Chapter 981 The Story that Has Been Preserved Till Now

“‘No… my companions are still sleeping. I need to revive them all. The Chronicles of Narnia? And the ending of the final battle, and our future… ‘his’ existence, I can’t finish the final battle just yet. We still have a long battle ahead. Grow up as soon as possible. When your strength is enough to match the strongest team members, I will tell you everything…’”

“After Zheng Zha said this, he looked at the EVA Unit-01 under his feet, and then pointed to the front and said: ‘Let’s go, create our future, a truly free future!’”

——When Dr. Manhattan closed the book in his hand and ended his inorganic reading lecture, Zheng Zha was still immersed in this story with himself as the protagonist, and he never came back to his senses.

Perhaps for others who don’t know the truth, this is just a good novel, and Dr. Manhattan’s straightforward, emotionless voice does not read the essence of the novel at all, making it impossible for people to be immersed in it. But for Zheng Zha… can this really be called a ‘story’?

Zheng Zha had a good memory, and he listened very carefully. He even memorized the novel of more than two million words in his mind without missing a word, and could recite it at any time. But the more he repeatedly understood these words, the more Zheng Zha could personally experience the authenticity of them, because although the writing style of this novel was quite rubbish, the emotions and core contained in it could not be faked.

——How did that sentence go? Oh my God, this is exactly me.

In Zheng Zha's opinion, this novel is not a so-called "story" at all, but another thing he personally experienced. But he still had one biggest question to ask...

"...Why is there no 'Yang Yun' in this story?"

Zheng Zha was not an idiot. After listening to a novel of more than two million words, he naturally knew that this novel called "Infinite Horror" was written from his first-person perspective in most cases, and he was also the well-deserved protagonist of this novel...The problem was that whether it was the items and skills he exchanged, or the worlds he experienced, they were very different from reality. Even many people in the novel, he had never heard of them.

"Could it be that this is another world line that Yang Yun did not enter the main god space with us in Resident Evil 1?"

Zheng Zha often read some science fiction novels on weekdays. He naturally knew about the relevant settings of parallel worlds, and also knew that sometimes a trivial change might cause the train of history to go in another direction.

What would happen if Chu Xuan did not die in the curse? What would happen if his own copy of Loli did not die? In the dead of night, Zheng Zha sometimes thought about the possibility in this regard, but he didn't expect that Dr. Manhattan would really put this "possibility" in front of him today.

"This is the most original world line that has not been changed."

Dr. Manhattan replied calmly: "My power allows me to exist at every time node and every extended timeline at the same time, allowing me to see anything I want to know."

"This kind of thing..."

Even for Zheng Zha now, he still finds it difficult to imagine the power of Dr. Manhattan. This ability has completely exceeded his worldview... At this moment, Zheng Zha suddenly questioned Dr. Manhattan's strength. Saint? Immortal? Can those powerful beings really do this?

"...wait."

But as if a flash of inspiration came to his mind, Zheng Zha suddenly discovered the blind spot: "Since you exist at every time point at the same time, why can you only see the story before I entered the main god space?"

Looking at the blue giant in front of him, Zheng Zha asked: "I don't know how long before I was born, the main god space had already been established, and the saints and cultivators didn't know how many years they had existed. Even if I am the so-called 'protagonist', then all the stories cannot start from when I entered the main god space..."

"This is because my perspective is completely different from yours."

Dr. Manhattan's voice is flat. As quiet as usual, facing Zheng Zha's questioning, he did not show any extra emotions: "Time, or more precisely, the definition of timeline and parallel universe has lost its original meaning to me."

Although his tone has not changed at all, Dr. Manhattan's voice reveals some bottomless secrets: "No matter what the main god space is, no matter what saints and cultivators, or anything else. In front of me, in front of the 'author', in front of the high-dimensional 'readers', they are equivalent to non-existence."

Author, reader...

These two heavy words from Dr. Manhattan's mouth made Zheng Zha's breath choke. Although he could not fully understand the corresponding meaning, he really felt the gap between himself and the other party at this moment...

"Let's go back to your question just now, about the existence of 'Yang Yun'."

As Zheng Zha watched, the book in Dr. Manhattan's hand disappeared again. And this time, what appeared from his hand was not the previous book or diary, but a charred, worn-out page.

This piece of torn page looked extremely dilapidated, sad and unbearable to look at. Even at this moment, ashes were still falling slowly from it, as if foreshadowing that in the next moment it would completely turn into dust and disappear completely from this world...

However, through the charred pages, Zheng Zha unexpectedly saw two figures confronting each other. He did not recognize one of them, but he was very familiar with the other figure——

"Yang Yun!"

Zheng Zha could not help but exclaimed, and he did not care about anything else. He directly grabbed the page in Dr. Manhattan's hand, but before he reached out his hand, he found that he had returned to the original position, as if the action of reaching out his hand had never happened...

"This is the story that 'he' entrusted me to keep until now, and it is also another story that ended unexpectedly due to some force majeure before the restart."

Without looking in the direction of Zheng Zha, Dr. Manhattan looked at the page in his hand, his eyes penetrated all the restraints, and seemed to see something else through Yang Yun's body in the page——

"Now, it's time to let it end completely, and then let the past and the future converge and merge." (End of this chapter)