The Death List Novel - Chapter 274

Chapter 274 Space-time Converter
The research room behind the cabin door was covered in dust, revealing a tattered aura. This laboratory is odd in style and has an arc-shaped strip of space, which contrasts sharply with the spacious size of many laboratories.

In addition, this research lab was different from most of the important areas in the Battle of Hegemons. There was no chaotic atmosphere here. It seemed that the apostles or researchers who were originally here had secured the devices and equipment during their evacuation. Most of the equipment in the study room was covered in canvas and some of the facilities were reinforced.

While Qin Lun was still observing the research room, the Holy City orphans were running around the room while tearing off the canvas covering the equipment.

“Sure enough, he has been here before. His parents should have worked here before, but I don’t know if they left the Holy City with the Wheel of Heaven’s Apostles!” Qin Lun looked at the little mute’s movements, his eyes shining.

However, the youth knew that Mute’s parents were most likely dead. After all, if they were still alive, they wouldn’t have left Mute alone.

As the little mute swept the canvas in the research room to the ground, the original appearance of the entire research room appeared in front of Qin Lun.

“What is this? An experimental wind tunnel? A teleportation device? Or a magnetic acceleration trajectory?”

Qin Lun’s face couldn’t help but flash with surprise when the research room that looked like a submarine cabin revealed its full appearance. In the center of this research lab was an artificial tunnel that was more than ten meters long and about two meters tall. It was a bit like a wind tunnel for an experimental aircraft, and also a bit like a magnetic acceleration device for high-energy physics.

The most peculiar thing was that the surface of the steel tunnel was densely inscribed with Law runes, and it was easy to tell that this was the work of many high-ranking apostles.

Could it be that he had found another piece of [Big Equipment] that resembled an Apostle Mech?

Qin Lun’s heart was extremely strange, and the expression on his face was even more colorful. With his luck, this was simply too unscientific!

“Yiya, Yiya!” Seeing Qin Lun standing there staring blankly, he immediately angered another person in the research lab. The little mute was unhappy. He puffed up his cheeks and made a sound for the first time.

“Oh” Qin Lun regained his senses and looked at the little mute. “You want me to help you activate this device? Can this thing still activate?”

Qin Lun approached the console where the mute man was, puzzled. There was a palm-shaped touch screen. He carefully placed his palm on the touch screen and planned to leave with the little mute whenever something was wrong.

Unexpectedly, the moment he touched the touch screen, the death list exploded. The notifications of the shattered starry sky poured down like a screen, and most of them were warning messages in red fonts.

“Apostle 70053, you’ve discovered the Space-Time Converter …”

[Apostle 70053, you have received a temporary hire mission to destroy the Space-Time Converter. Mission reward: Increase mission rating by one level after this urban battle …]

“Apostle 70053, the temporary employment mission is limited to ten minutes. The countdown has begun …”

Temporal and spatial transformers? ! Qin Lun’s body froze in place, allowing the little mute to anxiously tug at his sleeves. The light in his pupils suddenly dimmed. After he finished reading the notifications of the shattered starry sky one by one, he also understood what the so-called “space-time transformers” were.

This particle accelerator-like tunneling device, of course, could not convert the current spacetime into another spacetime, nor could it send anyone or anything into another spacetime. It was even more meaningless to the apostles.

However, in a sense, this machine did play a role in the transformation of space and time.

This involves the formation of the apostles. How did an ordinary human like Qin Lun transform into an apostle? First, the apostles jumped from their original worlds into the shattered starry sky. However, the opposition between the two worlds’ laws caused their bodies and souls to undergo miraculous changes.

Souls that were unable to adapt to time and space would be extinguished, leaving only the body that relied on the instincts of living beings. Remnants of soul power would form soul power crystals in the body. A soul that could travel through space and time would be recognized by the laws of the shattered starry sky, and it would combine with the body of laws to become a preparatory apostle, forming an apostle contract with the shattered starry sky.

In other words, the formation of the apostles was essentially due to the impact of the laws of the two worlds, or a collateral effect of two different spacetimes in the process of transformation.

The device in front of Qin Lun was itself a high-tech product of another space-time. Its original name was the Space-time Traveller. In its original world, this instrument was only an experimental device created under scientific fantasy, and it was utterly useless except for viewing and admiring it.

The reason was that the world itself did not possess the Laws of Space-Time Transition. No matter how much technology advanced, it would never be able to use it.

