Immediately afterward,
Just as the two were talking, a series of system notifications suddenly popped up before Su Wen's eyes, as dazzling as a scene from a sci-fi film.
Congratulations, Great Chief Player.
You have successfully participated in a future time node (the beginning of the Starfire Era).
You have touched upon hidden timeline 1, whose conditions have not yet been fully unlocked: "The Martian Rescue." Trigger probability: 73%.
Hidden timeline 2: "Mechanical Ascension: Error Sequence—Lilian—Stranded Song." Trigger probability: 14%.
Yet this notification sent Su Wen into deep thought:
If Mechanical Ascension corresponded to "Sleeping Kunlun," then was the Error Sequence the mechanical frenzy it had brought about?
And he had not encountered the latter two terms at all so far.
But the system notifications were not over yet:
Hidden timeline 3:
Resurrector Civilization "Second Era—China—Xihe—Chasing the Sun,"
Trigger probability: 3.27%.
Great Chief Player, please advance toward the future you desire.
Looking at those system notifications, this master slacker could not help feeling helpless. The matters ahead had not even been resolved, yet another pile of troublesome nonsense had arrived.
Of course,
What counted as "troublesome nonsense" to him
Might well be crucial turning points capable of changing the course of human civilization.
Yet as those lines of notifications appeared before him, Su Wen's thoughts gradually became clear, like stars being lit one by one.
He now fully understood what he needed to do next, and could even faintly glimpse that distant, grand vision of the future.
But those were matters for the end of Origin Year 6, or even after Origin Year 7.
For now, he had to focus on the lengthy storylines involving Silver Mechanical City and Lorenz Riel.
One path delved deep into the history of the Third Era, while the other pushed toward the future development