Chapter 72
Both the Time Guardian and the Survivor Squad lost control of their bodies and remained motionless.
The Black Batons that the Time Guardian was holding, along with his Time Controller, Electronic Collar, and other equipment, all flew to Su Quan's front.
Su Quan, holding a Black Batons that shimmered with golden light, approached Bucky.
The voice echoed in his mind, "Tell them that you and Sharon are my people, and I'll come back to you later."
Bucky was unable to move or make any expression, but his eyes revealed a sense of bewilderment.
What's the meaning?
Who should we tell?
Where can you find us?
Hearing Bucky's question, Su Quan directly shoved the golden short stick into his body.
A golden light shone, Bucky vanished incredulously.
"You... you killed Bucky? Why?!"
"No!!!"
What is the Time Criminal?
The Survivor Squad and the Time Guardian were equally incredible; although they couldn't speak, Su Quan could hear their thoughts.
Su Quan ignored them and instead lowered his head with interest, fiddling with the Black Batons.
This is the good stuff he wanted from the Time Variance Authority; all he had to do was tap the target and he would be teleported home.
Come to think of it, he had deliberately tried to use the Infinity Stones to restore this world.
The purpose was to see if the people from the Time Variance Authority would come.
The result has indeed come.
This means that he can actually save this Doomsday Timeline using the Infinity Stones.
This also means that the mechanism by which Time Branch are generated is somewhat idealistic.
Without any concrete action, merely thinking, firmly thinking, Time Branch began to emerge, and the Sacred Timeline began to sound the alarm.
This mechanism is a bit unreasonable!
However, from another perspective, time is meaningless to this mechanism; the moment a thought is born, it already knows the outcome.
Even if the Time Guardian hadn't appeared, Su Quan wouldn't have changed his mind. After all, with the Infinity Stones in hand, it didn't matter to him what the world became.
So this mechanism is actually somewhat similar to the propositions of Captain Marvel's faction in the Civil War II in the comics.
By using a Mutants can predict the future, problems and the people who cause them can be resolved before disasters and crimes occur, thus preventing them from happening in the first place.
As for whether this mechanism and this proposition are good or bad, that's a matter of opinion; after all, one's position determines one's stance.
Su Quan summoned a Time Controller to check the current situation on this timeline.
"Huh?"
The anomaly in the timeline has changed, indicating that the red lines representing the Time Branch are slowly shrinking.
"Is it because I changed my mind? What if I change it back?"
Su Quan reaffirmed his determination to restore this world with great interest.
Sure enough, the red line of the Time Branch suddenly shot up a lot, and the Time Controller even sounded an urgent alarm.
Su Quan quickly changed his mind, and sure enough, the red line quickly dropped back down.
One thought can lead to rise or fall; no wonder there's a saying that every choice can create different Parallel Universe.
If you hesitate about a choice, wouldn't that be like jumping back and forth between two Parallel Universe?
"Buzz!"
Not far away, in a transparent device about the size of a cola can, resembling an oil lamp, the original golden light source had turned purple.
This is the Time Clipping Reset Device that was already activated when Time Guardian first appeared.
The gold turning purple signifies that trimming and resetting have begun.
Centered on the Time Clipping Reset Device, an invisible energy rapidly spreads in all directions.
The originally barren brown land instantly turned into a strange, multicolored landscape after coming into contact with this energy.
Immediately afterwards, the Time Guardian and members of the Survivor Squad disappeared one by one.
In the blink of an eye, this energy had arrived before Su Quan.
Su Quan made no move, quietly waiting for the energy to rush towards him.
"Bang!"
Su Quan suffered a strong shock.
In a daze, he experienced a chaotic feeling of time and space intersecting.
It felt as if I was jumping back and forth between two spaces.
No.
To be precise, it was being pulled!
He could vaguely feel two forces pulling at him.
One wants to pull me away, the other wants to leave me where I am.
For a time, the two forces vying for power were evenly matched.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, Su Quan felt a wave of dizziness, followed by a violent jolt—the pulling sensation had vanished?!
After calming himself down, he realized he was standing right where he was.
The Black Batons and Time Controller beside him were still there, and Thanos kneeling in the distance was still there as well.
However, the Time Guardian and Survivor Squad that were previously cut off no longer exist in any form.
They neither returned from the Void, nor did another 'them' appear.
"This means— the Time Clipping Reset Device failed, but not completely?"
Cutting and resetting are two different concepts.
The essence of trimming is equivalent to teleportation, moving from other locations to the Void, affecting both the present and the future.
Even if Su Quan has the ability to Negate Time, the past is constant and cannot be changed.
But his present and future are not constant, so cutting is equally effective for him.
Resetting is more like rolling back and starting over.
Delete the current progress, jump back to an earlier point in time, and start over.
However, this kind of rollback is not allowed when it involves Su Quan.
So the cropping was successful, and the current process has been deleted.
However, also because of Su Quan, after the current process was deleted, the earlier processes could not be imported and could not be restarted.
So—the reset failed.
Cutting and resetting are complementary and indispensable.
This outcome, which was neither a complete failure nor a complete failure, resulted in the Time Guardian and the Survivor Squad being successfully cut into the Void, even though the timeline was not reset.
As for why I wasn't cut?
It's probably related to the mechanism of the resetter.
Su Quan threw the equipment that originally belonged to the Time Guardian into the Mirror Dimension and then teleported to the Void.
Half an hour later.
Su Quan led Survivor Squad with varying expressions and the Time Guardian out of the golden rectangular Teleportation Portal.
Their facial expressions were fascinating; some were angry and shocked, while others were blank and stunned.
In just half an hour, their long-held values and beliefs were shattered.
The Survivor Squad learned for the first time that this was not the only world they lived in.
This was also the first time I had ever heard of an organization like the Time Variance Authority and a place like the Void.
It was also the first time they learned that their world was Doomsday Timeline destined for destruction.
The Time Guardian were just as shocked, even more so than the Time Guardians, and found it even harder to accept.
I thought that being cut would definitely mean certain death.
Unexpectedly, the target of this Time Criminal actually conquered the Void and became the Lord of the Void.
Those Time Criminal whose sentences were cut during the trial not only survived here, but also lived very peacefully and comfortably.
That's fine, since no one knows what's going on in the Void.