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Chapter 866 Noon: A Detailed Discussion (Part 2)

Pogrelic's rhetorical question sent chills down one's spine.

Normally, even if the world were completely reset, the subsequent development trajectory would be random.

Moreover, it was a chaotic reset at the time, and everything went even further astray.

No one knows the true origin and process.

All we know is the outcome of the ruling.

“Experiencing such conflict is extremely dangerous even for the Witness Lord, and for the mortal beings of the 0th history, the reset brought about by the ‘disenchantment ritual’ means the complete ‘erasure’ of their own uniqueness.”

"No one wants to be 'erased,' but there will always be some people who will find a way."

Upon hearing this, Fan Ning stared at the two notches carved into the top of the round table.

The first timeline is from "History 0" to the so-called "modern Earth".

The second timeline is the so-called "old industrial world" that one arrives in after time travel.

There's no "time travel" involved.

This has nothing to do with the concept of time travel.

"You call some people, including me, 'intruders' just because we jumped from the first line to the second?" Fan Ning asked after calming down.

He suddenly felt that he understood the Special Patrol Office’s so-called arrogance or Pogrerich’s so-called domineering more than ever before.

Here, "understanding" simply means "knowing why".

If we must label someone like Fan Ning as a "time traveler," then Fan Chenxun, Vincent, Guido Dalezo, Bach, Mr. F, and others are all such "time travelers."

Pogorelich is the only "native".

No native would trust a group of people who inexplicably "mess up their original world".

It's just a matter of how much hostility there is.

Or "absolute hostility" versus "relative cooperation".

For someone like Fan Ning, once their talent and value become apparent, they might lean slightly more towards the latter.

“Tell me, which key was used on you initially?” Pogrerich asked.

“Number 1,” Fan Ning said directly.

He is probably the only person who has had contact with all three "Keys of Time".

"What was Vincent's name in History 0?"

"Fan Chenxun."

"Fan Chenxun is an extraordinary person. He was initially drawn into this situation as an ignorant person, but he managed to do this much and get you to this point." Pogrerich did not hold back his praise for his old subordinate.

Fan Ning paused for a moment, then asked to confirm, "Besides the 'key,' is the second method to circumvent 'reset and erasure' the 'shell species'?"

The fragments of Guido Dalezo's words that he heard inside the "furnace" wreckage are now coming together in a vivid way.

“Not bad.” Pogrerich nodded.

"The second method seems to be less feasible?"

"Abnormally twisted and insane."

"Was it Scriabin, the 'Snake School' composer, who was forced to choose this method?"

"Being forced to 'invent' has also led to more groups being drawn into the problem."

Fan Ning nodded; he understood.

The information I gathered on the snow-capped mountain filled in the last pieces of the puzzle in my mind.

Originally, the person who planned to use the key to avoid "annihilation" and then continue to make arrangements after entering the subsequent timeline should have been Guido Dalezo, -1, who held the key as "the Hammer of No Owner"; Bach, 0, who held the key as "the Theme of God"; and Mr. F, 1, who held the key as "the Secret Realm of Apocalypse".

However, based on the research findings of another worm scientist, Scriabin, and Fan Chenxun's response after being involved and his collaboration with Bach, "The Apocalypse Secret Realm" was divided into "The Boy's Demon Horn" and "The Flute of the East".

Control of Key 1 has been temporarily transferred to Fanning.

The randomness of Fanning's birth allowed her to be anchored in the new timeline, thus avoiding the fate of being erased by the "disenchantment ritual".

In this process, Bach, in his "Fugue Without End," provided some assistance to Fan Chenxun, but it was by no means a free lunch; the core conditions of their cooperation are self-evident.

Fanning needs to continue to revive his music in future generations, gradually bringing the "old days" back to their place!
That's why there's that museum key that's been hanging around the neck since the "place of crossing over," and that's why there's that so-called "mysterious text message" reminder.

This led to the various overt and covert conspiracies that followed surrounding Key 1:
Before Fanning's birth, Vincent and Donna's experiences in the Aberration Zone; Joan's plan to exile the apostles was grafted onto Mr. F, intending to stop Fanning; Mr. F's "body search" of Fanning in Wattsnay; the "Maslenitsa" dream-dissolving plan of the Pleasant Listening Society.
"The Flute of the East" and "The Demon Horn of the Boy" have been trying to merge in order to restore the "Secret Realm of Apocalypse".

This even involves how Joan and Sheeran met, how they met Fanning, and even the inexplicable mystery of "tracing the origins of their ancestral surnames."

It also involves Roy's experience on the snowy mountain.

Fanning understood everything.

Oh, right, and there are so many "Crescent Moon" artists I've worked with.

My father's last words were right.

Snakes are everywhere.

"After the chaotic era of the First History ended and the disputes and judgments of the Witnesses were settled, it was thought that things had come to an end and the world would continue to develop along a new path."

