Only I can make them stronger

After saying that, she walked forward.

"I will protect you too..."

Karen muttered something and quickly followed.

77. Visions of the Past

"What to do now?"

A group of people gathered around the huge energy ball and looked at each other in confusion. Karen asked blankly.

When she was fully prepared to go forward with Jinniel after hearing her emotional words, she found that they had no idea how to deal with this thing.

The giant energy ball is light golden in color, with tiny flashes of electric light constantly leaping within it. It appears to contain enormous power, but on the surface it appears to be quite calm and stable.

"Did we miss something?" asked Jinelle.

"There shouldn't be any. The Gear City is completely empty. I just searched and there's nothing else..."

Xia Ye chewed on his fingers and frowned as he thought.

He was thinking about something else -

This subspace seems to have been created due to the execution of the "Plan No. 999" mentioned by the can robot, and is completely different from the palace in its normal state.

And he was sure that when he mentioned this strange plan, the canned robot actually looked at him.

In addition, the parts that only the original ability users can open can be assembled into the key to open this subspace, which further proves that this subspace is related to him.

If it's related to him... the mutant factor... the energy group...

"Are you asking me to use my [Origin] ability to manipulate this energy ball?"

Xia Ye suddenly thought of this absurd conclusion.

Canaanzi said that this thing is essentially a huge mutation factor.

There is no doubt that his [Origin] ability also works on mutant factors.

"But which one?"

"I think it's better to use treatment, which is gentler. If I use strengthening, I always feel like something unpredictable will happen..."

Thinking of this, Xia Ye said:

"Stand back a little, let me try."

The clueless crowd took two steps back cooperatively.

Seeing this, Xia Ye took a deep breath, stretched out his hand, and white healing fire came out of his body and slowly flowed towards the energy ball.

"Origin... Key is correct... Restart... Starting fifth iteration..."

"Gear Project... Start!"

"Phase One...Plan Statement..."

"Goal... memory awakening..."

Without any warning, a cold metallic sound was imprinted into Xia Ye's mind through inspiration. Although the meaning was vague, the sound was extremely clear.

This voice gave him the same feeling as the previous "No Cheating" voice.

Before he could try to communicate, the energy ball suddenly "came to life".

Energy beams as thick as large arms surged on its surface, and the terrifying pressure of rational elements and inspiration filled the entire space in the blink of an eye.

These elements and inspirations are not offensive, but they can completely seal off the aliens whose main power is composed of these two elements.

"What's happening here!"

Xia Ye was suddenly shocked, but everyone instantly lost the ability to move in this strange change of environment. Even he himself felt like he was stuck in a quagmire, and his brain and body felt extremely sluggish.

The grids on all sides began to change, and some broken images began to emerge.

Then, these images entered the space like a full-system projection, and instantly occupied everyone's vision and thinking.

Everyone's eyes flashed, and then everything went dark...

Xia Ye was the first to regain consciousness.

"This is where?"

Looking around, all he could see was his beloved wife, and all that was left was a rather dilapidated-looking village.

But the surrounding scenery looked very weird, as if it was filtered through a dim time filter, which was completely different from its own color and contrast.

To put it simply, Xia Yechu's presence here is like a modern photo photoshopped onto an old one.

"Help! Who can save me!" A childish cry came from a distance, attracting his attention.

Looking up, I saw a ragged little boy running out from the back of the dilapidated shack. His body was covered with wounds and blood was oozing from his limbs, chest and abdomen.

But he was still running hard, because behind him, a dog was chasing him with bared teeth.

Seeing this scene, Xia Ye rushed out almost subconsciously and kicked the Type I dog in the head.

But there was no solid feeling, and his legs passed through the body of the Type 1 dog as if he was passing through a piece of air.

The latter leaped up, threw the little boy to the ground, and tore his body apart in no time.

The sudden stop of the desperate scream made Xia Ye stand there in a daze.

"Is this... an illusion? Why are you letting me see something like this?"

He thought with a look of pity.

"My...son!!!"

Another desperate voice was heard, and at the end of the road was a woman with disheveled clothes and hair, who looked like a madman.

She rushed forward desperately, but was ripped open by a Type I dog within two seconds.

"What on earth are you going to do!"

He roared towards the dim sky, but received no response.

"Hold!"

