Mr. Chen has never stopped sensing the bridge of faith in the real timeline.

Although this is destined to be a long process.

Finding the exact timeline among the endless bridges of faith is more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

But it is not impossible.

With enough patience and powerful telepathic power, Mr. Chen finally found the bridge of faith corresponding to the modern timeline.

Although his method is indeed a bit tricky.

But it is indeed useful.

As long as you try to find some familiar bridges of faith that have left their scent and marks, the difficulty will immediately decrease a lot.

Mr. Chen originally wanted to find the bridge of faith among the companions who appeared after he founded Yongzhou.

But the bridge of faith for the Eternal Day members has not yet been found.

I discovered that among the infinite bridges of faith, there is one that is so clear and conspicuous.

This was his own aura of power.

This is the special power that Chen Sheng relied on after reaching the sixth level of spiritual power. It is a power that can be used to reach the legendary area with faith.

Obviously at this moment.

That brief act of traveling through time and space through the zone of faith had a slight impact.

The aura of power that Mr. Chen left behind twenty years ago now became a guiding light for him to return home.

Every sip and every bite is predestined.

"Du Xing, let me see how you are doing in 20 years?"

Mr. Chen smiled slightly and crossed over the bridge of faith.

When he passed the bridge of faith, there was no longer the power of the legendary zone to stop him, and the small black room of the material universe could no longer lock him up. This time the crossing was not like the last time, when the power of time blocked most of his body. Everything went so smoothly.

The next moment, there was a sudden burst of light before my eyes.

The surrounding area is no longer that indescribable legendary area.

It's the reality! This refreshing feeling of letting go is very exciting.

Chen Sheng, who was locked up in a small dark room by the material universe after the upgrade, now truly felt the beauty of reality.

now……

Chen Sheng, the fourth-generation leader of the Eternal Day, who has been promoted to the sixth level of spiritual power and can be called the Spiritual Master.

Officially back to reality.

Look around.

This is a building with strict specifications.

It is the main building of the park where BNULM is located. Through the large floor-to-ceiling windows, you can even see the troops patrolling outside the building from time to time, and the armed helicopters circling in the sky from time to time.

Because BNULM is a major joint project of the four countries, the security force here can be said to be the largest in the world before the establishment of the future energy agency.

Even if the future energy agency, which is more popular nowadays, is established, the security force here will rank second.

Many experts gathered on the top floor to set up a command center for the Mars project.

Surrounding it is the first-floor lobby where one can go out and look up at the stars at any time, and several soldiers are standing guard at the door motionlessly.

No one could see Mr. Chen who suddenly appeared in the empty first-floor hall.

Even though this place is heavily guarded, with security measures that not even a fly can get in.

Even though it was awkward for him to be here.

The people around him were not able to notice him at all.

And the little boy who was sitting on the rooftop, looking up at the stars with endless curiosity.

Now he is sitting in the corner of the hall in silence.

He was wearing headphones, playing the song "I Believe" that he had heard when he first met him.

In front of him was a cup of coffee that had gone cold and he hadn't even taken a few sips of it.

And his expression.

Although his expression was not tightly frowned, his brows were obviously drawn downwards.

It looks like.

It seems like there is some guilt.

Mr. Chen raised his eyebrows and activated [Past Memories Witnessed by the Stars], and he immediately understood everything about his surroundings.

Du Xing achieved numerous accomplishments in these twenty years, then joined many aerospace organizations in order to see the stars, and finally joined BNULM.

Then, on the day when Chen Sheng was locked up in the small dark room, a random secret realm called the Ancient Starry Sky Road was activated.

Because Du Xing has the power left by Chen Sheng, even if there is only a trace of power left in Chen Sheng, who has reached the sixth level of spiritual power, it can be said to be his real body.

Therefore, Du Xing was recognized and approved by the intelligent system of the Ancient Starry Sky Road and became the key to open the Ancient Starry Sky Road.

Finally, there was the BNULM exploration, which resulted in the loss of an astronaut.

And at this moment.

Du Xing felt a little guilty because his gaze sent his colleague to another world.

Chen Sheng, who knew basically all of this, was not in a hurry to go and take a look at the random secret realm, advanced ruins, and ancient starry sky road that were rewarded for his upgrade.

When the random secret realm was discovered due to Du Xing's attention, he had already learned about the background settings of this advanced relic from the system.

