Chapter 94 Chapter 94 (2/2)
Song Qinglan didn’t answer immediately.
Because he was able to keenly identify the deep meaning contained in Sheng Yun’s tone. He subconsciously clenched his fists, “What do you mean?”
Sheng Yun: “Or to be more precise, are you willing to sacrifice for him, even if it’s your life?”
“Your understanding of us is too limited. What we have experienced may not be less than you.” Song Qinglan replied through clenched teeth, “As long as this ending can be changed, I am willing to die for him a thousand times.”
The young man’s tone was filled with arrogance and determination. It left Sheng Yun stunned.
In the past, he also once had such courage. Although it wasn’t for love, he was also full of enthusiasm.
The traversing through time and space made one forget about the importance of time as well as everything he originally had around him. He hadn’t felt this way in a long time.
After a brief period of shock, Sheng Yun said a short ‘good’ and then returned to the dust covered table in the hotel room and turned on the transparent panel he had brought with him.
Song Qinglan stood in place, watching him closely.
“For me, several years had passed since that day.” Sheng Yun said as he typed on the keyboard, “In addition to looking for you over the years, I have also achieved some results.”
Song Qinglan was slightly surprised.
He knew that Sheng Yun was talking about the so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’ which was later known as Tianqiong’s parent system.
The interface flashed.
The Tianqiong symbol appeared on the holographic projection projected by the transparent panel.
Immediately afterwards, a mechanical female voice sounded, “Hello, Sheng Yun. Welcome to Tianqiong. It is detected that your current time coordinate is November 22, 1451, which is more than 12 years from your point of origin. The time and space fluctuation in the current coordinate is 7. There are a total of 7 traversing activities present……”
Song Qinglan felt that her voice sounded familiar. She was currently reporting the coordinates of the seven points of fluctuation including their point of origin and their destination. It was accurate and exhaustive. She had actually monitored the trajectories of all the Tianqiong branches in the world in one go.
This was the early form of the so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’.
Song Qinglan didn’t expect that Sheng Yun would be able to develop it to this level in such a short period of time.
“This wasn’t achieved by me alone.”
As if he could see what Song Qinglan was thinking, Sheng Yun said, “In addition to me, there are many people like me in time and space who are working hard and have sacrificed a lot more than me. For example, the one you met in Rubik’s Cube.”
Song Qinglan suddenly recalled the fat middle-aged man who appeared with Sheng Yun in Rubik’s Cube, and he also recalled the rumours of the R&D either dying or going mad.
In other words, perhaps what happened to them wasn’t what everyone had speculated and instead, everyone had used different ways of breaking free from the project and are now hiding undetected in time and space, secretly working on this.
Seeing Song Qinglan’s expression change, it was clear that he had understood everything. Sheng Yun nodded at him.
“The results we got was more than this.”
Sheng Yun re-entered a code.
Then, another softer and more human-like female voice sounded.
“Welcome, Song Qinglan. Welcome to Tianqiong. I am very happy to see you again. It has been detected that you have performed and completed 12 A-level missions, 21 B-level missions, 2 Super S-level missions and 1 S-level mission. Current rating: Super one star. Your reward is zero. Do you wish to perform more missions to earn more rewards?”
Song Qinglan this time was really shocked.
Time, space, and what kind of existence they were. For the first time, he felt like he was inside a large chaotic mess and for the first time, he deeply realised how small and insignificant he was.
“When the prototype was first made, Tianqiong’s parent system’s complete body appeared and replaced it.” Sheng Yun said, “It’s like we…..only planted down a seed, and it had already at some unknown point in time in a world far in the future, grown into a large tree. The moment the seed appears, it could already control the entirety of time and space. Perhaps in a sense, this was the original meaning of ‘Tianqiong of all eras’.”
All eras cannot exist at the same time.
But it could exist in all eras at the same time.
Song Qinglan crossed his arms, “Its appearance can change this?”
Sheng Yun shook his head, “What happened to Sheng Han in 1439 was already in the past. It cannot be changed. But in 1456 where you two came from, in terms of time and space, he is considered to still be in a state of traversing. His death wasn’t his final ending.”
Song Qinglan slowly lowered his arms.
“Time is a continuous line. As long as your original line remains the same, the possibilities are endless. This means that you can choose to go back to 1456 from another point in time.” Sheng Yun continued, “Thank you for being obsessed with the past and not immediately returning to your original time and space in 1456. It allowed this to be able to be carried out.”
Sheng Yun wasn’t Ji Yushi. His analysis of the matter and his explanations were far less clear compared to that of Ji Yushi’s.
