Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1090 - 1034: Activating the Eye of Time Again
"Brother Yi, I’ve discovered a corpse of a Swamplander." After following the footprints in the swamp for a while, Huang Yi finally received a message from Young Master Luo will Lead You, who was scouting ahead.
"Stay where you are, we’ll be there right away." Huang Yi replied with a message and immediately increased his flying speed.
After flying forward for about ten kilometers, Young Master Luo will Lead You appeared ahead.
At this moment, he was squatting in a muddy water pit, carefully observing something.
Huang Yi and the others landed beside him, all looking into the muddy water pit.
Inside the pit lay an unusual corpse.
The corpse’s shape was somewhat human-like, but its skin was moist and smooth like frog skin, with webbed feet similar to duck’s. It clutched a harpoon and carried a fish basket on its back, with a fishing net hanging on its waist.
Its body was covered in whip marks, and it seemed to have been whipped to death while still alive. It had been dead for a while, beginning to rot, with maggots crawling over it and countless flies buzzing around, emitting a foul stench.
Everyone was used to wilderness adventures and found this rotting corpse unoffensive. The only woman in the team—He Tu—looked a bit pale, covered her mouth and nose with a small hand, and hid behind Qing Ming.
Young Master Luo will Lead You, having examined the corpse for quite some time, now began to introduce it: "This is a typical Swamplander corpse. This race has lived in swamps for generations, but rarely leave bodies exposed because Swamplanders are extremely poor, surviving by catching frogs and fish. Yet the swamp is ever-changing, and fish and frogs are not always available, so Swamplanders often go hungry. Hence, when one of their kind dies, the rest eat the corpse instead of abandoning it. Therefore, this Swamplander must have been killed by the Demon Clan and discarded here."
Huang Yi stared at the whip marks on that corpse, from which a familiar black air emanated faintly, and nodded: "These whip marks on the corpse are faintly emitting demonic qi. It is indeed the Demon Clan’s doing that killed it."
"It seems I smell the scent of the Insect Race!" At this moment, Youth with Middle School Syndrome suddenly spoke.
Huang Yi and the others hurriedly turned around and fixed their gaze on Youth with Middle School Syndrome.
They had come to Blood Moon Continent not to track the Demon Clan but to track the Insect Race, which was the focus of this journey.
Now, Youth with Middle School Syndrome swept a strand of yellow hair behind his ear, fluttered those Insect Race wings, circled around the sky, deeply sniffing as if perceiving residual air scents.
After a while, he nodded once more and said, "There’s definitely a residue of Insect Race scent here, I can be one hundred percent sure."
Qing Ming stroked his chin and asked, "How are you so certain? Our level is much higher than yours, yet we cannot find any anomalies, even Big Brother God of Slaughter has only detected traces of the Demon Clan. We need to rely on tracking the Demon Clan to find the Insect Race, and yet you directly state the Insect Race appeared here. So certain?"
"Never underestimate any player; every player may possess abilities others do not." Youth with Middle School Syndrome chuckled proudly, touched his nose, and said, "Although the Insect Race is one of the most powerful races in the universe, people know very little about it. Even the famous ’Divine Nectar’ has hardly been seen by anyone; it’s only heard to be the best healing divine object. I had a strange encounter with the Insect Race, so I know how to discern the scent of the Insect Race."
Youth with Middle School Syndrome paused, as if flaunting his expertise, and said, "Wherever the Insect Race passes, it leaves behind a substance called ’Secretion.’ Other races can’t smell it; even if a cup of Secretion is placed before your eyes, you wouldn’t notice it, thinking it’s just an ordinary liquid. Yet, the Insect Race is extremely sensitive to this Secretion, which is why I can smell residue of Secretion in the air and you all cannot!"
As Youth with Middle School Syndrome spoke, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, seemingly savoring the air’s taste: "The scent of this Secretion is nobler than regular Insect Race, likely left by a Top-Level Sky Domain Insect Race, and attained the Ascension Stage as a Top-Level Sky Domain Expert. But there’s a trace of fury mixed into this Secretion, somewhat like the scent from an Insect Race when fully tense, ready for an impending battle, showing this Insect Race must have been quite furious, seemingly about to prepare for a fight."
"Prepare for a fight?" Huang Yi pondered this phrase, reflecting, "If the Insect Race appears in this place, they must be driving those slaves together with the Demon Clan. Those slaves are so weak that they couldn’t compel a Top-Level Sky Domain Insect Race to prepare for a fight; they could simply be killed like this Swamplander. This doesn’t escalate to needing ’prepare for a fight.’ Based on this inference, only a Demon Clan expert could allow this Insect Race to consider preparing for a battle."
"You mean..." Overlord squinted his age-old eyes, "The Demon Clan and the Insect Race are allies but don’t actually harmonize, secretly competing with each other?"
