Their commission was suspicious.

After all, fifty li is not a very long distance; it doesn't even take an hour to drive there.

"Luckily, Xinghai City is right next to Beijing." Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

Since they appeared near Xinghai City and Beijing, one would subconsciously assume they were in Beijing, right? After all, it is Beijing…

"Let's reappear randomly in another place later. Let's confuse those overly curious people." Chen Luo sighed.

Chapter 599 You're saying this river of tools is actually a river of time? You're kidding me!

"jingle!"

"Huh? Why are so many people gathered here? What are they all doing?"

"Chen Luo, are there any good single-player games lately?"

"It would be even better if it were an online game, provided that we can find players to match with."

Kaguya Houraisan's voice rang out, immediately sounding like a typical otaku.

There were many people gathered around Chen Luo's place because many people were interested in the river, but the reason they were interested was because the river could bring them a very pleasant experience.

Isn't it pleasant to sit back and collect money?

Kaguya Houraisan squeezed through the crowd and successfully made her way in.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"Games that can be played online are not out of the question." Upon hearing this request, the all-knowing Chen Luo began to consider its feasibility.

The single-player game Houraisan Kaguya is easy to get bored with and offers few rewards, but the multiplayer game is less likely to get boring for the other player and offers more rewards.

While logically speaking, one should give the player a single-player game and then wait for them to get tired of it before coming back to earn more Primogems, Chen Luo is personally quite considerate of his friends.

"How about this, I'll get you a computer that can connect you with people from our world to play games online? But it can only play games," Chen Luo said.

Although Kaguya Houraisan had signed a contract with Chen Luo, promising not to share the knowledge of the other world she learned from him with anyone else, it would still be better to keep Kaguya Houraisan's knowledge to a minimum if possible.

The solution is simple: just turn a brand-new computer into a doll and give it to Kaguya Houraisan, and the computer will be able to connect to the group network.

Then, by connecting any doll-like mobile phone or computer to the other party, you can connect Houraisan Kaguya to the people of this world.

Because the computer had been personified, Chen Luo could control it, preventing it from engaging in any online activities other than playing games.

However, I always feel that these things are meaningless, because you can also communicate while playing games.

And since it's already bundled with a game, it would be a bit much not to provide the other person with a chat app.

Otherwise, if you're not happy with the fight, how can you yell at the other person?

Chen Luo is quite considerate.

However, online flame wars are fine, but offline ones are best avoided.

"Ah, wait a minute, the point isn't that, the point is..." Just when Chen Luo thought Kaguya Houraisan would be overjoyed, Kaguya Houraisan's attention wasn't on Chen Luo, but instead pointed to the river in front of him.

"what happened?"

"You summoned a river of time into the bar, aren't you afraid of affecting other people? Uh, okay, it doesn't seem to have any effect, so never mind, never mind." Kaguya Houraisan waved her hand and said.

"Now let's talk about online games. I'm really looking forward to hearing about some fun online games lately. Can you recommend one?" Kaguya Houraisan asked Chen Luo excitedly.

"...Wait, what did you just say? What river is this?" But Chen Luo's focus wasn't on the two-star quest related to the game.

The focus now is on what Kaguya Houraisan just said.

"The River of Time, the river right in front of you. Don't tell me you don't recognize it?" Kaguya Houraisan said, pointing at the river in front of Chen Luo with some disbelief.

"Where would I meet you? Is this some kind of time river?" Chen Luo was a little confused.

Chen Luo had always thought that this river was a tool river that could be summoned at any time.

"No wonder I couldn't catch anything in there. It wasn't that my fishing skills were bad; there was just nothing in this river," Chen Luo suddenly realized.

"Of course this is the river of time. Do you think I can't tell? I've been playing with time for so many years, at least I can tell whether this is the river of time or not. If you don't believe me, just try it. No matter if you pause time, slow down time, or speed up time, you can see that this river still flows smoothly and slowly, completely unaffected by time."

