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Chapter 823 Solitary Interrogation (4K)

“She transcends the river of time. She exists forever, even after history fades or before history blooms.”

"She will go back to see me... maybe it's just my wishful thinking. Does she hate me? Maybe not anymore, maybe she never hated me."

"I will see her after I am really dead."

These are the words recorded in the Quotations of the King of the First Rift, some of which are public and some are not, but the original manuscripts have been properly preserved. Many successor kings have studied them, but in the end they all felt that these were the delirium of the proud king when he was old and unconscious.

But when they were sure that they had become history, they looked back at the confusing words of the first king and found them suddenly enlightened, such as one of his sentences.

"Come back and see me..."

The First King had long known that the other party would continue to move into the future after history became a cycle, and was certain that he would become a solidified piece of history!

Looking through his quotations, every word and sentence hints at this truth!

It’s a pity that when the truth is laid out before us, everyone will believe the illusion that they take for granted.

The king had known this outcome long ago, but did not remind later generations. Was it because the waning moon did not allow it, or because of his paranoid and almost crazy feelings for that woman?
No one knows the answer. All they can do now is try to go to the real future. The biggest problem at the moment is that there is a time barrier in front of them - the abnormality of the flow of time.

Even if they already know that they are in a cycle of history, they still have to find a scapegoat if they want to escape. If they want to go to the future, they must have someone corresponding to the future stay in this era for them. This also makes it almost impossible to travel to the future on a large scale.

So, who should get this rare spot?

Generally speaking, if there is a quota, it would be better for Split, the strongest Rift King, to go to the future, but after a simple attempt to go back and forth, they found that there was a difference in the speed of time flow between this era and other eras.

One day in their scarred era may only be one hour in future history, but if they go to the future and stay there for one day, more than twenty days will have passed here.

If the difference in the speed of time flow was only of this degree, it would be acceptable, but they had no way of knowing whether the difference in the speed of time flow would further expand in the future.

If, in the end, staying one day in the future is equivalent to staying here for a hundred years, then in just a few days, their cyclical history will have completed a cycle, and everything will be reset. All the efforts, memories, and accumulated resources will be reset to zero in an instant, and everything will start from scratch.

In order to avoid this most extreme worst situation from happening, all of them are looking for a way, a way to cleverly avoid this negative impact.

Melissa thought that her master had called her over to discuss this topic, but the other party suddenly mentioned the first king's adoptive mother, which made her unable to guess her master's intention for a moment.

"Master, although the last wish of the Rift King is very important, we have to go to the future before we can proceed to the next step. But we haven't even decided on the person to go to the future." Melissa said.

"The selection of personnel is one thing, but Your Majesty has been to the near future several times. You also know that if you want to bring something back from the past to the present, you must borrow the power of the Seven-branched Brand. However, during these experiments, we discovered something unusual."

Adele picked up a cracked gold box and slowly opened it. Inside, on the blue velvet lay an oval, crystal clear, pure black crystal.

Melissa knew what it was.

The egg of heartbreak.

She looked at the stone, and her eyes suddenly widened: "Could it be?"

Adair's voice came from behind the veil: "Yes, the Heartbroken Egg is an item that can be brought to the future without the Seven Branch Fragments."

"But how is this possible?"

"This means that the king's power can transcend time. Using this power, His Majesty Split will be able to sign his name in the future," said Adair.

Although her tone was calm, Melissa could hear the intense emotions hidden beneath her mentor's calm surface.

Then, Adair continued, "Your Majesty and I have already discussed the candidate for the future. We need to find someone who does not belong to this era, but is absolutely loyal to us."

"Who is it?" Melissa frowned in confusion.

She racked her brains but could not think of anyone who did not belong to this era and yet was absolutely loyal to them. The reason those defectors from the modern era still cooperated with them was because of the bonds that had already been formed. Once history was reset, they would most likely not continue to be loyal to them, at least they would not reveal the truth immediately at the beginning.

