"What purpose? How did you find out?" Chu Si asked.
"Basically it depends on this hero." Jin patted the little girl next to him on the shoulder. Since he knew that this was Esther Cabel, his words and deeds were much restrained, and he stopped rubbing her head like a real kid. It's funny, and the little princess won't yell at her baby girl for a short while, and will only occasionally take advantage of two generations in places where Kabel can't see.
He said: "Cabel has actually done more than we imagined, she has exported the system design of intelligent machinery to various key places, such as prisons, such as hospitals, such as military headquarters, general government, security buildings. Some security devices. These design fragments are hidden in the complete system, and when some critical data is touched, it will automatically grab backups and even upgrade, and we have obtained a lot of information through these for a long time later.”
"The purpose of the time experiment was revealed under such a gathering of information..."
As early as the beginning of the new Gregorian calendar, with the discovery of more than a dozen habitable planets and the continuous development of interstellar immigration technology, a group of capital groups originally on the Tianying γ star began to transfer to other stars, and continued for thousands of years. In the past conflicts, compromises, and countless melees, both big and small, the City of Silver gradually surpassed the parent star, Tianying Gamma, and became the champion. The level of technology far exceeds that of any other planet. They all shine with the silver brilliance of high-tech alloys, and they are dazzlingly white, so they have the nickname "Silver City".
However, if the momentum is too high, the road is too smooth, and it is easy to create an illusion of omnipotence. As a result, all kinds of bizarre exploration and research in the City of Silver are emerging one after another. This is not a bad thing in itself.
However, some of these studies ignored all consequences at the beginning of their implementation. The process was crazy and terrifying, and the impact caused exponential growth. When the upper management responded and called for an emergency stop, the car could no longer be stopped, and the devastating results were irreversible.
After several times, under the bright skin of the City of Silver, there are already hundreds of holes. The entire planet is dying at an accelerated speed of eight hundred miles.
The surface is still at the peak, and the inside has already jumped off the cliff.
And so... the time experiment was brewed.
They want to create regret medicine, they want to have countless chances to start over, and they want to remove the constraints of consequences so that they can try everything without scruples.
They want to deny the meaning of time, to release the bondage of time.
However, the situation of the City of Silver was not enough to make them go crazy. The result of the contradictions was that the City of Silver directly took the lead, causing a century-long interstellar chaos. At the same time, through chaos, time experiments were quietly introduced to other planets, and people were inserted everywhere.
"You know, it's like taking the City of Silver as the source and digging tributaries on other habitable planets." Jin continued to gesture with his hands when he spoke. When he said this, his pale face turned a little red, and his tone of voice was a little red. Did not consciously improve. "Our planets are treated as petri dishes, waiting for time to experiment and ferment in various large environments. And our planet has the thickest foundation, and because it was once the parent planet, it is closely related to the political group and capital group of the City of Silver. It is inextricably linked, and it is a perfect reaction vessel for them.”
"These time experiment bases are interlinked with the huge time experiment area of the City of Silver. All the energy fluctuations and disturbances caused by the experiment in the City of Silver will lead to other planets, especially us, through these. Here. I don’t know if you still have an impression. There have been reports for a few years that the planetary depletion trend of the City of Silver is reversing at a certain rate, followed by a bunch of nonsense data and serious experiments. In fact, it is time The result of several attempts of the experiment! And the so-called torsion is only an appearance, but the energy disorder and effect caused are too great to be eliminated!"
It's like carrying a bomb with an unparalleled explosive yield, secretly trying to find someone to take advantage of and send it out.
"At that time, most of us were gone, either being dealt with in secret like Cabell and Elena, or being involved in the Fort Barney incident like your dad. The blow was really too great. The shadow lasted for decades. Me, Medela and the others could only be more cautious. If they took a few more risks, they would probably be wiped out. This kind of suffocating day has passed. In 5685, the Red Maple Base was destroyed, that was really—" Jin considered his words, "inspiring."
Shao Heng, Roger and the others: "..."
Even Chu Si didn't know what expression to put on for a while. He thought about it, and for the first time, he interrupted in the middle of the sentence, "Say Yang will be stunned when he hears this."
Esther Cabel raised his hand and patted it twice as a sign of encouragement, and by the way, he also expressed his agreement with Kim's wording.
Everyone: "… "
Jin laughed and said, "Even if Medela was asked to come over, he would agree with the word."
