The library is the exit of the second floor of the labyrinth. Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo passed through the secret door and were transported to Brahma's "Divine Kingdom".
Compared with the previous time, this time, their progress was much faster, and it was naturally impossible to encounter Baroque.
In fact, besides Ji Xiaoniao and his family Ren Damei, Binglang and Baroque have just broken through the first floor, while Mo Tiangen and Fan Hemian are still obediently staying in the corridor, calculating the remaining time for them Woolen cloth.
Standing on the small floating island, Ren Jian silently observed everything around him.
The azure sea hangs upside down above his head, and the white waves roll, one after another, reaching the horizon where the eyes can't reach. The fine drops of water scattered with the waves, turning into cool and salty raindrops, and fell on the two of them.
And under Ren Jianmo's feet was a thick cloud as white as cotton candy.
The clouds were so thick that it was almost impossible to see anything below the knee.
This instinctively creates an illusion of standing among the clouds, so beautiful, so fantastic, and so frightening.
This kind of scenery should be extremely shocking in anyone's eyes. As long as you have seen it once, it will be deeply imprinted in your mind.
But no matter how hard Ren Jianmo tried to remember, trying to search out the clues left by the last time he came here from his blank mind, he found nothing.
Yes, he doesn't remember.
Ren Jianmo's brain is like a computer whose system has just been reloaded, except for the innate fighting instinct, it is difficult to find a trace of information.
He really couldn't remember anything, and naturally it was impossible to know how all this was caused.
In fact, a memory that Ren Jianmo forgot was the "price" he paid.
Equivalent exchange, what you like and what I want, is something that can no longer be taken back after payment.
Ren Jianmo's second ability is called "Hunyuan Youdao".
Like his "God said let there be light", it is an extremely rare spiritual power.
The supernatural powers in "Peach Blossom Spring" are all kinds of strange things.
There are powerful types like Mo Tiangen or Ma Ke, and there are also aliens like Su Rong who can transform their whole body or parts, and even stronger ones who can manipulate certain substances and even elements.
Most senior participants would feel that, judging from the distribution of the number of people with various abilities, the healing department—especially those who can reach a high level of difficulty—are the rarest and rarest talents in the "Peach Blossom Land".
Actually not.
Compared with the healing department, even rarer is the spiritual ability.
Because this is a power that is not allowed in "Peach Blossom Spring".
For "Peach Blossom Spring", everything is like refining Gu.
Participants who meet the standards are equivalent to little bugs, and they are all locked in a sealed space, and then released to carefully screened and designed "worlds" according to their strength and weakness once a month Here, let them struggle for survival in desperation, and become closer and closer to the finished product in "their" mind.
While doing all this, "Peach Blossom Spring" has never considered to inspire those abilities that can control the mind and spirit in the participants.
But Ren Jianmo still possessed spiritual powers, and there were two of them.
"Peach Blossom Spring" was afraid of him, which was also born because of this.
When Ren Jianmo's "God Said Let There Be Light" is used to the extreme, it can control any creature with full or partial autonomous consciousness, force them to execute their own instructions, or carry out spiritual communication similar to telepathy.
Even in the "world" of "separation of flesh and blood", the monsters whose whole body is stripped of flesh and blood, leaving only a skeleton and a brain, as long as their activities are still controlled by nerves, Ren Jianmo's abilities can affect them.
And "Hunyuan Youdao" is a kind of super sensory ability.
It can make Ren Jianmo suddenly see some scenes that will happen in the near future at an uncertain moment.
At the beginning, he could only get some fragmented, scattered pictures like silhouettes, and they all happened very close to each other—for the first time, he "saw" the upcoming scene in Wal-Mart in the "City of Ashes". When the salamander attacked him, it was only two seconds earlier.
Later, as his abilities gradually recovered, the images that appeared in Ren Jianmo's mind became more specific and coherent, sometimes even complete scenes lasting several seconds.
Until now, Ren Jianmo still couldn't control the timing of "Hunyuan Youdao".
It can suddenly break into the owner's mind at any moment without warning, like a clip that the editor has misplaced.
However, it is not so much a kind of predictive ability at this time, but it is more accurate to say that what Ren Jianmo sees is about to happen at some point in the future. Or a life-or-death choice.
In fact, in a sense, Ren Dameier is the one who holds the spoiler.
A month ago, when they were still in the "world" of the "SCP Containment War", Ren Jianmo's "Hunyuan Youdao" was launched again.
At that time, he was in the deepest part of the Omega Containment Center, overlooking the queen bee hiding in the deep pit through a hole in the wall.
Then without warning, he "saw" a compass.
Or to be more precise, the image of himself reaching out and pulling out a small compass from a pile of wreckage appeared in Ren Jianmo's mind.
At that time, Ren Jianmo didn't know what that compass was and what it was useful for.
But that short two-second scene turned into a real voice, which echoed clearly and firmly in the depths of his consciousness.
That voice told him: That is a very important thing, no matter what, you must get it.
—It will definitely change your destiny sometime in the future.
