Star Railway: Building a Foundation from the Beginning

There was nothing wrong with the reverse channeling process, Alice was dragged by Christina, and there was nothing unusual about Christina.

Sitting on the floor, Alice gasped for breath, she felt terrible.

In the storm that can't distinguish between east and west, north and south, run around like a headless fly, and pay attention to the constantly cracking earth, so as not to step into the magma and burn to ashes.

Thankfully, Christina used her abilities in reverse, so she didn't get lost in the damn storm......

Alice thought as she got up from the ground and patted the dust off her body.

From the moment she entered, she saw a huge shadow hidden in the darkness in the distance, it was undoubtedly a huge building.

It's time to act.

Alice and Christina make their way until they can see the details of the building.

It is irregular polygonal and structurally intact, but the exterior façade has long since been peeled away, revealing the reinforced concrete and unknown cyan metal inside.

"What a strange architectural ......"

Christina felt a little tired inexplicably, probably because it was too stimulated just now, and after the adrenaline effect, the body was a little tired.

She didn't pay much attention to it, and then commented:

"It's as if it was built wrapped around what's inside, rather than what's inside being put inside it. "

Alice nodded, convinced.

At that moment, a silvery lightning bolt pierced through the storm, illuminating the gray-black clouds, and causing Alice and Christina's hearing to be occupied by thunder.

Suddenly, the earth began to tremble again.

With a deafening roar, a huge crack opened up on the ground to the right of the two of them in an instant, and flames erupted.

This was not an accident, but a clarion call for the beginning of a cataclysm.

Alice and Christina looked at the red that rose into the sky in amazement, and then looked at the wall of the storm in horror.

The rift, which had been sheltered from the storm, advanced inch by inch, and then suddenly accelerated, eroding inward.

Since the storm wall, the whole earth has been cracking.

Alice grabbed Christina, who was still in a daze, turned around and ran:

"Let's go!"

The roar of the storm was left behind them, replaced by the tremor of the earth and the roar of the machinery within the site.

But the closer she got to the building, the more powerless Christina felt, until at some point, she could no longer keep up with Alice's footsteps.

"Wait, I can't run......"

Christina gasped for breath and turned to a trot, then changed to 287 and walked slowly.

Then, she looked sideways at the distant storm and the cracked earth.

Thankfully, they didn't go crazy this time.

She looked at Alice:

"You go first, I'll be there in a moment. "

Alice glanced at Christina a few times with some concern, thought about it, and patted her waist:

"It's the same as before, the photos are still usable. "

Christina raised her hand and said "OK" and continued to stride forward.

But as time passed, the feeling of detachment did not lessen, but worsened.

No, it doesn't feel right......

Christina realized that something must be wrong with her.

Normally, even if it was a longer run, she shouldn't feel so tired, let alone not recover for so long.

- On the contrary, if her physical fitness is so poor, like Alice's old college students, she will not be able to survive in the wilderness, let alone keep up with Alice's pace.

Inadvertently clenched her fists, and Christina suddenly felt that her fingers were less sensitive.

She stopped, unsealed her gloves, pulled up her sleeves, and looked at her arm.

The gaze froze in an instant—

The muscles are relaxed.

What's going on......

Christina raised her right hand and tried to rub it there—maybe a little relief would bring her back to normal.

But just after a few rubs, a muscle was torn off.

And she didn't even feel pain.

Christina froze, her brain was a little down, her consciousness went blank, and she couldn't comprehend what was going on, until her muscles turned to powder in the air and her eyes began to shake.

Why...... Isn't it said that in just five seconds, time can't catch up with you...... But why......

Christina was tempted to reach out and snatch her shattered and withered body back, but reason made her withdraw her hand so that the situation would not get worse.

She still has unfinished business, but her body can't hold on to it first.

Wait a minute...... In order to maintain its own existence, the singularity attracts the time radiation of the entire universe......

"That's right......"

