My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 45 Everything is turned upside down
In a daze, Chu Zhu gradually regained consciousness, and a familiar roaring sound came to his ears.

It's still an underground base.

The Three-Body Problem 3 was still playing on the screen.

"Nuwa No. 17, tell me the time!" Chu Zhu rubbed his temples. Although he had stayed up all night in the dream world, because he had entered the real world before, he was in high spirits after this reset—it really felt like he had just had a good rest and a good sleep.

"It's 7:08 AM Beijing time!"

"Is this the time this time? But why is it now Beijing time?" Chu Zhu paused for a moment, then shook her head noncommittally.

Many times, he was reborn at six in the morning after his death, but this time is not absolute.

There will also be situations like now, where it's 7 PM or even later... However, the reset time cannot be earlier than 6 PM! 6 PM is the starting point for resetting the random 24 hours, or in game terms, the save/load point.

This is also the fundamental reason why Chu Zhu did not repeatedly attempt suicide after witnessing Zhou Ze's death and realizing she couldn't catch up.

"If nothing unexpected happens, Uncle Li should be here soon!" Chu Zhu yawned. "Nuwa No. 17, let's change the movie! We need a really exciting domestic sci-fi blockbuster!"

then……

I looked and it was already 7:47.

"Something's not right!" Chu Zhu suddenly stood up. Li Kang would have entered the base around 7:30 at the latest.
How could it have been delayed until 7:47?
Moreover, he sat quietly watching the movie this time and didn't go out to do anything. Even if there was a butterfly effect, it shouldn't have affected Li Kang's decision not to come to the base.

"Nuwa No. 17." Chu Zhu frowned and gave the order as usual, "Clear the background data, restore the interface to normal, and open the base gate."

However, as soon as Chu Zhu stepped outside, her breath caught in her throat.

"...What the hell is this?!"

The exit wasn't the women's restroom!

Before me lay ruins—or rather, the wilderness?
Countless vines, grass, and green shoots covered the entire area. The outlines of tall buildings could be vaguely seen, but under the cover of vegetation, everything in front of me looked more like the ancient nuclear facility ruins I had seen before.

"Damn it!" Chu Zhu swore, a rare occurrence for him. Countless pieces of information collided in his mind, and he sorted out his thoughts. "It's because of communication with the government."

This is the only possibility!
Although he only wanted to test what the butterfly effect would cause and had not really made up his mind to hand over everything to the country, the result of this experiment was so outrageous that Chu Zhu didn't know what to say.

He could understand the future prosperity of civilization. In fact, if China could continue for who knows how many years, even if dynasties changed, Chu Zhu would be delighted... Moreover, that might make it easier to research past history.

Maintaining the status quo is understandable. History has inertia... that's normal!
But now it's like this...

"No, no, no, calm down! It's possible that because of what I did, the original Jinghai City was destroyed in a large-scale war in later generations due to the butterfly effect! Perhaps human civilization built cities elsewhere."

Chu Zhu forced herself to calm down. "Besides, even if that decision really leads to the extinction of human civilization... I just won't inform the country when I go back! That way, it should reset to normal next time... It's not a big problem."

Just as Chu Zhu was about to turn and enter the underground base, his ears suddenly twitched. He thought he heard the rustling of leaves—was it the sound of the wind?
Chu Zhu turned her head in confusion, her pupils suddenly dilating. What was that...?
The dense vines had been moving silently all along! The moment Chu Zhu noticed them, the vines suddenly straightened, transforming into long vine spears that stabbed fiercely towards Chu Zhu.

"Damn it!" Chu Zhu did a backflip, dodging the attack, then kicked away three thorny vines that were still trying to pierce her. She then quickly retreated back to the underground base. "Nuwa Seventeen, close the door!"

Boom!
Green sap spurted out. One by one, the thorny vines following closely behind Chu Zhu were cut in half, writhing on the ground like living earthworms for a moment before gradually softening and turning into ordinary vines.

"A huge problem has occurred..."

Chu Zhu closed his eyes, then stood up and pressed his ear against the alloy door of the underground base. With his keen hearing, he could hear some scraping and colliding sounds.

The attack is still ongoing!

He grabbed a vine with his other hand and gently stroked it, quickly noticing something was wrong: "It's not a branch! This texture is closer to flesh?"

After hesitating for a moment, he tore open his sleeve, took a piece of cloth, lightly dipped it into the juice on the ground, and gently sniffed it: "Sure enough, there is a bloody stench! This is not a plant, or rather, it is not a simple plant."

"Nuwa No. 17." Chu Zhu quickly turned around, walked back into the hall, and said expressionlessly, "Explain how I entered the base before."

"Initiating intelligence gathering, beginning in-depth analysis... Authorized user entered yesterday, activating standby #@*%$, this machine is restarting!"

"?" Chu Zhu fell into deep thought. In other words, the Commandery does not exist on this timeline... No, to think the worst, the very existence of human civilization, or even humanity itself, is questionable!

His entry was actually the first activation of Nuwa 17! This is utterly absurd…

"I finally understand why it's the Yanjing timeline!" Chu Zhu sighed. The capital? In this timeline, the capital probably doesn't even exist anymore.

He continued, "Nuwa 17, does humanity still exist in this world?"

"Begin to think deeply: Existence!"

"Yesterday, four people were at the Seventeenth Fire Seed Base along with the authorized personnel."

"So that's the full name of the base. Wait! There are four people?" Chu Zhu realized. "Project their faces!"

Then, Chu Zhu looked at the four familiar people and fell into a long silence.

Li Kang, Ning Linglong, Guan Fei, Bi Xuan...

"They're still alive? I see."

"So, even though the timeline has changed... I was still with them in the underground base yesterday. However, this should be their first time entering the Fireseed Base... So, even though many things have changed, some things will remain the same?"

"Rebuttal: According to yesterday's exchange, the four have been living in the Fire Seed Base, which has never completed a system reboot... It was the leader of the four who brought the authorized user into the base, and then the authorized user completed the reboot of the base's intelligent system."

Chu Zhu: "..."

That’s okay!

(End of this chapter)