I created the Anomaly Control Bureau

Chapter 864, page 859: Racing Against Time (4k resurrection~)

Things went smoothly from there. D17 said nothing more, signed the contract, and agreed to sign a peace treaty with him. This extremely dangerous brief confrontation was thus resolved "easily" by him.

Although the receding of this danger is not permanent, as D17 said, she does indeed have the potential to break the contract with Marne in the near future.

Just like Marx and Engels, who had an abnormal control bureau.

After all, her abilities are the same as his, without any limits. Theoretically, she can possess any power. Ma En can control any ability on his own, while the other party can control almost any ability user.

Fortunately, the person who possessed this ability was not yet that powerful. If it had been an old fox like Seran, or even just himself, Marn might not have had a chance to win.

Although he may seem arrogant, the reality is quite the opposite.

His arrogant and almost insulting words were not intended to provoke the other party, but to quickly pull them into a "zone of consensus" he had prepared in advance, thereby dissolving their chain of suspicion.

Another meaning of "I look down on you" is that I won't lay a hand on you.

If the chain of mutual suspicion is not broken, even if he can temporarily overcome her with fear, he cannot persuade her to sign a peace treaty.

Persistent fear can never translate into victory; instead, it can become an irreversible chasm, rapidly escalating their conflict to a life-or-death level.

Even the rhetoric he's using now might not be able to fool the other side forever, which is why he immediately signed a peace treaty with D17.

Ultimately, they quickly reached a price that satisfied both parties.

Because D17 is currently at war, she cannot accept providing most of her resources to Marne, so they eventually negotiated a terms similar to installment payments.

Although the total amount is not low, it is close to ten thousand.

However, before she ends the war, she can only withdraw money at a rate of 500 every half month. Of course, this rate is actually quite high, since 500 now is more than 1,000 originally.

At this price, he can now collect about ten Reverse Mind Pills every fifteen days.

That is, twenty pills per month.

If she can end the war, then Maren can withdraw 1,500 every half month, which means he can take out 60 Reverse Mind Pills every month, and he can basically withdraw all his savings in three months.

Of course, Marne felt he shouldn't need that many anti-spiritual drugs.

Even with a mediocre efficiency, at most a hundred or so Reverse Mind Pills would be enough to fulfill his requirement of raising his mental power to the top of the V level, and that doesn't even take into account the possibility of good luck.

This amount of Reverse Spirit Medicine can basically guarantee that he will reach the top of his level.

The remaining currency can be used to exchange for useful high-level items, or to utilize certain cost-effective items to help him solidify other abnormal abilities.

Moreover, he no longer needs to be in a hurry. After all, he has transformed the short-term threat of D17 into a more long-term potential threat, and he doesn't need to rush.

The only danger in this matter might be what he remembers.

Moreover, not only did D17 offer conditions, but he also took the opportunity to propose many other conditions, such as more covert confidentiality clauses. Although he couldn't meet the same conditions as when he made the deal with Li Fen, he did his best to prevent D17 from linking Sera and Maen together.

Although, judging from what has happened so far, Sera's actions are reasonable and can be interpreted as a retaliation after being offended, her help to Marne can also be linked to Luna, their mutual friend.

Furthermore, Sera's arrogance provided ample support for these imaginings.

But the fewer such associations there are in the world, the better.

After giving D17 a final "kind" warning about the dangers of this world, Ma En left the Eastern Federation Pharmaceutical Company with ten Reverse Mind Potions.

Then, he could temporarily put the threat of D17 aside and begin to reclaim his own power.

Although this "careless" behavior made Marne reflect on his impetuousness, he still had to recover his mental strength as quickly as possible, after all, the threat of D17 was not gone forever.

Perhaps one day when he wakes up, the world will be under her control.

And there are certainly many other potential threats in the world besides D17.

Especially now, after the fault line, Shenxiao is being imprisoned for the first time.

The world was not ready to welcome them. Ma En did not know how long it had been since the fault line, but the new world he was in must be quite immature and had not yet been baptized by the most cruel and terrible forces.

The sights of the past have shown how dangerous the world once was.

If these terrifying, dead things were to rise from the dead—like D17 who has inherited the power of the Golden Man—they could potentially cause terrible destruction to this newly awakened world.

Today is D17, tomorrow it could be The Fearless Five.

For example, that particularly mysterious dreamer—if the Duke's final guess was even remotely close to the truth, and the dream was indeed some kind of phenomenon caused by this terrifying ability user.

His power must not have completely disappeared.

After all, humans dream nowadays too.

If Shenxiao were still alive, Ma En wouldn't be so worried. If these dangers are raging waves and human society is a ship about to capsize, then Shenxiao would be the helmsman who can avoid the dangers.

But now the helmsman has been locked in the basement by the captain.

No one knows when the ship will hit the reef. He had better regain all his strength before that happens, so that at least when the ship collapses, he can barely manage to stay afloat with his lifeboat.

That's why he has new goals for the past.

That is to gather as much information about the past as possible while remaining as safe as possible, especially about those terrifying entities that may be destroying the world in the present.

Of course, Marx and Engels did not forget the dangers of blindly gathering intelligence.

Therefore, he did not intend to actively explore the outside world in the past.

He planned to achieve a similar effect by repeatedly entering the memory.

As long as he doesn't actively explore outwards, the memories he holds should be relatively safe—because his past self has survived to the present.

In other words, the memory spaces you enter on your own are definitely not particularly dangerous.

The premise is that he doesn't actively seek death.

With this determination, he returned to the Bureau of Anomalies Control once again.

As before, many employees returned to their original positions, and although they could not provide any assistance, Maren would not let go of even the slightest contribution.

That's the secret to his survival.

Only after everyone had performed their duties did he swallow the mind-altering medicine.

