Chapter 337 The Paradox of Time

Before the explosion.

Li Qing, the Li Qing of the past, happened to drive to the port warehouse where the meat mountain was raging with the wounded he picked up on the road.

The pink-haired boy who called himself Tobio was seriously injured and in bad condition. If he had a choice, he would never want to get close to the lava beast.

But Li Qing was very confident and calm.

He knew that as long as he was careful to keep a distance of more than 100 meters, the mountain of flesh would not attack him.

So, ignoring Tobio's frightened cries, Li Qing drove into the port storage area, getting closer and closer to the lava monster.

At this moment, he heard a burst of crisp and intensive gunfire suddenly coming from a large warehouse in front of him.

Along with the crisp sound of the warehouse window glass shattering, a series of supersonic bullets shot out from the warehouse.

And these bullets happened to fly towards the mountain of meat.

The Meat Mountain reacted instantly.

"What?"

Li Qing was slightly stunned and could not help but be a little surprised:

"Someone's shooting at the meat mountain in that warehouse over there."

"Could it be those nosy Americans again? This... this is simply courting death!"

Guns cannot cause any damage to Roshan.

Those supersonic bullets can serve as bait to distract the meat, but the side effect of this method is that it will definitely bring the meat closer and closer to the person who fired the shooter.

"Use this water gun to fight monsters..."

“Have they watched too many movies?”

Li Qing sighed helplessly in his heart.

And the people in the warehouse are still committing suicide:

The gunshots probably stopped for a moment because of changing the magazine, and then started again with bang bang bang bang.

Bullets were thrown out like they were free.

The meat mountain continued to move forward along the trajectory of the bullet, getting closer and closer to the warehouse.

Li Qing also drove closely beside him, moving slowly forward in line with the pace of the Meat Mountain.

Tobio strongly opposed Li Qing's suicidal behavior of "leaning towards the Roshan path".

But Li Qing was completely unmoved:

"rest assured…"

"…With me here to guard the area, there is absolutely no way that thing can get within a hundred meters of us."

"Besides, even if something happened, it would be that idiot who just fired a gun in the warehouse who got into trouble first!"

"There are idiots like that who are 'actively' attracting hatred. What do you have to be afraid of?"

He pointed at the warehouse not far ahead and growled a few words in annoyance.

As he spoke, Li Qing deliberately shifted the focus of his monitoring away from the Meat Mountain, trying to listen to the movements in the warehouse, wanting to "see" the idiot who had shot himself to death earlier.

However, what he heard was...

boom!!

It's like when you're bending down to pick something up during class and you smell a fart from the person in front of you...

A loud explosion that pierced the clouds and split the rocks suddenly sounded from the warehouse, almost knocking Li Qing, who was concentrating and listening, unconscious.

Flames suddenly rose and gusts of wind surged into the sky.

The warehouse wall collapsed instantly in the violent explosion, and bricks, stones and rubble were blown into the air by the powerful shock wave.

Meat Mountain was immediately overwhelmed with joy.

It ran wildly after the flying debris in the air, but unfortunately...

The fastest piece of rubble was flying towards Li Qing.

Li Qing's ears were already buzzing from the explosion.

And this damn flying stone that attracted the attention of Meat Mountain attracted all his attention at this moment.

So he didn't notice at all...

After the explosion and the collapse of the wall...

The boy named Tobio was looking at the scene in the warehouse with a look of shock:

"That...the guy in the warehouse..."

"It's me?!"

What Tobio saw, Diablo could naturally see as well.

And in Diablo's vision...

Inside that warehouse, in the flames of that explosion...

There stood a pink-haired man who looked exactly like him!

Although the opponent's body was somewhat blurred and transparent, Diablo was still able to recognize it at a glance:

That man is him, Diablo!

"how so…"

"Why is there a guy who looks exactly like me in the warehouse?!"

Diablo's mind was filled with thunder and lightning.

He simply couldn't comprehend what he was seeing.

But this problem did not bother him for long.

Because the next moment Diablo saw the pink-haired man...

There is an indescribable and imperceptible force emerging from the long river of time.

That power is erasing everything:

Including Diablo's memory of that eye contact, and...

What he saw at this moment was the pink-haired man himself.

“…”

Silent, dazed , and confused.

He just sat there blankly until Li Qing's voice suddenly sounded behind him:

"Tobio? Don't move!"

Lee Sin reminds him how to deal with Roshan's attack:

"Stay awake and don't move!"

"Uh-huh?"

Tobio responded as if he had just woken up from a dream.

It was only then that Tobio and Diablo, the true master of this body, finally recovered from the sickening dizziness.

"Ah... my head hurts."

