This endless world

Restart, protagonist, fate, creator, and observer...

Every word in Dr. Manhattan's words seemed to contain a huge amount of information, and this information was stuffed into Zheng Zha's brain almost in an instant, making him dizzy and his thoughts even more chaotic.

Zheng Zha deeply felt the insufficiency of his wisdom at this moment. This man has never been so clearly aware that his thinking ability can't keep up with the development of the situation. He missed the days when someone planned everything for him and he only needed to execute it... But what Zheng Zha regretted was that neither Yang Yun nor Chu Xuan was by his side at the moment. He couldn't rely on anyone but himself.

"...Okay, Doctor, let's go through the questions one by one."

Touching his forehead, which had been emitting some white smoke due to the high-speed operation of the third-order gene lock, Zheng Zha, who barely sorted out the general situation, exhaled and said: "First of all, our world has been restarted... and before the restart, there was actually a me who had experienced all of this."

"Including entering the main god space, meeting teammates, and fighting with destined enemies... just like what is written in the book called "Infinite Horror"? "

"Yes." Doctor Manhattan nodded: "I'm glad that you can realize this."

--But I can't see that you are happy at all...

He complained in his heart. Although he knew that Doctor Manhattan could read his mind, Zheng Zha didn't care, but continued to ask: "Doctor, you just said that our world ended unexpectedly due to some force majeure... So now, I have a question to ask."

"How many times has the universe we are in been restarted?"

Zheng Zha asked this question completely subconsciously. To be fair, it was hard for him to accept that before him, there were countless others who had experienced the same thing and entered the main god space.

Not to mention that he had really experienced it, thinking about that kind of thing would drive him crazy... Even so, Zheng Zha still held the idea of ​​"I must be a ghost who knows everything even if I die" and asked this question.

"Three times, four times, or maybe more. Because I came from outside the multiverse, I don't know what your universe looked like at the beginning."

The answer given by Dr. Manhattan made Zheng Zha not know whether it was good or bad: "What I know is that the multiverse you are in has experienced more than one restart."

"And the most recent restart was ten years ago."

"Ten years?"

Zheng Zha repeated it in disbelief. Although he knew that the "ten years" mentioned by Dr. Manhattan was completely different from the ten years he knew, he was still surprised by this extremely short time: "It turns out that the time is so short... So, what is the reason?"

"I don't know I know that I am just an observer outside the stage, not the creator of this world. "

For the first time, Manhattan, who is almost omniscient and omnipotent in Zheng Zha's eyes, frankly admitted that there are things he can't do: "There are thousands of reasons for the restart of the universe, and there are even some reasons that sound like jokes, such as the story has reached a dead end, such as the long-term creation has caused great contradictions in the relevant settings of the story, such as due to some objective reasons, the story cannot go on, such as the creator has a new idea, and uses the new "setting" to cover the old "setting"..."

Listening to Dr. Manhattan's explanation, Zheng Zha also understood. If the world he is in is a novel, then how the story will develop next is all decided by the "creator" outside the box. He can create extremely powerful villains at will, change the fate of everyone, slap his head and say "I have a new idea today", or forget to update because of playing games, or even directly abandon this novel...

"This is really..."

When Zheng Zha thought about the DC world to which Dr. Manhattan belongs, which has experienced countless restarts, parallel worlds, and even the origin stories and settings of some superheroes and super villains, which have undergone countless repeated modifications and changes, he had a deep understanding and empathy.

In the hands of editors, they can distort the characters' personalities at will, and blackening and death are commonplace, because they are just characters in the book, and their fate can be determined by a single word. In this box called "Infinite Horror", what would the saints and cultivators who created the main god space think when they learned that their world and themselves were just characters in a book...

"...It makes people unable to laugh."

Zheng Zha's mood was complicated and deep. He sighed and felt as if he was standing on the same line with those saints and cultivators countless years ago. In the past, humans had faced the mysteries of the universe and the truth of restarting, and perhaps experienced the same emotions. This heavy feeling weighed deeply on Zheng Zha's heart, even making it difficult for him to breathe.

This heaviness may come from the fear of the unknown; it may be because the revelation of the truth has shaken the cognition of reality and brought deep uneasiness; or it may be a kind of extremely heavy pressure called "responsibility"...When you know the secrets of the universe, you may bear pressure on yourself, others, and the entire universe.

"So, Doctor, what role do you play in this?"

After a long silence, Zheng Zha's voice sounded again. The man took a long breath and looked up at the blue giant in front of him and the blackened page in his hand: "Logically speaking, after the multiverse is restarted, nothing should be preserved. But you just said, This story, which 'he' entrusted you to preserve, is about to come to an end."

"Although I don't know why Yang Yun has gone to the world before the restart, all this must be related to you..."

"Yes, I cut out the timeline of your multiverse for ten years."

Dr. Manhattan stretched out his hand and stared at the scene in his hand. On the palm of his hand, a broken page slowly floated and rotated. Although it was still turning into fly ash, Yang Yun and Chi You, who were fighting in a ball inside, seemed completely unaffected——

"Then the last world of this multiverse that should have been completely destroyed ten years ago was preserved." (End of Chapter)