However, in a space-time impact from the shattered starry sky on that universe, this thing was sucked into the space-time turbulence and appeared on Atlantis …

Atlantis suffered greatly from the lack of backup apostles. After they obtained this item, they actually had a fantastic idea. They wanted to use this instrument as an apostle processing plant, artificially creating a spacetime conversion field, and then having ordinary Atlanteans perform the apostle conversion.

The most ridiculous thing was that they had succeeded!

With the help of a large group of Atlantis scientists, this alien realm’s “Time Traveller” was unable to travel through space and time, but it successfully simulated a space and time environment that was completely different from the fragmented starry sky.

Once an intelligent creature from the shattered starry sky enters this instrument and exits from the other side, it will be treated as a visitor from another space and time, thus obtaining a transformation process of the Laws Body.

This is subjectively advantageous to the fragmentation of the starry sky, and it has gained more mercenaries. But the question was, how could the shattered starry sky allow this kind of artificial apostle-making? To it, this was simply the cancer cell of the apostle’s contract law.

If it were an apostolic city, such an instrument would never exist. If any large guild dared to hide such an instrument and pay a price for shattering the starry sky, countless apostle guilds would attack them.

Unfortunately, this was a special case in Atlantis, where the apostles were treated as soldiers. Under the cauldron of the apostles, no one paid any attention to the shattered starry sky, even if it issued the destruction mission of the instrument.

Perhaps this was also the main reason for the large-scale civil strife and chaotic battles in the Holy City of Atlantis, where the shattered starry sky was not prevented.

The Atlantean civilization was simply a cancer in the shattered starry sky in the eyes of this body of Laws, and since the apostles inside often acted in violation of the apostle contract, it did not have to fulfill its duty of protection.

After the Atlanteans successfully developed this space-time converter, the joy in their hearts was obvious. They even had a large group of high-level apostles engrave countless Law runes on the space-time transformers, causing them to “disappear” before the eyes of the shattered starry sky.

However, after a series of experiments, the Atlanteans fell from heaven to hell. They were able to make the space-time converter simulate another space-time, but they did not expect that the success rate of an ordinary Atlantean becoming an apostle would be so low, only a few percent!

Atlantis scientists stayed up all night trying to figure out a way to increase their success rate, but they came to a desperate conclusion. To become an apostle, environmental and physical factors are not the key, but the soul. Only a special soul that meets the requirements of space-time travel has the potential to become an apostle.

In other words, even if Atlantis scientists had perfected the space-time transducer to become an apostle or not, it would only depend on the person’s own soul, and it was impossible to predict the outcome in advance.

Based on this conversion rate, the millions of Atlanteans in the Holy City would only be able to add thousands of preparatory apostles to the Holy City. It was through the space-time transformations that Atlantis’ upper echelons realized that their social system was fundamentally flawed and that their predicament was created by themselves.

In one way or another, the high-ranking apostles of Atlantis were already desperate for the prospect of a war in the Holy City that would eventually erupt into doomsday war. That was why he chose to give up on continuing to help Atlantis and divide up the Three Ambassadors’ Legion of Acts in Al-Quds before the final trial arrived.

“Yiya!” While Qin Lun was still immersed in a daze, the little mute was a little impatient. He fiercely stepped on the back of the young man’s foot and finally regained his senses.

“You … already knew what this was, didn’t you?” Qin Lun smiled bitterly at the little mute.

Seeing that Qin Lun had regained his senses, the little mute immediately released his bare feet and ran to the entrance of the time-space converter. He even scratched the pen and asked him to activate the instrument.

Qin Lun took a deep breath and moved his hand away from the touch screen. He walked to the little mute and said seriously, “Trust me, entering the apostle’s world will never make it easier for you than it is now. At least I don’t think it’s a good choice.”

The little mute looked at Qin Lun quietly, but his big black-haired eyes were exceptionally firm.

Qin Lun and his big eyes widened as they sighed for a long time. “Alright, maybe I can’t persuade you, but I can choose not to activate this instrument for you! With me here, at least you can survive safely!”

“Yiyaya!” The little mute raised his head and glared at Qin Lun angrily. Seeing the young man turn his head and ignore him, he finally fell silent. After a while, the little mute pulled Qin Lun’s arm and slowly handed the doll in his arms to the young man.

“You … would rather give up on it than do this!” Qin Lun raised his head as if he had been heavily punched. He stared fixedly at the tattered doll and muttered to himself, “Alright, this is your destiny. I respect your choice … just don’t regret it. There’s no turning back on this path!”