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"What purpose? How did you find out?" Truss asked.

"Basically rely on this hero." Jin patted the shoulder of the little girl beside him. Since he knew it was Esther Kabell, his words and deeds have restrained a lot, and he no longer rubbed her head like a real kid. It's funny, and it won't be that the little princess grows up and the baby daughter yells shortly, and she will only occasionally take advantage of a few words of seniority where Kabel can't see.

He said: "Kabel 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 the military department, general government, and security buildings. Some security devices. These design fragments are hidden in the complete system, and when accessing certain key data, they will automatically capture backups and even upgrade them. We have obtained a lot of information through these for a long time later.”

"The purpose of the time experiment is revealed under the collection of such information..."

As early as the beginning of the new Gregorian calendar, with the discovery of more than ten habitable planets and the continuous development of interstellar immigration technology, a group of capital groups originally on the Aquila gamma star began to transfer to other stars, and it continued for thousands of years. In the past conflicts, compromises, and countless melees, the City of Silver gradually overtook the parent star Aquila γ, and became the leader. Its technological level far exceeds any other planet. The silver brilliance of high-tech alloys is shining, so white that it is dazzling, so it has the nickname "City of Silver".

However, if the momentum is too strong and the road is too smooth, it is easy to give people an illusion of omnipotence.As a result, all kinds of unimaginable explorations and researches in the City of Silver emerged one after another. This is not a bad thing in itself, it happened a lot, no matter which planet the people are used to.

However, some of these studies ignored all consequences at the beginning of their implementation. The process was crazy and terrifying, and the impact caused increased exponentially.

After going down several times, under the bright skin of the City of Silver, it has already been riddled with holes.The entire planet is dying at a speed of eight hundred miles.

The surface is still at the peak, but the inside has already jumped off the cliff.

Thus... a time experiment was brewed.

They want to create the regret potion, the chance to do it all over again, the removal of the constraints of consequences so they can try everything without fear.

They want to deny the meaning of time, to undo the shackles of time.

However, the situation in the City of Silver at that time was not enough to make them open their arms and go mad. Production capacity, and at the same time, through chaos, time experiments are quietly introduced into other planets, and people are inserted all over the planets.

"You know, it's like taking the City of Silver as the source and digging out branches on other habitable planets." When Jin spoke, he kept gesticulating with his hands. When he said this, his pale face turned red, and his tone I also didn't consciously improve. "Our planets are used as petri dishes, waiting for time to experiment and ferment in various environments. Our planet has the strongest foundation, and because it used to be the mother planet, it has nothing to do with the political and capital groups in the City of Silver. It is inextricably linked, and it is an excellent reaction vessel for them."

"These time experiment bases are interconnected with the huge time experiment area of ​​the City of Silver. All the energy fluctuations and chaos caused by the experiment in the City of Silver will be introduced to other planets, especially ours. Here. I don’t know if you still have the impression, there have been reports for several years that the planetary depletion trend of the City of Silver is reversing at a certain rate, followed by a bunch of messy data and serious experiments, which is actually time The result of several experiments! Moreover, the so-called torsion is only an appearance, but the energy disorder and effect caused are too large to be eliminated!"

It's like carrying a bomb with an unparalleled explosive yield, concealing it and doing everything possible to find someone to take advantage of and send it out.

"At that time, most of us were no longer around, either we were dealt with secretly like Kabell and Elena, or we were caught up in the Fort Barney incident like your father. The blow is really too big, the shadow has lasted for decades, me and Medra can only be more cautious, if I take a few more risks, the whole army will probably be wiped out. This kind of depressed life has been going on until now The Red Maple base was destroyed in 5685, that was really—" Jin thought about his words, "It's exciting."

Shao Heng, Luo Jie and the others: "..."

Even Chus didn't know what expression to put on for a moment. He thought for a while, and for the first time interrupted in the middle of the conversation, "Say Young would be taken aback when he heard this."

Esther Kabell raised her hand and patted it twice as a sign of encouragement, and by the way, she also expressed her agreement with Jin's words.

Everyone: "..."

Jin laughed and said, "Even if Medra is asked to come over, he will agree with this word."

