Descend into 2D Terraria
[Ding! Taking over the underlying physical weaving machine of the Multiverse!]
[Forcefully synchronizing time and frequency...]
[Takeover successful! The host has become the sole administrator (Root) of the Sacred Timeline!]
As the system notification tone faded.
The originally chaotic Incursion Multiverse instantly became subdued under Jiang Li's domineering data suppression. All the timelines, like neatly combed fiber optic cables, were connected to the watch face on Jiang Li's left wrist.
"Um?"
Jiang Li's brows furrowed sharply.
In his administrator's view, there was a hidden edge timeline deep within, emitting a nauseating dark red glow.
This is not just going off track, it's an "infection".
That dark red timeline was like a malignant tumor, its surface covered with writhing, fleshy tentacles, frantically devouring and assimilating the other normal timelines around it!
[WARNING! An extremely malicious dimensional virus has been detected spreading!]
[Virus characteristics: 2D planarization, flesh-and-blood assimilation, unlimited proliferation.]
Without hesitation, Jiang Li transformed into a streak of green lightning, plunging headfirst into the dark red universe that reeked of foul blood and gore, following the data tendrils!
The feeling of weightlessness was fleeting.
Jiang Li landed on both feet.
But he immediately sensed an extremely serious sense of incongruity.
There was no sense of wind moving through him, no sense of depth in his vision. He tried to take a step forward, only to find that his body simply couldn't move "forward" at all!
He can only move left, right, jump up, or dig down.
The Z-axis (depth) has been completely eliminated in this world.
"A two-dimensional horizontal world?"
Jiang Li looked at his hands. He hadn't turned into a cube, but his body had been forcibly flattened into a "paper doll" with a detailed pixel art style.
He looked around.
The sky was a somber, blood-red hue. In the background was an enormous, dark red moon, like a bloodshot eye.
The ground beneath their feet was not soil, but "blocks" made of dark red, writhing flesh. The grass had turned into sharp bone spurs, and the trees were disgusting pillars of flesh that grew from blood vessels and veins.
Terraria! And the extremely dangerous the Crimson!
However, this the Crimson is even more twisted.
Jiang Li up to a tree of flesh and blood and discovered that the red substance that made up the trunk was actually the infamous Symbiotes (Carnage) from the Marvel Universe!
"The Crimson constructed from Carnage Symbiotes? This virus has certainly stitched itself together quite creatively."
Hiss!
Just then, an extremely piercing sound of flapping wings came from mid-air.
Several monsters with bat wings and faces resembling the fanged, grotesque face of the Carnage (Crimson Chimera) flew out from the edge of the screen, drooling, and pounced on Jiang Li.
"Get out of here."
Jiang Li casually slapped him across the face.
Snap!
Even compressed into a two-dimensional sheet of paper, Doomsday's terrifying power remained. The moment several monsters touched Jiang Li's palm, they were instantly reduced to a cloud of blood mist, dropping several [Crimtane Ore].
But the deaths of these monsters seemed to have triggered some kind of ultimate defense mechanism in this the Crimson.
Buzz--!
Suddenly, a line of blood-red game notification text popped up abruptly on Jiang Li's retina:
You sense an evil presence watching you...
Immediately afterwards, the background music turned extremely violent and oppressive.
The entire 2D screen began to shake violently!
Roar!!!
With a roar that seemed to tear the Soul Stone apart, a terrifyingly gigantic boss that occupied half the screen forcibly emerged from the fleshy blocks underground!
That was an enormous eyeball!
An eerie green magical light flickered in its pupils, while countless thick, Symbiotes tentacles dragged behind its eyeballs.
Marvel Fusion Boss: [Gargantos Eye of Shuma-Gorath]!
"Aww--!"
The Eye of Shuma-Gorath locked onto Jiang Li, and a ring of Abyss maws filled with fangs instantly split open around its pupil, carrying terrifying momentum as it slammed into Jiang Li on the 2D plane!
In traditional Terraria games, this kind of dash that spans half the screen can only be avoided by players using extremely precise vertical jumps and movement.
Because in a two-dimensional plane, you have nowhere to escape.
but.
Jiang Li stared at the giant eyeball hurtling towards him like a train engine, but he didn't jump.
He directly accessed the underlying privileges of the dial administrator within his body.
Just a fraction of a second before the Eye of Shuma-Gorath, with its gaping maw full of fangs, was about to crush Jiang Li!
Jiang Li's figure suddenly... vanished from the 2D screen!
It's neither invisibility nor teleportation.
The giant eyeball missed its target, crashing heavily into a mountain of flesh and blood, shattering into pieces. Its enormous pupil flashed with extreme anthropomorphic confusion, spinning wildly, yet it couldn't find Jiang Li's coordinates.
Because Jiang Li currently standing "outside" it.
The Eye of Shuma-Gorath turned its head in terror, if it had a neck.
It witnessed a terrifying scene that was beyond the comprehension of its entire life, and even beyond the entire game's code logic.
Above the blood moon in the sky, that is, "outside the glass" of the screen.
A gigantic, three-dimensional human hand appeared!
Jiang Li activated the [Dimensional Reduction Strike] permission he had previously obtained in the Minecraft Universe, but he used it in reverse, forcibly freeing himself from the constraints of the 2D plane and restoring himself to a three-dimensional entity state!
This is like the boss in a game frantically searching for the player's pixelated character on the screen.
The player himself had already reached out and pressed his hand on the monitor screen!
The next second.
Jiang Li's enormous three-dimensional hand pierced through the limitations of the screen and firmly grasped the "background" of this 2D universe!
Sizzle--!!!
An extremely piercing tearing sound rang out.
Jiang Li tore apart the 2D the Crimson sky, along with the arrogant [Eye of Shuma-Gorath], as if he were tearing a cheap poster. With a single stroke of his hands, he ripped the entire landscape in two!
"Aaaaaahh...
The Gargantos let out a desperate scream. Its invincible charge and magical lasers were utterly powerless against the physical tearing from a higher dimension.
Its 2D body was forcibly torn apart, and its data code collapsed like a waterfall.
Bang!
The Gargantos exploded completely, turning into equipment and materials falling from the sky.
Among the loot was a [Demon Altar Core] radiating an extremely intense crimson light.
This is precisely the source of the virus that infected other timelines.
In three dimensions, Jiang Li extended two fingers and, as if picking up a sesame seed, pinched the core out of the 2D plane.
Jiang Li crushed the core, and the dial instantly absorbed and purified the virus code.
Looking down at the still-writhing the Crimson, Jiang Li coldly shook his head.
"Since it's a malignant virus, let's leave no survivors."
He brought up the console and directly entered the ultimate cleanup command in the root directory of the entire Terraria Marvel Universe:
[rm -rf /* ] (forces deletion of all files in the root directory).
Press Enter.
In an instant, the entire 2D universe was plunged into absolute darkness and nothingness.