Descend Upon the Block Sandbox Universe
Bang!
The dark golden light, like a meteorite tearing through the night, crashed and shattered the hundred-meter-high bronze gate of the Citadel at the End of Time.
In the center of the hall, there were no fully armed guards, only a dark-skinned man wearing a purple robe.
He sat behind what appeared to be an ordinary wooden table, holding a bright red apple in his hand, a calm smile of complete control on his face.
The He Who Remains was Kang.
"You've finally arrived, Jiang Li."
Kang took a bite of his apple and casually picked up a thick document from the table.
Kang opened the document, pointed to the dense text on it, and his eyes revealed a condescending pity.
"Everything was written in my script, down to the last detail. I was the one who paved the way, and you were just someone who thought you had free will, following the path I laid out to get here..."
Swish!
Kang hadn't finished speaking.
Jiang Li's figure instantly covered a distance of a hundred meters and appeared directly in front of the wooden table.
No transformation, no nonsense.
Jiang Li reached out his right hand, grabbed Kang by the neck, and lifted this self-proclaimed creator of time into the air like a chick!
"You..." Kang's composed face instantly turned purplish-red as he gasped for breath, and the apple and script in his hand fell to the ground.
"The road pavers?"
"Haven't you been beaten in so long? Has your brain gone haywire?"
Click!
Without any hesitation, Jiang Li exerted force with his five fingers and crushed the cervical spine of the "He Who Remains"!
An utter disbelief flashed in Kang's eyes. He had anticipated that Jiang Li would resist, but he hadn't expected that Jiang Li wouldn't even bother to watch the villain's "game-ending CG animation" before taking action!
Bang.
Jiang Li casually tossed Kang's body onto the ground.
At the very moment Kang died.
Rumble--!!!
The Citadel at the End of Time began to collapse violently. Outside the castle, the enormous machine that bound all timelines—the Temporal Loom—began to severely overload after losing its master's control!
Countless colored rays of light, representing branches of the Multiverse, swirled wildly like a ball of yarn with its fur standing on end.
The shrill female system voice echoed throughout the void:
[WARNING! The Sacred Timeline Administrator is dead!]
[Temporal Loom Logic Collapses! Fatal Data Overflow Occurs in the Multiverse!]
[Activate final defense mechanism: Zero Sandbox Isolation Protocol!]
"Sandbox isolation?"
Jiang Li raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at the exploding Temporal Loom in front of him.
[An ultimate, unremovable anomaly entity (Jiang Li) has been detected.]
[Degrading its dimensionality... Packing it up and throwing it into the bottom-level sandbox wastebasket...]
Buzz--!
An overwhelming force of dimensional collapse, impossible to resist with physical power, instantly enveloped Jiang Li. This wasn't spatial teleportation, but rather a "degradation of image quality"!
Jiang Li felt his body, the surrounding castle, and even the loom rapidly becoming pixelated.
It's like taking an ultra-high-definition 4K movie and forcibly compressing it into an old pixel game that's only a few dozen KB in size!
Swish!
An extremely blinding white light engulfed Jiang Li.
"Woof!"
A slightly mechanical bark woke Jiang Li.
Jiang Li opened his eyes.
There was no excruciating pain, no weightlessness. He found himself lying on a lush green lawn.
But he soon discovered something extremely wrong.
The grass wasn't in patches, but rather in rows of standard cubes.
He looked up. The sky was blue, but there was no round sun; instead, there was a perfectly square luminous object radiating light.
The clouds in the sky are also long strips made up of small white squares.
Jiang Li sat up and looked at his hands.
His hand... transformed into a rectangular strip composed of countless pixels! No fingers, no joints, just two thick pixelated sausages.
"What is this? Are you trying to turn me into a Lego toy?"
Jiang Li's eye twitched slightly.
[Ding! Detection indicates that the underlying physical laws of the universe in which the host currently resides have been completely altered.]
The system's cold voice echoed in Jiang Li's mind.
[Current Universe ID: MC-Sandbox (Pixel Sandbox Isolation Zone)]
[Laws of Physics: Gravity largely fails. Matter is composed of absolute blocks. Survival depends on the laws of synthesis.]
Jiang Li stood up and stretched his blocky body. Although he had become a pixelated human, his terrifying power still seemed to exist, only its manifestation was limited by some kind of "pixel grid" in this world.
Just then...
A series of heavy footsteps came from the nearby woods.
Jiang Li turned his head to look.
It was a walking... green, elongated monster. It had four short legs, no hands, and a square face with two black, hollow eyes and an extremely sad mouth.
But on its green pixelated body, a red "Hydra" logo is printed incongruously!
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
The Hydra Creeper spotted Jiang Li. Its sorrowful face instantly magnified, emitting a chilling ignition sound, and it charged towards Jiang Li swiftly on its four short legs.
Jiang Li stared at the green cube monster that looked all too familiar, and suddenly froze.
"Those idiots at TVA activated the ultimate quarantine zone..."
"Is it a Minecraft version of the Marvel Universe?"
The Hydra Creeper was getting closer and closer, its body flashing white light as it prepared to self-destruct.
Jiang Li did not run away.
"Throw a hacker into a sandbox world made entirely of code, grids, and instructions."
"It's like handing the vault key to a robber."
Jiang Li slowly raised his left arm, which had no fingers.
Although his body had turned into a cube, the [Omnitrix] remained firmly attached to his wrist in pixel form!
Hiss hiss hiss--!
The Creeper had already rushed to within a meter of Jiang Li, its body swelled to its limit, about to trigger a terrifying explosion powerful enough to destroy the terrain!
Jiang Li had no intention of engaging the aliens in melee combat.
He slammed his other square hand heavily onto the center of the watch face.
Buzz!
Instead of displaying the gene bank, the dial projected a semi-transparent [control panel screen] shimmering with a ghostly green light directly onto Jiang Li's retina!
"But Lao Tzu."
Jiang Li's thoughts instantly connected to the console input box.
"I'm playing [Creative Mode]."
Accompanied by Jiang Li's cold laugh, his mind skillfully typed out a line of low-level, god-like code in the console:
[ /kill @e[type=creeper] ](Clear Entity: Creeper).
Press Enter. Execute!
Puff!
The Hydra Creeper that was about to explode didn't even have time for its fuse to burn out; there was only a very faint "poof" sound.
Its green, cube-shaped body turned into a wisp of white smoke in an instant and vanished from the world without a trace!
Only a small amount of pixel-shaped black gunpowder fell to the ground.
Jiang Li bent down, picked up the pinch of gunpowder, and looked at this vast, boundless blocky world.
"The Marvel Cube Universe, right?"
Jiang Li had a sudden thought and directly entered the highest administrator command in the console: [/gamemode 1] (switch to Creative Mode).
Swish!
Jiang Li's feet suddenly broke free from the constraints of gravity, and his cube-shaped body defied the laws of physics, floating in mid-air!