kingnovel Chapter 490 Branches and Trunk
Chapter 490 Branches and Trunk
"Humanity can choose a better future, or it can choose a worse future." As the recording continued to play slowly, Hevian said slowly, "But in the end, neither the best nor the worst will befall humanity."
When the recorded Emperor and the traitorous Warmaster moved, countless images stacked and spread on them with them as the starting point. Each image contained the possible actions they might make, and based on these possibilities, many branches grew out. Each branch represented a future development of mankind that was completely different from other branches.
These interlaced and stacked images reminded Howard of a movie he had seen. In that movie, there was also a guy called "Savior". When he found the architect, there were countless display screens behind the architect, and each display screen represented the possible reaction of the male protagonist after knowing the answer.
Looking at this huge amount of information, Howard felt something very intuitive and clear: he couldn't see clearly.
There was no way. He was a mortal with mortal eyes. It would be strange if he could see clearly the countless YB of uncompressed information at a glance. The storage limit of the human brain was less than six petabytes, and the inexplicable thing stuffed into his brain was forcibly engraved after psychic compression.
If Howard traveled into the world of Cthulhu instead of Warhammer, he would probably be immune to the erosion of the Old Gods because he has no soul. No matter what Cthulhu's monsters and demons let him see or hear, he probably wouldn't be able to understand it at all. If someone kept nagging in his ear all day long, he would at most feel annoyed but would not lose all his sanity and go crazy, and naturally he would not be able to be corrupted.
However, although the brain's storage capacity has a limit, Howard still saw some important, sporadic images clearly.
In a deduced image, the rebellious warmaster broke free from the shackles imposed on him by the gods. The shattered warmaster knelt before his equally broken father and confessed his sins. Although they were both scarred, the worst moment seemed to have passed.
However, the ending of the other deduction was completely opposite. In that ending, the rebellious Warmaster held his father in his arms and walked step by step towards the Golden Throne on the high platform. The corpses of the Guards and Sisters of Silence were scattered on both sides of the road, and the Golden Throne itself was distorted by the corruption of Chaos, almost becoming a chair made of flesh and tentacles.
Another ending is a void of nothingness. The rebellious legions and chaotic enemies no longer exist, and only a black sun is quietly floating in the void.
However, as the Emperor and the traitorous Warmaster took further action, these deduced images were extinguished one after another. Because both sides did not behave in accordance with predictions, the expected future no longer existed. In the end, all the branches dimmed, and only the main trunk remained bright.
And this main trunk is "reality", which is what the universe has become like today.
However, Hai Wei'an was not interested in "reality". She raised her right hand and pointed to a branch that had long been extinguished. Then this branch immediately replaced the image of the decisive battle between the Emperor and the traitorous Warmaster and occupied the main screen.
This branch represents a future that is destined not to happen and should be meaningless, but Hai Weiyan clicked on one of the pictures.
The picture shows a planet isolated in the universe. The surface of the planet is lifeless and covered with unextinguished embers and ashes. A huge crack runs across the planet from south to north. The crack is so deep that it almost divides the planet into two halves, so that the core of the planet can be seen directly through this crack in space.
"Terra." Hevian said the name of the planet. "Remember the theory of the river of time I told you about? The Terra you see now originated from a river that has dried up."
Hevian extracted the destroyed Terra separately. The planet had been completely destroyed and no life existed on it. In this dried-up river, no one cared about this former home planet of mankind.
If nothing unexpected happens, this former "Holy Terra" will soon be forgotten by other intelligent life in the universe and eventually become a boring planet with no strategic value.
But since Hevian specifically pointed out this planet, accidents are bound to occur.
The images that Hevian showed Howard were all modified compared to the real time, but the specific time flow rate was also marked in a corner of the screen. Previously, when the main focus was on what happened on the Spirit of Vengeance, time was always slowed down, usually three times slowed down, and in some areas it was even ten times slowed down.
While observing the destroyed Terra, time began to fast forward again, and the fast forward rate continued to increase.
In this way, time passed quickly for tens of thousands of years. When the core of the planet was almost extinguished, some green fluorescence appeared around the destroyed Terra, and many alien vehicles emerged from the green light. After these alien spaceships appeared, they spread out evenly around Terra's orbit. When they were all in place, these alien spaceships released green beams of light towards their adjacent spaceships.
Each spaceship is a node, and tens of thousands of nodes are connected to each other, forming a large net covering the entire Terra. But this is not the end. After the network is formed, light green energy begins to fill the gaps between the networks. Soon, the "net" becomes a "membrane", completely wrapping up the entire Terra.
Then, the alien spacecraft started its thrusters and moved towards the center of the sphere at the same speed. The film they pulled up also began to search, but the strange thing was that Terra under the film also shrank proportionally with the contraction of the film.
In less than two minutes in reality, after more than thirty hours in the record, the size of Terra had shrunk to one-sixth of its original size. After more than sixty hours in the record, Terra had shrunk to the point where it could no longer shrink because the alien spacecraft controlling this "membrane" had reached the maximum distance between each other.
Then, just as these alien spaceships appeared, the mysterious green light appeared again from the deep universe. This time, the green light engulfed these alien spaceships and Terra, which was controlled by the alien spaceships.
When the light went out, neither the alien spacecraft nor the destroyed Terra was left.
Hai Weiyan closed this part of the record and turned the screen back to the "trunk". She clicked on a non-existent time node. A green light flashed, and the alien spaceship and Terra that had just disappeared at the "branch" appeared in the time node of the "trunk".