Chapter 459 Dawn and Destruction

Lin Xian felt that what he wanted to say next turned into nonsense.

Lin Xian took the red wine glass from Monica's hand and did not speak. Monica took a sip of red wine and glanced at him. Seeing that he was silent, she immediately raised her eyebrows and said

"You worry too much. Look, even if we're on a train deep under the sea, we still have to sleep."

She walked to the porthole, and her face was reflected in the stardust glass of the dark deep sea.

"One moment of life, one moment of death. Perhaps life and death are all predetermined. If that's the case, why not try to break through the power of evolution and see where the limits of the human species lie."

"The limit?" Lin Xian shook his red wine glass and asked meaningfully, "Can the power of the dark side defeat darkness?"

Monica smiled faintly, looked at Lin Xian and said, "You're just asking, if the Dark Civilization wants to exterminate Blue Planet, why would they give humanity the power to fight back? There are many people who think this way. I met some of them when I was escaping in orbit around the planet. Optimists believe this is the power of assimilation, the transformation of a higher civilization, giving humanity a new life. Pessimists believe this is an experiment by the Dark Civilization, that humanity's evolution is ultimately just a test, and that our pursuit of the dawn is futile."

"What about you? What do you think?" Lin Xian asked.

Monica shrugged: "I agree with both, or I agree with neither."

"The truth isn't important, is it? Without superpowers, humans use technological weapons to resist. With superpowers, humans devote themselves to research and evolution to resist. It's like a drowning person, who will grab hold of any straw or thorn that floats near him without hesitation."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Lin Xian with a deep gaze.

"Inferior civilizations have no right to choose. If the dark civilization exterminates Blue Planet on Apocalypse Day, their sole purpose is to treat Blue Planet as a speck of dust. Will all their thoughts, hatred, and stances have any meaning?"

"Destroying you has nothing to do with you." Lin Xian responded calmly, remembering this sentence he had seen in a science fiction novel.

"So," Monica walked towards Lin Xian. "Being able to double your ability index, even if it only increases your survival rate by 1%, is worth the gamble, isn't it?"

"That's right." Lin Xian agreed and breathed a sigh of relief. "After daybreak, if there are no other problems, we will try this lattice evolution. Fortunately, the people from the Falcon Sea Group are here, and there are people who can guide us."

Monica asked back, "What about the Order of Phoenix? Don't you have a way to contact them?"

Lin Xian glanced at the countdown, then looked at the red wine in the glass. He drank it all in one gulp and then put the glass on the table. He turned around with a stern expression and walked towards the car in front.

"We should know... soon."

Watching Lin Xian leave, Monica's eyes lit up with a hint of smile. She turned her head to look at the light and shadow from the porthole and murmured, "Strength is the foundation of struggle, and sacrifice is the ladder to victory. Our captain really cares about us team members."

Lin Xian walked through the quiet carriage, but his heart was not calm at all. Although he seemed safe at the moment, he did not have the sense of peace he had on the train after escaping the crisis. One reason was because of the current underwater environment, and the other was the countdown.

Time is approaching, and it would be a lie to say that he is not nervous. This time seems to be around dawn, but Lin Xian seems to have no other choice but to wait there, which makes him, who has always been cautious, feel uneasy.

When passing carriage No. 3, Lin Xian stopped and walked to the side of the Silver Dragon Shiwancuo. This disaster plant with the power of dimensional space saved them three times, once at the edge of the bottomless lake, once when they were crossing the Star Abyss, and then when they escaped from the underwater whirlpool last night. At this moment, the dark purple light in the roots of the disaster plant planted in the culture cabin became introverted and dim, and the blooming flower had disappeared. Now it looked like an ordinary grass flower.

"It's like a magic weapon. It's just a blade of grass, how can it have such magical powers..."

Lin Xian studied it for a while, full of confusion. He looked up in the direction of the lounge, thought for a while, and then walked over to open Ding Junyi's lounge door again. Unexpectedly, when he opened the door this time, he found that Ding Junyi had already gotten up and was quietly getting dressed.

"Are you awake?"

