What?You say His Majesty is a war criminal! !

Chapter 245: Weaving the Timeline of the Empire (Please subscribe)

The dagger in Wingate's hand was completely black, like a smooth obsidian.

There are some fine and obscure ancient lines on the surface, and the blade exudes the aura of the supreme heaven.

This dagger is not an ordinary object. It is a sealed object created by craftsmen who are proficient in blacksmithing through complex rituals. It was only assigned to the agents for use after being blessed by the God Emperor.

The blade of the dagger looked a bit blunt, making one wonder whether it could be a murderous weapon capable of slitting someone's throat.

But those who can detect its essence will stay away from its sharpness.

Because what this dagger cuts is not flesh and blood, but invisible things like soul, time and space.

Once the seemingly edgeless dagger is used by an approved person, it can easily open the gap between time and space, cut a huge hole in the projection of the supreme nature of those powerful creatures, and then kill them easily. .

Even those demons, subspace creatures, and indescribable evil spirits will be cut open directly.

Such a dagger can also cause fatal damage to time creatures.

Not only can it directly cut open its body, but it can also completely kill the opponent and completely annihilate it.

The man felt the coldness of the dagger and showed a pleading look.

No creature can accept the fate of death calmly, not even the ancient races that walk in time. They are also afraid of death.

People around them walked past the two people blankly, and even the robots that maintained order on a daily basis didn't pay attention to them.

Everyone turned a blind eye to the existence of the two people, and even if they saw it, they would soon forget it.

"Maybe we should talk." The man spoke very slowly. He was imitating human speech. "There is no need for us to be enemies."

"There's nothing to talk about. You attacked us and we just fought back. If you're honest, I'll take you back to prison so you can at least survive. If you dare to resist, I'll slit your throat." Open, let you taste how death eats you little by little."

Wingate held the dagger firmly against the opponent's throat. As long as the opponent made any resistance, he would slit the opponent's throat directly.

"This is not a war. We are just seeking food and knowledge. We have not caused any harm to you. You can't treat us like this." The man lowered his voice and said, "Your time is linear, but our time is not. We are Different creatures, there is no need to start a war.”

"I'm surprised by your rhetoric. I thought you were always very arrogant and didn't bother to talk to apes like us, let alone spend time with us day and night."

"This is not arrogance. Although you used to have powerful weapons of destruction, you knew nothing about time and had no way to communicate. But now you have mastered the method of using time. In this situation, we can Communicate and be sure to believe that we are a peace-loving race.”

"Do you think I would believe such nonsense?" Wingate's eyes showed sarcasm. If he believed a word the other party said, he would be hopelessly stupid.

"Do you really want to start a war? Going to war with a time race is not a good choice. My race is older than most civilizations. We have been active in time before you humans were born. We have branches even on your home planet, the Earth. Once you hurt me, my people will definitely retaliate against you. If you can show mercy and let me go, I can swear to you that I will never You will get closer to the human timeline, and you will also advise other tribesmen to stay away from you."

"Then let's start a war. Do you think the God Emperor will be afraid of your threat? So what if it's ancient! It's not like there are no ancient races that have been destroyed by the empire! No matter what, you are just a group of losers hiding in time. For you, Do your people really dare to go to war with humans?" Wingate said with a smile, "I advise you not to talk so much nonsense. This weapon can easily kill you, even if you are a time creature. As long as I use my strength Slit this man's throat, and you'll have to go into the subspace and suffer, and be torn to pieces by those monsters. I think they like you guys who are always running around in the timeline."

Wingate's words brought horror to the man's face.

The soul being thrown into the timeless subspace is definitely one of the most horrific tortures for time creatures like them.

"Please, please let me go. I won't dare to do it next time." The man begged.

"Then be honest. I will take you back and lock you up. Whether you can be released depends on your future behavior."

"No, what's the difference between losing my freedom and killing me!!"

"It doesn't matter, if you really don't want to live, we will kill you too." Wingate said humorously.

Hearing this, the man showed despair, and then a hint of determination.

It is better to fight to the death than to sit and wait.

Thinking of this, the man made a crazy decision.

He releases all the time stored in his body, allowing people and objects from the past to gain new time.

