Time is a very complex existence, it is multi-dimensional, and the phenomena that people observe depend on what dimension they are in.

Some people think that reaching the past can change the future, and even give birth to countless forks in the past.

There are also those who think that time will correct all paradoxes, the famous grandfather paradox.

It can be said that they are wrong, or it can be said that they are not wrong, because these people observe so little, like a blind man touching an elephant.

Some people touched the trunk of the elephant, some touched the tail of the elephant, some touched the tusks, and some touched the legs. They all spoke about the elephant they had in mind.

Are they wrong? No, because that's what they perceive as elephants, and elephants do have parts of them.

But they're wrong, because they're not talking about what elephants really look like.

Man is the blind man, and time is the elephant, and what man feels is only a part of time, not all of it.

Human beings are simple one-dimensional creatures of time, who can only perceive the present moment and live in the present. And there are some time creatures that can freely swim in the long river of time, because they are multi-dimensional time creatures, they can see more complex time than humans, and can do more things.

Qin Zheng is also a human, but he is different from other humans.

He can see the fragments of the future, but he can also see everything that has happened in the past.

Time is multidimensional in his eyes and can be shaped.

Before Qin Zheng left the First Expeditionary Force, he asked Xu Fu to set up the Time Court, recruit those with special physiques, train them as time agents, and hunt down those time creatures that lurk in human history.

Its fundamental purpose is to establish an effective defense system.

It would be foolish to simply think that those ancient creatures in the subspace can only deal with humans by corrupting the mind, launching stupid physical strikes, sending their own minions to war with the Empire, and so on.

If they had only this level, they would not have been called gods by so many races.

Subspace is a place where there is no reason, no order, no rules, it is illusory, it is dream, it is idealistic.

It can distort everything, even time, even everything that has happened in the past.

Those ancient subspace existences can distort the past of a race, the history of a race, quietly tamper with it, and completely erase it, so that the entire race will be turned into ashes in the universe, and even the traces of the past will be erased, so that later generations will not be able to find any traces of the existence of this race.

Time is a very complex thing, and it is also a very terrible thing, it is usually insignificant, but it is the source of the operation of everything.

If humanity does not want to rebel against the subspace and accept the fate of its own destruction, those ancient beings will instead protect the timeline of humanity and ensure the growth of humanity until they become a green leek field, and then enjoy a feast.

If humanity is to rebel against subspace, it will need to protect its time and ancient symbols, such as Mother Earth.

The war with subspace is a real war, a subspace war, and a kind of metaphysical war.

To protect time, it is far from enough to rely on the Time Court, Qin Zheng made two preparations.

The Court of Time is a bright line, a target that can be seen by the enemy, and when war breaks out, they will attack the target they can see first.

Qin Zheng secretly used those time agents to compile a timeline of human beings, connecting the past and the future to form a single body, forming another defense.

Time Agent 9527 is one of the threads, Qin Zheng tore his time apart, turned it into an unclosed ring, and when the time was ripe, he closed the ring again, thus connecting those times.

During the Cape Town incident, Dante was banished to the past by the Weeping Angel, a member of the Most High God.

With the help of Time 9527 agents, he returned to the battlefield and killed the Weeping Angel.

Agent 9527 entered the Time Court after the events in Cape Town. It is only now that he has been sent to deal with the events of Dante's loss, assisting the other party to return to their original time coordinates.

Such an operation is against the laws of the universe, but the existence of subspace makes anything possible.

"Let's get started."

Qin Zheng, who was sitting on the throne, smiled, his will controlled the entire empire, everyone was his pawn, and he manipulated him to move forward.

A world that doesn't know the exact point in time, and doesn't know the exact name.

Wingate only knows that this is part of time travel, a transit station that must be passed.

He wandered through the magnificent buildings, and the crowd in the streets was out of place with him, and even if he hit him, he would forget everything the moment he turned his head.

He walked out of the city of the nest and into the wilderness, and before going any further, he took out a pointer and a special parchment map.

The map is densely packed with icons and symbols, and there are no mountain formations, only eerie colors and obscure icons.

This map is incomprehensible to ordinary people because it is a subspace map. It depicts the flow of the aether, and it is a good habit to keep an eye on the currents during the journey through time, and Wingate has to make sure that he does not open a path that would kill him.

Guided by a map and a compass, Wingate reached his goal, a river not too far or too close to the nest, and next to a farming town that was responsible for planting farmland around the city with no edge in sight.

Wingate was a desolate place, with no machinery around, and it was night.

The sky was full of stars, the breeze was blowing on Wingate's cheeks, he looked at it with his pocket watch, and saw that the time was not right, and he had to wait, and when the time was right, he could open the rift in time and get on the right path and get to the right place.

That was a few days, during which time Wingate also witnessed a murder.

A sixteen-year-old girl was taken to the river by the boy she liked, and was dragged into the grass by the boy and his companions to humiliate her and then strangled to death.

The girl who lost her life was finally sunk into the river by the frightened murderers and dumped her body.

By the time the body was found, it had been a few days, and all traces of the crime had disappeared.

No one paid for it, because the murderers could not be found, and the murderers even stood in the crowd and feigned grief for the dead girl.

As a witness to the murder, Wingate just stood by and watched, and did not do anything, and people were unaware of his presence.

Wingate saw with his own eyes how the girl died in despair and how she was dumped by the killers.

In this process, he only needs to use his hands to save this playful and cute girl.

Now, he can still stand up and reveal the truth to those people so that the real culprit can be punished.

