Ascension journey - 326. Chapter 322-The Cage of Time Cycle

On a seemingly calm and ordinary morning on the earth, all beings are moving forward for their own lives, and all kinds of people are naturally operating in sophisticated and huge social machines.

There were no objects or phenomena beyond the scope of current scientific understanding on this well-regarded earth until an unexpected event that surpassed common sense occurred unexpectedly.

At a certain point in the morning, all humans’ gazes and expressions have undergone subtle changes at the same moment——

A large number of vehicles driving on the highway were smashed into a ball in the trance of the driver’s mistakes. Flames and blood spilled over the highway…

The huge dome of the nuclear power plant hoisted by a thousand-ton crane was abnormal in the trance of many people. The precise, tough, huge and heavy material fell like a mountain in the impact, causing huge damage and earthquake-like tremors…

Some people were resurrected from death with ecstatic expressions, some were frantic because of unexplained conspiracies revealed inexplicably…

Human society has been in chaos for a period of time, and the various human organizations that can basically maintain normal operation finally unified their cognition——

Time has reversed, and even the sun, moon, stars, galaxy, and stars have been reset to the state they were five days ago, but human memory has not.

In other words, the rebirth plot of going back to the past like a fantasy novel has happened to all human beings.

What an absurd reality?

In the face of these abnormal events that challenge the Three Views, each human country suppresses and appeases the chaos of joys and sorrows within its own home, while adjusting its own decisions based on future information, and trying to establish special communication channels and organizations to study related issues.

The civilization composed of intelligent life will not be destroyed by such a turmoil. Human beings always have adaptability beyond their own expectations.

However, more serious things are still to come-after a few days, the hardworking humans found that they had done useless work, and everyone was reborn again, returning to a few days ago.

Because of the abrupt switching of sensory information, human beings in accordance with certain inertial actions have once again created various familiar accidents, and the familiar scenes of joys and sorrows are repeated once again.

Aware of the bad human civilization, after several similar reincarnations, it was discovered that the worst possibility became a reality——

A closed cage at the time level confines all human beings in it. Whenever they cross the end of time, they will return to the starting point with complete consciousness, and they will never reach the future after the limit.

After realizing that no matter what you do, even death cannot change the situation of returning to the original point. Some humans have a mental breakdown. In other words, ordinary people who are constrained by common sense and social laws have completely lost their minds.

In the face of this situation, violence and money could not continue to maintain order, and the social scene was once plunged into chaos and evil spreading wildly.

In this case, the various national organizations of mankind are also powerless.

Because the time cycle in the cage is too short-no matter what response they make, there is no way to pass the impact of the decision correctly.

Even if there are some elite troops with good order and mental outlook, after being mobilized and sent to the target location, the reset time limit is basically reached, and the army will return to the station in the blink of an eye.

But in a sense, time is too long-within the cage of this time cycle, the eternal life of the fantasy soul seems to be within reach, and humans have enough time to restore their normal thinking ability.

After passing the time limit, everyone resets their memories back to the past time and time again.

After a period of chaos, most people finally calmed down, and through various methods to ensure their normal life during the reset, and negotiated a communication channel that was convenient to rebuild, and then began to explore the time loop Secret.

All countries that can function normally abandon all prejudices, unite to form a special institution that belongs to all human beings, and spare no effort to build the top scientific research platform.

Because in this time circulatory cage, the progress of all industrial and technological products is difficult, only knowledge and information can be passed on with the help of memory.

Fortunately, modern society is extremely convenient in terms of communication. After the reset is completed, this special organization and scientific research platform can be rebuilt in a very short time following the pre-negotiated steps.

The data of various research experiments and the accumulation of knowledge and theories are extremely large if they are replaced by words. Humans can only use stupid methods to solve the problem of how to pass on these key things——

Look for a large number of people who are close to the beginning of the time cycle and have good mental, life, and communication conditions. When approaching the end, let these people separate and memorize the important information word by word, and quickly follow the agreed format after the cycle. Write the transcript silently, and send the transcript result to a certain network address that existed in the past through the communication tool.

After several rounds of trials, the system barely worked, and human organizations have begun to develop automatic programs that specifically deal with this problem and facilitate reorganization.

Although humans do not yet know what to do in the future, persisting in research and knowledge accumulation is currently the only direction that humans can work on.

Scientists in various cutting-edge laboratories gathered through the network in the cross-circulation system gradually operating in the stumbling block quickly explored the detailed mechanism of the time cycle.

The starting point and ending point of the time cycle are not fixed, and the length of the cycle period is also in unstable fluctuations, but from the overall trend, the length of the cycle is in a state of expansion and growth.

If you are more optimistic, it is still possible to reach the “future” in the future.

However, the speed of this change is unusually slow. So far, the cycle of the time cycle has not changed much. The current cycle is close to six days. Compared with the five days of the first cycle that is already a bit far away in everyone’s memory, it is also But only a few more hours.

This is not the point. The point is that after a long and arduous study, mankind has finally determined that the cage of this time cycle is not an accident or a natural phenomenon, but an artificial deliberately created by an existence with extremely high intelligence. product.

The evidence comes from scientists’ research on the only exception of material changes in the time cycle-the phenomenon of human memory inheritance.

The operation of human memory and thinking relies on the body, especially the brain. If the states of all the molecules and atoms in the body are reset over time, there is no reason that humans can guarantee the inheritance and continuity of their memories.

Unless human memory and thinking are based on other levels beyond matter-but this has been denied by simple scientific experiments.

How mysterious is the human spirit? How complicated is the structure of the human brain?

The ability to interfere with everyone’s memory and thinking, to distort and modify the memory without any abnormalities and traces, how can such a precise and intelligent force action process be a natural phenomenon without wisdom?