What's more, the reason why these future people are loyal to them is that they feel that they can no longer go back and have to integrate into their era. However, if they are ordered to go to the future, once they really arrive in the modern era again, the little sense of belonging they have left in this era will be completely lost.

Those people from the future must not be sent out. If they are not them, then who are the "people who do not belong to this era" that the master mentioned? Could it be the person from the slightly distant future that was just connected?
At this time, Split spoke.

"That man's adopted son."

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2024 years.

Jiangbo City, Control Bureau.

In the interrogation room, Zhang Heping was cooperating with the interrogator's questioning.

"You said you were Zhang Yang's son, and Lin Rizhe adopted you after your father died, right?"

"Yes, he taught me Chinese, including some common sense about modern times and some knowledge about the Control Bureau."

"Um, so you know specifics about cyclical history, huh?"

"Yes."

"You just said that the time in your Scar Era flows much faster than in our era?"

"correct."

"Do you know how long your cyclic history lasts?" "I don't know. I came here this time to tell you all the information about our period. They already know that they are people in the cyclic history, and many people want to reach the modern era."

The interrogator nodded and wrote it all down on paper.

The others stayed in another room, thinking about the confession of this man who claimed to be "one of us".

What Zhang Heping said in just a few dozen minutes completely overturned their speculations.

Zhang Heping is quite familiar with the Control Bureau and has a wealth of modern common sense. He can speak Chinese fluently and knows some English. This shows that he has either received a systematic modern education or possesses some extraordinary ability to steal other people's knowledge.

Although the Control Bureau has many forbidden objects that can verify truth and falsehood, Zhang Heping's abnormality level is very high, and those forbidden objects are ineffective against him. The forbidden objects that can be effective have extremely low cost-effectiveness, so the Control Bureau is temporarily unable to decide whether to use the forbidden objects on Zhang Heping.

But judging from the analysis and speculation based on his facial micro-expressions alone, Zhang Heping was telling the truth, and his DNA did match that of the soldier named Zhang Yang in the Lion Army. The two were indeed father and son.

As for the other woman's DNA gene, it was not on the list of personnel that the Control Bureau originally sent to the underworld.

According to Zhang Heping himself, his mother was indeed not an employee of the Control Bureau, but a person from the funeral home. The two of them fell in love over a long period of time and then gave birth to him.

Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is the difference in the speed of time flow between the Scar Era and the modern era.

Shangguan Yan stood in front of the one-way glass in the interrogation room and calmly analyzed: "In an era where time flows quickly, it should be difficult to launch a counterattack."

"That's right, especially when the difference in the speed of time flow is so great. If the final historical location where Lin Rize and his companions fell has such a big difference in the speed of time flow between us, it would be almost impossible for those old historical residents to do much." Fang Yulong said.

The logic is very simple. Just like the common saying in mythology that one day in heaven is one year on earth, if one day in modern times represents one year in the Scar Era, then the residents of the Scar Era may only live there for one year when they arrive in the modern era, but three hundred and sixty-five years have passed in their original era. Perhaps the entire cycle of time has passed and history has been reset.

Once history is reset, all the time travelers who come to the modern era will naturally disappear. Therefore, it is difficult to make any progress in this situation with history flowing too fast.

What's more, the Scar Era is at least thousands of years ago, and it is not certain whether they can crawl to the modern era.

So it is almost certain that the residents of the Scar Era will not be able to come up.

But on the other hand, although the residents of the Scar Era cannot come up, it does not mean that the residents of other eras cannot come up. The flow of time between each cycle of history is fast and slow. There are abnormally fast flow rates like the Scar Era, and naturally there are also abnormally slow flow rates. By jumping and staying between appropriate histories, the impact of the difference in time flow rates can be gradually smoothed out.

