Chapter 198 When Time and Space Ever Flickered (1)

The new emperor calendar year 94, the end of spring.

The second district of Aslan Star City, Imperial Crystal Academy. At seven o'clock in the morning, the sun is just right.

The Imperial Crystal Academy is a high-level academy that was independent from the Black Shark Base about 20 years ago, specializing in the field of crystal particles after the war. Just received a grant from the Empire last winter, the renovation was completed from beginning to end, and even the floor was glowing.

A spirited young man hurried down the corridor and saw the man he was looking for around the corner.

It was a female figure. She is slender, wearing a white lab coat, and her silver hair is braided behind her head, revealing an intellectual and noble temperament.

"Dean...Dean!"

The young man took two steps, "Professor Lance!"

Diana Lance turned around. She curled her blue eyes and smiled at her student: "Hey, Xiao Lin? Are you calling me?"

"I'm so sorry, I'm not used to the title 'Dean'...Is there any problem with finding me so early today?"

"Hey, the paper is stuck again." The young man sneered, "Isn't this coming to the professor to save your life?"

"Look, I said you couldn't get down on that topic, now you know it's tricky?"

Diana reluctantly patted the back of the student's head: "Tell me, why don't you understand this time?"

"Uh, that is, about the ability of the time wormhole that Crystal Nest has..."

"Well, sure enough. Come to my office and talk."

...

There has been no direct evidence about the ability that Crystal Nest possesses to affect time.

With the end of the legendary final battle, Crystal Nest has completely perished, and it is even more difficult to verify.

The now-recognized "wormhole of time" is actually a theoretical hypothesis inferred by scientists and historians after pulling out various clues and piecing together the memories of many witnesses.

In this hypothesis, the crystal nest once felt critical, and the energy quantum released by the mother nucleus distorted the local time dimension, resulting in the so-called time wormhole.

The time wormhole is connected by the 55th year of the new emperor's calendar and the 17th year of the old emperor's calendar, which is exactly one hundred years apart.

There are more than one wormholes in time, but most of them are scattered in the universe without human habitation, and few actually fall in the blue mother star.

Then remove the ones that have never been discovered, and the ones that the discoverers thought they had strange hallucinations and didn't investigate them...

People who have truly seen another time and space through this spectacle can be counted with one hand.

However, the fate of mankind took a huge turning point at that time.

Kobayashi: "Although the professor has said it several times, I still think this is strange, or strange."

The two came to the dean's office. Diana opened the curtains, and the bright sunlight poured down like a waterfall.

The young man surnamed Lin diligently pulled out the chair for his mentor, stood beside him and touched his nose:

"Professor, think that in the 55th year of the new emperor's calendar, the reason why the core of the crystal nest created the time wormhole was because it felt the danger of extinction..."

"That's why I tried to look to the past—that is, the era when mankind was still in the most desperate trough, to seek human beings who could accept its inspiration, right?"

Diana: "By our deduction, yes."

New emperor calendar 55 years.

That was the era when the counterattack of mankind finally saw the light of day, and the future became brighter and brighter.

"If Crystal Nest didn't create a time wormhole, it stands to reason that Gaius would not have been inspired, the Crystal Cult would not have become an anti-human heresy, and the thieves would not have been helped, and we would not have fought so well in the future. difficult."

"Then the victory of mankind should come earlier and easier."

Having said this, Kobayashi blinked in confusion: "But think about it from another angle—"

"If the core of the crystal nest did not create a time wormhole, the commander would not have contacted the past through a time wormhole as a child, as he wrote in his later memoirs, right?"

"Oh, you said commander-in-chief..."

Diana pursed her lips and smiled. She sat down in the chair, her expression softened a lot.

It seems that just mentioning that person can make her feel a lot more peaceful. Obviously she is no longer the timid girl she used to be, but this reliance has become a habit.

Xiaolin was immersed in his own thoughts, and the more he spoke, the faster he said: "If this is the case, then perhaps His Majesty the Great Emperor will not be born at all, the old empire will not be overthrown, and there will be no sacred battles and White Bird plans, and neither will Crystal Nest. Forced into a predicament where I have to turn to the past for help..."

The young man clasped his fingers and said something in his mouth, "Then where did all this begin? It seems to be a question of which came first, the egg or the chicken... I have a headache thinking about it!"

Diana shook her head.

"Humans have a long way to go in science, and our understanding of space and time is still very shallow."

"Perhaps the essence of time is not the one-way flow that we subconsciously think, but a closed-loop causation - at least a closed loop can be formed locally, and it is impossible to find who comes first."

