Did the world end today?

Chapter 286 Two Times
Lin Xu immediately looked at the smart eyepiece, and the time displayed on it was just like the moon in the sky.

There are two!
The first time displayed should be the normal time.

On June 19, 2044, there are 8 months left until the final apocalypse.

This was the time when I first entered the world of the League of Legends era.

This means that this is very likely the last time I will enter this world in "chronological order" during this round of training.

This is very crucial.

But what attracted Lin Xu's attention even more was the second time.

1908, April 6.

What's the point of this?
Lin Xu frowned deeply.

There can only be one explanation.

Have the people here traveled through time?

Combined with the Arcubist warp technology he had seen during his previous time travel.
Wait, you guys didn't actually manage to develop the CTC system, did you?!

If the CTC system really appears in this world, it means that the Alliance Era world, the Destiny Stone World, and the world formed in the CTC closed time-like curve have a total of 3 nested structures!
this.
Perhaps this could indeed lead to a qualitative leap in the speed of technological development worldwide.

But at the same time.
The history of this world will be crushed into dust!

It's even possible that the world will completely lose the concept of time.

Cause and effect become disordered, continuity disappears, and the boundaries between the future and the past become blurred.
Is such a world even possible?

Lin Xu suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, but in an instant, he felt that something was wrong.

This world doesn't seem like a world where causality has collapsed.

He had a million questions in his mind, and just then, a familiar voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Lin Xu, the experiment is about to start. Please return to the control room immediately."

experiment?

Lin Xu turned around and then noticed that there was a small isolation door behind him.

And what lies around him is not a true "wilderness".

It's more like a small garden arranged in a wilderness style?
So where exactly is this?
Is this still Earth?

If this weren't Earth, would this scenario be related to the dual time displayed on the smart eyepiece?

He strode toward the isolation door, which opened to reveal a long corridor.

At the end of the corridor, Jiang Xingye was already waiting.

“ZEROTH”.

Lin Xu simply gave the command, and Jiang Xingye's expression immediately changed.

"You've made us wait 12 years this time!"

We thought you wouldn't come back—or that you'd never come back to this world!

Lin Xu let out a soft breath.

"I didn't expect this either—I still don't understand the selection mechanism for traversing nodes."

"But that's not important. What's the situation now? Where are we?"

Upon hearing Lin Xu's words, Jiang Xingye quickly activated the butterfly contingency plan he had prepared beforehand, and replied:

"We are on a planet 460 light-years away from Earth, Kepler-1625a."

"This planet has a similar mass to Earth and an almost identical ecosystem, but intelligent life has not evolved here."

"But that doesn't matter—this is just a testing ground."

"We need to complete the 112th dimensional ascension experiment here."

"112 times?!"

Lin Xu froze on the spot.

"So, you've already completed 111 dimensional ascension experiments?!"

"Yes."

Jiang Xingye nodded and replied:

"We are getting closer and closer to the final answer, which is why we chose a planet similar to Earth for our experiment."

"We need to observe the changes in the planet's ecological environment after the dimensional ascension test, and the adaptability of the planet's life forms to the higher-dimensional environment."

"Wait a minute."

Lin Xu raised his hand to interrupt Jiang Xingye.

He was completely stunned.

111 dimensional ascension experiments, yet humanity still survived.

Doesn't this mean they've found a way to adapt to dimensional ascension?
Lin Xu immediately raised his question to Jiang Xingye, but the answer he received was negative.

"No, we still haven't found a way to adapt to dimensional ascension."

"This step is not as difficult as we imagined."

"Or rather, it is much more difficult."

"You can find the specific information in the Butterfly Plan's knowledge base."

"I must start the experiment immediately—if you can bring all the details of the experiment back to your world, it should also benefit the development of that world!"

"clear."

Lin Xu stopped asking questions and instead shifted his gaze to the projection on the smart eyepiece.

It was only then that he suddenly realized he wasn't actually wearing glasses at all.

Those images appeared directly on his retina!

shit
What kind of brand new technology is this?
Without time to think too much, Lin Xu quickly opened the technical interface.

The first section he opened was "High-Dimensional Related Technologies".

Upon clicking, he immediately frowned.

The humans of this world.
What they developed first was not simply limiter technology.

