Chapter 4 (2/2)

Once he had that thought in mind, a notification appeared in his mind: [Please choose a multiplier.]

“Two times,” replied Lu Li.

A magical feeling began to flow through his body, and then things began to change.

Lu Li looked up at the time and suddenly felt like all the sounds he was hearing and the scenery around him seemed to be moving at half their usual speed.

He looked towards his laptop screen and kept his eye on the time that was shown on the bottom right hand corner of the screen as he started counting mentally.

A few moments later, he discovered that even after he had counted to 120, the time on his screen had only moved by one minute.

He heard some noise downstairs, so he stood up to look out of the window.

Some middle-aged folks had gotten up early to walk their dogs.

The strange part was that both the dog and their owners were walking at only half their normal speed.

“If that’s the case…does that mean my time flows at a different rate compared to the rest of the world? That time for me flows at twice their rate?” thought Lu Li to himself.

Another thought struck him. He switched the multiplier to ten times instead, causing his time to flow ten times faster than the rest of the world.

He watched as the falling leaves beyond his window fell at an extremely slow speed.

The pedestrians seemed to be moving at a snail’s pace too.

Everything in the world around him had slowed down considerably.

Even the sounds he heard had become incredibly slow.

“My time is moving ten times faster, so everything around me seems to be moving ten times slower.”

“In other words…anything I do will seem ten times faster to the rest of the world!”

“And what if I do this for a longer period of time?” He broke into a bright smile.

He felt that there were many other good uses for this increase in speed, except that it would cost him double or more of his own time.

This ability was amazing. It had provided him with an excellent method of self-preservation.

Once he could move at ten times, 100 times or at even higher speeds than that, he would become nearly invincible!

Lu Li got out of this mode and took a look at his own stats again.

Only two minutes had passed in the outside world, but Lu Li had applied a two times multiplier to one of the minutes and a 10 times multiplier to the other minute. As a result, his total lifespan had been reduced by 12 minutes.

“That’s awesome!” remarked Lu Li with a grin as he clenched his fists tightly.

A moment later, he decided to try slowing down time.

This ability enabled him to stretch time out by at least two times or more.

This time, when Lu Li looked out of the window, he felt as though everything was moving much faster than usual.

“That’s probably how the world saw me just now.”

Lu Li started comparing the two modes.

He felt that slowing down time was nowhere as useful to him as speeding up time.

Perhaps these modes could be useful in other areas in the future.

Nobody knew what the future held, after all.