The young man murmured: "The cause and effect of the closed loop..."

Diana looked out the window and said softly, "We are walking in such a time, and we can only decide how we move forward."

"Choose cowardice or show courage, be willing to be in the dark or pursue the light."

Outside the window, white doves are flying through the morning light.

A few students on the corner were reciting some poems. Adults going to work waited at the station, and girls walking their dogs passed them.

The flowers in the flower beds are in full bloom, and in half a month, the large cypress trees on both sides will also enter the season with the densest leaves.

Diana looked at this ordinary and warm star city scene, smiled and nodded.

"Well, it's good weather today too."

The 17th year of the old imperial calendar.

Black, searing winds blew across the land of the blue mother star.

The crooked steel jungle was hidden at the other end of the dark sky. It was the so-called urban area, a paradise that the poor people of the empire could not reach.

The wild area where the poor gather is connected to the barren hills and hills. From there came a frantic roar, like the howl of a beast, but it was human language.

"Burn them to death!!"

"The crippled human beings infected with chronic crystal disorder are viruses, burn them to death!!"

Bone-winged vultures hovered high in the sky, waiting to peck at the scattered corpses after another riot was over.

On the ground, a middle-aged man held a torch high, his eyes were bloodshot, and screamed hysterically, "Is it burnt clean!!"

"Those viruses, those bastards, are they all burnt down!!"

The black in the wind is soot and charcoal dust. Much of the powder was exfoliated from charred, carbonized corpses.

The flames burned intermittently on the weeds and stones. On this desolate slope, there are dead people lying on the top of each other, and the various forms are tragic. In the distance, there is a scorched black, which is the human beings who have been burned alive.

"Kill them, kill them all, kill them!!"

"How dare you hide the disabled human beings in the late stage of the chronic crystal disorder, and hide three more! That woman is evil, she wants to kill everyone, we want to kill the viruses in the R8 wild area!!"

Suddenly, a dozen figures surrounded him, each looking at the middle-aged man who was holding a torch and shouting with cold expressions.

The leader of them, with a soil gun in his hand, clicked and loaded it.

"What are you doing, what are you doing," the middle-aged man sneered in cold sweat, his voice hoarse after shouting for too long, "Although I'm also from the R8 area, but I... have nothing to do with those ruthless human beings. , it has nothing to do with Irene Jay!"

"And my son. My son was infected with chronic crystal disorder. After I found out, I burned him to death! I burned my son to death with my own hands, I burned—"

The man's voice was drowned out by a few relentless gunshots. Plasma splashed, and the sturdy body smashed to the ground.

The torch in his hand was also thrown out, drawing a small bright arc in the night.

The 17th year of the old emperor calendar, the end of summer.

In the slum area named R8 wild area, there was one of the most brutal and inhuman riots in the history of the old empire.

It has only been seventeen years since the establishment of the human empire, and the bloody smell of the era of melee at the base has not yet dissipated. The jungle is a place of chaos where morality is lost, and conflicts between zones are common.

However, this time, the outsiders who invaded the R8 wild area were surprised to find that there were many disabled people infected with chronic crystal disorder hidden in this wild area, and there were even three terminal patients.

The culprit was named Irene Jay, a new human, who was the de facto leader of this wild area.

Under the laws of the Old Empire, the killing of civilians with chronic crystal disorder was not guilty, while the terminally ill had to be executed.

In the universal concept, disabled human beings are lowly slaves and livestock, and it is absolutely unacceptable to let this species of evolution fail to threaten the safety of new human beings.

So the riots continued day and night. Erin Jie herself, as well as those crippled human beings infected with the Chronic Crystal Chaos, were burned alive by fire.

The troubled times distorted human nature, and outsiders wantonly vented their malice, almost slaughtering the entire R8 wild area. They raped and humiliated women, dismembered resisters, and smashed children's skulls for entertainment.

When night fell, the flames went out and the blood dried up.

There was a young man with a sullen expression, holding a charred corpse in his arms, walking up the hill like a wandering spirit.

"...Eileen..."

"My... Erin..."

Judging from the slightly bulging belly, the corpse should have been a pregnant woman... that was his angelic kind and beautiful wife.

——In many years, historians will investigate and find that Ms. Irene had a lover at the time of her murder.

In this chaotic age, the ceremony of "marriage" is only worthy of the nobles. But in a word, Irene and her opposite sex have already had the most intimate relationship with a lover, and have conceived, will have a child... But she died suddenly and tragically.

