Dragon Clan starts from digging the corner of Kassel

Chapter 368 Your Wonder
A parallel world with Kassel Academy or even another self?

"Yes—or, at one time."

Chu Zihang confirmed Caesar's guess, but added: "According to the chronological measurement, the time of that world is probably a few years later than our history."

Before Bu Shun asked Nanami to take Alice and Eri there, he had already told Chu Zihang some information "he needed to know".

Similar, how similar?
This was something that even the designer Bu Shun had not anticipated. The world [Desolate Land] was completely a version of the present world with added doomsday elements. The timeline was about two years after the defeat of the Bronze and Fire Kings. The [Adaptive] element was a bit too much - except for some special people, if you were careful, you could even find some "familiar people" in this world.

The so-called uniqueness naturally refers to those beings that are strongly related to the "Dragon King", such as Lu Mingfei, Ling, and Chu Zihang who bears the mark of the Dragon King (even more than one).

It's a bit hilarious to say -

César Gattuso is not as unique as he thinks he is, and he does exist in the trajectory of this world.

"…The parallel world is a dangerous concept. Its existence will bring many uncertainties to the stability of our society. What would you think when you know that an acquaintance in another world has a life trajectory that is completely different from the one you know?"

When answering Caesar's question, Chu Zihang thought of his mother Su Xiaoyan.

Throwing this question to Caesar, Chu Zihang sighed in his heart.

Before the land became desolate, there was indeed a person who looked exactly like his mother, Su Xiaoyan. But in the course of this world, Su Xiaoyan did not marry Chu Tianjiao, who was a non-existent person in this world. The person who ended up with Su Xiaoyan was Chu Zihang's current stepfather... and the child they had, whose surname was Lu, was naturally very different from Chu Zihang.

When Chu Zihang got this information from Bu Shun, the complexity in his heart was really indescribable.

However, what made him even more difficult to calm down was that the Su Xiaoyan in this world had already died in the disaster brought by the Dragon King, and the "new family" that made him feel complicated was buried in the desolate underground like hundreds of millions of ordinary people.

"The resurrection of the Dragon King Jörmungandr has ruined everything."

Chu Zihang gritted his teeth gently, and a cold lightning flashed in his golden eyes: "He is one of the culprits for the destruction of this land. The giant corpses you saw in the previous communication were all followers of the "King of the Earth and Mountains". The war between the giants and the demons destroyed the entire world."

The former human society and country, the Kassel Academy and the hybrids they were familiar with, have all become a thing of the past.

On the desolate land, there is a war that seems to last until the end of the world. The dead who are dead but cannot be completely dead are wandering on the ground. Mechanical demons and giants are fighting each other, and their corpses are spread all over the world's stomach and intestines.

"You are not in that world?" Caesar keenly guessed something from Chu Zihang's reaction that he did not say. The blond man stood up and walked around the office with heavy steps for a few circles before he said in a suppressed tone, "But... there is me! Did I fight to the last moment in that world? Is there any trace of my existence in that space station?"

Caesar asked the question to himself without wanting to get a direct answer from Chu Zihang. He just wanted to reach that world immediately and witness everything with his own eyes.

Witness the struggle of another self, witness the ending of another world...

Even if the "self" in the other world has died in battle, it doesn't matter! If that world is really so similar to theirs, Caesar believes that he will never remain indifferent and will definitely leave some information.

"When you got on the bus, I had already prepared the equipment you needed to dive deep into that world."

Chu Zihang slid his fingers on the tablet a few times to confirm Chen Motong's location during the conversation between the two, and then said: "Your companion has been taken to the deep diving room by the tapir. We can go there now."

"Have you been there?" Caesar asked.

“…No.” Chu Zihang shook his head. “Teacher said that for people like me who don’t exist in that world, it’s best to wait until the connection between the two sides is more stable before considering entering. Otherwise, we don’t know if there will be any accidents.”

It is also for this reason that "special personnel" such as Chu Zihang are not currently participating in the exploration of that world.

After hearing this, Caesar immediately thought of something and his eyes suddenly changed slightly.

"In the world over there... is there Nono?"

He looked down at the red-haired figure on the tablet. Chen Motong was visiting various locations inside the Sumeru throne under the guidance of the male tapir in sunglasses, secretly determining the route and the conditions of the internal facilities.

