"Course correction complete … deceleration to 0.10 … load capsule about to be launched … repeat … load capsule about to be launched …"
The white needle on the instrument subtly shifted to the right by a millimeter.
The voice of the person holding the red joystick tightened slightly.
Only his voice echoed in the control room.
There was no response in the headset.
"Load capsule about to be launched …"
The needle trembled, indicating that the blue spaceship had entered the expected out of control cavity. This was their only chance to jettison the load capsule.
Otherwise, the spaceship would not have enough power to reach its destination.
The faintly discernible silver bracelet on his wrist flashed at the critical moment.
He took a deep breath and pressed the joystick at the same time.
The door outside the isolation cabin opened.
A metallic cube was launched out and almost instantly disintegrated into the size of an atom by the force fields tearing each other in the out of control cavity. The person standing behind the door was also affected by the force fields when the door quickly closed. The armor spell slightly blocked a wave of energy, but the rest still tore the skin on the side of his body. He had to heal himself in the isolation cabin before returning to the control room.
The person sitting in front of the console sharply criticized him. "You didn't reply to me."
"The headset can't be used after entering the out of control cavity." That was why he thought of using the trace thread to respond.
At the same time, he also had his own accusations.
"Even if you don't receive a reply,
You should also launch the load-bearing cabin immediately.
This is the responsibility of a captain. "
"But this is Tadis.
Not Enterprise … What's wrong with your face?! "Harry jumped up.
He leaned over his professor and checked.
He found that there were a few more lacerations on Snape's right arm and right cheek.
"It has been treated. It's not a big deal."
Looking at the treatment effect, it was definitely not a big deal at the time. But Harry did not dwell on this topic anymore.
He turned around and adjusted the speed and course correction.
After a while, he observed the crystal ball fixed in the center of the console.
A timeline in the shape of an "8" floated there. If one looked closely, they would find that every second that passed caused slight wear and tear on it.
"Professor, we have to speed up and return."
Snape sat in his seat and closed his eyes without saying a word. Harry leaned back in his chair and complained about the shortcomings of the long journey. He lamented the death of Petronius and regretted not being able to cause trouble in the Bastille.
"… Well, speaking of which, I thought Agatha was an amiable old lady like Miss Marple. I didn't expect her to have such a bad temper."
Snape raised his eyebrows slightly. "You held Ms. Christie's hand and praised her 'Four Signatures' as soon as you went up. She's already being very kind by not kicking you out of the banquet."
Harry rubbed his nose. "How would I know that she really didn't get along with Doer? I thought it was just a figment of the imagination!"
From Rome, where Nero killed them, to the scene of the Sarajevo incident, they had traveled for a long time. But specifically, the time span in Tadis was about ten years and five months. Last month, they faced the famous Marquis de Lafayette in the Battle of Paris in 1832. Last month, they helped him in the Battle of Yorkshire in 1781 (the newly independent United States). Before that, they watched the fire that burned down London from a distance and felt the heat of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The biggest problem of traveling in time was that they had to try to distinguish between the people who lived and died and the scenic spots that changed the world. It was very common for people who were laughing and drinking yesterday to become fictional characters in legends today. (Harry: I thought Robin Hood was a story too.) More common was that they had to watch it all happen, like the outbreak of a war, the eruption of a volcano, a group of refugees dying on the edge of a city, a group of soldiers freezing on the ice.
Snape once saw Harry rush into the fire to save a baby, and then stand in the burning street with the baby in his arms. He asked in a daze, "There's a mother in the room …" The ordinary, nameless London woman pushed the baby's cradle to the door, but her spine was smashed by a burning pillar.
Snape had to forcibly teleport his Phantom away from the fire.
Harry was not the kind of man who needed much consolation. He could figure it out for himself. It was a fact that he had not been able to save one mother, but an even greater fact was that thousands of mothers were dying in the world. People were losing their parents, their children, their friends, their lovers, every moment. They named the red-haired little girl Orlando, and then smuggled her into the twentieth century and gave her to a London couple to raise.