“But your river seems rather illusory. It’s a river of time, but not entirely.” Kaguya Houraisan squatted down beside the river in front of Chen Luo, carefully examining it.

"...How about this?" Chen Luo snapped his fingers after a moment of silence.

The next moment, the small river that Chen Luo had previously seen suddenly surged into a wide and vast river that stretched as far as the eye could see, appearing in the bar.

Chen Luo's bar wasn't very large, but the river that flowed through it gave the impression of encompassing the world and stretching as far as the eye could see. Yet, it seemed as if it wasn't just an illusion.

“Isn’t this the river of time?” Kaguya Houraisan nodded, as if she had discovered the problem.

The river we just saw was too small; it seemed like just a single, small section of the river.

The so-called river of time is an illusory river that encompasses all life in the world; it does not actually exist, but is merely a macroscopic concept.

Now, Kaguya Houraisan feels that her personal time has been incorporated into this river of time.

Not only Kaguya Houraisan, but everyone in the entire bar can see themselves reflected in this river of time.

This is the true river of time; what Chen Luo saw just now was at most a tributary, and an incomplete one at that.

The commotion Chen Luo made swept through the entire bar, and all the other customers stopped what they were doing in response to this strange scene.

"Alright, stop looking. Eat and drink as usual." Chen Luo casually waved away the wide, illusory, and magnificent river, and then summoned a small river in front of him again.

……

"So, you never knew this thing was the River of Time before, and you've always used it as a tool river? Just a river that you can summon quickly? Goodness, you're lucky you didn't drown in the River of Time." Kaguya Houraisan looked at Chen Luo with some emotion.

This person has lived this long; it's truly a matter of luck.

"...How would I know this is the River of Time? He didn't tell me." Chen Luo muttered under his breath.

"You don't even know the river you summoned?"

"I don't know. Who said you have to fully understand your own abilities? Is it wrong for me not to understand them?" Chen Luo said with a sense of self-righteousness.

That's right. The River God's abilities were originally written so that Chen Luo would have to figure them out on his own. Isn't it normal that Chen Luo didn't figure them out?

Besides, who knows if the river you summon at will will be the River of Time?

Isn't this thing something that can be summoned from the beginning?

Is this what they call newbie perks being the most awesome reward?

"Then haven't you thought about why you were able to summon this river? And how did you summon this river?" Kaguya Houraisan stopped playing games and sat cross-legged opposite Chen Luo to start thinking.

Kaguya of Mount Hourai knew about the Eri River over time, but while she knew it, she had never actually touched it.

Every user of time manipulation abilities can sense the existence of time manipulation abilities after using them for a long time, but this is the first time Kaguya Houraisan has experienced it so directly.

Why is it that I'm meeting them for the first time, yet they can summon me anytime, anywhere?

That's not fair!

Although this river doesn't seem to be of much use.

"After I obtained the River God's talent, I could detect where there are rivers. I always felt that there was a river flowing around me, and no matter where I was, this river was there, so I summoned it," Chen Luo said quite honestly.

"At first I thought this river was just the privilege of the river god."

"But have you ever thought about what kind of river exists everywhere? It's the river of time, of course. No matter where it is, as long as time flows, there is a river of time!"

"Even as long as life exists, the river of time has already quietly flowed by the moment life passes. Time is a relative thing, and it does not truly exist. Therefore, the river of time does not exist, yet it is everywhere."

“Hmm…” That makes some sense, but this thing appeared too simply, so Chen Luo didn’t think about it in a more sophisticated way.

"However, what you summoned is still not the real River of Time, but merely a phantom of it," Kaguya Houraisan reminded her.

“I know. It’s unrealistic to summon the River of Time in a bar. Besides, I don’t know much about this river, otherwise I wouldn’t be completely clueless about what it is,” Chen Luo said.

Just now, Chen Luo tested it out, and indeed, when Chen Luo used the Moon Timer to pause time, the long river in front of him was still flowing slowly, neither fast nor slow, and its flow rate did not change, yet it remained steadfast.

