Man on the ark, forced to become king

"It is indeed for home use. This device can adjust the user's body at the genetic level. As long as the injured person has not died in a biological sense, it can be fully repaired. However, if the injury is too severe, it will take a long time."

The control panel disappeared, and the entire array of stone coffins returned to its previous appearance, completely submerged, with only a few lights still on to provide enough energy for the city.

Gazing at the now-dimmed array of stone coffins, the doctor's eyes lingered, filled with memories.

To be honest, it had been far too long since she had seen these things.

"PhD."

Seeing her lost in thought with a puzzled expression, Lin Lu couldn't help but gently pat her shoulder and whisper, "Doctor, you're a member of the Golden Tree now. Are there any other places that have this kind of ancient equipment that can be used?"

"If there are home-use ones, then there must be even more powerful ones, right? Could you get three or five sets? Just three or five sets will do."

"..."

The doctor rolled his eyes. He didn't even need to think to know what this guy was up to; he was just after the high-purity energy of these devices.

Over the past few days, she has learned quite a bit about the Golden Tree and knows that as long as there is a large supply of energy, the Golden Tree can continue to grow.

To be honest, the more she studied it, the more the PhD student felt that the Golden Tree was such an outlandish creation. With her knowledge, she simply couldn't understand how this thing came to be.

Given a sufficient energy supply, the Golden Tree can grow at an astonishing rate, bringing the entire 'world' within its coverage area under its control.

That's simply not a field that science can explain!

Within the area controlled by the Golden Tree, barren land can be transformed into fertile soil, the weather can be arbitrarily adjusted, and plants and animals can have their growth time greatly shortened under the influence of the Golden Tree.

Furthermore, without any scientific instruments, the golden tree, once it enters the life furnace stage, can arbitrarily create, fuse, and modify organisms in a completely incomprehensible way, causing their life forms to change.

Within the Golden Tree's domain, even the natural laws of life and death are completely overturned; the living can live forever, the dead can be resurrected, and even the weakest creatures can be equal to gods.

This is absolutely outrageous!

Even in her time, such things only existed in theory and could only be made into a few conceptual products using certain special materials.

The Golden Tree, on the other hand, only requires sufficient energy to achieve its goal!

However, energy might indeed be a problem in this era where existing industries are entirely based on the Originium system. But in the Doctor's time, energy was the least of their worries. Didn't you see that even a home physiological repair device was equipped with this level of energy source?

Moreover, from the doctor's perspective, the energy required for the Golden Tree to grow, and even to accomplish those incredible feats, is shockingly scarce!

The consumption of a mere amount of Originium is negligible; what can you do with that little bit of stuff?

To put it bluntly, the doctor even felt that the energy consumed to grow the Golden Tree to this extent was less than the annual consumption of an average medium-sized research institute in her era!

However, it is precisely that tiny bit of energy that can accomplish those amazing feats.

This is simply a dimensionality reduction attack!

If it continues to grow at this rate, perhaps in just a few years, the Golden Tree will be able to completely take control of the Terra continent, then extend into the sea, and finally... step into the starry sky.

Those were all foreseeable.

That's why she chose to place her hopes on the golden tree. If possible, she would also try to find a way to accelerate the growth of the golden tree and get one step closer to that future.

Unfortunately, it's impossible.

She doesn't even have one home-use physiological repair device, let alone three or five, let alone anything better.

She arrived in this era completely alone, possessing nothing but the knowledge in her mind. Where could she possibly find those things?

"...No, I can't find anything similar. At most, I can only modify this equipment for the Golden Tree."

To be honest, the PhD student said she really couldn't do it.

It is a rare occurrence that such a sophisticated instrument has been preserved to this day and is still in operation.

In fact, this is not the first time such a 'heritage' has been unearthed on this land. To say nothing of the distant past, the guns of Lateran are similar.

But those are just tools, and cannot be compared to equipment like a stone coffin.

"It's a pity."

Hearing her say that, Lin Lu clicked her tongue in regret, but didn't seem to care too much.

He's not a greedy person; if he has something, great, but if he doesn't, so be it.

Besides, isn't there a ready-made one right here?

With a professional like a PhD personally involved, how could they possibly only achieve such a shoddy application as Chernobog? The energy supply must be several levels higher.

