Chapter 148 Special Chapter: Visitors from the Past: Echoes of Ruan Mei's Shadow In a corner of the universe, far away from the hustle and bustle of numerous galaxies, lies the famous Black Tower Space Station. This place is not a simple scientific research outpost, but more like a metal hive that is constantly evolving itself, spliced together by countless cutting-edge laboratories, strange object storage warehouses, and dimensional observatories. It is the favorite testing ground and place for ideological collision among members of the Genius Club, including the wise man who touches the realm of gods with life science and creationism-Nguyen Mui. According to most of his colleagues and records, Ruan Mui was a scholar who was so quiet that he was almost indifferent. She wears a simple and elegant white coat, with long hair that is often simply pulled back behind her head, revealing a face that is beautiful but rarely shows emotion. Her eyes were gentle light brown, but deep down they seemed to contain the mystery of the entire genetic spiral and the laws of the birth and death of nebulae. They were calm, deep, and daunting, but they couldn't help but want to explore. She pursues the ultimate perfection and infinite possibilities of life, and her creations often combine biological subtlety with artistic harmony. However, under the ultimate light, there must be deep shadows. Her almost paranoid desire to explore life forms also means that her handling of "failures" and "defective samples" is almost cruel. Ruan Time and Space is an unexpected materialization of this shadow. He is not a life born naturally, but an artificial human created by Ruan Mei through extremely sophisticated "autologous slice culture technology" in an extremely radical experiment, when he tried to directly encode "space-time affinity" into the basic template of higher life, using part of his own genetic sequence and cell tissue. Born in the training cabin, he has a very similar facial profile to Ruan Mei, the same jet-black hair, and even inherited intelligence that surpasses ordinary people and a greedy thirst for knowledge. However, it may be due to the interference of uncontrollable variables during the experiment, or it may be that certain traits of Ruan Mei that were strictly suppressed in the subconscious were abnormally amplified after stripping off the subject. Ruan Time and Space perfectly reproduced Ruan Mei's wisdom and paranoia, but it was missing her almost absolute rational calmness and moral boundaries that restrained her power. He is a substantial reproduction and embodiment of Nguyen Mui's shadow side. His eyes, different from Ruan Mei's deep calmness, always burned with a jumping, almost fanatical flame, full of eagerness to break all rules and pry into all taboos. There is always a cynical, even slightly mocking arc on the corner of his mouth, as if everything in the world is a toy that he can dismantle and reassemble at will. He regards all ethics and safety regulations as stumbling blocks to progress, and firmly believes that only the most extreme and unfettered means can reach the ultimate truth. His experiment went much further than Ruan Mei, and was much more dangerous. He is not only satisfied with observing and creating life, but is also obsessed with distorting time and space, tampering with cause and effect, and even forcibly stitching together lives in different time and space segments to observe their reactions in paradoxes. Disturbing energy fluctuations and indescribable roars often come from his laboratory, causing other researchers on the space station to avoid him. In the end, an experiment aimed at forcibly superimposing and merging the same star beast from three different time points in the "past", "present" and "future" completely went out of control. The burst of space-time turbulence almost tore apart the laboratory's protection. An aberration that failed to fuse and was full of pain and desire for destruction almost escaped, causing the complete annihilation of several security machines and permanent structural damage to the local space. Ruan Mei took action personally, using overwhelming force to calm down the chaos and deal with the aberrations. She stood in a messy laboratory where cracks in time and space still sizzled, looking at the "self" who had caused all this, but whose eyes still shone with excitement and dissatisfaction (dissatisfaction with the interruption of the experiment). No anger, no rebuke. Ruan Mei's eyes were still calm, but underneath that calmness was a cold determination that could freeze her soul. "Experiment subject number: S-001 (Ruan Time and Space). Judgment: There is an uncontrollable high risk. The experiment is terminated. Sealing with the highest authority." There is no trial, no communication. Ruan Mei didn't even look at those eyes that were similar but completely different from her own. For her, there is no essential difference between Ruan Time and Space and those experimental samples that were destroyed due to instability. The only special thing is that it comes from itself. The highest-level confinement force field instantly enveloped Ruan Shikong, ignoring his struggles and roars (the roars were filled with anger and contempt for his "other self" being so "cowardly"), and sealed him together with the remains of the entire laboratory into a specially made stasis force field cabin that was isolated from all energy and information exchange. Like an insect sealed in amber, he was abandoned deep in the most remote abandoned warehouse at the bottom of the space station. Time flows silently in the metal corridors of the space station. Until an accident happened - a chain resonance caused by energy leakage from other experiments, like a tiny earthquake, shook the basic