Star Railway: Building a Foundation from the Beginning

"So, this girl is really miserable, but, then again, in the era of the end of the world, who is not miserable?"

"She was lucky enough to get out of pursuit with her young brother, not to be caught and humiliated, not to be chased by monsters, to die in the mouth of a beast, to be caught in a space-time anomaly, and

Containment-105 lends a helping hand. "

"So, indeed, this kind of luck is good here, besides her, there are so many lives reduced to numbers on the background board, no one cares for them, and no other Foundation member saves them. "

......

Christina's uneasiness and confusion, Alice doesn't seem to feel anything.

From the moment she became the subject of Foundation research, the emotions known as weakness were forced to move away from her, and this process was shortcut after she was selected as a Mobile Task Force.

What has bothered Alice lately may be the life of idleness and the confusion of having nowhere to go.

She wondered why the Foundation had not activated Containment-2000.

The world is dying, and all she can do is sit quietly and bury the world.

It's still a bit romantic, isn't it?

Like some kind of fatalistic love she longed for as a child.

Once again, there was silence in the room.

Christina's deep uneasiness spread like a flame, as if something invisible was roaming her skin, causing bouts of itching and giving her the urge to tear apart the face of humanity and reveal her true self.

She raised her eyes, stared at Alice, who was intently reading the diary, and spoke cautiously:

"Speaking of which...... I always felt like I'd heard your name before. "

Alice put down the diary in her hand, elegantly straightened her swan-like neck, and responded with a gentle wink:

"Perhaps, but that was a long time ago. "

Her thoughts took her back to a time when the apocalypse had dawned and everything hadn't gotten so bad.

At that time, humanity was still one, and the various sites of the Foundation were not yet fighting on their own, and the transmission of information was still simple and fast.

"Are you on TV, radio or ...... In the huge advertisement outside, what do you see?"

"Probably. It's been about a decade, I don't remember much. "Christina wasn't so sure.

"When the Broken Veil first happened, the 313 Foundation promoted a group of people, including me, as superheroes in order to make the public accept their existence. "

"Our material was drawn into comics and made into films. They probably want us to be ...... Superman and Batman, that kind of character. "

But Superman and Batman can save the world, and they can't...... Alice laughed silently at herself.

"Superman and Batman?"

Well, the cultural products of the former lighthouse state have also disappeared with the fall of the hegemon.

Realizing that Christina probably hadn't been exposed to these propaganda materials for personal heroism, Alice didn't bother much:

"Forget it, I'll give you an analogy. Those things are long overdue when you can remember. "

"Uh, why do you look like you're a lot older than me...... We must be about the same age. "

Christina looked at Alice, who was supposed to be the same age as herself, and was suspicious.

Although the other party looks young on the outside, his words reveal a sense of vicissitudes of life, as if he is an old man who has witnessed the changes of the earth.

Does the Foundation still have a beauty business?Christina narrowed her eyes.

"You say me?" Alice smiled again, and Christina tightened her scalp for no reason.

"I've been in the Outlands since the Great Fade. The twenty years you've grown up have only been three or four years for me. "

That's still less to say.

She is a real immortal, and she has the right to open her mouth to "this land" and "you and your race".

It's a pity that there is a lack of a land ship for her to open a pharmaceutical company, and there is one less administrator waiting to open the coffin.

"Wait, what does that mean?" Christina, confused.

"You don't know anything?!" Alice was surprised this time.

“...... Aren't you afraid of dying when you step into an outer land so rashly?"

Alice was really a little speechless.

Is the generation born in the era of heavy rain so brave?

Silently labeling Christina as a rookie with lack of common sense, she left the site with the latter and returned to the ice field.

Sitting on the edge of the cliff, Alice looked down into the distance.

The frozen river is like an ahce (ahce) a silver ribbon that cuts through the tree-covered earth, which is decorated with frost and shimmers, like the stars that once appeared in the night sky.

"See the jungle over there?" Alice pointed into the distance.

"The leaves of those trees haven't even rotted yet. Your twenty years, for those places, may only be a few months away. "

Christina was puzzled: "Why is this happening?"

"Time flows at different rates. "To explain this phenomenon, the Foundation invented a term called temporal radiation. "

"Prior to this upheaval, time flowed at a roughly consistent rate everywhere on Earth, following the predictions of general relativity......"

This is beyond Christina's knowledge.

"I've heard my physics teacher mention this concept, but I don't understand it very well. "

In fact, as the end of the world has fallen, the area of available land has plummeted, the world's population has been greatly reduced, and a considerable amount of knowledge has been discontinued.

The existence of the school is more to restrain the new generation, so that they will not become all spiritual boys and little sisters, curb the rapidly rising illiteracy rate, and try to make the human civilization with breathing tubes breathe for a while.

Alice felt a headache.

"The specific principle is not important, the point is that the laws of physics have been broken. "

"First the color disappears, then the flow of time is disturbed—the universe as we know it is gradually disintegrating, and the original laws and laws are becoming shaky. "

"The Foundation refers to this series of phenomena as the collapse of reality. "

Luckily, Christina is a good learner and can understand Alice's words.

So, she asked with some eagerness:

"If it is said to be disorder and collapse, why is it that only the speed of time flow is affected, and there is no change in the direction of time flow, such as rewinding?"

