I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 1191 Beam Array
Su Wen recalled the old dean's last words, which seemed to be tinged with a sigh, but he didn't say much more to Jiang Menghan. Instead, he opened the map app on his phone.
"The abandoned Tsurumi Power Plant site in the northern district, the first key location mentioned by old Constance."

Upon hearing this, the ice-cold girl simply nodded slightly.

The moment she set foot in Tokyo, she sensed something amiss about the stability of the space.

Even as a third-tier cultivator, she couldn't pinpoint the source of this anomaly, so she didn't bring it up.

The two leisurely took an exceptionally expensive taxi in Tokyo to the site of the former power plant.

But after paying the taxi bill,
Su Wen, unusually, felt a pang of regret. He shrugged and then casually said to Jiang Menghan:
"If we had known, we should have gone to the Shumon branch in Tokyo first."

Borrow a car for transportation.

If we take a few more taxis, I'm afraid we'll have to pay for everything ourselves from now on.

As for his criticism, the ice queen simply smiled slightly.

"You don't think Lorenzreel will reimburse your previous expenses, do you? I asked our little acting dean."

For a branch of St. John's College that's so poor it doesn't even have the funds for reconstruction, the fact that they're not making you pay to work there is a good thing.
You shouldn't think about it so much.

Speaking of which,

Su Wen was completely speechless. After getting out of the taxi, he looked at the power plant in front of him, which was originally built during the Taisho era.

This area was once an important power hub in northern Tokyo:
The reinforced concrete factory buildings were already dilapidated, with rusted giant turbines and broken power transmission lines.

All of this silently witnessed the rise and fall of Tokyo's industry.

Witnessing the changing tides of the times.

It also bears witness to the hidden clues mentioned by old Constance:

It is said that when the power plant was abandoned, a batch of encrypted blueprints that were not transported were left behind, and those blueprints came from a mysterious Quaternary civilization.

But after experiencing the game of Tokyo sinking, Su Wen had a very clear understanding:
That was the legacy left by old Thrallone.

just,

That was the contingency plan left behind by the resurrectors of the Sephiroth civilization in response to the Zerg crisis on Mars.
Perhaps things didn't turn out as he wished.
It was not used in the right place either.

Instead, it became part of the conspiracy between the virtual Ferrari and the zero-sum game.

So when he learned about this matter in advance through the "future," he was able to make arrangements ahead of time.

among them,

This includes those tails that are now following behind me.

In some people's eyes, their gaze may always be fixed on the winding path ahead, towards the abandoned factory area hidden by trees.

They seemed completely unaware that several dark figures were quietly lurking in this remote area.

Several lines, like those of eagles, locked onto their backs, refusing to shift even slightly.

About one kilometer from the abandoned factory area,
A man in a black trench coat leaned slightly forward, a small communicator between his fingers, his voice low but filled with barely concealed excitement and calculation.

Even the depths of his eyes gleamed with greed.

The man's gaze was fixed on Su Wen and Jiang Menghan's retreating figures, a cold smile curving his lips as he muttered under his breath:
Dr. Jiang's daughter,
"I never expected that her visiting scholar program at Lorenzreel would end temporarily and she would come to Tokyo. What a great opportunity." He paused.

He tapped the communicator lightly a few times with his fingertips, his tone becoming more ruthless and resolute.

"I need to contact the people who set up the Shadow Project in Tokyo. Before I leave Tokyo, I want to discuss one last big deal with them."

'Research data from the Coastal Research Institute'
These big things will probably keep us entertained in Florence for a long time to come.

But what they don't know is,

Just as their call connected, Jiang Menghan simply turned to the side and said in a very soft voice:

"How many should be left alive?"

"Just keep the person who's on the phone. At this point in time, I'd also like to meet with those people who play zero-sum games."

But there's no rush. I can already sense that someone got here before us.

The handsome scholar did not turn around.
He simply pushed up the edge of his glasses at a leisurely pace, then, referring to the map given to him by old Constance, he walked deeper into the abandoned factory.

Next second,
The moment he stepped into the factory area, it was as if the whole world had been switched on instantly.

The surrounding desolation and silence were instantly shattered by the piercing sound of machinery.

The scattered, piled-up discarded parts, like awakened puppets, slowly rose to their feet:
Some were giant mechanical dogs pieced together with steel plates, some were hovering mechs with rusted cannon barrels, and others were slender yet agile reconnaissance robots.

They wandered around every corner of the factory, making a dull "click-clack" sound as their metal joints turned.

Some of the machines were even surrounded by a pale blue energy halo.

And those mechanical creations were strikingly similar to something Su Wen had seen in the future timeline of the sunken Tokyo:
Second Divine Abomination:

Protecting life on the artificial planet Justa.

But these wandering monsters weren't even Su Wen's primary concern at the moment. He saw what old Constance really wanted him to see:
At this moment, the handsome scholar pierced through the dim night and the pervasive dust, focusing his gaze on the center of the factory area, which from the outside appeared to be completely abandoned:

It was a three-story-high energy storage machine, with the surging core of a huge energy emitter standing there.

The jet-black metal casing was covered with intricate circuit patterns, and a dazzling white light continuously spewed from the emitter at the top.

It was a thick, pillar-like beam of energy that pierced through the factory's dome, shooting straight into the boundless night sky.
Where the beam of light passed,
The air itself trembled slightly, rippling with fine waves.

As someone who has actually experienced it...
He knew all too well what that beam of light was:

That was an energy beam secretly constructed in an underground array in Tokyo, built by the legal entity that inherited the legacy of the Sephiroth civilization, to link to Mars.

It was also the interstellar energy channel that old Seren had painstakingly built, but which ultimately broke down unexpectedly.

Now that the energy channel has appeared here, are the people remaining here remnants of Fayit's faction, or do they have other motives?

Suddenly, a different answer came to him.

Therefore,
In the very next second,
The handsome scholar, as if making casual conversation, brought up a topic completely unrelated to the present moment with the pretty young woman beside him:
Miss Jiang,

Do you know how to accurately capture and confirm Mars' coordinates in the cosmic sky from Earth?