The man climbed to the top of the slope with the charred corpse in his arms.

He lowered his head and saw the crowd wandering below.

...what an ugly, humble species.

Evil kills good, riot breaks the balance. A civilized society and moral code that took thousands of years to build up can fall apart so easily.

A sickening feeling of disgust came over the man, followed by emptiness.

A life that will eventually die, a race that will eventually become extinct, a civilization that will eventually collapse... So what's the point of all this?

Men don't want to look at those ghostly humans anymore.

When he slowly raised his head, the starlight from the universe penetrated the gloomy sky and the black wind, shining on him.

Tonight the starlight seems whiter and brighter than ever, making people dizzy.

It seems that the starry sky is connected to another time and space, and the silent babble turns into an oracle.

The man's gray eyes seemed to have a strange light, like an enlightened believer.

His chapped lips moved, and he said softly, "Is that so...is that so?"

"Death is eternal... Destruction is eternal... Chaos is truth..."

"Eileen...I get it...I think I get it."

The man looked down at the corpse in his arms. He suddenly let go of his hand, letting the body of his lover fall from his arms.

The charred "human stick" rolled down the slope of the hill. Several vultures fluttered their wings and chased after them.

The man never looked at his wife's body again. He leaned back, listening to the ravings from a few light-years away, and closed his eyes.

He fell on the hill with a peaceful expression, as if sleeping in the depths of starlight.

——Many years later, some scholars believe that the man who lost his wife and children in the most cruel way overnight was the Archbishop of Crystal Sect, Gaius, who later accepted the call of Crystal Nest.

Blue Mother Star, a near-Earth space station.

"waste!!"

A dull roar like thunder sounded from the cold laboratory.

The tall emperor stepped out of the shadows, "A bunch of trash...!"

The suspended light in front of the laboratory illuminated the rough facial features. The emperor has thick eyebrows and thick lips, has red-brown messy hair, and green eyes like wolves.

Rows of researchers knelt before the emperor. Headed by the sobs, he kept knocking his forehead to the ground.

"Your Majesty!! Your Majesty, we can do it again! It's almost there, it's almost a success, please give us another chance, Your Majesty will be successful next time!!"

The tyrant Odin raised his arm, he waved his rough palm, and the guards behind him immediately drew their guns in unison.

"No, no, I don't want to die—"

"Okay, let's shoot!!"

Suddenly, a young researcher jumped up, and the cry of the person in charge was interrupted.

"I can't stand it for a long time. I do that kind of human experiment every day. I live in fear during the day, and the night is an endless nightmare..."

"I listened to the screams of the experimental subjects, and looked at those inhuman forms of death..."

The young man's eyes were red, and the blue veins on his neck were beating, "Your Majesty the Emperor, they are also human, they are living people...!!"

Odin narrowed his eyes.

He pointed to the young man: "This child is too noisy, I don't like it."

Two guards stepped forward from left and right, and used crystal bones to easily restrain the young man who was trying to resist.

The experimental team leader who was begging for mercy was so frightened that his teeth rattled at this moment: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, this guy must be crazy, how dare he..."

Odin: "Find out all the people who have had a relationship with him, whether by blood or friends, and bring them to the Grey Owl Laboratory to be the next batch of experimental subjects."

"You tyrant, the tyrant who destroys humanity!!"

The young man roared and struggled, kicking his legs in mid-air, "You will be punished, one day you will go to hell!!"

The emperor did not change his face: "Shoot."

The gunshots sounded, then stopped. Whether it was scolding or crying, couldn't hear it.

After a few muffled sounds of corpses falling to the ground, only blood splattered on the floor.

Odin's eyes fell on the splatter of blood.

Failed again.

This is how many times it has failed.

The tyrant will not admit that his nightmares have not stopped since the Grey Owl Lab solved the horrific truth about the colonization of the crystal particle race.

The once proud crystal bone has become a parasite like a maggot attached to the bone. From the skin to the flesh of the body is infested with poison, and can only wait for the moment of the outbreak.

Human beings have been bred by crystal particles, the doomsday is counting down, and there is no way to delay this extinction.

Even if the most intelligent geniuses are gathered together, and the most extreme means of experimenting with living people are used, they will not be able to find a way to strip the crystal particles from the human body.

Tried and failed again and again.

The empire he founded by stepping on a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, this interstellar empire that realized the unification of mankind for the first time, should have been sacred and glorious, and will always be remembered by the universe.

It turned out to be...

become the last empire of mankind.