I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 1136 The Approaching Conspiracy

But even if you were to cross Gdansk now and bring its data source over, given the current chaotic background energy field in Tokyo, many of the mechanical devices there would certainly be unusable.

The Black Tide will restrict the development of civilization.

at this point.

Dear Mr. Rhine, you must know this.

"That's just to help me confirm the current situation of Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo. I think that should be enough."

"Can,
But it will take time.

A hint of weakness crept into the hacker's voice:
"That giant spider has already begun its operation."

Hearing her say that, Su Wen expressed his understanding, and he directly pulled Natsume Chie toward the other advance team members of the Bounty Hunter Association whom he had briefly met before.

Because of the problem of misalignment in deep-sea diving precision.
The deep-sea submersible, which originally housed around fifty people, now has very few people left.

Three unfortunate individuals were even crushed into mincemeat by the massive, eccentric subway train, their outlines completely obscured.

And this was still in the landing phase, when the mission had barely even begun.

On the other side, Natsume Chie, who had just found a flashlight in her emergency backpack and turned it on, almost vomited when she saw this scene.

But Su Wen then gave her a sliver of Dawn Spiritual Energy to help calm her down:

"Stay true to yourself,
Otherwise, you will be rapidly eroded by the surrounding black tide.

As a transcendent being in the [medium lineage], compared to the Ascended lineage which generally possesses inherent resistance, her divine sensitivity might actually become a significant drawback in this situation.

Fortunately, Su Wen is still here.

His dawn barrier was sufficient to keep out all contamination, but it did not include the vulnerabilities in a young girl's heart.

But recalling her grandfather's affairs may have already become a shadow in her heart.

So the scholar didn't continue the topic. Instead, he turned on another flashlight, since these emergency backpacks were all issued uniformly and contained the same items.

He followed the gradually expanding halo of light into the subway tunnel and saw a few scattered emergency lights casting swaying spots of light on the damp walls.

There are traces of human activity there.

"It must be other Deep Ones."

After determining their immediate objective, Su Wen, holding Natsume Chie's wrist, walked through the subway crash site, which was littered with shattered glass, and also moved away from the blue-green coolant seeping from the twisted wreckage of the deep-sea submersible.

On the other side of the subway:
Three figures wrapped in tactical jackets were crouching with their backs to them beside the railway tracks, one of them even using the tip of a dagger to pry open fragments of uniforms on a piece of wreckage.

"Damn it!"
This yaw error exceeds three hundred meters!

The short-haired man wearing goggles suddenly stood up, shaking off the dark red tissue fluid that clung to his tactical gloves.
"The association's positioning algorithm is practically useless in the Kuroshio Zone!"

Upon seeing Su Wen and the other person...

A slight, disdainful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:

"I didn't expect that those few early-stage Tier 2 trash would die, while you two Tier 1 low-level superhumans actually survived by sheer luck."

Upon hearing the man say that

Su Wen released Natsume Chie's hand and lightly squeezed her palm.

The reason Su Wen didn't reveal his rank to the Bounty Hunter Association was simply a rational decision to avoid attracting the attention of other lurkers in a mixed and chaotic environment.

After all, there were already spies from other countries infiltrated among the bounty hunters, and even if his identity as a member of the Rhine Army remained unexposed, he would definitely become a key target for surveillance.

As for now,

He might be able to unleash some of his own psionic abilities.

But at that moment, a female voice interrupted Su Wen's thoughts:

"Stop creating pointless disagreements. His lineage is 'Guides,' and perhaps he can bring about a different outcome amidst this chaotic Black Tide." Meanwhile...

A crisp sound of metal breaking came from behind Natsume Chie.

The third man, who had remained silent until now and still had a prosthetic eye, was using a laser ruler to measure cracks in the outer shell of the deep-sea submersible. Upon hearing this, he replied without looking up:
"It's really useless to say these things now."

The energy cores of these deep-sea submersibles have been completely depleted, and the system's backup batteries are only sufficient to last for five hours.

"and so,
Either stay put and wait for rescue,

The woman pulled open the gas mask at the collar, revealing a gruesome burn scar on her right cheek and her short, light blonde hair.

"Either we find the secrets these Japanese guys left behind in the subway station."

Guide, what would you choose if you were in my shoes?

“If any one of us is a coward, perhaps he will choose the first answer, but if you choose to wait for rescue, what is the point of you coming here?”

Old Suzuki has already given us the opportunity to 'choose'.

Su Wen said calmly,

His voice was so soft that no one else could detect any other emotional fluctuations.

But to the man who had initially spoken rudely to him, it carried a hint of provocation.

The atmosphere began to tense.

But at that moment, Natsume Chie, who was huddled in the corner, suddenly interrupted everyone in Japanese.

The girl's fingertip lightly touched the etched number on the outer shell of the deep-sea submersible, and she asked Su Wen:

"Teacher, is the communication module in your left ear still receiving signals from the association?"

She bent down and picked up the broken half of the screen, which was displaying chaotic electromagnetic waves.
"But my equipment showed that three hours ago there were still seven deep-sea submersibles at normal landing coordinates."

instantly,

Her words struck everyone like a bolt from the blue, leaving them in disbelief.

"Three hours?"

Even the man who was looking for trouble was almost so shocked that he swore:
"Is there a time discrepancy?"

But in response to the surprise of his two temporary teammates, the oldest mechanic, who had been silently checking the hull with his prosthetic eye, simply stood up straight, his prosthetic eye's red light sweeping across the depths of the tunnel:
"A time distortion wouldn't cause this to happen here. Also, Blanks, you're talking too much nonsense."

The mechanic glanced at him.

Su Wen nodded calmly.
"The field equations of general relativity exhibit singularities, and only in this way will the curvature of spacetime diverge to infinity."

This kind of spacetime disruption will lead to a complete distortion of the concept of time.

If we consider the quantum effects of Hawking radiation, a "time firewall" might erupt at the end of a black hole's evaporation, completely quantizing the falling matter within a Planck time. This process has a timescale as short as 10^(43) seconds, and a similar massive energy level field does not yet exist here.

"I didn't expect that you, my 'guide,' would actually know these things."

The mechanic praised Su Wen's argument.

He adjusted his prosthetic eye to night vision mode, and even the fresh metallic scratches at the seams of the rails were faintly visible in the lens.
"So, young lady, it's not that your device's time display is faulty, but rather that our devices have been tampered with."

Someone adjusted the track switcher.

This deviation was not accidental; something deliberately lured most of the hull into deeper layers of the earth.

"There was a mole among the members who just went down in the same group."

Before even hearing the mechanic's evaluation, Blanks couldn't contain his impatience any longer:
"Kuzan, are you saying that 'Old Suzuki,' that local bully, tricked us?!"

(End of this chapter)