Xu Xin had so many questions he wanted to ask. If the person in front of him wasn't just an image that couldn't interact, he would have interrupted the other person long ago.
Regardless of how absurd what this hundreds-year-old self said was, he still believed that what he said was believable.
Perhaps, this is a kind of trust in oneself that transcends time and space.
But, if the first batch of survivors were their own people sent to the future, then the subsequent batches... were they also
Then why do they seem to be under the control of those alien invaders now, as soon as they arrive in this world
Xu Xin in the image continued to speak.
"I am not the first batch of people to go back to the past, because in the future, I will still be needed to take charge of the overall situation. Similarly, most of my teammates did not go back to the past in that batch."
Partner in the team
Could it be that...
"Of course, those who returned to the past were all people who had survived for hundreds of years since the disaster. Our population has basically not decreased in the past few hundred years, and our lives are not bad, but they still have very strong feelings for the Earth in the past."
"Although most of them only survived on Earth for a few decades, the life at that time was completely incomparable to the post-disaster Earth..."
Beside her, Xu Ying sighed softly, with a look of strong nostalgia in her eyes.
Although she was only in her twenties when the disaster struck, her nostalgia for the past was the deepest.
At that time, she was still a student and had not experienced the hardships of society.
Especially since she had just experienced the most wonderful and free four years of college life, and then fell directly into the Dark Ages. The contrast was so huge that her memory of the Earth was completely as beautiful as heaven.
Of course, the same goes for other people. No matter how bad the original earth was, it was no worse than a small corner after the disaster.
"However, they don't have the chance to experience life before the disaster again. They can't even go home to replace the self who was sent to the future, because... Although we found a loophole and returned to the past, we were not erased, but..."
In the video, Xu Xin's eyes were dim: "All traces of our existence in the world have been erased. No one in this world knows us anymore..."
Xu Xin also sighed softly.
This... is indeed too lonely.
He had just experienced this kind of thing personally. When he knew that his own mother had forgotten him, the feeling was extremely uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Yingying still remembers him.
…
Why does Yingying still remember him
"Of course, because at that stage we didn't know how long we, those of us in the false future, could exist in the past, and we didn't know how long it would take for us to turn into nothingness."
"So, after they returned to the past, they quickly carried out the second step of the plan."
"Before the alien invaders arrive, revive the blood of the ancient beasts sleeping on Earth!"
The resurrection of the blood of the ancient beast refers to... that giant, right? Xu Xin thought to himself when he heard this.
"Because we have mastered the activation method of the alien invaders, this step... is very smooth."
"The bloodline of the giant beast was activated ten years before the alien invasion."
"The bloodline of the giant beast that has been dormant for more than a billion years has finally reappeared before our eyes!"
"However, activation is not that easy. We also paid a heavy price because the original bloodline of the giant beast was just a fossil without consciousness."
At this point, Xu Xin in the video laughed self-deprecatingly: "No matter what kind of creature it is, it is impossible for it to live as long as the sky and exist for more than ten billion years. Even I am just a person with a longer lifespan, much longer than ordinary humans."
etc…
The bloodline of giant beasts, are they fossils without consciousness
Xu Xin was slightly startled.
He always thought that the sleeping giant beast bloodline that Xu Xin mentioned in the video was referring to the giant he encountered.
Isn’t it the result
So in that case... what is that giant...
"Because it is a fossil, the blood of the giant beast needs us to extract and study it ourselves in order to continue our plan to fight against foreign invaders. The people we send to the past cannot study the blood of the giant beast."
"Originally, we considered bringing the blood of the giant beast to the future for research, because the facilities and manpower here are much better than in the past, but..." Image Xu Xin said this and sighed, "But we found that we can't bring things from the past into the false future."
"The only ones who can travel back and forth to the false future are us from the false future and the time machine."
"My future is already illusory, so it naturally cannot carry real things. Therefore, those real objects from the past cannot enter the already false future!"
At this point, Xu Xin's eyes in the video darkened: "Do you know how desperate we were back then? It was as if the laws of the universe were preventing us from saving our homeland."
Xu Xin was silent.
