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Chapter 22 - Chapter 22: Time Machine

Being held in the general's arms, Yae Shinko kept looking at everything in front of him.

Her eyes fell on Ning Qingxuan who was talking to someone, and Miss Fox had a strange look in her eyes.

The Ning Qingxuan she met these days was naturally approachable, and sometimes even joked with her. He was also quite humorous and elegant.

But Ning Qingxuan at this moment, with her noble and elegant demeanor, was completely different from his previous impression.

He talked and laughed calmly, and accepted the respect from the people around him calmly.

When the soldiers of the Imperial Dragon Flame Army, who looked full of murderous intent and much stronger than the soldiers of the Shogunate Army, looked at Ning Qingxuan, their fanatical gazes seemed to be able to melt the hardest steel in the world.

That look reminded Yae Kamiko of the way the Inazuma people looked at their general when that guy Zaikage occasionally showed up.

(It's interesting. They are all mortals, but these people worship the little guy like a god.)

(Come to think of it, the people here seem to call their rulers "Son of Heaven"? It is said that hundreds or thousands of years ago, they really believed that the Son of Heaven was sacred and the Son of Heaven?)

In this case, wouldn't the little guy in front of me be the "Grandson of Heaven"?

——When this thought came to his mind, Yae Shinko felt inexplicably amused.

At this time, Ning Qingxuan had already finished greeting Zhu Youxin and the others. Zhu Youxin stepped aside and raised his hand to say, "Your Highness, please come in. Everything is ready."

"Thank you for leading the way."

After finishing speaking, Ning Qingxuan waved her long sleeves and walked forward surrounded by the crowd.

The general holding the Eightfold Divine Child in the back immediately followed, because they had been instructed in advance that the guarding soldiers of the Dragon Flame Army would naturally not block the way.

They even ignored the general's dazzling face. Such composure made the Yae God who was being embraced astonished.

As for comparing the Shogunate soldiers with the Longyan Army in front of them?

Forget it, that's too bullying.

The general's pace suddenly quickened a bit, keeping parallel with Ning Qingxuan. This behavior made the accompanying bureaucrats who were secretly lagging behind Ning Qingxuan by one body position look surprised.

After entering this manor that looked like a summer resort, Yae Shinzi discovered that there was another world inside.

From the outside it looks like a Han Dynasty garden hidden among beautiful mountains and clear waters, but once you enter the inner hall you will find that the real wonder here is a long tunnel that leads directly into the huge space deep inside the mountain.

After a short stop on a platform, everyone took the elevator down quickly and finally arrived at a huge laboratory hundreds of meters underground.

The core building of the laboratory is an empty room as large as half the size of a football field. In the center of the room is an extremely large and oddly shaped machine.

Different from the Shenzhou Empire's habit of pursuing quality and effect while also ensuring a beautiful appearance, this machine looks a lot more rugged, with various pipelines even directly exposed to the outside, giving it a flavor of multi-rivet steamed steel.

Obviously, this is the style of the Russians - whether it is the Red Alliance or the later Yuri Empire.

"How is the research on the time machine going?"

Ning Qingxuan asked this question with his hands behind his back and looked up at the seized time machine in front of him.

"Reporting to Your Highness." Zhu Youxin answered in an orderly manner, "I have led people to figure out its principles. Those colleagues from the Red Alliance and the Yuri Empire are definitely a group of geniuses. Their design ideas have given us great inspiration..."

Next, Zhu Youxin began to talk incessantly about the principles of the time machine. During the whole process, this descendant of the Ming royal family became more and more excited, and at the key points he even couldn't control himself and started dancing.

Yae Shinko was completely confused as she listened to what was said. Her knowledge of the imperial official language did not allow her to understand all those professional terms.

But at least she understood one thing—this huge iron stove in front of her seemed to be able to take people back to the past! ?

Realizing this, Yae Shinko's breathing became heavy.

…dividing line…

"Going back in time… is it really… possible…!!!???"

In the Pure Land of One Mind, Ying was staring at the time machine in front of him through the general's perspective.

In order to figure out a way to safely transmit information to the general in another world, Ying hadn't even paid much attention to the general these days. But she didn't expect that today, when she got the urge to spy on the general, she would receive such a big surprise.

If I could really go back to the past, wouldn't that mean - my sister is saved! ?

His emotions were shaking so violently that even General Raiden in the castle tower outside noticed something was wrong.

"Inner, what happened? Your condition is very unstable, is it because the Son of God is missing?"

"General, do you think it's possible to go back in time?"

"...Inside, have you been worn out?"

General Lei Dian was silent for a while, and suddenly asked this.

"I have no idea..."

Ying frowned in pain.

She herself was aware of the danger. Ever since she began to observe the general from another world, it was difficult for her to remain calm for long periods of time as she had done in the past hundreds of years.

God knows how many times the wind, rain, lightning and thunder have occurred in the Pure Land of One Mind during these days.

"Inside, if you are really worn out, this body will definitely stop you."

The general's rigid and even cold-blooded words made Ying sigh silently.

No matter what, even if that world really has a magical artifact that can travel through time, it would probably be completely ineffective on the continent of Teyvat.

After all, this world has its own rules - and the rules of the continent of Teyvat are extremely exclusive to foreign things.

It's better not to hold out too much hope...

…dividing line…

Seeing that Zhu Youxin seemed to be about to continue talking, Ning Qingxuan quickly interrupted him.

In fact, he could not quite understand the principles that Zhu Youxin talked about. Of course, as a superior, he did not need to understand them.

"President Zhu, you just said that there is a problem with the principle of this thing?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhu Youxin nodded. "I and my colleagues worked day and night, and after repeated calculations 138 times, we were convinced that the plan of the former Red League's technical officials had a major hidden danger."

"Using their method, the process of time travel will be extremely dangerous and uncontrollable.

More importantly, even if we go back to the past and change history, it will not have any impact on our current world.

It will only derive a parallel universe with a completely different future at that changed time point."

Ning Qingxuan narrowed her eyes.

In other words, in the Red Alert series of games, those who use time machines to go back to the past to change history actually create parallel worlds with different futures.

Are all previous Red Alert games essentially telling stories of different parallel universes?

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