Chapter 755: Time Is Stranded
"You don't look like the world, my friend. What are you eating?" Chen Ke looked at the half white thigh.
"Tell me, stranger, are you a savior? Or a savior?" The maggot squirmed, and the skin oozed foul-smelling body fluids.
"I'm neither." Chen Ke said.
The maggot was silent for a while, opened the big mouth under its face, and made a long gurgling sound. Chen Ke didn't know whether it was yawning or groaning in pain.
"They sent many people to find the answer, but in vain. Are you one of them?" The maggot asked.
"I'm not the same as you." Chen Ke shook his head. The maggot in front of him did not show any information in his vision. It was not a clan, not a god, nor an alien. Perhaps, it was some special existence.
His left eye flashed red, ready to see if the maggot had hidden anything.
"Ah... that eye... you are...?" The maggot saw Chen Ke's left eye, and his tone became a little horrified.
Chen Ke observed the maggot, and the other party seemed to suddenly become very awed by him.
"You are its incarnation... right? Please... touch the darkness in my heart... I have been dreaming for too long." The maggot said.
"If it is not necessary, I really don't want to touch you." Chen Ke said.
"Please touch me... Yes, you are it... Touch me... You will see all the answers." The maggot begged.
Chen Ke hesitated for a moment, and he had no choice now, so he stretched out his right hand and put his palm on the maggot's slippery skin.
At the moment of touch, a huge amount of information poured into his brain like a tide, and he seemed to fall into the ocean of information, or more precisely, the sea of memories. The maggot's memory and knowledge became a physical wave, enveloping him and drifting without direction.
The history of mankind flashed before his eyes like a slide. The earth rotated at high speed in front of Chen Ke's eyes. The dark continent became extremely devastated. Year after year, day after day, mankind built a great civilization on the continent until the emergence of psychic power.
In the use of psychic power, mankind had disputes, and the users suffered various suppressions. Those who could use psychic power in ancient times were regarded as witches and heretics and sentenced to death.
It was not until the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century that the world began to regard psychic power as a new direction for human development and established institutions such as the Administration. Psychic power did not appear in 1910, but it appeared earlier. It was only the time when it was officially recognized and the information was made public, which was 1910.
History is written by rulers, and the starting year is set for historical events in order to cover up the various previous misdeeds.
The convenience of psychic power is accompanied by danger, but humans must choose the direction of development. Technology and psychic power are not particularly difficult to choose. Progress is sometimes accompanied by sacrifice.
The Administration was incorporated into the regular law enforcement agencies of various countries in 2042, and as early as 1908, a man with a far-sighted vision of psychic phenomena had already established the prototype of the Foundation. However, it was not until 2067 that the Foundation really stepped onto the historical stage and became the current behemoth.
The large-scale development of psychic energy, and the control and research of psychic phenomena by private and official organizations, allowed humans to develop rapidly, but it was not until 2137 that the Antarctic incident made humans understand that the emergence of psychic energy foreshadowed a greater disaster, and the price of this progress was unbearable for humans.
In the spring of 2137, 20% of the Antarctic continent was shrouded in black shadows, and the exploration team and drones sent out never returned after entering the black shadows.
The drone lost connection as soon as it entered the black shadows, and no one knew what was inside. Moreover, the scope of the black shadows was slowly expanding. Two weeks later, 80% of Antarctica had completely disappeared from the earth.
This is a disaster called "the great absurdity" and the beginning of the "still years" of mankind.
"Still years...what does this mean?" Chen Ke asked.
"Neither the Administration nor the Foundation can explain the existence of the shadow, nor can they even observe the inside. According to the speed of the shadow's expansion, the entire earth will be swallowed by the shadow within 5 months." The maggot explained.
The Foundation accidentally obtained the lower half of a certain outer god's body, which has the ability to control time. Although it only has half of the body, it miraculously maintains a "sleeping" state, as if the two halves of the body exist in different dimensions.
The chairman of the foundation, Rom, volunteered to eat the flesh and blood of the god and became a time-traveling worm, helping the foundation master the technology of traveling through time and space.
They hoped to travel to the end of time to explore the secrets of the shadow, but they desperately discovered that in the middle of 2137, before winter, the time and space behind did not exist.
This means that human history disappeared in that time and space.
Rom, who swallowed the remains of the god, stopped the time of 2137, took on the time debt of the universe, turned into a huge worm, and suffered the pain of continuous cell withering and rebirth in his body.
The Foundation began to explore the past, hoping to find the secret of the formation of the shadow by exploring history, but it was completely futile, and the huge pressure caused many disagreements within the Foundation.
The Foundation was not a monolithic entity, but was divided into many factions based on various doctrines.
The Necromancers advocated the descent of gods and living in dreams.
The Saviorists advocated the study of psychic power and the use of science to solve the crisis of the shadow.
There are other scattered niche theories, and the internal struggle consumes the foundation's manpower and material resources. The motivation of both parties to travel through time and space to save the future of mankind gradually turns into an assassination operation to return to the past and erase the other party's existence.
From a certain perspective, the seance sect lost and the savior sect won the final victory. However, in the long struggle, the savior sect changed from materialism to idealism. The savior believed that the existence of the black shadow was the universe. As a punishment for mankind, they need to correct their past and correct mankind's mistakes in order to make the black shadow disappear completely.
As a result, the Salvationists began to reshape history according to their own wishes, hoping to use current technology to enlighten people with lofty ideals in the past time and space and help solve the shadow crisis.
However, the seance sect did not die out because of this. Rom himself recognized both the spirit of the savior sect and the practices of the seance sect. After devouring gods, he had the ability to dream, so he split in 2137 and formed In an inner loop of time and space, the two factions coexisted without knowing it.
Only Rom can exist in two time and space at the same time. In order for Rom to continue to control time, the Foundation needs powerful psykers to share Rom's pain. This is called "human sacrifice"
Even if Thor has the thunder to travel through time and space, he can't find Rom in the gap between time and space. Only Chen Ke can find it.
Chen Ke also roughly understood why. The half-eaten white thigh might be the lower body of the giant white thing. He had the same ability as Rom, and was theoretically more advanced than him, so Rom was right. He respects You Jia.
As for the black shadow that appeared in Antarctica... Chen Ke also knew what it was.
That is time stranding, which means that a small part of Antarctica in 2137 has entered the real timeline. If Rom hadn't stopped time and space, the 999th cycle would have been over.