structure of the space station. The forgotten stasis force field capsule had tiny, almost imperceptible cracks in its outer shell during the violent vibrations. For Ruan Shikong, who is imprisoned in a cage where time has almost stopped, but his thinking is still active (this is a kind of torture), this crack is like the first ray of light penetrating into the darkness. He concentrated all the will, all the resentment, and all the desire for freedom that he had accumulated after being imprisoned for countless years, and turned it into a sharp mental shock, like an awl, precisely piercing the crack! Click——! The shell of the force field capsule finally broke completely! The stasis force field dissipated instantly! Ruan Shikong, like an evil ghost waking up from a long nightmare, suddenly opened his eyes! The flames burning in those eyes were more intense and crazier than before they were sealed! The power and resentment that had been suppressed for too long suddenly exploded! He easily tore through the fragile wall of the abandoned warehouse and rushed into the operating area of the space station! The alarm sounded shrilly! Automatic defense machines swarm in! But Ruan Shikong's power is far beyond ordinary! He knows the structure of the space station and the weaknesses of various defense mechanisms well (derived from Ruan Mei's knowledge)! With a wave of his hand, twisted space rifts can be created, tearing the mechanical guards into pieces; with a snap of his fingers, he can cause local gravity to go out of control and turn the passage into a trap! He does not want to destroy the space station, his goal is clear - he wants to find something that will allow him to leave here completely and go to a place where Ruan Mei can no longer restrain him! His crazy destruction is just to attract attention, his real purpose is to lure the tiger away from the mountain. After most of the security forces were lured away, in a strange way that seemed to predict the patrol route, he quietly sneaked into the rare object storage room at the core of the space station - the Black Tower's Curious Room. Relying on his understanding of Ruan Mei's way of thinking and his ultimate perception of space fluctuations, he ignored the layers of protective barriers and misleading traps, and accurately found his target - a complex Rubik's Cube suspended in an independent force field, constantly rotating on its own, and composed of countless geometric crystals that were constantly born and destroyed. The space around it twisted slightly, as if carrying an unspeakable weight. This is one of the treasures of the space station, a strange object that can tear apart the barriers of time and space and make limited jumps across time and space - the Space Shuttle Cube. "Found it..." Ruan Shikong's eyes burst out with greedy light. He stretched out his hand, and the energy to crack the force field flowed from his fingertips. The highest level of alarm instantly sounded throughout the space station! Even the Black Tower and Ruan Mei's body in other star fields received urgent transmissions! But it's too late. At the cost of part of his own life force, Ruan Shikong forcibly simulated Ruan Mei's highest authority fluctuations, deceived the Rubik's Cube's protective force field, and grabbed the Sky Shuttle Rubik's Cube in his hands! "Goodbye, my 'dear' subject." He turned back and faced the guards who rushed into the rare house and the cold image of Ruan Mei projected from a distance, showing a smile full of malice and ridicule, "I'm going to a more interesting era... To conduct my 'experiment'!" He suddenly activated the Sky Shuttle Rubik's Cube! Buzz—! ! ! The indescribable light swallowed up everything in an instant! A huge space-time vortex suddenly opened with him as the center! The attacks of the guards were like mud oxen entering the sea! When the light dissipated, Ruan Time and Space and the Space Shuttle Rubik's Cube disappeared without a trace, leaving only a mess on the ground and a dead silence of the rare house. ... Danheng Academy, the time and space where Zuo Jiang and Liu Yu are. It hasn't been long since the weird purple thunderstorm subsided, and the school is still slowly licking its wounds, trying to restore order to the past. However, at the edge of the school, an isolated area used for high-energy experiments, the space suddenly fluctuated violently like water! An extremely unstable space-time vortex appeared out of thin air, frantically extracting the surrounding energy, triggering a series of energy device overload explosions! Immediately afterwards, a figure staggered out and fell heavily to the ground. It is Ruan Shikong. He looked a little embarrassed, his clothes were torn, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. The air shuttle Rubik's Cube dimmed in his hands. It was obvious that this long-distance forced jump with unclear purpose had put a lot of burden on both him and the Rubik's Cube. But he quickly struggled to stand up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His fanatical eyes quickly scanned the surrounding buildings full of futuristic technology and the majestic outline of the main body of the school further away. He took a deep breath, as if tasting the air of this era. "Interesting... So interesting..." He laughed in a low voice, his laughter gradually getting louder, filled with the excitement of discovering new toys, "A place full of... High-quality 'experimental materials'. Moreover, it seems that it has just experienced an energy storm? The remaining ripples of time and space... It's amazing!" His eyes seemed to penetrate through the layers of buildings and locked into the depths of the school. "So... Who should I start with my 'research'?"
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