"Time cannot be turned back, this is a more fundamental principle than the laws of physics. Alice replied patiently.

"You can think of temporal radiation as a fog that affects the speed of time flow, where it is dense and it is fast, where it is rare, and where it is thin, it is slow, but in any case there is no negative fog. "

Christina was thoughtful.

"Time travels slower outside of the city?"

"You understand it right. Alice responded.

"Time flies within the city, and the one second we experience outside the city can be tens of minutes, hours, or even days within the city. "

"That's one of the reasons why, even though you've lived in the city for more than 20 years, you look about the same age as me, when I was born more than 20 years before me. "

Christina struggled: "What if we go back to the city......?"

"Didn't you think about these things before you left the city?" Alice frowned, "How long have you been out of the city?"

This kid looked quite clever before, why did he open his mouth like a stupid roe deer.

"I don't know. Maybe days, weeks, months?"

Mince words.

Alice sighed lightly, and said seriously:

"If you have the chance, maybe it's better to go back early. "

“...... No, I have things to do outside of the city. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"Are you sure? Do you know what that means?"

“...... Can't return to the city again?" Christina said uncertainly.

Alice got serious: "Do you know why time flows so fast in the city?"

But as soon as the question was asked, she regretted it, and Christina obviously didn't know about it.

And it's too laborious to explain.

“...... Forget it, I shouldn't have asked that. "

Thanks to the existence of the Foundation's Reality Stabilization Tower, the flow of time in the city is a "normal" flow rate.

The "time radiation" in the city is more "dense", while the "time radiation" in the outer regions is more "sparse".

Relative to the city, everything outside continues to fall into the farther future.

"If you continue to stay outside the city, within a few months, you won't have a chance to look back. "

"Once you enter the anchor range of the city, the past time will catch up with you, quickly decaying and weathering you, turning you into a pile of bones. "

"Whew......" Christina was startled.

......

Not only Christina, but Esta and Blacktower were also shocked.

When the term temporal radiation first appeared, they thought of many ways to explain this unheard of, and even less theoretically supported phenomenon.

But they didn't expect that the phenomenon involving temporal radiation would become so extreme, and at the same time, it seemed to follow some deeper law.

It's just that......

From the low-time radiation area to the high-time radiation area, you still have to make up for the time you have not experienced.

This has completely left the realm of normal physics and entered the realm of anomalous science.

"Is reality collapsing?" said the Black Tower, pondering for a moment.

This should be something in the theory of reality.

But here's the problem, no one in the entire universe knows what the theory of reality really is, except for the Foundation.

I don't know what its underlying theory is, and I don't know what chapters it has.

In that frank time-space rift, Bai Xuan asked her if she wanted to experience the feeling of being infused with a lot of knowledge.

Out of the pride of a genius, Blacktower temporarily rejected a great deal of knowledge, only accepting to be heavily infused.

Why did you want to save face so much at that time...... Blacktower had some small regrets, but this regret was only fleeting.

Anyway, it's all a family, and it's normal to meet each other's needs.

"Then again, what are they busy with now, Bai Xuan?"

She looked at Esta, who had turned on online dating again, and in the midst of a large number of selfies, a handful of academic questions were interspersed.

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"Now is your last possible chance to turn back. I can help you contact the nearest city to pick you up. They will have the fastest plan to travel between cities. "

As she spoke, Alice stood up and stared into the distance where the ice field and the sky met.

Night is about to fall, but the sky that should have been shining with stars is empty and lonely, as if the stars are absent or the stars are not waiting.

Realizing that Alice was about to continue her mission and was about to leave, Christina suddenly panicked:

"Wait a minute, I still have ...... One last question. "

There was a hint of pleading in the tension.

Alice turned her head sideways and looked at her.

"If I am separated from a person in the Outlands, will he and I experience different speeds of time?"

"If you're lucky, no. Throughout the Outlands, time flows slowly. "

"You're looking for someone?"

"Seriously, I don't know. Probably, if there's still a chance. "

The more Christina spoke, the quieter her voice became, and in the end she didn't know what she was talking about.

She looked at the dim sky and the icefields that were also inky, crossed her legs, and sat in silence.

The brain is a mess, and I can't think of what I should do.

Should she continue wandering the ice fields and try her luck to see if she can find Tommy?

Should she beg the other party to let her stay here and search for Tommy's whereabouts?

Should she go back to New York, to that home that may have long ceased to exist, and wait for Tommy to come back?

She should ......

Christina felt her hands start to tremble, and it was time to make a decision.

"Miss Alice. She looked up, "You're a traveler, you're a member of the Foundation, and you can connect with the surrounding cities, so you can get enough information, right?"

"Theoretically, yes. "

Alice looked at the tangled girl in a calm tone.

"But that doesn't mean I'm going to be able to do anything or produce anything. "

"What's more, the Foundation has been lost for a long time. I may not be able to do as much as you think. "

Alice's story is over.

She didn't make any promises, not only for the apparent reason of throwing them out, but also because she was worried that it would make Christina have unrealistic illusions.

What's more, going to the Black Hole Forge is the highest priority, and she won't make any adjustments until the order changes.

"That's enough. Christina made a choice, and it was enough to make up her mind.

She endured the pain in her body and stood up, and said solemnly:

"Miss Alice, can you let me go with you?".