The dagger in Wingate's hand was pitch black, like a smooth piece of obsidian.

There are some fine and obscure ancient patterns on the surface, and the body of the knife exudes the aura of belonging to the highest heaven.

The dagger was no ordinary thing, but a seal created by skilled smiths with intricate rituals, and was blessed by the Emperor before it was distributed to the agents.

The blade of the dagger looks a little blunt, making one wonder if it could be a murder weapon that could slit someone's throat.

But those who can perceive its essence will stay away from its sharpness.

Because this dagger is not flesh and blood, but soul, time, and space, which are invisible.

The seemingly bladeless dagger, once used by a sanctioned person, can easily cut through the gap of time and space, cut a huge hole in the projection of the supreme nature of those powerful creatures, and then easily kill them.

Even those demons, subspace creatures, and unspeakable evil spirits will be cut directly.

Such a dagger can also deal lethal damage to temporal creatures.

Not only can it cut its body directly, but it can also completely kill the other party and make it completely annihilated.

The man felt the coldness of the dagger and gave a pleading look.

No living creature can accept the fate of death, not even the ancient races that walk through time, and they are equally afraid of death.

The people around them walked past the two of them in a daze, and even the robots that maintained order on a daily basis didn't pay attention to them.

Everyone turned a blind eye to the existence of the two, and even if they saw it, they would quickly forget it.

"Maybe we should talk." The man was slow to speak, he was clumsily mimicking the way humans spoke, "There is absolutely no need to be enemies between us. ”

"There's nothing to talk about, you guys attacked us, and we just fought back. Honestly, I'll take you back to prison so you can at least live. If you dare to resist, I will cut your throat and let you taste how death consumes you little by little."

Wingate pressed his dagger against the other party's throat, and if the other party resisted anything, he would directly cut the other party's throat.

"This is not a war, we are just seeking food and knowledge, we have not caused any harm to you, you cannot treat us like this." The man lowered his voice and said, "Your time is linear, but ours is not, we are different creatures, there is no need to go to war. ”

"I was amazed by your rhetoric, and I thought you had always been arrogant, disdainful of talking to apes like us, and even less about spending time with us."

"This is not arrogant, although you used to have powerful weapons of destruction, you did not know anything about time, and you had no way to communicate. And now you have mastered how to use your time. In such a situation, we can communicate, and it is important to believe that we are a peace-loving race. ”

"Do you think I'll believe such nonsense?" Wingate's eyes showed sarcasm, if he believed a word the other party said, it would be really incurably stupid.

"Do you really want to go to war? It's not a good choice to go to war with a race of time, my race is older than most civilizations, we have been active for time before you humans were born, and even your home planet, Earth, we have branches. If you hurt me, my people will definitely take revenge on you. If you can be merciful, let me go. I can swear to you that I will never come closer to the human timeline again, and I will advise others to stay away from you. ”

"Then go to war, do you think the God Emperor will be afraid of your threat? What about the ancient! It's not for nothing that the ancient race of empires has fallen! No matter what, you're all just a bunch of losers hiding in time. Do your people really dare to go to war with humans for your sake? Wingate laughed, "I advise you not to talk so much nonsense, this weapon can easily kill you, even if you're a time creature." As long as I cut this man's throat hard, you will have to enter the subspace and suffer, and be torn apart by those monsters. I think they love you guys who are always messing around the timeline. ”

Wingate's words sent horror to the man's face.

The soul being thrown into a timeless subspace is definitely one of the most terrible tortures for those of them who are creatures of time.

"Please, let me go, I won't dare next time." The man pleaded.

"Then be honest, I'll take you back and lock you up, and whether you can be released or not depends on how you behave in the future."

"No, what's the difference between losing your freedom and killing me!!"

"It's okay, if you really don't want to live, we'll kill you too." Wingate said humorously.

Hearing this, the man showed despair, and then a hint of determination.

Instead of sitting and waiting, it is better to fight to the death.

Thinking of this, the man made a crazy decision.

He freed up all the time stored in his body, giving new time to those people and things that had passed.

In Wingate's eyes, the man who was pressed to the ground suddenly burst out with a strong light, spreading in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

The crowd that was originally blind to what the two of them were doing has undergone a subtle change.

