Threads of ghostly light coiled around Bai Ye's right fist like black snakes.
The terrifying wind pressure flattened Fang Xubai's transformed hairstyle backward.
That fist grew larger and larger in his pupils...
Just as the fist was about to touch Fang Xubai's nose—
Ding!
As the Pangu USB Drive's notification sounded, Bai Ye's fist abruptly stopped two centimeters from Fang Xubai's nose.
The violent gust from the punch dissipated, and Fang Xubai's hair sprang back up.
Bai Ye stood frozen in place as if Time Stop had been cast on him. His pupils suddenly constricted as he stared fixedly at the glaring scarlet words on his retina.
[Warning! Warning! The New Era Deity is forcibly interfering with established history, gravely violating the Spacetime Laws!] [The current spacetime is about to undergo a forced deviation. Historical nodes are twisting, and the causal chain is on the verge of breaking!]
Those two short lines struck his heart like a hammer.
He withdrew his fist and looked around, only to find the scene around him incomparably unfamiliar.
An immense sense of absurdity engulfed him.
Am I... altering history?
This was not the first time Bai Ye had received a warning from the Pangu USB Drive. Whenever a major incident capable of affecting the course of history occurred in the past, he would receive one.
If someone forcibly changed the course of history, they would be erased by the Spacetime Laws and fixed like a bug.
But the problem was that he had clearly not traveled back to the past. He was in the present, so how could he have received this warning!?
Could it be...
A terrifying thought suddenly surfaced in Bai Ye's mind.
*Could it be that I'm not in the present at all, but have been living in the