Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train Chapter 1402 543: Endgame (The Grand Finale) Part 5

Lin Xian's expression shifted slightly.

Hua Xiaoling looked up at the sky and said, "The High Tower Civilization is more advanced than Human Civilization and learns very fast. They could never really let you escape. A method that's been used once can absolutely never be used a second time, so I have to very regretfully tell you that those who escaped, including you, me, will all die."

She glanced at her watch and sighed. "Judging by the current time, they should all be dead already."

"Do you not remember the Dark Creatures Storm you encountered in outer space during the Vanguard Plan?" Hua Xiaoling said. "That was the High Tower Civilization's second layer of insurance."

Lin Xian fell silent at her words, his expression darkening.

"You don't look all that surprised."

Hua Xiaoling said, "Oh, so it seems you'd already thought of it."

Lin Xian slowly walked over to Chu Yan's corpse, reached out to caress her cold face, and murmured, "Yeah… how could you ever let us get away…"

"You paid such a huge price to cultivate the Mechanical Heart. Was it really just for the Vanguard Plan? If it was… then since the Vanguard Plan has already succeeded, why do you still have to stop us from escaping Blue Star?"

"I told you, it's an order."

"I know it's an order, but the question is, why?" Lin Xian countered:

"Why must humanity be completely wiped out? I kept thinking and thinking, and only came up with one conclusion."

He lifted his head to look at Hua Xiaoling. "And that is that us staying alive would pose a threat to the High-dimensional Humans."

Hua Xiaoling smiled, her tone icy. "You can't even deal with the High Tower Civilization, and yet you think you could pose a threat to the High-dimensional Humans who outstrip us by several civilization Levels?"

"Of course we wouldn't be the ones threatening them. What threatens them is something else."

Lin Xian calmly looked at Hua Xiaoling and said, "Am I right?"

Hua Xiaoling fell silent.

Lin Xian continued to scrutinize this woman. "I've always had a question, one I couldn't figure out for a long time: why did you delete the memory of me and Chu Yan being implanted with Special Protons?"

"Clearly, under the apocalypse, they could save humanity. Yet strangely, such a powerful device had to be hidden."

"Until one day, I suddenly figured it out."

He looked at Hua Xiaoling and said slowly, "Because in this operation to save humanity, the High-dimensional Humans must not have a 'position.' We also mustn't treat them as enemies, but as saviors. The more I thought this way, the more it fit your requirements."

"Right?"

"So then?" Hua Xiaoling's expression tensed slightly. "What are you trying to say?"

"I kept wondering if there was a possibility like this." Lin Xian looked at Hua Xiaoling. "These two Special Protons were never meant to save humanity in the first place."

Hua Xiaoling's eyes narrowed slightly. "Why would you think that?"

"Because you kept me alive."

Lin Xian said, "I had to stay alive until the Mechanical Heart reached Level 9, so that I could precisely activate the Star Dust Furnace, so that I could lock the target onto Planet Titan, so that I could, through the Black Umbrella Plan, cut off all of humanity's will to run, so that I could burn away humanity's final strength at just the right moment. In physics, this is called an entropy-reduction mechanism."

"And if I had used Planet Titan, I wouldn't have chosen to teleport the Black Star Body and run away alone. I always thought this was a dual option, but it isn't. I'm guessing that if I chose to teleport the Black Star Body, you definitely had a way to remotely destroy my Mechanical Heart, just like how you could remotely teleport to my location every time. Am I right?"

Hua Xiaoling looked at Lin Xian with a meaningful gaze. "Wisdom and knowledge are the beginning of disaster. Believe me, this is not a good thing."

Lin Xian nodded. "Yeah. So I thought for a long time, until… I used Chu Yan's remaining consciousness inside the Civilization Preview Ball to rewatch the High Tower Civilization's demonstration process 1,036 times. Only then did I finally understand why the High-dimensional Humans refuse to let a single living person leave Blue Star."

"Because the High Tower Civilization was being hunted by a top-tier civilization whose civilization Level far surpasses theirs and also far surpasses the High-dimensional Humans. The reason they were hunted was precisely because they created a 'Civilization Wave,' which that civilization detected. And the High Tower Civilization had actually already been wiped out and reduced to a corpse. Everything now is just their 'Deep Blue' Intelligent Brain using Blue Star to carry out a civilization reshaping. That's also why we can only see some manufactured Abnormal Bodies, but never any real Tower People."

"So the High-dimensional Humans are afraid. They're afraid that if we escape and trigger any 'Civilization Wave,' even with only a one-in-hundreds-of-millions chance, that powerful civilization might discover that the High Tower Civilization isn't completely dead yet, and might come back. And that civilization stands above the time dimension. In the process of hunting the High Tower Civilization again, they could very well find the High-dimensional Humans who escaped and developed because of the 'Vanguard' Plan, and, following the Dark Forest law, will…"

"Erase them from the timeline!"

"That is the real reason they want us not to resist and to willingly go to our deaths!"

Lin Xian's eyes were bloodshot as he locked his gaze onto Hua Xiaoling, a defiant smile in his eyes:

"Am I right, great scientist?"

Hua Xiaoling stared at Lin Xian in astonishment. After a long while, she suddenly smiled.

"Lin Xian, we really didn't choose the wrong person. You're very smart." Her gaze slowly turned cold as she spoke calmly to Lin Xian.

"But I advise you not to try using the Flashing Bullet. Since you know we can control the Mechanical Heart, you surely understand I can end your life in a second. As things are now, we can still talk a little, chat a bit. Just like I said earlier, self-examination before death is one of the meanings of existence."