Chapter 435: Supertemporal Exchange
If ti was flexible and you could reach into any mont in the future and the past, would you change everything? The blood rushed to the brain’s frontal lobe, parietal area, temporal lobe, occipital lobe and epencephala. Waves of pain overwheld him and everything was red. The PEEK polyr connected to the skull stretched to burst through the skin. Blood capillaries popped in the widened eyes. Unknown light flickered in the eyes, they seed to co from a different dinsion. The man’s body which the bloodshot eyes belonged to was currently lying flat inside a giant glass chamber.
His hands were not long enough to reach out to grip the strange tallic beam but when he laid down, so threads rose from the bottom of the chamber. It was unable to tell whether they were corporeal or just reflections of light. They pierced through his skin, connected to his nervous system and then crawled out from his body again. Instantly, he felt his hands changing. They beca longer. The 10 fingers disappeared, instead, his arm ended in a cylindrical organ with a giant claw attached. He appeared to have morphed into a different species. Not only his hands, the threads even slithered into the other parts of his body, including his brain.
The machine made a strange and screeching sound. The tallic beams and tubes made from unknown materials started to operate. The machine and the carvings, inscriptions and patterns on the platform initiated their mysterious purposes. Yu Chi, holding a shovel by the side, stood on the platform. He watched the proceeding with nervousness and so envy. Even though it was clear that the man in the chamber was under great pain, Yu Chi would have given up everything to trade places with him. The opportunity to use ancient technology wouldn’t chance upon every archaeologist. However, it had been decided that Yu Chi would be on guard duty. If any abnormality took over Gu Jun, Yu Chu would drag him out from the chamber but the problem that they worried about before they put this plan into action occurred—Yu Chi had trouble telling what was normal and what was abnormal.
“Captain Gu?” Yu Chi had no choice but to ask the man himself, “How do you feel?” But he got no answer except Gu Jun’s face turned even more horrifying. Every vein on his face popped. “This is bad...” Even though Yu Chi was no doctor, he realized that this was not how a normal human body should react. Furthermore, Yu Chi knew about Captain Gu’s history of brain damage. He was worried that Gu Jun’s head might explode like a balloon. Yu Chi was suddenly reminded of the intermittent ssages from the mysterious signal, “...Your brain limited... accept...”
‘Is it our human body has limited our brain? Accept power and accept this machine...’ Yu Chi studied this machine again and hesitated about doing sothing but he was afraid to interrupt Gu Jun. At that mont, there was a whiz. Lights in so of the tubes faded. The veins on Gu Jun’s face slowly returned to normal but his eyes were still red. Yu Chu called hurriedly, “Captain Gu, can you hear ?”
“Yes, I can...” Gu Jun answered slowly. His voice was weak and low. Despite the weakness, there was severity in it.
“So how was it?” Yu Chi asked, knowing the situation wouldn’t be that great.
“This machine can enable one to travel through ti and space to infiltrate into the brain of the other lifeform in that specific dinsion... I... have just returned to Phecda World from several days ago and changed so things... Captain Yu, there’s big trouble at both Phecda World and Mysterium World. Both of our Mo Bei Cities are under attack...”
‘A ti machine?’ Yu Chi was shocked and excited. He listened to Gu Jun slowly tell his story. Earlier, after Gu Jun climbed into the chamber, the connection to the machine was fully automatic. He did not do anything, or rather, he ‘accepted’ it. But during this process, he could feel the incompatibility between his body and the machine. It was like a ps 4 trying to play a ps 5 ga. The incompatibility was very dangerous, it could have killed him at any mont. Furthermore, Gu Jun had to deal with the witch’s presence. However, when he was inside the chamber, Gu Jun felt a great lowering of the witch’s power.
In this case, the witch was not the main problem. The main problem was his lack of brain power and unfamiliarity with this machine. After the forced connection, Gu Jun found new information gushing in his mind, including the theory and operation manual to this machine, but he could only understand the most surface level of it. Other than that, another detail clarified for him. Soone told him that this Pnakotic Library, these tos, knowledge and technology did not originate from the Yith but the essence the Yith had collected from their travels through the river of ti and through different worlds. The Yith used this machine to input their consciousness into other creature’s minds to absorb their knowledge.
Among the bookshelves, there was a tomb about the homo sapien civilization. There was only one because compared to other long and great civilizations, the homo sapien civilization was like a newborn. After knowing that, Gu Jun naturally wished to know what was written inside that book and he wanted to know if there was a tomb on the foreign civilization. But these thoughts he put on the backburner for now, he had sothing more important to do.
Yu Chi’s supposition was correct. The human body had limited brain power, Gu Jun agreed with it. If his brain could support a greater and faster blood flow, things might turn out differently. He could achieve a greater mastery of this machine. At their current stage, human body was unable to use this machine. There was danger of brain haemorrhage and cardiac failure. The human body was too fragile. Gu Jun’s case was unique because he had firm determination as well as the guidance from the machine itself.