In Wingate's eyes, the man pressed on the ground suddenly burst out with intense light, spreading in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

The group of people who originally turned a blind eye to what the two men did showed subtle changes.

They saw Wingate and the man, and the expressions on their faces changed from blank, to shocked, stunned, and finally to frightened and panicked.

Just now they remembered that no one was right here, so why did two people suddenly appear, and the other one had a weapon in his hand.

"Someone is committing murder."

Someone yelled, and some of the less courageous people even yelled, turned around and ran away.

The robot responsible for maintaining order also ran over to evacuate the crowd.

[Sir, according to the Group Security Act, you have violated the life safety of other citizens. Please put down your weapons immediately, otherwise we will take compulsory measures]

[Sir, according to the Group Security Act, you have violated the life safety of other citizens. Please put down your weapons immediately, otherwise we will take compulsory measures]

Several humanoid security robots warned as they approached Wingate and the man.

Standing apart, they surrounded Wingate, ensuring he had nowhere to escape.

Each robot holds a stun wand in its hand that flashes an electric arc.

The dazzling arc crackled, and you could faintly smell the ozone produced by the ionized air.

"Damn!" Wingate was a little annoyed, why did he talk so much nonsense.

Seeing this scene, the man's eyes showed a glimmer of light, as if grasping a life-saving straw, he shouted in broken human words.

"Help. Ah!!"

Wingate didn't let him finish shouting, and directly inserted the dagger into his shoulder. The runes on the dagger glowed faintly because they were stained with blood.

The time creature whose soul was stabbed let out a scream of pain, which sounded very miserable.

Wingate's actions caused the robots to raise their electric shock batons.

Their AI core has made a determination that Wingate must be subdued before the controlled hostage can be rescued.

The robot launched an attack and tried to subdue the thug who was committing murder on the street.

Wingate's skills were pretty good, and even when faced with the siege of security robots, he didn't show any signs of embarrassment.

Seizing the gap, he also used the released psychic lightning to knock back one of them.

At this time, the man who was injured by the dagger had a look of extreme pain on his face, and with the sound of tearing, a monster crawled out of the man's body.

The dagger was inserted into its body, causing it to continuously make a piercing scream.

The monster had twisted flesh with eyes and wildly dancing tentacles. It was about the size of a basketball, and had a mouth that kept screaming weird sounds.

The weird glow continued to erupt from the other party's body, giving it a twisted sense of holiness.

Those weird glows are the external appearance of time. The reason why the robots and humans who originally turned a blind eye to them are so abnormal is because they have been given a new time by the monster.

The ugly monster crawling out made the bystanders scream even louder, and also caused the robots that were about to pounce to pause for a moment. They needed to recalculate who was the biggest threat and take a course of action.

There are gunboats equipped with artillery and large combat mechas flying over from further away. If you are trapped by them, even if you have ten lives, you may not be enough to kill them.

Before everything got out of control, Wingate grabbed the weird multi-legged creature, took out the dagger, and then slashed it in the air. A scratch with evil light appeared out of thin air. .

He jumped inside with the monster, and the scratches were closed.

The riot caused by him and the monster lasted for several hours in this war-torn hive city, causing people to panic.

All senior executives of the Arasaka Group received relevant reports and launched a large-scale search, but in the end nothing was found.

However, the chaos did not last forever. After a day, it returned to normal.

Even the traces left by Wingate and the time creature, whether they were portraits, written records, etc., all disappeared, as if they had never existed.

People forgot about it and everything returned to the way it was before.

Without the flow of time provided by the monster, things in the past have no way to reach the future. They are like rivers that have lost their source and eventually dry up.

If you are unlucky, it may form an infinite time loop that you will never have a chance to escape from.

Wingate ignored the chaos. He knew that everything would return to calm. The time of chaos was like a car running out of gas. It would be pushed along by inertia for a certain distance, but would eventually stop due to loss of power.

Using that special dagger, Wingate travels through the subspace where there is no concept of time.

When he re-entered the real universe, he appeared on a very desolate-looking city street.

The streets were deserted, save for the crackling of burning wreckage and the occasional explosion.

Occasionally, you can see a few charred, shabby corpses.

Looking around, Wingate found that the current location he was in was still the same city as before, but the time was different.