Instead, they continued to advance along the path of gravity manipulation technology, developing Akubieri faster-than-light travel technology and space teleportation technology using high-dimensional channels!
However, although they have maintained the stability of macroscopic objects in high-dimensional channels to a certain extent, the Akubieri technique remains the mainstream because high-dimensional channels cannot be stably created and controlled.

With this technology, humanity has achieved interstellar travel almost effortlessly.

They have even gained the ability to manipulate time.

Unlike ordinary "faster-than-light travel", the most crucial step in manipulating time using Akubieri technology is to install a warp bubble outlet on a spaceship traveling at sub-light speed.

Subsequently, taking advantage of the time dilation effect experienced by this spacecraft, it enters the sublight-speed spacecraft through the warp bubble entrance set up on Earth, and then returns from the sublight-speed spacecraft.

In other words, time travel can be achieved by setting the exit on an object affected by the time dilation effect.

If set to normal coordinates, only faster-than-light travel is possible.

Theoretically speaking, modern humans can easily achieve time travel, and could even use this to create a real CTC machine.

But they chose to give up.

Or rather, they strictly limited the use of this type of system.

And the reason lies in
This world was already so broken and fragmented.

If the CTC machine is activated again, it could cause all the negative energy matter in the universe to be consumed by the warp bubble through the siphon effect in an instant, thus completely destroying the world!
Therefore, they would never use this type of function unless absolutely necessary, and instead only used the most basic part of the Akubieri technology.

Traveling faster than the speed of light.

Lin Xu let out a soft breath and continued reading.

After acquiring faster-than-light travel technology, humanity in this world instantly realized the truth.

They discovered that they didn't need to conduct their dimensional ascension experiments on Earth at all.

The generation of time fragments is random in terms of location and even time.

However, the resulting time fragments still follow a certain degree of enrichment pattern in their distribution.

The closer to the center of the device and the closer to the time node, the larger the scale and the greater the number of time fragments generated.

The greater the physical distance and the further back in time, the smaller the scale and the fewer the number.

Therefore, they selected a series of relatively suitable "experimental sites" to conduct the experiments.

During the experiment, they not only increased the "spatial distance," but also increased the "temporal distance" by utilizing the characteristics of the Akubieri technology!
That's why you see two times.

Because in reality, they went back to the past, back to Kepler-1625a, 400 years ago.

High, really high!
By utilizing time and space, a relatively safe experimental environment can be created.

This is far better than Zhang Liming's desperate gamble!

Lin Xu couldn't help but clap his hands in praise.

"Holy crap, your thinking is absolutely brilliant!"

"So you've conducted so many experiments, how many were successful and how many were failures?"

"Not a single success."

Jiang Xingye smiled, but there wasn't much regret in his eyes.

"Limiter technology now faces one last problem, which is the debugging issue."

“We always thought that as long as we mastered the basic technology, once this thing was manufactured, its advancement to a higher dimension was a foregone conclusion.”

"Or rather, even if there are difficulties, they are difficulties of 'high-dimensional adaptability'."

"But in reality, the engineering difficulty of this thing is frighteningly high." "And our technological leaps are happening at an alarmingly rapid pace."

"To give you a simple example, what we are doing now is basically like using the iron smelting capabilities of the Tang Dynasty, or at most the Northern Song Dynasty, to manufacture a brand-new V8 engine from 2025."

"You can imagine how many trials and errors it will take."

"understood."

Lin Xu nodded thoughtfully.

"So, the technical problems have actually all been solved?"

"Everything has been resolved—it's all in the Butterfly Plan."

Lin Xu clicked on the technology related to "limiter" in the panel, and just as Jiang Xingye had said, the technology of the limiter had been completely analyzed.

The mathematical system that proves the "choice axiom fails" has been quite well-developed.

At the core of the system is simply an exquisitely beautiful function.

Physics and mathematics intertwine around this function, forming a superb system of order centered on "probability".

This is unlike any mathematical system Lin Xu had ever seen before.

But Lin Xu only needed to take one look to know that it was indeed correct.

Jin Xiaochuan is indeed awesome.

Lin Xu cut out two panels, memorizing the technical details of the limiter on one side and converting the information about the Acubier technology into voice broadcasts to be played as background noise on the other.

At the same time, he was also keeping an eye on the dimensional ascension experiment that Jiang Xingye was conducting.

"So you've failed 111 times. Now I have a question."

"Didn't any of these 111 experiments trigger a time storm?"

