Dream Travel

Chapter 566 The Necessary Blank Future

"Wow, that's impressive..." Bai Mu leaned against a broken rock, changing his appearance to evade pursuit.

The Dream Eater Monkey Hair technique was still useful; through its transformation, it allowed him to temporarily avoid the omnipresent attention, and he also understood why the National Bureau of Justice was having such a difficult time.

Facing such a future attack is like fighting a constantly evolving monster that he can't even reach.

These are just test subjects that the other side is sending from the future.

If he can beat them, even stronger ones will be thrown at him.

"I can't afford to mess with them." Muttering to himself, the disguised White Curtain began to operate in the city.

But he was exposed again not long after.

However, he did not encounter any particularly severe setbacks in the city.

But the sky grew even darker, a storm loomed over London, dark clouds pressed down on the city. Bai Mu didn't pay much attention at first, but when the first bolt of lightning struck, he knew what pain was...

Is this the weather controller that Borre was talking about?
Bai Mu hasn't even figured out how he was exposed yet.

He tried to continue changing his appearance and even further control his power, but he was exposed again not long afterward.

This state lasted for almost half a day before Bai Mu finally discovered the reason for his frequent exposure.

It's not that his changes are problematic, but rather that his behavior exposed him through big data analysis.

The sky's surveillance network closely monitors everyone's movements. As an outsider, even with the Dream-Eater Monkey Hair altering his appearance, Bai Mu's behavior still clashes with the locals.

His incongruous behavior naturally attracted attention and was targeted. In fact, the organization even began to update its surveillance network because of his ability to adapt.

Of course, if the White Curtain were outside of New York, it could avoid being exposed, but the problem is that being outside of that location would be equivalent to leaving the origin of the Otherworldly Dream Source, and would be forked out by the Otherworldly Dream World.

Moreover, he has yet to have any contact with any of the "comrades" from the processing bureau.

Clearly, under such a tight surveillance network, the people from the Bureau of Investigation would not easily make contact with the White Curtain.

Once contact is made, the result will be a complete wipeout. The gap between the enemy with a time machine and their own people without one is too great.

"You have to rely on yourself to live a good life." Bai Mu sighed, adjusted his hat, and experienced for the first time what it meant to be unable to move an inch.

However, he has now adapted to the big data analysis. After all, while his appearance as a monkey with fur is impeccable, his behavior is easily exposed.

However, by observing the locals, one can still temporarily conceal their presence, at least when moving inside buildings, the likelihood of being exposed will be much lower.

But this can't be too ostentatious, because there are cameras and other such things inside the building.

Locals might not notice, but the white curtain will. Luckily, this is New York, where there are still many people, and quite a few people come here every day, so it's relatively easy to fool them.

He had no idea how long his current disguise could last.

"Where did he go? Find him!" The white curtain disappeared, but the enemy was unwilling to give up the pursuit.

In the sky, there is an invisible spaceship. This is technology from the future, but the spaceship is not very large, because it is limited by the size of the time machine.

They also wanted to expand the time machine, but this attempt was not easy.

Using Dr. Hadkin's design as an example, the current time machine is so perfect that if it's even slightly larger or smaller, it will affect its operation.

If you want to expand, you need to find a way to adjust the overall design.

Therefore, this spaceship took the organization a very long time to build.

Important components are carried from the future, while less important parts are manufactured directly at the time machine's anchor point.

Last time, the Maple Crown Republic sent a highly skilled expert, the kind that's extremely skilled, otherwise they wouldn't have used the weather controller.

This time, they actually brought over another person, and this person was a cunning and powerful individual.

It possesses a unique ability to disguise itself. At first, the opponent's disguise was not perfect. Not only were their behaviors detected, but their energy levels were also poorly concealed.

But then the white curtain's concealment skills began to improve.

With the added cover of numerous buildings, the White Curtain became increasingly difficult to find, but it was still necessary to keep searching.

A strongman could easily destroy the surveillance network that covered the skies over New York, and that surveillance network was crucial.

The internet can block New York, the very place where the source of the strange dreams begins.

Just monitor this place, suppress the development of the National Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and force them out. Once they leave the origin of the Dream Source, they will soon be kicked out by the Dream Source.

"Find him! He can't be lost!" The people in the spaceship were determined to find Bai Mu.

Some citizens active in New York City have joined the search for the White Curtain.

Hidden beneath their normal eyes are detectors, which are the kind of androids that will be created in the future.

After being brought to the time machine's anchor point, they integrated into the city in various ways, becoming ordinary citizens. In their daily lives, they were no different from the city's natives, but they were under the organization's watchful eyes.