What was the overall significance of the Ancient Starry Sky Road? What had happened to the Ancient Starry Sky Road in the systematically compiled history of Eternal Day? He probably already knew all of it.

[A proton who had longed for eternal daylight since he had witnessed it since childhood, after achieving great things, he pursued eternal daylight all his life, but was mistakenly believed to be seeking immortality. 】

[Even if the internal strife caused by the pollution of the Abyss in the Second Generation of Yong Zhou was resolved by the Conferred God Operation, it still inevitably left many traces. ]

[It happened that the situation on the battlefield of the Three Generations of Eternal Day in Antares was extremely critical. The First Emperor faked his death and escaped on the premise of ensuring that the Chinese nation would not perish, and embarked on an expedition with the power he had found in the pursuit of Eternal Day over the years.]

This story isn't amazing.

Plots in which ordinary people yearn for eternal daylight for the rest of their lives because of a fleeting glimpse of beauty are endless in the setting of eternal daylight.

It is common for ordinary people to come into contact with some extraordinary powers while exploring the Eternal Day, which is sparse and normal in the background setting of the Eternal Day.

Although the ordinary people this time are not so ordinary.

But the overall structure of the story remains the same.

Mr. Chen was not in a hurry to take a look at the ruins, nor was he in a hurry to rescue the astronaut who was not in danger.

Before going to take a closer look at the advanced ruins, the Ancient Starry Sky Road, Mr. Chen wanted to have a chat with the child in front of him whom he had not seen for twenty years.

"Where is the semiconductor that accompanied you to watch the stars?"

As Chen Sheng said this, he sat down opposite Du Xing.

He still remembered that when Du Xing was watching the stars on the rooftop, he was listening to music with a semiconductor.

Now the song hasn’t changed though.

But the means of broadcasting have changed a lot.

This noise also brought Du Xing, who was distracted by his headphones, back to his senses.

He first looked at Mr. Chen in front of him blankly.

Then he stood there in a daze, with a hint of thought flashing across his eyes.

After a long time, Du Xing finally reacted.

His eyes suddenly widened.

"It's you?!"

Du Xing opened his mouth wide.

My throat felt as if it was being strangled.

There are so many things I want to say, but when it comes to my lips, only these two short words remain.

Twenty years ago.

Only the man in front of him affirmed him.

The man's words made him firm in his thoughts and determined in his aspirations.

That’s why I became a Fields Medal winner.

One of them, became a double PhD in mathematics and astrophysics from Princeton University.

That’s why I was able to work in major aerospace organizations such as ASI, Roscosmos, CNSA, and ESA.

Twenty years later.

The man suddenly appeared in front of him.

Not only did his facial features not change at all.

Even the defense network around him, which was so strict that even an aircraft carrier fleet might not be able to take it down, seemed to be ignored by this man.

This man just sat in front of him leisurely, and the many armed soldiers around him seemed to have completely ignored him...

etc!

Even if this man passed through the security and came to him, the soldiers sent by Zhang Shouquan who were just a dozen steps away would not ignore the current situation, right? There was a living person sitting in front of him!

The presence of one extra person in this empty hall is simply too obvious!

If they didn't notice what was happening here, then there was only one possibility...

"What did you do?"

The current situation forced him to ask such questioning questions.

What on earth... happened? As the "key" to open the ancient starry sky road, he has a very high security level.

Even when he was allowed to look at the stars outside the building, he was still in the huge BNULM base, and there were still more than a dozen king-level soldiers from various countries who were responsible for security not far away.

But at this moment, a person appeared beside him without him noticing, but he did not receive any warning or prompt.

Everyone seemed to be oblivious to the appearance of this person.

"You can call me the Sage of the Stars."

"There's no need to address me as you do."

Mr. Chen smiled and looked at the man in front of him.

The passage of time always feels so novel.

For him, it seemed that he had just seen Du Xing when he was less than twelve years old not long ago, and now he saw Du Xing who had grown up to be twenty years old.

But for Du Xing.

Mr. Chen was an intimate yet unfamiliar older brother whom he hadn't seen for twenty years.

In and out of the legendary zone.

Semiconductors turned into headphones.

The little boy who watched the stars on the rooftop has become a big boy who watches the stars at BNULM.

"The Sage of Stars."

"The Sage of Stars..."

"star?!"

Du Xing murmured this somewhat childish title.

Even a fool should realize at this moment that the guy in front of him is definitely not simple.

And when he murmured the title of the man in front of him, a bold guess was about to emerge in his heart.

