Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 243: The Brand Fragment of the Branch

"The last time you opened the time-space gate, after measurements by professionals, combined with architectural style and some landscape clues, it was determined to be the 16th century leading to the First Branch. That was the time period when Grand Duke Rosa, the King of Night and Fire, had just completed his reign and created the Blood Dynasty. The fragment of the mark obtained by opening the gate should be with you, right?"

"I don't feel anything." Xia Shou shrugged.

Although the first branch's mark fragment was indeed on him, Xia Shou was telling the truth. If there had not been that line of words when he opened the door, he really wouldn't have known what brand fragment he had obtained.

Shangguan Yan smiled slightly, unscrewed the coffee can on the table and scooped a spoonful of powder into the teacup, then pressed the switch of the kettle. Amid the humming sound of the kettle boiling water, she continued, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, it will be clear who has the fragments at that time. Let me first tell you the value and use of the brand fragments."

"First of all, the branch brand fragment is a mark, which can be regarded as a proof that you not only belong to the present, but also to the past. This is equivalent to giving you the power to bring the abnormality from the past to the present."

"You can understand it this way. The past and the present are two completely different time periods. The influence you received in the past cannot be brought back to the present. For example, if you travel back to the sixteenth century and were disturbed by a cult ritual there and turned into a madman, then as long as you step through the time and space gate and return to the present, the influence of the extraordinary on you will disappear. Unless you are scared stupid, you will still become a normal person, and all the experiences you encountered in the past will be like a dream."

"Similarly, bad influences cannot be brought back to the present, and good influences cannot be brought back either. Even if you inherited Grand Duke Rosa's legacy during the Blood Dynasty and gained some astonishing supernatural powers, as long as you return to the present, these powers will disappear."

Hearing this, Xia Shou frowned: "Then how did the Control Bureau use the past to profit?"

"The first method is to use various methods in the past to set up some kind of delayed strange phenomenon that is beneficial to the current control bureau, but set the activation time of the strange phenomenon to this year, then before the end of this round of time cycle, this strange phenomenon will continue to be effective in today's reality." Shangguan Yan said as he poured boiling water into the cup and began to organize the information on his own.

Xia Shou keenly caught a point of confusion: "Minister, you just mentioned the time loop, what does that mean?"

"The past is constantly replaying. From this perspective, the past and the present still share a common time system. If you travel to the past from the 16th century to the 17th century, then it will develop according to the original history, from the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 17th century, and then jump back to the beginning of the 16th century after the end, just like a movie played in a loop."

"So we are the ones who traveled into the movie and changed the plot?"

"That's right. In addition to you, there will be other people who travel through time and space into this movie. Some people enter at the beginning of the movie, and because they know the plot development, they have a huge first-mover advantage. Some people enter halfway through the movie, so their advantage is smaller.

When a movie just starts, the development of the plot is the easiest to guess and is completely faithful to the original work, but in the middle, because of too many external interferences, the future development direction will become confusing and even more confusing than fan works. "

After Shangguan Yan finished speaking, he specifically explained the key to the brand fragments.

“What I just said was the first method, and the second method is to use the brand fragments.

The use of the branded fragments is not so troublesome. Each fragment can carry a part of the abnormality of the past and bring the extraordinary power of the past back to the present. This function sounds simple, but because it involves time, it is very powerful. "

"Well... for example?" Xia Shou asked in depth.

“Let me give you a simple example. The Spear of Destruction that Grand Duke Rosa refined using the blood sacrifice of 10,000 people contains terrifying destructive energy and has a very high priority for destroying living things. Coupled with the unsolvable law of cause and effect, it is classified as a super-dangerous forbidden item in the abyss.

But this forbidden object is now gone, because the anomaly contained in it has been used up by subsequent holders over the past few hundred years due to the passage of time and continuous use.

The Control Bureau recorded the last use of the Spear in 1900. The owner spent a lot of effort to make up for the long-lost causal hit law of the Spear of Destruction, and tried to use it to kill a level six monster.

Guess what the final result was?"

"Since you said so, it must have failed." "It seems that you are listening carefully. Yes, it failed. In the end, it only left the sixth-level monster with irreparable and worsening injuries. It was not until a year later that the monster was killed. Since then, the Spear of Destruction has been completely broken. It is now kept in the Kyoto Branch. The abnormal level detection is only level two. The effect is to suck blood... or the blood of the person holding it."

"Doesn't this become a purely negative tool?" Xia Shou couldn't help but complain.

"It has indeed become a burden now, but it is undeniable that for a long time it has been the nightmare of all extraordinary people. Whoever holds it is the god of war, no different from Odin holding Gungnir." Shangguan Yan took a sip of coffee and handed the sorted information to Xia Shou.

Xia Shou took the information and asked, "So I...so the person who has the brand fragment can bring back the Spear of Destruction in its heyday?"

"I just gave you an example so that you can understand the power of the brand fragments. However, you definitely cannot bring back a divine weapon with such an exaggerated abnormality as the Spear of Destruction, unless you have not just scattered fragments, but a large piece of the brand fragment, or even a complete brand."

"Is that so..." Xia Shou sighed, his expression full of disappointment.

He thought he had picked up a piece of gold as big as his fist, but it turned out to be just a lump of brass.

"Don't look so disappointed. No matter how small the fragment is, it can have an exponential leverage effect if used well." Shangguan Yan smiled and said, "The fragments you hold have surpassed 99.9% of historical explorers."

"No, I may not have. Anyway, I don't feel anything." Xia Shou was not fooled.

Shangguan Yan chuckled and put down his coffee: "Now that the brand fragments have been explained clearly, it's time to get down to business. I have something for you to do.

There is another matter. A Level 5 finisher wants your help, and the director has approved her request for assistance. "

"Is the second mission dangerous?" Xia Shou asked cautiously.

Shangguan Yan nodded slowly: "It's very dangerous."

"Then can I refuse?"

“Of course, but if you complete it, the bureau will upgrade your request to B level.

You know, even for finishers of the same level, their value to the Control Bureau is different.

Two finishers with similar strength, one is afraid of death and is only willing to carry out safe tasks, while the other obeys the orders of the Control Bureau unconditionally and is willing to gamble his life without hesitation.

Then the value of the former must be far lower than that of the latter, and the Control Bureau should naturally respond to the latter's demands with the utmost sincerity.

Whether it is equipment support, personal enjoyment, or some very rare extraordinary items, as long as your request level is high enough, the Control Bureau will do its best to satisfy you. "

Shangguan Yan said seductively.

(End of this chapter)