I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 400: Emblem of the Journey Ahead

For Su Wen, who has felt lonely since the beginning, he understands that emotions can be a burden.

Maybe I am beginning to accept this world.

He would not consider this realization as 'healing'.

just.

He finally gained a deeper understanding of the words written by Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Mitchell, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, etc.

This was an unspoken secret between the two of them.

"Next,

Explore the universe.

Find the secrets of the kingdom of eternal night.

That would be what we as physicists should do.

Yes, not just me.

But:

we. "

For a scholar, the galaxy between problems and reality is the light-year scale they need to measure.

Jiang Menghan holds the same view on this point.

not to mention.

Su Wen also needs [Knowledge] to obtain more [Travel Deck] that can be converted into power.

And given this.

The key will be how much fragments can be found in tomorrow's review of the Return Port database to fill the current intelligence gaps.

He was not in a hurry.

At least.

Spending rest time at such a slow pace is a permissible luxury.

The laughter of the survivors in the distance rose along with the steaming food, carrying with them the satisfaction of having let go of the long-lost pressure.

Shelly understood.

After all, that was once her ultimate hope.

Now, the hope that was once out of reach may be within reach.

The girl recalled that she once stood on the platform in her school uniform, looking at the trams whistling away in the distance. That was the life that once belonged to her in the kingdom of eternal night.

Somehow, that time doesn’t seem that far away from now.

But it gradually became blurred in her memory.

Perhaps, blurred.

It was probably because of the steam from the hot porridge in her hands that made it hard for him to see clearly.

The girl no longer hesitated, she gently tasted a mouthful of hot porridge:
“It’s so warm.”

The next day.

According to the original plan.

After waking up from her sleep, Shelly, who had rested well, prepared to set off from the survivor camp with Su Wen and the others.

Shelly put on the steam guard's steel armor, and the gap that had been added last night had been repaired by the old blacksmith.

There are fewer traces of infected people on the road.

Only a few parts can be seen here and there.

Rundel was not interested in this either. She easily burned those remnants that blasphemed life without using overly powerful psychic energy fluctuations.

After walking out of the sewer.

The familiar darkness enveloped everything.

If there were no mechanical clocks to keep time, and only by observing the changes in external light, the sky of the entire Kingdom of Eternal Night would only feel that the brightness had increased by a few points, but the change would be very small.

So they still have to rely on lanterns to illuminate the roads around them.

Krosan performed a simple energy collection through his data terminal:

“It is actually possible to detect changes in the energy levels of light outside the range observable by the naked eye. It seems that this world is not completely without energy inflow.

But since oxygen is produced here.

Then the plants here may be performing non-visible light photosynthesis, which is different from the current world.

of course.

Even if it's not photosynthetic.

It is also possible that organisms in deep-sea volcanic ecosystems rely on chemosynthesis as a source of energy.

Rhine, you are right, everything here is very curious."

For her to say so.

Jiang Menghan was a little more puzzled: "Does the data terminal on the life science side also have the function of monitoring non-visible light?"

Krosan shrugged and put away her notebook:

"Imaging biological tissues and improving the spatial resolution of optical microscopy have been two major challenges in biomedical imaging.

Invisible imaging is one of the two major biomedical imaging problems that can be solved.

I can only say that this function just happens to exist.”

Followed by.

She took a step back, avoiding the flesh and blood monster that suddenly rose from the ground.

Then there was a cold reflection in his hand.

It was a scalpel with a trace of light green blood left on the blade.

That’s right, in just a moment, the monster that tried to sneak attack her turned into two halves of rotten meat with zero vitality.

Krosan, chief researcher at Life Genetics, expressed her regret:
"pity.

Or just a mutant.

Should I slightly reduce the annihilation effect of my psychic properties? "

For a research lunatic like her, keeping the dismembered monster alive might be more valuable, but that's not the case for others.

Especially Shelly.

After all, she had never been able to truly destroy those monsters.

She clenched the steam sword in her hand, but for some reason she let it go weakly.

As a master of psychology, Su Wen understood her subtle movements and raised the lantern and said calmly:
"Shelly, do you want to have the power to kill these infected bodies?"

I heard the handsome man who was the team leader say this not far away.

Shelly was a little stunned.

She nodded subconsciously.

But Su Wen did not give an answer immediately. He said gently but distantly:
“First of all, I want to tell you that this is not a simple gift.

You will also have more things to carry.

include.

In the next few days, you will arrive at the capital of the Kingdom of Eternal Night. As the middleman between us and this city-state, you may encounter a future that is difficult for you to choose.

He who wears the crown must bear its weight."

Hear his words.

Shelly fell into some incomprehensible thoughts.

But Lendl hesitated to speak:

"Rhine, is it necessary to put so much pressure on her?"

But Su Wen just answered calmly and rationally:
“Lendl.

You should understand.

The disaster of the Kingdom of Eternal Night that could devour an entire team of Sentinels is far from being as simple as what we see before our eyes."

As an observer of the future, he knows this very well.

As long as Shelly nods.

Then she will inevitably fall into a deeper vortex of conspiracy.

and so.

The right to choose should not be determined by him.

Hearing the warning in Su Wen's words, Xie Li suddenly remembered her mother's weak, pale smile before her death.

She probably already understood that she might not consider her own life that important anymore.

She made up her mind.

He then slowly took off his heavy helmet, lowered his head, and knelt on one knee to Su Wen to perform the highest knight's salute of the Steam Guard:

"Mr. Rhine, I have thought it through."

Hear her say that.

The handsome night watchman in black rarely remained silent:
"very good.

Believe in yourself and take the power into your own hands.

The darker it is, the deeper we must go.

now.

It will definitely be the most important turning point in your life.”

He gently spread out his palm:
That's a card.

The back of the card shows the endless night above the city-state where the stars are dim and even disappearing.

(End of this chapter)