bookbashuk Chapter 25 Past and Future
Chapter 25 Past and Future
It was thriving yesterday.
Today, however, it has been abandoned for 30,000 years.
This extreme contrast caused everyone present to fall silent for a moment.
Xing walked up and touched the broken stone pillar.
My fingertips were covered in coarse grit.
She dusted off her hands and turned to look at Hoshino.
"If your memory serves you right."
His star-gold eyes shimmered slightly in the dim light.
"Then there's only one possibility."
She pointed to the oppressive dark purple sky above her head.
"It's all wrapped up here."
"By the power of that star god who goes against time—'The End' King."
"The end?"
March 7 blinked, clearly having touched upon a blind spot in her knowledge.
"Is that... the star god who likes to walk backwards?"
"almost."
Xing nodded.
"Although the think tank doesn't have much information, there is a core definition for this mysterious star god."
"He was born at the end of the universe, going against the flow of time, walking towards the beginning of creation."
"For Him, the future is the past, and the past is the future."
Xing paused, his gaze sweeping over the ruins that looked as if they had been devoured by a giant beast.
"If this place is indeed shrouded in the power of 'end,' then the flow of time here may itself be disordered."
"In other words..."
On March 7th, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had grasped some crucial clue.
She clapped her hands suddenly.
"I understand!"
The girl pointed to the enormous ruins, her face showing a look of sudden realization.
"If 'the end' is a journey from the future to the past, then the prosperous scene you saw on Planet O was not actually a occurrence '30,000 years ago' in the past."
"But it happens in... the 'future' that hasn't arrived yet!"
March 7th got more and more excited as he talked about it, and he even gestured a couple of times.
"This planet may be in ruins now, but one day in the future, it will be rebuilt! It will become that water world! And there will be those insect civilizations!"
"And your memories, Oboro, weren't from traveling back to the past, but rather... from foreseeing the future!"
"Right, right?"
March 7th looked at everyone, his face clearly saying, "Praise me!"
"This logic is absolutely flawless! It's like something out of a detective novel: eliminate all the impossibilities, and whatever remains, no matter how outrageous, must be the truth!"
A gust of wind blew by.
He kicked up a few grains of sand and hit his face.
Dan Heng crossed his arms and remained silent.
At this moment, he glanced at March 7th and then at his surroundings.
He nodded, a rare occurrence for him.
"Although it's a bit disjointed."
Dan Heng's voice was very steady.
"But considering that there is indeed an echo of 'the end' here, this inference is not without merit."
He looked at March 7th, a rare smile playing on his lips.
"It seems that spending a few days at the think tank has indeed made some progress."
"Hmph~ Of course!"
March 7th instantly raised its tail to the sky.
She put her hands on her hips and held her chin high.
"I've always been very smart! I just keep it hidden! Unlike someone else..."
She glanced meaningfully at Xing beside her.
"All they do is rummage through trash cans; their brains are completely filled with garbage."
Xing shrugged, looking indifferent.
He casually pulled a screw he'd picked up from somewhere out of his pocket and tossed it around in his hand.
Hoshi leaned against Hoshi, listening to March Seven's confident reasoning.
The dizziness caused by the internal "echo" lessened slightly.
She looked at March 7th's smug little expression.
Her pink hair bounced wildly in the wind, and her heterochromatic red and blue eyes were full of undisguised pride.
It's so cute.
They're adorably silly.
Hoshi couldn't resist.
Or perhaps, because the body is too weak, the filter in the brain has temporarily failed.
She spoke her mind directly.
"I always thought..."
Mohoshi's voice wasn't loud, and it sounded a bit weak.
But it was exceptionally clear in the face of these empty ruins.
"March 7th, you are the kind of beauty that comes from... a lack of brainstem."
"I never expected to come up with such a logical closed loop."
"It's truly...impressive."
The air suddenly went silent for a second.
The smile on March 7th's face froze.
slowly.
split.
"ha?!"
The girl let out a scream of disbelief.
"Brainstem absence?! Who are you calling brainstem absence?!"
"What I just said was reasoning! It was the light of wisdom! How did it become... become..." in your mouth?
On March 7th, he was so angry that he stomped his feet.
I couldn't even bring myself to call him an idiot; I just felt a tightness in my chest.
"Xing! You need to control her! Look at that 'Even though you're praising yourself, I still think you're stupid' look on her face!"
"That's outrageous! I was worried you'd turn into a bug!"
Xing spread her hands with an innocent expression.
"I think what she said is quite fair."
