The Wheel of Chronos

"Don't worry, I'll try it first." Sharon said.After saying that, she stepped forward cautiously, gradually approaching the square silver light door.The red line representing Sharon's mental state also extended forward again as she walked, and the tip of the spiral advance finally touched the silver light door.

A miraculous thing happened at this moment, several silver threads suddenly protruded from the silver light door, entangled the red light, and sucked the red light into the center of the empty door.At the same moment, Sharon felt a sudden strong suction in her mind, dragging her consciousness into the dark doorway.The first thing that struck me was the feeling of falling from a high altitude. The orientation of the door opening was reversed from the front of the plane to the bottom of the feet, so that heaven and earth were reversed, making people unable to distinguish up, down, left, right, front, back, and front for a moment.

The rapid falling feeling can also be said to be a strong suction force. In short, Sharon fell involuntarily, without even making a sound.Until he saw a small white light spot appearing in front of the fall, the light spot rapidly enlarged in front of his eyes, like the light at the entrance of a tunnel, covering Sharon after she fell completely.Sharon was so blinded by the glare that she couldn't tell what kind of space she was in now.But the fall ended quickly, and the way it ended was extremely uncomfortable, as if the sand in the hourglass was falling, but the hourglass was suddenly turned 90°, and all the sand fell to the inner wall.So the falling direction changed to the forward direction again, and as soon as Xue Lun fell to the ground, her stomach was overwhelmed and she was about to vomit.

Before she could catch her breath, a huge pressure suddenly came from one side of her body, as if a large amount of gravel was pressing on her right side of the body, and choking smoke penetrated into her nasal cavity, making her cough involuntarily.She struggled to open her eyes, and the scene in front of her made her heart throb in an instant.

She returned to the moment after the collapse of Westminster Abbey, once again being crushed under the collapsed rubble, watching the blood flowing out of the cracks piled up in front of the rubble, she finally The blood of the sister of love.She moaned feebly, waiting for God to reap her life.

How could I... Am I... dreaming all the time?At this moment, Sharon had difficulty distinguishing between reality and fantasy, and even suspected that she had never emerged from the collapsed ruins. The next six years seemed to be a weird dream with extravagant details.Every person she has ever met, every thing she has ever experienced, seems to have been over-memorized in her mind, and can be read anytime, anywhere.However, it seemed that someone had dumped it from a hard drive and stuffed it into her mind, so it didn't belong to her at all.This blunt sense of isolation made her feel extremely weird and unbearable.

What is reality and what is illusion?What is the future and what is the past?The present you think you are in may be a figment of your mind.And you've always been in the past, never in the future beyond that.Human brain is too limited, and human cognition and consciousness are too narrow, especially when it comes to time, and things that people always control.

In her ear, there seemed to be a voice speaking to her.That voice was very familiar, and she remembered that she had heard the singing of "Bible Revelation" from this voice.

But this time, the voice didn't sing the Bible, but seemed to be talking to itself, and seemed to be explaining something to Sharon: "Time doesn't flow linearly like human beings think. In the eyes of three-dimensional creatures, it just A river that carries everything and everything in it and runs forward forever. But no, time is an endless card that stores everything in the universe. These cards can be divided into countless moments, or in units of ten thousand years. Cards can be called , It’s not that you can’t turn back. But the transfer requires identity verification, and three-dimensional creatures can’t even understand the appearance of time, let alone transfer time for their own use.”

"Who... are you?" Sharon tried to speak, but this time she finally asked.

"I am you, Sharon Spencer," the voice answered her.

The unexpected answer made Sharon's hairs stand on end.No wonder, no wonder she thought this voice was very familiar, but she just couldn't remember where she heard it.It was her own voice, her old voice.

Why, why is this happening?

"We tried to control and play with time, and this is the inevitable end." The voice easily saw through her thoughts, and replied leisurely.

"Am I in reality now or in illusion?" Sharon asked her.

"Is that important?" the voice asked back, "Whether it is reality or fantasy, you have to understand what you should do."

"Am I really on the continent of Lemuria, and now I'm trapped in an illusion?" Sharon refused to give up, and asked for confirmation again in another way.

"Yes, Sharon, you are in the illusion." The voice finally answered her directly this time, "But why do you think I appear in your illusion?"

"You... Are you the future me? Or is it just an image created by my subconscious mind?"

"Whose subconscious mind can create your future self?" The voice said with a hint of smirk, "You will never be able to concretely construct the people and things that exist in the future and that you have never seen before." .”

Sharon didn't know how to respond, she was completely confused at the moment, not knowing what happened to her.

"Sharon, think carefully about the fragment of the Apocalypse I once sang to you. The answers to everything are hidden in it." The voice said.

"You can't, can't you tell me directly? Do you have to let me guess? If you are the future me, you can prove your authenticity in the most direct way."

"Sharon, if you don't want to be trapped in the space-time paradox, don't guess whether I really exist. Use your wisdom and don't always think about enjoying the benefits. I am the future you, think about the reason why I came back to you. "After that, the voice stopped abruptly, and the next moment, all the rubble and rubble that were pressing on Sharon's body were thrown away, and returned to their original positions along their collapsed trajectory.The collapsed Westminster Abbey returned to its original state in an instant, and her life entered a rapid reversal. Youth, teenagers, childhood, infants, and young children were stuffed back into the artificial mother's womb where life multiplied. She seemed to collapse into the universe. A point of , the most primitive singularity.

