I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 917: Ripples from the Macro Chronicle
When I heard these noises gradually becoming noisy,

Su Wen looked around:

He saw a group of ragged, tired-looking people busy shuttling between the narrow steam pipes.

These pipes are like the blood vessels of the city, intricately intertwined, supporting the survival of the entire underground shelter.

On the pipes, the rusty iron sheets are occasionally washed by steam, making a "hissing" sound, as if telling the vicissitudes of time.

People gathered in groups of three or five, whispering about their gains and dangers in surface exploration;

Or they are alone, silently sorting out the supplies brought back from the surface, with desire and fear for the unknown world flashing in their eyes.

Even though life is hard,

But they have long adapted to this way of survival in darkness and danger, so everyone's face is full of optimism and perseverance.

Among the crowd, Su Wen even noticed some special existences. Those people were completely different from the little girl who hated Lawrence Ruier.

Instead, they are a group of people who are looking forward to the bright future after the academy completely incorporates this place.

They sat in a corner, their eyes flashing with longing for freedom and light, and whispered about the fact that Lawrence Ruier could lead them to escape from this abandoned border.

however,
These fantasies seem so pale and powerless in the face of cruel reality.

But at this moment,
A sudden loud noise broke the noise and clamor.

A steam pipe suddenly burst, and the boiling steam instantly filled the entire space! It even frightened the group of people who had just gathered in the corner and made them flee in panic.

The person in charge shouted anxiously:

"quick!

Hurry up and find a crystal craftsman to repair it for me!
If the pipeline continues to deteriorate like this, and there is no crystal mining, everyone will starve to death here."

Upon hearing the news, many people took action immediately.

"Forget it, a bunch of useless things, I'll go find it myself."

The person in charge ran in a certain direction.

As for Su Wen, the conversation he had just had with Phyllis flashed quickly through his mind.

Phyllis mentioned in the communication just now:

Lawrence Riel's assessment task for freshmen is extremely difficult. They need to go to a space station that is set to self-destruct after [72 Greenwich system hours].

Go deep into the interior of the projection ruins and obtain mineral crystals called 'Void Crystals' as points.

Therefore,
A bold guess came to his mind:

Could these two - the crystals that are urgently needed in the shelter and the void crystals in the mission - be made of the same crystal material?
Do not,
This possibility is almost certain, otherwise such a distorted time-dislocation effect would not be possible.

"Then the corresponding crystal crystallization or crystal energy will definitely become the corresponding space-time anchor point."

"There's also the possibility of a runaway anchor."

The girl added softly,
She also thought of what Su Wen was thinking about.

"But if that's the case, it would be an extremely important clue."

The handsome scholar likes the feeling that others can understand him without him having to say too much.

“Follow them.

If this group really found the so-called crystal craftsman, perhaps we can get more information from them."

that's it,
The two blended into the crowd.
But because of the distortion of the girl's [Psychic Property: False Light Shield], it did not attract much attention.

As Su Wen and the Iceberg Girl went deeper into the underground tunnel, the environment became increasingly dark and depressing.

The dim lights on the top of the tunnel are sparsely distributed, cutting the space into irregular light and shadow areas, as if it were a reproduction of the underground shelter in The Wandering Earth.

The air was filled with dampness and mold.
Occasionally, you can hear the roar of steam engines and people's low conversations in the distance.

They walked along the tunnel and soon came to a spacious supply distribution area.

People here are busy moving around, some are collecting their daily quota of supplies.

Some took the mechanical parts, scrap metal and other items they obtained during their surface explorations to a huge exchange counter, ready to exchange them for some food or other necessities.

Su Wen's eyes swept through the crowd.

suddenly,

He noticed the little girl who had been hiding in the shadows before. She looked no more than a dozen years old, and her frail body was struggling to drag a huge backpack that was almost as tall as her. The backpack was filled with all kinds of sundries she had collected during her surface explorations.

She walked to the exchange counter with difficulty, her eyes flashing with desire for food.

But it seems that because of his cowardly character,

She just asked in a very small voice:

"this,

these things,

Can I have two loaves of bread?"

However, the man behind the counter only glanced lazily at the backpack in her hands.

Then he waved the hand that was picking his nose and said impatiently:
“These things?
Humph, what a piece of junk, it's worthless.

You should take it back and stop wasting my time."

When the little girl heard this, the light in her eyes dimmed instantly.

She lowered her head.

He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just turned around silently and prepared to leave.

Just then, the burly man who had said before that he was looking for a crystal repairman also squeezed in front of the counter.

He looked extremely anxious. He was even ready to push the little girl aside and knock over the sundries she had collected with great effort, so that he could exchange them for what he needed more quickly:
"I am anxious.
You can’t afford to pay for the delay.”

However, just as he was about to commit a violent act, a strong hand suddenly grabbed his arm.

Su Wen had been standing beside him without him knowing. His eyes were calm and deep, as if he could see through everything.

But then,

The handsome scholar just smiled and said to the buyer at the counter:

“I want these things.”

The rough man who was about to find a repairman was stunned and was about to start cursing.

But after feeling the tremendous power coming from Su Wen's hands, the idea of provoking him was instantly extinguished, and even a trace of awe and fear flashed in his eyes.

indeed,

Anyone who can live comfortably underground is definitely not a fool.

He swallowed, and finally nodded helplessly and made way.

The little girl looked up in surprise and looked at Su Wen, with gratitude and confusion in her eyes.

She felt that her initial vigilance towards this older brother seemed to be a mistake.

But Su Wen just smiled at her, signaling her not to worry. Instead, he pretended to take out a few loaves of bread from his backpack, but actually took them out from the storage box and handed them to her.

now,

He finally found the official way in.

on the other side.

As Phyllis and Lawrence Riel and their group stepped into the space station with a worrying fate mentioned by Dean [Permanent Magnet-Lannabodu].

Everyone was a little nervous.

But the next second, the emergency scenario that Miss Watcher had imagined in her mind did not happen as expected:

There are no glaring red alarm lights flashing in front of your eyes, and even no rapid beeps echoing in your ears.

in contrast,

What came into her eyes was a magnificent galaxy beyond her imagination outside the porthole:

The distant silver ring seems to be the edge of the universe.

And from the endless depths,

One after another, the gigantic rescue starships were slowly sailing towards their location in an indescribable magnificence.

"???"

(End of this chapter)