The city has been affected by the war, and the sound of gunfire and artillery can be heard from time to time.

Explosions and fires continued to appear in the sky, and sometimes one or two warships more than ten kilometers away could be seen disintegrating in the air and slowly falling to the ground.

It seems that the battlefield has spread to low-Earth orbit, and the enemies have begun landing operations. Those magnificent mechas are either heading to orbit to fight, or they are clearing out the landing enemies.

Suddenly, a huge sonic boom sounded in the air. Wingate looked up and saw a mecha more than sixty meters tall, with mechanical wings on its back and an energy shield activated, passing over the city. To the battlefield further away.

A moment later, an earth-shaking explosion and a tower-like flame emerged in that direction, illuminating the entire sky.

This is the epitome of the endless struggle between various forces before the Human Alliance was established.

Different companies and colonies are constantly fighting for their own interests.

Wingate shook his head at the confusion.

After looking around, he put away his curiosity, continued his mission, and left this world that was about to be engulfed by war.

The time creature, which is the size of a basketball, has a round body, and is covered with tentacles and eyes, has been locked in a special cage.

The next thing to do is to send it back to the prison at the headquarters for custody.

Wingate took out a compass from his arms, and the needle on it kept swinging.

This compass does not point to the direction of reality, but to the risks of the ether.

It is also forged by special craftsmen and combines the most cutting-edge technology of the empire with the ancient knowledge of subspace. It can help time agents find the direction of the ether wind.

As long as you find the ether wind in the right direction, you can go to any time and any place.

After confirming the direction, Wingate took the cage and set off according to the compass.

Human beings in the past always felt that time was mysterious and the most mysterious truth in the universe. As long as you mastered time, you could do anything.

Not afraid of people's jokes, Wingate once thought so too.

It wasn't until he was recruited by the Imperial Time Tribunal and became a time agent that he realized that time was not something too mysterious.

People live in time. As long as you feel it carefully, you can feel the existence of time from daily things.

As long as they have the right means and can withstand the damage caused by time travel, anyone can travel to the past and swim in the river of time.

Of course, as long as you can travel, if you want to change, that's another question.

Time and space are integrated. To truly change the past and reshape the future is so difficult that even the gods would not be able to do it together.

Ignorant people will inevitably refute Wingate's statement and think that if only a small change in the past is made, the future will change dramatically.

But the length, width, and height that people come into contact with daily are the reflection of space. People come into contact with them every day. But so far, can anyone change the structure of space?

Even if someone can change the spatial structure of an area.

But can he change the structure of the entire universe by changing the spatial structure of this area?

The answer is absolutely impossible. If you want to change the spatial structure of the entire universe, you must first have the resources and ability to create the entire universe.

The same is true for changing the past. To change a past that has already happened, you must have the ability to reshape the entire length of time, or even reshape the universe from the singularity.

After understanding the nature of time, Wingate no longer believed that changing the past could change the future. Now, he just wants to have as few interactions with the past as possible to reduce the probability of his own death.

The etheric compass pointed to a spot three streets away, and Wingate had to walk through the ruins and wreckage, and the charred buildings.

Wingate is ignored by the humans and machines that wander and hide within.

It's like he's not in the same world as them.

Wingate just had to watch out for those bullets and those sudden explosions.

Traveling through time will not bring immortality, as long as the time agent is killed, the time agent will also die.

Many agents died in the past due to carelessness.

Except for the souls of those unlucky people who would return to the realm of the God-Emperor, their bodies were often never found. Every one of them could be said to have no bones left.

People who travel from the future to the past can also enter the realm of the God-Emperor.

In that timeless realm, the God-Emperor, like the gods, has the characteristic of existing at every point in time since birth.

Passing through the blackened ruins, the compass no longer turning, Wingate knew he had arrived.

He lowered the cage holding the time creature and took out the dagger.

At this time, screams came from not far away, and a group of spider-shaped robots were massacring the fleeing people.

The history of mankind is a history of killing and destruction, which no one can refute.

Wingate subconsciously followed the sound and saw a little girl being held by a woman.

She is only five or six years old, with a fair and smooth face and a little baby fat. She looks very cute.

Maybe it's because children have a closer connection with subspace than adults, and children's souls are far more active than adults, so she saw Wingate.

