Chapter Fifty-One: Compressed Time

  "Ah ha~, forget it, anyway I won't see that thing again in the future." He let out a long sigh and Nine Lives puffed up his body, "Nothing to do, might as well go shopping!"

  Shopping...

  "It's really a good era."

  Carrying a large pile of things, Jiǔ Mìng found a small alley and directly put the thing that could crush people to death on the ground behind him!

  With a pat, a pile of things turned into a card under the touch of Jiuming...

  As long as he dresses properly and walks on the main street, even if someone notices that something is off, they won't say anything. After all, this world has various supernatural beings, so one more weirdo doesn't matter. If it were on Earth where Nine Lives originally was, someone would have already noticed something was off and called the police!

  "Hey! Someone's called the cops! Luckily I made a call ahead of time to someone at the police station, or else you'd be... tsk!"

  "...... What!?" The phone rang and was answered on the ninth ring. Wang Hai's voice immediately came over, "Who is so bored?"

  "How did I know... never mind, just knowing you can't stay still, next time put on the whole headgear, having only a body shadow without a head is also quite scary."

  "Alright." Jiǔ Mìng glanced at the ground, because of the clothes, there was a shadow, but it didn't have a head. Suddenly looking at it could indeed make people break out in cold sweat.

  "Your voice sounds a bit strange, are you on a bus?"

  "Huh? I'm going to the front line for a two-day trip."

  Frontline? I've heard of it, the boundary area where humans fight against alien beasts. Most of the alien beasts have been divided into several larger areas, which is also a result of the battles between humans and alien beasts. Otherwise, powerful alien beasts would be everywhere, and human cities wouldn't know peace.

  "What? No vacation?"

  "...No nonsense!" Wang Hai moved his neck, with a slightly annoyed tone, "Anyway, you be careful yourself, got it?"

  Wang Hai directly hung up the phone call full of garbled numbers.

  Students are on holiday, but teachers aren't, haha, it feels a bit bitter.

  With a malicious smile, Jiuming stepped back into the mysterious shop and said that the other day, Suzumiya Haruhi and others had also discussed summer vacation. Jiuming also slightly looked down on Haruhi's patience, after all, this place can change scenes, but it has a big drawback...

  But I'm angry, yes, such a big place, usually there isn't even a decent person!!!

  "Hiss, what a waste." Jiǔ Mìng looked at the high-energy crystals laid out under the sofa, and in these few days, their value had actually dropped by a whole point...!

  Isn't this volatile speed a bit too fast?

  Forget it, as long as I feel comfortable, if Wang Hai wasn't away now, Jiuming would really go find him again to exchange some of this low-grade ordinary high-energy crystal.

  The ninth life that had been idle for a while let out a yawn, pulled out the sealed card that stored quite a few items and waved it, and suddenly there were a pair of heavy goods on the ground, all of which were toys...

  After shopping... I don't know if Haruhi Suzumiya has been in a bad mood or what, but she hasn't come here at all, making Koizumi feel quite strange. Strange as it is, he can't go look for them to see what's going on either.

  It's not that people are indifferent, but he simply has no strength to look for them.

  All I can do is wait now.

  It's just...

  "Huh? Yuxi?" Jiǔ Mìng saw the figure of a girl with three nothings standing in front of the boundary gate, and felt that something was off about her... it was as if she were a projection.

  "Anything wrong?"

  "Ah... just bear with it for now, don't reveal your experiences until the issue with Haruhi Suzumiya is resolved..."

  It's really strange, after saying that, the girl in front of me slowly faded away and disappeared, leaving behind a misty nine lives. During this time, she didn't come here because she encountered some kind of strange problem. Did she stir up another troublesome matter... Sigh? Why add "another"?

  Very soon, Jiǔ Mìng would know what had happened!!

  What's going on here?!

  Nine lives felt the sound at his ear suddenly become noisy, the scene in front of him was like entering a super fast-forward mode, the rapidly flashing scenes had him and Haruhi Suzumiya's conversations, just the scenes of them passing through that dimensional door had many times! The speech became extremely chaotic due to being too fast...

  What happened...!?

  After the noise disappeared, Jiǔ Mìng, who was originally standing, suddenly sat on the sofa panting heavily, with a slight headache and a somewhat disturbed soul. He also had some unclear memories, which were a bit vague in content.

  Summer vacation...?

  What's going on? Is this related to Yuuki's warning from a while ago?

  He tapped his forehead, let out a long sigh, glanced at the time, and his expression became dazed. Although his memories from just now were vague, they gave him a feeling of having passed for a very long time. However, the watch showed that only one minute had passed!

  Who is this fooling!!

  One minute later...

