"Hey, hey, Lan Tu, did you hear the sound of the car behind you?"
In the car on the 16th, Papi was humming a tune while swaying slightly to the rhythm of the train. But he soon stopped humming. The semi-mechanical transformation had unusually strengthened his five senses, and he could feel some things that humans couldn't hear at all.
Lan Tu closed the newspaper in his hand: "No."
"What's the sound? Tell it and listen to it?" Ana leaned against the window and looked sideways at the scenery outside the window with a bored look on her face.
"Shoot." Papi said.
"A robber, but anyone who dares to take the rotary train should be prepared. Who will rob who is still uncertain." Dorothy covered her mouth and snickered, "Hey, if you are really curious, go over and have a look? Give it to me too." Let’s tell a story.”
"I'm too lazy to move." Papi snorted, "Let's talk about this bounty. I didn't expect that a team like ours could actually receive such a bounty. Can we really handle it?"
"It's definitely not just our team." Lan Tu lit up a cigarette and opened the window, "But the person who introduced me to this bounty is a relatively reliable friend. As long as we take a sip of soup from it, we won't have to worry about it for half a year."
"The more I listen, the more difficult it becomes." Ana curled her lips, "The greater the benefits, the higher the risks."
"But if it's too high, it's irresistible." Lan Tu shook the cigarette and let the smoke drift out of the window. "I have to make good plans for our future. In the end, working in this line of work is just a matter of youth, even if it's outside the city. It can keep you young for a long time, and I don’t think risking one’s life for a long time is suitable for a person’s whole life.”
These words made several people's faces darken.
"You can continue to accept the bounty, but you must leave a way out for yourself. Since I have become the captain of this team, I have to think about your future. We have lost enough companions."
"Ha~ I'll ask you to take more trouble, Lan Tu." Dorothy raised the corner of her mouth, "Anyway, I can't think of so many things!"
"It's okay. There's no need for everyone to think about it. By the way, there is indeed something wrong with the train behind."
Lan Tu suddenly changed the topic, and with a flick of his hand, the smoke released from the cigarette end slowly fainted, and some shadows appeared inside, which gradually became clearer. It was a scene in a carriage at the back of the train, but the scene seemed fragmented and overlapping. A person had the action of holding his head and huddled in the seat, and there was also the action of getting up and shooting. Countless people overlapped on one person. But each one seems particularly clear.
"What is this mess?"
"Some kind of time phenomenon? But it has not spread to the entire train. If this is a large-scale event that will happen on the rotary train, we may need to do some preventive work." Lan Tu took a puff of cigarette, "Pop, we can proceed. Environmental analysis and portrait analysis?”
"I'm going to see if there's anything weird between the carriages!" Dorothy stood up, and Dansheng immediately stood up and followed her to the back door. Ana glanced at the image full of human figures and pointed: "Isn't that Yan Rong and Lu Ning?"
"Indeed," Papi replied, "But judging from the things on them, they found a lot of good things after we were separated last time."
"Treasure...chih." Ana shook her head, "But since there are people we know over there, we can't just sit back and watch, right?"
"Wow!" Dorothy exclaimed, and Lan Tu and Ana immediately looked over.
Dan Sheng was already in front of Dorothy at this time, but it seemed that the two of them were not attacked. Lan Tu stood up and walked to the door, and glanced at the opposite side - it was supposed to be an area composed of short contacts and hinges. But it turned into a small old carriage. You can see that both the seats and the walls of the carriage are full of bullet holes and scratches.
"The incoordination of time has caused the specialization of space." Lan Tu took a long puff of cigarette, "Be prepared for battle. This should be a precursor to a large event."
"Analysis completed." He pressed a button on his head and printed out an analysis report from his arm. "There is not much that can be learned from external observation. I think it is also impossible to understand the whole picture from the inside. If there is time isolation between the inside and outside, we may not be able to carry out in-depth rescue."
"Sooner or later we will be involved. It seems we won't be able to get to the next city." Lan Tu said, gently pinching the cigarette butt, and a sparkling fire burst out from between his fingers, and then disappeared without a trace.
