Star Railway: Building a Foundation from the Beginning

When the two told each other their names, Christina pondered for more than ten seconds and asked:

"So, where is this?"

The building is clearly lacking in maintenance and there should have been no one here for a while.

The smell of mustiness was in the air, the walls were covered in black mildew, and the paint was peeling off badly, revealing the cold concrete underneath.

Wires and pipes hung haphazardly from the ceiling, some of them had fallen off and hung in mid-air, like the disembowels of time.

Alice replied casually, "The shelter that the Foundation left here. "

"There's some first-aid equipment here, I'll take you here. "

Speaking of this, she seemed to remember something happy, and the corners of her mouth hooked up with a smile.

"You can't even get into the Foundation's facilities, so how can you be embarrassed to call yourself a Foundation person?"

Listening to Alice's cheerful tone, Christina lowered her head:

“...... Excuse me. "

She's almost buttoned up her boots with her toes, and I'm afraid this joke won't pass today.

But who let the family save themselves.

Pretending to be a member of the Foundation, but bumping into the real thing?

Involuntarily, Christina raised her hand, her slender fingers curling slightly, trying to cover her face and briefly escape from reality.

But it pulled at the wound on the back of her hand.

At this moment, Alice's eyes looked over, and then, the evil girl who was chasing after the imposter just now suddenly panicked.

"-Hey, hey...... Don't move, you're hurt, I just bandaged you. "

Alice nervously examined the wound, and Christina resisted the pain and tried to change the subject.

"You ......"

"So you're from the Foundation?"

Alice doesn't respond, and the light shifts from one wound to the next.

Seeing that Alice was noncommittal, Christina wisely chose not to ask any more questions.

When Alice returned after leaving for a while, holding a bottle of alcohol in her hand, Christina swallowed and forcibly squeezed a few words out of her mind to distract herself:

"I thought they were all gone, and they died on their own. I've never met them, and no one I know can tell why...... Hiss. "

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!

A sharp pain caused her to gasp.

Alice casually threw away the blood-stained cotton ball and checked the condition of the gauze again, "Not exactly. "

"I should say that I used to work hard for them, and I still have the equipment they gave me, so I can enter the Foundation's facilities and call on their equipment and resources. "

Ignoring Christina's tearful eyes, Alice got up and stepped aside.

"But...... I'm free now. I'm a time walker now. "

"What's that?" Christina wondered.

Alice leaned lazily against the cold counter and explained leisurely:

"Did you know that in the cities of the Age of Heavy Rain, there is a post called the Messenger?"

"I've heard of it. Christina nodded.

She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

The True and False Foundation has finally passed.

Courier - A unique class that spawned after the arrival of the Age of Heavy Rain.

The biggest impact of that heavy rain, which has been falling for more than 50 years, is not to wash away the color of all things, but to make the radiation density of time uneven throughout the earth.

At the beginning of the heavy rain, the maximum difference between the time flow rate within the city and outside the city has reached 70 times.

And this.

It's just the case at the beginning of the Heavy Rain era.

Later, this number swelled to a creepy point.

At that time, the top brass of mankind realized that the traditional means of communication using telecommunications would soon no longer be viable:

The information will go through the time lag of the outer land during transmission, and when it reaches the destination, it will be completely time-sensitive.

But fortunately, in addition to stabilizing reality, the reality anchor can also stabilize the density of time radiation, so that the time flow rate in a certain area is consistent with the past.

And the portable reality anchor is able to make the gap within 20 times.

Thus, the Messenger Project was born.

Humanity's long-distance means of communication returned to primitive human transmission, and the people who shouldered this heavy responsibility were called messengers.

They carry portable anchors and travel between cities, exchanging intelligence and making announcements to maximize the timeliness of information.

......

"Huh, time radiation, and this kind of thing?"

"Bo Shizun: What is time radiation? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Curiosity is whether the higher the density of time radiation, the faster the flow of time, or the lower the density, the faster the flow of time. "

"Okay, after the ionizing radiation and electromagnetic radiation that are easy to misunderstand, there is time radiation, where should the pregnant women downstairs hide?"

"Hide in the universe where there is no time radiation (i.e. answer). "

......

"That's good. "

Alice bowed slightly, now that Christina knew what a messenger was, there was a basis for the rest of the conversation.

"You can think of me as a courier, but the cities I serve in are no longer there. I have nowhere to go. "

Saying this, Christina's curiosity was immediately aroused.

New York hasn't received communications from other cities for a while.

"Are all those cities destroyed?" she asked.

"They're all in ruins. "

Alice replied indifferently as she flipped through the diary in her hand, as if talking about the weather or trivial matters like three meals a day.

The words fell, and the two were silent for a short time, falling into silence.

It wasn't until the ventilation fan in the room malfunctioned and made a "click" sound that Alice looked at Christina:

"On the contrary, it's you, the new York hasn't been destroyed yet, why did you come to the Outlands?"

Self-inflicted, but not entirely ...... Christina shook her head:

“...... Not yet destroyed, but almost destroyed. "

"After that endless rain came to an end, everything changed. "

"Is that so?"

Suddenly intrigued by the current state of the new York, Alice quickly flipped to the end of the diary, hoping to get some answers between the lines.

[Man is a species that likes the new and hates the old. 】

[When the heavy rain that had lasted for decades finally stopped, the dark clouds that had accumulated over the city suddenly dispersed, and people took off their ponchos and looked up in unison—it was a world I had never seen before.] 】

[I remember that the sun was so bright and bright at that time, and it was really warm on my body. (Read the violent novel, go to the Feilu Novel Network!)

