Chapter 340 Time Theory

"There is more than one sky corridor, but you have to go around from other floors, and it's a long way." Wang Ailin said, and she subconsciously pushed her glasses, as if she thought of something bad.

At this time, the whole office suddenly shook, as if the floor was moving. Chen Ke supported the wall with his left hand and tried to stand firm. Wang Ailin also held the cabinet fixed to the wall beside him.

The vibration was accompanied by a huge friction sound, and Chen Ke could also hear some kind of sigh-like sound coming from the bottom of the entire spherical building.

The vibration lasted for more than two minutes before stopping. When everything returned to calm again, Chen Ke looked at Wang Ailin and asked: "This ball... will it just spin around for fun?"

"No... This is the self-sealing mechanism of the spherical containment station... After a containment leak occurs, if the system cannot detect any human intervention, it will start the final self-sealing procedure..." Wang Ailin said.

"It means that we are locked in...?" Chen Ke asked.

Wang Ailin nodded, she walked to the door of the office and looked at the corridor outside. Without going to the door, Chen Ke could see the changes in the outside environment through the small window on the door.

The corridor, which was originally illuminated by the white woven lamp, was now trapped in the dark red warning light.

Chen Ke couldn't understand why all buildings chose dark red lights as prompts when encountering emergencies. Can't they change to a color that makes people feel happy?

At this time, he heard some noises of broken cables. Wang Ailin sat by the door, covering her headphones with a depressed expression.

"Wang Ailin... what's that sound?" Chen Ke asked.

"The air corridor self-destructs... This is the last instruction of the self-enclosure procedure to prevent the sentient containment items in the spherical containment station from leaving..." Wang Ailin said. Although there was some fear in her words, she was a scientific researcher in the institute after all, and she was mentally prepared for this situation.

"There must be other ways... Even if it is self-enclosed, there must be a reserved escape passage for personnel. Didn't you consider it when building this building?" Chen Ke was unwilling to sit and wait for death. There is always a way out. There must be a way.

"No... This place was not built by us... Chen Ke, this spherical containment station itself is also a containment object..." Wang Ailin said slowly.

"..." Chen Ke opened his mouth, not knowing what else he could say.

It turned out that this sphere was an ancient building found deep in the Nevada desert. Its external structure was indestructible, and its internal structure could change freely.

After the Administration carried out a certain degree of internal transformation, it was used as a refuge for the president during the Psychic War...

Later, the United Federation Institute requisitioned it as a containment site for various alien objects, and it has been used to this day.

Surrounding the spherical wall, the top floor is a large scientific research center for researchers to conduct experiments. Going down, there are a total of 127 floors, each floor has a different number of rooms for individual containment.

The 127-story containment measures actually only occupy a small half of the spherical space. There is still 60% of the space below that can be expanded and transformed, and the floor area near the center of the sphere is larger.

However, the Administration and the Institute have clearly stipulated that the bottom 20% of the space is strictly contained and transformed. Wang Ailin did not disclose the specific reason.

Chen Ke paced in the room. So, they should be in the research center now.

The unconscious researcher wandering outside was mumbling. The sound was very scary with the dark red corridor. The door of the 0451 research room was melted by Chen Ke. Wang Ailin's current emotional state was not stable.

As a scientific researcher, Wang Ailin would be more rational in looking at psychic things. If fear comes from the unknown, then Wang Ailin has much less unknown things than others...

But even so, people still can't get rid of the instinctive resistance to the weird environment. Wang Ailin hugged her knees and stared at the coffee cup that fell on the ground opposite, trying to concentrate her attention.

Being able to meet such a girl, in the current situation, it can be regarded as a lot of burden reduction for Chen Ke. He is not afraid of fighting, but he is afraid that there is a giant baby around him who needs his care.

Now it is temporarily safe here, and there is no place to go. Chen Ke straightened the table that fell on the ground, dragged it to the door, and held the door. Although this is useless, it at least makes people feel at ease.

"Now that it's like this... let's talk business." Chen Ke sat opposite Wang Ailin and put his gun back into the holster.

"But before that, I have a lot of things to ask you, Chen Ke, will you tell me the truth?" Wang Ailin looked up and asked.

"It depends on what your question is. I may refuse to answer some questions, and I may ignore some details." Chen Ke said.

Wang Ailin supported her eyes, got up from the ground neatly, ran to the table, took out a small notebook and a water-based pen from the drawer, and then sat opposite Chen Ke again.

"You are now... going to..." Chen Ke was a little confused.

"Chen Ke, Diana told me something. When you took the subway, you traveled to the world of 2006, right?" Wang Ailin asked.

"It depends on how you look at it. This year is 2009, you know, but the time period we went to is no different from the end of the world." Chen Ke replied.

Not only that, he had traveled from 2018, but all the countries and history here did not match what Chen Ke knew.

"I know, but this is exactly the charm of time, Chen Ke, you met a living person there, right?" Wang Ailin asked impatiently.

Chen Ke thought for a while, not knowing whether to tell her the truth. After all, Wang Ailin was from the institute, and it would be bad for her to know too much.

"No, there is no one in that world, only red dust, which is... what I might become... But then again... what is that pile of ash over there?" Chen Ke said, pointing to something on the table in the laboratory.

A large amount of dust was piled on a table more than one meter long. Because of the vibration just now, some of it fell to the floor. The instrument probes at the four corners were inserted into the ashes, as if testing the readings.

"That's the body of an investigator... It's not very important. Let's continue talking about what happened in 2006. Diana told me that when you went there, you were in Xiaoyao City. Is there a big difference between that Xiaoyao City and our Xiaoyao City?" Wang Ailin said while taking notes with a pen.

"I don't know. I've never been to Xiaoyao City. I don't know if there will be any difference between the two Xiaoyao City, but I'm sure that the world over there is already doomsday. If it is really our past, then what is it now?" Chen Ke shook his head.

"That's the problem, Chen Ke, maybe time is not as we know it. Maybe time has no cause and effect and before and after..." Wang Ailin said.

"I don't think this is logical. What we say and what we do are all cause and effect and before and after. Motivation brings action, action brings results, and results trigger new motivations..." Chen Ke said.

"But how do you explain this... I... I have seen you in my hallucination." Wang Ailin said.

"What do you mean?" Chen Ke was puzzled.

"I... have seen you twice, both times in a certain hallucination, and the things I experienced both times seem to have happened today..." Wang Ailin said.

"Maybe you just had a dream... People's dreams are a disordered combination of existing memories... Maybe..." Chen Ke said, feeling that even he didn't believe what he said.

Wang Ailin did know my name before I introduced myself, and from the beginning, she never asked who I was...

It was as if she had seen me before.