This was also the decision they had made before they set out. Caesar was responsible for contacting the people on Faos' side, while Chen Motong, who possessed the ability of "profiling", would use his own uniqueness to try his best to discover the secret information that might exist in this mission.

- After all, compared to Caesar, the son of the Gattuso family and the student leader of Kassel College, a woman who looks like just a vase beside him would appear less ostentatious and more suitable for this kind of spy work.

This was also Chen Motong's own decision, and she also hoped to be able to help more.

Chu Zihang withdrew his gaze from Chen Motong's figure, glanced at Caesar's solemn eyes, and said calmly: "I don't know that. You are one of the few people who can be confirmed to have an isotope besides our people from Faos. If you think there are unavoidable risks in letting classmate Nono join this operation, I can also agree to let her wait in our world."

"...Let her decide for herself." Caesar hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to respect Chen Motong's own opinion.

Although Chen Motong is his girlfriend, Caesar will be more considerate of her personal thoughts precisely because he knows her stubbornness beneath the surface.

And he also felt that Chen Motong would not be the kind of woman who was willing to be treated as a vase. Even if she knew there was danger, she would still face it head-on, right? Chen Motong in Caesar's mind was such a person. It was her free and self-centered attitude that attracted the eldest son of the Gattuso family, who had been surrounded by various high-quality women since childhood.

After confirming Caesar's thoughts, Chu Zihang stopped talking.

Picking up Murasame, who was placed on the alchemy diagram as a "weight" from the desk, he reached out and pressed the button hidden under the desk, and a hidden secret passage suddenly opened on the bookshelf in his office.

"Let's go. Over there is the elevator that leads directly to the submersible room." Chu Zihang walked to the door of the secret passage first and pressed the hidden scanner with his hand: "This will be faster."

Caesar opened the can of Coca-Cola in his hand, which was slightly deformed by his pinching, drank the carbonated beverage in one gulp, wiped his mouth, and threw the garbage into the office trash can with another accurate throw.

He immediately followed Chu Zihang's pace.

...

…“This is the diving room.”

Taking the internal elevator, Chu Zihang led Caesar into the two core control rooms that were added later on the Sumeru throne.

In the center of the diving room stands a quartz glass column with a diameter of 3.2 meters, filled with mercury silver liquid metal and surrounding a red crystal, which looks like some kind of computer display.

The protruding black cables on the floor are like a network of blood vessels, and finally converge into a secret gate with unknown dragon characters engraved on it. The glass column is surrounded by three spherical structures that look like massage cabins. They use three layers of nested spherical cabins, with the outer layer being an impact-proof layer cast from titanium-tungsten alloy, and the inner wall being embedded with dark red dragon characters etched on it.

It was on this Sumeru throne that Caesar finally met another person whom he "missed very much".

"Zero, I've brought the people here. How are the preparations?" Chu Zihang looked up at the red crystal wrapped in silver metal inside the glass column. "It looks like Lord Kekuma's operation is close to load."

"Preparations are complete and can be started at any time."

Zero leaned against the titanium alloy bracket, his gray-blue eyes reflecting the jumping data stream on the console, and his eyelashes cast a fine shadow on his cheekbones. The index finger wrapped in a black tactical glove tapped the pressure dial regularly, and Caesar's very familiar silver-white arm armor covered his wrist and forearm, looming on the cuffs of his lab coat.

The circular operating table in the middle is made up of 27 curved screens, which display deep purple geological spectrum data streams in real time. The gray-white light casts a cold halo between her light golden hair.

She turned around and glanced at Caesar's arm behind Chu Zihang. Her eyes, which showed no change in expression, revealed a sense of "no strangers allowed". It felt like some kind of LED screen, with a cold scrutiny of everyone.

"Welcome, Senior Caesar." She greeted politely, "Are you going to start the deep dive now?"

Caesar looked towards Chen Motong, who was looking up at the magnificent man-made structure in front of the central glass column. "Have you explained the risks of this mission to her?"

Ling nodded, but as if he was too lazy to speak, he turned his gaze to Chu Zihang.

As if to say "this is your business".

