Along with the circuit paralysis, the Aurora Base again fell into darkness. Fortunately after having one experience, this time they weren't too chaotic. Consecutive footsteps and noisy sounds rang out from the distance, as if being vigilant against enemies.
Tan Xin returned to the passage on the fourth floor with a face full of exhaustion. A red-haired figure was already quietly waiting for him.
"Killed?"
"...En."
Hong Xiu took a glance towards the fourth floor. "Killing the Leader, shouldn't be this simple."
"I know." Tan Xin nodded. "But more or less it should be able to delay a bit of time... moreover, I got this."
Tan Xin took out a thumb-sized bottle from his pocket. Inside the bottle was contained a weirdly shaped miniature tongue... like some kind of Ritual Artifact.
"Over these three hundred odd years, all the testing records, research processes, and experimental results the Aurora Base did regarding Lord of the Aurora, are all in this Ritual Artifact... it replicated all the details of Lord of the Aurora, is the crystallization of everyone's efforts for so many years. Although it ultimately failed to succeed, but at least it can give other Realms some reference."
Tan Xin incomparably solemnly passed this thing into Hong Xiu's hands.
"You want me to send it into the hands of other Realms?"
"Right." Tan Xin smiled. "You however are the Combat Power ceiling of our Aurora City, are the world's [Asura] Pathway Chief... On this planet, there shouldn't be a few people who can snatch things from your hands. Even if the Realm Train explodes, you can still bring it out completely unharmed..."
"Handing this thing to you, I am most relieved."
Hong Xiu solemnly stored the bottle. "You really don't plan to leave?"
"Not leaving, my Train Ticket was all given to someone." Tan Xin paused for a moment. "You also don't need to advise me... from the moment I ordered to abandon the Seven Great Districts, I was already prepared to face this day. There always has to be someone responsible for all this, isn't that so?"
Hong Xiu deeply took a glance at Tan Xin, not advising anymore, but instead calmly nodded:
"I know."
"...I should leave the base."
Tan Xin stretched out one hand, pausing in mid-air. He looked at Hong Xiu slightly smiling: "Very happy to work together with you, Officer Hong Xiu."
Hong Xiu similarly stretched out her hand to shake with him, seriously answering,
"...Me too."
Tan Xin withdrew his palm, not turning his head walking towards the upper floors of the base. Along with his windbreaker disappearing in the darkness, Hong Xiu helplessly sighed a long breath...
...
"Have you, heard a vinyl record before?"
Han Meng leaned beside the car with piercing cold winds, looking at the aurora overhead that was thin to the point of almost disappearing, in his ears anew echoing Tan Xin's words.
"When the stylus rubs on the fine grooves on the surface of the vinyl record, the vibration will transform the already engraved song into electrical signals... that song may come from a few years ago, decades ago, it records the joy and anger of a certain period in the past, and forever preserved, until someone places it on a record player, that past will then reappear in the world."
"I want to engrave the Aurora City, into a vinyl record."
"We researched Lord of the Aurora, researching for three hundred odd years. Although there wasn't any too great harvest during this period, but more or less we also discovered some phenomena... the magnetic field surrounding Lord of the Aurora, can be compatible with the souls of humans after death. This also means that human souls, essentially are also just a kind of special magnetic field... at least in Lord of the Aurora's Domain it is like this."
"Then theoretically speaking, as long as we amplify Lord of the Aurora's magnetic field, we can then process human souls, engraving them into the sky like a song with a certain special frequency."
"Replacing sound with souls, replacing the vinyl record with the sky, replacing the stylus with Lord of the Aurora's special magnetic field... even if the physical Aurora City is destroyed, we will also replicate everything in the sky, retaining for at least a time of three hundred years."
"If within these three hundred years, someone cracks the secret of the Crimson Meteor, or becomes the second Lord of the Aurora, they can then newly read this vinyl record."
"At that time, the Aurora City will also reappear, the three million living beings inside the city will also have the possibility of being rescued."
"I know this sounds very outrageous, but this indeed is the final method Dr. Yi and I could think of, and its success rate is a full 60%... just relying on current humanity is unable to save the Aurora City. So, we can only pin our hopes on the future. Perhaps on a certain day in the future, the Aurora City will welcome salvation."
"This plan... is exactly 'Hand of Salvation'."
Han Meng sighed a long breath.
When knowing the "Hand of Salvation" plan, Han Meng for the first time felt shock coming from the depths of his inner heart. Turning the Aurora City into a "vinyl record", this was a possibility he had never envisioned before, but thinking about it carefully... this might be the only way out for the Aurora City.
Even if the Aurora Domain disappeared, humanity still remained seven Realms. Perhaps these seven Realms ultimately could have some breakthrough? No matter what, this probability was also much higher than the 0.001% of the "Reappearance" plan.
Right when Han Meng was still immersed in the shock Tan Xin brought him, a figure had already slowly risen from the elevator.
Behind Tan Xin's back, at some unknown time had already carried a Black Box. He directly walked to the front of Han Meng. Under this distance, Han Meng could even clearly see the residual bloodstains on his cheek...
Tan Xin went down to kill someone? Who did he kill?
"Han Meng, you now still have the final opportunity to regret." Tan Xin calmly looked at him. "Tell me, your choice."
Han Meng was silent for a moment. "I approve of your plan."
Getting this answer, the corners of Tan Xin's mouth slightly rose up. "Very good, then next every sentence I entrust to you, you have to listen well... because starting from now, our opponent is exactly the entire Enforcement System."
"You speak." Han Meng didn't have any reaction to this, because from beginning to end, he had never been intimate with the Enforcement System before.
Tan Xin's lips opened and closed, thoroughly spilling out his entire plan. Han Meng pondered deeply for a long time, slightly nodding.
"I understand."
"Good... then now, go do the matter you should do."
"What about you?"
Tan Xin patted the flying snow on the hem of his windbreaker, carrying the Black Box on his back, advancing alone towards the depths of the cold wind,
"I am going to find Lord of the Aurora... then, kill him."
...
"Using magnetic fields, to engrave a soul vinyl record?" Chen Ling finished reading the narration regarding the Hand of Salvation plan, astonishment emerging in his eyes.
"Very astonishing, right? When I heard it it was also this reaction." Wen Shilin sighed a breath. "A very long time ago, Tan Xin then started to prepare for this plan, even letting the Aurora Base secretly build a Magnetic Pole Amplification Controller... However whether it is effective or not is still hard to say."
"Regardless of whether it's effective or not, it all has to take Lord of the Aurora's own magnetic field as the foundation right?"
"Not wrong, and Lord of the Aurora's magnetic field, essentially speaking... is exactly his soul."