"Is it because of you that I am connected to the Ancient Starry Sky Road?"

"What is your purpose?"

Du Xing looked at Chen Sheng in front of him seriously.

Why can I communicate with the ancient starry sky road? This is a question that scholars from the four countries have studied for a long time, but they still can't figure it out.

After all, no one could find any traces left by Chen Sheng, who had the sixth level of spiritual power.

"Although your association is somewhat groundless, it is indeed related to me."

"As for the purpose, it can only be said to be accidental."

Mr. Chen nodded and admitted it.

He is not omniscient and omnipotent, and he does not know that his accidental time travel after upgrading will make an ordinary person the key to the ancient starry road.

Although before he traveled through time and space, the system informed him that a random secret realm had been discovered.

But in fact, before he left the legendary zone.

No one knows who discovered the random secret realm, the ancient starry sky road.

The only thing in my mind was the background settings of the ruins transmitted by the system after the random secret realm was discovered.

According to his understanding.

This is the spontaneous conclusion of the timeline.

All his past actions that disrupted time and space will be corrected as reasonably as possible by some force within the range of changes that time can bear.

The random secret realm was discovered before he traveled through time and space, so it was perhaps inevitable that someone would become the key.

But it is not certain who will be the key.

It was a coincidence that Du Xing became the key.

It's not some so-called inevitable fate.

At least, that's what Mr. Chen, who can take back the power from the key at any time and make it lose its key function, thinks.

At least, even if it is really inevitable.

Mr. Chen also didn't want to actively assume that some of his actions would become inevitable.

It was as if there were some shackles binding him.

He doesn't like this.

It feels like destiny has been planned.

There is a feeling that one cannot resist any arrangement of fate.

This feeling made him very unwilling.

This feeling would often occur after he upgraded to the sixth level of spiritual power.

While Chen Sheng was thinking, Du Xing also fell silent.

Accident? Who believes it's accidental?

Even if it was really a coincidence, why did this man come here today? Facing Chen Sheng, who seemed to be quite honest, Du Xing had a lot of thoughts in his mind.

For a moment I didn't know what to say.

The familiar feeling of having my throat choked returned.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke again: "So the purpose of your coming here today?"

He was curious about the answer to this question.

"Not particularly."

"Just stopping by to ask you a question."

Mr. Chen looked at Du Xing and said slowly.

He couldn't say if he came to see Du Xing specifically.

It was only through Du Xing's bridge of faith that he was able to return accurately to reality.

It was only because the situation at the Ancient Starry Sky Road was not urgent that he had the mood and time to ask Du Xing in front of him a question.

"you say."

Du Xing swallowed and looked at Mr. Chen in front of him seriously.

He is not stupid.

Regarding the existence of this person in front of him who calls himself the Sage of Stars.

In fact, there have been some speculations.

The suspected mastermind behind the Starry Sky Ancient Road, whose appearance has not changed even after twenty years, and who casually ignores BNULM's security forces...

All these doubts added together.

The possibility that the person in front of him came from Eternal Day was already obvious.

"You said that people who like the starry sky are the ones who truly want to run towards the future."

"So, do you want to run into the future?"

Mr. Chen looked at Du Xing and a smile appeared on his face.

If the pursuit of the starry sky represents human beings' thinking about the ultimate questions of the origin, evolution, current state and destination of the universe, it has been running through every stage of human social development from ancient times to the present.

Then the pursuit of eternal daylight has a similar but not exactly the same status.

There are differences as well as similarities.

But one thing is certain.

Eternal day, like the starry sky, can be used to represent the infinite future of mankind.

Or it should be said that eternal daylight is the future of mankind!

The double meaning of the phrase "running towards the future" is self-evident.

In response to this, Du Xing fell into a long period of silence.

"It seems you need to drink some coffee and think about it slowly."

"Once you have thought it over, someone will contact you."

Mr. Chen said this and slowly stood up.

The invitation to join was just a spur of the moment, something that happened along the way.

It doesn’t matter whether Du Xing agrees or not.

Next, it’s time to go and take a look at the advanced ruins, the Ancient Starry Sky Road.

He looked at Du Xing who was standing motionless in thought, then turned around and disappeared silently as if he had appeared out of nowhere.

Du Xing looked at the empty seat in front of him.

Looking at the guards around him who seemed unaware.

Looking at the steaming coffee on the table, I fell into a long silence.

Towards... the future?

(End of this chapter)