Just like Zhang Heping, Zhang Heping's physical age is thirty years old, plus the time Lin Rize and his group stayed in the past, at least several decades have passed since Lin Rize and his group fell into the Scar Era. But in the end, Zhang Heping returned to the modern era in less than a week.

This means that as long as there are no reset time limits and life span constraints, it is entirely possible for people in the past to invade the modern era tomorrow - as long as they find the right high-efficiency ladder like Zhang Heping.

"People from the Scar Era cannot climb up, but the historians whose time flow was normal before the Scar Era can definitely reach the modern era at the same speed as Zhang Heping." Fang Yulong considered the development of the situation with the fastest possibility.

Li Luo comforted him, "But fortunately, the one who knows the route to climb the ladder is one of our own."

"Is he telling the truth?" Xia Shou questioned.

"It's possible, it's possible not, but one thing is easy to prove. Since he arrived in the present from the past, it means he knows the path to climb the ladder on the tree. Our people can also go to the past through this path. If he lied, we can find out the answer at a very low cost.

And if he was not lying, the information on this path alone would be the biggest gain. Of all the historical tree paths currently recorded by the Control Bureau, perhaps none of them took as little time or spanned as long a period as this path.

Perhaps you still can't figure out the value behind this for the moment, then let me give you an example. If we can really make use of that scarred era, it means that we have a space where one day represents ten years. We can even send people there in batches, let them practice and train leisurely there, and then return to the modern era.

It's just like the magic weapon in the immortal cultivation novels that speeds up the cultivation progress of the immortal cultivators, do you understand?"

Indeed, just knowing the route was enough to provide intelligence of far greater value than expected, but for some reason, I had a vague feeling that something was very ominous.

It's a pity that Zhang Heping's abnormality level is too high, otherwise Ke Hen could be asked to come. Ke Hen's [Bystander] is invincible in investigating intelligence. He can not only perfectly restore what happened at the scene, but also directly read other people's life experiences.

The limitation of this ability seems to be only its low level.

"Minister, I want to find a chance to talk to him alone." Xia Shou said.

Shangguan Yan glanced at Xia Shou and agreed naturally: "I'll arrange it."

The other ministers present did not raise any objections or questions to Xia Shou's request.

After the battle of Divine Law, although Shangguan Yan's position was still the Minister of Investigation Three, anyone who knew the situation would raise his evaluation of Shangguan Yan's ability to a level above that of a minister.

The same goes for Xia Shou. Although he is just a member of the club, everyone understands Xia Shou's strength.

The "arrangement" that Shangguan Yan mentioned was done very quickly. After the most basic record was completed, a new round of meetings was immediately arranged according to Xia Shou's request. And according to Xia Shou's request, no one watched or recorded their meeting. Even Zhang Heping did not talk to Xia Shou face to face.

Xia Shou walked into the specially decorated interrogation room and sat down in his seat. In front of him was a one-way transparent glass. From where he was, he could see what was going on in the room where Zhang Heping was, but from Zhang Heping's side, there was nothing.

And their conversations were conducted through electronic devices.

The black shadow slowly expanded under Xia Shou's feet, spreading like black water overflowing from a cup, and then a wooden door with a dynamic circus poster on it emerged from the ink-like shadow. The wooden door slowly opened, and the strange whistle came from inside, followed by a blue-haired man jumping out from the door like an agile leopard.

“Is there a time when I’m needed again?” No. 58 said with a smile.

"I want you to help me see if this person is lying." Xia Shou pointed at Zhang Heping opposite him.

"Of course, but I want your sense of taste and hearing for a day, and you have to eat a few things I want to eat and listen to what I want to listen to according to my requirements," No. 58 made the request.

"Why are you asking for more than last time?" Xia Shou frowned.

"Of course, I'm just your prisoner. My desires have not been fulfilled, so there's nothing we can do even if we want to work hard. I don't want to be worn out to death." No. 58 gently moved the flaming chain on his wrist, as if to emphasize his status as a prisoner.

(End of this chapter)