Igor felt puzzled, he couldn't understand what exactly was happening.
After all, making a choice within oneself is sothing only oneself can know. Where did Nonoa's confident tone co from? It was completely incomprehensible.
Could it be that when Igor makes a choice, Nonoa can clearly know what choice was made?
If that's the case, then that's a bit terrifying!
Originally, Igor was already overwheld by fear, and now there's another fear added, it's simply unbearable!
Igor hoped Nonoa would stop being cryptic.
"I said, you'll understand what I an soon enough!" Nonoa actually didn't know how to express it, but he knew that since Igor could consider it now, he would soon understand how to experience ti in the Border Realm.
In the Border Realm, there's no sunrise or sunset, no reference for ti, and you can't even know how long it's been here. Constant running is always so repetitive, making it impossible to know how long you've been running or how much longer there's left to run. Everything seems infinite, without end, and this feeling leaves one confused, like there's no concept of ti, making Igor a bit perplexed.
In the blink of an eye, could he beco an old man, or in that instant, has he experienced ti?
In the Border Realm, ti feels blank, you can't perceive it, yet it truly exists.
Igor just wanted to know how ti is asured here, how to tell if it's one day or two...
Previously on Guru Mountain, during his ti at Moonflow Stream, Igor was caught in a Ti Trap, and back then he used a very primitive thod to judge the passage of ti. That was to rely on his appetite, at that ti he perfectly exemplified a foodie's control over food, distinguishing between a two-day portion and a one-day portion very clearly... This peculiar thod allowed him to successfully see through the Ti Trap created by the double-faced Arnold and fight several rounds in the Ti Gap with Arnold.
However, that ti there were reference points. No matter what, Igor found the real ti in that Ti Trap, the ti he was familiar with, and Arnold could use a Ti Leap to make two days feel like one. Could such a thing happen in the Border Realm too?
If a period here equates to a few years outside, wouldn't that be terrible!
The key is he can't eat here; his existence here is a single-minded consciousness, and this consciousness doesn't need to eat!
So Igor was very confused, and the more confused he got, the more fearful he felt.
This is a fear of ti, afraid of wasting ti here and ending up with regret, but then if he advances rapidly, he fears ti will be so rushed that he might miss the key points.
This is where Igor is more conflicted, and this conflict slowly transforms into fear.
But Nonoa didn't imdiately comfort Igor, although now during the run, Igor's fear was very evident.
Certain things, in the end, must be experienced and felt by oneself.
Nonoa understood this deeply. When you put an answer in front of soone, they might not understand its mystery because without personal experience, it appears very fragile, and the mory will quickly fade. But if this answer is sought out by oneself, it will be deeply engraved within and will never be forgotten...
So Nonoa now remained silent, waiting for Igor to discover on his own.
Ti exists, it's just that how to asure this ti requires a comparison object.
Nonoa had been a Wandering Consciousness for a long ti, during which he was muddle-headed, not knowing what ti was, and in the beginning, just like Igor, he was filled with fear, which gradually turned into numbness...
Without a concept of ti, he drifted in this Border Realm, sotis devoured by this Soul Devourer, sotis spat out by that...
Repeating such experiences over and over again, until becoming so numb. This numbness made Nonoa at that ti like a living zombie, carrying a pack and wandering all day around here...
Not knowing the concept of ti led to such an outco, becoming among the four or five percent the least hopeful person...
Igor was now still in the phase of fear, and under normal circumstances, he would step by step go through the sa experiences as Nonoa.
But Igor didn't think he would degenerate; he just couldn't know ti, and it was only temporary.
This confidence, Igor didn't even know where it ca from...
Nonoa knew that once Igor grasped the concept of ti, he could truly establish himself in this Border Realm. Now Igor was still a rookie who just stepped into this Border Realm, though this rookie was progressing rapidly, learning the thod to release energy in a short ti.
Igor seeing Nonoa silent, stopped asking too, after all, this was his own confusion, and maybe Nonoa didn't care about ti, as he has no body to return to.
He didn't know that Nonoa was silent to let him face these things alone, to let him experience on his own...
In this Border Realm, mastering ti grants control, that's the rule they found out through their long period of struggle here.
Ti is life, ti is money... these old sayings are totally nonsense in this realm, here, ti is everything.
Igor ran, Igor thought, Igor observed...
The energy in him was about to overflow, he needed to release it!
"Should I just release the energy like this? I feel it's a bit of a waste to just release it!" Igor suddenly asked, although within he still held the fear of not understanding ti, he now had to solve the problem with his own body.
"Not a waste, you will gain more." Nonoa said.
"Then I'll release it!" Igor waved his hand, sending a wave of energy directly into the sky.
Nonoa silently watched all this, he felt Igor was getting closer and closer to that answer.
"I discovered sothing, the process of this energy accumulation seems like a cycle, I released it once just now, now it's full again, whether I'm running or resting, this energy always condenses on ti..."
"Yes, you're right."
"Wait!" Igor suddenly seed to realize sothing, "Condensing on ti, could it be, this is the asure of ti here!"
"Yes, you finally discovered it yourself!"
Just like that, Igor found the foundation to stand on in this Border Realm.
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