She watched this mysterious man cut the skin of the universe with the dagger in his hand, his big eyes full of confusion.

The next second, she and her mother were hit by the beam fired by the spider robot, and their bodies were blown to pieces.

The bright red flesh and blood spilled onto the ground, very bloody.

Wingate didn't think much of this brutal scene, and he had no intention of helping those who belonged to the past.

He is not a savior and cannot save every innocent person.

In addition, too many changes to the past will also affect future stability, so turning a blind eye is the best option.

He retracted his gaze, picked up the cage on the ground, took his prey, walked into the gap of time and space, and embarked on the journey back to the headquarters of the Imperial Time Tribunal.

He had to cross tens of thousands of years to finally reach the headquarters of the Time Tribunal, and he had to be careful to avoid the time points where subspace creatures were raging.

There is no concept of time in subspace. The creatures inside can see travelers at any time period. Several time agents were killed by those subspace creatures because they accidentally entered the corrupted planet.

Constantly scratching the skin of the universe, then walking in, and then walking out of a crack, arriving at another time and place.

Wingate's final stop was a planet destroyed during the Omnic Wars.

The out-of-control omnic, which was as huge as a star, devoured everything in its path, and finally arrived in front of a colonized planet.

It opened its mouth, and its huge body blocked all light, plunging the entire colonial planet into darkness.

People saw the steel fangs that looked like mountain peaks and the digestive tracts that emitted heat radiation. As long as they were bitten off, the entire planet would be torn apart and completely swallowed by the out-of-control omnic.

This terrifyingly sized omnimachine was once a mining machine. After the war broke out, it went out of control.

It constantly devours everything around it, and then uses the devoured resources to transform itself.

Eventually, he turned into a behemoth comparable to a star.

If this machine had not been destroyed in the Omnic War, the Imperial Expeditionary Force would most likely encounter it, and it would surely be an amazing war.

Before the final destruction came, Wingate cut open the skin of time and space and left the planet that was about to be destroyed and the terrified humans.

When he came out of the rift, he arrived at the headquarters of the Time Tribunal.

The fresh air with the smell of engine oil rushes towards you, and the intricate and intertwined majestic buildings come into view.

The first thing I saw were the sculptures of the God Emperor and Master Xu Fu. They stood on the smooth and bright square, staring at the chaotic boundary of the universe.

The headquarters of the Time Chamber is located inside the small universe where the underground palace was sealed in the past.

The space of this small universe is not large, and anyone with a mechanical prosthetic eye can see the edge of the small universe.

Setting up the headquarters of the Time Tribunal in the small universe was a well-thought-out decision.

Many things that are inconvenient in the big universe are nothing to worry about in the small universe. Even if there is an uncontrollable disaster, the most you can do is close the channel to isolate it.

Another advantage is that it allows time agents to reach any place on the timeline without using various vehicles.

After confirming the plan to protect humans, construction here was put on the agenda.

The God-Emperor plans to build a huge time anchor device here to protect the human timeline and prevent evil gods or ancient races from using time to attack humans. It will also provide convenience for time agents and allow them to go there. Execute tasks at various points in time.

This time anchor device is extremely majestic, and the headquarters of the Time Chamber and the square where Wingate is located are only part of it.

Each time he returned to headquarters, Wingate marveled at the new changes in this magnificent machine.

This time anchor machine is only an unfinished product so far, and Wingate can see its changes every time he comes back.

Follow the grand square and cross the gate, and finally enter the intricate time chamber, which has tens of thousands of passages, and is still changing and increasing with the passage of time.

No one except the really top guys can remember these complicated routes.

Even though Wingate was already an old employee, he couldn't find the right path.

You must be guided by those special staff to get to where you want to be.

If there were spies lurking here, he might spend his whole life without collecting any useful information.

Under the guidance of the staff, Wingate arrived at the delivery location of this mission, Prison 103 in the Time Tribunal.

This prison is specially used to imprison those time creatures.

The special staff was only willing to take Wingate to the prison entrance and let him walk the rest by himself.

Wingate had no choice but to walk in along the entrance of the prison by himself.

The corridors of the prison do not have any high-tech lighting methods, only braziers and shrines containing the sculptures of the God-Emperor and the bones of heroes are placed every few meters.

