I Bit Someone

As soon as he finished speaking, Heisenberg showed his usual cold smile. But after smiling, he quickly frowned.

He finally realized why he had deliberately gone to see the eight-year-old Spider-Man and given Little Spider that watch.

Why he had returned to the rooftop to make plans for his future.

Whether he was saying goodbye to the past or looking ahead to the future.

Everything was because he no longer wanted to become the ordinary person he used to be!

It turned out that he was the truly greedy one. Once he had obtained this power, he no longer wanted to be ordinary...

Then he might as well stop being human.

Heisenberg nodded to himself and gave the system an order.

"It takes more than six thousand units of Origin Matter to return to the Origin Universe, right?"

"Yes."

"What about coming back? How much is the fare to return to the Marvel Universe?"

"The round-trip cost is the same."

"While I'm home, will the Marvel Universe continue running, or will it remain paused?"

"As an Order Keeper, if you wish for it to run, it will run!"

"Heh, I really don't know what this system is supposed to make me do. My authority is far too great, yet my responsibilities don't seem like much.

But fine. Send me home, and pause Marvel for now!"

As Heisenberg spoke, The Ancient One revealed a brilliant smile in distant Kamar-Taj.

She felt the space-time around her gradually freezing, a suspension of time that even she could not control.

She did not feel any fear, because she had long since seen that every time Heisenberg brought about such a pause, the universe became better.

And Heisenberg quietly turned into dust, turned into a Black hole, and spiraled backward into the Origin Universe!

Pop...!

Like a stone thrown into rippling water, Heisenberg quietly appeared at the foot of Phoenix City's most famous mountain without attracting the slightest attention.

That had once been his home—the place where he had run a mahjong parlor before transmigrating.

But now...

Heisenberg looked around twice. His mahjong parlor had actually been shut down?!!

Anger immediately surged into his heart. Had he run into one of those God of War returns home plots?

Had someone taken advantage of his disappearance to bully his elderly parents, smash up his mahjong parlor, and even rub his orange cat's head raw?!!

"How much time has passed in the Origin Universe while I've been gone?"

"All chronology is based on the Order Keeper. Eleven days have passed in the Origin Universe."

"How much Origin Matter would it take to project everything that happened in Phoenix City over the past few days into my mind as memory fragments?"

"This is simple. One hundred and eighty-six units."

"Do it!"

At Heisenberg's command, everything that had happened in Phoenix City over the past eleven days unfolded in his mind.

Only a Kryptonian brain could process such an enormous flood of information. After sorting through it, Heisenberg finally found the part he needed.

Once he saw it, countless emotions welled up within him.

"Why? What are all of you doing? Weren't you good friends? Would good friends make someone disappear? My son was a living, breathing person! Why is he the only one who vanished?!"

"I told him long ago not to cause trouble, to stay out of trouble! How did he just disappear? Was he kidnapped? Ask us for money! We'll pay!!!"

"Shut it down. Keeping it open only hurts!"

"Sell it? Why should we sell it? That was my son's place! I'd rather build him a memorial hall there!"

"Where did he go? His father, go find him! Go ask his friends again!"

"We're calling the police. Yes, yes, yes, I'm Hai Dayou. My son is missing!"

"Still can't find him? Not even a single clue? Aren't you fucking cops? Where is he? If you can't find him, keep looking! He was a living person! Please, I'm begging you!!!"

"Dear, I... I really can't find our son. Where else am I supposed to look for him?!!!"

"Dear, our son came back! He came back! His watch is gone—he must have taken it away!!!"

"What watch?"

"The clothes he left in the mahjong parlor had a watch in them. It was his favorite one, worth hundreds of thousands. I'd been keeping it close to me the whole time, but it's gone. He must have come back and taken it!"

"Why did he disappear? Did he owe money? Our family isn't short on money. He gives us plenty every year!"

"Did he go bankrupt? Did he offend someone?"

"Calm down. When he comes back, it must mean he ran into trouble. He'll come back sooner or later!"

"Yes, our son will come back!"

For a moment, Heisenberg was overwhelmed with tears...

Well, the utterly melancholy Heisenberg suddenly discovered that even after being struck by such immense emotion, he still could not shed a single tear.

His parents still loved him as much as before, but he had changed. He had become... unimaginable...

He clearly felt the sorrow in his heart, yet he also clearly realized what he truly wanted.

No matter how much his parents loved him or needed him.

He could not bear to discard everything he had gained.

His heart had gone wild. He wanted to experience the brilliance of every different civilization in every universe.

He did not want to remain in the Origin Universe with all this power and go back to being the ordinary person he once was!

Or become the Superman of the Origin Universe!

Besides...

Heisenberg thought for a moment, then shook his head helplessly.

What his parents needed now was not him—a man who no longer valued life and was filled with ambition and a desire for control!

"System, recreate me. Recreate the me from before, and give him all of my memories from before I transmigrated!"

"Received. This requires two hundred and twenty-six units of Origin Matter."

"Do it. Send that me to my parents' side. They need me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Heisenberg shot into the sky. He manipulated his field to refract the surrounding light, making it impossible for any camera to capture him clearly.

