"Did I miss something?" Tang Tianyi muttered to herself after hearing what Luo Chao said, then suddenly widened her eyes, as if recalling something.

"So, I was right, wasn't I?" Luo Chao saw Tang Tianyi's expression, seemingly remembering something, and continued, "If I'm not mistaken, at that time, you must have felt like you stayed in that haunted classroom for a long time, didn't you?"

Luo Chao's words hit Tang Tianyi right in the heart. She hurriedly responded in a gentle voice, "Yes, at that time my mind was extremely tense, coupled with fear, I felt like my time spent in that haunted classroom was like an eternity!"

"However, that's just the reality. You definitely felt like you stayed there for a long time, but when you left, you realized you actually hadn't been there long at all, am I right?" Luo Chao said indifferently.

"Exactly, at that time, I distinctly felt that I stayed in that haunted classroom for at least three hours... But when I left the classroom, I looked down at my watch and found that only ten minutes had passed..." Tang Tianyi looked down at the mechanical watch on her slender wrist, her expression forlorn.

"At the time, I thought it was a mere illusion caused by my heightened tension, or perhaps my watch had malfunctioned during that time, which made me consider repairing my mechanical watch."

"Yet with the later normal operation of this mechanical watch, and your words today, I've completely dismissed the idea."

"After all, repairing high-priced foreign mechanical watches like mine is not only expensive but requires them to be shipped to the headquarters in Switzerland for repair, which would cost me not just money but also a great deal of energy and time," Tang Tianyi said slowly.

At the same time, although Luo Chao's words solved Tang Tianyi's dilemma, they also brought with them another problem.

Immediately, Tang Tianyi asked puzzledly, "But, why is that? Why did I feel like three hours passed inside that haunted classroom, but in reality, only ten minutes went by? Could it be... an illusion?"

"It's not an illusion." Luo Chao spoke slowly. "It's just a special feature of the mind palace. Inside a mind palace, one can speed up one's thoughts and awareness. In fact, it's not that time in the haunted classroom slowed down, but your own consciousness sped up."

After listening to Luo Chao's words, Tang Tianyi nodded. "So that's it, the mind palace actually has such a wondrous ability. If only I had this mind palace ability, I could dramatically increase my thinking speed and accelerate my research progress!"

"If only I had known, when I was studying abroad, I should have asked that Spiritual Master who came to the university for a lecture to teach me how to enter the human mind palace!"

"Wow, what was I thinking back then, actually suspecting that the Spiritual Master was just impersonating a fraud? I even scoffed at his theories at the time and intended to report him to the police for promoting superstition! Ah, youth and foolishness!"

Tang Tianyi muttered to herself while patting her forehead in a self-disdainful manner.

It was clear that she deeply regretted her immature actions and thoughts in her youth.

"Wait!" At that moment, it seemed Tang Tianyi suddenly thought of something. She lifted her head and gave Luo Chao a strange look.

Luo Chao saw Tang Tianyi's sudden change in expression and felt an impending doom, and a thought suddenly popped into his mind, "Oh no, she probably wants me to..."

"Luo Chao, let me ask you, how do you know the mind palace has such amazing capabilities?" Tang Tianyi indeed asked the question Luo Chao least wanted her to ask.

"Uh... well, I read about it in some books," Luo Chao turned his head, avoiding direct eye contact with Tang Tianyi.

He deliberately lied to Tang Tianyi, because Luo Chao knew that with Tang Tianyi's personality, once he told her he could enter the mind palace, she would do everything to pester him into teaching her how to enter it.

Actually, Luo Chao wasn't a selfish person. It's not that he was unwilling to teach Tang Tianyi how to enter the mind palace, but because although it's a very useful skill in life, the stronger the ability, the harder it is to learn.

To learn how to enter the mind palace, not only does the learner need to have a high innate thinking ability, but they also require a very long cultivation period.

Moreover, during this cultivation period, one cannot practice alone; there must be an expert who can also enter the mind palace to guide and oversee the cultivation process.

This way, it prevents the cultivator from becoming possessed during mind palace cultivation, thus falling into the abyss of consciousness, becoming mentally dead, but physically alive—like a living dead!

When Luo Chao was cultivating to enter the mind palace, he came close to falling into the abyss of consciousness several times.

Thankfully, he had his old master protecting him, who, at those critical moments, opened his mind palace and pulled Luo Chao back from the brink.

But despite this, it took Luo Chao a full three months of cultivation to successfully learn the method while being under his master's guidance.

This was already based on Luo Chao's excellent talent foundation.

Overall, if Luo Chao were to spend three months with Lin Yun, he would greatly welcome it.

But if he had to spend three months with Tang Tianyi, with her odd personality and aggressiveness, he would never agree to it.

Tang Tianyi saw Luo Chao avert his gaze when speaking and had already guessed he was lying to her.

Thus, Tang Tianyi coldly said, "Tell me the truth, or I'll make sure you don't leave this lab today!"

With that, Tang Tianyi waved and struck the air with her hand wearing the Nuclear Energy Gloves in front of Luo Chao.

"I'm telling the truth," Luo Chao ignored Tang Tianyi's posturing and chose to continue feigning ignorance.

Tang Tianyi saw Luo Chao still refusing to tell the truth, feeling a bit disappointed inside, but she kept a cold facade and said, "Hmph, stop pretending. I know you're lying! Just tell the truth. I know you're worried about me forcing you to accompany me to cultivate the mind palace. I promise I will only ask you to tell me the cultivation method but won't force you to accompany me!"

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