He could feel the hatred that the person in the image was feeling right now.
"What a crap universe! It's so disgusting!" Xu Ying, who had been silent throughout Xu Xin's narration in the video, suddenly started to curse.
"... Girls, don't say dirty words!" Upon hearing this, the image of Xu Xin frowned and turned around to scold.
"What girl? I'm over 400 years old!" Xu Ying glared back with a face that looked like she was in her twenties.
Image Xu Xin ignored her and turned back to continue: "But... we still thought of a solution."
"Since we can't bring the future back from the past, then let's bring everything in the future, including people and things, back to the past!"
Bringing back the past…
If they want to go back, they will need to send their past selves to the real future.
Is that why survivors appear in batches
That’s not right…
There are two million survivors in his group alone.
How could such a large-scale transport be possible? Besides, could they have so many people to participate in this plan
As expected, there are only 20,000 people...
Xu Xin frowned slightly.
what is going on
"At that time, we could already feel that even we ourselves were beginning to become unstable. Everyone felt the passage of time differently. Some felt that a day passed like a year, while others could close their eyes for hours."
"It's not just people, it's the same for plants, animals, and all objects. A normal tree can grow into an extremely thick and twisted thousand-year-old tree overnight, and a thrown stone can fly in the air at a snail's pace."
"At that time, the entire future was completely messed up."
… That kind of world is really crazy.
Um…
Xu Xin thought of something and suddenly his eyes widened slightly.
A tree house that grows into a thousand-year-old tree overnight
This seems... In this world, he can give birth to a poplar tree in just a dozen hours, and the forest can be regenerated overnight...
Somewhat similar
"So, all the members of our organization, nearly 20,000 people, chose to go back to the past. Because everyone knows that this future has no hope and will soon be shattered. It would be better to go back to the past and do something, even if it's just to take a look at the beautiful world they have been dreaming of."
"However, we are fortunate that when we returned to the past, there was no chaos. Perhaps it is the stable world that suppressed the unstable factors like us."
…Did they go back to the past together? Xu Xin was a little confused.
wrong.
Since there is a factor that can change time, we can no longer think normally.
Those who leave early and those who leave late can both return to the same point in time in the past.
Even those who leave late can travel back to an earlier time.
The time of going back to the past depends solely on when the first group of people sent people from the past to the real future.
Sure enough, Xu Xin in the video spoke.
"I was the last one to leave that future." Xu Xin said in the video, "When I left, that future was already close to chaos. If I didn't leave, I would probably disappear along with that future."
Logically speaking, in the past world he had just visited, he had been sent to the future, but Yingying was still there.
That means that the self in this image should have already returned to the past at that time, but Yingying in the image has not.
In other words, Xu Ying, who left earlier than Xu Xin in this video, returned to a later past.
That makes sense.
… etc
Xu Xin finally realized that when he was on the second floor, had he also... gone back to the past?!
… ?Why
He suddenly lowered his head and looked downward.
This palace... is it a time machine?!
However, it seems a bit strange that he returned to his past state...
At this moment, Xu Xin in the video seemed to have guessed his thoughts and spoke.
"On your way here, you must have traveled back to the past, right?" The image Xu Xin said with a smile, "As long as you arrive here, you must enter the second floor of this palace and experience time travel back to the past. Now, you have also experienced time travel."
Is that really time travel
So, the second floor of this palace is really...!
"You're right." Xu Xin in the image smiled, "This palace is actually an alternative time machine. However, in order to prevent you from reflecting on the past and causing the future to collapse, I have set many restrictions in this palace and this machine, so that you can only return to the past in a special state."
"I dare not let you really go back to the past. By then I will have already arrived in that world. If you really go back, there will be two of us in the same time and space, and then you and I will both be erased." Xu Xin in the video spread his hands.
…No wonder!
No wonder everyone can't see him or feel him.
No wonder he can only slightly affect the world, picking up very light, insignificant things.
It turns out it’s because of the restrictions set!
Moreover, it turns out that he already existed in the world at that time!
This feels a bit strange...
