777 The Gift of the Void (1/2)

”B...World Line?”

Looking at the bronze machinery, Jiang Chen murmured.

To his surprise, the opposite seemed to be able to hear his voice.

There was no real sound in the empty enclosure. The metal-like friction sound seemed to be directly communicated to his mind. This kind of communication across dimension was surreal, too surreal to be described by words.

But Jiang Chen knew was that when he stood there, he could heard and be heard.

As simple as that.

”Yes, B World Line.” The frictions of the metal made that voice sound cold, but he couldn't hear the emotions in that voice. ”If we define our past time as A, then you are B, and there are hundreds of thousands of C, D, E... Parallel lines that never intersect now connected together because of a failed voyage, and it made us into a non-existent but ubiquitous specter.”

”Is this codebook your masterpiece? ... If you can see what I have in my hand,” Jiang Chen took out the codebook from the storage space.

”I said, we are everywhere. From the perspective of the void to the three-dimensional world, everything here is like writings on paper,” the voice said.

”...The void is at which dimension?”

”The void is not a universe in which matter exists. It is neither positive nor negative. It is a destabilizing factor in the gap. Therefore, we do not have the concept of dimensions.”

There is no concept of dimensions?

Jiang Chen felt overwhelmed with the concept. It was enough to make him understand the concept of dimensions. Now this man... The specter in this quantum state told him that he did not have the concept of dimensions.

”Then...how can I refer you?”

”You can call me Nothing, you can call me Ghost, or Specter.”

”Then I will refer you as Specter,” Jiang Chen collected his thoughts, and asked the question boggling in his mind. ”I want to know why you broadcasted Klein particles to Earth. Do you have any purpose?”

”Of course there is a purpose,” Specter replied with a dull voice. ”We choose a spokesperson to guide civilization in the right direction, welcome the final battle on doomsday, and finally defeat the heresy. This is our purpose.”

”The heresy...you mean...”

Jiang Chen had an enlightenment. All the clues were strung together by a rope and finally completed the puzzle. These Remnants of the Void spent countless effort to transform and guide the history of the world. They used the lure called the Golden Apple to shake the wings of the butterfly...

”The neighbor 20.5 lightyears away had started the journey with us at the same time, but met a completely different fate.” Specter replied softly, confirming Jiang Chen's speculation.

However, what still puzzled him was their motives for doing so.

”But why?” he asked his confusion. ”If you have been imprisoned in the void and has interfered with what happened in the three-dimensional universe, what's in it for you?”

According to Lin Lin's point of view, they were locked up in the void and it was unknown to the outside world. Where there was no concept of time, they had long since become non-physical specters. And since they became this form, the connection to the real world should also be broken.

”If you ask for motives, then we may have to disappoint you.” The bronze machine was like a pair of eyes that peep out of the void, staring at the small person in front of him with no grief and dismay. ”Without any reason, it is just because when we died, we died as pure human. If you fade away, the significance of us as specters will also dissipate, so we hope that you will survive.”

”We have selected a dictator. In our opinion, only the dictatorial regime has the determination to battle with the heresy.”

”However, regrettably, the plan failed. The technology we gifted to them did not reverse the course of the war. The gap between the electric age and the atomic age is not only reflected in physics, but also reflected in scientific thinking. The manufacturing process of the atomic bomb was given to them, but until the last moment, they only completed the enrichment of uranium.”

As Specter was saying this, Jiang Chen remembered the U-boat found in the New Zealand trenches and the suitcases inside. If the Third Reich completed it one year earlier, even if it had completed this ”miracle weapon” half a year earlier, history would probably have taken a different course in the other direction.

”If we have not guessed wrong, you should already know what happened later.”