The Wheel of Chronos

What Mu Li said made Xue Lun come up with a bold guess: the reason why Tianyang can provide energy for time backwards, in fact, most of the energy consumed should be the power of faith condensed on her, otherwise it cannot be explained The phenomenon of rewinding time for more than an hour, but only consuming half of her body weight.

It's just that it's impossible to prove this point, because she has no way to return to world line a, and in world line b, Tianyang is not a compensator.

It was probably Mu Li's words that scared Aunt Qiong who was present. She looked worried and grabbed Sharon's arm.Sharon patted the back of her hand reassuringly, and then heard Old Jack ask:

"Your Majesty, forgive me. If that's the case, why did you ask Miranda to give birth to that child? Is this child's life, or Miranda's choice, so important? Is it more important than the lives of the entire empire?"

"I understand what you mean. As the ruler of a country, of course I have to consider the collective interests of the country. You may have heard that the conversation I had with Miranda just now was actually intended to induce her to choose to have this child .I really hope that she can give birth to this child, because it is a very meaningful thing for the country. For herself, this is not a bad thing. The newborn represents the hope of the empire, if In the future, we can get rid of the shackles of artificial reproduction, and the population can increase more efficiently. Of course, it will be of great help to the development of the country. In addition, I always believe that the more difficult times are, the more human rights must be taken into account When the country is in trouble, sacrificing individual citizens for the benefit of the country is actually the real dictatorship, which is the country’s bullying of the people. The existence of the country is supposed to unite the people and lead the people forward. If the country is in trouble, and the citizens voluntarily sacrifice one by one to serve the country, then I have nothing to say, but most people cannot do it after all. Since my ability and power are stronger than most of the citizens, then I have an obligation Protect all my citizens. I said I would respect Miranda's choice, and I really will, whether she wants this child or not, and I will have a strategy to deal with what may happen in the future."

The words made old Jack's throat choke, and he was speechless for a while.As a retired soldier, it is extremely gratifying to hear His Majesty the Emperor say such words.It proves that this country is worthy of his dedication and sacrifice, and his arduous military career is not wasted in vain.

Tianyang knew her mother well, so she didn't ask this question, but she could hear her mother's voice, and she once again felt the burden and responsibility on her shoulders.This is the family she was born in, the environment in which she grew up, and the philosophy that shaped her entire personality, Mu Tianyang.She is proud of it.

Xue Lun secretly sighed, His Majesty's idea is very good, but in the process of implementation, he will encounter many difficulties.Dictatorship is easy, but equality is difficult. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. It requires extremely fine control and balances all parties. I hope that the policies of His Majesty the Emperor can achieve this.

At this time, Lan Ni, who had been silent all this time, spoke:

"Tianyang, Xue Lun, as a representative of the Military Commission, I am going to give you an order now. According to the military action plan that was drawn up just yesterday, the two of you will secretly go to the eastern port of the Northern Industrial Zone and join the hunting team there. The hunting team At present, the whereabouts of the escaped Lemurian spies have been grasped, and the specific action plan will be deployed and explained to you when you arrive at the front. What I want to emphasize is that in this operation, Sharon, you If you are approved to use the ability to reverse time, we will provide you with the necessary energy consumables. You two are the only executors of this action plan. The hunting team can only support you as far as the port. Once you go to sea, you can only rely on you Myself. Do you understand?"

Xue Lun and Tian Yang looked at each other, and said in unison: "Understood!"

***

At 1 a.m. on January 10th, Xue Lun and Tianyang set off by helicopter to the eastern port of Beigongzhou.Old Jack and Aunt Joan were temporarily left in the Zhaoming Palace, and Miranda had signed a maternity trusteeship care security agreement and a confidentiality agreement with the government. All the people who made Sharon feel at ease are now under the protection of the royal family. She has no worries for the time being.

Not long after they set off, another good news came. Masamichi Nishino and Claude, who had been on the run, had also been arrested. They are currently being detained by the South China State General Police Department. For their interrogation, they will be interrogated with Satoko Kakutani. interrogation.It's just that these people are all diehards, so far they have refused to disclose any information about the New World religion, and the interrogation has reached a deadlock.