This medicine combines the effects of ten Reverse Spirit Pills.

The moment the medicine went down his throat, Ma En felt the power spreading throughout his body. This time, he had an even stronger sense of control than before, and a vast ocean of memories began to take shape in his mind.

For the first time, he could distinguish between front, back, left, and right.

Then, he began to delve into the deepest parts of his memory—the places closer to the break in his memory.
Similarly, those were places he had been to before.

As soon as Maren thought this, a huge island appeared in his mind.

The vast sea and sky, the birdsong and the fragrance of flowers—that's the feeling the island before him evoked.

Sensing the peaceful atmosphere, Ma En immediately seized the opportunity and rushed onto the island.

He opened his eyes.

I saw the eyes.

Huge, bizarre eyes were hovering in front of him, staring intently at him.

As the effects of the drug rapidly wore off, and with the giant eye hovering a few meters in front of him, Ma En immediately realized his predicament—he had been captured by that terrifying divine eye.

He didn't panic, but instead gathered the power within his body as if he had been prepared.

jump.

Without the slightest hesitation or confusion.

Even so, 60% of the drug's effects in Maren's body had already been lost.

Ma En first looked around.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief after confirming there was no trace of the giant eye.

Clearly, because of the previous contact, the Divine Eye had already sensed something.

Moreover, unlike Shenxiao, it possesses the terrifying power to penetrate fault lines.

That's why it came to block its own way.

This also shows that it has an extremely terrifying predictive ability, since fault lines can weaken predictive ability, since the essence of fault lines is the erasure and distortion of information.

Prophecy, on the other hand, is a capability that operates entirely based on information.

Prophesying about someone you can't remember is the same as not prophesying at all, because you'll forget your own prophecy and won't even realize that you've overlooked it.

After all, those who cannot remember are the greatest nemesis of prophets.

This is enough to prove that its prophetic ability is probably terrifyingly strong. The fact that he felt the island was peaceful at the time was probably the result of the divine eye deliberately shaping it in the past.

It has transcended fault lines and its own anti-prophetic abilities.

Fortunately, the Divine Eye wasn't there to intercept and kill him.

Marx and Engels were absolutely certain of this, not only because it had no reason to harm itself.

Even if it already had a reason to harm itself, Maren would find a way to make it have no reason to do so, and Maren knew that he didn't need to make the other party have no reason immediately; he could do it in the future.

He knew exactly how to interact and converse with these prophets.

Moreover, Ma En felt that he had basically guessed the purpose of the Divine Eye.

This also explains why it would surround itself, yet not intend to harm itself.

What God's Eye truly cares about is the apocalypse that has already occurred.

That apocalypse that caused a rift in the world, and that made Godeye and the other four terrifying beings disappear.

Indeed, it is very likely that the Divine Eye became aware of the existence of this apocalypse in the past, since this apocalypse may have been able to conceal itself within the realm of prophecy.

In other words, past prophets may not have been able to detect its arrival.

But I am an exception.

He might be the only one who has "returned to the past" after the fault line, although this way of returning to the past is not a true reversal, but it may be enough for the God Eye.

It sensed the existence of the apocalypse through itself, a survivor who had survived it.

If the fault line is like a piece of paper separating the world before and after the apocalypse, dividing it into two parts, then I am the straw stuck in that paper, one of the few survivors connecting the two.

Yes, I have indeed forgotten my past memories.

But unlike everyone else—he hadn't forgotten that he had forgotten.

Even Shenxiao Walker didn't seem to realize the problem as directly as he did. She gradually sensed something was wrong through her own abilities. Of course, this could also be because Shenxiao avoided the apocalypse.

This almost proves that he is likely the strongest bridge between the present and the past.

What the divine eye does is observe the world here through the straw hole.

It doesn't take much effort to figure out that the Divine Eye in the past was probably trying to get more information about the apocalypse through itself, since at that time it thought the future was still uncertain.

Back then, the Divine Eye must have wanted to prevent the apocalypse from coming, and perhaps I did help it. The current situation is probably the world after the Divine Eye received the message.

But Marx and Engels knew very well that the end was finally coming.

What has already happened cannot be changed. The Terror Five are basically dead, and whether or not I provide help to Godeye will not affect what happened in the past.

Therefore, whatever he does next will not affect what happened in the past.

After all, even if he did nothing, the Divine Eye could still see the future in which he provided assistance, and at that time, the Divine Eye believed that such a future was still possible.

But no matter what the Divine Eye wants to do, Ma En has no intention of cooperating.

It wasn't that he didn't want to help, but he would at least wait until he regained his power.

After all, the end of the world has already been decided, and the effects of the medicine that it has consumed are truly being used up. Moreover, he can use the remaining Reverse Mind Medicine to help the Divine Eye after he has regained all his power.

After all, he prioritizes things, but not the Divine Eye.

Whether you help it now or later makes no difference to the Divine Eye, because its concept of time is completely different from yours. Your present and a year from now may be equally close to the Divine Eye.

It was precisely because of this that he immediately jumped through his memories after realizing what the Divine Eye was doing.

Moreover, he has clearly broken free from the prophecy of the divine eye.

This is not difficult, after all, he has a lot of experience dealing with prophets and knows what is most effective at countering the ability of prophets - that is randomness.

That's right, this is exactly the strategy he used when dealing with the power of the Divine Firmament.

He made a completely random memory jump.

Combined with the ability to break through barriers and counter-prophecy, this should be enough for him to escape the tracking of the Divine Eye, and it shouldn't pose any problem for him.

If he has few Reverse Mind Potions, the existence of Random Jump and Divine Eye might cause him to waste precious resources, but if he has more than enough Reverse Mind Potions, this level of waste is negligible.

He will be able to regain his power within three months.

(End of this chapter)