Uplifting Journey

The burnt smell left by building materials, the pungent poisonous gas left by the violent reaction of chemicals, and expensive instruments that are shabby and shabby

Cheng Bin, who was wearing a stained white coat and standing in an open laboratory like a fire scene, slowly recovered from his trance.

Looking up, a large number of people wearing gas masks and combat uniforms similar to special police are moving carefully in the laboratory. They are observing, photographing, and sorting various broken things, as if they are searching for clues.

Cheng Bin, who didn't wear any protective equipment, and his hair and face were covered with black ash, was quite out of place standing here.

Fragmentary memories slowly emerged in the bottom of my heart, gradually weaving into clear veins—Cheng Bin opened his mouth silently, and lightly squeezed his lips that were almost cracked due to anxiety and thirst.

That's right, this is the world he was originally born in, and now he is in his laboratory that has just been accidentally invaded.

Is this home? Really. It seems like a lifetime away.

No, it's not like, strictly speaking, he is indeed separated from his past self by at least one trial world.

It's just that the current self, is it the Cheng Bin sub-body from the World Tree Pantheon that covered the past self, or the Cheng Bin who originally existed in this "home" and obtained additional memory fragments?

Cheng Bin, who did not rely entirely on his own strength and knowledge to return to his hometown, has no way of judging, but he doesn't care too much.

The miracle that he once longed for, even if he sacrificed his soul, has truly come to him. Now he just needs to stretch out his hand

The strange male voice from behind brought back Cheng Bin's somewhat vain mood——

"I'm very sorry to see such a thing happen," said a man in his thirties, with a flat head and a filter mask on his suit and leather shoes, standing behind Cheng Bin. The tone was as flat as possible, "You haven't realized what the true value of your research will bring you, you should agree to cooperate with us at the first time"

After a pause, there was a trace of deliberate emotion in the man's flat tone: "Science has no national boundaries, but scientists are all 'Dr. Cheng' with nationality."

Hearing that title full of doubts and sarcasm, Cheng Bin, who gradually regained his sense of the world, was stunned for a moment. The cause and effect of the laboratory-related incidents gathered and fermented in his heart at this moment, and he faintly touched his face with a complex causal context with his thoughts. There was a subtle emotion on his face——

The name Dr. Cheng itself contains quite complicated meanings.

In terms of the current national system he is in, a doctorate is only the starting point for scientific research. If he wants to live his life on scientific research in the future, there are still several levels for Dr. Mengxin to climb.

Except for the onlookers who don't know the truth, those insiders who call him Dr. Cheng, it's hard to say how much sincere respect there is in their words——

After all, he is a hacker who relies on his extraordinary ability to overcome countless obstacles to obtain research results. Some of his behaviors are closer to some businessmen who guide scientific research results to the ground. He has no visible climbing and accumulation track on the road of scientific research, and he is not recognized by the circle. How many relevant articles with actual influence have been published on the platform.

Even putting aside the contradictions caused by issues such as funding and status, the seniors in the scientific community who have devoted their entire lives to scientific research are still dissatisfied with him. After all, his research field is the human body, and any link in medicine that has not been fully verified will make people with conscience Some people yelled at him, not to mention his exaggerated leap forward?

For many people, the research projects led by Cheng Bin are almost castles in the sky and black technology, and their internal logic has naturally been questioned.

However, the prolongation of cell life and the effect of cancer cure brought about by the research cannot be denied. Even if the results have not been verified by time, the world will chase after them frantically and push Cheng Bin to the forefront with numerous profit awards.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Cheng Bin, who was believed by many people to have mastered something by luck, had his laboratory invaded after refusing some "in-depth cooperation".

The medical university located in the capital is naturally within the planning of the macro security system. It is hard to say whether there is an inside ghost doing something like this inside.

For example, the man in a suit who is secretly mocking him behind him, representing the will of a certain pharmaceutical group and scientific research institute that he refused to cooperate with, is definitely more than just a spectator who gloats after the fact.

But no matter who it is, I'm afraid they can't imagine what kind of results this accident will bring, right?

Silent cities, mutated monsters running rampant among reinforced concrete, viruses permeating the atmosphere, dark and dirty laboratories, lunatics with only antibodies left

The gloomy memories of the doomsday that surfaced in his heart made Cheng Bin's fluttering mind return to silence. He ignored the surrounding noises and pulled his white coat a little, and groped in his inner pocket.

The slightly sharp touch of his fingertips made Cheng Bin pause for a moment, and then he took out what he found——

A touch-screen mobile phone with a black casing, and a simple golden arrow carved with exquisite patterns.

After rubbing the arrow with his fingertips for a while, Cheng Bin exhaled, put away the arrow and turned his attention to his mobile phone.

Unlock the screen and open the communication log.

Dad. Mom. Aunt Wang Xinxin

The most recent call record was just yesterday, but for Cheng Bin, the last time he heard the voices of his relatives seemed to be a past life.

The finger on the dial could not be pressed for a long time. What appeared in Cheng Bin's mind was the pain of his relatives being infected, dying and mutated after the end of the world, and the comforting words spoken to him under the pain——

"...it's not your fault be optimistic and live well"

Click——

Cracks like spider webs spread across the phone case, and the screen plunged into darkness after a short blurred screen.

The mania and anxiety settled in the depths of the soul surged out, and the phantom of the crimson human figure emerged from the overlap with Cheng Bin, turned around and grabbed the head of the chattering man in the suit.

The huge force made a dent visible to the naked eye on the head of the man in the suit. The man lifted by the sky attracted the surprised attention of the surrounding people, but then everything in the world appeared infinite double images, reflected in the soul vortex between the eyebrows of the Scarlet King. plunged into a blurred chaos.