Although Xia Ye has already adapted to the cruelty of Hill Continent, such bloody scenes still make him uncomfortable.

These scenes awakened the panic he felt when he first came here.

He knew very well how helpless an ordinary person was when facing these monsters that were far beyond common sense.

At this time, Fitty, Anke and Jinniel also appeared beside him.

"Xia Ye!" "Xia Ye...we are..."

The first two rushed towards Xia Ye at the same time, calling out in shock.

"It's okay... As long as everyone is alive..."

Xia Ye hugged the two of them, hesitantly speaking with a complicated expression.

The bright colors of Encore's exterior formed a sharp contrast with its surroundings, confirming to him that although they were in this space, they were out of tune with it.

All I could do was watch.

"Where is this?" Jinelle asked with a frown.

She immediately noticed the dog eating heartily next to her, but she forced herself to calm down.

"I don't know either. I've been here for a little while longer than you guys. At the moment, I just feel like this is an illusion. It seems like that energy ball wants us to see something..."

"Is this what you are talking about?"

Jinelle pointed to a Type I dog nearby.

"Well...it just killed a mother and son right in front of me, and there was nothing I could do."

Xia Ye gritted her teeth.

"Xia Ye, calm down. These illusions are probably things that have already happened. Even if you feel resentful, it will be useless."

Jinniel's face turned a little pale when she heard this, but as locals, they had seen too many such scenes of suffering.

"I understand..." Xia Ye calmed down and silently observed the surrounding environment.

For a moment, everyone fell silent, leaving only the wet chewing sounds of a dog constantly ringing out under the empty dim sky.

78. Only one person

"This is...what's going on?" About a minute later, a familiar voice broke the silence.

"What are you doing? I thought I was going to die..."

Karen finally arrived at this space, and looking at the unfamiliar environment and the silent people around him, he couldn't help but ask.

I have to say, her heartless nature at times like this can really help ease the depression in her heart.

"Let's integrate the information." Xia Ye took a long breath, turned his eyes away from the two bodies on the ground and said:

"When I touched that energy ball with my ability just now, I heard some inspirational descriptions—"

"The description was intermittent, and I couldn't understand the full meaning. I roughly guessed that I was the initiator of something called the Gear Project. The project has been executed for the fifth time, and we are now in the first phase of the plan."

"Phase one? What's it about?" asked Ginelle.

"It's called a plan presentation, and the goal is to awaken memories. Now it seems that the presentation method should be to let us see this illusion scene."

"In that case, it seems that we can only wait... We can't interfere in anything." Jinniel nodded.

She had tried to touch those rooms just now, but she couldn't touch anything. The whole world except the ground seemed like a virtual projection.

"It has been detected that the key holder, iterator, and container are all in place, and the memory awakening is officially underway—"

At this moment, a cold metallic sound rang out from the sky, and everyone heard it clearly.

"Keyholders, iterators, containers... what are these?"

Just when Xia Ye was feeling confused, a whispered conversation came from a house not far away.

"There's someone over there, go over and listen!"

While greeting, he quickly ran into the house.

There were two people inside, a man covered in protective clothing sitting at the table, and a hunchbacked, ragged old man standing next to him.

"We don't have much space and resources to provide to your entire village. The natural disaster caused by this strange energy is worldwide."

"The land, the ocean, and even the sky have been polluted. Animals have begun to mutate into horrible monsters. All production and energy sources have been cut off. We need to carefully allocate the limited resources we have."

"You can understand this, right?"

The man in protective clothing said coldly.

"I... can understand..." the old man whispered sadly, "Then... how many people can you save?"

"I hope you understand that we are not saving people, but selecting them." The man shook his head.

“Choose those who have the potential to survive in the new world and rebuild civilization. Perhaps before long, they… we, will also become a completely new species.”

"In your entire village, I only see one child with this potential. The others...will have to die before the dawn of the new world."

“You can pray, and as a fellow countryman right now I will pray for you too.”

With a plop, the old man knelt on the ground, mumbling something incoherently.

The man had already stood up and walked out of the house.

"My child! Where are you taking her?" A woman's heart-wrenching cry was heard, but it stopped with a gunshot.

Not long after, the man carried a child into a car in the distance and quickly drove away from the village.

……

"They...this is..." What just happened shocked everyone.

Especially Xia Ye, Jinniel and Anke.

They have realized what kind of era they are living in.