With the new equipment, the Reunion Movement could attack targets that were previously beyond their capabilities.
Xing Chen and Theresa did not participate in the raids; they mainly stayed in the rear, doing their own things.
For example, studying the connection between the two worlds and the role Originium played in it.
Xing Chen believed that the law of conservation of matter still applied when the two worlds were linked.
This meant that if Originium from western Ursus reached Earth, then something from the western Northern Country should also have reached Terra.
Theresa was not optimistic about this theory, because in her opinion, the law of conservation of matter was not very reliable.
The most typical example was Originium, a mineral that could self-proliferate.
Neither of them could convince the other, so Xing Chen could only ask Talulah to use Black Snake's old scales in western Ursus to see if they could find anything that didn't belong to Terra.
It was like looking for a needle in a haystack; who knew when there would be results.
Besides this, Theresa had one more task than Xing Chen, which was to educate the Reunion Movement cadres so they could adapt to urban administrative positions.
After entering Chernobog, all administrative personnel, including the spy officials sent by the Ursus Empire, would either be repatriated or executed depending on the situation.
And in order for the city to function normally at that time, cadres exclusive to the Reunion Movement were very important.
The only problem here was that the entire Reunion Movement had no training experience.
Xing Chen was out of the question; he was still just a common person.
As for Theresa, Kazdel, if one had to say, didn't even have a normal administrative system; it was better to do militarized management with Patriot.
Talulah, following Koschei, did have some experience with the old bureaucracy, but wasn't she forming the Reunion Movement precisely to overthrow these people?
So, this group of Terrans gathered together to discuss how to develop.
These experiences could not only be used for the Reunion Movement, but also when Theresa returned to her loyal Kazdel.
Xing Chen would not participate; his material and ideological conditions were too different from those of the Terrans.
Putting aside other things, just one: you go and beat down those hundred-odd people by yourself.
Since heroes truly exist, as a historical materialist, he naturally had to accept the heroic view of history.
Otherwise, it would be idealism; I think history should be a people's history, so the objective heroic view of history is wrong.
Xing Chen was not idle; when he occasionally got bored, he would find something to do, such as guiding the development of production at the icefield outpost, which he was capable of doing.
Setting up a few greenhouses to grow some cold-resistant crops could somewhat improve the quality of life.
Based on old machine tools, hand-crafting some new ones to optimize material supply would facilitate future operations.
Attacking the icefield mine could not only expand manpower but also obtain some industrial materials.
Industrial production was not very realistic, but Terra had Originium Arts, which allowed for small-workshop-style production of items that were not of the highest quality but barely usable.
Such days continued until one day, Patriot handed Xing Chen a tablet.
"Where did you find it?" Xing Chen's intuition told him this should be a Pre-civilization artifact.
"In a certain mine, a miner dug it out from an Originium vein. At the time, he thought it was a novelty and hid it. Later, when we liberated them, we happened to hear about it while chatting with them."
"Hmm... this thing is indeed useful," Xing Chen tapped a few times on the tablet. He had a vague feeling that its energy hadn't run out, but it just wouldn't turn on. "Patriot, can you help me call Theresa over?"
"Okay," Patriot agreed, then turned and left with Yelena.
"Father, what do you think is the relationship between that man and Princess Theresa?" Yelena had observed this man for a long time; he was very smart, but besides that, his only other characteristic was his extreme physical frailty.
"I don't know, maybe he has some extraordinary qualities, or perhaps the Princess just likes that type," Patriot was a man with a wife and son, and his emotional experience was far richer than a group of people who had been single since birth.
After Theresa arrived, the two immediately summoned Friston.
After a thorough repair by Friston, some information was indeed extracted from it.
Debate (crossed out) Casual Chat Log
Recording Time: Interstellar Era (crossed out) We are already dead, time has no meaning for us
Terra Era 4K
"This time, we failed again."
"Yes, where did the problem lie?"
"The wave of destruction is never just once."
"We need to always surpass the lumberjacks."
"Do you still remember those Subspace creatures?"
"One wall in the Tau-2 Imperial Palace isn't enough."
"Perhaps, we can try to become beings beyond the world, so that the laws of this world can no longer restrain us."
"Indeed, I hope that in the remaining time, we can complete a part of the research. Alas, we have to optimize those information formulas again."
Log Interrupted
Looking at this log, the three immediately thought of the Seer and Prythian from the Originium Project.
Friston carefully checked it several times, confirming it was not a prank.
This Terra Era 4K was a product from at least 3000 years later.
Did the Pre-civilization have time machines?
"Do you have a way to leave messages from the future to the past?" Xing Chen couldn't help but ask Friston.
"No, only from the past to the future, after all, someone's codename is Seer."
"Friston, this is not the time for jokes, I'm already confused about the timeline." Xing Chen frantically scratched his head.
"Perhaps, a part of their plan was successfully implemented?" Theresa offered her insight.
Xing Chen's world was the past tense of the Terra timeline, and the message from the Originium Project duo was a possible future.
"Generally speaking, under the theory of a single timeline, the past cannot be changed," Friston introduced their time theory to the two. "The multi-timeline theory is a derivative of the single-timeline theory, meaning it can affect the progress of non-main timelines. This theory is still constrained by the closed-time theory."
"Unless they can transcend the closed timeline..."
"It seems they have indeed modified the past more than once," Friston said. "Wait a minute, I think I know your true identity now. You are an ancient person whose past has been modified."
Based on the known information, Friston suddenly deduced Xing Chen's true identity.
However, his attention now seemed to be not on Xing Chen's identity, but on this message, which was even brain-burning for him.
"I know why you said your world has no Originium, because before a certain modified time period, Originium indeed did not exist in your world." Theresa also explained some of the mysteries.
But for Xing Chen, the questions were only increasing.
Such as the lumberjacks who appeared more than once, powers beyond the world, and so on.
And why he could travel through Terra.
What did the Seer and Prythian, who left the message, discover, and what were they planning?
"Don't worry, we still have time, let's finish the tasks at hand first."
Theresa patted Xing Chen's shoulder, comforting him.
"I will accompany you until the very end."