Immediately afterwards, everything in front of me exploded instantly, the space expanded rapidly, time began to rush, and everything began to sprout.Atoms condense, gravitationally collapse, and form a giant molecular cloud with a diameter of tens of light years. After condensing and recondensing, countless bright stars are born; then planets are captured and enter orbital rotation, so countless galaxies begin to take shape; among these galaxies On individual planets, an environment suitable for the emergence of life was born: a turbid sea, the most primitive sea, lightning flashes and thunder in the sky, the sun shining on the earth mistyly, the sea surface is bright red, meteorites are raging, and every time they hit the sea, they set off turbulent waves. Waves, organic molecules are brewing in lightning and cosmic rays, colliding, merging, decomposing, fissioning, dismantling and putting together again, like an endless jigsaw puzzle game, until 5 million years later, finally a molecular chain carefully split out Another self, the magnificent journey of 35 billion years of life kicked off!

The coeloids of the Proterozoic Era wriggled their bodies in the sea; the trilobites of the Paleozoic Era began to slowly climb onto the land; the roar of dinosaurs sounded on the continents of the Mesozoic Era; mammals of the Cenozoic Era began to multiply on the continents.Until the Quaternary of the Cenozoic Era, the most intelligent creatures on this planet gradually evolved and formed. From the Pleistocene to the Holocene, their stooped backs gradually straightened, their thick long arms gradually shortened, their five fingers were distinct, and their protruding cheeks gradually The flat, immature heads gradually widened; they picked up the tools, lit the bonfire, and uttered the first language notes!They ran on the wilderness, they united into tribes, they went from hunting and gathering to planting livestock, and from tribal clans to feudal imperial power.Countless brilliant characters have stepped onto the stage of history, and countless great pioneers have gone on to succeed. They perform the lonely and magnificent miracle in this universe.They created language, poetry, music, painting and sculpture, and philosophical speculation; they mastered the laws of nature and applied them to themselves. They reclaimed every inch of wasteland in the world and worked hard to reproduce until their descendants spread all over the planet.

From generation to generation, life is boiling, and the noise is impacting into Xue Lun's heart.She almost forgot her own existence, as if she had become time, slowly watching all these happen and die under her control.In her endless scale, 35 billion years is just a moment, but the energy density condensed by countless lives almost crushes her.Those lives gathered into an incomparably magnificent blueprint picture scroll, wrapping her layer by layer, revolving around her, and she was deeply trapped in it, sinking back and forth, unable to break free.

"Sharon! Sharon!!!"

She seemed to hear someone calling her, so far away that she could barely reach her.

"Sharon!! Sharon!!!"

Who, who is calling me?

"Sharon! Wake up! Wake up!!!"

The sound approached, and the spirit of Xue Lun floating between the sky and the earth was suddenly pulled back to her body. She only felt that her brain was swollen and numb as if someone had hit her hard with a hammer, and there was a faint unbearable feeling of a split head. pain.

"Pfft!" She threw up a mouthful of blood, and the blood choked into her trachea, and she coughed desperately.

"Sharon! Are you okay? Don't scare me!" The voice was almost crying, but it was already clearly echoing in her ears.The man stroked her face anxiously, and held her upper body tightly in his arms.

Xue Lun finally opened her eyes, and the picture in front of her eyes seemed to be full of radiant fragments, which couldn't be formed for a while.It took a long time for those spinning fragments to dissipate, and the scene of the strange passage reappeared in front of my eyes, as well as Tian Yang's worried face.

"What... what happened?" Sharon asked in a hoarse voice.

"I don't know either..." Tianyang wanted to cry, but said slowly, "You fainted all of a sudden, your whole body fell to the ground and twitched, and you didn't know what you were muttering. It took a while to calm down, and then You vomited blood, and just now your eyes...your eyes..."

"What's wrong with my eyes...?"

"I don't know... Your left eye seems to have a halo in the pupil, the kind of halo that only appears in time-lapse photography of the starry sky."

"Help me up..." Xue Lun said softly, her voice was strangely calm, making Tianyang's hair stand on end.But Tianyang still complied.

Sharon sat up, and immediately looked at the silver-lined square door.The door has disappeared, and the entire passage has returned to darkness.She struggled to stand up from the ground, Tianyang hurriedly reached out to help her.Xue Lun stood on the spot and pondered for a moment, then raised her hand to wipe off the residual blood from the corner of her lips, and said:

"Let's go, let's move on."

"Are you really okay? Do you want to take a break." Tianyang worried.

"It's okay, I'm fine, just walk slowly and drink some water." After saying that, Sharon took out the water bag on her body, took a sip to rinse the smell of blood in her mouth, and then swallowed it.Then she took the lead and walked forward, but Tianyang had no choice but to follow behind her.

"What happened just now? Sharon, do you have any memory of what happened to you?" Tianyang asked.

"...I saw the time." After a long silence, Sharon replied.

"What?" Tianyang didn't understand, and Sharon didn't explain anymore, because Sharon really didn't know how to explain what she had just experienced.It was just that brief... Should it be called a hallucination?It gave her a great mental shock, so much so that now her footsteps are vain, and she has a sense of unreality from head to toe.

Perhaps, this is the spiritual impact of the Lemurian continent, some kind of mental resistance or attack mode they encountered when they trespassed on the door.However, Sharon felt deep down in her heart that maybe what she experienced just now was not this kind of thing, but more like some kind of "ritual" carefully designed and placed here, just waiting for her to trigger it.

She felt that she was no longer who she was a minute ago.

The author has something to say: the bug has been caught.This chapter suggests watching Thomas Bergson's creation of Earth as BGM, which will give you more feeling.