This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 204 - Homeless

Chapter 204: Chapter 204 Homeless

Chapter 204: Chapter 204 Homeless

“The projects researched by the Spiritual Ability Research Institute are all extremely dangerous. They are essentially ticking bombs. It’s not that I don’t want to respect their thirst for knowledge, but… often, ignorance is bliss,” Ying Baiyi said.

Diana didn’t quite agree with this, but if it pertained only to the realm of Spiritual Energy, Ying Baiyi’s statement was correct.

Spiritual Energy was filled with unknowns. Despite humanity’s utilization and research over decades, the interpretations of the Great Void, Spiritual Attributes, and Holy Relics were still debatable.

No one could clearly explain why a small diamond could transform into various weapons and armor; it simply defied the law of conservation of energy. Nor could anyone definitively pinpoint what or where the Great Void was.

The Administration Bureau had a team specifically for exploring the Great Void, involving the military and collaborating with the Research Institute. They would venture into the Great Void at least once a year to collect samples and analyze their compositions.

Diana wasn’t part of that team. As far as she knew, Wang Ailin didn’t have the clearance to join this joint expedition either.

But she didn’t feel regretful at all. The entrance to the Great Void in this world, resembling a wormhole, always gave her the illusion that it would close immediately as soon as one foot was inside.

Being trapped and unable to return from the Great Void was undoubtedly a despair-inducing experience, much like the present situation.

“You just said the remaining people are trying to restore order…” Diana said.

“Yes, that’s us…” Ying Baiyi said.

“You… guys? I assume it must be a huge team,” Diana remarked.

“Yes, there were many of us initially. There were more than twenty Administration Bureau agents, over forty investigators, plus a 9th-level agent who was my partner, along with a few guys from the military police units S.W.A.T, P.W.A.T, and the Research Institute…” Ying Baiyi shook his head.

Diana pursed her lips; from his expression, those people must be dead.

“We never gave up hope, Diana, even though some among us knew there probably was no hope, but we still persisted. Sometimes, though, you find that what defeats you isn’t a natural disaster but rather a man-made one,” Ying Baiyi glanced at Diana, his eyes reflecting a hint of resentment.

“Are you saying that everything happening in this world… is man-made?” Diana furrowed her brows.

“It’s not all of it, but the current situation might also be because of something we did on our end. I don’t know if there’s a connection, but I’d rather believe there is… Diana, I’ll just tell you straight up now, the continuity of our world was disrupted by some interference,” Ying Baiyi explained.

“I don’t understand what you mean. My clearance at the Administration Bureau isn’t high enough; I’m just a 3rd-level CPA field agent,” Diana shook her head.

“Hmm… which means your Spiritual Energy Level is at the second tier,” Ying Baiyi pondered.

The Administration Bureau agents’ ranks are linked to internal clearances, with agents only differentiated as field or office personnel. However, the rank is universal, thus it doesn’t represent their combat capability, but rather how much classified information they can access.

Office agents have no need for combat, so they don’t possess Spiritual Power, but field agents are different. They are issued complete sets of Holy Relics and possess second-tier Spiritual Power, slightly above even the Spiritual Power Marine Corps in the military.

As a 3rd-level field agent, Diana’s primary duties involved solely investigating Spiritual Energy-related crimes and handling emergencies, such as smuggling Holy Relics or managing sudden Spirit Explosions, among others…

“Are you suggesting that we originally belonged to the same world, but because of something someone did, that world got split into two?” Diana asked.

“My guess isn’t far off from what you’re suggesting, but the concept might be different. The Administration Bureau’s 9th-level files once mentioned continuity studies of time. During World War II, the United Federation tried to research Time Observation technology, hoping to use this technology to win the war,” Ying Baiyi explained.

“Time Observation technology? Are you referring to time travel?” Diana asked.

“No, not traveling through time. I don’t know the details, but research into time travel was shelved; there must have been some insurmountable setbacks. The principles of Time Observation technology also differ. It’s like opening a window now to peek into the past and future,” Ying Baiyi elaborated.

“I understand. So, by using this technology, one could predict the enemy’s moves and study past behaviors,” Diana nodded, recognizing that if this technology could be effectively utilized, its potential value was immeasurable.

Moreover, merely adjusting current actions based on future outcomes doesn’t seem to cause any paradoxes. And being only an observer of the past without intervening also doesn’t involve any paradoxes.

“However, this technology wasn’t successful because they encountered phenomena similar to the electron double-slit experiment,” Ying Baiyi said.

“I know that experiment, it’s on Wikipedia,” Diana nodded.

The electron double-slit experiment is a classic quantum physics experiment and one of the few where humans still can’t obtain precise observation results.ature, based on whether or not you observe the process during the experiment, would yield paradoxical outcomes.

To put it simply: you conduct an experiment, and when you check the result, it turns out to be A, but if you don’t observe directly and instead use other means to perceive it, the result turns out to be B.

Just like Schrodinger’s cat—the result isn’t specific but holds two possibilities.

“So you mean they changed something by observing the past…?” Diana broke out in a cold sweat.

“Yes, you probably don’t know what year it is now, do you? Diana, tell me, what year is it where you come from?” Ying Baiyi asked.

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“2009…” Diana said, not understanding why, but her heart suddenly started racing.

“Good, so you come from the future… Now what if I told you it’s 2006 here, would you believe that?” Ying Baiyi asked.

Diana felt her mind go blank, not sure what she feared. When deep-seated common knowledge is challenged by the current circumstances, it instills fear.

The most ancient fear stems from the disruption of the mundane.

“That’s impossible… Ying Baiyi, if the world became like this in 2006, then what does that make the place I’m from…?” Diana looked up at Ying Baiyi, challenging him.

“That’s exactly what I’m worried about, Diana. I’m desperate to leave here because I know time is supposed to be continuous, but what I fear most is that this continuity has been broken…” Ying Baiyi shook his head.

Diana’s face turned pale.

“If the world turned out like this in 2006, can there even be a 2009?” Ying Baiyi asked with a smile.

Diana stared at Ying Baiyi, feeling his smile like a sort of judgement, negating her life, her past, and her future.

If Ying Baiyi was right, then there was no place left to return to.