They temporarily left this Outer Fragment—specifically, the five members of the Ryodan: he, Zhang Heng, Su Shiyan, Lan Linger, and Puzhi, departed first. According to all known information, the time flow within an Outer Fragment is relative. This meant that once they left, the flow of time inside the Outer Fragment would likely become extremely sluggish. Of course, to the people living inside the Outer Fragment, they would still experience twenty-four hours a day, but it could potentially create a situation where a single day inside equated to a hundred years in the outside world.
This could be deduced from the condition of the human bones from the Primordial Era. The timespan over which these primordial human bones had formed was extremely short. According to Lan Linger's analysis, they had been dead for no more than half a year. Judging further from the messages left in the communicator, it could be inferred that they likely entered this Outer Fragment no more than ten days earlier than Hao Qi and his group. Yet, the Primordial Era was separated from Hao Qi's era by at least tens of thousands of years, if not longer. In a sense, this also corroborated the difference in time flow.
"We truly have no way of dealing with that Tyrant-class creature right now. We've exhausted every method and still don't know how to fight or defeat it. Therefore, our best course of action is a temporary retreat. The longer we drag this out, the faster this Outer Fragment will collapse. Once the…
Chapter 124