Under the beam of light.
Li Chen exuded an aura of destruction, his eyes shining like God. He rose slightly, his gaze sweeping over the fleeing crowd, taking in every corner of the city, even those who had fainted earlier. Eerie Monsters, they were all frantically running towards the light.
The vibrations grew stronger, and even the undercurrents beneath the Blood Net surged violently. Some of those still rushing to the battlefield were momentarily stunned and were pulled back.
Is Huizhou City not going to offer any assistance?
But all they received in response was silence...
With a "buzzing" sound.
Suddenly the whole world fell silent. Countless collapsing buildings seemed to freeze in mid-air, and people's fearful and terrified faces seemed to stand still.
Accompanied by a destructive shockwave, a giant black energy net swept in, and the entire city, centered on Li Chen, was gradually reduced to powder and ashes.
Ling Jigui was also sent away by Cang Yue using the Time Engraving Gun.
Cang Yue hovered in the air, silent, simply watching the unprecedented explosion and destruction, murmuring, "It's almost here... it's almost here... they should be descending soon..."
A loud rumbling sound echoed.
Much later, the light faded from the entire Huizhou City.
All that remained was a pile of dust. The city walls had been completely destroyed, and the so-called entrance to the Blood Net was completely blocked by the shockwave. No Eerie Monsters escaped, and all of humanity perished in the explosion.
Looking from above, all that can be seen is a huge ash pit in what was once a prosperous Huizhou City, with everything around it reduced to nothing.
A single explosion wiped out a Human Race city.
In the smoke, Li Chen stood silently, stepping on the ashes.
As he walked, several figures appeared behind him.
Zero pouted and whispered, "The potato chips are all gone..."
Zai was extremely excited, and the smile on his face became even more exaggerated, even stretching to the back of his lip.
Yu also returned to silence, quietly following Li Chen's steps. As for Blood Charm, who had not appeared until now, she appeared in everyone's sight, dragging a Calamity Realm special agent in her arms. Cang Yue also gracefully descended from the sky to Li Chen's side.
Blood Charm lowered his head slightly and said in a low voice, "Master, this guy is from the Guardian Special Affairs Bureau."
"The group underground has all been killed."
The underground area is where the Central Special Affairs Bureau headquarters previously occupied.
Li Chen hummed in agreement, then looked at Cang Yue and asked, "Cang Yue, did you travel from the future, or do you know everything about the future?"
"You planned all of this, didn't you?"
Cang Yue smiled slightly and said, "As expected, I can't fool you. But how do you know that I know about the future?"
"I merely demonstrated the ability to control time, and you think I can see the future? I'm not that powerful..."
Li Chen looked at her calmly and said, "You don't have it now, but you do in the future. If I'm not mistaken, the ability to control time can be transferred to the past and then altered. That would explain why you, Cang Yue, started contacting me even before I awakened my powers."
Cang Yue strode over to Li Chen.
The two are quite different in height. Li Chen was already over 180cm a year ago, but he hasn't grown since absorbing the Forbidden. Cang Yue, on the other hand, is also quite tall, probably around 170cm.
Cang Yue looked up and stared at Li Chen with her scarlet eyes. She no longer intended to hide her secret. When she used the Time Engraving Gun's ability, she had already thought of countless ways to deal with Li Chen.
Time has shown me the answer to my future choices.
"But Li Chen, the future is unpredictable; the ending is different in every timeline, do you understand?"
"My ability is the Time Engraving Gun, which can speed up or slow down time, but it doesn't have the ability to reverse time. It's almost impossible for me to go back to a year ago."
"But in my memory, after I became a powerful being in the Wasteland Realm, I could use my ability to transfer future memories into any point in my mind at any time, which was equivalent to consciousness. However, it required an extremely demanding condition."
"To truly fall in love with someone."
Zero watched their conversation from the side, completely bewildered. What time was this? What memories My Lord talking about? What were they discussing?
Why is the disaster relief officer's expression becoming increasingly excited?
It was only then that Li Chen's voice brought him back to his senses.
"So you found me through your future memories, and even know the future course of the world, but those memories were only clear a year ago, because your current timeline has been completely altered by your own butterfly effect."
"If you want to return to the normal timeline, you need to undergo another memory transfer, but that won't represent you as yourself, but as someone from another timeline."
"No." Cang Yue shook her head and said, "I don't belong to time, because time has no measure. When I want to change the future, it means I need to kill my original self and transfer my memories to her in another timeline, but I must pay the price with my life."
"And this timeline still exists, meaning that if I want to change the future, I can't change the future of this world."
"The quantity represented by time is infinite."
"I can't figure it out, and I can't see it."
"The so-called Time Engraving Gun is just something that incorporates a bit of the time element; it doesn't truly control time."
Li Chen calmly looked up at the sky, his tone complex, and said, "So, you knew everything a year ago, and you were the one who provided the Evil Cult with crucial information or secretly played a game with me..."
Cang Yue smiled slightly and said, "That's right. The reason why the Evil Cult knew that Pandora could find you, why they knew you were the Child of Destiny, and why they understood that the Forbidden Door was within you, is all because of my future memories."
"But only in this way can you become 'King'."
"To become the only one who can challenge the gods."
Li Chen looked at the woman before him who had schemed against him, and said in a low voice, "Knowing that I would destroy everything to escape this controlled cage, you still dare to scheme against me. Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"
Cang Yue smiled slightly and moved even closer to Li Chen.
"Fear... Why should I be afraid?"
"To be killed by my lover, isn't that a wonderful thing?"
"In every timeline, I tried to go back to the past using the Time Engraving Gun, but you still died in every timeline. Can't I be willful this time and change the whole world, and change your future too?"
"This is my will, my obsession."
Without a doubt, she succeeded...
She changed the course of the entire world, solely through her memory of the future.
Li Chen thought of many, many things.
What the old man said earlier...