:

"I met them in the council last night."

"But this potion is not the dangerous item we imagined. It's just that the materials contain relic derivatives, which are stone chips of the Sage-level relic 【Ancient Stone】. The potion configured is called 【Time Sharing Potion】."

"When this potion is configured, it needs to add a drop of the user's blood. Afterward, the user needs to stay away from this potion for at least fifty years. Drink this potion fifty years later, and you can gain the lifespan that the potion has experienced. After fifty years, you can gain fifty years; after one hundred years, you can gain one hundred years."

This was easy to understand:

"The effect is so strong, what is the negative characteristic?"

"The user will try every possible way, even more uncomfortable than taking illegal drugs, to want to open and drink this potion, so they need to suffer for fifty years, resisting the impulse from the body and soul at all times. This is the effect of that drop of blood."

"And if they entrust others to hide this potion, then they have to take such a risk: once this potion is taken by others, the other party will gain the remaining lifespan of the owner of the blood in the potion. 'Time Sharing' also has this meaning."

This was also easy to understand. Seeing Xia De nod, the red-haired girl also asked the witch:

"So if you hold the potion yourself, you will be tempted at all times; if others hold the potion, you have to consider whether the other party will use it... Then don't tell others what this is, and then let others hide it, wouldn't that work?"

Miss Dannister thought of a new method, but Miss Winslet shook her head with a smile:

"Don't try to deceive time. This potion has a kind of magic. Anyone who touches it will always have the impulse to drink it, and this impulse will become stronger and stronger over time, until it becomes the same feeling as the owner of the potion. This resonance doesn't even need direct contact. This is conceptual power. After all, it involves time."

"In short, Baron Cumming, who traveled through time, is indeed the best candidate to hide and pass the potion. After all, for him, he only experienced one or two days. As long as he didn't drink the potion during this time, the owner of the potion would succeed."

Xia De took the bottle containing the emerald green potion on the coffee table:

"I also have an idea—if we find a stray cat now and feed this potion to it, then while we get a long-lived cat, the Ringed Shushi who threatened Baron Cumming will be dead?"

Miss Winslet thought for a while:

"Theoretically, it is like this, but the witch who identified the potion for me doesn't know the loss rate of lifespan. So if the other party has a way to stop the transfer of their own lifespan in time, they can actually not die immediately. Of course, the other party must be very distressed."

Xia De shook the bottle, watching the liquid inside rippling:

"Yes, waited for fifty years and thought it was about to succeed, but in the end, it still fell short. Oh, I found that if this Ringed Shushi mastered a tree hole spanning fifty years, he could completely do such a thing himself. Just travel through time once to increase lifespan by fifty years, and travel back and forth twenty times to live to 1000 years old."

The great witch of death laughed:

"But I think, the probability of a paradox worm being born because of this situation and eating him empty is greater."

"And this potion is not cheap. The witch who identified the potion said that the cost of this small bottle, not counting the relic derivatives in it, is at least eight thousand pounds, and many materials cannot be bought with money at all." ===== CHAPTER 2574 =====