"Have."

Jiang Xingye replied:

"Of course."

"But the problem is that the effects of time storms spread in a special kind of 'leapfrog' manner."

"It will project the effects of the storm onto a random point in the universe at a certain rate and with random probability."

"Theoretically speaking, as long as we are not affected by the first wave of the time storm, even if it takes another 500 years, the aftershocks will not reach us."

"When we first started the experiment, it was actually in 2039."

"understood."

Lin Xu nodded again.

Meanwhile, Jiang Xingye had already entered all the coordinates.

"Let's leave the rest to Zhiyun."

"We need to evacuate immediately."

"clear."

Lin Xu followed closely behind Jiang Xingye and walked towards the outside of the main control room.

It was only then that he realized that the control room was actually quite rudimentary.

Everywhere you look, there's a sense of crudeness, a complete sacrifice of comfort for the sake of functionality. Perhaps, in the beginning, this was just a temporary base.

"So how long did it take you to build this base on this planet?"

"17 hour."

"what?"

As soon as Jiang Xingye finished speaking, Lin Xu was completely dumbfounded.

17 hours?

The scale here doesn't seem like it could be made in 17 hours at all.

What do you mean? You haven't already mastered the ability to create things from nothing, have you?
"How did you do it?"

Lin Xu asked.

As Jiang Xingye led him into the evacuation spaceship, he answered:

"I don't think it's as complicated as you think—it's just a large-scale deployment of unmanned engineering machinery."

"It's not as complicated as I imagined. I thought you guys could create things directly from energy."

Lin Xu gave an awkward smile.

He certainly had very high expectations for humanity in this world, but clearly, they were not yet ready to achieve that.

"An energy creation?"

Jiang Xingye glanced at Lin Xu and replied with amusement:

"Then we need to establish a unified theory at least—we've only made progress in gravity and the strong interaction right now; we're still far behind in electromagnetism and the weak force."

"But that's okay."

"If it were you, there should be enough time."

"really."

Lin Xu answered casually and followed the others into the spaceship.

He had assumed that the spaceship would be like those from the Starship era, requiring him to sit in a seat and fasten his seatbelt.

But, no.

This place is like another meeting room.

"us."

Lin Xu wanted to ask, but he only got halfway through his sentence.

next second.

The starry sky flashed by.

Immediately afterwards, the universe outside the window was plunged into darkness.

It was pure darkness, so pure it was like...
Everything here is gone!
Lin Xu looked out the porthole at everything.

He didn't know how much time had passed—but in fact, time has no meaning in such faster-than-light travel.

All timing instruments have stopped working and need to wait for the "jump" to end before the time can be reset using the quantum communicator.

Lin Xu read the technical materials while silently counting in his mind.

When he counted to 200, the starry sky outside the porthole suddenly reappeared.

"All right."

Jiang Xingye spoke up:
"We are now 4 light-years away from Kepler-1625a, so we should be safe."

"We need to observe whether this experiment is successful."

How do we observe it?

Lin Xu frowned and asked:

"Did you leave observation equipment on the planet?"

"It doesn't need to be that complicated."

Jiang Xingye shook his head and replied:

"We only need to observe the planet's surface using visible light, because the effects of the time storm are all-time-time."

"Anyway, as long as the experiment doesn't experience a time storm, we'll eventually have to go back and retrieve the results."

"Makes sense."

Lin Xu looked thoughtfully at the holographic screen, which now displayed an image of Kepler-1625a.

"Is this... real-time monitoring footage?"

"The resolution is incredibly high! How far away is the monitoring point?"

"Less than one light-year."

Jiang Xingye answered casually.

At that very moment, the image suddenly distorted.

The entire Kepler-1625a seemed to be surrounded by an invisible, flowing body of water, shrouded in chaos.

"Time Storm".

Jiang Xingye sighed.

"This time it failed again."

"Let's go, we need to go to the next place."

"clear."

Lin Xu glanced at the time that had just been calibrated.

He suddenly realized that this thing
Does it look somewhat familiar?
August 1908, 6?
this is not.
The Tunguska event?
The thought flashed through Lin Xu's mind.

The next second, Jiang Xingye suddenly spoke up:
"There's a little problem."

"Our early warning system, which is located near Earth, has detected a piece of time debris drifting toward Earth."

"It seems it's too late to intercept them."

(End of this chapter)