Chapter 63 (Catching Bugs)

[Chen Jian] pinched his brows and fixed his eyes on the large progress analysis chart.

“…I don’t comment on that leader.” He glanced at Shen Jian calmly, and the latter did not comment, but just lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea.

They exchanged positions once. At this time, Shen Jian sat on the soft sofa, leaning against the pillow casually, and bent one leg leisurely.

He raised his head and glanced at [Chen Jian].

"This is why you made me lose my memory once." Shen Jian knocked the quilt against the porcelain coaster, his voice was flat, and there was a relaxed and peaceful calm in his eyes.

"If it were you, you would also choose the same ending as the leader." Chen Jian said calmly, "Or take a step back and just be like Chen Jian in that world and simply choose to place your hopes on someone else - another self."

It is better to say that [Chen Jian] has thrown hope away from himself, because the future [Chen Jian] has disappeared, replaced by Chen Jian.

"Oh." [Chen Jian] said lightly, "You should know that we don't trust anyone except ourselves."

Shen Jian smiled silently and looked away, “So you would rather refresh yourself and reshape your personality to complete the task than toss around another time, right?”

"Do you know how difficult it is to start over again?" Shen Jian said calmly, "From adapting to the current cross-world tracking from the beginning, I was also angered by my other self twice during this period..."

[Chen Jian]'s expression remained gentle, but he quietly took two steps back with the chair, ready to escape at any time to avoid the violence that might come from Chen Jian a second time.

It's terrible. Although he hasn't done anything yet, as long as he analyzes it, what Shen Jian has experienced are indeed things he will definitely do in the future.

There is no doubt that he will repeat the process of slacking off and losing his memory.

Therefore, [Chen Jian] was very tolerant of himself who obviously had a bad temper (Chen Jian:? Who forced me to do that).

According to common sense, this Shen Jian was only "born" for less than a year. Shen Jian, who was only 20 years old, comforted himself that being beaten by his one-year-old kid was nothing.

But he did forget that Shen Jian could basically guess what he was thinking, and the next second he received a teacup that hit the desk, and the scalding tea splashed squarely onto the innocent back of Shen Jian's hand.

[Chen Jian]: …

He didn't dare to speak and silently took away the documents and papers that were about to be soaked.

Shen Jian sat on the sofa and stared at his expression and said calmly, “It’s better to clear the things in your mind. Our time is limited.”

[Chen Jian] saw the other self in front of him gritting his teeth and closing his eyes to endure for a while, and finally he slowly breathed a sigh of relief, opened his eyes and looked at him coldly, "Since you can realize that you will still choose to lose your memory in the end, work hard now."

[Chen Jian] paused, glanced at the table that he no longer needed, stood up and walked to the sofa, sat on the side, and casually propped up one leg.

The young leader lowered his eyes and looked at himself, who seemed younger than himself, holding the document, and said softly, "You know very well. I can't wait for that ending to come."

He finally revealed a bit of his most genuine expression. The dark color in his eyes was illusory and vague, and his eyebrows were slightly raised. He asked softly with a smile, "Since you know that I have to lose my memory once to make sure I can stop the world from being destroyed, you should also consider myself before I lost my memory, right?"

"Right now, I really don't want to care about these things." [Chen Jian] said indifferently.

He looked at Shen Jian who was unmoved, stretched out his hand, the white cuffs slightly showing through the black suit, and pinched Shen Jian's face seemingly intimately, then turned down the light, a shadow fell on Shen Jian, [Shen Jian] turned sideways and looked at him with a smile.

Chen Jian only moved a little before he sat down, and then he acted as if Chen Jian was a dead person.

He tilted his head slightly and slapped away the mischievous hand on his face.

Shen Jian was not moved at all by this tactic of increasing his ability to control the situation through physical contact.

They all knew very well that behind their seeming understanding of each other, there was still a conflict of interests between the two of them.

It’s just that this bottom line is within the range of not killing the opponent.

The leader would expect that ending after understanding all the events, and [Chen Jian] also expected it. He had not even experienced the official "No Annihilation Tower" era, and had the simplest attitude towards the ending where the entire universe was finished: he agreed.

Shen Jian closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had suppressed all the fluctuations.

"Do you know how I convinced the leader?"

Shen Jian leaned to the side far away from [Shen Jian], crossed his legs and looked at him, and said lightly, "I told him something."

Shen Jian stroked the ring on his right hand, so Shen Jian obediently shifted his gaze to it.

He recognized it quickly, "The leader's stuff? ... Jörmungandr, oh... tasteful."

"Yeah." Shen Jian hummed, not feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable with the sudden change in aura.

He was full of hints: "I hope you can learn another taste of his that I admire very much: a symbol that is unique to the Wuyan Tower, preferably one that can appear on the subordinates."

It fully satisfies the territorial consciousness of the group belonging to Chen Jian.

[Chen Jian] slowly opened his eyes, [Chen Jian] began to ponder, [Chen Jian] picked up the arm of his other self beside him, took out the private seal in his pocket, and happily prepared to press it.

Shen Jian:.

Shen Jian managed to save his arm, and once again suppressed the thought of throwing him into jail for a few days.

He has always had a suspicion these days, as if among all the people, each has their own subtle differences in personality, but he is the only normal person.