Coincidentally, Chen Luo had never paused or slowed down time when he summoned this river before.

When Chen Luo paused time, he did not summon anyone to cross the river.

When Himiko was resurrected, Chen Luo used the river of time to explain it, but the lunar clock was actually something even more illogical.

"Emmm, whatever makes you happy. Seriously, why is it that this ability to summon the river of time is mine, but yours is, a time muggle?" Kaguya Houraisan muttered.

"..."

You're the time muggle, your whole family are time muggles.

Forget it.

"I have a question. Theoretically speaking, is it possible to make this river of time flow through the entire Gensokyo?" Yukari Yakumo asked, stroking her chin.

"Theoretically speaking, we are all travelers in the river of time, slowly moving towards the unknown distance along the river of time. So let alone Gensokyo, the whole world is in the river."

“But Chen Luo can’t summon the true River of Time yet. It’s a power that can obliterate everything. If he were to summon it, we’d all be doomed, even though we’re so close. But I feel that the other party should be able to enter the true River of Time.”

Entering and summoning are different.

"So, if I die, I can reappear anywhere?" Chen Luo suddenly realized that if this river was a river of time, the convenience of his ability would increase significantly.

"Don't even think about it. I know you seem to have a lot of resurrection abilities, but when have you ever actually used them?" Kaguya Houraisan retorted.

“Uh…” Chen Luo was stunned for a moment.

"So, if you want, you can use this river to encompass the entire Gensokyo, right? Then I won't have to find a river myself, right?" Yukari Yakumo clapped her hands and said.

"Theoretically speaking, that's how it is. I've only summoned a small fragment before, and I've never tested the limits of the river phantom that this river can summon," Chen Luo said uncertainly.

Chen Luo kept saying that what he summoned was just an illusion, and Chen Luo knew this.

But Chen Luo had never thought about or tried how big he could summon.

Who would summon such a large river for no reason?

Isn't the Milky Way enough?

Who would have thought there was a river of time right next to him?

If the river of time is acceptable, how about the river of the heart?

Appearing in someone's heart and then bursting it?

This just doesn't seem right, does it?

Hmm...maybe...it's not impossible...

“Great, problem solved. I’m going to find Remilia now.” Yukari Yakumo said, clenching her fist.

Now all that's left is for Chen Luo's talent cap to be unlocked so that we can summon the Golden Fantasy Land.

So Yukari Yakumo should go and take revenge.

"Hey, wait a minute, aren't you going to the Moon World?" Chen Luo asked.

"I'm not going. I'm more interested in Remilia now. Besides, if you, the Master, aren't going, what am I, the maid, supposed to do?" Yukari Yakumo said quite bluntly.

Besides, wasn't Yakumo Yukari's trip to the Moon World precisely to find a way to strengthen Gensokyo?

Now that we've found it, we're too lazy to bother with the root cause.

It is extremely dangerous, and the returns may not be high.

What picture?

So let's just give up and do nothing.

"I don't go because bars can't do without me. I hate fighting at night, really."

As long as Chen Luo leaves the bar between 8 PM and 12 AM, he has to spend 50 raw stones per hour to maintain the high quality of the bar's drinks and food.

But the Holy Grail War is fought every night.

Rounding up, a 7-day Holy Grail War will cost Chen Luo 1400 Primogems.

"Besides, the Holy Grail War hasn't even started yet, and not all the characters have been summoned. Kiritsugu Emiya should still be at Einzbern Castle and hasn't come to Fuyuki City yet," Chen Luo said.

This is a very real problem.

Because Chen Luo summoned Morgan earlier than in the original storyline, they've been waiting for a whole day, and the Holy Grail War hasn't even started yet.

Moreover, while a seven-day Holy Grail War does sound very intense, it's far too long for Chen Luo.

Fortunately, Chen Luo didn't arrive in the Moon World a year before the Holy Grail War. Otherwise, without the Moon Clock, a year later, Chen Luo would have been able to solo Alaya, and the Holy Grail War might not have even started.