"Yes!" Huang Yi nodded, "Any allied relationship is difficult to achieve true coordination and unity, inevitably some conflicts arise. If their contention is intense, that may facilitate our operation... Let me use one of my abilities to test it out, but it will take some time, so please be patient!"
Saying this, Huang Yi blinked and activated the Eye of Time, looking into this area’s past.
Everything that happened here, like a rewinded movie, began rapidly unfolding before his eyes.
He patiently adjusted the rewind speed, carefully searching for the moment those slaves passed through here, which would take some time to find.
Meanwhile, the energy value was rapidly depleting, like water flowing away.
If ordinary players knew about this rate of consumption, they would be heartbroken beyond measure. Energy stones are still regarded as high-level treasures by ordinary players. For someone as wealthy as Huang Yi, energy stones are not lacking, but only just that—not to the point of being squandered or wasted. If it wasn’t a special situation, he wouldn’t casually activate the Eye of Time.
The Eye of Time is an extremely powerful ability of Huang Yi. It could see the success rate of the War Soul, the loot drop in the Tower of Pantheons, the next combat move of NPCs, and more. But the more powerful the ability, the higher the consumption.
The energy consumption speed of the Eye of Time varies under different circumstances.
Looking into the future consumes the most and provides the poorest effect, as it can only see a few seconds into the future of NPCs, and it cannot view a player’s future because that is a player’s independent consciousness, not a system predefined program.
If it’s viewing the past, the effects are significantly better since it’s already occurred, and the system has recorded it. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Viewing the past is also divided into different circumstances—looking at inanimate objects, living beings, environment, and terrain, each with its own consumption speed. If viewing a player’s past, the consumption is even higher than viewing an NPC’s past.
The lowest consumption is like what Huang Yi is doing now—viewing the past of an area. However, this "low consumption" is relative to the Eye of Time itself; for an average player, this so-called "low consumption" is still a burden that is hard to bear.
Huang Yi remained motionless as he stared at the swamp, his eyes emitting a captivating and exotic glow.
The others, seeing Huang Yi’s demeanor, all guessed that he must be using that ability to look into the past.
Just before the national war ended recently, Huang Yi had disclosed the lewd activities of those Counterattack Alliance players’ past in front of the world audience, causing a worldwide player sensation. Countless people speculated that Huang Yi must possess the ability to see past events.
At this moment, the Youth with Middle School Syndrome, like a curious child, tilted his head and stared at Huang Yi’s glowing eyes, circling around him several times before swallowing and saying, "Big Brother God of Slaughter should be looking into the past. I really envy this ability! If I had such a power, I’d go spy on the girl I like to see how she looked while bathing last night..."
"What a filthy thought, utterly despicable and shameless! But I like it!" He Tu said, her eyes sparkling, she chuckled coquettishly and then glanced at her boyfriend Qing Ming with a mischievous smile, "If I could look into the past, I’d check if Qing Ming, when I wasn’t around, did anything unspeakable beneath the covers."
Qing Ming shook his head and said, "This ability must have limitations! For example, when viewing sensitive images, there should be some sort of mosaic censoring. If it can see specific details of bathing or intimate moments between men and women, I’ll definitely complain to the Era of Corporation, as this clearly infringes on players’ privacy!"
"But this isn’t much of a concern; after all, as far as we know, only Big Brother God of Slaughter has this ability, and given his character, he wouldn’t indulge in such a nasty voyeuristic habit." Young Master Luo will Lead You quickly defended Huang Yi.
The group continued chatting while waiting for Huang Yi’s results.
"I discovered something!" Just then, Huang Yi’s eyes lit up, and he finally spoke up.
The Eye of Time had finally tuned into the scene when that group of slaves passed through this area.
He saw an imposing Pain Acolyte holding a whip, angrily shouting at the slaves below.
Beside the Pain Acolyte, a bee-like creature also said something. Then the two confronted each other, emitting intense auras, the atmosphere becoming so tense it seemed they might fight any moment.
But at this point, a member of the Blood Clan suddenly stepped forward to mediate, only to be lashed on the arm by the Pain Acolyte and scolded a few sentences, which frightened him into immediately retreating, trembling and no longer daring to intervene.
Then, these people continued moving forward, disappearing into the horizon, and could no longer be seen.
This time, the object of Huang Yi’s observation was the area itself, not those people, meaning only the scenes of those people passing through this area will be displayed. To learn what happened to those people, he would have to see them personally and use the Eye of Time with them as the target.
However, judging by the scene just observed, the relationship between the Demon Clan and the Insect Race is indeed very tense, competing with each other, even to the brink of battle.
"Hmm? What is that?!" Just as Huang Yi was about to close the Eye of Time, his eyes suddenly widened as he saw an incredible scene.