Chus silently thought about Admiral Medra's unsmiling face all the year round, and he really couldn't 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 tendencies and actions. But I still want to say that the reason why Mr. Sah Young has been able to get away with it for 17 years is that he is really powerful on the one hand. , On the other hand, there is also credit for Medra and the others.”

The destruction of the Red Maple base, as Sah Yang said, actually destroyed all the equipment and devices related to the time experiment in the base, including the energy pool, and in fact did not implicate any human life.The explosion that followed was actually a handiwork by the military. On the one hand, it was to aggravate the charges against Sah Young, and on the other hand, it was to cover up.

The so-called missing list is actually a list of participants in the time experiment.

The military department and some of the same faction of the general government and the security building transferred all those people under the guise of "lost contact".

Regrettably, although Sah Young destroyed the largest lair of the "time experiment" group on Skyhawk γ, as long as the real foundation of the City of Silver remains, it will only be a matter of time before the data of the experimental equipment is re-established. .

"I was a little careless at that time, and then I did something I'm sorry for my brain, very stupid." Jin said with annoyed expression, "I tried to explore their new nest once under the guise of a research project, but was rejected. The malfunctioning experimental cabin has been severely pitted."

"..." Everyone stared at his young face, afraid that he would say something: So I died too.

"Don't look at me with such grave-sweeping eyes." Jin waved his hand, "I am not dead, but the time as an individual has been disordered, causing me to be traced back to my youth."

"What about physical fitness?"

"It's back to that time too."

"That's better than death." Shao Heng said.

Kabell tapped out a Morse code-like rhythm with his fingers on the armrest again, and then changed it: "But his biological lifespan has been shortened a lot."

Chu Si frowned: "Can it be recovered?"

Jin shook his head indifferently, "It was an accident to me, how can I freely choose to move forward and backward, it's good to be alive."

He paused, and added: "Compared to those old friends, I am already... one of the luckiest people."

"But maybe in order to compensate for my shortened lifespan, I picked up Kabell in the hospital the following winter." Jin paused, and then said, "At the same time, I also saw you who were ordered by Shao Dun not to leave the hospital early. .”

"Hospital?" Chus was taken aback.

He was in the hospital, and he was ordered not to leave the hospital by Mr. Shao... There was only one time in total, and it was the time when half of his body was damaged.

Esther Cabell was also in the hospital at that time?

"So you are..." Truss looked at Cabel.

The other party squinted his eyes and smiled at him, tapped his fingers rhythmically and replied: "Thank you for catching me."

Chu Si was slightly taken aback, "Are you the kid who almost slipped?"

Kabel tapped and explained: "When I was locked in the experimental cabin, I should have died without a doubt, because there was not even a semi-finished product in the experiment. But in fact, when I woke up, it was already under your responsibility. In the experimental team that escorted."

Jin said for her: "We guess, it should be that the extremely low probability success rate of the experimental cabin left a little trace on Kabel, which caused some space-time chaos, so the time of her general environment was pulled to a later date, and Her time as an individual was dragged back to the past, when she was 2 or 3 years old, she had no memory, just like an ordinary child who was severely injured. Maybe there is a delicate balance formed, so she is still alive now. alive."

Kabell tapped again and added: "Of course, this was an accident after all, and it's uncertain whether he will survive in the future."

Everyone: "..."

Jin thought for a while and said to Chu Si: "Hey - I was cheated by the experimental cabin, and I couldn't go out for more than half a year, and you were lying in the hospital bloody in a blink of an eye. Let your dad know, we My friendship probably came to an end. I had to pretend not to know Shao Dun at that time, and had no chance of direct contact, so I got in touch with Medra. After that, he worked a little bit, transferred you to the We have built a relatively stable and much more secure building. We don't really want to drag your generation into these troubles again, but we still have to plan well. very good."

After hearing this, Chu Si felt a complicated feeling in his heart——

He thought that the unfamiliar and unrelated people were blessing him with concern, and those dead or alive fathers and friends were silently watching over him in a corner he couldn't 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, Medra became a general, and he also cultivated some people who seemed to be the same as the other party. Although we are still at a complete disadvantage in terms of numbers, we have finally made some good progress. In fact, we have always speculated that if the City of Silver continues to go crazy, the energy and time and space it will cause The chaos is becoming more and more unstoppable, and there is always a way to solve it. It is impossible for them to understand the truth that blocking is better 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 were still a step too late on this point. When we vaguely realized, an unprecedented destructive experimental error occurred on the City of Silver." Jin scratched his hair and grabbed the whip on the back of his head. Messy, "I received the news on the afternoon of December 5713, 12. At that time, I was taking Kabel in the black cedar forest, and I just took time to see you when you recuperated. The news came from May It was from Della, and he got the news at noon that day. You know what happened after that, we had no time to react, and the whole planet was drawn into this nightmare."

