Ritsuko hesitated for a moment, and suddenly uttered these two words softly from her mouth, but judging from her expression, she still seemed a little hesitant, wondering whether she should tell the other person the complete truth now.
"What? Time? Are you talking about the 'time' of time passing by? What does this have to do with us patients?" Zhang Ke asked very puzzled, especially when he saw Ritsuko's hesitant expression.
Finally, he felt even more strange, "Could this involve some ulterior secret? But now we are inside the Haihua Flower Stronghold, so we don't have to worry about the walls having ears, right?"
"Zhang Ke, do you still remember the specific scene when we escaped from the sanatorium?" Ritsuko suddenly changed the subject and asked proactively.
"Uh... Of course I remember. We accumulated experience and intelligence through several time reincarnation cycles, and passed through one level after another, and finally succeeded in escaping..." At this point, Zhang Ke was suddenly stunned for a moment.
, as if he understood the meaning of Ritsuko's words just now, he asked in surprise:
"Wait a minute, does the time you are talking about refer to... this kind of time loop that appears inexplicably like a miracle?"
"That's right, but there is one thing that needs to be corrected. That time loop is not a simple coincidence, but an observable phenomenon created by humans." Ritsuko nodded and said, "You should also have discovered that before us
After successfully escaping from Bianhua Sanatorium, you will never encounter a time loop again, right?"
"Yes...I was originally worried that I would have to live the same day again day after day, but fortunately since I left the nursing home, the flow of time in the entire world has returned to normal, and I have never encountered such a situation again.
A strange scene.”
"Same for me - I originally thought that this so-called time loop was caused by some unknown principle after we encountered extreme danger, and the body's survival consciousness instinct triggered this phenomenon, allowing us to have unlimited experiments.
Mistaken opportunity. Until you successfully escape, this ability will temporarily die out." Ritsuko explained:
"However, after I left the sanatorium and devoted myself to intelligence trading, I encountered several situations that were a hundred times more dangerous than when I escaped from Higanbana. I almost lost my life and my body, but this miracle of going back in time never happened.
.”
"So I originally thought that the activation center of this special ability was you and not me, but since you are living a normal life now, there should be only one conclusion -" Ritsuko looked at Zhang with a smile.
Gram, as if to indicate that he would say the only answer himself.
"You mean... Bianhua Sanatorium artificially created this so-called time cycle?" Zhang Ke suddenly realized, with a very shocked look on his face, "Yes... only during the sanatorium did we have this unusual experience. Besides,
Doctor Lu seems to have said that he is deliberately training us to find our own ways to escape..."
"Yes, the time loop is actually an experimental environment used by the sanatorium to train and test us. It is completely set up and arranged by them. We are just guinea pigs in it. Therefore, when we leave that cage, we will naturally not
He will be imprisoned by the cycle of time again, and he will not be able to trigger similar miracles in the outside world." Ritsuko nodded.
"But... this is even more difficult to understand. Did they really distort time and space?" Zhang Ke couldn't help but hold Ritsuko's hand and asked anxiously, "Although I am not a physics major, I still have basic scientific literacy.
Not to mention that time travel is simply a fantasy that only exists in theory. If someone really succeeded, it would probably have caused a sensation all over the world, right?"
"If I hadn't personally experienced such a thing, I'd probably have a hard time believing it myself." Ritsuko lowered his eyes, seeming to avoid Zhang Ke's questioning gaze, "However, human civilization is like this sometimes, and it may have lasted for a long time.
It's just spinning around in circles, with no real progress. But when someone breaks through a bottleneck node, the whole world will usher in a technological explosion, allowing human civilization to advance rapidly again. This kind of thing is not uncommon in history, isn't it?
"
"You're right...but I still think this is a bit too sci-fi. It's really...hard to believe." Zhang Ke originally wanted to say that he didn't believe that "human beings can now manipulate time".
It was a whimsical argument, but remembering that Ritsuko in front of him was at least a trustworthy person and a scholar with more scientific knowledge than himself, he would never talk nonsense, so he asked:
"So, what is the principle that causes the time loop? Is there any special device needed? What is the scope of action?"
"This question, let alone me, I'm afraid not even BigG can answer you." Ritsuko said lightly, "Although the core members of Shanghai Flower Bar can now use the technology of time reincarnation on a small scale, they do not
Understand its core principles.”
"How is this possible? It is obviously something they have researched by themselves, but now they only know how to manipulate it but don't know the principle. Isn't this too unconvincing?" Zhang Ke said doubtfully, "Isn't it convenient to tell me, an outsider?"
"No... at least on this point, I really didn't lie to you." Ritsuko said with a wry smile, "I never said that the technology to make time loop was developed by the people at Higanbana Sanatorium."
"They didn't develop it, but they can use it... I understand, they got this time-manipulating technology or device from other channels, right?" Zhang Ke understood what Ritsuko meant, but quickly thought
A bigger question emerges:
"So, who was the person who created this miracle in the first place? And after it became a big success, he neither published it nor used it to benefit himself, but quietly gave it to the Bana Flower organization?"
"Your guess is almost correct, but there is a slight deviation. It was not the person who created the miracle who personally gave Higanbana this technology, but Higanbana's spies sneaked into it and successfully stole it." Ritsuko explained, "Because the time loop was developed
The technical person is none other than the Guixu organization that Black Crow and Msisha are loyal to!"
"Guixu——" When he heard these two words, Zhang Ke suddenly felt his head swaying, and there seemed to be a strange sound buzzing in his ears, a vague memory that seemed to have been washed away, like a tumbling memory under the water.
The undercurrent is surging, constantly trying to turn into huge waves, but it is pushed into the subconscious by the deep water of memory.
"It is an international association with a long history. It has both legal business on the surface and underworld operations such as arms smuggling, drug sales, and human trafficking. They rely on the huge financial resources accumulated over several generations to control
Or they have placed many people in the government and society of small countries to pursue greater interests while engaging in the most cutting-edge scientific research."
Ritsuko introduced to Zhang Ke: "There is no way to verify when they were born, and when they quietly turned into a behemoth that is difficult for anyone to easily touch, but at least the two world wars in human history have hidden secrets.
In the shadows, they are fueling the flames behind the scenes, and have obtained huge war dividends, further expanding their own strength."