The military exercise scheduled to start on January 1 has been temporarily postponed. It is hard to say when it will start again. Everything depends on the progress of the follow-up negotiations between the royal family and the conservatives.The so-called balanced state reached so far is still quite unstable, especially the secret actions of Xuelun and Tianyang are undoubtedly a stimulus to the conservatives. They have been repeatedly told to keep it strictly confidential and absolutely not to leak any information.

For this operation, to be honest, Xue Lun has no bottom in her heart, her only reliance is her ability to rewind time and the Goddess of War mecha dispatched to Tian Yang with full control.But the ability to reverse time is actually a double-edged sword. Sharon cannot completely control this ability, and the consequences of this ability are also beyond her expectation.So recently, she tried to control herself not to use the ability to rewind time.

In addition, there is another point that makes Sharon very concerned. She doesn't know how long she can go backwards. When she was still in world line a, the length of time backwards was increasing day by day. She didn't know after world line b. , what kind of situation is it, does it depend on the amount of energy alone?

Everything needs further confirmation.

They arrived at the eastern port area of ​​Beigongzhou at about four o'clock in the afternoon that day, and further east is the endless sea. The salty sea breeze blows every inch of buildings and land in the port, making it covered with stars. Faded patches.They landed at the military airport in the port area, which is mostly used by military transport planes, and the helicopter they took was also a long-distance transport military helicopter.

Sharon put on the military uniform for the first time in a long time. She had never worn the navy blue camouflage combat uniform. She also wore a military badge around her neck, and the number engraved on it gave her a sense of familiarity and strangeness.

Finally, am I a soldier too?At this moment, what Sharon felt was not the honor and sense of mission of becoming a soldier, but the lingering haze and anxiety that lingered in her heart.Her first mission after becoming a soldier was so important that she never returned anything.But this task, only she and Tian Yang have the ability to do it, really helpless.

They were picked up at the airport by a dark military off-road vehicle. Inside the vehicle were two officers, a man and a woman, all dressed in the black combat uniforms that the Marine Corps would wear when performing special covert missions.They are all members of the Marine Corps, and they are of the same formation as the 7-member team led by Tianyang to the Beigongzhou Nuclear Power Plant to rescue Sharon some time ago.After the seven-member team was seriously injured and admitted to the hospital, the military deliberately dispatched the Marine Corps to take over the task of hunting down the Lemurian spies from the police.

The female officer is the superior, American, named Abigail, with the rank of captain.The male officer is a subordinate, Chinese, named Li Zhangwei, with the rank of sergeant.Captain Abigail is the second-in-command of this pursuit operation, and the commander-in-chief, Captain Rice, acts separately.Rice's side is leading people to closely monitor the movements of the Lemurian spies, and they can't get out.

The soldiers had a straightforward style and quick movements. After greeting them, the two put their bags on the car, and the car drove away from the airport quickly.On the road, the taciturn Sergeant Li Zhangwei concentrated on driving, and the cheerful Captain Abigail introduced the details of this mission to Xuelun and Tianyang:

"Major General and Lieutenant (Xue Lun's current rank is Lieutenant), so far we have learned that Lemurian spies are lurking in the residential area of ​​the port area, mixing with a group of migrant workers, and working in and out of the shipyard every day. We speculate that she may be waiting for the opportunity to leave. She currently uses the pseudonym Beth, and during the National Security Agency, her identity was Brenda Hawke, a 32-year-old British agent. At the time she was this image, Now wearing a wig, she has fluffy red hair, and her face is also disguised, but due to limited conditions, her disguise is also limited, and her body proportions are different from the average female mainlander, so the residents here have actually noticed her existence. "

While explaining, Captain Abigail shared all the information on the Lemurian spies with Sharon and Tianyang.As they flipped through the pages, Abigail continued to explain:

"According to the information from the front line, just the day before yesterday, the continent of Lemuria launched a small airship in the direction of Northern Industrial State, and now this airship is flying towards Northern Industrial State at a slow speed, probably to avoid the Empire The military's tracking, small airships appear and disappear, it is difficult to catch, and the specific time period of arrival is also difficult to guess, we can only roughly estimate that it will be from today night to tomorrow daytime. We also predict that Beth will arrive at this time period Meet up with the airship and return to Lemuria on this airship.

