Su Wen did not know why his figure as Rhine had appeared there,
but clearly,
once history had been altered,
the Great Library's records might no longer be so certain, unless it possessed some kind of interference-resistant capability.
But that fragment had appeared for only an instant. Even Su Wen did not know whether it had been an illusion.
He saw the Memory Fragments woven from Data Stream gradually blur. Only the long hair of the grown-up Mature Woman Lucia remained, gently fluttering in some disturbance of time and space.
Her fingertips hovered in midair, casting scattered specks of light from the star map in the Holographic Projection behind her onto the crystalline ice floor.
That former Savior Witch,
Miss Lucia Ferdinand, known within this history as the Last Empress of the Human Federation, at the very last instant before the image vanished,
her gaze seemed to pierce through the barrier formed by data and meet Su Wen's eyes in the void.
Only then
did Su Wen finally recall that look. It was exactly the same look she had worn not long ago, when he had said farewell to that innocent young girl before leaving the Third Era.
At that moment,
countless enormous mysteries had completely engulfed him.
After all, the primary purpose of this operation was to assist Phyllis in completing her research on the currents of the Lost Sea.
Only then
could he rapidly develop his Handover City in step with the later work of correcting the future.
Moreover, he needed to work with Caroline to uncover the conspiracy behind the American Federation's Lost Sea voyage.
In other words,
he was racing against time.
Once the time of modern civilization caught up to Su Wen's plan, or even surpassed it, he would no longer be able to alter