The moment the young girl appeared, she instantly captured the attention of all the students. Gazing at the additional people in the courtyard, Bai Yiyi casually remarked, "I was only gone for a little while, and there are so many children here now?"
"This world is really getting faster."
Qiao Zixuan, listening to her words, associated them with a news story that had been becoming increasingly popular over the last two years—the acceleration of the world.
Starting about two or three years ago, people on the internet had started saying that time in the real world was passing faster than in the Mirror World.
At first, this was thought to be just an illusion perceived by a few, but as more and more people began to feel this and more evidence emerged, everyone gradually realized... time in the real world was indeed moving faster and was continuing to accelerate.
