Chen Ke looked at the White Knight, and saw him murmuring softly:
"I am Alpha... I am Oga... I want to give the water of the Life Spring freely to the thirsty people below..."
Chen Ke kicked him off the Rainbow Bridge. Now, it was the mont to make a choice!
He grasped the six Holy Diamonds in his palm. This was the last chance; regardless of what happened, Chen Ke had no retreat.
His eyes blossod with a red glow, and with a thought, he clenched his fist tightly, rging the six diamonds into one!
A heartbeat sound echoed in his ears.
The sound originated from Chen Ke’s own chest.
The sun-patterned mark on his chest began to rotate counterclockwise, and Chen Ke’s skin started to slowly transform into white, beginning with the right hand clutching the Holy Diamonds.
The fading of the Rainbow Bridge stopped and started to reverse, the doors in the white light began to gradually shrink, the red sky was slowly replaced by darkness, which was again replaced by a blue sky.
He saw a giant electronic clock face appear in front of him, with the digits representing the date and year rapidly rewinding. With the reversal of ti, Chen Ke felt his consciousness gradually fading away.
This is the significance of the six stones.
Fusing into one, using himself as a vessel, to nurture a new Ti God...
The cost was losing oneself, losing everything.
Chen Ke sensed the thoughts of a giant white entity; its phantom also appeared before him. His shadow and the white entity’s shadow overlapped. Three slits cracked open on his left cheek, forming three red eyes, while two slits cracked open on his right cheek.
All of his eyes turned red. Those were the seven red eyes, the appearance of the Ti God. The new god would walk through all realms in Chen Ke’s form.
This was the third path... No matter how one chooses... For Chen Ke, was it all a dead end?
In a trance, Chen Ke saw countless welcomings, like a carousel playing in front of him. He saw a swordsman wandering in a chaotic world dominated by sinister creatures, a cyborg with a full-body prosthesis fighting against mutated creatures on desolate wastelands, and a prince galloping on a black horse across vast plains...
Chen Ke’s entire arm turned white, and his last thread of consciousness was about to vanish completely when suddenly, he felt intense pain. A laser cut off his whitened arm!
White blood sprayed out, and he slumped to one side, fainting.
Before closing his eyes, he saw Loki and Li Moyang in gray armor.
"It’s cut off, hurry!" Li Moyang said.
"Too late! Ti has begun to restart! He’s already beco a god!" Loki exclaid.
...
Huff, huff...
"Your remaining lifespan: 100000000000... hours..."
Even with his eyes closed, Chen Ke could see this line of small text in the upper right corner of his vision.
There’s everything in dreams.
Chen Ke didn’t take it to heart and turned over to continue sleeping.
"Ugh!!! Ugh...!!"
Suddenly, a wave of intense pain startled him awake, feeling as if his heart had been gouged out fiercely by a dagger, a pain too unbearable to endure.
He opened his eyes abruptly and found himself lying sideways on a cold floor, with rows of desks lined with computers in view.
Not far away, on a glass door pushed ajar, a sign in English read: Office Area.
He got up from the ground, and with a clang, a hamr fell to the ground, transforming in an instant into a pendant.
"Miles, is that you?"
A voice with a hip-hop accent ca from the corridor outside the door, accompanied by the sound of footsteps thumping.
Chen Ke got up, seeing a Black man approaching him, filled with shock and terror, pulling out his Glock aid at Chen Ke.
"You? What have you done? Lin? This isn’t what we fucking agreed on, hey! You’d better put your hands up, and then slo-..." The Black man shook his head and muttered, but before he could finish his words, Chen Ke knocked him down with a punch.
The Black man lay motionless on the ground, unconscious, with his jaw dislocated.
"Slow, slow, slow, your mother..." Chen Ke looked at the Black man on the ground, picked up the pendant, then stepped over his body and walked out the door.
He was still alive, hadn’t lost his consciousness and personality, but was everything starting over again?
Chen Ke rembered this place, the West Gold Building, where the dream began...
The dim corridor, the elevator at the end, he walked slowly forward, but this ti, he saw no human-faced dog, the elevator’s floor indicator was lit up.
Soone was coming up...
Chen Ke’s right hand manifested a hamr, ready for battle, and the elevator door slowly opened, revealing a familiar figure holding a spiritually modified M1911A1 at the elevator entrance.
It was Parker.
"Chen Ke?" Parker looked at Chen Ke, as if confirming sothing.
"It’s , Parker... Are you real? Do you still rember ?" Chen Ke said.
"I guess... you reset the ti, but forgot to reset too..." Parker laughed, extending his hand, which turned into a pile of ash.
"Did you bring a phone? Check the ti." Chen Ke reminded.
