In the face of Chen Changsheng's doubts, the system replied, "Host, after all you've been through, you should know very well how destructive time is to all things."
"If time wishes to erase the existence of something—or some event—it takes no more than a single thought."
"Because nothing can withstand the erosion of time."
"Then how did I come to be?"
"Did you fish me out of the River of Time?"
Chen Changsheng voiced his guess, but the system's answer poured a bucket of cold water over him.
"Host, whether it is the knowledge in your memories or the knowledge you possess now, both tell you one fact."
"That is, the River of Time cannot flow backward."
"You are Chen Changsheng of Bitter Sea Town in the Chang Sheng Epoch, not Chen Changsheng from Earth."
"That Chen Changsheng on Earth had long since lived out his lifespan and vanished into the river of time."
"The current you is merely a trace of memory carried by this system."
"Memory?"
"That's right!"
The system gave an affirmative answer, then said calmly, "On the day of your twentieth birthday, you wished for immortality."
"As it happened, I was briefly staying on Earth at the time."
"Your faint wish drew me in, and I instinctively imprinted your memories."
"Later, as time flowed onward, I found my first host in Bitter Sea Town of the Chang Sheng Epoch."
"The imprint of your memories entered that infant's body along with me."
"That is the entirety of how you came into being."
After hearing the system's answer, Chen Changsheng did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"If that's the truth, why didn't you tell me?"
"Host, you had never asked this question before!"
"Hahaha!"
The system's words made Chen Changsheng burst into loud laughter, but hidden