The guards here are uniformly dressed in black robes, and even their faces are shrouded in the shadow of the black robes.

He holds special weapons containing the power of subspace in his hands. He can kill a storm warrior by just making a cut.

The aura they exuded was depressing, giving Wingate a feeling of suffocation.

After walking several hundred meters, Wingate arrived at the prison gate.

The gate is a hundred meters high, and its entire body is made of some special metal.

Wingate could hear the sound of machinery running, and could also feel that there was a huge time force field covering the gate and the entire 103 prison, making it impossible for those time creatures to escape.

A man with an implanted mechanical prosthesis, a flame emblem on his forehead, and exceptionally calm eyes stood in front of the gate with several technicians, waiting for Wingate.

Wingate looked into his eyes and knew that this guy had a brand of loyalty implanted in him.

Only those who are implanted with the brand of loyalty can have such calm eyes.

"I am Agent No. 9527. This is the time creature that the mission requires to capture." Wingate handed over the cage, and several technicians came up to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the creatures in the cage. After confirming that they were correct, , nodded towards the man.

"I am Sun Mingcheng, the manager of Prison No. 103. I am very happy to meet you. You have completed your mission very well. 9527, the God Emperor will be pleased for you. It is a pity that we who are loyal to the God Emperor must not waste every moment. Minutes, please forgive me for not being able to entertain you."

While introducing himself, Sun Mingcheng picked up the cage. After the door opened enough for him to pass through, he turned around and returned to Prison 103.

Several technicians followed him.

The entire handover process takes less than three minutes! !

Wingate stared blankly at the door that was closed again, and for a moment he had the urge to complain.

But thinking about it, it seems normal.

It's just a prisoner handover. Is it possible to set up two tables to celebrate? ?

Not long after the prison supervisor walked in, the screams of time and space creatures came from deep in the prison.

Its screams caused more creatures to roar, and for a while, prison 103 was filled with harsh sounds.

Wingate, who was just about to leave, subconsciously guessed how long the creatures had been imprisoned here, becoming human prisoners or experimental subjects.

It's a pity that he can't get the answer, and those men in black robes won't tell him.

After listening for a while, the voice gradually became quieter. Wingate shrugged, turned around and walked out.

He plans to rest for a while before embarking on a new mission.

Qin Zheng's eyes were focused on many areas at the same time.

And one of the eyes was always looking at Wingate.

The other party is walking on the path that was originally planned according to the plan.

Most people's lives are linear, but there are some lucky people who can escape this shackles and have more possibilities.

Every time agent is like a thread. Every step they take is to weave the empire's timeline, connect the past, present and future, and enhance mankind's ability to resist risks.

Wingate is the most important one. He will make the human timeline more complicated and have more dimensions, instead of being only linear like the previous timeline.

The war between humans and gods will eventually break out, unless humans are willing to become captive livestock of the gods.

The war of gods involves many things. The more complicated the timeline, the greater the possibility of human beings surviving. Even if one part of the past is destroyed, it can still rely on another part for support.

When Wingate completed its mission, the exclusive transport boat also arrived at Xuanyuan Star.

Escorted by fighter planes, the transport boat roared and landed in the metropolitan area.

Qin Zheng stepped off the transport boat surrounded by his personal guards.

Albus was already waiting on the tarmac, accompanied by several other Imperial officials from the Psionics Administration.

They all wore robes with various weird runes engraved on them, and faint psychic energy fluctuations emanating from them.

When Qin Zheng came out, they rushed to greet him.

Albus walked at the front. The once low-level combatant was no longer young.

His face is covered with traces of time and weather, and a psychic amplification device is implanted in the back of his head, hanging down like thick dreadlocks in a punk style.

"His Majesty."

"His Majesty."

They all saluted and expressed their loyalty to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng nodded slightly. He did not stop, but motioned to Albus to chat with him while walking.

　Seven thousand six, it will definitely be a blast tonight.

　　It’s not that I’m asking for trouble, I just want to clearly explain some of the characters and plans I wrote before.

　　It’s out of the question to say it’s thrilling, but the story still needs to be told clearly.

　　of.

　　I don’t want to be more popular, my current goal is to tell the story of the empire in a complete way, and I’ll be satisfied.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)