Piccolo looked back at Krillin.
The golden eyes had returned to their usual pure black color, but there were still fine golden glows slowly flowing under them.
"Tell me, who are you looking for this time?"
Krillin took two steps forward and stood next to Piccolo, looking at the golden dragon in front of him that could surround the entire universe.
"There is a branch of the timeline. There, Zamasu was not killed, but swapped bodies with Goku."
"Have sex Body Change?" Piccolo frowned.
"Yes. He made a wish with Super Dragon Balls and exchanged his soul with Goku from another timeline."
"The occupied body of Goku is now our hidden danger."
Piccolo did not ask for more details.
He turned around and faced Super Shenron.
Dragon Language flowed out of his mouth.
This time, the voice sounded smoother than before, as if I had finally regained the feeling of using my mother tongue after not using it for a long time.
Every syllable accurately hits Super Shenron's cognition.
Translated, it roughly means: Among all the branches of the timeline, find the existence that occupies the body of Saiyan with the soul of King of Gods. Point out his location for us and open the passage to get there.
Super Shenron's huge red pupils flashed.
After a moment, it spoke.
The sound did not come from the mouth, but directly resonated in the universe. Every word made the surrounding stars tremble slightly.
"As commanded."
Super Shenron's huge body began to move.
It meanders in the void, its golden scales causing ripples in the space.
The body that stretched to no end began to shrink, and the energy was concentrated on its head.
Two huge red pupils were closed.
It's searching.
In the torrent of countless timelines and the branches of endless possibilities, look for that specific node.
Goku leaned over and poked Krillin's waist with his elbow.
"Hey, that Zamasu who has changed his body, is he awesome?"
"It's your body." Krillin looked at him sideways, "Do you think it's powerful?"
Goku was stunned for a moment, and then his expression turned strange.
"With my body... meaning, he looks like me?"
"Exactly the same. Same face."
Goku's brows knitted together. He didn't look scared, but rather awkward that was hard to describe.
"Then does he usually use my face to say things like 'mortals are dirty'?"
"Most likely yes."
Goku's face became even more awkward, and his tail swung back and forth irritably behind him.
"This... cannot be tolerated."
The search for Super Shenron continued for a while.
Finally, its giant pupils reopened.
This time, there was a hint of confirmation in the red light.
Its head turned in a certain direction, its huge dragon's snout opened, and a beam of light erupted from its mouth.
That light was not an attack.
It landed on a certain point in the void, and that point seemed to be melted. It began to expand from a slightly invisible light point, with a pink shimmer at the edge.
The cracks grew larger and larger, eventually forming a space tear with an abnormal pink sheen that was large enough for three people to pass through side by side.
The breath blowing from the other side of the crack made the three people's expressions change at the same time.
The air inside was filled with the smell of ashes and decay.
It was the aura emitted by the remains of an entire world that had died and slowly decomposed over a long period of time.
Cold, dull, with a sticky feeling that makes the soul uncomfortable.
Goku's expression completely darkened.
He no longer plays or complains.
The tail hangs quietly behind the back, slightly taut.
He smelled something in that breath.
That is the void left after life disappears.
It is the silence that remains after the laughter, crying, and noise have been completely removed from the world.
"Found it." Piccolo said.
Super Shenron completed its mission, and the huge body began to turn into golden light spots and dissipate.
The seven Super Dragon Balls were then ejected in all directions of the universe and scattered again into the corners of the twelve universes.
The pink crack was suspended quietly in the void, waiting for them to step into it.
Krillin glanced at Goku.
Goku's expression has completely lost its usual cheerful and loose expression.
"Let's go." Goku said.
The feeling of walking through the pink crack is different from any previous time travel.
When I went to the world of Future Trunks before, the smell in the cracks was clean, with the unique bitter smell of dust and vegetation in the city being rebuilt.
But this time, the moment the three people stepped in, the surface of their skin seemed to be covered by an invisible greasy film.
Piccolo let out a low sound of displeasure.
"Disgusting."
Two words, accurate evaluation.
The space of this timeline itself has a physiologically repulsive flavor.
Like an originally healthy fruit, it becomes moldy from the core. It looks intact on the surface, but when you poke it with your fingertips, it's completely soft and rotten inside.
The cracks closed silently behind him.
The three of them stood on a gray ground.
The sky is purple-red.
The clouds were very low, almost touching the top of the broken ridge in the distance.
There is no wind.
The air is stagnant, the temperature is low, and fine dust particles are suspended in the air.
Krillin used his senses to detect and found that there was a large amount of organic residue in the dust.
It is the product of the complete decomposition of life.
He squatted down, rubbed a little of the gray-white ground under his feet with his fingertips, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it.
The smell of burning vegetation.
The smell of lime after crushed building materials.
There is also a very light smell left after blood has been evaporated by high temperature.
"There... there's no one alive here."
Goku's voice came from behind, with a rare deepness.
He closed his eyes and was releasing his senses.
The face that usually had a smile on it was completely blank at the moment, and even the expression could not be traced.
"On this entire planet, not a single living person can feel the breath."
Krillin retracted his fingers and stood up.
This planet is not just "devoid of living people".
It once had a prosperous civilization, with cities, technology, and billions of residents.
Now there is nothing left.
"Over there."
Piccolo opens, and Staff points to the west.
The sky there was darker, the clouds were thicker and lower, as if something had crushed the entire sky.
"There is a living aura. It is very strong, but the aura is very strange, like Saiyan's and King of Gods's two mixed together."
Krillin smiled.
"Found it. Let's go."
The three of them flew to the west.
Krillin chose to fly close to the ground at a very slow speed, slow enough for Goku to see the whole world clearly.
The scenery along the way is even more striking than the landing point.
They flew over the ruins of a former city. Everything above the ground disappeared, not even the debris was left.
Continue heading west.
Then, a mountain appeared on the ground ahead.
It was made of bones.