Therefore, Ren Jianmo obeyed the instructions of "Hunyuan Youdao", and led Ji Thrush into the queen bee's nest, secretly got the compass, and brought it back to "Hunyuan Youdao" as a collectible. Peach Blossom Spring".
Later, Ren Jianmo avoided all his companions, and went to Yao Wanguan, a second-hand businessman, by himself, and got an appraisal of the compass from him.
It is exactly the SCP323 listed as "???" on the SCP directory, and its name is "Beacon of History".
And more importantly, for such a small and inconspicuous compass, the Shoebill actually gave it an "SS" rating.
"Oh my god, this is the first time I've seen an SS-level collection!"
Afterwards, Yao Wanguan sighed.
The "beacon of history" is the same as the SCP808 bundled dragon rope that cannot be cut off as long as a certain condition is met. It is a causal SCP item.
But what this compass affects is real and can be manipulated by humans, a specific time-space node.
There are two turntables for date and time on the "beacon of history", and the user can turn it freely to set any moment that has not yet arrived as a "singularity".
After the "singularity" is set, at any time within a maximum of one year, the pointer on the compass can be reversed until it returns to the "singularity".
Once the law of space-time causality of the compass itself is established, time will go back to the second of the "singularity".
That's a real, real time reversal.
However, as a causal SCP item that can reshape the history of the plane, the "Beacon of History" is something that mortals cannot control.
Excluding Yao Wanguan's identification results, the single-use success rate of the compass is only 30%.
Once the use fails, the "singularity" that has been set will be damaged, and the user will suffer very serious injuries under the huge recoil force. Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will be seriously injured with shattered vertebrae and hemiplegia.
Even if it is successful, the user will definitely not have a good time.
The dissipated energy can be large or small when going back in time and space. If you are unlucky, you can even grind people into a meat sauce alive.
When Ren Jianmo learned of the purpose and danger of this small compass, he was secretly shocked.
It was hard for him to imagine what happened that would make him use the "beacon of history" one day.
Ren Jianmo kept this question in his heart, and even Ji Thrush didn't reveal it at all.
Finally, he found the answer in "Endless Cause and Effect".
——Because Ren Jianmo saw the scene where Ji Thrush himself chose to die and jumped off the clouds.
Although "Hunyuan Youdao" allows Ren Jianmo to see in advance a key turning point that will affect his fate at a certain moment in the future, it cannot clearly tell him the cause and effect.
Ren Jianmo didn't know why Ji Thrush committed suicide, but he was very sure that no matter what the price was, he would definitely prevent it from happening.
So he chose to set a "singularity" with the "beacon of history" before entering the maze of "Vatican".
But this is not enough.
Ren Jianmo knew the strength of himself and his family's children very well. Once the time came when they really needed to use the "beacon of history", it could only show that they were already at the end of their rope at that time.
Even if you are lucky enough to go back in time, if the same situation happens again, there is no guarantee that the same ending will not be repeated.
Therefore, Ren Jianmo still needed the Luna Stone.
He wasn't sure if he could go back in time after using the compass, so Ren Jianmo wanted to try to save Ji Thrush's consciousness in the Luna Stone and bring it back to before entering the maze.
In this way, Ji Xiaoniao can keep the memory of the previous round, which greatly improves the possibility of customs clearance.
After calculating all this, the last thing Ren Jianmo can do is to try every means to increase the success rate of "Historical Beacon".
Thirty percent is really too low.
He can't risk Ji Xiaoniao's life.
Fortunately, he has another collection related to probability, the lineage identification machine.
This gadget, which looks like a mini gashapon machine, can give the user the corresponding luck or bad luck value at a certain price. If you are stingy, even a hair or a drop of blood can be used as the so-called "price". Gives a very playful impression.
But in fact, if the user is willing to pay enough, the bloodline identification function can have a huge impact far beyond imagination.
Ren Jianmo didn't know how much he would have to pay for a move that would affect the history of a plane, such as reversing time and space and reconstructing the future, but he had to do it.
The result of knowing that he can't do it but insisting on it is that he can only hand over the power of "pricing" to the blood identification machine.
After sealing Ji Thrush's consciousness into the Luna Stone, Ren Jianmo took out a palm-sized mini gashapon machine, asked the lineage identification machine for luck enough to affect the "beacon of history", and then pulled the handle.
The ratio of red beads to blue beads is five to one.
His chance of getting what he wanted was much higher than Luo Pan's original 30%.
Fortunately, Lady Luck was by Ren Jianmo's side at the critical moment.
He got the red bead.
At this time, more than half of the five minutes had passed, and Ren Jianmo turned the pointer of the compass back to the "singularity" at the last minute.
With the blessing of Xiao Hongzhu, he succeeded.
However, at this moment, Ren Jianmo still doesn't know that the price to be paid for such extraordinary luck must be extremely heavy.
He reversed time and space and went back in time for the thrush, and what the bloodline identification secret took away was precisely his memory of every bit and drop of thrush.
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The name "Beacon of History" comes from the Japanese manga "Fengshen Yanyi"