Parker tossed the phone to Chen Ke, saying, "Why don’t you check it yourself?"
Chen Ke lit up the iPhone3GS screen, and the ti showed: March 22, 2009, 10:32 pm.
Ti had been reset, returning to the mont when he first crossed over.
The two left the West Gold Building; that night, no incident occurred there.
Opportunity City was just as desolate as when he first arrived, most things reverted to the mont Chen Ke descended, but there were exceptions.
Far off in the technology R&D departnt of Wuan Heavy Industry in Fei Huang Republic, Li Moyang blinked and found himself standing in front of a desk, holding a phone.
"Mr. Li, regarding the decision to intervene in the Federation’s spiritual property, our suggestion is..." a mature woman spoke on the other end of the phone.
"I need to go to Opportunity City. Imdiately," Li Moyang said.
Lucina was sitting on the sofa, holding a controller, with Tekken 4 displayed on the TV screen. Hall was sitting next to her, enthusiastically playing.
She turned her head, seeing Pihom and Hainerd gathered around the table discussing sothing.
"I heard Si’s consortium recently got a batch of new goods... I happen to know one of the assassins inside..." Hainerd whispered to Pihom.
Lucina leaped over the sofa and hugged her father all of a sudden.
"What’s the matter? Suddenly so affectionate?" Pihom laughed.
"I know that assassin too," Lucina laughed, a barely perceptible green glimr flashing in her pupils.
Sleery was soaking in the bathtub, took a deep breath, touched her left arm, shook her head, and said, "Chen Ke... I hope you co find soon, I gave up an arm for you..."
Underground at the United Federation’s Spiritual Ability Research Institute, in a spherical containnt facility, Wang Ailin stood in her lab, calling Diana, but the number indicated was nonexistent.
At the Spiritual Ability Administration, in the CPA building, Xu Jing sat at her desk when an Asian man approached, greeting her.
"Didn’t expect to see an Asian face here too," the man smiled.
"So, are you an FPI agent?" Xu Jing looked at the badge on his chest.
"My na is Ying Baiyi, there might be cross-departnt cooperation in the future, just saying hi first," Ying Baiyi smiled.
Loki stood in an abandoned manor, which was Li Moyang’s manor, but he hadn’t co to the Federation yet, so no one bought it, no decoration, no one taking care of it, hence it was desolate.
Chen Ke returned to the Illusion Dream Center, where he could still travel to places he’d been before.
He spent weeks finding all his previous companions, gathering them again in the Illusion Dream Center.
Lucina, Wang Ailin, Sleery, Parker, as well as Loki and Li Moyang, these people rembered him. They were above ti; the ti reset didn’t erase their abilities and mories. In this Dream World, their senses continued.
However, Xu Jing and Ying Baiyi no longer recognized him; Xu Jing ca from 2137, and Ying Baiyi ca from a nonexistent 2006.
Due to the ti reset, 2137 was erased; Chen Ke redefined the ti node as the new god, making 2009 the current forefront of this world’s tiline, causing Xu Jing and Ying Baiyi to lose all abilities and mories from the old world, balancing the universe. They replaced Diana and Bader’s positions.
And Diana, she fell beneath the Rainbow Bridge, her life or death unknown, Chen Ke had lost her.
Chen Ke’s condition had subtle changes too. He had a heart, which was beating continuously, but the corner of his eye still had a ti countdown, although the values were too large, and he couldn’t see the numbers after the decimal point.
He discovered he could manipulate ti at will; this world was bound to his Illusion Dream Center. He wasn’t a deity, but had gained the power of the white giant thing in the Illusion Dream Center. The white thing was still there, but had shrunk significantly, becoming a bald white man about as tall as Chen Ke.
Chen Ke got him a set of clothes, sunglasses, and a scarf, making him look like an ordinary person from afar.
But the crisis hadn’t been resolved; ti continued to move forward. Chen Ke later realized he might be able to keep reversing ti in this world, but each reversal ca at the cost of his countdown.
In other words, this world beca the Illusion Dream Center, the last layer of the dream.
But at least, from 2009 to 2137, there were still 132 years. He had plenty of ti to search for ways to break the impasse, and this ti, there was no need to rush against ti.
He recalled the last scene he saw before falling unconscious and associated it with the prophecy written on the black stone tablet. Perhaps there was a connection between them, but he couldn’t leave this "cage," this dream where he reigns, yet only that.
Humanity’s future depends on humans themselves. Chen Ke had done what he should, so let him, in the role of an overseer, starting from 2009, see if humanity can find a way to slay the deity this ti.
This world.
Is up to you!
(The End, thank you for reading)
(Ending the song: Revolution by The Score)
(There’s one more Chapter with achievent list and Easter eggs)
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