Chapter 434: Dark Chess
Someone is spying on it.
Someone is observing it.
It looked around, but all it saw was darkness and nothingness. It didn't know where it was, who it was, or whether it was in an eternal nightmare.
In the endless darkness, it existed, and it never existed. It was just born, and it has already perished. It is falling, or flying, or maybe just standing still.
Nothing means anything.
Nothingness, only eternal nothingness.
Someone is spying on it.
Someone is observing it.
A tiny light flickered in the darkness, tearing through the nothingness and appearing out of thin air.
A small green bird fluttered its wings in the darkness, and its cry was like a cry of sorrow.
The bird cut the darkness into pieces like a flash of lightning. Beautiful light danced around its wings.
So, it was observed.
Thus, it acquires sentience.
All the unformed entangled states were determined, meanings were given, and concepts were born. It was like a dying flame regaining fuel and air. The Omniscient and Omnipotent was formed.
It woke up.
It knew who it was, an ancient shadow, a god that would soon dominate the present.
It rose up and followed happily behind the green bird.
【Location: Xiyiqi】
【Time: Current】
"Error, error, algorithm aborted."
"I don't understand." He whispered. The warning sound echoed endlessly in the central heart of Xiyiqi - the Eternal Palace.
Everything he saw was making it difficult for him to breathe and he was terrified.
Yan Zhu, a star on Earth named Ren Anzhi, was looking around blankly. He was in the central control room of the Eternal Palace. He could sense what was happening in this world. All the machine screens in the control room were flashing crazy error signals. An invisible storm was spreading in the world, and space seemed to have reached its limit in an instant. The vision in front of him was shaking, and reality was twisting and bouncing like jelly. It was the screaming and rebellious scene in Munch's oil painting.
The material order is collapsing, destroying the world like the most terrible tsunami.
Even if he wanted to deny it, he had come to a conclusion in his mind at this moment, that is - he was the one who caused this terrible result.
In front of him, the person he wanted to see most, his brother Yan An's child Yan Zhen, was standing in this collapsing world amidst the harsh sounds, looking at him sadly.
Yan An in this world doesn’t have any brothers.
A non-existent uncle is a bug that is out of tune with the world.
Forcibly expanding the paradox would completely mess up the world.
Yan Zhen stared at him, and his eyes made him tremble.
"Xiao Zhen." Yan Zhu opened his lips, "Is there still hope for this world?"
The boy didn't answer him.
The storm swept in.
He felt himself becoming liquid again, becoming sand, pouring down. The world was illuminated by light. His consciousness was expanding, like smoke rising from a bottle.
Yan Zhu had a terrible thought: I wouldn't just dissolve and disappear like this, would I?
Soon his consciousness came back to him, he felt his limbs again, and his eyes regained their sight.
He was now standing in an endless desert, with a blue sky dotted with countless stars above his head.
There was soft sand under his feet, and Xiao Zhen was standing opposite him.
They left the central control room in an instant. Then two meteors fell from the sky. In the blink of an eye, the meteors fell in front of his eyes.
The first person who appeared in front of him was Duke Jill. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes and his handsome face was not smiling. Yan Zhu knew that the Duke's real body was just a little man the size of a finger, and all he could see was his bionic human disguise. But the aura of this Xilin man always made him feel that the Duke was more majestic and taller than his appearance.
Duke Gil stared at him and said, "Ren Anzhi, are you the hidden chess piece of the Black Box Society?"
Yan Zhu shrank back.
Then another meteor fell.
Sand exploded around Yan Zhu, and sparks floated around him like flying fireflies.
The wind blew rapidly.
A cat walked out of the wind, its body nimble, its steps graceful, its eyes blazing like fire in the dark night.
"Now, the story comes to the point of revealing the secret," said the cat.
Xiao Zhen glared at it unhappily.
Yan Zhu shouted, "Wait, what happened? Weren't we just in the central control room of Xiyiqi? Where is this place?"
Duke Gil said sinisterly: "Thanks to you, the world is about to end."
"So where is this place?"
Duke Gil said: "To put it simply, this is a conscious thinking space. Mr. Cat created a virtual vision and projected our consciousness here."
"What about the real world? It won't be completely destroyed while we are chatting, right?" Yan Zhu said in horror.
"The virtual world is a delayed time unit, about 10,000 times slower than your subjective reality. You can think of it as time outside standing still." Duke Gil said, "Then we can have a good chat about what the Black Box Society has done."
He looked at Yan Zhu, "You are Yan Zhen's uncle. But in this world line, Yan Zhen's father doesn't have any brothers, so your existence is a paradox. Tell me, how did you get here?"
Yan Zhu began his narration.
"In my world, the Earth was destroyed by unknown alien creatures. I was saved by an alien named Yin Ran, and then I met a fox merchant." Yan Zhu said, "He told me that although my Earth had been destroyed, the Black Box Society in another world line was still threatening this world. There was some kind of high-tech treasure in my body, and I had a chance to cross the world line to stop the Black Box Society's conspiracy, so I came here. Although I was not torn apart by the void storm as the fox merchant said, I still , and even forgot who I was. Brother Wei Hongzhuo in this world gave me the name Ren Anzhi. I lived as Ren Anzhi for several years, and only gradually remembered my mission not long ago.