  "Ah!? Spare me!!" That noisy feeling transmitted again, and Kyon let out a mournful cry. He felt that this was Haruhi Suzumiya's way of taking revenge on him for not being satisfied with him!!

  The noisy and chaotic feeling made Jiu Ming experience it again, and after taking a glance at the time, another minute had passed!

  And that vague 'forced' memory seems to have cleared up a bit, and if I come a few more times, it might be completely clear.

  No! Never come back again!

  Rubbing his own forehead, Jiǔ Mìng curled up the corners of his mouth and couldn't help but reveal a painful expression. Headache!

  One minute later again...

  "What the...!!"

  It seems I understand now, this kind of noisy and disordered interval frequency appears once a minute, each time lasting for one minute, within half an hour he has gone through this state three times, what on earth happened!!

  He let out a long sigh and felt that he needed to go out for a few days to clear his head, unable to understand what strange change had occurred in the nine lives.

  "Right, Panel-kun! Has something unusual happened here?"

  Time flow rate anomaly has occurred in your local area.

  "...... Eh? What's going on?" "What's with this abnormal swelling?"

  You can think of it as an extreme acceleration of time on your body before.

  "A bit puzzled." Rubbing his head, Kyon's expression became somewhat perplexed. This time-space stuff was too high-end; the local world's flow rate had abnormally expanded, meaning that the flow rate of time around him had inexplicably accelerated when Yuki Nagato arrived?

  This also counts as him feeling like it's been a long time, with many vague memories, the true time inside the mysterious shop had barely passed one minute.

  Because of Haruhi Suzumiya, when she came here, she forcibly brought the flow of time that belonged to her place, creating a rift in your time with fast and slow sections. For you, time has accelerated, but for this place, the locally accelerated time was compressed, resulting in your current discomfort symptoms.

  "Ah! ? So bewildering." Jiǔ Mìng's eyes twitched repeatedly, and it took him half a day to roughly understand the meaning. It seemed that the overall time flow rate here had not changed, but his own time flow rate had accelerated. Since it did not affect the overall time flow rate of this place, for the mysterious shop's time, Jiǔ Mìng's time was compressed.

  Just like he experienced an hour in the accelerated time frame, while the overall time of the mysterious shop didn't change, so for here, that one hour of his experience was compressed into just one minute!!

  Distorted time beyond compare!

  What on earth happened to Haruhi Suzumiya, that she could make the timeline around her so chaotic? The two conflicting flows of time are causing Mikuru immense pain...

  With this delay, a minute has passed, and that noisy and chaotic feeling is back. This time, Jiǔ Mìng had made sufficient psychological preparations, but it still caused him considerable trouble. What to do with the urge to scold someone!?

  That vague memory became a little clearer again, very few, okay, it seems that it won't take several more times to become clear!!

  "I'm going to die……" He collapsed on the sofa, panting heavily as if he had just been chased by a pack of wolves for dozens of miles, both mentally and physically exhausted. What was even more frustrating was that he felt his strength increase a bit.

  Perhaps it was the torment of the time flow difference that tempered the spirit of the nine lives, or perhaps those high-energy crystals took effect... In short, is this considered painful and enjoyable at the same time?

  Jiǔ Mìng noticed that some of the high-energy crystals had become dim, and he couldn't judge for himself. Every time he was confused, the 'super long time' compressed within one minute was actually how long.

  "Memories, memories...... I'm not a masochist......" Jiǔ Mìng gazed at the small notebook on the tea table with three "zhèng"s written on it, his eyes slightly reddening as he muttered to himself. Just as the feeling of chaos was about to emerge, Jiǔ Mìng quickly added another stroke to the notebook.

  After the chaos subsided, the pen that had been tightly grasped in his hand was nowhere to be found. In the end, it was he who found it in the seam of the sofa cushion, and the small notebook was dug out from under the sofa... What a cursed minute!

  From that vague memory, Jiǔ Mìng had a slight impression of this pen being stuffed into the sofa seam by him, and this small notebook was seemingly kicked under the sofa to conceal something.

  As for other content, it is still vague!

  "Damn it! Damn it!!" His eyes turned red, Jiǔ Mìng stared at the small notebook filled with the character "zhèng", his tone became extremely violent, every two minutes a chaotic noise made Jiǔ Mìng feel like his nerves were about to collapse, even if he wanted to calm down, but that intense spiritual fluctuation made him feel like someone who had been forced to stay awake for a long time.

  It could blow up like a powder keg at any time!

  Fortunately, there was a comforting thing that could be given to him, and the vague memories also gradually became clear as the number of experiences increased.

  The clearest part is that the long gate with a strange and lonely aura on his body, endure it for now... can't give up halfway, don't know what would be missed if one experience less... endure for a while.

  He let out a long sigh and Nine Lives tightly closed the small notebook in his hand!