Chu Si silently thought about Admiral Medela's perennial unsmiling face, and could not imagine what kind of "approval" reaction he would have when he heard this.
"At that time, everyone was stared at by countless pairs of eyes, and we couldn't have too obvious inclinations and actions. But I still want to say that the reason why Mr. Sae Yang has been able to get away with justice for 17 years is that he is really amazing on the one hand. , on the other hand, there is also Medela and their credit."
The destruction of the Red Maple Base, as Sae Yang said, actually destroyed all the equipment and devices in the base related to the time experiment, including the energy pool. In fact, no human life was involved. The explosion that followed was actually the handwriting of the military department. On the one hand, it was to aggravate the crime of Sae Young, and on the other hand, it was to cover up.
The so-called lost contact list is actually a list of participants in the time experiment.
The military department and some of the general government and the same faction in the security building transferred all those people under the guise of "losing contact".
It is a pity that although Sae Yang destroyed the largest nest of the "Time Experiment" group of people on the Tianying γ star, as long as the real foundation of the City of Silver is still there, it is only a matter of time before the experimental equipment data is re-established and restored. .
"I took it lightly at that time, and then I did something that I'm sorry for, and I was very stupid." Jin said angrily, "I then tried to explore their new nest under the guise of a research project, and I was found out. The malfunctioning experimental cabin was slammed hard."
"..." Everyone stared at his young face, for fear that he would also say: So I also died.
"Don't look at me like this tomb-sweeping eyes." Jin waved his hand, "I'm not dead, but my time as an individual is disordered, which has caused me to be traced back to when I was young."
"What about physical fitness?"
"It's back to that time."
"That's better than dead." Shao Heng said.
Cabell tapped a Morse code-like rhythm on the armrest with his fingers again, and changed it: "But his biological lifespan has been shortened a lot."
Chu Si frowned: "Can it be recovered?"
Jin shook his head nonchalantly, "It was an accident for me, how can I freely choose to move forward or backward, it's good to be alive."
He paused and added: "Compared to those old friends, I'm already... one of the luckiest people."
"But maybe to compensate for my shortened lifespan, I picked up Cabell in the hospital the next winter." Jin paused and said again, "At the same time, I saw you who was ordered by Shao Dun not to be discharged early. ."
"Hospital?" Chu Si was taken aback.
He was in the hospital, and was ordered not to be discharged by Mr. Shao... There was only one time in total, that is, the time when half of his body was damaged.
Ester Cabel was in the hospital then
"So you are..." Chus looked at Kabel.
The other party squinted at him and smiled, and tapped the rhythm with his fingers to reply: "Thank you for catching me."
Chu Si was slightly stunned, "Are you the kid who almost slipped?"
Kabell knocked and explained: "When I was locked in the experimental cabin, I should have died, because the experiment has not yet appeared even a semi-finished product. But in fact, when I opened my eyes and woke up, you were in charge of it. In the experimental team that was escorted."
Jin said for her: "We guessed that the extremely low probability of the success rate of the experimental cabin left a trace on Kabel, which caused a part of the chaos in time and space, so the time of the big environment she was in was pulled to the later time, and Her time as an individual was dragged back to before, when she was 2 or 3 years old, she had no memory, just like an ordinary battered child. Maybe there is some kind of delicate balance, so she is still alive."
Kabell tapped again and added; "Of course, this is an accident after all, and it's uncertain whether he will live or not in the future."
Everyone: "… "
Jin thought for a while and then said to Chu Si: "Hey - I was trapped in the experimental cabin once, and I didn't go out for half a year, and in a blink of an eye you were lying in the hospital bloody, let your dad know that our Friendship is probably coming to an end. I had to pretend that I didn't know Shao Dun at the time, and I didn't have a chance to contact directly, so I contacted Medela after a while, and he worked a little bit after that and moved you on a level to move you in A relatively stable security building. We don’t really want to involve your generation in these troubles, but we still have to make plans. In case our entire army is wiped out, at least you can hold on, and you will be very alive. it is good."
After hearing this, Chu Si felt a complicated feeling in his heart—
The unrelated people he thought were strangers were blessing him with concern, and the dead or living parents and friends were silently looking after him in the corners he could not see...