Tobio grabbed his hair in pain, his bloodstained body trembling slightly in pain:

Why does my head hurt so much?

Did you see something strange just now?

No, it seems not.

I can't remember it at all.

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"Paradox...it's a time paradox!"

In the warehouse, Diablo's face was as pale as paper.

He finally knew what would kill him:

"My past self sees my present self..."

"A paradox has been created!"

The cycle of time is absolutely stable and the past can never be changed.

Time can never tolerate the existence of [paradox] -

If the paradox is allowed to exist and hold true, the cycle of time will fundamentally collapse.

Therefore, there is always only one ending to the paradox:

Completely wiped out from this world by the indescribable force of time.

This is the self-repair of the time rule, just like the anti-virus software of the computer system.

And now, Diablo's existence is the paradox that must be erased under the rules of time.

"I...I'm going to die?"

Diablo actually hasn't noticed anything wrong with his body yet:

His body was still gradually fading away and becoming transparent, just like when he used [Ouroboros] normally before.

If everything went well, he would enter the long river of time and go back to the past, and then return here safely an hour later.

But at this moment, Diablo suddenly had an inexplicable premonition in his heart:

This time, he might never come back.

Under the influence of the force of time, his body continued to fade away and turn into nothingness.

To put it in a more horrifying way, this process is actually...

Diablo's existence itself is being completely erased from this world.

“Aaaaaaah!!”

He let out a desperate roar in endless fear.

But he has become the paradox itself, he is being erased by time, and this ending cannot be changed.

Diablo will die.

Even now, he himself does not fully know how he will die.

"Li...Qing!"

At this last moment, Diablo finally directed his hatred towards Li Qing.

He is clearly the invincible dark emperor and the ruler of the underworld.

His fate was clearly so smooth, and he was clearly once the darling of fate.

However, starting from "today", the day when Li Qing appeared...

The trajectory of his life was completely changed.

It was as if Diablo had suddenly stepped on a banana peel on the steep top of life, and then he was caught off guard and fell all the way down, stumbling into the abyss of eternal darkness.

It was smashed to pieces, a horrible sight.

“Li Qing!!”

"I did lose...but what can you do?"

“Hahahahahahahaha…”

No one knew what he was thinking of, but Diablo suddenly laughed crazily:

"I am right outside the warehouse now."

"But, Li Qing, your past self is also there!"

"Since my past self can see me, then your past self must have seen you—"

"Not only is my existence a paradox, Li Qing, you are now also a paradox like me!"

Diablo laughed wildly and crazily.

Being able to see his old enemy die was perhaps the most pleasant experience before his death:

"You will be erased by time along with me, and disappear from this world completely with me!"

"You didn't win. No one can win this battle!"

“…”

Li Qing was silent for a while.

But the expression is extremely rich.

Seeing that Diablo was about to be completely gone, he sighed helplessly and amusedly:

"Diabolo, did your brain disappear first?"

"You still don't understand the principle of time loop..."

"You know, the call hasn't been connected yet!"

"If I die here with you, who will contact Kishibe Rohan later?"

Li Qing's three glances and two words made Diablo's excited heart suddenly stop.

He roared in disbelief and reluctance:

"Why…"

"Why are you okay?"

"You were obviously sitting in that car in the past!"

"Ha ha."

Li Qing smiled playfully.

In this almost stagnant time, he raised his voice and said:

"My super hearing is actually an active skill."

"Otherwise, there would be noise from hundreds of meters around coming into my brain all the time, which would annoy me to death."

"And I remember that at the time..."

"Just as I was about to use my hearing to detect the situation inside the warehouse, the explosion happened."

"The explosion almost deafened me. My hearing was greatly damaged in a short period of time, and my perception ability was seriously reduced."

"And in this situation, the meat mountain was attracted here—"

"I can only temporarily narrow my perception range and concentrate my hearing on the movements of the meat mountain. I have no time to listen to the noise in the warehouse."

Li Qing paused for a moment, then pointed at the blazing flames:

"Not to mention that this is the scene of an explosion and a fire."

"These blazing flames and howling hot winds are the best noise disturbances in themselves."

"Heartbeats, breathing, conversations and shouts can all be almost perfectly covered up in this chaotic noise."

"So, if you want to know that there is a future Lee Sin in the warehouse..."

"He, that is, my past self, will probably have to see it with his own eyes."

"this…"

Diablo's brain seemed to have really burned out in despair.

He just wanted to see Li Qing die with red eyes, and he couldn't understand why Li Qing didn't trigger the paradox like him.

"well…"

Li Qing sighed softly and pointed at his own eyes which were filled with shadows:

"Are you stupid?"