"But they discovered some strange areas and strange things in the world."

Pogorelich sneered.

Fan Ning naturally understood what he meant. "Which came first, the worm or the abnormal zone?" he asked after a moment's thought.

“Things must first rot before they breed worms,” Pogrerich replied.

Fanning nodded.

This has been completely confirmed and is now clear.

First of all, there is no abnormality in the 0th history.

The abnormal zone begins to appear from the "second straight line" after the "disenchantment ritual" takes effect.

What exactly is the "Oracle of the Sun" trying to do? Does He have some unusual pursuit? Or is He afraid of something? Or is He simply insane?
unknown.

In short, the abnormal zone came first, and then the worm came into being.

Furthermore, these things didn't just appear at the turn of the first and second histories; they should have appeared as soon as the timeline was reset.

It was only the initial degree or size that even the Witness Lord did not perceive.

"So, what about the progress of this world now?"

Fan Ning stared intently as he asked a question.

"Is it a continuation of the straight line from History 0? Or a continuation of the straight line from History 1, 2, 3 to the New Calendar?"

"Or have the two timelines merged? Become a single, rotten, garbage timeline?"

This question is critical.

This is something Fanning needs to figure out.

If you don't even know where you are right now, how can you know where "rewinding time" will actually take you?
Upon hearing this, a hint of sarcasm appeared on Pogorelich's face:
"Do you think the sins committed by the 'intruders' are limited to this?"

He continued to raise his hand.

"Snap—" "Snap—"

Within a short time, the splitting sound resounded incessantly.

The space above the round table was marked with thousands of slanted, non-intersecting "crack" straight lines by Pogrerich!
"This scene before my eyes."

"This is."

After a dull ache in his head, Fan Ning realized what was happening.

If even the "gathering point" is being split, what in this world is not?

The same applies to "possibility".

The same applies to history.

Only when there is only the 0th history does the flow of time appear linear and consistent with common sense.

At that time, there was no concept of "noon".

But once a "second straight line" appears in the spacetime of this world, it will no longer be limited to these two lines, but will become hundreds of millions of lines!
“After the ‘convergence point’ was split, this world should have been destroyed much more quickly and thoroughly,” Pogrerich said in a low voice. “There shouldn’t have been an opportunity to ‘develop’ so many timelines.”

"However, there is a 'glowing light'."

"'Radiance' still belongs to the unknowable behind the veil, but it is slightly lower than the 'Gathering Point'. The concepts, forms and divine sparks of the world are thrown from the 'Gathering Point' to the 'Radiance', and then refracted downwards into the Tower of Radiance, phases and gates."

"After the heinous incident of the 'exorcism ritual,' it inadvertently served as a 'buffer zone'!"

Even after the source dried up, the reservoir remained.

Therefore, the abnormal area only spreads slowly, and the "worms" only proliferate slowly.

But this also creates a more distorted chaos in another sense, a more chaotic distortion, giving people in these millions of timelines the "opportunity" to make the world even more chaotic!
An aborted embryo is not terrifying; what is terrifying is that it was not completely aborted and still has nutrients remaining. This is the current situation: countless possible splits, countless processes of tearing down and starting over, countless years that "look similar" yet are ambiguous, countless doors that are opened and then abandoned, and the actions of those core members of the Mithraic Society in countless times and spaces, along with the conflicts joined by more witnesses, have made this world develop into an aggregate that is more deformed than destruction!
"As you can see."

Pogrelic, seated at the head of the table, glanced at the dense cracks above the round table.

"This is the perspective of the Witness who sees 'noon.' There are other ways, such as arrays of crystals or terrifying characters with infinitely extending strokes, but for mortal beings like you, this is the most beneficial way of observation for the divine."

"Any two straight lines in space with different inclinations will never intersect, and there is never any chance that they will intersect."

Fanning nodded.

Having experienced the state of mind during the performance of the Sixth Symphony, he understood.

Even according to the clichéd understanding of "parallel universes" or "past lives and present lives," there would absolutely be no "memory awakening" or "ability awakening" or anything like that.

Secret histories have their own intricate and interfering methods, and are by no means equivalent to the concepts conjectured by the ignorant.

"But we can take this understanding a step further—by referring to the mystical principle of 'glowing' being refracted into phase."

"Collapse, or silhouette."

As Pogrerich finished speaking, a huge light source, like a powerful interrogation room spotlight, appeared from the ceiling of the conference room!

Under this light, those "cracks" cast dense, dark shadows on the round table!

From three-dimensional to two-dimensional, some lines finally intersect at a point.

Pogrelic randomly pointed to one of them.

"The state in which these two straight lines intersect is called 'noon'."

"And when the light source of this 'interrogation lamp,' that is, the occult timing that makes 'noon' even more special, may even pass through a narrower cave, as if bound together in a loop by cables or a hairband."

"This state is called 'noon'!!"