"After all, being able to connect 'reverse time' and 'predicting the future' so quickly is really unlike the usual March 7th who can't even calculate the coordinates correctly."
"Is this... a final burst of energy before death?"
"star--!!"
March 7th completely lost her temper.
If she hadn't been holding a camera and was afraid of dropping it, she definitely would have pounced on the person and bit them.
"Okay, okay."
Hoshi watched this scene with amusement.
The oppressive feeling of impending death seemed to be diluted considerably by the noisy daily life.
"I admit I was wrong, okay?"
"You're incredibly smart; you're the brains of the train crew."
Although she said that, everyone could hear the perfunctory tone in her voice.
Just as they were preparing to launch another attack on March 7th.
Ruan Mei, who had been quietly observing the data from the side, suddenly spoke up.
"Although this conjecture is interesting."
Nguyen Mai did not look up; her fingers continued to slide across the portable analytics terminal.
"But I have to... shatter this 'brainy' lady's illusions."
She turned around.
Pale green eyes gazed at the enormous ruins.
"There is a fatal logical flaw."
Nguyen Mai pointed to the star.
"You said that in that 'prosperous future,' you obtained seventeen destinies, including the power of 'reproduction.'"
"Is it right?"
Hoshi nodded.
This is the core of her design, and also the root cause of her current ghastly appearance.
"So."
Nguyen Mai deduced.
"If my beloved obtains 'breeding,' it also means that in that future, the power of 'exploration' will certainly be present."
"After all, you are an unnamed passenger on the Star Train."
"Where the Star Train goes, it will inevitably lay star tracks and leave traces of 'pioneering'."
Nguyen Mai raised her hand.
He pointed to the desolate wasteland around him.
"But I scanned the entire area."
"Whether it's the surface, the underground rock layers, or even the isotopic residues in the atmosphere."
"no."
She looked at March 7th.
His tone was calm and resolute.
There wasn't even the slightest trace of "pioneering".
"There are no star trails here. No boundary anchors. There is not even any evidence that a high-energy reaction has ever occurred here."
"If this is the future."
"Then why did the 'pioneering' aspect, which was involved in all of this, disappear?"
This is indeed a paradox.
If the planet becomes stronger in the future.
She will definitely be with the train crew.
The train crew has arrived, so the star trails must be there.
Once the star trails are laid out, how could there be no trace of them in the past, which is now?
unless……
The train never came.
or……
The train came, but left nothing behind.
March 7th opened its mouth wide.
His smugness vanished instantly.
"Huh? No...nothing?"
She looked around somewhat unwillingly.
They tried to find one or two things that looked like star railroad sleepers among the pile of rubble.
But apart from weathered stones, they are still just stones.
"so……"
March 7th slumped her shoulders in disappointment.
"All my analysis just now... is it all useless?"
"It's not completely useless."
"Nguyen Mai said calmly."
"This at least proves that the time properties of this planet are indeed more chaotic than we imagined."
Xing looked at March 7th as if it were a frostbitten eggplant.
I walked over and patted her on the shoulder.
He looked very earnest.
"See?"
Xing sighed.
"I knew it!"
"Asking March 7th to use his brain is like asking Pam to box."
"Although it takes a lot of courage."
"But really... it's so stupid."
March 7th: "..."
She took a deep breath.
He raised the camera in his hand.
"Star!! I'm not taking pictures of the scenery anymore! I'm going to take a picture of your smug face and hang it on the front of the train as a talisman!!"
Hoshi watched the two chasing and playing around.
The corners of his mouth rose slightly.
But the tremor in my chest grew stronger and stronger.
thump.
thump.
It was as if someone was knocking on the door from inside.
"Whether this is the past or the future."
"I'm clutching my chest," Hoshi said in a low voice.
"That thing... is calling me."
She looked into the depths of the ruins.
That huge, dark entrance.
It's like a gateway to an abyss in another dimension.
"Let's go."
Dan Heng drew his sword, Ji Yun.
The tip of the gun pointed to the ground.
"Since we're here, there's no reason for us to leave empty-handed."
Nguyen Mai put away the instruments.
They followed.
"Perhaps we can find those lost 'traces' inside."
small theater:
March 7th: I'm really angry! This time, I can't be appeased! Unless... unless I get to touch Danheng's gun! (Want to see if I can be a one-man show)
Xing: You want to touch a gun? I think you want to get shot, don't you?
Danheng: ...Please do not have any improper thoughts about Jiyun.
Hoshino: Why do I feel like the end within me is beating to the rhythm of the March 7th stomping? Isn't this too hasty?
Nguyen Mai: This is called bioresonance.