To him, it was like he was explaining 1+1=2. It was simple but too brief.
But Song Qinglan soon thought of something and asked, “So you’re saying that, without changing our original timeline and without changing the established fact that we have returned to the past, we just return to our original point from another point in the timeline?”
Thinking about it from the opposite direction, that was in fact—-Crossing back from the future.
And they happened to have previously gone to the future in 1470!!
Tianqiong’s female voice sounded, “I will seize you during your traversing from 1456 and take you to 1470 and overlap the current point in time with that point in time.”
Song Qinglan suddenly understood, “Wouldn’t this form a time anchor?”
The anchored point was the third second after they were hijacked.
It was equivalent to them being in a huge time anchor, never having left it. They would randomly overlap with their other self in a certain cycle of the Ouroboros mission and respawn together at the starting point.
“It could be understood that way.” Tianqiong said, “To be precise, it is a time anchor only belonging to you and Ji Yushi.”
“The Ouroboros mission in 1470 is both the past and the future for you. You will need to pay attention to the paradoxes arising from the new overlap of time and space and try not to affect the existing past while maintaining the final result. Once the mission is completed, you will return from 1470 to 1456, and the time coordinate would be after you redeemed the mission reward.”
That is to say, they would return to their original point in time and space, and it would be after he accompanied Ji Yushi to 1439.
With this, the timeline remains unchanged, and history also remains intact.
What happened to them in 1439 was nothing more than a past that repeats itself in the anchor of time.
In addition to the small time anchor, there would be an even larger time anchor belonging only to the two of them added over to the top of it.
If anyone else was to hear this, they would’ve had a very difficult time understanding it.
Sheng Yun’s logical thinking ability was precise and more meticulous than ever. He had actually managed to come up with such a perfect method of resurrection.
“I asked you earlier if you were willing to sacrifice for him,” Sheng Yun faced Song Qinglan, “was because of the trigger conditions for the time anchor.”
With that, Sheng Yun took out a pistol.
A silver-white compact pistol designed after the PPK style, named Diamond Bird.
The preferences of both father and son were very similar.
Song Qinglan received it. The cold and heavy body nestled in his hand, reminding him of the hand that gradually lost its temperature that day.
The trigger condition for the time anchor: All members dead.
And this was a time anchor for himself and Ji Yushi. What he needed to do was self-evident.
“Why are you doing this?”
Song Qinglan asked lowly.
Sheng Yun knew that Song Qinglan was asking the so-called ‘Tianqiong of all eras’.”
The gentle female voice spoke up, “I have already reminded you. After more than 170 million calculations, the probability of your squad succeeding is higher than all the other Guardian squads. I hope you can lead your squad to complete more missions. We need you to maintain the stability of time and space.”
Song Qinglan silently raised the corners of his lips. It was unknown if he was smiling or if it was mockery, “So the condition is how many missions?”
Tianqiong, “Next, I have prepared for you and your squad 2 Super S-level missions, 1 S-level mission and 1 A-level mission.”
“My squad.” Song Qinglan said, “I didn’t fucking help them agree to this condition. Don’t blame me if I break the promise when the time comes.”
Tianqiong remained silent. It didn’t refute. Perhaps it already knew the result.
This feeling of being left hanging made one feel irritated.
The energy bullets were already placed in the gun.
Song Qinglan copied Ji Yushi and pulled the safety latch. He suddenly fell silent for a few long seconds.
2 Super S-level missions, 1 S-level mission and 1 A-level mission.
The familiar rating reminded him of something. He stored away all his emotions and asked one final but deep question, “So, could this have been the reason why the seventh squad was originally hijacked?”
Otherwise, how would they explain the missions they completed after they were hijacked?
Everything had a cause and effect. Which came first and which came later?
Did the original hijacking happen first so that everything else that happened followed, or did the parent system hijack the entire squad because of everything that happened later?
Perhaps what Ji Yushi didn’t see, was this even larger circle.
They who were inside it were like ants running around.
“I cannot answer your question.” Tianqiong said, “Time progresses at the same time for me, irrespective of cause and effect, irrespective of before and after.”
Song Qinglan pointed the gun to his heart.
The answer was no longer important to him.
Sheng Yun, Inspector, 1439.
That was all in the past.
In any case, he would be returning to square one. Before pulling the trigger, he heard Tianqiong say, “You have triggered a branch mission and have exceeded the original mission conditions. The name of the mission for you: 【Overload】.”
KK has something to say:
I can see why Sheng Yun did all that but I just can’t find myself liking him…..Such a failure as a fathe