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In Car No. 17, Lu Ning had already seen someone trying to leave through the window, but the result was the same as walking out the door. He was hit directly in the fatal part by a bullet from an unknown source and died on the spot.
Liu Yunqing and Li Qianqiu came over at this time. They looked solemn. After casually saying something about the scene, they went straight to the topic: "We found some clues, but I'm afraid we are not strong enough."
"Oh?" Lu Ning nodded, indicating to elaborate.
"Because I have known for a long time that there may be problems with the rotary train, I deployed some detection devices on the outside of the carriage before getting on the train. Now those devices have not failed." Liu Yunqing said, "After the incident, we checked the captured images, and most of them There is a strange overlapping state in the images. Every passenger here seems to have fired a gun, but in fact they have not. We suspect this is a... timing phenomenon."
In Vera's research, this is indeed an extremely difficult problem to solve. To put it more abstractly, this is to condense all the probability phenomena existing at a point in time into that point, so that the point presents a distribution state rather than a real state. The most difficult point to solve this problem is that for people within the phenomenon area, they are just one of the probabilities, and no matter what they do, they cannot change the fact that multiple probabilities exist; on the contrary, for people outside the area, see What we arrived at was a composite virtual space with infinite probability of existence, and it was impossible to capture the essence of it. There is no solution inside or outside, which is why Vera failed to solve it.
For tourists, this is also a problem that is extremely difficult to solve under normal circumstances. There are indeed some successful cracking methods in the records that Lu Ning has read, but they are also quite difficult to implement.
"If you say your strength is not enough, do you mean there is a way?" Lu Ning asked.
"After all, this phenomenon is difficult to eliminate from the inside or outside alone. If you really want to crack it, you must either destroy the source of the phenomenon or connect the inside and the outside. Fortunately, we deployed the detection device in advance , being able to obtain external intelligence from the inside is an advantage." Li Miqiu talked eloquently, "However, even if we have this opportunity, our strength is not enough to destroy the time pattern inside and outside. We need more powerful ones that can It also has the power to interfere with time and space.”
"What you said is too vague." Geese suddenly said, "Even treasure cannot have the interference intensity to adapt to the full time system. Your requirements must be as specific as possible so that we can provide corresponding help."
"We still need to explore more specifically." Li Qianqian said with some frustration, "This is the first time we have encountered such a thing."
"But the time and orbit observation just now is no problem... Ah, Miss Flight Attendant." Zaowei suddenly pointed forward. When Lu Ning turned around, she found that an irritable passenger had pulled out a gun and pressed it against the flight attendant's forehead. And grabbed her pocket watch.
"What are you doing!" Shao jumped up from his seat. With a flick of his finger, white thorns flew out instantly, cutting off the gun at the waist.
The passenger flicked the gun that had become two halves, glared at Shao with a ferocious look, and opened the "pocket watch." But the next second he was dumbfounded, raised his head and shouted at the flight attendant: "Hey! These numbers What do the words “cursor” and “cursor” mean?”
"Sorry sir, this is a professional tool." Being treated like this, the flight attendant was obviously a little angry and stabbed the man neither softly nor hard.
"you this--"
Wow.
The man was about to get angry when he suddenly heard a sound like the sound of a film reel ringing in his ears. With a flick of his hand, he turned around and saw that the pocket watch had fallen into the hands of Lu Ning, who had appeared behind him at some point.
"Stinky girl! Give it back to me!" He cursed and took out another folding dagger from his arms, but at this moment, he saw the silhouette of the film appearing behind Lu Ning, and the silhouette showed He was frozen in a frame. When he came back to his senses, he suddenly found that he had become a silhouette, and behind him was his real self looking at him.
"This thing won't be of much use in your hands, and it will be easily broken."
There was a loud earthquake, and the man fell down on his seat in a cold sweat. The folding dagger in his hand had been snatched away by Lu Ning. She glanced at the man indifferently and put the pocket watch back into the steward's hand: "Miss, we have some ideas to solve this phenomenon, but we may need your help through time track monitoring."