They saw Wingate and the man, and the look on their faces changed from dazed, to shocked, to stunned, and finally to frightened and panicked.

Just now they remembered that there was no one here, but why suddenly two people appeared, and the other person still had a weapon in his hand.

"Someone is murdering."

I don't know who shouted, and some of the less timid people even shouted directly, turned around and ran.

The robot responsible for maintaining order also ran over and evacuated the crowd.

[Sir, according to the Group Security Act, you have violated the lives of other citizens, please lay down your arms immediately, otherwise we will take coercive measures]

[Sir, according to the Group Security Act, you have violated the lives of other citizens, please lay down your arms immediately, otherwise we will take coercive measures]

Several humanoid security robots warned as they approached Wingate and the man.

They stood apart and surrounded Wingate, ensuring that he had nowhere to run.

Each robot holds a stun stick that flashes an arc in its hand.

The dazzling arc crackled, and the ozone smell of the ionized air could be faintly smelled.

"Damn!" Wingate was a little annoyed, why did he want so much nonsense.

Seeing this scene, there was a glint in the man's eyes, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and he shouted in broken human words.

"Help. Yes!! ”

Wingate didn't let him finish shouting, and plunged the dagger into his shoulder, and the runes on the dagger glowed faintly because of the blood.

The creature of time, whose soul had been stabbed, let out a scream of pain, sounding very desolate.

Wingate's action caused the robots to raise their stun batons.

Their AI core has already determined that Wingate must be subdued before the controlled hostage can be freed.

The robot attacks and tries to subdue the thug who was taking action in the street.

Wingate's skills are not bad, even in the face of the siege of security robots, he did not show any embarrassment.

Grasping the gap, he also used the unleashed psionic lightning to knock one of them back.

And at this time, the man who was injured by the dagger showed an extremely painful look on his face, and with the sound of tearing, a monster crawled out of the man's body.

The dagger was stuck in its body, causing it to let out a piercing scream.

The monster had eyes of twisted flesh and dancing tentacles, the size of a basketball, and a mouth that constantly screamed and screamed weird sounds.

The strange glow continued to erupt from the other party's body, and there was a distorted sense of sacredness.

Those strange glows are the outward appearance of time, and the reason why the robots and humans who turned a blind eye to them are so abnormal is because they have been given new time by the monsters.

The ugly monster that crawled out made the others scream even harder, and the robots that were about to pounce paused for a moment to recalculate who was the biggest threat in order to take action.

In the distance, gunboats with artillery and large battle mechs flew by, and if they were trapped, even if they had ten lives, they would not be enough to kill.

Before anything could get out of hand, Wingate grabbed the strange multi-legged creature, took the dagger out, and slashed it into the air, and a spewing of evil light appeared out of thin air.

He jumped into it with the monster, and the scratches closed.

And the riot caused by him and the monster lasted for hours in this war-torn nest city, causing panic among people.

The top management of the Arasaka Group was all reported to the relevant and launched a large-scale search for this purpose, but in the end nothing was found.

However, the chaos did not last forever, and after a day, it returned to normal.

Even the traces of Wingate and the creature of time, whether it be portraits or written records, were all gone, as if they had never existed.

People forgot about it, and everything went back to the way it was.

Without the flow of time provided by that monster, there is no way for the past to reach the future, they are like rivers that have lost their source and eventually dry up.

If you are unlucky, it is possible to form a time cycle from which you will never have a chance to be freed.

Wingate didn't pay attention to the mess, he knew that everything would be calm again, and the chaos was like a car running out of gas, pushed by inertia for a distance, but eventually stopped because it lost power.

Using that particular dagger, Wingate travels through a subspace where there is no concept of time.

When he re-enters the real universe, he appears on a desolate looking city street.

The streets were deserted, except for the crackling of burning wreckage and the occasional explosion.

Occasionally, a few charred, inhuman-looking corpses can be seen.

After looking around, Wingate found that his current location was still the same as before, but the time was different.

The city has been ravaged by the fighting, and the sound of gunfire and artillery can be heard from time to time.

There were also constant flashes and fires in the sky, and from time to time, one or two warships of more than ten kilometers could be seen disintegrating in the air and slowly falling to the ground.

