From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 698: The intact west wing wall

After getting her identity information sorted out, Amber was basically not so panicked anymore.

He even took the initiative to say hello when he met other people on the road, and everyone just thought that he was a new colleague who had just reported here and had a nice personality.

Before leaving, Amber took away a new spare personal terminal to receive messages from the Royal Engineering Department, and also took away a toolbox with the Royal Engineering Department emblem.

It is normal for a senior engineer of the Royal Engineering Department to carry these tools with him.
After doing all this, Amber walked calmly to the door of the Engineering Department, swiped her card and passed the biometric verification, and then walked out openly.

But no one knew that shortly after Amber left, the "small program" left in the Engineering Department's security system cleared all of Amber's entry and exit records, and then replaced all the surveillance footage that captured Amber.

This is also a trick taught by Saleh, from the pioneer's "Time and Space Shuttle Action Team". When traveling through history, no matter what the circumstances, you must eliminate the traces of your own existence to avoid causing any paradoxes to the greatest extent possible.
All Amber had to do next was wait.

Wait for the west wing retaining wall to collapse due to the explosion, wait for the engineers from the Royal Engineers' Operations Department to be urgently recalled and rush to the scene for emergency treatment, and then he can blend in with the main force.

Soon, Amber came to a position where she could directly observe the west wing's guard wall. This was a green area near the Grand Palace, planted with various exotic flowers and plants for ornamental purposes, which could just cover Amber's figure.

After activating the 'biological exoskeleton', the equipment immediately extended like venom, wrapping Amber's head. To be honest, Amber has not been able to adapt to this process. She always feels like she is being eaten by this exoskeleton.

The part that wraps around the head forms a structure similar to a tactical visor after fitting onto Amber's face. The optical reconnaissance component integrated into this "biological exoskeleton" also presents distant images to Amber's eyes.

The iconic white walls of the Grand Palace still stand tall, but because it was built only a decade ago and has been well maintained, it gives Amber a sense of being in a domestic "film city" or "movie town".
But even so, the towering parapet still vaguely reveals an extraordinary bearing and solemnity. The carvings on the parapet are intricate and exquisite. Without any traces of time, there is only new splendor and glory.

Just below this retro-styled parapet is a large, dusty and noisy construction site. Judging from some scattered structures leaking out from inside, Amber judged that they were renovating the hidden enemy-proof parapet on the outside of the Grand Palace.

In the 82nd year of the new calendar, the deflection field technology had not yet been developed, so in addition to the already solid main building structure, the most popular defense method for these important areas was to install a circle of hidden enemy-proof walls on the outside.

They usually hide underground and rise in advance when encountering danger, acting as a "bulletproof vest" for the target building. They usually carry a lot of weapons as defensive firepower. This is a very traditional and ancient defense mode.

At present, a large number of workers wearing extremely bulky engineering exoskeletons are working together with many robots. A huge spider-style heavy machinery is also lifting heavy objects, apparently repairing the transmission structure of this hidden enemy-proof protective wall.

According to historical records, the fuel cells that caused the collapse of the west wing retaining wall were stacked together under the corner of the west wing retaining wall in a manner that was completely inconsistent with safety regulations.

Amber zoomed in a little, then roughly counted the number of fuel cells. It looked like they were the energy sources for the engineering exoskeletons, heavy machinery, and robots at the construction site.

It’s just that the foreman of the construction site in this area was probably too lazy to designate a separate area for energy storage as required, so the fuel was just piled up directly under the retaining wall.

"Safety in production is no small matter." Amber shook his head as he looked at the enlarged image in the camera, but then he suddenly frowned.

"Wait, that's not right. The walls of the Grand Palace are three layers deep and three layers deep, and they are not so fragile that they would collapse if a fuel cell exploded."

Amber felt something was not right the more she looked at it, and suddenly realized that even the information in the Imperial Library and Archives could not be fully trusted. At least, there was definitely something wrong with the records in the information regarding the cause of the collapse of the west wing wall tonight.

But now Amber can "witness it with her own eyes" and see what the truth is.
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Time passed by minute by minute, and after Amber had stayed in this hidden spot for almost 3 hours, he finally became restless.

Because it's already past 23:, and in less than an hour it will be tomorrow.
But the problem is that the west wing guardrail has remained intact until now. According to what Amber saw on the Engineering Department terminal, there was nothing abnormal in the entire Grand Palace tonight, let alone major events such as explosions or guardrail collapses.

"The time is correct in the data, right? It's impossible for the historian to have recorded the wrong date for such a major event, right?"

Amber forced himself to wait patiently for a while. He must not be too anxious at this time, but as the distance to midnight got closer and closer, he could no longer sit still.

At the same time, Amber recalled what Saleh had said to him before he started the mission - time travel is essentially a circular process, where there is a cause and there is an effect, and where there is an effect there is a cause.
Then, the unique, imaginative ability of human psykers came into play.

"Wait, I'm the one who tore down this wall myself, right?"

This thought suddenly flashed through Amber's mind, and then she remembered another sentence that Saleh said - when you arrive at the target time point, no matter what situation you encounter, you must trust your intuition.

"In other words, only if I find a way to blow up this wall now, can time form a closed loop???"

At this moment, Amber suddenly felt that his idea was clear, but the only problem was how he was going to demolish the west wing wall.

Not to mention the time required for time travel, Amber basically didn't bring anything with her. Even if she could bring anything, she probably didn't have the equipment to dismantle the composite retaining wall.

"So how on earth did I do it?"

As Amber thought about it, she continued to search around using the optical reconnaissance component of her exoskeleton, and finally locked her target about 300 meters away from the west wing wall, which was a tactical node of the outer defense position of the imperial city.

On the large maintenance platform within the node, an ultra-heavy war machine about 15 meters high was undergoing routine maintenance. The triple-mounted electromagnetic cannon with a track length of 25 meters on its top completely attracted Amber's attention.

"Armored Divine Weapon, an antique that prioritizes firepower above all else. No, it doesn't seem to be an antique in this time and space~"

(End of this chapter)