After realizing the unfathomable existence behind the time cage, human beings began to actively think about the purpose of this existence to create a time loop while trying to explore the things that can be used behind the distortion of memory.

Humans have no way of knowing everything that happened during the transition of time. The memory state of human beings at the starting point seems to be naturally without the slightest abnormality. In this regard, human researchers have gained very little.

However, there are many derived gains.

For example, with the help of a large number of subjects who are not afraid of life and death-anyway, they will be reset to the original point in a few days, and they will not really die-to conduct various dangerous human experiments, and compare the time cycle of the experimental subjects after remembering the specified information. Various changes in his brain.

In this process, human beings’ cognition of the operation process of their own memory and thinking has advanced by leaps and bounds, and even some memory manipulation techniques have been gradually explored in the later stage.

Knowledge and technology have been accumulated in the cycle of time, and human organizations soon discovered that the biggest obstacle for them is the improvement of the current industrial base.

Information-level technologies such as software programs are also advancing in the time cycle, but the actual industrial foundation can’t help it, because the cycle of a time cycle is too short to make any effective improvement. .

Unless they have a way to create a technological product that can be achieved in the current industrial system, the industrial base will be updated in a very short time, and there will be free time for further research.

This is regarded by many as a possibility of delusion, and there are still many researchers who are constantly trying to achieve it, and they even put forward a crazy plan-

Can’t the time loop preserve the memory of the inheritor? Well, they try to make biomechanical products that are integrated with the memory system in the human brain. If this kind of thing can be recognized by the time cage and brought back to the starting point of the time cycle, then the industrial base will not be updated. ?

Unlike the previous dangerous human experiments, this terrible plan that is destined to really kill a large number of experimental subjects at the memory level, so that they will not be able to resurrect after the time is reset, has naturally been greatly resisted by many humans.

But to be honest, this kind of resistance is quite weak. If the status quo does not improve, human civilization will take this step sooner or later in order to continue to advance. Now it is just that other aspects of research have not reached the end of the industrial system. The retrieval and manipulation technology is not yet perfect, and it will not be vigorously implemented for the time being.

However, the human organization found that they don’t seem to have to deal with these heart-stuck problems anymore, because the more troublesome anomaly that I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing happened again——

Originally after the time cycle appeared, he kept shouting that this is the power of God, persuading all human beings to worship under this miracle, slowly expanding in scale, but still regarded as a disease-free groaning by the serious human organization, suddenly showing a true supernatural. strength.

Almost at the same time, various supernatural phenomena that challenge common sense began to appear in various places on the earth. Whether the carrier is a person or a dog or a series of numbers and a scene, various abnormal phenomena and characteristics refreshed the three views of mankind that have been tempered by the cycle of time. .

When it comes to bad things, it has supernatural powers based on the inheritance of spirit and beliefs, which are called god-given art by religious people, and the rapid expansion of the powerful cross religion has caused great damage to the current order of human civilization.

If it were not for the emergence of other weirder and more dangerous anomalies during the same period, the cross religion would not appear so unique, perhaps the entire human civilization would fall under the Lord’s glory.

And when it comes to the benefits of these anomalies… many anomalies have a great role in promoting scientific research.

The most important thing is that an organization called the SCP Foundation was established on the hands of a middle-aged man in a white coat who called himself Dr. T who was boarding an anomaly, and this former scientist, Dr. T, who seemed to have ordinary records, Possess the ability to carry a small amount of material across the time cycle.

This is an ability that is vital to human civilization, because it means that the foundation of industry has a glimmer of hope for continuous improvement in the time loop prison where only information can be transmitted.

After experiencing some events and games, Dr. T’s SCP Foundation, which was originally intended to be established for various anomalies, merged into a special joint organization established by humans due to the cycle of time.

Leading the SCP Foundation, Dr. T has been cooperating with scientific research while continuously searching for and dealing with the anomalous existence that they call containment objects during the period of time extended to seven days.

Because the location and shape of the contents in each time cycle are different, this has brought a lot of trouble to human civilization, and there have even been several doomsday events that destroyed the surface of the earth and even the entire earth.

Fortunately, after the cycle of time, everyone is still resurrected and reborn normally.

In this process, the SCP Foundation has demonstrated a very skilled handling and utilization of containment items, and some special information-type containment items, as well as some small items of containment, can be taken by them to the next cycle, which is extremely great Speeded up their accumulation of power.

Distorting time and space to gain more time, in-depth micro-study of the underlying physics… Through the use of containment objects such as this, human civilization has finally ushered in an explosive development of science and technology in the constant progress and retreat.

Especially with the emergence of human memory manipulation technology and artificial intelligence white, the speed of scientific research on human civilization has suddenly risen several steps.

The former allows all humans to swallow a large amount of knowledge without long learning, and the latter’s super-high intelligence and computing power greatly reduce the workload of scientific research.

However, the Cross Sect is also continuing to do things. Their seemingly plausible magical system has become stronger with the passage of time, and the number of their followers and their familiarity with the magical arts are also increasing.

After human beings discovered that the containment objects controlled by the SCP Foundation can increase the cycle of time, and the containment objects controlled and eliminated by the cross religion with special magical arts can increase the power of their magical system, a game revolves around faith, science, and road. , The war of the containment broke out.

In a narrow time gap, human beings full of superstition and heresy became a ball.

Since the technology of memory reading and implantation has been very perfect with the help of the containment, and the cross religion also has a magical technique with similar functions, the two sides quickly discovered that there is no way to play in the time cycle. The real casualties, let alone a complete victory.

So after a period of time, the intensity of the war slowly dropped, and people with their own opinions began to study mentally effective attacks that would not be affected by the erasure of memory-related technologies.

In other words, while constantly strengthening oneself, continue to fight between various ideas and guns.