Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1232 - 28: Three Origins of Annihilation
"Speaking of annihilation, we should first discuss the true purpose behind the Federation’s creation of it."
Yue Qianye took out a whiteboard, starting a small lecture for the three.
"Don’t think of the Federal people as fools, even though they seem increasingly idiotic... The Federation Consortium has also devised various plans to deal with the doomsday crisis. It’s just that over there, they don’t have the time depth we do, so they can only make do within a limited space."
"They’ve designed a plan codenamed ’Reincarnation.’ The main content of this plan is to create a ’Phoenix’ that can reset time infinitely."
"In Western culture, the correct term for Phoenix should be the undying bird, possessing the ability to be reborn after death. In the future era, Federation scientists have calculated and proposed the Phoenix Hypothesis — simply put, there exists a system restore mechanism within the fundamental universe laws that can trigger a rewind of our timeline to a certain point in the past."
"They’ve named this mechanism the Phoenix Point."
"The appearance of Mutants is not accidental. The Omega Rift above Earth is a gene mutagenic device that those scientists in the future era retroactively placed at the millennium mark."
"Through inducing human genetic mutations, they eventually cultivated Mutants most compatible with the Phoenix Point, which is today’s annihilation."
"Although the loss of control over annihilation exceeded their expectations, they are now starting to control annihilation, aiming to capture her back with advanced future-era technology to continue the Reincarnation Plan."
"And annihilation herself is undoubtedly unwilling to be taken back for experimentation, so she attempts to escape by continuously rewriting her own origin at a higher level."
Yue Qianye raised three fingers.
"We currently have three origin routes of hers. The first is the one you’re all aware of, where your rash intrusion into the underground lab caused annihilation to unseal and lose control."
"The second is the story she just crafted — she’s not some ordinary mutant but the only offspring of Zeus, leader of the Pantheon, the precursor to the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons."
"As for the third origin route, it traces back to your side, to the Phoenix that appeared in Xiangjiang a hundred years ago... This line is still unclear and is also the deepest hidden by her."
"And the task I’m giving you is to find a way to disrupt their Reincarnation Plan before they thoroughly investigate these three origin routes of hers by going to the future era."
Um...
Li Yufei thought to herself, can I back out?
Principal, don’t you think it’s a bit too frivolous to entrust such an important mission to the three of us?
This isn’t even a matter of how risky it is; how is this different from asking me to solve the issue of Sun Wukong snatching back Monk Tang?
The future era... Let alone how we get there, what could we possibly do with our level of capability once we’re there?
Yet, facing Yue Qianye’s cold gaze, she didn’t dare voice back the many complaints swirling in her mind.
The principal’s overwhelming authority was suffocating her.
"I have a question!"
Li Mumu raised her hand to ask, "How am I supposed to find that..."
It’s the Doomsday Plan, not some mango navel orange crab openly advertised on Douyin, with the chief scientist holding a sign shouting for family to place an order at 123!
Even if I time travel to the future era, without considering the tech disparity issue, how am I supposed to find them?
"Figure it out yourself."
Yue Qianye replied coldly, "Even if my students are ultimately useless, they shouldn’t lack the basic ability to take action, right?"
Really now!
Just as Li Mumu wanted to ask more questions, Yue Qianye suddenly said, "Get ready."
Get ready for what?
Before Li Mumu could react, she felt her vision go dark and the ground beneath her feet disappear.
She traveled again.
The previous times she’d traveled, she wasn’t aware at all; in the blink of an eye, the surrounding world transformed.
This time, perhaps because she was standing in front of the principal, she finally experienced the process of crossing over in a conscious state.
It was an endlessly rotating cube.
Standing in a four-dimensional perspective overlooking the three-dimensional world is like those in the three-dimensional world reading two-dimensional text on paper.
A character’s entire life may be the distance from page one to page ten in a book.
Flipping pages on a phone might not even take three seconds.
The cube was the defense mechanism annihilation set up for herself, constantly rotating and re-encrypting her intelligence at intervals.
Li Mumu was just a patch on its surface.
At this moment, Yue Qianye made a move.
A streak of dark light instantly pierced through the void, directly running through the rotating cube.
An invisible finger held down one corner of the cube, forcibly twisting it off in a roughly forceful manner, and then reinstalled it in a different orientation.
With a thud, Li Mumu fell onto the cement ground in a doge-like face-plant position.
Behind her came the sounds of two more heavy objects falling with a thump.
Her palm was hot, as if the skin was scuffed raw.
Li Mumu struggled to her feet, leaning on the nearby flowerbed, finding herself still wearing a very heavy gas mask.
Out of caution, she didn’t hastily remove the mask and instead turned to observe the surroundings.
What can I say... It doesn’t quite look like the future world she imagined.
Much like Cyberpunk 2077, towering skyscrapers, garish neon lights forming a severe light pollution, strangely dressed non-humans coming and going in the streets, with police cars chasing cyber lunatics, roaring past...
Yet it was quiet, with not a soul on the streets.
Unpleasantly colored snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky.
They were grey snow, much like volcanic ash falling from the sky after a volcanic eruption.
No wonder gas masks were necessary.
Indeed, there were many high-rises around, but it was cold and desolate, almost devoid of any vibrant presence.
Even the trees lining the street were withered and indistinguishable between life and death.
Li Mumu turned to see two girls in heavy SWAT gear, leaning on each other, hobbling toward her.
Completely unfamiliar faces.
Another soul transfer...
"How should we address you?"
"Do you have any identification?"
The three exchanged glances and simultaneously began to search their pockets.
Li Mumu didn’t find an ID card, nor a phone.
All that was in her pocket were a few thin cards similar to ID cards, with cartoon images on the front and texts on the back labeling them as batteries.
Batteries for what?
"The good news is, we have guns and bullets."
Li Yufei weighed the shotgun in her hand.
"The bad news is, we have nearly no rations; I only found these two things, not sure if they’re edible."
She pulled out two items that looked like popsicles from her pocket.
Wen Ya over there fumbled and finally figured out the correct usage of the batteries.
Inserted them into the chest.
Following her example, Li Mumu inserted the battery and felt a surge of electricity course through her brain.
A variety of data panels suddenly appeared before her eyes, also displaying two people’s identity information.
"Squirtle 2064..."
"Pikachu 4407..."
These must be internet usernames, right?
It’s hard to comprehend the mental state of future people.
Li Mumu glanced at her own information.
Little Fire Dragon 1142...
Man, where’s Bulbasaur?
"The battery is our last backup energy source."
Wen Ya / Pikachu explained softly, "Our biological computer can charge with solar energy, but there’s no sun now."
"Now it is CE2099/4/15, not sure which timeline."
"Network is unavailable, but I have some stored data here. It looks like Miss Pikachu was also a book-loving good kid."
"No need to boast so much."
Li Yufei / Squirtle said while sifting through her storage.
"I have a lot here too... Whoa, Squirtle, your taste is really something... Ugh, I can’t bear to look, have future-era youth progressed to this extent? Damn... Is there a way to transfer these videos back? I need to carefully appreciate them, shall I share them with you guys?"
"Don’t use up the power on stuff like that!"
Li Mumu sighed, holding her forehead.
She traveled through time, yet it’s the doomsday.
If she’s not wrong, this world isn’t the one she knows.
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