They can record and capture the daily behavior of all New York City residents, while the supercomputer on board the spacecraft analyzes the data, constantly scanning for any unusual factors in New York.

Previously, there was no such high-intensity monitoring here, but due to an unintentional leak of the Dream Terminal, the organization immediately established such a monitoring network.

However, it was still a bit late, and New York City had many blind spots that they couldn't discover.

Those blind spots are very well hidden, and they are not small black dots on the map, which are easy to spot.

However, they didn't use small black dots for concealment; they used camouflage colors. As long as there weren't too many abnormalities in their behavior, they couldn't find every trace.

Moreover, the Maple Crown Republic also has other technologies to enhance its stealth capabilities.

Of course, they could also try to destroy New York outright, but doing so would have a huge impact on the future.

It remains the same: the future is changeable, the past is immutable, and the present is constantly changing.

Everything they do at this anchor point will leave a completely new record of the past and a definite record of the future...

For example, if they detonate a nuclear bomb here, they can start developing directly more than ten years into the future, even if they leave behind a blank future.

More than a decade from now, a city destroyed by nuclear bombs and filled with nuclear radiation will still remain.

They can use technology to eliminate the radiation, but as this anchor point gradually approaches a future day, the nuclear radiation zone will still exist.

Until the time at the anchor point, technology advances to the point where nuclear radiation can be completely eliminated and the situation can be corrected.

The organization has ruined many 'futures', all of which were caused by the loss of control over the knowledge they brought.

Biohazard, android crisis, global anomaly, and so on... they have seen all of these futures.

Even if we completely refrain from interfering with the world and allow it to develop normally, the world will still experience a cataclysmic destruction.

The inevitable catastrophe and destruction that the Otherworld will experience will occur more than a hundred years later.

They can intervene in the future to prevent such a catastrophe from occurring, but they must ensure that the anchor point develops normally enough; otherwise, if an even bigger accident occurs in the future, there will be no chance to make corrections.

They had initially left a blank space for the future for several months, but after causing a major incident, it was almost impossible to fix...

The organization, now fearful, has reserved a twenty-year blank future and is strictly ensuring that there won't be too many unexpected events at the anchor point.

The future can be changed, but it also has limitations.

Even the slightest impact at the anchor point could trigger a permanent storm in the future, one that even a blank future cannot erase.

If the hidden dangers left at the time anchor point are too great, it is possible that when using a time machine to go to the more distant future, it will end up dead.

For example, in a future where the world is distorted, the entire planet has become an abnormal monster, and their people travel thousands of years into the future, almost landing and being eaten by the planet.

Several people died, but managed to escape using a time machine and return to the past. They then began to screen ongoing projects.

They gradually eliminated these problems, cautiously exploring the future. Only after confirming that the global distortions had been eliminated did they breathe a sigh of relief.

As for Resident Evil and Omnic Crisis, they are somewhat easier to deal with; Resident Evil is the easiest to handle.

Although there are many bio-monsters, you can avoid being eliminated immediately upon landing. After using the time machine, you will have enough reaction time to evacuate.

The omnic crisis would be much more troublesome, mainly because out-of-control omnics would make preparations and try to intercept the time machines they use.

This also illustrates the unique nature of time machines; it seems only Dr. Hadkin could create such a thing.

In a future where a direct crisis has occurred, even advanced artificial intelligence cannot create a time machine. They can only try to obtain a time machine by extensive monitoring and capturing all the landing points of the time machine.

However, that future may also have been erased by the organization.

Having learned from repeated lessons, the organization has accumulated ample experience in future operations.

Many projects nowadays are like assembly lines.

Make a record at this time anchor point, and then project it onto a giant company that was founded twenty years later.

This company is involved in many industries and has a large number of local talents trained by the organization.

With its future information advantage, the company will only grow larger and larger, eventually becoming a country within a country.

Projects launched in the past will be activated and used for research at some point in the future.

If there are any limitations, it's probably that there's only one time machine, making it difficult to operate in multiple directions. It can only move forward linearly, and the giant company that develops from it is prone to getting out of control in the distant future.

They tried to go back to the future to find the time machine of the past, but when they returned to the past, there was no second time machine, not even when they went to the time when the time machine had just finished operating.

Furthermore, Dr. Hadkin also concealed some things from them, such as his statement that he was unable to build a second time machine.

After their attempts to go back in time and exploit a bug to create more time machines failed, the organization actually believed Hadkin's words!
(End of this chapter)