"The time you just returned to was already two months after you left that world. Similarly, it was also the second month since I came to that world." Xu Xin in the video explained, "By that time, we had basically extracted the blood of the giant beast."
"… Humph!" At this time, Xu Ying on the side suddenly snorted, "If it weren't for you, I could also participate in the extraction of the giant beast's bloodline!"
What's the meaning
"Yeah, it's also possible that the grass on the grave is three meters high." Xu Xin in the video waved his hand.
"In order to prevent me from going back in time, this guy has not allowed those people to send my past self to the future, resulting in me being teleported to a world three months behind theirs! He said that digging for the blood of giant beasts is too dangerous and wouldn't let me go back to the past too early!" Xu Ying stared at Xu Xin in the image and explained.
… No wonder Yingying was still there when he returned.
"Don't interrupt." Xu Xin in the video shook his head, and then continued to explain, "It is indeed very dangerous to explore the bloodline of giant beasts. The earth veins of ancient times are not so easy to explore. There are viruses that have been dormant for hundreds of millions of years and toxic gases that have been sealed for more than ten billion years. It is very dangerous. Fortunately, the excavation on our timeline was also completed by some of us, so we did not suffer too many casualties. Only less than a hundred people died."
Less than a hundred people...
It's really ironic for those people.
They did not die in the future, but died in the past which made them feel so beautiful.
However, they are also fighting for the truly beautiful future of the Earth...
"Those alien masters would never dig up such things themselves." Xu Ying sighed, "Many of us died at that time. There was nothing we could do. Although we had developed a new type of mutation that was no longer under their control, we could not show it, nor could we escape. Because we still needed their technological facilities for research, we could not refuse their orders."
"In short..." Xu Xin continued, "various fossils containing the blood of giant beasts were excavated intact and studied in detail."
"So, we started our third step, using the blood of giant beasts to create giant beasts that can fight against alien invaders!"
Creating a Behemoth…
A glimmer of enlightenment flashed in Xu Xin's eyes.
Could it be that the giants... are not some ancient race that exists on this earth and protects the earth, but...
A creature created by a future person who went back in time?!
"You should have figured it out by now." Xu Xin in the video said, "In the past ten years, we have used the extracted giant beast genes to create many giant beasts to fight against foreign invasions. The remains of the giant you touched can be said to be the strongest and most successful individual we have created."
Xu Xintong's eyes shook.
Giants are actually man-made creatures
But... the message it left behind didn't say that.
"In this decade, as our false future gradually collapsed, we became increasingly unstable. But this also brought us new opportunities."
"As our understanding of time and space deepens, we have invented more powerful time machines. We can... actively influence the flow of time."
“The technology you are using now is related to this.”
Is that really the case
He had just felt it, the rapidly growing trees, the rapidly changing weather...
Is it because of... the change in the speed of time
"Of course, this technology was not mature at first, and we only used it to give birth to generations of giant beasts. In the end, we created that giant, the strongest individual, the one... that left hope for the world."
"In order to prevent it from betraying this world, we also use the memory transmission device to make it think that it is a giant who has protected this world since ancient times, so that it can fight to the end for this world!"
Xu Xin let out a breath slowly.
He never imagined that the truth would be like this.
What about them
What about these people who were transported to the future
Why are they divided into groups of survivors
Why are they still under the control of the Blood Mark Clan
"After all preparations were completed, the alien invaders finally arrived and invaded again."
"That was an unprecedented battle. We intercepted them before they released their mutation light and sent interference signals to them, making them think that there was technology on this planet that was the same as theirs, or even surpassed theirs, so they didn't dare to act rashly."
"But this situation did not last long. Eventually, the battle between the behemoths and the mutants began."
"A long battle."
"The result is... we lost, but the plan was successful."
"The giants mixed their blood into the mountains and rivers. The blood of the mutated creatures was... 'contaminated' by the blood of the giant beasts."
"The giants were divided into countless pieces and scattered all over the world, and we also temporarily retreated and hid underground."
"At that time, we already felt that we didn't have much time left."
"However, before this war, we have done what we should do and have left the world with real hope."
"And that hope is you."