However, there was a question that had been bothering him for a long time, and he took this opportunity to ask it.

"Doctor, what about the civilization that left these devices? Just how powerful were they in the past?"

He did have great doubts about this, but unfortunately he couldn't find anyone who could answer them for him.

Kal'tsit was basically clueless about everything, only knowing about the situation in this era. Not to mention others, the only one who might know everything was the Doctor, but she always avoided the question and never went into detail.

"There are some things I can't say."

The doctor raised his head and looked up, as if gazing at the sky through a thick barrier.

"The situation on this land is very complex, far more complex than you can see. It is dangerous to reveal too much information before that day arrives."

"The more futuristic something is, the older it becomes. The past is not just the past, and the future is not necessarily the future."

"Kal'tsit's duty is to pass on, limit, and maintain."

"What I want to do is to reshape the future."

Here we go again! Here we go again! That wicked riddle teller!

Thanks to these riddle tellers, Lin Lu is now slightly allergic to the words "this land" and gets a headache just hearing them.

These people! Can't they just speak more clearly?!

What nonsense is this about the past not being the past, the future not being the future, and her wanting to reshape the future?

I can understand each word individually, but when put together, they become a nonsensical riddle!

If it weren't for her exceptionally strong body thanks to the Golden Blessing, Lin Lu felt her blood pressure would have already exploded!

Do you even dare to listen to what you're saying?!

The past is not the past, so how can it be the future?

Lin Lu stared wide-eyed, about to retort, when suddenly she froze, a startling idea flashing through her mind.

Perhaps... it's true?

The more futuristic something is, the more ancient it is...

A glimpse into the whole reveals the essence of the matter. This single household device contains technology that far surpasses Terra's current technology by many years, and in that era, it was merely a household item.

So, what level should truly high-tech equipment and military supplies be?

Why would a civilization that had reached that level suddenly disappear without a trace?

If that era didn't exist in Terra's past, but in the future, then it makes perfect sense!

If they never existed in history, they naturally wouldn't leave much information behind.

Rebuilding the future—what does rebuilding mean?

Only when you have seen the future with your own eyes, feel dissatisfied with it, and want to change it can you call it a reforging!

Following this line of thought, Lin Lu began to imagine whether, many years into the future, technology had developed to an extremely advanced level, and then human civilization at that time encountered an insurmountable disaster, leaving them no choice but to seek change from the past.

Time travel sounds outrageous, but it's not impossible. Lin Lu herself had come into contact with similar powers, which is why she dared to think about it.

When they were at the borderlands, the dragon king Praton Sankos, who once ruled the borderlands, fell into a deep sleep in the space-time rift!

On that occasion, he used the shattered grave of Fam Azra to return to the still-intact Sky City, the Dragon Kingdom, to fight the sleeping Dragon King, and defeated him, seizing the power of Platonsax!

If the border region possesses a power that seems capable of traversing time, then why can't other worlds have the same power?

Perhaps in the future, people will truly possess the power to travel through time, and those people from that era will send equipment and personnel back to the past in order to change certain things in the future from the source.

That's why the nations of Terra were able to unearth so many 'heritages' from the ground, yet find no trace of the corresponding civilizations.

Equipment and tools can be preserved, so why haven't things like urban ruins, which should be able to exist for a longer period of time, been discovered?

Because they never existed in the first place!

Why can the doctor's blood suppress Oripathy? It's very likely that a serum capable of resisting Originium erosion has already appeared in the future, and as the user, her blood would naturally contain antibodies!

Of course, such speculation still has many flaws.

For example, how did the various races of Terra come about?

For example, what about a pure-blooded human like the Doctor who has no racial characteristics?

Etc., etc……

There are many loopholes, but the doctor's words seem to confirm the plausibility of the speculation.

She seemed to say nothing, but in reality, she said everything.

The more Lin Lu learned, the more she could sense the mist surrounding Terra. The more she knew, the deeper the mist seemed to grow.

But that's what makes it more interesting, isn't it?

Everyone has their own secrets, and the doctor has her own reasons for not being able to clearly state what she knows.

But it's okay, time is the only answer.

Just keep moving forward, and when the future arrives at the 'day' the doctor spoke of, everything will become clear, the fog will dissipate, and all the secrets will be revealed!