So I found the fox merchant in this world. After asking him, he told me that the key to saving the world lies in my nephew Yan Zhen in this world. He gave me a boat ticket, and I took the boat to Danduoge. You all know what happened next. "
He looked at Xiao Zhen sadly, "I really thought I could help you."
“……”Xiao Zhen didn’t say anything.
"Fox Merchant?" Duke Gil frowned, "What's his name?"
"Han Junqian."
When the name was spoken, Yan Zhu saw the surprise on Xiao Zhen's face. "Is he from the Black Box Society?"
"The corruption of the Black Box Society is everywhere." Mr. Cat said, "I investigated Boss Han not long after I arrived in Laura. He is not a member of the Black Box Society. Like you, Yan Zhu, he experienced the pain of the destruction of his home planet. But it was this pain that could not be turned back that gave the Black Box Society an opportunity. He thought his actions could save the world, but he became a tool of the Black Box Society without knowing it. The trouble is, because he is not a member of the Black Box Society and doesn't even know what he is doing, you won't find any abnormalities in your investigation."
“So, you, a paradox, were sent here and started at this time.”
Yan Zhu's face turned pale, and his heart was empty. He almost fell to his knees . Everything he had done was a mistake in the end. He was just a pawn in the conspiracy of the Black Box Society. A paradox that was not accepted by the world.
Duke Gil said: "I still have a question, how did he cross the world line without being torn apart?"
Mr. Cat said, "He has a prohibited substance in his body 241."
Xiao Zhen whispered, "You are indeed worthy of being brothers."
"Even if you cross the world line like this, there is still a high chance of failure. This is just an experiment of the Black Box Society." Mr. Cat looked at Yan Zhu and said, "You are one of the risky attempts set up by the Black Box Society, and you are just a lucky one who succeeded by chance. I have seen countless of you being torn apart in the void storm. When the Black Box Society really wants to do something, they will not bet everything on a certain probability."
“Let me start from the beginning.
The legacies of the ancient forerunners are scattered throughout the universe. They are taboos that the Galactic Federation explicitly prohibits. The Black Box Society has been greedily exploring the legacies of the forerunners since ancient times. They are like invisible shadows, and it is difficult for you to find any clues. When we found out, they had been operating secretly on this planet for hundreds of years. Everything was too late. They used the mutant plague to seduce the local people, collected one after another consciousness bodies who were willing to devote themselves to their cause, and used them to create a huge quantum computing program. Their purpose is to open the underground think tank of Xiyiqi. "
"But this is just their first step..." Mr. Cat raised his head and whispered, "It happened too fast."
Yan Zhu said: "What?"
Xiao Zhen looked up and said, "Green...bird..."
They saw a small green bird streaking across the starry sky and then it fell straight towards them like a shooting star.
Xiaozhen stretched out her hand, and the green bird danced behind it with a clear and strong breeze and brilliant light.
When the feathers faded, a young boy revealed himself.
"Yan Zhen!!" Liu Xingquan shouted, "I..."
Mr. Cat interrupted him and said, "Although I really want to tell you the whole story, it seems that I can't do it now."
Duke Gil asked, "What's wrong?"
Mr. Cat said, "You must leave here immediately."
Liu Xingquan said: "What's wrong?"
"Everyone of you leave here." Mr. Cat's eyes stopped on Xiao Zhen, "Except him."
Liu Xingquan looked at Xiaozhen, and then he realized something.
The Necradragon cannot be remembered.
I have wiped all memories of this incident from everyone involved.
Cannot be remembered.
It must not be remembered.
It was very cunning, nesting its consciousness with Yan Zhen's remaining thinking units and connecting them with each other.
It must never be remembered.
Cannot be observed.
Xiao Zhen - Yan Zhen looked no different from the good friend he knew, except for his eyes. His eyes changed in the instant he saw him just now. Those malicious eyes, he - as an observer of the green bird, had only seen them on it.
Fear and anger burned in his chest.
"Hey, I've been observed." Yan Zhen - the Necromancer, the omniscient and almighty, smiled, "So, I'm awake."
"you--"
"Long time no see, Liu Xingquan."
"Where's Yan Zhen?! What did you do to him?!"
"Yan Zhen?" The Dead Dragon smiled, "I woke up, so he became me, and I replaced him. I have to thank you for this."
"Go!" Mr. Cat said. Liu Xingquan had never heard Mr. Cat's voice so urgent. "All of you leave. Immediately!"
"No, Mr. Cat——" Liu Xingquan shouted.
"Although the story always ends," Mr. Cat said, "it's not now, not at this moment."
Then Liu Xingquan felt himself being lifted up by a force of energy, and light spread around him. Before the world vanished into nothingness, he heard Mr. Cat's parting words, "I will bring Xiaozhen back. And your battlefield is not here."
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In the endless desert of consciousness, Mr. Cat looked up at the source of all the conspiracies before him, the omniscient and omnipotent one, the god who dominated the present, the dragon of the dead with Yan Zhen's face.
"You have illegally invaded the human body, sinner," it said.