Isn't the black hole furnace a super-large reality anchor?

The moment she crossed the wall of the storm, the countdown to her life began, and hundreds of years of time would soon return, making her "centenarian" "dead".

Christina tried to hook her fingers.

Sure enough, with the disappearance of the tendons, the ring finger and little finger have been disabled, and only three fingers of the left hand can move.

Hold on a little longer......

Christina grew more and more tired, and a voice seemed to rise from the bottom of her heart, lingering in her ears, urging her to fall asleep quickly.

After that, there is eternal peace.

Just a moment...... She said this to herself.

Taking a breath, Christina removed her helmet and removed some of her weight.

Then, with difficulty, she walked towards the huge building.

......

Alice stood by the gate and connected the terminal to the permission verification system with a data cable.

When the terminal sounded a sound indicating that the verification was successful, she hurriedly put it away and waited for the site gate to open.

With a "tick", the red light on the door frame turned green.

In the midst of a heavy humming sound, the long-dormant hydraulic pump extracts the oil, which flows through the pipes, giving power to the entire system, and the hydraulic steel pipes follow suit, slowly raising the heavy alloy gates.

It seems that it has been unused for too long, and there is a lack of maintenance and maintenance.

As the gate was raised, there was always a tooth-aching grinding sound, a stuttering sound, and from time to time, electric sparks could be seen flickering at the door frame.

Fortunately, the floodgates were opened smoothly and there were no accidents.

Alice breathed a sigh of relief and walked straight inside.

The moment she stepped through the door, the green light turned red.

The sound of the pipes bursting sounded dullly, and the heavy gate made a terrible cry, pressing down with lightning speed, like a great knife towards Louis XVI.

Alice's heart beat faster in an instant, but she didn't have time to react.

At this moment, a crisp metal collision sound resounded in the ears, followed by a muffled snort.

"Uh——!"

At the same time, Alice felt herself hit hard, and she was knocked forward, and she staggered two steps and fell to the ground.

She got up, turned around, and saw Christina struggling to hold the door with her arms and back.

Like Atlas carrying the sky.

Christina's exoskeleton had twisted and cracked, shards of metal had fallen to the ground, and sparks were flying.

Sensing Alice's gaze, Christina raised her head and smiled in what she thought was cheerful.

Miss Alice...... It's safe......

It's just that...... It's true...... I'm so tired......

When people get old...... Is that going to be how it feels......

A deeper sense of powerlessness, like the tide of the sea, came in wave after wave, trying to drown her.

Christina hated it.

But Miss Alice's life was paid back...... That's fair......

On the side, Alice saw that Christina was trapped by the gate and couldn't move, and her heart was anxious.

Her gaze wandered around the doorframe, desperately searching for a host or a usable terminal.

Even if you see the hydraulics. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

At this moment, Christina stopped Alice with a word:

"Don't bother, Miss Alice. "

Alice was stunned for a moment, and her eyes moved to Christina, before she could ask what it meant.

I noticed that the other party's body was crumbling, disintegrating inch by inch, and dissipating.

Rumble!

Alice's mind went blank, and her expression of surprise froze at first, then into urgency and panic.

How could it be...... (caff)

She reached out to do something, but only halfway through it, she retracted her hand.

It was a curse of time, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Even the Foundation can only circumvent this horrific phenomenon by performing modification surgeries on selected individuals.

Once you are caught up by lost time, how can you recover it...... The Foundation in the Apocalypse did not give an answer.

That's already the answer – there's nothing humans can do about it.

Alice could only watch as Christina's body dissipated little by little.

can only watch in despair, Christina's life is returning to death little by little.

"No ......"

"Don't be upset, Alice. "

"Is this the price you pay for using a stability anchor? shouldn't it-"

"No, Alice. It's because it's the city. "

Christina shook her head, by a small margin.

Even such a small action required her to concentrate all her will to barely complete it.

And her voice is getting smaller and smaller.

