I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 396: Same as She Used to Be

[Character potential: four stars]

[Portraits of the future:
She sowed seeds on a barren planet.

The seeds spread infinitely in the fields.

The spreading traces are the embodiment of life, one end is connected to the infinite past, the other end is connected to the infinite future, in between there are only the random ups and downs of countless regular lives, and the peaks of different heights are like grains of sand of varying sizes.

Therefore,
You should have gotten the answer to that question. 】

"The Ship of Theseus.

Is this your doubt?
Krosan."

Su Wen asked calmly but gently.

Perhaps the crisis that broke out in the Kingdom of Eternal Night is just the right response to possible changes in the present world in the future.

He has not forgotten the scene that he remembered in the first act of the game:
[Underground Shelter]

【Destroyed Life Forbidden Zone】

[Abandoned Mother Planet of Civilization]

【Thousands of years later】

……

And this moment.

The hyacinthus plant placed by his stone windowsill was swaying its soft branches slightly.

Moonlight enters the house.

Sprinkled on the slender sky-blue spherical stamens wrapped in the sky-blue breeze.

Looking at such a beautiful picture.

He remained silent.

Sometimes even he, as an observer in the future, finds it difficult to be sure:
What exactly changed the future?

And who became the key to the turning point of civilization?

If he hadn't saved Krosan, she might not have followed him to the Kingdom of Eternal Night.

The gears of fate keep turning.

They have quietly outlined countless branches extending to different timelines.

And if he didn't have the prompts from the [Time Travel] system, he probably wouldn't be able to see a corner of the future so clearly.

Su Wen was silent for a long time.

He finally said calmly:

"after all.

Genetic ascension, mechanical ascension, and psychic ascension are the three most basic ways of individual life level transition in Nikolai Kardashev's civilization level.

I personally don't have a strong preference for this.

Civilization must move forward.

He prepared the coffee powder in his hand with graceful movements, then took out a few bottles of drinking water from the storage box at an angle where no one was paying attention, heated them with the steam engine next to him, and started brewing coffee.

late at night.

The aroma of coffee fills the air quietly.

The night watchman Rhine said silently:
“Perhaps one day the moral bottom line of civilization will even be challenged by ‘gene editing’ and ‘artificial intervention’.

But Krosan.

As for the next action, I will choose to help you complete the research."

“Yo.

Rhine, you really have a good vision, but I can't support such a grand proposition.

That is not the responsibility of a small life scientist like me.

As for the guidance of civilization."

She teased him for once.
"after all.

And our great Mr. Rhine."

Although Krosan doesn't like to mince words, her straightforward personality is indeed quite likable.

Su Wen shrugged.

He didn't agree with this statement, but he didn't refute it either. He just picked up the coffee cup and sipped it while asking gently:
"Aren't you going to try it?"

"You really have a lot of leisure and elegance."

Krosan stretched out her arms and legs.

“I don’t really mind it though.

But I didn’t expect Mr. Rhine to be able to maintain a travel mentality in this environment.”

now.

The system prompt appears again:

[Congratulations, great chief player]

[Dawn System - Temporary Contractor - 'Ashes' Rundel' saved the last Steam Guards of Homeward Port]

[Loss of people: 0]

【Rating: Perfect】

[The Other Shore: Kingdom of Eternal Night - World Influence +300] [The Other Shore: Kingdom of Eternal Night - World Influence +300]

[The Other Shore: Kingdom of Eternal Night—World Influence +300]

See this line about the world's increasing influence.

Su Wen understood.

Rendel had done her work, and it was time to contact the Steam Guard, which was once considered the central status class of the Drifter Country.

What's more, the Kingdom of Eternal Night does not have a vast land, and the royal capital is located near the Province of Signo.

That is exactly the location of the hint [Afterglow of Lights - Branlitt's Lantern] in 'Time Travel'.

He drank the coffee in his hand in one gulp, and then said rationally:

"Let's go,
The problem with Rendel has been solved.

Go see the survivors.”

Krosan, the enthusiastic researcher, expressed a little dissatisfaction with having to move before she could fully analyze the data.

In her opinion,

Being surrounded by mutants is not a dangerous environment.

Jiang Menghan just smiled quietly.

Compared to the slightly disgusting environment around her, she was more curious about what the civilization of human drifters in the Kingdom of Eternal Night was like.

Literary girls have their own more romantic definition of the meaning of travel.

After leaving the abandoned cafe.

Su Wen raised his black top hat slightly and looked towards the shadow above the clouds in the distant night sky, which appeared for a moment but then spread its wings to cover the sky.

The three of them walked towards the Burning Building along a road littered with mechanical parts and growing broken roots.

Not long after.

They saw Rendel reverting to his ash form in the distance.

Krosan looked at the burnt flesh and blood aggregate and said with a hint of regret:
“A mutant form that can self-aggregate.

Perhaps the iterative code of life forms exists within the virus's genetic sequence itself.

How tempting.

Sadly, it’s all turned to dust now.”

"It's not completely turned to dust."

Rundel jumped down from the height in an extremely light posture. She licked her lips:
“It became ‘ashes’.

In the melting pot

【ash】."

Followed by.

She pointed at the remaining steam guard girl and said gently:
“Didn’t we see some survivors before? I asked the other guards except her to look for those survivors.

I liked this child very much, so I kept her."

Hearing Rendell say this.

Su Wen asked gently:
"Looks like Famire?"

"Yes."

The royal sister sentinel looked into Su Wen's deep eyes, but suddenly shifted her gaze away.

Late at night.

The sentry chief in a black leather jacket stood in front of the broken door of the burning building. Her figure looked even more mysterious and lonely under the cover of night.

There was a rare calm and solemn expression on his face, which was the mark left after experiencing countless storms.

in the night.

The black color of her close-fitting sentinel leather jacket became even deeper, as if it blended into the endless darkness.

Behind her is the huge shadow of the building. Against the backdrop of the night, the whole world seems a little mysterious and hazy.

In front of her was a ruined urban landscape in the middle of the night, with a few faint gas lights that had not yet been extinguished in the darkness.

The burning old building seemed even brighter at this moment, as if it was about to burn the entire night sky:
“They are all very strong.

As did Famiel, and even Farinta's mother.

In the past.

This is how she guided me forward.

Famire's mother was also a descendant of the Drifters, but she became a Sentinel in her own right."

Followed by.

She waved her hand,
“Let’s not talk about this anymore.

Let's go.

Let Shelly take us to their shelter."

Hearing Rendell say this.

Shelly took off her steel helmet, bowed deeply, and walked in front.

Su Wen knew it very well.