When Sanwu meets facial paralysis, someone has to bear all the consequences. Chu Zihang's face was as cold as hers, and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face. He then looked at the two acquaintances in the room:
"There's no need for me to explain the relevant precautions. Caesar, why don't you ask classmate Nono for his opinion?"

"I'll participate." Before Caesar could speak, Chen Motong turned around and said seriously, "It's just that I think this risk is acceptable."

After getting the confirmation, Caesar stopped asking questions and looked at Zero who was standing at the operating table: "Besides assisting Alice's team and confirming the situation over there, is there anything else I need to do?"

Asking this now is naturally related to Ling's "invitation letter".

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a guinea pig, the main thing is to ask yourself what kind of benefits you can get from this process.

"You don't need to worry about constructing the weapon, Senior Caesar. After the upgrade components are loaded, it will completely belong to you and can be said to be a part of your body. Even a developer like me will not set up obstacles or secret doors in it."

Zero raised his left arm hidden under the lab coat. Different from the general mass-produced products, the ice-blue painted structural armor gave people a hint of invisible chill. A sky-blue light flashed by, and Caesar immediately received a message from his armor, prompting Zero to send him a software using "Face-to-face Quick Transmission". Do you want to install it?

Access granted!

After confirming the loading, Caesar lowered his arm and looked at Zero, waiting for her explanation.

Probably because it was related to his own research, Zero spoke a little more. "It's a data recording software. Senior Caesar, please turn it on during the battle. It will record the evolution of your constructed weapons and analyze and provide the materials needed to improve your abilities in the future."

"Don't worry. No matter what evolutionary materials you need, we will provide them to you. All we need is to observe the evolutionary process of the constructed weapons on the individual. We can each take what we need."

Chu Zihang had actually heard Xia Mi mention her ongoing research.

The main reason why Zero invited Caesar was because Caesar, as a hybrid, had certain potential, as well as certified "fighting spirit" and "strong self-esteem". With his mentality, the success rate of promoting the evolution of the constructed weapons would be higher... In addition, it would be beneficial to study the impact of the constructed weapons on "ordinary people".

In order to take care of Caesar's self-esteem, Chu Zihang did not remain silent to Caesar.

Many times, his silence towards Caesar... this "fatherly love" between college boys can also be called a kind of Chu Zihang-style tenderness.

"Is it enough to just fight? The evolution of the structural weapon... is so simple?"

Not knowing the strange thoughts in the silent Chu Zihang's mind, Caesar lowered his golden eyebrows slightly, obviously thinking that this experiment sounded a bit crude.

"The core technology used to construct weapons was originally created to fight against the apocalypse. It is the purest weapon. The only thing that can drive its evolution is naturally war and the will to fight."

"So fight, Senior Caesar."

After saying this, Zero returned to his usual wooden expression and raised his hand to press a red button on the console. Several spherical cabins beside the central column immediately rotated a circle, and the opened internal structure was aimed at the people in the room, revealing the heavy lead-colored coats similar to protective clothing that had been prepared inside.

——The mission to dive deep into another world has begun.

Caesar and Chen Motong looked at each other, knowing that what awaited them would be a long and arduous battle. The monsters that filled the entire world were endless, and the doomsday that was about to come was like a dark cloud pressing down on the head, with no hope at all... But Caesar knew that he had to seize a possible miracle for his world now.

He walked forward and took Chen Motong's hand. If this wasn't the set of a Hollywood movie, this romantic Italian might have given his girlfriend a deep kiss filled with all his emotions.

"What do you want to do?" Caesar asked, "Don't worry, I will always be with you."

Even though she had heard these words of companionship countless times, when Chen Motong, whose heart felt empty, heard them, they still evoked a warm echo in her empty heart.

She mustered up her courage and gave Caesar a hug. Then she turned around and glanced at the expressionless Ling and Chu Zihang, who also had an expressionless face, and smiled:
"We will also try our best to catch up with you!"

What kind of "miracle" can this sudden different world bring?
Now Chen Motong only vaguely feels that his waiting will get an answer in that world.

Ahhh, I really was unconscious the whole afternoon today. As expected, I inevitably face this kind of bad mental state as soon as I go to work... But I still tried my best to complete today's update. I'm sorry, my family, it's a little late!
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