The voice in his mind did not stop abruptly; instead, it was like a constantly rising and falling tide, continuously washing over the memories deep within Viktor's brain.

"Energy depletion is the biggest crisis we face right now. Currently, we lack other means of obtaining energy."

"Once energy becomes insufficient, the entire world will enter a long period of depletion."

"By traveling through time, we can tap into the energy of the past. This is a new opportunity for us."

The voices seemed to be speaking specifically to him, or perhaps explaining something to someone in another time and space.

“We captured a ‘god’ left over from ancient times and used the power of the ‘god’ to create a machine that can travel through time.”

"But my goal is not limited to going back in time to mine energy."

"Due to the existence of the 'grandfather paradox,' going back to the past might cause that period of history to be closed off due to human influence, forming an independent parallel world."

After all, the total amount of available energy is limited; otherwise, there would be no energy depletion in the future.

In a sense, collecting energy from the past is equivalent to consuming past resources in advance.

If doing so will not have any impact on the future, then it just follows the rule of the "grandfather paradox".

If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, would your future self still exist?

Therefore, this could only create another parallel world where the grandfather you killed was not your historical grandfather.

"In a parallel world, human-caused impacts on the past will not affect our present world."

"Therefore, we can safely and boldly disrupt the order and rules of this parallel world."

"Even if this parallel world is destroyed prematurely, we can use the machine again to go back to the past and start all over again."

By going back to the past, we can create a completely new parallel world.

However--

"The number of people has become a major problem. We cannot send more people back in time to create parallel worlds again and again."

"Moreover, different people will cause changes in the parallel world of the past, and each person's personality is different."

"Therefore, the members who travel back in time will become our victims in creating parallel worlds."

When this parallel world is destroyed, the time machine will restart.

The timing of this return will be based on this parallel world.

"After a second time travel in this parallel world that we have already influenced, we have successfully created yet another parallel world."

"They will never know that this may be their tenth, hundredth, or even thousandth time going back to the past."

"Because their past behavior has been fixed, they from the previous world are destined to appear in the past, and they from the next world will also appear in the past."

"From the moment they used the time machine to go back to the past, it meant that they could never return to the original time and space."

"We will continue to repeat this process to create a large number of parallel worlds."

“It sounds cruel, but they won’t retain their memories. Even if they die in that world, when time goes back, they will think it was their ‘first’ time going back to the past.”

"Their sacrifices are inevitable in order to achieve a truly perfect future."

However, this plan still has a major logical problem.

The future shortage will be energy.

However, even through one parallel world after another, it is impossible to bring the energy of the past back to the original future timeline.

"Therefore, we need to shape these parallel worlds into games so that they can be integrated with the real world."

"To allow real people to remotely control players in the 'game,' ensuring that the large amount of resources collected by players in the game can be transferred to the real world."

"This sounds very difficult, but we have the powerful tool of the Outer God Virus."

Based on the parallel world, the [Outer God Virus] is the core of the entire plan.

“We drew inspiration from the ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ and used the limits of modern technology to create the ‘Haster Virus’.”

“People injected with the virus will only see virtual reality, and we can control everything they see at will.”

In other words, all the fictional scenes they saw were carefully designed by us.

This includes the player interface, such as UI, health points, level, items, and various status indicators...

"Most importantly, even if a virus carrier dies, their body will not truly perish; instead, it will be protected and even reshaped by the virus."

"After that, we can completely control the bodies of these virus carriers through the virus."

Simply insert connecting pipes into the real player's body, connecting their cerebral cortex, spinal cord, and various nerves.

At the same time, specific hormones are delivered through these channels to block out sensations that are detrimental to gameplay and enhance beneficial sensations.

In this way, these players will be immersed in a virtual world composed of complex neural signals, closely connected to the [Outer God Virus].

This allows real-world players to truly control the virus carriers within the game.

In other words...

“Every character who can be controlled is a carrier of the virus after death.”

This is why these players cannot speak out, because they are essentially "dead" being manipulated.

Using my ability to control time, I created countless parallel worlds and repeatedly rewound through time.

This has led to the creation of numerous carriers of the Hastur virus in these different yet similar parallel worlds.

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