They spent ten years to understand and adapt to this world, and the timeline was worn down by time and space.
A few days ago, they landed in an era of peace. They spent some time dismantling some of the unnecessary parts in the Tadis and made it into a normal box. They threw some souvenirs in it and used a tortuous route to mail the box to an old friend.
This modification seemed to have affected the Tadis' engine, and they had to reduce the weight of the spaceship to ensure that the remaining power could send the two of them to their destination. Fortunately, Snape had recorded the data of every voyage in detail. From the log, they found a wrong energy field caused by the many times they crossed time and space. Harry named it the "out-of-control cavity", and the Tadis generally avoided it carefully, but when necessary, it could also help the two travellers deal with some space-time garbage. They could not let this garbage accidentally fall into the wrong space-time, so it was better to let it be shattered in time.
They modified the internal structure of the Tadis and separated out an isolation cabin, but the temporary launch pad was not enough power. When the spaceship's energy was tight, Snape proposed to let him manually push the load-bearing cabin, but this caused him to be temporarily exposed to the out-of-control cavity at the beginning.
The steadily accelerating Tadis suddenly shook, and Snape opened his eyes. This was the signal that the spaceship was about to enter the final stage of the sprint. He adjusted the position of his seat and turned to the co-pilot's direction. The silver needle on the dashboard was quickly sliding across the long timeline.
Harry also sat up straight, holding the joystick with one hand, his eyes fixed on the shattered timeline in the crystal ball.
"Professor." He suddenly wanted to ask Snape a question, but he had not thought of what to ask.
"Potter." The Potions Professor just calmly called him by his surname.
Harry smiled. There were many questions hanging on his lips. For example, if they landed smoothly, would they want to go on a short vacation? Or if their plan succeeded, would their partners in 93 be able to smoothly take over and make everything go smoothly? Also, what was the sentence that was overshadowed by the volcanic eruption a few years ago before Pompeii's doomsday?
But in the end, he chose a question that was not so appropriate. "Professor, about the second type of death …" The topic that had been put aside for ten years was brought up again. It was like picking up a stone from the water, smooth and cold.
"That spell, will you accompany me?"
The rapidly moving needle was preset to the time point. They would return to the tenth century, the time when Hogwarts was first established. Merlin was there waiting for their return, in the hidden Avalon. Legend had it that the wizard would prepare a potion and a spell for Harry to let him die in the Middle Ages in the form of the second type of death. Then the paradox would be born, and the time loop would be opened.
But Snape was not part of this plan. Although the Potions Professor promised to research an antidote for the "second type of death", from the looks of it, Merlin did not leave a backdoor for this powerful forgetting plan. Moreover, when the second type of death happened, Snape should have forgotten about Harry.
So Harry's question was unclear.
Will you accompany me? Accompany me to die, or …
Snape suddenly began to adjust the landing angle of the spaceship, interrupting Harry's hesitation.
Harry also realized that they were about to return to Avalon. He quickly began to check the data, but then he heard Snape say, "Potter, no matter how chaotic your memory is, when I first met you …"
Harry remembered the candlelight in the Hogwarts Auditorium.
Snape said, "You were sitting in the cradle and crying."
Ah, it was that time …
"I learned from the other Death Eaters that the Dark Lord went to Godric Valley. When I rushed over, your father, the old Potter, was lying between the living room and the corridor. He was in front of Lily, and Lily was in front of you. I begged the Black Devil King, and he agreed to let Lily go, but Lily didn't accept … What I want to say is, that was the first time I saw you. You were crying in the cradle, and when you saw me, you even reached out and wanted me to take you away — or maybe you just wanted me to hug you, but I thought that this child was the one who killed Lily, so I left … "
Many people came to Godric Valley that night, Voldemort, Wormtail, Sirius … and maybe Lupin. It was a very chaotic night, full of killing, betrayal, and separation. In the end, it was Haig who took him away. That was when the story began.
Harry suddenly began to miss the half-giant and his rock-hard biscuits.
Snape said slowly, "Maybe it was because I turned and left that day that I couldn't leave again."
Harry's eyes widened.
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