"I was already awake when you just arrived." Ding Junyi carefully dressed, then put on a white scientific research coat and black-framed glasses. Then she stood still and looked at Lin Xian and said, "This is the longest time that the Hell Black Chrysanthemum has released dark energy. All the carriages are flooded. The team members had previously experienced a tense and dangerous escape. Energy consumption, injuries, and other factors, coupled with the highly oxygenated environment on the seabed, have caused them to fall into a state of drowsiness and deep sleep. I have already analyzed this in my previous observations and research, but this time it will be more serious. This is a critical stage of evolution. Taking this into consideration, Captain Chen and I let Viola take over completely and did not wake you up."

After hearing Ding Junyi's words, Lin Xian finally felt relieved.

"I didn't expect that it would absorb so much black energy. It seems that it is not just as simple as hunting the monster." Lin Xian said.

Ding Junyi put her hands in her pockets and calmly analyzed, "When we rushed down the cliff, we passed close to the Giant Ocean God. This energy in the ocean should not be in the form of mist. However, it also indirectly shows that the energy level contained in this world-class disaster is extremely terrifying."

Lin Xian nodded and looked at Ding Junyi: "How is it? How much do you feel you have changed?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Junyi picked up a small Dangling value detector from the table and held it in front of Lin Xian. Her eyes flashed with an energetic green light, and soon, the peak value of the Dangling value was detected.

8000!

"My last test was yesterday morning in Haiyan City at 9 o'clock sharp. The test result was 6900, a 15.94% increase in one day. This evolution speed is very exaggerated." Ding Junyi said.

"really."

Lin Xian took a deep breath, was silent for a while, then looked up at Ding Junyi.

"Do you know what happened after the Silver Dragon Shiwancuo's flower bud erupted?"

"No, I was just about to ask you that," Ding Junyi said seriously, "There wasn't a space bubble like the one that erupted before, but I sensed a strange fluctuation, and everyone's dark mark disappeared at the same time."

"You didn't see anything?" Lin Xian frowned.

Ding Junyi stared intently and asked, "It seems like you have had a different experience?"

Lin Xian paused, then told Ding Junyi about the dimensional entity and the countdown. Now that Chu Yan and the Phoenix Society could not be contacted, Director Ding was the best person to discuss this superphysical phenomenon.

After hearing Lin Xian's words, a rare subtle expression appeared on Ding Junyi's calm face, including surprise and more curiosity.

Ding Junyi wiped the detector, her eyes gleaming with the sharpness of a researcher. After a moment's thought, she replied, "Time dimension? We haven't figured out the eleven-dimensional membrane in string theory yet. If we can directly see time, then the space we're in must be a higher dimension."

Lin Xian heard this and said, "Space? Was it created by the Silver Dragon's Hundred Thousand Mistakes? Could it be an illusion, perhaps released by a strange entity like the Giant Ocean God?"

"It's not ruled out, but the logic doesn't make sense. Also, seeing the time dimension, and it's event-oriented, means that what you saw was indeed what happened on the timeline."

"Why?"

Ding Junyi replied, "Let me explain it this way. From a two-dimensional perspective, you can't see the shape of a three-dimensional object. When a three-dimensional object passes through a two-dimensional plane, you can only see constantly changing two-dimensional slices. If two-dimensional creatures exist, then to understand three-dimensional objects, you need to combine these slices to restore them, or in other words, imagine them. The process of combining these two-dimensional slices is time. Therefore, time is not a dimension, but a kind of cosmic movement. You said you saw something happening in the next few minutes. From a three-dimensional perspective, it is a honeycomb grid image that extends infinitely towards different events within a three-dimensional framework. Of course, these are just theoretical imaginations. I can only say that what you saw should not be just a simple hallucination."

Ding Junyi tapped the instrument lightly on the table, her fingertips unconsciously gliding across the incubator glass. "Also, the countdown projection you saw... is more like the folds of high-dimensional information in the three-dimensional world, just like the changes in events in our Infinity that you see from a high-dimensional perspective. If you project the three-dimensional world this way, then no matter which direction the events are headed, this visual will not be affected."

Lin Xian was overwhelmed by what he heard. He felt as if he was back in a high-energy physics class at university. He thought for a moment, then frowned and said:

"It sounds like the power of the disaster plant, the countdown, and even the forbidden objects can all be understood using the concept of higher dimensions."