It seems that the battlefield has spread to low-earth orbit, and the enemy has already begun to land and fight, and those magnificent mechs are either going to orbit or clearing out the landing enemy.

Suddenly, a huge sonic boom sounded in the air, and Wingate looked up and saw a mecha more than sixty meters tall, with mechanical wings behind its back, and an energy shield activated, sweeping over the city and rushing towards the battlefield farther away.

A moment later, the sound of earth-shaking explosions and tower-like flames emerged in that direction, illuminating the entire sky.

This is the epitome of the endless struggle between the forces of all parties before the establishment of the Human Alliance.

Different companies and colonies are constantly fighting for profit.

Wingate shook his head at the confusion.

After looking around, he put away his curiosity and continued his mission to leave the world that was about to be engulfed in war.

The time creature the size of a basketball, with a round body, tentacles and eyes, had been locked up in a special cage.

The next thing to do is to send it back to the prison at headquarters.

Wingate took a compass from his bosom, the needle on which swayed constantly.

This compass does not point to the direction of reality, but to the risk of ether.

Forged by special craftsmen, it combines the most cutting-edge technology of the Empire with the ancient knowledge of subspace to help Time Operatives find the direction of the Aether winds.

As long as you find the aetheric winds in the right direction, you can go anywhere, anytime.

After confirming the direction, Wingate took the cage and set off according to the guidance of the compass.

In the past, human beings always felt that time was mysterious, the most mysterious truth in the universe, and as long as they mastered time, they could do anything.

Not afraid of jokes, Wingate used to think so.

It wasn't until he was recruited by the Imperial Time Court to become a Time Agent that he realized that time wasn't something too mysterious.

People live in time, and as long as they feel it carefully, they can feel the existence of time from everyday things.

As long as you have the right means and can withstand the damage caused by time travel, anyone can travel to the past and swim in the river of time.

Of course, it's just that you can travel, and if you want to change, that's another problem.

Time and space are one, and it is so difficult to truly reshape the future by changing the past, even if the gods join forces.

Ignorant people will inevitably refute Wingate's claim that with a small change in the past, the future will change dramatically.

However, the length, width, and height that people can touch on a daily basis are the embodiment of space, and people are in contact with it every day, but so far, has anyone been able to change the structure of space?

Even if someone can change the spatial structure of an area.

But can he change the structure of the entire universe by changing the spatial structure of this region?

The answer is categorically impossible, if you want to change the spatial structure of the entire universe, you must first have the resources and ability to create the entire universe.

The same is true for changing the past, changing a past that has already happened, and then having the ability to reshape the entire river of time, even the universe from the beginning of the singularity.

After understanding the nature of time, Wingate no longer agrees with the idea that changing the past can change the future.

Now, he just wants to have as little intersection with the past as possible and reduce the probability of his death.

The aether compass pointed to a spot three streets away, and Wingate had to make his way through the ruins and wreckage, as well as the charred buildings.

The living people and machines that roam and hide inside turn a blind eye to Wingate.

It's as if he's not in the same world as them.

Wingate just had to be careful about those bullets and those explosions that could come out of nowhere.

Traveling through time does not bring immortality, and if killed, the time agent will also die.

There are many agents who have died in the past because of carelessness.

Except for the fact that the soul of those unlucky people will return to the realm of the God Emperor, the corpses are often not found, and each of them can be said to be without bones.

Those who travel from the future to the past will also be able to enter the realm of the God Emperor.

In that realm where there is no time, the God-Emperor, like the gods, has the ability to exist at every point in time since birth.

Passing through the charred ruins, the compass no longer turning, Wingate knew he had arrived.

He lowered the cage where the temporal creature was held and took out the dagger.

At this time, screams were heard from not far away, and a group of spider-like robots were slaughtering the fleeing crowd.

The history of humanity is a history of killing and destruction, and no one can argue with that.

Wingate subconsciously followed the sound and saw a little girl being held by a woman.

She was only five or six years old, her face was white and smooth, a little baby fat, and she looked very cute.

It may be that children are more closely connected with subspace than adults, and children's souls are far more active than adults, so she saw Wingate.

