Chapter 137 Chapter 137 (Supplement)
The owner, or time, no longer remembers how many times this universe has been destroyed.
This universe started from a singularity and continued to evolve over tens of millions of years, giving birth to a brilliant civilization and him. He started as a hazy consciousness and floated in the dark universe. He experienced the birth of stars and the brilliance of civilization. Over a long period of time, his self-awareness became stronger and stronger, and he became an independent individual from a hazy and chaotic consciousness.
He once transformed into the appearance of a beast to experience the cruel survival of the fittest in nature; he also took the form of a human being, traveled through the vicissitudes of life, and gained countless followers.
This vibrant universe is closely connected to him. Countless strings make up this universe and also make up him. He is the embodiment of the universe, but also time.
When he sold the key to Ruan Shiqing, he told him the name of the key was "Time", but in fact, that was the name he gave himself.
Heaven and earth are the inns of all things; time is the passing guest of a hundred generations. [Note 1]
He transformed himself into all kinds of things, wandered between heaven and earth, experienced the changes of the world, and yet he was ultimately just a passer-by.
"A passer-by of hundreds of generations" is the best interpretation of him.
He was born in chaos and will eventually return to chaos. He does not have the fear of death that humans have, but he has learned sympathy and reluctance without any instruction.
This universe prospered under his witness, and will also be destroyed under his witness. This is the natural law of the evolution of all things, and he never violates it. The living can die, and the dead can be reborn. The universe is composed of countless strings. When the universe is destroyed, everything returns to the most original string. Wait until the next ten thousand years, and the wandering strings will gather little by little to form a new universe.
The universe never dies, but the old is replaced by the new.
But when he saw the planets he had once roamed through return to silence and the galaxy beneath his feet disappear, he felt a strong sense of reluctance.
So he used the power of the stars to reverse everything, thinking he could change the final outcome.
But the result is that the universe is destroyed in a different way.
Out of reluctance, he traced the cause and effect, tried again and again, but failed again and again.
Everything is conserved. He used the power of the stars to reverse everything, which was equivalent to extinguishing all possibilities in this universe, including himself. Just like a tree with countless branches, each different choice will grow a different branch. But for the sake of one branch, he cut off all other branches, so that the nutrients of the tree only feed this branch, cutting off all other possibilities. Once it fails, the only remaining branch will also die, and the whole tree will die with it.
Now that the power of the stars is exhausted, this is the last chance.
"But what's the point of you looking for me?" Ruan Shiqing asked.
He has believed what the other person said, but he knows that he is just an ordinary person. If the world is destroyed, all he can do is to be by the side of the person he loves until the last moment.
How can an ordinary person prevent the destruction of the world?
"No, you are useful."
Time stared at him and tapped his forehead again: "Why do you think this universe is destroyed? Everything has its own laws of development, which even I cannot fully control. But there is only one thing that will not change, and that is conservation. Only by maintaining balance can we develop smoothly. The reason why this universe is destroyed is because it can no longer be conserved."
The last destruction of this universe was due to the infestation of Zerg.
Not only did the Galaxy Empire's star field eventually fall to the Zerg, but the entire universe eventually could not escape the Zerg's plunder. Zerg, a species of creature, was bred on the Blue Star. They have lived in an extremely harsh environment since their ancestors, which makes their ability to survive and reproduce extremely strong. But at the same time, under the law of conservation of nature, they are always like wild beasts, without wisdom.
The Zerg have almost no natural enemies in the universe, and only intelligent humans can create weapons to restrain them.
But the internal friction of the Galaxy Empire eventually led to the destruction of the entire empire and the extinction of mankind. The Zerg, without restraint, began to spread everywhere, searching for the "Sky Stone" that could evolve. No life could survive wherever they passed, completely cutting off the future of this universe.
After the rampant Zerg swarms plundered everything, they came to an end.
——The unbalanced universe entered the process of destruction.
"I have repeatedly replayed every destruction, and the best way is to maintain a balance. As long as humans are not extinct and the Zerg are restrained, they will not spread rampant again."
It is easier said than done.
Humans are not united, and the Galaxy Empire has long been declining. However, with the help of some humans, the Zerg have a stronger ability to reproduce. According to past experience, in a few years, the number of Zerg will be enough to drown the entire Galaxy Empire. These modified Zerg cannot evolve and generate wisdom like naturally reproduced Zerg, but the cruelty and plundering engraved in their genes are inherited and intensified, and humans will once again face extinction.
He studied for a long time and finally found the person who could break the deadlock was Ruan Shiqing.
In the countless failures before, he did not notice the child who accidentally fell into the space-time rift and went to another world.
He was originally the royal egg laid by the Queen of Zerg, the beginning and hope of the evolution of the Zerg race. However, due to a conspiracy many years ago, he was hidden by the dying Queen of Zerg, and was accidentally sucked into a black hole by the explosion. His body disappeared, but his powerful mental power was not destroyed. He fell into another parallel universe and was raised as a human in an orphanage.
