stonecrandall Chapter 450 Time Slips Away
Chapter 450 Time Slips Away
Chapter 450 Time Slips Away
Although she hadn't known the Wasteland Head for long, Suolin had already been marked as unreliable in Tang Zijun's mind.
This silly girl has completely deviated from the scope of a normal person, although she herself can hardly be considered a real person now.
But the situation is special now, so Tang Zijun can only place his bets on her. At least this girl knows more about the gods of the era than they do, and she should also have some knowledge of time travel technology.
When Lao Chang and Suolin returned to the steam train, the environment wasn't much different. The only difference was Suolin; she now had a data cable connected to the back of her head, with a tablet at the other end.
"Holy crap, unleash your ultimate move! What are you doing?!"
"If you can't use your hands, just donate them, okay? I can still do better than you even without hands."
"Seriously, what kind of ridiculous algorithm is this? How could I even get matched with these teammates? It's outrageous!"
Slightly noisy screams echoed in the carriage.
Curly Ears seemed to have gotten used to this long ago. At this moment, she was holding her phone, looking at the recipe for cold-cooked rabbit head with a ferocious expression.
"What are you playing?" Tang Zijun asked casually as she sat down next to Juan Erduo.
"Oh, she said she was too bored staying here, so she wanted to find some games to play. Don't worry, I've already reported it to the Magic Bureau. This is a closed network, and Director Shangguan specially arranged for a few agents to play with her." Curly-eared replied without turning his head.
"I'm asking what you're doing," Tang Zijun said, pointing to the rabbit head on the screen.
"This..." Curly-eared girl shuddered and stuck out her tongue. "I just wanted to test my courage."
Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun's lips twitched.
Watching rabbit heads being made to build courage—what's the difference between that and a normal person watching Hannibal Lecter? But does that really build courage? It just feels disgusting...
"Where's Katie? Why isn't she here?" Tang Zijun asked.
"Tang Cao and Su Siyao took her shopping, and they also went to see Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yue, the siblings," Juan Erduo replied truthfully.
Just then, Zolin's game ended, and unsurprisingly, it ended in another crushing defeat.
Frustrated, Suolin stared at the large "failure" message on the screen and sighed heavily. Then, noticing the arrival of Tang Zijun and Chang Lei, she exclaimed excitedly.
"Hey, you guys are back! Come on, come play with me. You guys must be pretty good, right? Let me tell you, my teammates are terrible. Every game they play makes my blood pressure skyrocket."
"You're just a head all you have left, where did you get blood pressure?" Tang Zijun turned her gaze to Suo Lin. "Besides, why are you suddenly so enthusiastic about online games?"
"Hey, I've got nothing better to do. Besides, you wouldn't believe it, the technology in your world isn't that interesting, but playing these retro games once in a while is quite fun."
"Don't worry, you'll have something to do soon."
"Oh? I can go out now?" Zolin asked excitedly.
"No, not exactly, but it's pretty much the same."
Tang Zijun waved to Chang Lei, who understood and picked up Suo Lin, placing her on the table in front of everyone.
"We've just received intelligence that the Gods of the Ages seem to have mastered an assassination technique capable of traversing timelines. Have you heard of this technique?"
"Timeline assassination?" Zolin blinked, then fell into deep thought. "Time-lapse technology?"
"You know?" Chang Lei asked.
"I guess I know about it. Time slip technology uses quantum optics reflection and the law of causality to stretch a distance on the timeline and bounce off, making oneself like a spring to break free from the original timeline, and predicting the landing point in advance to achieve a similar effect to time travel."
Tang Zijun and Chang Lei exchanged a glance, both seeing the same clarity in each other's eyes, but neither of them understood what the other was saying.
Suolin seemed to have figured it out as well, so she offered a brief explanation. "Simply put, it's using a special ability to 'slide' off the original timeline, and then merge into the timeline from another predetermined point, achieving time travel."
Tang Zijun pondered for a moment, then asked softly, "If this kind of time travel were to alter history, would the impact be significant?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Zijun realized she had asked a stupid question, so she added, "What I mean is, how much impact can this behavior have?"
"It depends on the situation," Suolin thought for a moment, then blinked and replied. "Generally speaking, the impact won't be too significant, since the timeline has its own ability to converge."
"My archives contain a lot of data related to this. When time travel technology was first invented, some scientists even managed to travel back in time and kill themselves. Later, this technology was banned and was not used again until the reign of the gods of the era."
"Killing yourself? Wouldn't that create chaos?" Curly Ears couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"It's quite chaotic, but it's alright. That guy has completed a time loop for himself. In your words, he's like a separate page in the family tree. He's completely separated from the timeline and is forever looping himself killing himself. It's actually quite funny to think about."
Suolin showed no surprise; on the contrary, she found it quite interesting. However, upon hearing her words, the expressions of the other passengers in the carriage were somewhat complicated.
After a moment's hesitation, Tang Zijun pressed on, "What if the gods of the era traveled back to our world's past and killed a key figure? What would happen then?"
"The modification of history is like ocean waves. At first, it's just a few ripples, but slowly, it will form huge waves. However, this also takes time. The timeline doesn't cover up so quickly; everything happens gradually."
Suolin paused for a moment, then continued.
"Once the modified timeline covers the original timeline, your memories will also be altered in this new timeline, and you will forget everything in the old timeline."
"Wait a minute," Chang Lei couldn't help but ask. "How can we be sure that the timeline we're in right now isn't a modified one?"
After he finished speaking, Tang Zijun and Juan Erduo were both stunned for a moment.
However, Zolin burst out laughing.
"You believe your timeline has been altered?"
"Is that impossible?"
"Of course not!" Zolin laughed. "If your timeline had been altered, do you think, given the methods of the gods of the era, you would still be standing here talking to me properly?"
Chang Lei looked at Suo Lin with a strange expression, neither confirming nor denying.
"Please." Zolin opened her mouth. "If the Gods of the Era really take action, then your planet will begin to collapse at some point in history. They will activate the planetary reboot device, changing your planet's ecosystem. At that time, no species will be able to survive."
Then, Zolin changed the subject. "And you don't need to worry, the gods of the ages can't change your history."
Why?
"Because your civilization's technology is just too backward," Zorin said matter-of-factly.
"Why do you think the gods of the ages would destroy civilizations with technology advanced to the point of exploring space? You don't think they didn't want to destroy those civilizations prematurely, do you?"
"The key to time slip technology is not to break away from the timeline, but to find a landing point at another coordinate on the timeline. Without powerful technology as an anchor, time travel is simply impossible."
"Otherwise, why would we even bother developing a time travel device? We could just wait for our future selves to create a time machine and then travel through time to give it to our present selves, wouldn't that be better?"
"Well..
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Chang Lei licked his lips. Although he felt something was off, for some reason, he felt that Suo Lin's words made a lot of sense.
However, Tang Zijun frowned slightly. "You mean because the technology in our world isn't advanced enough, the gods of the era can't travel through time using time-lapse technology?"
That's it.
"Then why did we just experience an assassination attempt that crossed timelines, and why is there accurate intelligence indicating that our timeline has indeed been invaded in some way?" Tang Zijun pressed.
Upon hearing this, Suolin was clearly stunned.
She stared blankly at Tang Zijun, and only after realizing that the other party was not joking did she fall into deep thought.
"That's impossible..."
"To travel through timelines, both the planned landing point and the anchor point are indispensable. Even if the gods of the eras have mastered the changes in the matter of the universe, they cannot possibly disregard the theory of matter and antimatter..."
"unless!"
Suolin's pupils contracted as she suddenly realized something.
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