dognovel Chapter 430 Thinking Dreams
Chapter 430 Thinking Dreams
The corridor fell silent, and Alice sat in the temporary quarters she had prepared for herself, looking out the porthole—this was how she had spent her recent years.
It seems that she doesn't need to worry about anything, or from a certain perspective, this is exactly her ideal—to raise the torch and lead people toward dawn, and then retire gracefully when the sun rises.
"Who exactly am I?"
Alice had asked herself this question countless times. She was proud of what she had done, but also felt lost about what she had created.
She was always a person of her time; she led humanity into that era, but what happened afterward? The dream of a United Nations for Earth has long been accepted by many, but can this dream truly be realized?
"Yeah, you really think you can achieve it? Ha! Arrogant!"
"Over the years, you've become a woman and a so-called leader, but think about it carefully, is this something you did yourself, or something someone else did?"
"When you start a war, when you destroy, you cover it up with noble reasons. You are not a human being at all. You are an ambitious man, a monster."
The questioning grew louder and louder, and Alice didn't know how to answer.
"You think you've shown them a path, a path to the future, but you haven't told them that even you don't know where this path leads!"
Alice struggled to open her eyes, and there she saw herself—a "self" looking at her.
"This is what you've done. You shout about equality while putting yourself on a pedestal!"
"You promised them peace, but you've only gotten war after war!"
"In the past, it was about traveling from one piece of land to another; now, it's about traveling from one end of the Milky Way to the other."
"Itself" reaches out and grabs Alice, trying to break her down. At this point, Alice herself doesn't know what to do.
It seems that "Alice" has become unimportant. The people on Amelanxi can continue to move forward even without Alice, and the expeditionary fleet has had a clear objective from the very beginning.
On the Empire's side, Alice was even more dispensable—Alice had no real power base whatsoever.
"Your era is over. You failed to accomplish everything. For the rest of your time, watch as everything that destroyed you ten thousand years ago is utterly destroyed and everything that you have rebuilt is utterly crushed."
Alice felt as if she had fallen from a great height, cold sweat pouring down her face: "What...what are you?"
Instead, "myself" laughed, seemingly disappointed by Alice's question: "Me? This lady is nothing but you. Didn't you pride yourself on having some understanding of our world? How come you've even forgotten yourself?"
Alice looked at the "self" before her, and there was indeed confusion in her eyes, but these words did not break her down—just as in the past, a failure and a moment of confusion could not make her give in.
"You are definitely not me. As for myself and what I have done, future generations will judge me. You have no right to criticize me—what exactly are you?"
Alice's senses began to clear, and she keenly realized that the "Alice" in front of her was not an illusion, but a real entity.
Alice gave a disdainful smile: "What do you think you're fighting against?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a sudden change occurred around Alice, and a chaotic, frenzied magical force surged forth.
"Subspace entity..."
"...Subspace? No, no, no, my dear, my mirror universe~ You know nothing about the universe, and you call it subspace, which is like calling an entire civilization Red Ridge."
"Alice," wielding a blood-red scythe, lunged at Alice, who drew her ever-present staff from her waist.
"The etching system is online and is reprogramming the magic."
At the critical moment, the scythe stopped in front of Alice, and the surrounding magic was reprogrammed by the etching system, transforming into magic acceptable to this world and spreading out.
"Your world is about to fail, and everything you are doing is undoubtedly a path for losers to become losers."
Alice gave Alice a curtsy, a gesture quite different from Alice in her military uniform.
"Well then, keep going on with your failures. It's very impolite of me, but you're no ordinary person, Alice."
"I'll be keeping an eye on you. Here I am... Ah, I never imagined that after so long, I would see a version of myself that is anything but ladylike."
Alice vanished before her eyes, leaving Alice gritting her teeth. What exactly were "Alice" and the so-called "Mirror Universe"? And what was their connection to the crisis of ten thousand years ago...?
There's still no clue, but—Alice suddenly realized that the siege against humanity ten thousand years ago must have been because the humans of the United Nations on Earth knew something.
So, apart from Earth, what else must be hidden in the other planets and moons of the solar system, especially Mars?
If that "Alice" can find herself, then danger will accompany her as she finds others.
"the truth......."
Alice clenched her fists. If the truth was there, then she would go there—alone, alone.
Vera finished her day of research. Just now, the core server area of the lunar array core had been discovered. In a huge space, hundreds of damaged array storage units were submerged in a liquid that was no longer recognizable.
Restoring these ancient arrays of storage is undoubtedly a huge challenge, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do it—in the distant Amelansi system, Vera led the restoration of the central storage array of the dreadnought “United”.
These arrays are exactly the same as those on the Soyuz spacecraft; they are standardized facilities of the United Nations on Earth.
"Sister Alice~ Sister Alice, I'm going back... oh?"
Alice should have been in the captain's cabin, where they were taking a break, but now it was empty. Vera assumed she had simply gone somewhere else.
But soon, she was drawn to something left on the table to the side.
"Vera, let's go find the truth on our own. Our universe is in crisis..."
The message sealed in the terminal was very long, and the more Vera read, the more cold sweat poured down her back.
This means that what they are facing is far more severe than they imagined; it is not just a matter of a piece of land, a planet, or a civilization.
Rather, it concerns the safety of the entire physical universe.