This is an excellent opportunity for us, major general, the task of you and the lieutenant is to secretly track the airship on the Goddess of War, and find out the way to enter Lemuria, especially when the airship shuttles through the repulsive force field Therefore, we will install professional photographic equipment on the Goddess of War to capture the phenomenon that occurs when the airship enters the repulsive force field.This is a very difficult and dangerous task, because although the Goddess of War has a concealment function, it is difficult to avoid the detection of the Lemurian continent. At that time, you are likely to be detected and hunted down by the Lemurian continent danger.The military has tried this plan many times, but all failed, and many drones were lost.Now it has been activated again, and someone with such an important status has been sent to go there in person. I don't know the reason. All I can do is tell you to pay attention to safety and don't force it. "

"Please rest assured." Tianyang said.

"Then, I'll send you three sets of contingency plans. Take a look. These are contingency plans for three emergencies. The first is the situation where you were discovered by the Lemurian continent but not yet discovered by the airship; The second is the situation when you were discovered by the airship but not yet discovered by the mainland of Lemuria; the third is the situation when you were discovered by both parties..." Then, Abigail explained the three contingency plans in detail for them details of the plan.

After the explanation, the car became quiet, Tianyang closed the wristband, and turned his gaze to Xue Lun who was still carefully reading the content of the battle plan beside him.It was only today that Tianyang felt that she had finally taken a big step towards her goal. When she found a way to enter the continent of Lemuria, she would be able to find a huge source of energy to help Sharon go back to six years ago.

She looked at Sharon's profile and fell into deep thought.The closer she gets to the truth, the more silent Sharon becomes, and the communication with her has decreased recently.Why is this person always so desolate, why can't he keep warm?But she thought again, maybe it wasn't that she couldn't cover the heat, but that she was in a stable state almost all the time, and it was because she was too changeable.She hasn't quite broken out of her plateau yet, so it can be seen as stubborn.Maybe helping her go back to six years ago is the way to completely break her current stable state.However, she couldn't help smiling wryly, she couldn't know what she would experience next after sending Sharon back to six years ago.Maybe Sharon will never come back and she will lose her forever.The state of quantum superposition is really indescribable, maybe even this world itself will become false by then, and only the world that Sharon went to will be considered real.

But it doesn't matter, the world that Sharon went to must also have another self, as long as the other self can be with her, it will be considered that all the painstaking efforts she has made now are not in vain.

It's just... why is her heart aching so faintly?

The car stopped, and they were currently passing through the city center of the port area. There was a traffic jam ahead, and the queue was so long that there was no end in sight.The sound of honking horns was everywhere.After waiting for a while, with no sign of moving, Abigail unbuckled her seat belt and said:

"Major General, Lieutenant, you and the sergeant stay in the car, I'll go ahead and check the situation."

With that said, she opened the door and got out of the car, and ran forward.

After waiting for a while, Xue Lun suddenly felt a wave of air blowing from the front, and the hair hanging from her forehead was blown up.She felt a little surprised, and just when she was about to turn her head to ask Tianyang, Tianyang beside her suddenly turned upside down and leaned on Xuelun's shoulder.

"Tianyang?" Xue Lun was surprised, looked carefully, but Tianyang's eyes were closed tightly, and he seemed to have fainted.

"Bang", the muffled sound of Sergeant Li Zhangwei's head hitting the steering wheel came from ahead.

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Small knowledge points:

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish, from Chapter 60 of "Tao Te Ching".There are many interpretations of this sentence. I personally think that the one that is closest to Lao Tzu’s original intention is that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. The seasoning and heat must be controlled to the most delicate and balance all parties.Do not stir at will, otherwise the fish will easily fall apart.In governing the country, one should not disturb the people indiscriminately, and govern by doing nothing, otherwise the people will easily disperse.There is a sentence in "Mao Shi Gu Xun Zhuan" in the early Han Dynasty, which can be regarded as evidence: "Cooking fish will break it, and governing the people will disperse it. If you know how to cook fish, you will know how to govern the people.