Transform into a human

who is it?

Yue Lai was startled.

The aged voice rang out again:

"You have 'stole' a lot of knowledge from me."

It turns out to be a large library!

"Uh... I've paid."

"That money can only make you 'know' about it, not 'remember' it."

Yue Lai cursed inwardly.

Are you calling me a profiteer?

"How could that be? It's absolutely fair and honest, young and old alike."

"Don't be nervous, the knowledge you've given me is more than enough to make up for it."

"You mean my approach?"

"Hmm, it should be the hidden one among the twelve human geniuses."

Humans unearthed a divine corpse during their home planet's era and discovered traces of authority, but its characteristics were not found in the records of any known civilization. However, for some reason, it was still included among the Twelve Powerful Beings.

"You guessed right... Could you help me keep this a secret?"

"Okay, pay up."

"Cough cough cough..." Yue Lai couldn't hold back for a moment, "Why do you need so much money for a relic of a civilization!"

"Who says you can't use someone's belongings to make money?"

"..."

Well, the third rule of the Great Library, "Knowledge has a price," is something even it probably can't violate. Yue Lai will have to "use public funds for private purposes," but I doubt the Luo An family will care too much.

In a sense, he was cleaning up Winona's mess!

"Once you're out of the Time Cage, you can transfer funds from my linked account," he then asked curiously, "Why were you imprisoned here too? The Level 5 civilization relic has already begun to generate authority; if you don't want to, even the gods can't do anything about it, right?"

"You do know quite a lot, but not enough."

The Grand Library did not explain in detail to Yue Lai, but instead got down to business:

"The Time Cage won't last long. The human gods will soon initiate the fifth time travel. Each time time travel occurs, a great deal of cause and effect will be lost. I estimate... the maximum number of time travels will be seven."

"Although it is possible to forcibly rewind after that, the cause and effect will be solidified, and the outcome will be impossible to change."

In layman's terms, if you walk the same road seven times in a row, the cause and effect will completely change into the shape of the current timeline.

Yue Lai's heart sank again:

"It must have been some human deity who summoned you through some means. You've probably noticed my 'Collection of Detective Stories' as well. Could you tell me the answer?"

"No, someone has bought this knowledge from me."

Yue Lai remained silent. He wasn't the only one in Andromeda with the ability to take memories out of the Great Library. The person who committed the tragedy could even deceive the eyes of the human gods, so how could they have overlooked this place?

"But I can help you with the nascent form of authority."

"Your authority?"

It is "memory".

Yue Lai vaguely understood something.

"Everyone's memory is a huge library. The original purpose of books is to carry memories. If the knowledge that is constantly being refined in the universe is the legacy of generation after generation, then 'books' are their carriers."

"I will open the library of your memories, but remember, once the regression begins, you will only have the opportunity to browse one book at a time."

Yue Lai nodded silently.

This exchange took place entirely within the ocean of consciousness. After the instructions were given, the Great Library returned to silence once more.

Time passed second by second, and finally, the fifth time travel began.

In the song of Sibel, the elves saw the scene within the Time Cage:

"What do we do now..." Li collapsed to the ground, utterly helpless. "Why did this happen..."

Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

Within the Chain Crystal Network, the melody of "Chasing Light Years Away" gradually came to an end, and "Helena's Detective Stories" flew out on its own, turning to Chapter Three—

"Between Life and Death"

"With the lives of millions hanging in the balance, Yue Lai was gripped by unparalleled anxiety, which caused him to overlook an important clue—it was impossible to openly deceive the Bureau of Time."

"After all, as one of the most important agencies in the Federation, the Bureau of Time is always guarded by saints, so even gods cannot leave a trace."

"As for what the answer is, Yue Lai already knows."

Yue Lai was shocked. History had changed. This time, the "Detective Story Collection" did not sacrifice itself!

These words were also seen by the elves, and they finally understood where the key to their fate lay. So every elf in Lejedale had the same thought at the same time—couldn't this guy have a better memory?!

Little did he know that Yue Lai had already given up struggling. He closed his eyes and silently recited in his heart:

"I'm ready!"

In an instant, the world spun, a sense of disorientation washed over him, and he felt himself walking towards his own brain, passing through a long tunnel, until a vast, never-before-seen storage room appeared before him:

The archives were not very bright, with oil lamps used to illuminate them every now and then. The bamboo slips were arranged in categories on the bookshelves, and the further away you looked, the thicker the dust accumulated on the bamboo slips became.

Yue Lai knew that these were his memories.

For someone who has been searching for their memories for centuries, nothing is more precious than these bamboo slips; their past memories are within reach. The choice is to save millions of viewers, or to pursue their own truth.

Yue Lai chose the former without hesitation.

He silently recited the command, and a still-new bamboo scroll flew to his eyes automatically and slowly opened.

It's a memory from a month ago!

It was during the group mealtime at Prison No. 14. Pretending to be warm-hearted, he got his food in the canteen and enjoyed the pig feed while listening to the news.

"Welcome to Tianqin Morning News. Today's main topics include:"

"Professor Rancho Odysseus's team at the Federal National University has successfully carried out preliminary work for a regional programming experiment on the capital planet. All equipment is operating well and is expected to become the first human activity to change the physical properties of a region using tearstone technology."

"It is said that Professor Odysseus, a top-notch inventor..."

The scene abruptly ended.

"Region programming, region programming..."

So that's how it is! He now knows how the mastermind behind the tragedy managed to deceive the Bureau of Time!

Rancho Odysseus was the one who gave those butchers a legal guise. If he wasn't mistaken, the programming experiment was taking place on Apollonius!

Such large-scale experiments that affect spacetime causality are reported to the Time Sequence Bureau in advance. In this way, even if there is a brief vacuum in causality on Apollo 3, the Time Sequence Bureau will not care.

So that's the answer!

But a new problem has arisen: in the current timeline, neither he nor Li can leave the Great Library. How can they notify the Bureau of Time?

Time waits for no one. As he closed his eyes and entered the Memory Library, the elves outside were in an uproar.

"By the goddess above, what is that human doing?!"

"Please move, please move!"

There is nothing more despairing than this. The fate of his entire race rests on his shoulders, yet this human just stands there. At least he should cry like the woman next to him!

Due to its long history and extremely high proportion of extraordinary beings, the Elven civilization has accumulated a profound amount of knowledge about the extraordinary. Many things that would be considered "secrets" in other civilizations may even be stored directly in the public library of Lejedale.

Soon, an elven elder calculated the limit of the Time Cage's ability to rewind by examining the details of the image.

"Including this time, we can rewind a maximum of three more times!"

three times!

These three opportunities were won by the Elf Queen at the cost of her entire race's dignity, yet this human let them slip away right before his eyes!

In less than five minutes, tragedy struck again. The fifth time travel ended, and the Elven race was one step closer to its annihilation.