But Wingate did nothing, he was indifferent to the girl's tragic death, and he had no intention of seeking justice for her, because all this happened in the past, and his intervention could not change anything.

As a time agent, he could witness those tragedies, witness those heartbreaking moments, but he could do nothing but watch the good people who didn't deserve to die die in agony.

For a long time, people in the world always felt that this universe was rewarded for good and evil.

At first, Wingate thought the same way, and it wasn't until he had experienced it too much that he realized his stupidity.

If good and evil were really rewarded, the natural order would have collapsed long ago, and the universe would have collapsed with it. For any animal to survive, it must hunt other creatures, even its own companions.

Killing prey, killing enemies, killing the same kind, and even killing one's own blood parents, survival of the fittest, the dead have nothing, this is survival, this is the normal state of nature, this is also the normal state of life. It doesn't talk about good and evil, it is good to be able to live, and nothing is nothing when it dies.

Wingate used to prefer the job of a Time Agent, and every time he carried out a mission, he was very happy. But when his authority was elevated, he received more and more tasks, came into contact with more of the past, and witnessed too many dark secrets and unbearable history, he was no longer happy.

Time agents are not mysterious or powerful, they are just laborers who protect the human timeline, preventing those time races from wreaking havoc in it, and preventing the destruction of the human timeline.

Changing the past requires the time of the future, and it takes the time of a time traveler, but how can one person's time change the fate of so many people?

If there is no way to change the fate of only a few people, it will be a terrible nightmare for those people.

Without the time that symbolizes the future, those whose fate is changed will be stagnant in one moment, never able to enter the next second, and thus fall into greater suffering.

Their flesh and blood bodies will be imprisoned in no time and space, but their souls will remain active, and eventually they will be driven mad by life, unable to die or live.

While the people were still crying over the girl's misery, Wingate's pocket watch rang, and the time had come and the Aether Current had arrived in the right place.

Wingate opened the rift in time and walked in without looking back, showing no mercy for the girl's death.

People didn't know that there was a witness here, let alone that he was gone, they just wept for the dead girl and cursed the murderer who had committed such a terrible crime.

After crossing the Time Rift, Wingate arrives in a desert, which is the coordinates of the mission.

But there was nothing here, and he still had to wait, waiting for the target to appear.

Wingate stayed in the desert for a few days, until one day at noon, when a strong time fluctuation suddenly came, and he knew that he had reached the goal of his mission.

Wrapped in the robes he had ripped from the dead in the desert to protect him from the wind and sand, he strode towards the flashpoint suggested by the scanner. He traveled quickly, reaching the target area, near the point of the Time Flow Burst.

A fierce warrior in black armor was looking around blankly in the desert, watching and shouting.

"Geralt, Geralt, can you hear me?"

"Triss? Triss? ”

"Yurid? Yurid? ”

"Lawson?"

“.”

This warrior in black armor is none other than Dante, the unlucky guy who was sent back to the past by the Weeping Angel.

He called the names one after the other, but only the cold wind echoed him in the desolate desert.

As Wingate approached, he heard the black-armored warrior muttering to himself.

"Illusion, or something else??"

Perhaps because of the warrior's acumen, or something else, Dante jerked his head as Wingate approached, and the sword in his hand was pointed at him.

Wingate hurriedly raised his hands, signaling that he had no weapons and was the first.

"Hey, the God Emperor is above, I've finally found you."

Hearing this, Dante's brows furrowed, his eyes became sharp, and he asked.

"Who are you?"

Wingate pulled out an ID tag with a flame wrapped around the clock.

Dante's eyes were much less uneasy and wary, but he still didn't let his guard down.

"Imperial Time Court, Time 9527." Wingate retrieved his badge and took off his robe, revealing a battered face.

"I've never heard of this department, when did the empire set up the Time Court??"

"There are many things you don't know, this is the will of the God Emperor, he needs someone to maintain the timeline of the human race, so that someone does not cause destruction and cause the human race to wither and die. The subspace guys are so bad that humans have to be careful enough to protect themselves. ”

"While you were being sent here by the Weeping Angels, we detected anomalous time fluctuations in the human timeline. I've spent a few days pinpointing your location. ”

"I've just come here." Dante said coldly.

"Time is a complex thing that is difficult to explain. The only thing I can tell you is that our time is different, you stay here for ten minutes, but when you go back, you will be where you are, and time does not flow. ”

Hearing Wingate's words, Dante's brow furrowed slightly.

"Where is that now? When?? ”

"You don't need to know this, now what you have to do is go back and complete your mission." Wingate pulled out a pocket watch, "We've got to go to a safe place and send you back, those bugs are coming, you won't want to face them." ”

"What bug??"

"You don't need to know that, you just need to know that I can bring you back safely." Wingate fiddled with his pocket watch, and Dante had an uncomfortable expression on his face.

"Let's go." Wingate pointed to the distorted space ahead.

Dante hesitated, but walked in.

"Those things are really haunting." Wingate looked around, still only the sound of wind and sand, but he knew that the time worms that fed on the anomalous flow of time were arriving from all points in time.

They wouldn't mind eating a few time travelers, and after one last look, he stepped into the distorted space and vanished, leaving only the raging storm.

They had arrived far into the past, at that point in time when humanity had just stepped down from the trees before reaching the stars.

The path back to the future is tortuous, and they must follow that particular aetheric wind, or risk getting lost.

Time travel and faster-than-light travel have something in common, and that is that they both need to use the mysteries of subspace and the ether to complete the journey from one location to another.

Sorry, checked the typo, it's past twelve o'clock, sorry sorry

(End of chapter)