[At that time, we did not know the catastrophe that was coming with the next steps. During those rare days, there were more birds. 】

[And the lingering musty smell that shrouded the city all day finally faded in the sun. 】

[My parents took Tommy and me to the highest mountain on the edge of the city for the first time, and they brought synthetic milk and bread, found a green meadow full of flowers, spread out plastic blankets, and said we would have a picnic. 】

[I think I'll never forget that day.] 】

[Gradually, I don't know when it started, but the days are getting colder day by day. 】

[The windowpanes begin to frost every morning, the green of the treetops fades quietly, and then the gray leaves that have lost their color fall with the wind, and it is the last autumn.] 】

[Some people are still looking forward to seeing autumn and the golden leaves that cover the earth as they did when they saw green in the darkest of times.] My grandmother was included, and they didn't make it. 】

[Not long after, as York's scholars say, the first snowflakes fell, and a cold wave began to hit our city, and the river froze. 】

[All those who were still able to work were called up to mine the underground coal mines for heating.] 】

[However, coal is consumed much faster than gathering, and then the sun goes down, food becomes scarce, and in those families who are unable to work, the elderly and children begin to die.] 】

[One day, the protesters, who could not bear it anymore, stormed the central minaret area. 】

[They had prepared weapons, some of them had guns, and they put up leaflets on both sides of the streets, saying that the dangers of the Outlands were just lies, and they vowed to keep everyone fed and clothed, and they vowed to blow up the tower. 】

[A lot of people died, black blood pouring down the streets, through the grates of the drains, into the great pipes—I don't know where it would end up.] 】

And the minaret, the minaret still stands there coldly, like a giant that never rests, overlooking the aging Winter City. 】

...... []

The diaries' diaries paint a picture of despair, when the end actually comes, everything is slipping for the worse, people don't see any hope, and hell falls.

When irrationality breaks through the limits of rationality, it only takes a little conspiracy theory, and a few more conspirators, who have tried their best to step on the brakes, and then slam on the accelerator.

Even if Christina were able to go back, she would see either a gangster stronghold or a dead ice city.

But this diary also awakened the bad memories of some audiences.

Especially the players who have been tortured by a game nicknamed "Diaomin Simulator".

"Is it all worth it?"

"When a city is going downhill, someone has to sit in the driver's seat and put their foot on the accelerator. "

"City Administrator: Since you don't want to live it, then you can do whatever you like, and destroy what you deserve. "

"All things are born to support people, and people have nothing to repay the sky, kill!"

"'I think they're doing it well, if there's a heating problem, they're going to burn down the whole city, and if there's not enough food, they're going to lower the standard of food, and it's not impossible. "

"The managers of New York are still too kind, and the residents of the city still have the strength to rebel, which is not very reasonable to pull the tax rate to 100%. "

"You're a bit extreme. "

"The devil has tattooed you on your back. "

......

"Is it over? "

Christina shook her head:

"Not really, but ...... The rest hasn't had time to be written. "

"What happened?"

Christina fell silent again.

She seemed to be back there again, surrounded by the sound of burning fires, explosions, and stumbling footsteps.

"They're over there, don't let them run!"

"Where's that little girl? You two, go over there and look for it!

"Sister, the back of your hand is still dripping blood, you wait here, I'll find something to help you......"

"Come back, Tommy. They didn't go far, they should still be around. "

Well, maybe she didn't have a home a while ago, but she always felt that her parents had told her to run out with Tommy first, just for temporary shelter.

By the time the limelight has passed, the thugs should realize that complaining won't change anything, and that the wilderness is colder than the worst parts of the city.

At that point, it's time for her to take Tommy home.

It's just that...... She lost Tommy.

Watching Christina's grief flow backwards again, Alice thought back a little to the diary she had read and the situation she was alone, and quickly cleared up what had happened.

"Okay. She said.

But who doesn't have a tragic past?

In this regard, she felt that she was a little more miserable with a containment prefix.

Seeing that Christina didn't want to communicate for the time being, she went to the shelf not far away and rummaged through it, and found a black communication (money) transmitter in the style of a mobile phone.

She pulled out her permission card and inserted it into the card slot, and immediately after, the dusty screen lit up with gray-white fluorescence.

"What's that?" asked the sad girl.

"Foundation communications equipment. Alice replied, without looking up, continuing to operate the familiar device.

"I need to connect to the internet here, reconnect my personal data processor to the network, and download some of their stuff by the way. "

"Although the Foundation is long gone, the equipment they left behind is still functioning. "

"For a Time Walker, this information is necessary to survive. "

"So you know where they went?" asked Christina.

This is one of the unsolved mysteries, and along with why the world has become the way it is, it is often mentioned by frustrated and desperate adults.

They left behind so many relics that had blessed humanity, but they had inadvertently disappeared, and no one knew the end, no different from a homeless man who died in the rain.

"I don't know. They seem to have disappeared before I knew it. "

Seeing that Alice turned off the screen of the instrument and put away the card, Christina knew that the other party was probably going to continue the operation.

She was a little scared.

"And where are you going now?"

After being separated from Tommy, the world always seems to be gray, no different from before the heavy rain stops.

"Go on a mission. A place called the Black Hole Furnace. Alice replied.

"Is it a mission assigned to you by the Foundation?"

Alice pondered for a moment, her eyes falling on the camera on her chest.

"Yes...... Neither is it. This is the last time. "

"What about you, and where are you going after that?"

Christina was silent for a while: "I didn't think about it...... But in short, probably not going back now. "。