"Have you forgotten what the Wanderer said? This is the place where time in the entire universe is most radiated. "

"The wall of storms, a natural barrier, probably came into existence for this reason. "

Suddenly, the gate trembled, as if it wanted to keep pressing.

Christina paused, then slowly straightened up, the metal of the exoskeleton making an overwhelmed sound, and sparks erupting from the joints one after another.

She slowed down, very tired, then raised her head and spoke:

"It's been a journey of gradual loss. "

"We're always losing something, aren't we?"

"Loss of purpose, loss of family, loss of drifter, loss of ...... I. "

Christina's appearance has not changed significantly, but half of her face has disappeared.

She squeezed out a little smile and raised her left hand, trying to caress Alice's face.

However, before it could be touched, the entire left arm flew away like sand blown by the wind.

Looking at the empty exoskeleton of her left arm, Christina felt a little regretful, but she couldn't make any expressions.

“...... But these losses have to be meaningful, Alice. "

"This is the end of the world in the truest sense of the word. It's just you and me...... Soon you'll be the only one left. "

"I can see the machine inside, it's big, it's complicated. You're going to go in and turn it on. "

"It's where it all begins, where we go, where it all starts and ends. "

Alice leaned forward and reached for Christina's body.

"We're going together. We have to go together, you can't-"

"Alice, take my share and witness it, okay......?

Before he could finish speaking, the door slammed shut.

The exoskeleton was completely crushed by the gates, leaving only a field of mechanical wreckage and gray debris of what had once been flesh floating in the air.

......

Alice sat with her back against the gate, beside her the proof of Christina's existence.

She tilted her head back, her eyes closed, but she couldn't let the tears welling up.

After a while, she suddenly lowered her head and woke up the personal terminal, wanting to see the message left by the wanderer.

Just then, she suddenly saw a video that she had created late last night.

This is......

Alice choked back tears, bit her lip, moved her fingers, and tapped on it.

A moment later, Christina's large face appeared on the screen.

[Alice, if you see this video...... Then I'm guessing you've succeeded. As for me-]

[I'm sorry, maybe I won't be able to accompany you to the end.] 】

[You know, the night before we left for Antarctica, you slept deeply. 】

[The AIC, the Drifter, told me everything about the Black Hole Forge and you. 】

You may already know that information, but I have a different understanding of it. 】

[The essence of the Black Hole Furnace is a machine that has written our memories and visions into the next world. 】

[Remember the document we found earlier?]

[The information that was thrown into the furnace will be preserved forever in the singularity and become the original blueprint carried by the newly born universe.] 】

Your final task is to be the one to start it. 】

All your joys and unwillingness, all your love and pain, will be turned into the purest flow of information, and will become the key to a new world - a world where people do not need to sit around the campfire and fear the darkness. 】

In other words, we, or rather, you. 】

Not just to create a new world – but to transcend it. 】

[Alice, you have to cross heaven. 】

[When I was in junior high school, my teacher mentioned a very interesting term in physics, called Poincaré regression. 】

[The state of the system will return to its original after a long enough period of time;]

[After a longer period of time, the same universe as ours will appear. 】

[I'm sure you've heard of this concept too, and at the time I thought it was the ultimate romance of cosmology.] 】

[Now it seems that maybe you are about to start this return in another way.] 】

[But one thing is the same, and that is that we will all meet again eventually.] 】

[I am a child born in heavy rain. I used to be lost about myself, about everything in the world. 】

[I don't know what the meaning of this black and white world is, and where it will go—I'm just walking in vain in the rain, looking for something I never had. 】

[But now I finally understand.] 】

[I see what I'm after, Alice.] It's not just rainbows. 】

[So, goodbye.] Remember our agreement and go through the final ending. 】

[If, 13.7 billion years later, you and I come back to this world, then——]

Come to me, I will always be waiting for you. 】

Tomorrow's chapter will be updated earlier.