"Big brother, help...hey...I can see..."
The restraints around his body were suddenly loosened, and even the bowl-shaped mouth covering his head was removed. 173 soon felt the precious freedom, but the next second when he saw the surrounding situation clearly, the atmosphere changed again. Starting to get stiff.
"Uh hehe, it turns out you are here, boss, why didn't you say anything, eh, who is this beauty? Is she a new friend hehe..."
Seeing the shameful expression on 659's face, 173 roughly understood it at this time. He kept laughing and quickly climbed off the back of the human-faced lizard.
Seeing that the two World Breakers were standing in front of him, the woman in armor cleared her throat and spoke.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Xu Xiaoxiao. I am the guard at the NB entrance of the underground city. He is my adjutant. His name is Ye Shuihan."
After saying that, Xu Xiaoxiao's eyes stayed on the faces of 659 and 173 for a short while, and then looked at Ye Shuihan who was a little further away.
Feeling the look from the woman, Ye Shuihan, who had a ponytail, dug into his trouser pocket, took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes, and stuffed it into his mouth as if nothing had happened.
"What are you looking at me doing? You have a higher military rank than me, just ask."
After that, he took out a box of matches from another pocket, struck it skillfully, and lit the cigarette in his mouth.
As the cigarette butt flickered, a thin puff of smoke blew out from Ye Shuihan's thin lips and slowly spread into the air.
"Ye Shuihan! If you do this again, I will be angry!"
"Hey, okay, okay, let me ask, why can't I ask..."
Ye Shuihan, who was originally serious with a bit of melancholy temperament, saw the angry look on Xu Xiaoxiao's face, and immediately seemed to be a different person, showing a flattering smile.
"So cheap..."
659 and 173 complained in their hearts at the same time.
"Then there is no need for me to introduce my name again. These two must be world breakers from other timelines, right? What do you call them?"
Ye Shuihan's eyes jumped back and forth on the faces of 659 and 173, and the expressions on their faces changed back to the lazy look they had at the beginning.
"Um, my name is Zhang Heng."
Before 659 could speak, 173 announced his name first.
Although what 173 said was indeed correct, this quick answer made 659 freeze instantly.
I saw him staring blankly at the transformation beside him, unable to say a word for a long time. After a while, a sentence came out of his mouth.
"My name is Zhang Heng too...but I come from a different timeline than him..."
"Yeah, I know this, so what I want to ask is, which timeline do you come from?"
Ye Shuihan nodded and then added.
"When I was checking earlier, I heard this guy call you Big Brother 659. I guess you came from the 659 timeline, right?"
Facing the other party's scrutinizing gaze, 659 pondered for a moment and nodded in affirmation.
"So this little brother Zhang Heng, which timeline do you come from?"
"Uh, me? Actually, I don't know which timeline I come from, but when Boss 659 saw me before, he said that I came from timeline 173, so you just think I come from that time line. The Line Breaker is ready."
Compared to 659's seriousness, 173 seemed more talkative, and he soon started talking to Ye Shuihan.
"Timeline 659 and Timeline 173. Although there have been several World Breakers before, this is the first time we have come together like you two..."
With a gentle pinch of his index finger and thumb, Ye Shuihan gently took off the cigarette from his lips, flicked the ashes nonchalantly, and held it in his mouth again.
Taking out the bill from his left arm
Hearing this, the bespectacled 659 stopped for a moment in his hand movements.
"Have world breakers come before? Can you tell us in detail what happened in this world?"
173 opened his mouth to ask. He was in a good state of mind now. He asked straightforwardly whatever came to mind. Anyway, no matter how bad the current situation is, it can't be worse than the cheating system that releases a certain death mission, right?
"Yes, but I can only give you a rough idea. After all, my military rank is not high enough and I cannot understand the deeper content."
"Since the Cataclysm, the military has recorded a total of nine contacts with the World Breakers. If you are counted, it should be ten times."
"Every contact with the World Splitter will bring huge help to the human camp, ranging from weapons and equipment to turning the tide of the war."
"Originally, with the help of the World Breaker, we should have been able to achieve a complete victory, but..."
Speaking of this, Ye Shuihan's eyes became obviously dim.
"However, because it did not realize the criticality of the Border Breaker the first few times and the situation was complicated at that time, the military was always on guard against it and missed several important opportunities."
"As a result, irreparable changes will occur in the final outcome. Humanity has completely lost the opportunity to become the master again and has become what it is now."
Ye Shuihan took a long puff of cigarette and paused for two seconds.
659 noticed that the man with a ponytail in front of him was trembling slightly, as if he was recalling something extremely terrifying.
Finally, Ye Shuihan exhaled the smoke and the turbid air in his lungs for a long time, and said in a relaxed tone with a little regret.
"To put it simply, that means we lost, the human race lost, and from now on we can only live in the city below, living like rats."
