Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 514 City of Glory

Aside from previously using the power of the Temple of Time and Space to restore the Demon City, this was the second time Tang Zijun had used this magical power.

Hearing Suolin's loud cries in her arms, Tang Zijun simply shook her head slightly.

"To be precise, it should be the problem of 'immortality in the wasteland,' and I don't think it's anything to be surprised about. I just let time pass through her body. With the technology here, it shouldn't be that difficult."

"It wasn't difficult before, but don't forget that under the influence of the Gods of the Epoch, the formulas here have been rewritten and the technology has been blocked. In the wasteland today, no one except the Gods of the Epoch possesses this kind of power," Suolin said.

Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun nodded slightly. "Alright, I admit you have a point."

At the same time, he looked down at the technology card in his hand, his brows furrowing slightly.

He originally just wanted to give it a try, thinking that this power of time would be particularly difficult to control, but to his surprise, he only had to think about it and the power of time was perfectly executed according to his wishes.

The reversed time easily restored the girl in front of him to the age of seven or eight, and even eliminated all the radiation in her body, and it didn't seem to have any impact on the timeline of the world.

It seems the rules of different worlds are indeed vastly different; this power of time can probably only be used at will in this world. In the real world, let alone manipulating the timeline, even reversing a person's lifespan would be extremely difficult.

However, if someone were taken to another world, could their age be smoothly reversed under the rules of that world? This piqued Tang Zijun's curiosity, and she thought she could try it sometime.

While Tang Zijun and Suo Lin were talking, the girl opposite them also recovered from her shock.

Immediately afterwards, without any warning, the girl suddenly picked up a relatively hard black stone from the ground and charged straight towards Tang Zijun.

Just as the stone in his hand was about to hit Tang Zijun's chest, he suddenly grabbed the girl's wrist, and at the same time, the girl's attack stopped instantly.

Feeling the unyielding force on her wrist, like an iron clamp, the girl didn't stop. Instead, she screamed and kicked Tang Zijun repeatedly with her legs, as frantic as an angry monkey.

The girl's attacks naturally couldn't harm Tang Zijun at all, but she showed no sign of giving up, which confused Tang Zijun.

"What are you doing?"

The question did not affect the girl. The other party continued to launch attacks. At the same time, the intense pain caused by the recoil of the armor brought tears to her eyes.

"It seems like they're mistaking you for one of the Gods of the Epoch," Suolin concluded after observing for a while, glancing at Tang Zijun with a teasing look. Indeed, as Suolin had said before, in the current wasteland, only the Gods of the Epoch could probably possess such power.

Thinking of this, Tang Zijun looked down at the little girl in her hand. "I am a human being just like you, not some robot." Upon hearing this, the girl hesitated slightly and slowly stopped moving, although it seemed more like the blows to the armor were too painful, but the wariness in her eyes did not lessen.

Seeing this, Tang Zijun sighed helplessly.

Then the sunglasses on his helmet disappeared in a flash of silver light, revealing the area around his eyes. "Look closely, I'm human, just like you."

Staring blankly into those dark, bright eyes—completely different from those of machines, uniquely human—the girl remained stunned for a long while before whispering, "Who...who are you?"

Next, Tang Zijun briefly explained his situation to the girl. Of course, everything he said was a lie, and he didn't care whether the girl would expose his lies. At least judging from her age, she didn't seem to have that much life experience.

After confirming that Tang Zijun was indeed human, the girl's hostility lessened considerably, though she remained somewhat wary. Tang Zijun also learned about the girl's past—her name was Yedi, a native of the wasteland, her father's identity unknown, and her mother a low-level waitress in Glory City.

In the City of Glory, there are many children like Yedi. To establish a shelter in the wasteland, maintaining a stable population is crucial. Therefore, there are virtually no plans to restrict births, and the population has become a number that can be consumed at will. If a boy is born, he will be trained as a laborer and sent to various corners of the city, while if a girl is born, she will join the low-level service industry when she grows up.

Whether Yedi was lucky or unlucky, when she was nine years old, she was attacked by a parasite that had infiltrated the City of Glory. Although she survived, she was also affected by the black sun radiation from the parasite and began to be contaminated.

Although she had been vaccinated with the anticontamination serum several times, she was still unable to eradicate the contamination and was unable to work. In the City of Glory, people who cannot work are people who can be discarded at any time. So not long ago, she was driven out of the lower city and lived with the contaminated monsters outside the city.

"Looks like I've been mistaken for one of them," Zorin grinned. "Once corrupted people completely lose their minds, they become monsters that only know how to kill, but they won't attack other corrupted beings."

Seeing that only a head remained but the body could still speak, Yedi shrank back in obvious fear.

"Don't be afraid. Although Suolin is a robot, she has no connection with the Gods of the Epoch or the Church of the Epoch," Tang Zijun reassured Yedi, then continued, "Could you tell me more about the City of Glory?"

Yedi looked up at Tang Zijun, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke. "What do you want to know?"

"Who is the city lord of the City of Glory? How many forces are there in it? Where does their energy come from? And are there any spies planted by the gods of the era here...?" Tang Zijun asked, but then noticed that Yedi's eyes were gradually becoming somewhat blank, so she stopped.

Indeed, asking a child such a question is a bit difficult for them, so Tang Zijun paused and then said again, "Never mind, just take me inside to have a look."

"You're going to the City of Glory?" Yedi paused for a moment, then her eyes dimmed. "...That's not a good place." "I know." Tang Zijun smiled.

After Suolin told him about the various shelters in the wasteland, Tang Zijun became wary of these places. It wasn't that all shelters were bad, but the vast majority were indeed under the control of the gods of the era.

What Tang Zijun is most curious about now is why the God of Time and Space appeared here, and so close to the City of Glory. To find out, she probably has to go there herself.

Yedi silently followed behind Tang Zijun. She knew she had no choice. Although she didn't want to go back to that place, with her current abilities, she simply couldn't survive alone in the wasteland.

If they wanted to survive, there was no other way but to follow this strange outsider.

The two continued forward in silence, encountering several more attacks from the corrupted monsters along the way. However, these attacks were ineffective; the monsters were eliminated by Tang Zijun with a single shot before they could even get within ten meters.

Yedi stared at the scene in astonishment, her eyes filled with surprise and confusion.

Tang Zijun, standing beside her, lowered her gun, seemingly understanding the girl's thoughts, and whispered, "Are you wondering why I didn't save them the way I saved you?"

"..." Yedi didn't speak, she just nodded slightly.

"I can save you because you haven't been completely corrupted yet. The power of time can reverse everything in your body because you are still you," Tang Zijun said, looking at her. "But they are different. They have been corrupted, and their bodies have been completely transformed into another kind of existence. Time cannot reverse such things."

In simple terms, this is still related to the rules of this world. If you think of this place as a game world, and all the people living here are NPCs, then pollution is equivalent to modifying their underlying code.

If the underlying code is not completely destroyed, like Yedi, then the power of time can still play a certain role. However, if the underlying code has been completely destroyed and rewritten into other "creatures", then even the power of time cannot restore it.

The only possible way to save them is for Tang Zijun to travel directly to their timeline before it was corrupted and fix everything before the code breaks. But in that case, there would be two different individuals in this world: one "uncorrupted" and one "corrupted".

This also shows why the rules of the wasteland world are completely different from those of the real world.

Walking along the uneven ruins, Tang Zijun and Yedi soon came to a relatively flat road, and Tang Zijun finally saw the appearance of the City of Glory.