Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 729: Timeline Bug
"Is it because of those... Chinese characters found by the 776 Special Forces Team in the wreckage of Engine No. 92?" Miss Soma, who had been sitting quietly beside Ke Lan and listening without expressing any opinions, suddenly spoke up.
"Well, it is precisely because of the appearance of these Chinese characters that I suspect that before the Ark arrived at the galaxy where Alpha is located, the Alpha civilization had already come into contact with the Earth civilization... I even suspect that the Huaxia Heavy Industry, which had disintegrated as early as the old era, participated in the construction of these 'engines'." Ke Lan said in a deep voice.
" How is possible?! Human civilization is helping Alpha build engines?" Chi Hanfeng, who had just been released from prison, shook his head repeatedly. "Do you know how outrageous this sounds? It's like human engineers asking chimpanzees in the primeval forest to help build rockets."
"Then how do you explain the etched inscription 'Huaxia Heavy Industry' on the metal wall panels inside the engine wreckage?" Ke Lan asked.
Chi Hanfeng was suddenly speechless.
"Ke Lan, actually you just said something wrong." Layton suddenly stood up and moved the shoulders and arms of the mechanical prosthesis. "In fact, Huaxia Heavy Industry did not disintegrate."
"The most important technical resources have been transferred to the Ark's database, and all the elite backbones have been withdrawn... The China Heavy Industry left on Earth is just an empty shell. It's no wonder that it has disintegrated... It exists in name only." Chi Hanfeng glanced at Leighton and continued.
"Is there a possibility that those who stayed on Earth built a second Ark, and then during their interstellar voyage, this second Ark encountered some adventure, which led to the humans on this ship acquiring a technological level far beyond that of Earth civilization, and found Alpha Planet before our group... and at that time, the Alpha civilization had not disappeared from this planet." Leighton's breathing was a little rapid.
"This possibility is too small. After the Ark sets sail, the time left for the people on Earth will not exceed a hundred years... Imagine the Earth after the Ark leaves. It is a planet with exhausted resources, collapsed order, and humans hating and killing each other. The chosen ones have taken away the most precious wealth of human civilization, leaving only a devastated world for the 'abandoned'. The seeds of despair, hatred, and madness take root in the hearts of those who stay and gradually spread... In that situation, let alone building a second Ark, even if you want to build a spaceship that can leave the solar system, I think it is unlikely." Ke Lan said.
He had proposed this hypothesis when he was watching the Mewtwo video. At that time, he even speculated whether these engine wreckages belonged to the "second ark".
But the fact is that, except for the first group of people who boarded engineering ships and resource collection ships and escaped from the solar system through the residual energy of the accelerator (commonly known as the "star gate"), the rest of the people left on Earth have lost the opportunity to escape from their home planet forever.
"But we can't rule out the possibility of a miracle happening!" Layton raised his voice a little, "What if the remaining people recognize the reality and unite together? Just like... just like... the miracle of Axis!"
He searched his mind for a long time but couldn't find a suitable metaphor, so he finally resorted to the fictional animation plot.
"That's just an animation... Such a miracle can't exist in reality." What Ke Lan didn't expect was that Major Chi Hanfeng, who was always serious and old-fashioned, had also seen this work.
"How is it impossible? If it weren't for the unity of mankind, even the first ark would not have been built!" Layton said, "The existence of Noah's Ark itself is a miracle, so why can't such a miracle happen a second time? Is it just because those people on Earth are abandoned?"
"But the time doesn't make sense either." The Hound stood up and patted the emotional Layton on the shoulder. "Our Ark has been drifting in the universe for nine hundred years. This period of time is extremely long for the people on the Ark, but it is just a flash in the history of Alpha civilization... Even if the people left on Earth built a second Ark in just a few years and arrived at Alpha Star first, the scene they saw would not be much different from ours."
"The Alpha civilization has disappeared for at least tens of thousands of years, and those engine wreckages were obviously not built within nine hundred years..." As Ke Lan was talking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. He raised his head abruptly and his eyes met Layton's.
"Natural wormhole!" the two shouted in unison.
"What natural wormhole...you mean...the natural wormhole located in the Orion Arm that the Ark passed through in the 499th year of the New Era?!" The old dog couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"That's right. It is because of this wormhole that we are here now... Otherwise, it would be impossible for Noah's Ark to cross such a vast star field in nine hundred years with its own power. Without this wormhole, we might still be in a cold, dark, and material-scarce drifting era ... Or we might have disappeared in some corner of the universe." Ke Lan nodded, "But the flow of time in the wormhole is abnormal... One second we feel may be one year, ten years... or even a hundred years for the space and time outside the wormhole. If we follow the time on Earth, the year we landed on Alpha may not be the nine hundredth year of the new era, but an unknown number of tens of thousands of years in the new era."
"I think so too. With the existence of wormholes, any bugs in the timeline can be ignored." Layton agreed.
"It may exist, but this possibility is too coincidental. It takes countless coincidences to have such a slight chance of happening..." Chi Hanfeng sighed, "But besides that, I have also found a better reason to explain what you saw. Perhaps, the only way to find the answer is to go to the Gray Mist Forest."
He turned his head and looked at Valentina with some worry - he knew that Valentina's name must be on the list of people for this operation. In fact, Chi Hanfeng didn't want Valentina to participate in this mission, but he just couldn't say it.
"Ke Lan, have you ever thought of a possibility?" The person who spoke was Thirty-Three, "The Mewtwo video you saw was a forgery by the Undead Crew."
"They forged this thing... what's the point?"
"I don't know. I just find it very suspicious... Even the crew members on your side are unwilling to reveal those secrets to you, so why would Aphrodite take you to the core brain to watch that video... Her motives are hard to understand."