Furthermore, he had a feeling that when he traversed through ti to infiltrate other people’s mind, at the sa ti, a different lifeform traversed through ti back to the ‘present’ to inhabit his mind, to help stabilize his body. It should be the Yith. But Gu Jun had a feeling the Yith still did not want to expose themselves. “I believe they do not even want to get involved in this problem.” Gu Jun said, “I cannot be sure that the Yith is behind the mysterious signal but they are involved in this sohow so they are technically dragged into this. They are very careful. Even if they could have taken full control over our body, they did not do that. That showed how cautious they were.
“And there’s sothing even though I’m not sure about it... but sothing probably happened here, sothing that they cannot resolve on their own so they left this place to escape into the future. Being an observer in the river of ti and not causing any changes is not that exhaustive but initiating changes will cost. It is rather similar to casting spells. However, the sacrifice needed is impossible to predict. On top of that, the sacrifice imposed is unable to reverse. The sacrifice itself was immune to ti manipulation. These are the andnts enforced by the universe to stop interruptions to the flow of ti. Therefore, the Yith normally will not manipulate the situation, most of the ti, they rely observe. Because the sacrifices needed to intervene are sotis far larger than the entire Yith civilization can sustain.
“The sacrifice could be a single mber of the civilization or the collapse of the entire civilization. I have no idea what sacrifice demanded of from my action would be... Hopefully, it is nothing more than a 24 hours shortening of my life...”
Yes, it was Gu Jun who had infiltrated Elder Tong’s mind. His initial target was Wu Siyu because they shared the strongest bond. He would have a much easier ti to assu her mind and glean information from her knowledge. Wu Siyu would also be more sensitive to his presence in her mind and more receptive to his attempts at communication. Furthermore, Gu Jun had been curious about how Dirty-minded Yu’s brain was like on the inside. Since he could not cut it open, this was the best solution. However, the connection could not be made because Gu Jun could not locate her, it was like she had disappeared...
This kind of connection required the receptiveness from the other party so the Yith often went for those with high spirituality. However, the infiltrated would not realize their mind had been ‘visited’ after the fact unless they tried to focus on it. Therefore, Gu Jun chose Elder Tong. Elder Tong was the main commander and knew the most about the whole situation. He was also the person who could influence the situation the most. At the sa ti, Elder Tong was soone with high spirituality and knew both spells and Ancient Seal. He was a good candidate.
“Elder Tong, Elder Tong...” Gu Jun searched for his connection with Elder Tong. The machine twisted everything into a ball of chaos and he was able to swim through it. If he had enough energy, he could control the specific point in ti he wanted to travel to but he did not and he was unable to afford the price anyway. Even if he just observed, using this machine one ti would cause great exhaustion to the human body and mind. He and Yu Chi were unique cases. If it was a normal human, using the machine once would cause several years of coma or even brain death.
In any case, Gu Jun successfully infiltrated into Elder Tong’s mind. The timing was not chosen by Gu Jun but by the machine or rather the Yith. Just as he entered Elder Tong’s mind, there was a mont where Gu Jun could look through every mory and thought in Elder Tong’s mind from his birth until the mont of infiltration. However Gu Jun was not powerful enough to stay in that phase. Few seconds later, all he saw were lotto numbers, alcohols and funny videos... Regardless, he tried his best to pull information. The nearer it was to ‘present’, the clearer the information. The mutated area, nuclear radiation, evacuation, quarantine circle...
Gu Jun saw so but not others. It was like trying to look through a fog, he could see only the general fra. Deng Xii appeared to have entered the mutated area and found the poster he once held and saw the illusion... And this locust Sickness, he did not know much about it. He knew the patients would hunger for soil and self-explode. So of the patients beca part of the Flying Locust and they ca from another mutated area.
In that ti crunch, Gu Jun inputted several concepts into Elder Tong’s mind so that he could grasp what was happening. The multi-world collision was confird, the competing realities were still a hypothesis. Which was the ‘real’ reality? Gu Jun had been pondering over that. After he gained so information about the mutated area, he was certain the mutated area was not a lifeform but a battlefield. Therefore, the quarantine circle was the wrong solution, instead he provided the life circle mission as a solution.
With regards to the desert wasteland, Gu Jun believed it was not coinciding with the Wasteland World but instead the Massachusetts World or the Mysterium World. The chance of it being the latter was higher because Massachusetts World was situated about 100 years ago. Mo Bei at the ti should be wildly different from Mo Bei in the present so the difference should be clear.
About that ti, Gu Jun’s brain reached its limit. He was forced back by the machine and that saved his life. After telling Yu Chu all that, Gu Jun frowned and said, “Captain Yu, I am unable to find anything on Wu Siyu, I worry about her.”
In a flickering mont, in Elder Tong’s mind, Gu Jun seed to sense that Dirty-minded Yu was in danger... Now he was concerned this was the price he had to pay for ssing with ti itself...
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