radiothebook Chapter 1185 - 625: He Doesn’t Know Anything, Just Look at Me! (3)
Chapter 1185 - 625: He Doesn’t Know Anything, Just Look at Me! (3)
Right now, nighttime outside is a bit shorter than daytime. It gets dark a little after seven in the evening, and it’s already light again before five the next morning, but even so, there’s a full nine hours of night.
With the hundredfold time dilation, that means nearly a thousand hours inside the World Tree—close to forty days of perpetual night!
Xu Xin actually wasn’t too worried about this.
"That’s nothing to worry about. I haven’t gone through a ’long night’ myself, but early this morning... I mean, today’s early morning outside, before dawn, everyone except me had already come in. They’ve already gone through almost half a month of constant night."
"Early this morning..." Li Wenxi muttered, then glanced up at the already dim yellowish sky inside the World Tree. "Mm... this day feels insanely long..."
Tell me about it.
For Xu Xin and Xu Ying it wasn’t that bad; they’d gone out twice and hadn’t been in the World Tree much at all.
But Li Wenxi had already been here for a month and a half!
"Hey! You two!"
Just then, a familiar voice called from behind them.
Xu Xin turned around and saw Lou Fei’Er standing there, waving at the two of them.
"Fei’Er, you’re here!" Li Wenxi grabbed Xu Xin and walked over.
"Long time no see?" Xu Xin looked at Lou Fei’Er in her casual outfit and grinned.
"...Yeah, it really has been a long time!" Lou Fei’Er blinked at him, then sighed. "But for you, it probably hasn’t been that long, huh."
Li Wenxi was a bit surprised. "Weren’t you helping Xiaotaozi make weapons?"
Lou Fei’Er pointed at the watch on her wrist. "Xu Ying just contacted us to meet up by the treehouses. You two didn’t get the message?"
A message from Xu Ying?
Xu Xin raised his wrist to check his watch and was surprised to find that Xu Ying was actually in the Explorers’ group chat.
Xu Ying: "Everyone, hurry over to the treehouse grove, I’ve finished installing all the manufacturing devices."
Wang Lei: "Huh?! Brother Xin and Yingying are back?"
Wen Guixin: "It’s been over a month, you’re finally back! I’m heading over right now."
Ji Chaoyang: "On my way."
Qi Xuefei: "Hold up, I’ll be there in fifteen minutes."
Qin Yunlong: "My brother and I are still in the underground world, wait for us!"
"I really didn’t see it... Let’s go together then!"
Li Wenxi let go of Xu Xin’s hand and instead took Lou Fei’Er’s, walking toward the grove.
"Mm... did you two get a lot closer?"
Xu Xin looked at the two of them acting like besties and asked.
"Of course!" Li Wenxi pointed at a villa not far away. "That one’s her place, right next to mine. And this whole time, she and Zeng Tao have been staying at my place."
"Whoa..."
So they were basically living together!
And Zeng Tao was living with them too.
"Hehe, my relationship with Wenxi is way closer than yours now!" Lou Fei’Er shot Xu Xin a smug look, then hugged Li Wenxi’s arm. "Let’s go, Wenxi, ignore this guy who vanished for over a month."
"Okay!"
These two...
Xu Xin shook his head and followed behind them, greeting all the survivors who recognized him along the way, and finally they reached the edge of the treehouse grove.
"Over here! Over here!"
The three of them saw Xu Ying waving from the window of a treehouse not far away.
"Isn’t that your treehouse?" Li Wenxi turned to Xu Xin.
"Yeah, that one’s mine. Let’s go."
Inside the treehouse, aside from Qin Yunlong and his brother, who were still in the underground world, and Zhao Xiaochuan, who was on guard outside the World Tree, the rest of the Explorers were all there.
As soon as he came up, Xu Xin saw that the entire floor was filled with machinery.
Xu Ying had even somehow removed the floor between the first and second levels, turning them into one big open space so there was room for all the large machines.
Xu Xin also saw Ma Hongwei examining some badass-looking device, eyes shining as he studied every detail.
"Ugh... just looking at these machines gives me a headache."
Zeng Tao came over too, sighing to Li Wenxi and Lou Fei’Er. "Feels like my life is about to go back into Hell mode again... Whoa! Xu Xin, why are you back?!"
The moment Zeng Tao caught Xu Xin in her peripheral vision, she almost jumped.
"What are you talking about?" Xu Xin rolled his eyes, speaking irritably. "Yingying’s already back; you think I’d still be outside?"
"Oh, oh... yeah, that makes sense!"
Zeng Tao, who had been a bit listless, visibly perked up the second she saw Xu Xin. The corners of her lips couldn’t help curving up. "Wow, if you think about it, it’s been over a month, right? You finally came back. Sister Wenxi was getting all gloomy waiting for you! She’s been complaining to us nonstop!"
"Xiaotaozi!"
"Hehe!"
It was obvious the three of them were really close now.
"Long time no see, Brother Xin, I missed you!" Wang Lei squeezed over too. "You were gone forever this time."
"For me, it was only six or seven hours, like half a day." Xu Xin chuckled.
"In those six or seven hours, we got a lot done." Ji Chaoyang also walked over, smiling.
"I noticed. With you guys here, I can really relax about how fast things are developing in the World Tree."
When Xu Xin came back, he’d already been shocked by how much the place had changed again.
He’d been thinking how awesome this feeling was—every time he returned, there was some big new change waiting to surprise him.
Just then, two more people entered the treehouse.
It was Shi Wanyun and Jin Yue.
The two of them were now widely recognized as core members as well.
Seeing Xu Xin, both women’s eyes lit up, and they walked over.
"Looks like your trip went very well," Shi Wanyun said in her characteristically gentle voice, looking at Xu Xin and then at the unfamiliar machines around them.
"Naturally, we only came back because we hit our target. Ah... but we’ll probably have to go back a few more times."
"Huh?" Right away, Li Wenxi beside him widened her eyes. "You’re going again?! No way. If you’re going next time, you have to take me with you!"
"Uh..."
"Alright, alright!" At that moment, Xu Ying, who’d been standing off to the side, clapped her hands and called out, "Everyone, eyes on me! Stop crowding around my brother, he doesn’t know anything! Look at me!"
Xu Ying’s line made everyone burst out laughing.
Once the laughter died down, Xu Ying walked over to a machine and patted it. "You all see these devices, right? From now on, we can start mass-producing weapons and get ready for our real goal!"