"Fascinating," Commander Muri said, staring at Ian's armor. "But one thing confuses me: if humans have mastered your level of technology, how could the world end up in this state?"
"Haven't you seen my file? I died in an explosion less than a year before the war broke out, and my research was buried with me."
"First Dr. Azim, then you - it seems this world is destined to be destroyed," Muri murmured to himself.
"Don't be so pessimistic. Now that we have the toxin and a Female White Spike, there is still hope," Ian said.
"Maybe."
"This female is emitting a strange smell that males can smell and track hundreds of kilometers away. I have isolated it with a force field, but once I remove the force field, they will attack the base."
"Is what you say true? What basis do you have?"
"You can test it yourself later," Ian retorted. He was telling the truth, because that's how the alien monsters tracked their ant queens and attacked the base. "I need to access the energy of this base because my armor cannot maintain the force field for more than 8 hours."
"I'll check first, but if what you say is true, it won't be a problem."
It didn't take long for the commander to detect the strange smell emanating from Female White Spike, but her team wasn't sure if the male could track it from miles away. However, to be on the safe side, they followed Ian's suggestion. So they connected the suit with many cables, and it released a force field to trap the female.
Ian and Muri and other scientists are staying in the room, trying to complete the development of the toxin. However, if anyone observes him carefully, they will find that he is wearing a glove with a strange Alchemical Array painted on it. After United States's army tried to attack him while he slept, Ian realized that he couldn't rely too much on his armor, so he designed a Alchemical Array that imitated the greedy Homunculus in "Fullmetal Alchemist".
Once activated, he can control the carbon element in his body and turn his skin into a hard substance similar to Graphene. In that state, he can survive most modern encounters and can even withstand nuclear bombs as long as he is not at the center of the explosion.
While everyone was working, he was also engrossed. He had hacked into the base and retrieved the blueprints of Space-Time Jump Chain. Its design was both brilliant and puzzling. Dr. Azim created a crystal called Graviton, which can generate an extremely strong gravitational field, making it easier to access the fluctuations of space and time and travel to the future.
This Space-Time Jump Chain was originally designed for space exploration. Space and time are unified, and the original idea was to use this device to jump a minute or an hour into the future, but the destination could be anywhere in space. With this technology, humans could have started the interstellar age. Unfortunately, before humans could even test the first jump, Dr. Azim died suddenly, and the war broke out shortly thereafter.
Someone tried to find his research notes to complete his work. They didn't find it, but found some of his theories about possible time travel to the past. The idea was to create a Einstein-Rosen Bridge as a conduit to the past from the current timeline. Through Graviton, Dr. Azim hypothesized that it was theoretically possible to create a controllable Black Hole as the anchor point and entrance of their timeline, and create a controllable White Hole in the past as the second anchor point and exit of the bridge.
'These people are wrong. Dr. Azim deliberately hid his research results because he wanted people to focus on exploring the universe instead of interfering with the past. If they had inherited his vision, humans would have mastered the method of traveling to other planets and evacuated by now,' Ian thought to himself.
'Forget it, it's useless to say that now. The reason why this Space-Time Jump Chain technology interests him so much is because its cost is so low. The manufacturing cost of Graviton and the entire Space-Time Jump Chain is ridiculously low, which can be said to be a drop in the bucket considering all the means Empire has created for space or time travel. The most important thing is that he has something new to upgrade Doom Armor.
'The rules of time will be different in most worlds, but I can still use this technology to add teleportation capabilities to the armor,' Ian thought. With this new information, Ian began to design Doom Armor 2.0. This world is quite advanced, so he even found information about the early development of nanotechnology.
When he finished, the team of scientists also completed the development of the toxin, and Commander Muri came to him. "This is for you."
"Are you done? It was so fast."
"Take this back to your timeline, find the source of the invasion, and kill them before they spread."
"What about you?"
"Humanity is not destined to survive," Muri said. "We will create as many toxins as possible and fight until our last breath, but we only have 500,000 people and they have billions."
"Isn't that a bit too pessimistic?" Ian said. He did not take the medicine bottle, but walked to their computer and checked the final structure of the toxin. "Morgana, enter Virology Creation Mode." The armor standing next to Female White Spike, releasing a force field to cover the entire room, suddenly projected an interactive holographic projection in his eyes.
In the next hour, Ian slowly designed a complex structure while operating the holographic projection. Muri and the scientists watched intently. When he finished, one of them stammered and asked, "That is..."
"A virus that has the same effect as your toxin? Congratulations, you got the right answer," Ian nodded. "I have designed it to be spread through the air, so you only need to release this thing, and within a week, all White Spikes in the world will die suddenly."
The room was deathly silent.
"And this is just the beginning. I have two ways to increase your population and rebuild society. First, you need to contact the past governments. You make a deal with them, provide them with advanced technology, and in return they must recruit people around the world who are willing to abandon the current timeline and move to the future. I have upgraded Space-Time Jump Chain so you don't have to worry about transporting them.
"The second plan is a cloning project. I need you to recover the blood bank, or any human genetic data left in this empty world. I will build a cloning laboratory to repopulate the world."
When the team recovered from the shock, they immediately began to implement his plan - except for the cloning laboratory. They felt that this was too unethical, so they decided to see the results of the recruitment plan first.
Kang En and Jack returned to the past with the poison, but Ian only sent his Doom Bots. The mission was successful, they destroyed the nest, Gwen killed the first female queen, and the team dug up the spaceship. There was a slight friction over the ownership of the spacecraft, but the robots suppressed everyone and took it away.
Ian received 1000 points for the main mission, 1500 points for the excavation ship, 300 points for saving Dorian's life by preventing him from being recruited, and an additional 500 points for sending him an antidote to cure cancer. Now, he has 14,078 points.
At the same time, other aspects of Ian's perfect mission are also proceeding smoothly. White Spikes was systematically eliminated, leaving only a few as experimental subjects. The recruitment situation in the past timeline was better than he imagined. Many people want to escape the capitalist Purgatory in the early 21st century, and they see this plan as a way out.
And it wasn't just ordinary people who signed up. Scientists, engineers, doctors, historians, and many other technicians chose to immigrate. While most did so for personal life reasons, some were driven by intellectual curiosity about the future, and the rest were motivated by a sense of duty. They wanted to rebuild that timeline into a better place.