Surprise, pain, pride, contempt, hesitation, fear. The faces of the man in the suit that contain different emotions and encounters emerge one after another in the chaos. Countless causal chains extend to the upper and lower ends of the time axis, and all possibilities converge into a picture scroll that ordinary people cannot understand.

Cheng Bin stretched out his right hand, and picked out from this chaotic picture scroll the thing at the focus of the infinite causal line that affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

The haze of chaos faded away, the burnt laboratory full of pungent smell disappeared, and the bright, white and intact laboratory reappeared before Cheng Bin's eyes.

The virus preservation solution at minus tens of degrees Celsius flows in a sealed transparent container. Cheng Bin ignores the surprised gaze of the researcher around him and the frostbite on his right hand, and carefully looks at the thing that should have been hidden deep in the instrument against the light.

The power of the Crimson King Requiem entangles this container, following the main line of this doomsday, the past is rewritten, the future is distorted, some people's lifelines are cut in half, and the life trajectory of more people is continued

"The Crimson King's power is concentrated on the current world line, and has not observed or interfered with more world lines. According to the teaching materials given there, the time line is only a description of the current state of the world line. Apart from the illusory history, It is also impossible to have multiple timelines at the same time, and compared to editing the timeline, the current performance of the Crimson King seems to be more inclined to crack the possibility and trace the cause and effect. From what perspective does this double operate?"

What kind of power does the Crimson King have after awakening as Requiem? At present, Cheng Bin, one of the carriers, has not yet excavated much, but it is already easy to destroy the source of the doomsday tragedy from the past time.

——No matter what, the miracle I longed for has indeed been realized, so as the price for the realization of the miracle, I should also do what I want to do?

The red baby dragon Cheng Bin didn't expect him to do anything immediately, but gave him plenty of time to grow up, and provided him with a platform to explore the direction of his growth.

The tense and exciting infinite trial suddenly returned to the daily life at home, and Cheng Bin, who had achieved a miracle, fell into a state of aimlessness for a while.

After half payment, the container in Cheng Bin's hand disappeared in the trembling of time together with the frostbite on his hands. He erased the black technology that he realized and exposed, pulled out the timeline of the normal academic research path, and went home to visit I glanced at my parents.

Different from the accurate and stingy rewriting of local reality in the original timeline editing of the Crimson King, any current reality-changing operation of Cheng Bin will reverse the timeline shape along the time axis, and the far-reaching impact produced by the same interference is not an order of magnitude at all. , At the same time, it also caused a lot of confusion in Cheng Bin's memory and self-cognition.

However, these are all obstacles that must be overcome during the growth process. Cheng Bin, who doesn't even care about sacrificing his soul in order to save everything, is not stumbling by this self-contradictory ethical logic.

After dealing with relatives and friends, work and business affairs, Cheng Bin, who had arranged his own life trajectory, officially triggered the key from the Red Dragon Casa in sufficient leisure time.

A strange and complicated information flow emerges in Cheng Bin's consciousness—it is a strange high-dimensional service platform called "Knowledge Seeker System". Looking at the long logo, it is already in the third stage of public beta. I don't know how many versions. something.

Cheng Bin, who had an inexplicable sense of visual perception of the infinite space trial panel, thought about the various functions opened to him by the seeker system, and opened the blinking task bar in the system with his mind.

The task bar is mentioned in the function description. Generally speaking, ordinary beings who come into contact with the Seeker system will not encounter any mandatory tasks that must be done, and the task publisher and task content tend to be related to the deep secrets of the Seeker system. Related, low-level system users won't be exposed to those things.

But Cheng Bin's treatment is obviously a little different. There are already several conspicuous items in his task bar that are circulating luxurious dark gold——

——Main task: Tracing and Completing the Substitute System (Phase 1) (Unopened)——

Description: Tracing the life trajectory of the group of testers who are carriers under the "substitute reinforcement system" in the domain of the Infinite Master in the peripheral trial world, and intervening according to the specific situation. At the same time, in the process, locate the road sign "Arrow", and cooperate with the incarnation of the dragon god Aiou to capture the traces of the Immortal Lizard and Dr. Cheng.

Reward: Several redemption points, primary access to the knowledge seeker system management platform, derived from Dior's special research data.

Remarks: The differentiation tester is a necessary link to deal with the Lord of Infinity, and you have to play it whether you are happy (help me find my good friend who was taken away by the Lord of Infinity~Thank you~——Fu).

——Main task: Existence Verification Research Subitem of the Supreme Saint "The Arrow of Time" (Phase 1) (not opened)——

Description: Different high-dimensional beings have completely different cosmic perspectives. As a part of the stand-in system and possessing the power of the Crimson King, you can make useful supplements in the research on the rules of information progression between time slices of the world line. Please work hard to advance Improve your own level in all aspects, and at the same time explore the deep compatibility between the knowledge seeker system and the substitute system until the basic requirements for participating in formal experiments are met.

Rewards: several redemption points, advanced access to the knowledge seeker system management platform, first-level qualification certification on the research side of the quantum avatar cluster.

Remarks: Does the Most High really exist? Is it really conscious life? ——World Tree/Red Dragon Casa.

Cheng Bin was silent for a long, long time after reading the series of extremely distant and high-level main quests and those optional side quests with unclear meanings.

——Well, anyway, the matter about a certain "Dr. Cheng" is actually his own matter, and the same is true for the problem of the substitute system. Sooner or later, he will have to take the initiative to do it. want to do".

However, some mainline missions ignore those high-level rhetoric, isn't it just calling him to be a guinea pig?

Cheng Bin, who turned off the knowledge seeker system, sighed faintly—it seems that returning to the ordinary peace of daily life is only temporary, and his future days will be very exciting