It is reasonable to infer that the Chen Jian from other worlds may also be very interested in exploring the only Chen Jian who has lost his memory, has empathy for people other than the "Wu Yan Tower", and has a completely different thinking logic from them.

But Shen Jian couldn't be happy at all. All he could see was a pile of work that stretched to the end of the universe.

[Chen Jian] shrugged and said, "So, you can convince me?"

Just now he said that the biggest promise he could make was not to disturb Shen Jian from trying once, [Shen Jian] didn’t think he had any reason to be moved.

Shen Jian turned his head and stared at him for a while, then took back the initiative, “I will give you a completely different reason from the leader, it broke the leader once.”

"But it's just enough to impress you."

[Chen Jian] was stunned for a moment, and lowered his head slightly to look down at Chen Jian. He suddenly felt something was wrong from Chen Jian's very determined eyes.

His back stiffened for a moment, and he quickly began to think about whether or not to listen.

Chen Jian grabbed Chen Jian's collar expressionlessly and pulled him off. He adjusted his posture with the help of light and shadow, creating an extremely oppressive space and returning all the torture techniques he had just used on the other party.

"Chen Jian." His voice was light and inaudible, passing by [Chen Jian]'s earlobe, "What is more terrifying than the destruction of the world?"

He paused, "You think leaders can't survive failure after failure, but have you ever thought about what kind of failure it is?"

[Chen Jian] stopped talking, pursed his lips and kept bending over, frowning tightly, "What?"

"Cycle, sir." Shen Jian changed his address with a half-smile, "'Shen Jian' discovered that every time the Wuyan Tower is destroyed, the world will reset once, without exception. The world can only cycle continuously within a limited period of 'time'."

[Chen Jian]'s pupils suddenly shrank, and his fingers twitched subconsciously.

Shen Jian glanced at it and continued, "He repeated his efforts many, many times to interrupt this process, until he thought... this world was fake."

"He thought that if that were the case, then the existence of the entire world would be meaningless. So he chose to destroy it."

Shen Jian let go of the stunned [Shen Jian], his expression cold, “This is everything.”

It is not the leader who collapses because of [a cycle], but the leader who collapses because [the world is caught in a cycle].

"Is that enough?" Shen Jian asked calmly as he looked at himself slowly supporting himself with his arms and sitting in the leader's position.

Shen Jian said, "Now, do you want to try to reverse this ending? Not for your own collapse, but for a sad reality that may be broken."

[Chen Jian]'s expression fell into the shadows and he was silent for a long time.

He stared at a floral corner on the carpet. A long silence spread in the room, but both of them seemed unaware of the atmosphere that seemed to be about to collapse the floor.

[Chen Jian] Allow yourself to stay in the turbulent emotions for a minute, letting your heartbeat and blood relax and accelerate.

But he could still think, thinking about the possibility of Shen Jian winning.

Shen Jian changed his posture, looking at himself lost in thought and reminded him: "I am not exactly you, 'Sir'."

Shen Jian lost his memory once.

Until now, no one has provided him with any suggestions or methods for "restoring memory". Perhaps everyone tacitly skipped this topic... In other words, there is only one Shen Jian, a Shen Jian who started over.

Even if Shen Jian who committed suicide was indeed to pave the way for him, but...

Shen Jian lowered his eyes, and the lifeless Wuyan Tower under the dark sky of that world appeared in his mind again.

[Chen Jian] suppressed the emotions that had collapsed a minute ago, and there was no trace of flaws on his face. He turned the pen around and thought for a while, then shrugged, "That's true. You are different from us after all."

Shen Jian glanced at him silently, “But the price is too high.”

[Chen Jian] did not comment. He skipped this topic and had no interest in the other two.

Now, at this moment, he only cares about the unique self in front of him. He asked calmly: "Is there any way?"

"Yes, dismantle the machine." Shen Jian's response was also very calm, "The conclusion drawn from the calculation is that the original galaxy - the galaxy we are in - will be destroyed within 2 months, so act quickly."

“Who will demolish it?”

Shen Jian glanced at himself who was in the leader's position, looking down at the diagram.

"Solomon."

[Chen Jian] paused slightly as he was writing in red on the vein diagram. He tilted his head and glanced at Chen Jian who was casually stroking the puppy. A hint of slight surprise flashed in his eyes: "...Are you sure? Do you know what you are talking about?"

"I'm sure." Shen Jian's expression was calm. Although he said this, he couldn't help but stroke his sleeves.

He knew that [Chen Jian] was not surprised why it was "Solomon" who did not exist at this time, but the hidden reason behind it——

“Shen Congjian, Shen Xiuzhu.” Shen Jian counted, “They both have a subordinate who has stepped halfway into the bottom line of betrayal. There is no reason why I don’t have one.”

Shen Jian sighed, "Then let's look for it... 'Yun'. Where is Solomon's mother hiding?"

"Or rather, what does he want to do?"

——Why do you want to restart the world?

——Why is the condition for restarting the world set as the destruction of the Tower of Annihilation?

Shen Jian sat on the sofa, his expression calm, and he just gently stroked the ring given to him by the leader.

[Chen Jian] did not interrupt his thoughts, but just looked at him from a distance with an expression as if he was looking at the last drop of water in the world.