Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

Nine figures appeared out of thin air in the center of the main entrance to the Manton Commercial Plaza.

The evening sunlight slanted down, and the fountain droplets refracted tiny golden halos in mid-air, yet remained eerily still, like countless miniature amber beads pinned to the air.

The sounds of street performers playing guitar, children laughing and playing, and hot dog vendors shouting—everything was frozen in the air.

The whole world looks like a photograph that has been paused.

Only these nine suddenly appearing people are unaffected.

"Where...am I?"

The first to speak was a young woman in a white nurse's uniform.

Her short, black hair swayed gently in the evening breeze. She looked around blankly, holding a syringe in her hand, the syringe still half-filled with clear liquid.

It seems she was teleported here while administering medication to a patient.

Lu Ze slowly put down his phone, which was on a call, leaving only a jarring busy tone in the receiver.

He had only just heard the words "An Linyue is in trouble" when the signal was cut off without warning.

He was all too familiar with the scene before him; anyone who frequently travels through time knows that this is time stop.

He quickly glanced at the other people around him.

Apart from the nurse from earlier.

Among the people who could move were a burly man, a male and a female student in school uniforms, two dark-skinned construction workers in their forties, and an office worker in a suit.

Including him and Black Tower who came with him, there were nine people in total.

"Holy crap! I've time-traveled! I really have!"

The male student first abruptly took off his thick black-rimmed glasses and rubbed his eyes vigorously. After putting them back on, he stared wide-eyed at his surroundings, his expression quickly changing from disbelief to ecstasy.

Hei Ta nudged Lu Ze in the waist with his elbow, tilted his head back, and whispered teasingly, "Were you this excited when you first time-traveled?"

"The first time I transmigrated, I found myself in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by cliffs and dragons. I was terrified, so I wasn't excited at all," Lu Ze replied in a low voice, speechless.

At that time, he could barely walk steadily and was almost snatched away as a snack by an adult dinosaur. If it weren't for the kind-hearted and beautiful Grandma Obsidian passing by, he would have been dead long ago.

By comparison, this start in a modern city is already quite mild.

"Quiet down, all of you!"

A deep rebuke interrupted the high school boy who was still in a state of ecstasy, and at the same time stopped the panic of the others.

The burly man strode forward, his imposing figure making it hard for the person to breathe.

He was wearing a simple black cut-resistant protective suit, complete with wrist and knee pads, and a standard-issue pistol tucked into his waistband.

The burly man looked around and gave a deep command:

"All of you, behave yourselves, check your watches, and wait for the God to assign you tasks."

He gives the impression of being an NPC providing a beginner's guide.

A watch?

Lu Ze glanced around and noticed that, apart from him and Black Tower, the other seven people all wore a pure white watch with a screen on their right wrists.

It seems that he and Black Tower did not come through the main god, but just happened to appear with this group of people, so they did not have watches at all.

Just then, a cool touch brushed against the back of Lu Ze's hand.

He looked down and saw that Black Tower was handing him a watch that looked exactly like everyone else's, while she was already wearing another one on her right hand.

These two watches were directly replicated by Black Tower using the Larrus Bracelet after analyzing the structural parameters of the watches through the Deciphering skill.

Unfortunately, this thing is just a replica. Although the casing and display screen are exactly the same as the original, it cannot connect to the so-called main god.

He took the watch, skillfully fastened it to his wrist, and raised his right arm to pretend to check the mission information.

The two moved very naturally, just like the other newlyweds around them.

However, none of them noticed that the silent, long-haired high school girl was secretly observing their every move out of the corner of her eye.

From the moment the burly man ordered everyone to check their watches, she noticed that these two people raised their wrists a full beat slower than the others.

She didn't make a sound, but quietly withdrew her gaze and continued to look down at the mission information that appeared on her wristwatch.