After flying out of the atmosphere, Heisenberg stopped on the moon and looked toward Earth, which was not far away from him at all.

After watching for a long time, he finally shook his head.

"When you're away from home, you always think the people are prettier and the water sweeter.

But when you come back, you realize there isn't much difference.

To me, this world called Origin, yet actually so ordinary, is far less exciting than other universes!"

Heisenberg gave Origin Earth one final look, then turned around and spoke softly.

"System, come out and talk!"

"I have always been here."

"Yeah, always here. Even before I existed, you were still here. Then what about the people before me? Your other hosts, I mean. Did they transcend, or did they die?"

"They left behind unfinished work."

"Mm-hm. So they all died. After all, living people only have goals. They don't have unfinished work!"

Heisenberg nodded in understanding, then continued questioning the system.

"I'm an Order Keeper, but honestly, my work doesn't seem orderly at all.

So tell me, what kind of change will my work bring to the universe? What meaning does it have?"

"Whether order or chaos, the universe does not need the endless extension of a single ideology. Only the balance of order and chaos can ensure that the universe never approaches its end.

Whether kindness or evil, a universe that loses diversity will approach the limit of entropy faster than a normal universe. Therefore, the host's work is to bring change to the universe. Every trace of change will add weight to the universe's balance and continuation.

As an Order Keeper chosen by the Great Cosmic Will, you are one of the lifeforms most suited to completing this work. You will bring order to chaotic worlds, make righteous worlds experience evil, reignite passion in decadent worlds, and bring warlike worlds to peace.

This is your work."

"Huh? Hahahaha!"

Heisenberg immediately laughed. So this was the true meaning of an Order Keeper.

His order was not about protecting order, but about bringing the world into balance.

Life could not be too kind, nor could it be too evil. He needed to ensure the balance of justice and evil within a universe—in other words, become a villain in worlds that were too righteous and become a good person in worlds that were too evil.

Civilizations could not develop too quickly, nor could they develop too slowly. Heisenberg needed to intervene in the universe's development and bring the world's overall environment to the state the universe truly required!

"But System, I can't see the degree of balance in a universe, or the so-called increase in entropy. How am I supposed to tell whether my actions are having any effect?"

"You do not need to judge such things. A multiverse that never changes has always followed the fate it was meant to continue following.

But once an Order Keeper enters an unchanging multiverse, they have already injected the factor of change into that unchanging universe.

You need not deliberately pursue balance. Everything you do, every trace of fate you alter, every wisp of Origin Matter you gain, will extend the universe's path toward destruction.

You are neither righteous nor evil, neither good nor bad. But you will undoubtedly be the most unique and meaningful lifeform in the Great Cosmic scope."

"Haha, who knows whether what you said is true or false? But I like the sound of it. The most meaningful lifeform?"

Heisenberg smiled, then shook his head again.

"Rather than saying I'm the most meaningful lifeform, I should thank you for giving me such an extraordinarily meaningful life. Let's return to Marvel!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into dust once more and vanished from the Origin Universe in an instant.

In the Marvel Universe, Heisenberg opened his eyes.

He was still standing on the rooftop.

Good. It seemed his departure truly would not have any effect on Marvel.

Of course, Heisenberg knew there were all kinds of supreme beings in Marvel, but the facts proved that the system's authority stood even higher than theirs.

OAA, the supreme being, right? Heisenberg was looking forward to the day he cut him down.

But that was for the future. For now, he still had to continue with his plan.

He would make S.H.I.E.L.D. accelerate its research into the Cosmic Cube!

But this required a suitable leader.

The current New York Shield was almost entirely under Captain America's control, now that the chaos among the United Nations nations had left them unable to influence S.H.I.E.L.D.

A man with Captain America's personality would never lay hands on the Cosmic Cube.

Therefore, he had to make those Skrulls send Nick Fury and Hill back sooner.

Nick Fury...

Heisenberg shook his head. Nick Fury had to die. His personality of hiding everything and controlling everything was destined to become a problem.

So Hill would take office as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead of schedule!

Origin Earth, Phoenix Mountain Police Station...

Heisenberg stared blankly at the police officer who kept questioning him.

"I was streaking?!!

Streaking my ass! I was playing cards, you know? Playing cards without gambling money! Then I suddenly ended up on the street!!!"

"What? You said I lost two hundred and thirty thousand in one hand?

That was all joking around. We were playing for Happy Beans!!!"

"What the hell? You said all my friends admitted it? To avoid the trouble from my disappearance, they voluntarily reported themselves for gambling and hid out at the station?!!"

"When did I disappear?!"

"How did I disappear... What date is it today?"

"Oh my god, right! What happened to me? How did I suddenly disappear while playing cards?"

"This counts as a special circumstance, right? Besides, even though I lost a lot, I never actually gave them any money! Can't you just treat it as me bragging? Why arrest me? What are you arresting me for?!!!"

"Arresting me for streaking..."

"Did I want this? Fine, I'll come clean—I was kidnapped by aliens!!!"

"Where are the reporters? Where's the Into Science program crew? Isn't this stranger than a sow screaming in the middle of the night?!"

"Let go of me! I'm not crazy! Let go, get your hands off me! I bit someone, okay? I bit him!!!"