The world enters the fungal world

She couldn't understand what Zhou Xigang was saying.

Li Yu understood what Zhou Xigang meant. It seemed that Zhou Xigang had read a lot of time-travel and system novels, so after hearing Lin Muying's explanation, a strange excitement and fervor appeared in his eyes.

"Don't mistake the fantasy of novels for reality," Li Yu said slowly.

Zhou Xi glanced at Li Yu before saying, "It seems that it's not just time travel, it's a group time travel."

As he spoke, he looked around, the shock, fear, and apprehension on his face disappearing, replaced by curiosity about everything before him.

Li Yu was speechless; Zhou Xigang's behavior was certainly audacious.

"You just said that we might have traveled to Jiangcheng in the future, or we might have traveled to another Jiangcheng in the universe. So, you haven't determined which situation it is yet?" Zhou Xigang asked casually while looking around.

Lin Muying said, "That's right, these are the two possibilities we've guessed, but we can't be sure which one it is yet."

Zhou Xigang said, "Idiot, can't you even confirm something this simple? Tell me, what year and what day is it today?"

As he spoke, he took out his phone and glanced at the calendar.

Lin Muying was taken aback, and Qian Lili couldn't help but interject curiously, "You know that?"

Zhou Xigang said with some pride, "Of course, it's too easy. Today is April 26, 2026. We just need to find the calendar here and check it."

As he spoke, he turned on his phone's flashlight and turned to walk into the supermarket.

Li Yu and Lin Muying exchanged glances, then a thought struck them, and they couldn't help but follow.

Qian Lili, of course, didn't dare leave alone outside the supermarket, so she quickly followed, and couldn't help but say, "Zhou Xigang, didn't you even think about calling the police or contacting your family when you took out your phone?"

She recalled how they had suddenly encountered this strange and terrifying situation before, and how their first thought was to call the police.

As Zhou Xigang walked inside, he said, "Idiots, you all said you've traveled through time, and there are mushrooms everywhere here. Anyone with eyes can see that this isn't the normal Jiangcheng anymore, and it might even be in a different time and space. Where would you get the signal to call the police? Besides, if calling the police were useful, I think you would have called the police already. Why bother?"

Although Qian Lili was called stupid, she wasn't angry. Instead, she said with some admiration, "Zhou Xigang, I didn't realize you were so quick-witted. You're amazing."

Li Yu was also somewhat surprised. He thought that Zhou Xigang was not only unusually calm, but also quite intelligent and quick-witted. Of course, another reason why he didn't call the police might be that he had just taken out his phone and found that there was no signal.

Zhou Xigang was using his phone as a light when he saw a large amount of scattered goods and food at his feet, mostly covered in mushrooms and mold. He turned to Qian Lili and said, "Lend me the hammer for a moment."

Qian Lili trusted him quite a bit, so she handed him the claw hammer she was holding.

Zhou Xigang took the claw hammer and used it to move the goods. He found that the goods and food quickly scattered like powder after being touched by the claw hammer.

These goods were clearly severely corroded, but they have barely maintained their current state because no external force has acted upon them.

"Looks like it's been abandoned for many years..." Zhou Xigang murmured to himself, handing the claw hammer back to Qian Lili behind him.

After that, he didn't touch the scattered goods anymore. Instead, he took his phone and carefully examined the goods on the shelves. He didn't touch them, but just looked at them carefully. Finally, he softly read out, "Production date: December 21, 2027..."

Upon hearing this, Li Yu's face showed a thoughtful expression, and he glanced at Zhou Xigang.

Zhou Xigang continued inspecting the goods on the shelves, and soon read aloud again: "Production date: November 5, 2027..."

He then read out two more production dates, both basically between October and December 2027.

"I'm pretty sure now." Zhou Xi turned off the flashlight on his phone, turned to Lin Muying and Qian Lili, and said, "I know what happened."

Qian Lili was stunned and said, "You knew that already? Then tell me, what's going on? What do these production dates prove?"

Zhou Xigang said, "Idiot, don't you understand? Our timeline is April 26, 2026. You were attending a classmate's wedding at the Century Garden Hotel, and I was buying things at this supermarket. Then we all heard a loud bang, and then we found ourselves in this godforsaken place..."

"The goods on these shelves were mostly produced between October and December 2027. Considering the expiration date, this means that the supermarket likely underwent some kind of change or was abandoned sometime after 2027, roughly around early 2028. It will take a long time for it to deteriorate to this extent..."

"Looking at the dilapidated state of the surrounding buildings, given Jiangcheng's current situation, this couldn't have happened in just one or two years. It would probably take another ten or twenty years after 2028. So, judging from the current timeline of this world, it must be at least 2040 or later..."

Qian Lili still didn't understand and asked, "Then what does this prove?"

Zhou Xigang sighed and said, "What an idiot. According to the hypothesis of parallel universes, there are four possibilities. The first is that they share a completely consistent timeline, that is, they happen at the same time and evolve synchronously. We traveled through time in April 2026, so Jiangcheng now should also be in April 2026. But the timeline here now must be at least after 2040. This first situation does not meet the requirements and can be ruled out."

"The second type is a parallel universe with a forked timeline. This is based on the many-worlds interpretation theory of quantum mechanics. This theory states that whenever a quantum event occurs, the universe splits into multiple branches, each representing a possible outcome. Before the branches, they share a history and their timelines are synchronized. However, once the fork occurs, they evolve along their own independent timelines and never intersect again. In this mode, the timelines are of the same origin but flow in different directions."

Lin Muying frowned slightly and said, "So, it's possible that we're in the second scenario? Because of our time travel, the universe has branched out, and the world we've entered is a parallel universe from that branch?"

Zhou Xigang shook his head and said, "NO, you forgot an important point: you time-traveled earlier than me."

Lin Muying asked curiously, "How did you know?" She remembered that the three of them hadn't told Zhou Xigang the exact time when the incident had occurred.