Pollution throughout the territory

Chapter 384 Time Travel

"arrive."

Accompanied by two A-level personnel, Xia Ren once again came to the entrance of the 18th floor.

One of them said: "The doctor has opened permission for you. Now you can come and go freely. We will wait for you outside until you are sent back to the hospital."

It seems that the last assassination made the doctor pay more attention to his own safety.

However, Xia Ren then thought that if this was the case, then his whereabouts in the past two days might have been under surveillance by the other party.

"Fortunately, I didn't actually attack those containment objects."

Xia Ren calmed down and came to the elevator door on the eighteenth floor.

He imitated Dr. Liao's previous actions and pasted his identity token on the screen next to him.

[Permission authentication is turned on. 】

[Special authority certification: Level A (God of Death)]

[Permission authentication passed, welcome. 】

Unlike the cumbersome procedure when Dr. Liao passed through last time, Xia Ren directly opened the elevator door on the 18th floor.

He looked at his identity token with some surprise, and then walked into the elevator.

Arriving at the familiar open space, after a while, the surrounding space was distorted, and he was teleported to the doctor's space again.

The doctor opened his empty eyes, looked in his direction, and said, "It's strange. I thought you could regain some strength, but you are weaker than I thought."

"However, this is good. Your presence will be reduced to a minimum, which will also be conducive to our next actions."

"What's next?"

Xia Ren said doubtfully.

"As you requested two years ago, I will take you to... Seraino Great Library!"

Xia Ren felt a violent heart palpitation, and the tentacles stretched out from behind his head, wrapping him tightly in an instant.

As soon as he finished speaking, the simple silver key on the doctor's chest suddenly burst into dazzling light, illuminating the entire room like daylight.

Xia Ren took back control of the tentacles, opened a gap, and revealed his vision, only to find that the outside was shrouded in white light.

Then, in this white space, other colors gradually appeared.

It was an old man wearing a long white coat, with a thin build and a slight hunchback.

The old man turned his head and faced Xia Ren, who saw the silver key hanging around his neck that was exactly the same as the one on the doctor's chest.

Looking further up, Xia Ren saw the old man's eyes, wearing a pair of nearly opaque black sunglasses.

"Could it be..."

A bold guess came to his mind.

The old man ignored him, but took off the silver key from his neck, stretched out his hand and slowly scratched it in the air in front of him.

Something strange happened. The silver key was like a sharp blade, and it seemed to cut through the space. Where it cut through, a pure black passage gradually appeared.

"come on."

The old man waved to him, then stepped into the passage and disappeared.

Xia Ren hesitated for a moment, then retracted his tentacles and entered the passage.

As soon as his back foot left the white space, the entrance to the passage was immediately closed.

Xia Ren was nervous for a moment, then looked forward.

In the entire dark space, only the silver key around the old man's neck emits the only light.

"I'm a doctor."

The old man explained: "My full name is Laban Thulebel."

When he talks about a doctorate, he certainly cannot mean a degree.

As far as Xia Ren knew, there was only one "Doctor" in the entire foundation.

"Are you and the one who was soaked in the jar as a specimen the same person?"

"That was to suppress my own power, and, to keep me sane."

The doctor took a step forward: "I always travel through various time and space, including the past and the future. Every space there is real. This causes me to often be unable to tell whether I am real or not when I end a period of time travel. After returning to the original world, another journey begins.

It is extremely dangerous to get lost in the long river of the world, so I sealed part of my power so that I could not make two consecutive space trips in a short period of time to ensure that I could always stay awake. "

Xia Ren pondered the information contained in his words and asked, "So you see the past and the future?"

“The past cannot be changed, but the future is always changing.”

The doctor seemed to recall some bad memories and said: "I can only see a partially vague future, such as certain facts that cannot be changed."

"Refers?"

"end."

The doctor continued to take a step forward, and Xia Ren had to follow.

"The familiar world will collapse, and mankind will eventually perish. This is the countless futures I see. No matter how it changes, the ending will not change."

"Isn't that..."

Xia Ren could not imagine the pressure and despair that the doctor had been under.

"But I said that the future is always changing. Maybe the end is not the only ending. If you give up, there is really no hope."

"Besides, I have seen light before." There was a hint of longing in the doctor's tone.

"Light?"

"Yes, light."

The doctor stopped.

"I was still young at that time, and I was far from having the power to peer into the future, so I could only travel through the past and collect forbidden knowledge. But I stayed in that time and space for too long, which caused a problem when I returned. I fell into In the gap between time and space, I fell into a world full of sunshine. The sky there was extremely clear, birds were flying in groups, the ground was full of vitality, and everything was green. Various lush plants grew among the collapsed buildings, and countless healthy The people built new cities beside the ruins and lived under a sky without the threats of old gods and pollution."

The doctor sighed softly: "I lived there for a while, but later because of the time travel for too long, the real world has rejected me, causing me to lose most of my memories. I can only vaguely remember that in I spent the happiest time of my life there.”

Xia Ren was inexplicably reminded of the desolate world that connects humans and dreams.

Collapsed buildings, weird and bizarre plants, everlasting clouds in the sky, and the occasional scary shadows in the clouds.

Perhaps, that is the scene of the end.

"Are we going to that library?"

"Yes, Seraino Great Library, you'd better remember this name."

The doctor continued walking forward and said: "The longer I stay in other dimensions, the more serious the rejection of reality becomes. The sequelae of long-term time and space travel is that my time in the real world is lost little by little. , I have regressed from my original old age to my teenage years, and the appearance you see of me now is my true age."

"Then what will happen if it continues to degrade?"

"I will be completely erased in reality, I will lose my spatial coordinates, and will be lost in various time and space forever."

"Will you die?"

"Won't."

"Think about it from another perspective, will it be eternal life soon? I feel like this is more like a gift."

"A gift?"

The doctor chuckled softly.

"No, this is punishment. You wouldn't understand."

"Okay." Xia Ren shrugged.

The realm of being a doctor who can travel through time and space is difficult for Xia Ren to understand.

"By the way, I forgot to answer the question you just asked."

The doctor said: "We are now on a journey to the library. Every step you and I take may seem short, but it actually spans several light years."