I created the Anomaly Control Bureau

Chapter 997, Section 992: The Messenger of Doomsday

Upon hearing God's Eye's words, Mar and Eng had already basically understood the situation.

He said calmly:
"So this isn't actually my memory, right?"

The divine eye slowly descended before Marne and blinked its enormous eyeballs:
"Yes, Ma En, what you see is basically not your own memories. It is almost impossible to find your own memories in your mind with just this kind of drug. It is countless times more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack."

Marx and Engels asked:

"So how do I find my memories?"

Divine Eye did not answer his question:

"This must be the first time you've met me, right?"

Marx and Engels understood what it was saying:
"You mean we'll see each other many more times?"

Divine Eye replied:
"That's right. In your future and my past, such conversations will happen countless times. Although you can't accurately find your memories with this kind of drug, I can find you. I can enter and leave traces in all the memories you might recall."

Nothing can escape my eyes.

As it said this, it deliberately winked.

It then went on to explain:
"This conversation is not some kind of association you form based on your familiarity with me, but rather what you remember me actually saying. It's just that in the real world, such a conversation is closer to talking to yourself."

"Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to receive so much information. I used many methods to make our conversation accessible to you, and many of the conversations you will have with me in the future will follow a similar principle."

“I found those memories that you would recall, and I came into contact with them at those times.”

Marx and Engels asked:

"So we should be considered friends or something similar. It seems like you and I aren't enemies, and I still have a lot of things I'm curious about, like Shenxiao..."

Shenyan raised his sleeve, gesturing for people to calm down:

"Don't rush. We can talk about those unimportant things later. Although I have successfully captured your future, our time is still not infinite."

"Although eternity has given us enough time, the end times are not over."

"Marne, you are our last hope."

Hearing this, he calmly asked:

"Okay, but could you explain this to me clearly, at least give me a basic understanding of what's going on, such as what it means that the apocalypse isn't over yet?"

"Even though you're a prophet, you should be able to speak normally, right? You're not going to be giving me riddles, are you?"

The divine eye emitted a childlike, silvery laugh:
"Don't worry, I'm not some third-rate prophet who can't see the future. What you need to know is very simple: at this point in time, the apocalypse has already completely broken out."

"But I had already sensed its arrival before that, because various versions of you from the future would constantly return to my past through reverse mind-control drugs or other means, creating opportunities for us to communicate."

"Of course, that's assuming you don't die in the future. Although the number of conversations between you and me is relatively limited, I need to have many more conversations because the future is uncertain for me."

“I don’t know which specific moments you will recall, so I need to grasp all the possibilities.”

"Furthermore, not all of your future selves have accurate information, which makes my work quite difficult, but I still gradually figured out what happened."

"Simply put, it means that an unstoppable apocalypse is coming."

"To this end, we began making all sorts of preparations. We poured all our resources into trying to defeat it completely when it arrived, and we even tried to stop its arrival. We prepared various escape plans, including our current base and the giant spaceship originally intended to preserve the flame. "But we soon discovered the despairing truth: this was a war almost impossible to win. Even escaping would only prolong our deaths, and our enemy was far too powerful to be defeated."

Marx and Engels asked:

So what exactly is this apocalypse?

The divine eye looked up at the ceiling:

"Shortly after you and I came into contact, I noticed that there were already signs of this apocalypse."

“Even earlier, we had already noticed something unusual about the universe we live in. You know, light can be used as a measure of time and distance. The light emitted by stars that are farther away from us represents information from a more distant past.”

"We discovered long ago that many signals from different extraterrestrial civilizations and life forms are hidden in those most distant and ancient messages. Some are warnings, some are threats, and some are expressions of goodwill."

"However, in those places closer to us, which are also closer in time, all we explore is endless desolation, as if a certain point in time has passed..."

“All known civilizations were slaughtered.”

Marx and Engels also realized the seriousness of the situation:
"So, at some point in time, an entity capable of faster-than-light travel appeared and destroyed all civilizations that could send out signals?"

The divine eye tapped its eyeball:
"That's right, at least it's a possibility. Initially, we were much more optimistic, thinking that it was possible that they had just formed some kind of interstellar alliance because of the existence of some kind of faster-than-light communication and covert technology."

"But later evidence suggests that these civilizations were probably destroyed."

"And that which destroyed their entity, we call the Great Enemy."

"Later, you confirmed our speculation."

Marx and Engels asked:

"And this is the doomsday that has befallen our world—this monster capable of destroying civilization?"

Divine Eye replied:
"That's right, the doomsday that has already arrived is its tentacles, but it is closer to some kind of natural phenomenon than a monster. We have not detected any tendency of it to have complex intelligence. It is closer to a flood in the universe."

"It brings only pure destruction, not judgment or enslavement."

Marx and Engels asked curiously:
"But we still have hope, right?"

The divine eye rolled up its empty sleeves:

"Of course, otherwise we wouldn't be wasting our time here. As I said, this thing doesn't exhibit complex intelligence, and despite its terrifying power, it doesn't seem to possess particularly strong insight."

"Because for a very long time, our world has not been destroyed, even though humans in the past had long since achieved the ability to transmit signals to the outside world and tried to contact other extraterrestrial civilizations."

"But we have only recently come to the attention of our great enemy again, and not because of anything we have done."

"It's not that the protective mechanisms left by our predecessors have failed."

Marx and Engels said thoughtfully:

"Protection mechanism?"

Divine Eye nodded:

"That's right, it's the starting point of your new life, the unmemorable one who destroyed all your memories. Humans in the past created mechanisms to hide themselves several times before they had time to do so."

"He is part of a certain mechanism."