Monuments

The lake surface is always calm, but towards the end there is a salty sea breeze mixed with the smell of burning olive oil. Yunfan's sketchbook suddenly began to turn pages automatically, and a sketch of the Parthenon that he had never seen before appeared on the yellowed page. "The mission prompt this time is 'Correction of the tampered sacrifice'." Hai Fu wiped the ancient silver pocket watch, and the second hand was beating counterclockwise. "The time anchor given by the system is the seventeenth year of the Peloponnesian War." Yun Fan's fingertips touched the broken statue of Athena on the drawing paper, and the plaster fragments actually stuck to his fingers. When he looked up, the starry sky had turned into spiral bronze gears, the waves had solidified into crystal-like solids, and the girl holding the clay pot remained in a tilted posture and was frozen on the steps of the Acropolis. "Time flows at an abnormal speed." Hai Fu suddenly pressed his heart, and Yun Fan saw blood oozing from the Ouroboros tattoo on his collarbone, "My ability to stop time is being eroded in reverse." The sound of gold and iron clashing came from the depths of the temple. Twelve life-size bronze mirrors were erected on the altar where the statue of the god was supposed to be enshrined. Their mutated forms were reflected in every mirror - Yun Fan's right hand turned into a tentacle covered in paint, and Hai Fu's left eye turned into a collapsing black hole. "Don't look at each other!" Yun Fan blocked Hai Fu's sight with a sketchpad, and the sketches in his sketchbook were proliferating crazily. When he drew the first bronze mirror, the real mirror was suddenly filled with cracks, and the monster in the mirror screamed. Hai Fu threw out his pocket watch chain and wrapped it around Yun Fan's waist. During the 0.3 Second pause, he led him into the left column. Black flames suddenly rose from where he was standing. There were tiny hourglasses floating in those flames, and each hourglass flowed back at a different speed. "The third floor tile in the southeast corner." Yun Fan's pupils glowed with silver, and the pencil rotated in the palm of his hand, "The shadow in my painting is pointing there." When he lifted the floor tile, revealing a golden compass full of cuneiform writing, all the bronze mirrors burst out with dazzling light at the same time. The moment the sea-covered pocket watch cover popped open, Yun Fan saw the same six-pointed star mark engraved on the inside of the dial as in his sketchbook. When his blood dropped on the center of the compass, the entire time and space began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the solidified waves surged again, but the tops of the waves were burning with blue flames. "The object of sacrifice is not Athena." Yunfan suddenly tore off the drawing paper and covered the compass, and the charcoal lines seeped into the gold surface. "These inscriptions are praising Cronus. Someone has stolen the god of time into this time and space node." Hai Fu pulled open his collar, and the Ouroboros tattoo had spread to the side of his neck: "I have two time stops left, do you want to bet?" He grabbed Yun Fan's writing hand and pressed it against his heart, "Draw it in and engrave my time loop into the compass." The moment the pencil tip pierced the skin, the twelve bronze mirrors exploded. Bronze chains stretched out from the rift in time and space and entangled the two of them. In the weightlessness, Yun Fan saw the sea-covered pocket watch turn into a stream of light and sink into his painting book. When they fell in severe pain, they heard the announcement of gears biting in the void: Purpose: redemption