She watched as the mysterious man sliced open the skin of the universe with the dagger in his hand, and those big eyes were full of confusion.

In the next second, she and her mother were hit by the beam fired by the spider robot, and their bodies were directly shattered.

The crimson flesh spilled onto the ground, very bloody.

Wingate didn't think much of the cruelty of the scene, and he had no intention of helping those who belonged to the past.

He is not some savior, and he can't save every innocent person.

Coupled with too many changes to the past, it will also affect the stability of the future, and turning a blind eye is the best option.

He withdrew his gaze, picked up the cage placed on the ground, and took his prey, walking into the gap of time and space, and embarking on the journey back to the headquarters of the Imperial Time Court.

He would have to travel tens of thousands of years to finally reach the Time Court headquarters, and he would have to be careful to avoid the point in time when the creatures of the subspace were wreaking havoc.

There is no concept of time in the subspace, and the creatures inside can see travelers at any time, and several time agents have been killed by those creatures of the subspace because they have strayed into the Corrupted planet.

Keep cutting the skin of the universe, and then walk in, and come out of a crack, to another time and place.

Wingate's final stop is a planet that was destroyed during the Robotics War.

The stellar-like out-of-control stellar machine devours everything in its path, eventually reaching a colonized planet.

It opened its mouth, its massive body blocking out all light, plunging the entire colonized planet into darkness.

People saw the steel fangs that resembled mountain peaks and the digestive pipes that radiated heat radiation, and if they bit down, the entire planet would be torn apart and completely swallowed by the out-of-control intelligent machine.

This terrifying size of the machine was once a mining machine, but after the outbreak of war, it got out of control.

It constantly devours everything around it, and then uses the resources it devours to transform itself.

In the end, he turned himself into a behemoth comparable to a star.

If this machine hadn't been destroyed in the Robot War, it would have been a great chance that the Imperial Expeditionary Force would have encountered it, and it would have been an amazing war.

Before the final destruction came, Wingate cut through the skin of time and space, leaving the planet that was about to be destroyed and the terrified humanity.

As he emerged from the rift, he arrived at the headquarters of the Court of Time.

Fresh air with the smell of motor oil rushes in and you come into view of the intricate and intertwined majestic buildings.

The first thing I saw was the sculptures of the Divine Emperor and Lord Xu Fu, standing in the smooth and bright square, gazing at the chaotic and indistinguishable boundary of the universe.

The headquarters of the Time Court is located in the small universe where the dungeon was once sealed.

The space of this small universe is not large, and anyone who implants a mechanical prosthetic eye can see the edge of the small universe.

The establishment of the Time Court headquarters in the small universe was well thought out.

Many things that are inconvenient in the big universe have no scruples in the small universe, even if there is an uncontrollable disaster, at most it is to close the channel and isolate it.

Another advantage is that it allows time agents to reach any location on the timeline without the need for vehicles.

After confirming the plan to protect humanity, the construction of this place was put on the agenda.

The Emperor plans to build a massive Time Anchor Device here to protect humanity's timeline from evil gods or ancient races who may attempt to use time to attack humanity, as well as to facilitate the passage of time agents to various points in time.

This time anchor device is magnificent, and the headquarters of the Time Court and the plaza where Wingate is located are only part of it.

Every time he returned to headquarters, Wingate was amazed by the new twists on this magnificent machine.

The Time Anchor Machine was so far an unfinished product, and every time he returned, Wingate could see the changes in it.

Walk down the grand plaza past the gate and eventually into the intricate interior of the Court of Time, with tens of thousands of passages inside, changing and increasing over time.

Except for the real high-ups, no one can remember these complicated routes.

Even if Wingate was already a veteran employee, there was no way for him to find the right path.

You have to be guided by those special staff to get where you want to go.

If there were spies lurking here, he would probably spend a lifetime gathering no useful information.

Under the guidance of the staff, Wingate arrived at the 103 prison in the Time Court, where the mission was delivered.

This prison is dedicated to the creatures of time.

The special staff was only willing to take Wingate to the entrance of the prison, and he left the rest to go on his own.

There was no way, Wingate had to walk in by himself along the entrance of the prison.

The corridors of the prison are not lit by any high-tech means, except for braziers, and shrines containing statues of the Emperor and the bones of heroes are located every few meters.