The flight attendant took the pocket watch and nodded: "Of course, if passengers need help, that is the flight attendant's responsibility."
"plz follow me."
Lu Ning pulled the flight attendant to the small team, then glanced at Li Qianqian: "Internal monitoring can be done by more professional people. Is there any way you can deduce the specific form of internal and external timing effects?"
"Use my treasure." Liu Yunqing raised her arm and wore a diamond-shaped gauntlet on her right arm with a bright golden gem inlaid on it. Her relatively loose sleeves usually blocked the gauntlet, but now it was revealed so that everyone could see it.
"Huh?" Geese narrowed his eyes, "I remember this is the one in the library..."
"The function of [Restless Dawn] is to classify things. Through precise classification, each person can be distinguished individually. I can use the power of treasure to interpret external images, but at the same time, I need to look inside to see where we belong. Which part of the time flow?" Liu Yunqing explained.
"Miss flight attendant, can you do it?" Lu Ning asked the flight attendant again.
"No problem. As long as the time track characteristics are obtained, it will not be difficult to choose the appropriate one. Please trust my professionalism." The flight attendant said politely.
Since there was no problem, Liu Yunqing immediately activated the power of the treasure, and the bright light of the morning sun burst out from his gauntlet instantly. The passengers on the train were immediately dazzled by the light, and they all looked over. Li Qianqiu also opened the receiving screen and placed it in Liu Yunqing's hand.
"Flight attendant, start observing the time track!" Lu Ning said immediately.
"I'm already reading the characteristic time track." The flight attendant stared at the "pocket watch" in his hand. "The time track we are in still does not show any abnormality. This is a good thing. It shows that although there is a splicing of time externally, the time track is still not in any abnormal state. The timing is normal for us to do a clear peel.”
"Image." Liu Yunqing turned over his wrist and let the gem shine on everyone in the carriage. In an instant, a shape composed of golden light appeared around everyone. Lu Ning could see that the reading on the flight attendant's pocket watch jumped immediately, and dense signal sources appeared on the grid screen in the middle.
"Remove non-owned time tracks."
She glanced at the people in the carriage and lowered her head again: "Explain that more than 70% of the time tracks should be retained, the time axes should be aligned, and the attack-form time tracks should be removed."
As her fingertips quickly tapped the screen, the signal sources on it began to disappear quickly, and soon there were only a few dozen left.
"Remove Dead Time Tracks."
Signal sources are further reduced.
There were fine beads of sweat on the steward's head. She wiped the sweat gently, and then said to Liu Yunqing: "This passenger, please make the final reclassification according to the characteristics I gave. We should be able to classify it from ten to ten." Find the one that belongs to us among several suspected time tracks, and the next step is to peel off the time track and escape from this time trap."
She quickly began to report the numbers, and Liu Yunqing began to control the treasure according to the numbers to eliminate the golden light. As the light gradually dimmed, the shapes around the passengers began to appear clearer outlines. They were all their own appearances, but they were different from the current ones. Have different actions.
Liu Yunqing's body shook, and Li Qianqiu hurriedly supported him. Lu Ning knew that this was a sign of Caibao using up her energy. She immediately flicked her robe and took several photos to record all the scenes in the carriage. After just finishing this step, Liu Yunqing loosened her hands, the golden light disappeared, and everything It returned to its original state.
"Sorry... I can't hold it anymore." She rubbed her forehead, looking very painful.
"There are still seventeen time tracks left, and we haven't determined which track we are on yet." The flight attendant looked at the restored pocket watch, "Sorry, this is really... difficult to calculate directly."
"That's enough. The worst we can do is peel them all off." Lu Ning distributed the stack of photos. "Everyone, please determine from these the actions you have taken during this period. This is related to everyone's life and death."
"Hey, Lu Ning." Zhu Qinyuan suddenly called out to Lu Ning.
"What's wrong?"
"Have you... noticed that it has been a long time since the next shot was fired?"