On the evening of December 5713, 12, the global alarm sounded, and everyone panicked to find the nearest frozen capsule to lie down in that 27 minutes, and then there was a dark day that was so long that it was almost endless.

"So the City of Silver finally found a way to transfer the consequences..." Chu Si said.

"Yeah." Jin nodded, "After Kabel and I woke up from the frozen capsules, we found that the batch of frozen capsules in Black Cedar Forest had been modified so that people lying in them would wake up later than others , I think maybe Kabel and I were exposed unknowingly. The other party figured out the regularity of our annual visits to the black cedar forest and moved a little bit. But coincidentally, our own individual time is disordered, time and space The instantaneous disorder and collision of the global energy caused by the experiment caused the planet to collapse, and in that process, the two of us also affected the time of this planet fragment, so... there was such a chaotic time result."

Jin shrugged, "We guess that it was this huge disorder and rupture that affected those people in the Fort Barney incident—those lunatic experimental teams stuffed all those people with an attitude of not wasting After entering the experimental cabin, they were probably denominators for the pitifully small success rate—unexpectedly, there was a result, and they woke up sideways, but their current state was neither alive nor dead, but It was fixed at a certain point."

After waking up, Jin tried to contact other people, but there were only a few responses.He suspected that everyone's frozen capsules might have been tampered with, so he sent them a reminder message whether they were awake or not.

Until he received a signal from Jiang Qi.

This horrific team reunited at different points in time after the planet fell apart.

"Jiang rediscovered a new hidden clue in a draft handed to him by Cabell's student before his death, and it was this clue that allowed us to find the tool that really opened Pandora's Box." King said.

"Draft?" Chus immediately connected his communicator to the console of the command center, and directly called up the document that he and Say Young decrypted.The research draft and audio file are displayed side by side on the screen.

"Is it this one?"

"It seems to be true." Jin tapped the button twice, and the audio file played, and the weird voice repeated what Chus heard last time: "Eternal life makes the devil, and death makes the god."

"Your time is tighter than ours, so you may not have noticed, you can process the audio files in this way—" Jin bit his tongue, stared at the screen and tapped the buttons quickly, which was something Chus had never seen in the previous relationship .

He decomposed the entire audio and played it backwards, and it became monosyllables one by one.

"According to the Bene cipher, oh, you don't know the Bene cipher, this is the set we used internally." Jin decoded those monosyllabic syllables according to the key of the so-called Bene cipher, and finally got a sentence: " They created devils, I prepared gods."

The so-called "God" must have been the "grid" design left by Kabel for them, and Jiang Qi finally put it in the underground of Fort Barney.

Jin pointed to the screen and said, "We thought there was only one layer of information, but there is actually a second layer."

He cut the sentence "They created the devil, I prepared God" again, decomposed it into a string of letters, and then changed a key to convert this string of letters into several groups of numbers.

Truss understood at a glance that each set of numbers represented "the yth row xth."

So without further ado, he found the answer in that diary-like draft according to those sets of numbers, and that answer spelled out a name——Mond Hollis

The people in the entire command center fell into deathly silence the moment they saw this name.

During the design process of frozen capsules, whenever there were disagreements and quarrels, someone always yelled, "Is it necessary to carry the coffin of Professor Mund Hollis over to suppress you idiots to calm down?!"

This name rarely appears in daily life, but every time it appears, it is always bound together with another word - Dragon Pillar.

Mond Hollis is the chief designer and helm of Dragon Pillar.

Pointing to the name, Jin said to the crowd who were already sweating: "Mond Hollis is the best hidden participant in the time experiment, now you should know how the City of Silver transfers the devastating consequences It’s our planet, it’s scary, isn’t it, to pass through the dragon pillars in every corner of the planet?”