The guards here are uniformly dressed in black robes, and even their faces are shrouded in the shadow of black robes.

With a special weapon full of subspace powers, he can kill a Storm Troper with just one cut.

The aura they exude is oppressive and makes Wingate feel suffocated.

It took a few hundred meters for Wingate to reach the prison gates.

The gate is 100 meters high and is made of a special metal.

Wingate could hear the sound of machinery running, and could feel a huge temporal force field enveloping the gate and the entire 103 prison, making it impossible for those time creatures to escape.

An implanted mechanical prosthetic, with a flame insignia on his forehead, and an extraordinarily calm gaze, stood in front of the gate with several technicians waiting for Wingate.

Wingate looked into his eyes and knew that the guy had a brand of loyalty.

Only those who are branded with loyalty will have such a calm gaze.

"I'm Agent 9527, and this is the time creature that the mission calls to capture." Wingate handed over the cage, and several technicians walked up to inspect all the creatures in the cage, and after confirming that everything was correct, he nodded at the man.

"I'm the administrator of Prison No. 103 - Sun Mingcheng, it's a pleasure to meet you, your mission has been done well, 9527, the God Emperor will be happy for you. It's a pity that we who serve the Emperor of God must not waste a single minute, please forgive me for not being able to entertain you. ”

Sun Mingcheng introduced himself as he picked up the cage, and when the gate opened enough for him to pass through, he turned around and returned to Prison 103.

Several technicians followed him.

The whole handover process is less than three minutes!!

Wingate was stunned as he looked at the door that had been locked again, and for a moment felt the urge to complain.

But when you think about it, it seems normal.

It's just a prisoner, isn't it possible to set up two tables to celebrate??

Not long after the prison director walked in, the screams of space-time creatures could be heard from the depths of the prison.

Its screams caused more creatures to roar, and for a moment Prison 103 was filled with screeching sounds.

Wingate, who was just about to leave, subconsciously guessed in his mind how many time creatures had been imprisoned here, becoming prisoners or experiments of humans.

It's a pity that he can't get an answer, and those black-robed people won't tell him.

After listening for a while, the voice slowly quieted down, and Wingate shrugged, turned and walked out.

He plans to take a break before going on a new mission.

Qin Zheng's gaze was on many fields at the same time.

And one of them was always looking at Wingate.

The other party is walking on the road that has been planned according to the plan.

Most people's lives are linear, but there are some lucky ones who can break free from this shackle and have more possibilities.

Every time agent is like a thread, and every step they take is to weave a timeline that belongs to the Empire, connecting the past, present, and future, and enhancing humanity's ability to resist risks.

Wingate is the most important of these, and he will make the human timeline intricate and have more dimensions than the previous timelines, which are only linear.

The war between humans and the gods will one day break out, unless humans are willing to become domestic animals in captivity of the gods.

There are many things involved in the war of the gods, and the more complex the timeline, the more likely it is that humanity will survive, and even if part of the past is destroyed, it can rely on another part to support it.

When Wingate completed his mission, the exclusive transport ship also happened to arrive at Regulus.

Escorted by fighter planes, the transport boat roared and landed in the metropolitan area.

Qin Zheng stepped off the transport boat surrounded by the guards.

Albus was already waiting at his place on the tarmac, accompanied by several other Imperial officials from the Psionic Affairs Authority.

They were all dressed in robes, carved with all sorts of strange runes, emanating faint psionic fluctuations.

When Qin Zheng walked out, they hurried up to meet them.

Albus is at the forefront, and the once low-level combatants are no longer young.

His face was covered with the marks of time and frost, and a psionic amplification device was implanted in the back of his head, which hung down like a punk-style thick dreadlock.

"Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty."

They saluted one after another, expressing their loyalty to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng nodded slightly, he didn't stop, but motioned for Albus to chat with him while walking.

Seven thousand six, tonight will definitely be able to explode.

It's not that I want water, it's just to explain some of the characters and plans I wrote before.

You can't talk about elaborate action, but the story still has to be told clearly

Target.

I don't want to be popular, but now my goal is to tell the story of the empire in its entirety, and I'm satisfied.

(End of chapter)