American Comics: Multiverse of Madness

48. Anchor Points Between Multiverses.

Although he wasn't entirely sure what had happened, Alex suspected that the timepad had clearly been modified by some powerful entity. Otherwise, it didn't make sense why it could travel freely between different multiverses.

Moreover, Pietro had previously mentioned seeing a yellow cookie that only laughed when he saw the timepad. If his guess was correct, the yellow cookie Pietro mentioned was the Miss Minutes in front of him. This meant that at that time, the timepad was in an active state.

Even when Alex went to the secret chamber of President X and picked up the timepad, the machine was still active, and it even had enough power left for one 'macroscopic universe' traversal.

So, why didn't President X use the Miss Minutes to traverse when he first obtained the machine? Perhaps he didn't know the machine's function, but the Miss Minutes did.

Unless, there was some unknown secret about the Miss Minutes at that time. As for the previous user of this timepad being killed by President X and the device becoming his trophy, Alex felt that was impossible.

Firstly, considering the power required to modify a timepad, the entity involved would have to be extraordinarily strong. Even if the entity died at the hands of President X, he would have certainly acquired their memory. In such a case, President X would undoubtedly know how to use the machine.

Moreover, when probing Alex's memory, President X was deeply engrossed and unable to extricate himself. This indicated that President X had not experienced scenarios beyond his comprehension.

Therefore, considering all this, the identity of the previous owner of the timepad and why it appeared in that universe remained two significant mysteries weighing on Alex.

Currently, Alex had no means to investigate such high-level secrets. He could only focus on the pressing matters at hand.

After a moment of silence, Alex asked, "Miss Minutes, I want to know, how does the traversal function work? Can I traverse freely now?"

"Of course you can! Our archive is connected to the mainframe observing the Sacred Timeline. Regardless of how many branches the Sacred Timeline has, we can traverse to any time node among them."

Miss Minutes proudly said, conjuring an electronic screen out of thin air. The screen displayed the archive of the Sacred Timeline and its branches.

But the next moment, Miss Minutes's smile froze.

"Eh? Where did the Sacred Timeline go? Why did all the time branches in the archive disappear? Wait, there's still one valid record left, which seems to be from the previous archival data."

"Previous archival data?" Alex was taken aback.

"Yes." Miss Minutes nodded. "It should be an anchor point left when you traversed the previous time branch, so it's still in the current archive."

Hearing this, Alex understood. This record should be the universe where Pietro was, the parallel universe on the brink of destruction he had directly traversed to.

"Can I traverse to that world?"

"Of course, all recorded time branches have anchor points supporting traversal. You can traverse by consuming 1% of the power." Miss Minutes nodded, or rather, her whole body moved.

"That means the universe I'm currently in is also recorded and has an anchor point for traversal?" Alex asked excitedly.

"Yes, the anchor point is confirmed, and information is being uploaded. The data from both time branches are saved in the archive, allowing you to traverse freely."

Alex thought of another point. The timepad could directly locate Asgard, so he quickly asked, "So according to you, I can traverse to any location in that universe, not just Earth?"

"The previous time branch allowed that, but not this universe. The archive needs time to record a new time branch without the mainframe's observation. This process requires several months and consumes a lot of power."

Miss Minutes blinked and asked, "Do you want to record the current universe? It will consume about 43% of the power and take sixty-six days to parse."

"No, thank you." Alex quickly refused. He didn't have that much time to spend.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Alex's mind, but when he tried to delve into it, it vanished, leaving him frustrated that he might have overlooked something crucial.

However, Alex didn't dwell on it too much and asked, "Since there's a complete record of that universe, can you find the location of Asgard in that universe for me?"

"Okay, please wait a moment." Miss Minutes immediately began her task, quickly pulling data from the archive and starting the search.

Judging by her actions, Alex guessed she was starting from the Big Bang. Unsure how long it would take, Alex was about to ask her to stop when Miss Minutes suddenly stopped and provided an answer.

"According to the detection, no record of a civilization named 'Asgard' exists in that time branch."

"How is that possible?!" Alex was shocked.

He had assumed Asgard might have been destroyed by Ragnarok before appearing on Earth, but Miss Minutes's record left him bewildered.

"What about the Kree homeworld?" Alex asked.

"Please wait." This time, Miss Minutes responded quickly. "Detected the 'Kree' civilization and its star system. Please select the time node for traversal."

"Never mind." Alex waved it off, realizing his earlier guess was correct. That universe lacked any supernatural elements.

It had no heaven or hell, and not even extraterrestrial gods.

However, it wasn't a complete loss. Advanced technology could still provide formidable power. While magical artifacts were out of reach, acquiring alien technology was possible.

But before that, Alex had another thought.

"Miss Minutes, scan for the stars in that universe."

"What category of stars?"

Alex's eyes gleamed with a cold light as he sneered.

"Red suns."

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