Ding Junyi paused after hearing this, lowered her head in thought, and then looked at Lin Xian

“You gave a very constructive idea!”

"What?"

Ding Junyi looked around, then picked up the mobile terminal from the table and started calculating something without saying a word. Her eyes were very burning, as if she wanted to prove something quickly.

"I've collected a lot of data on time dilation and redshift effects within Planet Abyss No. 5, combining it with Shinji Mochizuki's big data calculations. However, no one, including the Order of Phoenix, has yet been able to successfully calculate this. My goal has always been to scientifically demonstrate divine phenomena. What you just said may be a groundbreaking approach."

Lin Xian opened his mouth, thinking that he wanted to talk to Ding Junyi about the countdown issue to ease his anxiety. Who knew that he seemed to have given Director Ding some useful information and began to study it.

Seeing Ding Junyi's extreme concentration at the moment, Lin Xian didn't say much. He went to the cockpit and carried Teacher Chen back to the room. Then he sat alone in the cockpit, staring blankly at the dark and bottomless sea outside the porthole.

Viola stood beside him, proudly, with her hands behind her back, and said

"I sense unstable emotions and breathing from you, carrying negative signals. This doesn't align with the team's current success: escaping without loss, while also achieving significant skill growth and blood essence. Your emotions and clarity of thought are crucial to the team's survival. Viola, could you please tell me what's wrong with you?"

“No…” Lin Xian sighed, “It’s almost dawn. I hope we can surface safely and see the dawn.”

Viola turned her head and continued with her previous question. "After experiencing a high-risk escape and using superpowers, your body was overloaded. Then, due to the oversupply of purified dark energy, judging by Ding Junyi's team health monitoring report, this should be a positive development. Previous data showed not only the team members' energy recovery but also accelerated wound healing, with no negative developments. Therefore, I believe it's highly likely that you encountered difficulties that outweighed these positive events. There's a very small chance that this was a side effect of the oversupply of purified dark energy. This requires an update to the team health monitoring report database."

"Really?" Lin Xian turned to look at the intelligent robot: "Can absorbing dark energy help injuries heal faster?"

[Including but not limited to stem cell supplementation, disease resistance, enhanced willpower, strong libido, etc.]

"What?"

Viola said: "The human body's genetic evolution is a positive process of improvement. Various functions and hormones may be over-secreted. To alleviate this, I suggest you engage in sexual activity with Ms. Chen Sixuan, Ms. Kiki, or other people of the opposite sex who you have a good impression of. This will help you improve your positive emotions."

Lin Xian closed his eyes and pinched his trigeminal nerve: "You misunderstood, this is not the problem."

[I learned from Grace's data log that after many thrilling escapes or battles, you would have passionate sex with the opposite sex in the car. Is this a coincidence?]

Lin Xian paused upon hearing this.

"No, it has nothing to do with this conclusion. It's just that in this environment, we face too many dangers and have very few opportunities... Forget it, why should I explain this to you?"

Lin Xian said directly: "Viola, I have something to tell you."

Viola turned around and stood gracefully in front of him.

Please speak.

Lin Xian took a deep breath and whispered, "Two hours. No, no matter what happens next, if I die or lose my rational judgment and am unable to operate Infinity and protect my teammates, then you will hand over your management authority to Chen Sixuan and KIKI."

[Viola understands that you are facing a crisis in your survival...]

"Listen to me." Lin Xian raised his hand to interrupt, then continued: "I communicate with Grace through Flash Bullet, and this connection also exists in Chu Yan, so if something unexpected happens to me, I will release the Sky Train, and your next goal is to rush to Phoenix City of the Phoenix Society and help Chu Yan and the Phoenix Society control the South Heaven Gate at all costs. Do you understand!"

Viola was silent for a second, tilted her head slightly, and looked at Lin Xian with her faceless face.

[Can I understand that you are afraid of the dawn? ]

Lin Xian's eyes focused, and then he said in a stern voice

"No, I'm just worried about the dawn and destruction..."

“Maybe it has already happened.”

(End of this chapter)