The half-burned cigarette was put back into his mouth. Ye Shuihan seemed to take another heavy puff in order to calm down his emotions.
The flame of the cigarette butt brightened instantly and burned to the end amidst the slight breathing of several people around.
"Ahem..."
It seemed that the last puff of the cigarette was too strong, and the intense stimulation made Ye Shuihan cough a few times.
Xu Xiaoxiao on the side saw this and wanted to step forward to show concern, but was blocked by Ye Shuihan's raised hand.
"But..."
The hoarse voice sounded again, and at this moment 659 seemed to understand why the ponytail man in front of him had such a strange voice.
"Humanity has never been a race that gives up easily. Even if we have already lost, we will not give up the fight!"
"This is the original intention of our Revenge Army! It does not exist to revive the human race, but only exists for revenge!"
Speaking of this, Ye Shuihan's eyes flashed with fire, as if he was filled with overwhelming anger, and he just regretted that he had nowhere to vent it at the moment.
The atmosphere was stagnant at this moment, and everyone present was silent.
Ye Shuihan and Xu Xiaoxiao were probably immersed in the sorrow and anger of the past, but 659 and 173 were really embarrassed.
Because what Ye Shuihan said was too general, like a book with ups and downs of plot, simply summarized into one sentence.
Even though I know that the process may be very tortuous, it would be too difficult for two world-splitters to be able to empathize with each other with just one sentence.
Seeing that everyone was silent, 173 finally couldn't help but speak first.
"Ahem, um, Brother Ye, although I don't quite understand your mood, I will definitely do my best to help you."
"Haha, the timeline of this world has collapsed, and you can't do anything. Oh, by the way, we are just talking about the past. I haven't asked you what the purpose of splitting the world is here. After all, since ten years ago From the beginning, we never encountered the World Breaker again.”
The fire in his eyes hid, and Ye Shuihan returned to his previous state again.
A slightly melancholy look in front of him.
"Are you here to collect fragments of information this time?"
Although the expression on his face has returned to its original state, Ye Shuihan's body is still trembling, like a thinly-clad traveler walking on a winter night, cold and helpless.
Looking at the other party's questioning eyes, 173 opened his mouth. In the end, he still couldn't tell the fact that he came here because of a mistake in breaking the world, and nodded slightly.
But then he felt that such a small movement was not enough for the other party to notice. After taking a shallow breath, he said firmly.
"That's right, Boss 659 and I are here to collect fragments of information and help the human race make a comeback! Don't you think so, Boss 659?"
"ha?"
659, who had been meditating beside him, looked at 173 with a confused look on his face, with a sincere greeting in his heart that he didn't know whether to say or not.
"Brother, can you be more independent when you make such a big promise to others? Can you not take me with you?"
"Even if you have to take me with you, can you discuss it with me?"
"You are here to lead the human race to a comeback, but I am not. I am just here to collect fragments of information!"
After complaining crazily in his heart for a while, 659 finally had a forced smile on his face.
"I will assist 173 and help you as much as possible."
"Then I'd like to thank you both here for the human race..."
Seeing that 659 also responded in the affirmative, a grateful smile broke out on Ye Shuihan's face.
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot something very important!"
The stiff atmosphere became slightly more harmonious. 173 suddenly slapped his head and interrupted.
"What?"
Ye Shuihan and Xu Xiaoxiao cast questioning glances at 173 at the same time.
"How long is a day here for you?"
173 scratched his head and said bluntly.
"About how long is a day? This..."
The content of this question didn't seem to be what Xu Xiaoxiao expected, so after hearing 173 say it, the woman in armor was stunned for a moment.
"Are you referring to our inherent time scale, or the length of time it takes for the earth to cycle through day and night?"
Compared to Xu Xiaoxiao's stunned look, Ye Shuihan quickly grasped the key point of 173's inquiry and asked rhetorically.
"Um, tell me, what is your inherent time scale?"
173 added that his idea was that since he asked, he might as well ask more clearly.
"We measure time by using a cesium-133 atomic resonator to define seconds. Cesium atoms will release a fixed radiation frequency. We define the time required for this radiation thin film to vibrate 91926317770 times as one second."
"Use 60 seconds to define a minute, and 60 minutes to define an hour. A day is twenty-four hours."
Hearing this, 173 and 659 felt their hearts skip a beat.
Listening to Ye Shuihan's definition of time, it seemed that there was no difference from the definition of time on their timeline.
Could it be that what the system issued was really a fatal mission?
Is 173 really going to face the fate of failing the mission and then being humanely destroyed by the system?
"However, this was the definition ten years ago. Now the cycle of a day and night on the earth is no longer twenty-four hours. If we use the previous definition of time, a day and night on the earth should be one thousand two hundred hours. Hours."
"Twelve hundred hours?!"
659 and 173 both let out a low cry at the same time, and an uncontrollable smile of escaping death appeared on their faces...