Jin didn't notice the change in his eyes, and continued to finish the last point: "In short, those years were probably the best years. Later, Medela became an admiral, and he also trained some people who seemed to be on the same level as each other. The undercover guy, although we are still at a complete disadvantage compared to the number of people, we have finally made a good development. We have always speculated that if the city of silver continues to go crazy, the energy and time and space caused by it The disorder is becoming more and more uncontrollable, and there is always a way to solve it. It is impossible for them to understand the truth that blocking is worse than sparse. And the most likely to be used to divert the problem is our planet. But we have never been able to discover the time experiment The traces of scale expansion, a small base alone is not enough to digest such a big problem."
"We are still a step behind at this point. When the vague reaction came to an end, an unprecedented and devastating experimental error occurred in the City of Silver." Jin scratched his hair and caught the whip on the back of his head. Messy, "I received the news on the afternoon of December 27, 5713. At that time, I was taking Kabelle in the black cedar forest, and it was time for your recuperation to visit you. The news came from Mei Della was there, and he got the news at noon that day. What happened after that, you know, we didn't have time to react, and the whole planet was pulled into this nightmare."
On the evening of December 27, 5713, the global alarm sounded, and within three minutes, everyone hurriedly found the nearest frozen capsule and lay down.
"So the City of Silver finally found a way to transfer the consequences..." Chu Si said.
"Yeah." Jin nodded, "After I woke up from the frozen capsules with Cabell, I found that the frozen capsules in the black cedar forest have been modified, and the people lying in them will wake up later than others. , I think it may be that Kabel and I were unknowingly exposed, and the other party figured out the regularity of our annual visit to the black cedar forest and moved a little bit. But by coincidence, our own individual time is disordered, time and space The instantaneous disturbance and collision of global energy caused by the experiment caused the planet to collapse, and in the process, the two of us also affected the timing of this planetary fragment, so...there was such a chaotic time result."
Jin shrugged, "We suspect that it was this huge disorder and rupture that affected those people in the Barneysburg incident-the crazy experimental team, in an attitude of not wasting, stuffed all those people into the The experimental cabin was probably used as a denominator for the pitifully small success rate - I didn't expect that there would be a result, and I woke up on the ground, but their current state was neither alive nor dead, but frozen. at a certain point."
When Kim woke up, he tried to contact the others, only to hear back from a few. He suspected that everyone's frozen capsules might be passive, so he sent them a reminder message whether they were awake or not.
Until he received a signal from Jiang Qi.
After the disintegration of the planet, this horribly wounded team reunited at different points in time.
"Jiang rediscovered a new hidden clue in a draft handed to him by Cabell's students before he died, and it was this clue that led us to the tool that really opened Pandora's Box," Kim said.
"Draft?" Chu Si immediately connected his communicator to the console of the command center, and directly called up the document he and Sae Yang decrypted. Research drafts and audio files are displayed side by side on the screen.
"Is it this one?"
"It seems to be true." Jin tapped the button twice, the audio file played, and the strange voice repeated what Chu Si had heard last time: "Eternal life makes a devil, and death makes a god."
"You guys have less time than us, so maybe you didn't realize it. You treat the audio files like this—" Jin bit the tip of his tongue and stared at the screen and quickly tapped the keys, something Chu Si had never seen before.
He decomposed the entire audio and played it backwards, and it became a single syllable.
"According to the Bennett cipher, you don't know the Bennett cipher. This is the set we used internally." Jin decoded those single syllables according to the key of the so-called Bennett cipher, and finally got a sentence: " They created the devil, and I prepared the gods."
The so-called "god" must be the "grid" design that Cabel left for them, which was finally placed under the Barneysburg by Jiang Qi.
Pointing to the screen, Kim said, "We thought this was the only piece of information, but there's actually a second level."
He cut the sentence "They created the devil, I prepared God" again, decomposed it into a series of letters, and then changed a key to convert this string of letters into several sets of numbers.
Chu Si understood at a glance that each set of numbers represented "the yth row of the xth row."
So he followed those numbers without a word and found the answer in that diary-like draft, and that answer spelled out a name - Mond Hollis
The entire command center fell into a dead silence the moment they saw the name.
During the design process of the frozen capsule, whenever there was disagreement and quarrel, someone always shouted, "Do I have to bring Professor Mond Hollis's coffin over here to restrain you idiots in order to stop it?!"
This name rarely appears in daily life, but every time it appears, it is forever tied to another word - dragon pillar.
Mond Hollis is the chief designer and helmsman of Longzhu.
Jin pointed to the name and said to everyone who was already in a cold sweat: "Mond Hollis is the best hidden participant in the time experiment, now you should know how the City of Silver diverts the devastating consequences. It's on our planet, and it's scary, isn't it?"