He knew nothing about his mission and lived in another parallel universe, but he didn't know that the Zerg, which had lost its royal leadership, was heading towards a completely wrong path of destruction.
This is an opportunity that I discovered after going through so much time.
So in his last attempt, he took the risk and brought Ruan Shiqing back.
He brings together a group of people who have the greatest hope of saving the universe, hoping they can change the countless tragedies that have happened before.
Fortunately, they did not disappoint him too much. This time was different from every time before.
The chaotic scene before him made Ruan Shiqing fall silent. After a long while, he finally spoke: "So I was originally from this world, not from a book? Then what about the book I read?"
"That's what I recorded, my last failed experience." Guang Yin said, "I hope you can change everything, so I implanted the last failed experience into your memory as a reminder. It's just that you were in another universe at that time, and you were repelled from me, so I didn't have time to let you read all the experiences."
After all, he is just a passer-by and cannot interfere too much, nor can he completely control the direction of events. All he can do is to keep giving hints, but even he himself cannot guarantee whether everything can go according to his expectations.
No wonder, no wonder he was busy with work and never liked to read novels, but the content of a novel suddenly existed in his mind.
Ruan Shiqing was shocked, and recalled the description of the "Black Ghost" in the book, and the black dragon who resolutely died to protect his companions: "So everything I saw really happened?"
"You could say that." Guang Yin nodded hesitantly.
After failure, everything returns to nothingness. We can say that all this has really happened, or we can say that we have returned to the time before everything happened.
"The crystal ball I sold you stores the experience of your last failure. You can see what happened before the last destruction through the crystal ball. But with your ability, you can only use it ten times at most."
"I hope you can make good use of this opportunity. This is the last thing I can do for you."
Guangyin's figure became ethereal again, and the condensed stars dispersed like fireflies. He stared at Ruan Shiqing, and his voice drifted away: "I'll leave it to you from now on."
"Time!"
Ruan Shiqing let out a low cry and suddenly sat up, but felt a sense of weightlessness coming over him. He covered his forehead and gasped for a moment, finally coming out of the strong feeling of dizziness, but found himself back in the bedroom.
Everything that happened before seemed like just a beautiful dream.
However, the shining crystal ball on the bedside table reminded him that it was not a dream.
He stared at the flashing crystal ball with his teeth clenched. After a long time, he reached out and held it in his hand.
Time did not tell him how to check the record of his last failure through the crystal ball, but when he held the crystal ball, he suddenly had a mysterious feeling. He closed his eyes and silently recited Rong Heng's name.
The sound pattern slowly spread out, and the crystal ball emitted a soft blue halo, enveloping him completely.
When he opened his eyes again, Ruan Shiqing found that he had returned to Planet B3024 - not the prosperous and peaceful Planet B3024 now, but the chaotic garbage planet when he had just passed through.
He appeared at the noisy underground auction and saw the "Silver Falcon" being auctioned.
When Rong Heng was attacked in the Baghdad area, he escaped in the Silver Falcon. In the end, the Silver Falcon was severely damaged and ran out of energy, so it crashed into the garbage dump on the B3024 planet.
At that time, Ruan Shiqing, with the intention of picking up leaks, discovered the Silver Falcon, as well as Rong Heng, who was seriously injured and hiding in the cabin, and had returned to the cub stage and was unconscious.
Before this, he had never thought about what would happen if he found out that the person who found out about Yin Falcon and Rong Heng was not him, but now, he knew.
The broken Silver Falcon was dismantled and auctioned, and Rong Heng, who was hiding in the sealed cabin, was naturally discovered. No one on the backward garbage planet recognized the Jumilla cub, and seeing that he was seriously injured and dying, he could not be sold for money, so he was thrown into the garbage dump outside the auction site.
A homeless man picked him out of the garbage without any hesitation, but he did not feel sorry for the cub, but was going to take him home and make dinner.
The dying Rong Heng was completely unaware of this.
Ruan Shiqing's heart was in a knot. He followed the homeless man anxiously and angrily, but he could do nothing.
He saw the homeless man return to his hiding place, avoiding the crowd and carefully lighting a fire. There was a shortage of supplies on B3024, and the homeless man, who had been hungry for many days, was too lazy to even wash his food, so he simply roasted the dying cub over the fire.
The flames licked the cub's white fur, emitting a burnt smell.
Rong Heng, who had fallen into a coma, finally woke up from the burning pain. He struggled to escape from the flames and tried his best to kill the homeless man, but his abdominal injuries worsened. Finally, he fled into the depths of the garbage dump with his seriously injured body.
He was at the end of his strength, and after he finally found a place to stay, he fainted again.
Ruan Shiqing watched over him for as many days as he was unconscious. He saw the tiny cub curled up in the shadows with its fur burnt black. The blood oozing from its abdomen formed lumps on its fur, attracting strange-looking scavengers hiding in the garbage dump. Groups of those tiny creatures lay on him, greedily gnawing at his flesh and blood.
Ruan Shiqing tried desperately to drive him away, but to no avail. He couldn't even touch him, and could only pray over and over again for him to wake up soon.