Chapter 64 / Chapter 65
It was as though no trace of the Eradicators had ever existed in this world.
The major event Su Chen had set off had gone beyond reality alteration.
It even involved the ineffable law of causality and the complete erasure of all proof that a person had ever existed.
Would anyone remember who you were?
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Chapter 64
The fluctuations in Earth's reality had now brought about an alteration.
As though God himself were tampering with reality, every trace of the selected individuals' existence was being thoroughly erased.
Hmm...
It was like deleting a character from a book's story, from beginning to end, until no trace of him remained anywhere in its world.
The images people held in their memories.
And all the information about him recorded in books.
All of it was thoroughly altered by an invisible wave of reality, completely erased from this world's timeline.
The world's tome, with its vast character profiles and rich stories, suddenly had page after page torn out.
Of course...
Because Su Chen had suddenly lost control and gone berserk, his rage even more intense than during his first awakening, he could not completely erase every trace.
Reality Warping had not been complete, and the fluctuations in the timeline had not been fully corrected.
As a result, a bizarre scene emerged.
Some people could "observe" the changes in reality.
"Logan and Shadowcat disappeared..."
"Just now you were all making a fuss about Logan disappearing. How could you suddenly have forgotten?"
Iceman spoke in shock and anger inside a stone house somewhere in the central region.
He had just seen Wolverine, Logan, vanish into thin air with his own eyes, evaporating completely like a snowman under the blazing sun.
"Have you lost your mind? Wolverine, Logan, Shadowcat—we've never heard any of those names."
"Iceman, what's gotten into you?"
"Come to think of it, haven't you noticed that Amplifier disappeared?"
The X-Men immediately descended into chaos.
Quicksilver looked anxious. Like Iceman, he was almost hysterical.
At that moment, he felt cold all over, his mind filled with a creeping sense of dread.
It was too terrifying.
What on earth had happened?
Amplifier, a living, breathing person, had clearly vanished without a trace. How could these people not see it?
And why couldn't any of them remember Amplifier?
Were they lying to him?
Equally bewildered, Iceman clutched his head and cried out in anguish, scared out of his wits.
"How can you not remember Logan?"
"That fierce-looking bastard, Charles's old friend, the guy who helped us get here-don't you remember him at all?"
Iceman instinctively thought the people around him were maliciously conspiring to deceive him.
But their utterly bewildered expressions, and the equally hysterical look on Quicksilver's face, made Iceman feel as though the malice of the world was bearing down on him.
Yes...
"The world's malice must be behind this..."
No!!
Suddenly.
An answer occurred to Iceman.
"Su Chen!"
That kid had to be behind it!
Professor Charles had once held his talent in high regard, calling him an extremely rare Omega-level being. One day, his ability to freeze all things might even stop atoms and molecules from moving.
The halting of molecules also meant that the movement of all things would come to a complete standstill. In other words, he could freeze time.
That kid had to be behind this sudden, chaotic shift in the world line!!
"Damn it!"
No one knew exactly what had happened.
In fact.
People all over the world were going to work as usual, continuing their lives in the normal order of things.
As for the people around them who had vanished, they had not "observed" their disappearance at all.
Rather than calling it erasure.
It was more accurate to say that fluctuations in the timeline and alterations to the world had caused changes in the law of causality, making babies born in the past disappear all over again.
It was like someone who had "observed" the change in reality suddenly shouting at a couple, "Have you forgotten your youngest son?"
What the hell is wrong with you? We never had a second child!
They might even give a different answer.
Damn it, my wife fell seriously ill a few years ago, and you're asking me about a second child? Are you sick in the head?
Yes.
Strictly speaking, this was not erasure at all.
Erasure was the crudest kind of reality alteration.
True Reality Warping was comprehensive. It overturned causality and paradoxes, subverted all reality, completely fooled the fluctuations of reality across the entire world, and changed everything.
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Every trace of what had existed would be erased. Memories, information-everything would vanish. No one would remember what had happened.
It was as though the timeline of the entire world had been completely overwritten by that of another parallel universe.
That was the Reality Warping that truly overturned everything.
Of course.
Su Chen, driven completely out of control and into a berserk state by his mother's early death, could not control this power at all, so some people had "observed" the fluctuations and changes in reality.
But those people were unfortunate.
Some doubted themselves, thinking the people around them were maliciously deceiving them.
The brain in a vat, The Truman Show...
One terrifying term after another kept flooding their minds. After feeling the full weight of the world's malice, quite a few might even develop schizophrenia.
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"Damn bastard..."
Inside the Triskelion, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters building, figures kept disappearing throughout the building.
Compared with other places, the disappearances here were densely concentrated.
Although Su Chen's furious roars had not been directed at many specific targets, S.H.I.E.L.D. had organized and planned everything. Like the military, it suffered widespread Reality Warping, with people vanishing into thin air as though they had never existed in the first place.
Uh...
Nick Fury, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., had forgotten several of his capable level-eight agents, and even many of the subordinates he had personally recruited in the past.
His expression was deeply troubled.
He had "observed" the fluctuations in reality and was terrified after experiencing the changes Su Chen had wrought when the kid went mad.
Of course, at that moment, he also felt that the end of his life had come.
Death had come to claim him.
"Bastard!!"
He did not even have time to do much.
But doing this one thing would be enough.
"I hope you haven't forgotten me!"
Nick Fury gritted his teeth through the unbearable pain and pressed the button on an old-fashioned pager in his hand.
Buzz!!
The old pager, obsolete for who knew how many years, lit up at that moment, and a brilliant, star-like emblem appeared on its screen.
Chapter 65
The violent fluctuations in the timeline were like the timeline of another parallel universe overwriting the current one.
Even Su Chen, who had lost control and gone berserk, had not expected his rage to reach across the globe.
"Hmm..."
Only after Su Chen came to his senses and his emotions settled did he realize he had altered world history.
He was still in the crater from before. His black hair, which had stirred without wind, fell back down, and the fluctuations surrounding him gradually faded.
His berserk state had officially ended.
His first thought was not to check how the world had changed.
It was his younger sister...
In less than an instant.
He could sense in his mind that her life fluctuations were perfectly normal.
Perhaps it had been subconscious. After all, his sister was a Mutant, and amid the fluctuations in the timeline that had affected the entire globe, there had been few changes to reality involving the Mutant race.
Su Chen had learned this through what he sensed on a mental level.
"Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Amplifier are all dead."
"Even that hateful Stryker died completely in this catastrophe."
Every trace of the mastermind behind the journey through space and time had been thoroughly erased.