this infinite world

"'No... My companions are still sleeping. I need to bring them all back to life. The Chronicles of Narnia? And the outcome of the final battle, and our future... Because of 'his' existence, I cannot finish the final battle just yet. We still have a long battle ahead of us. Grow up quickly. When your strength is enough to be worthy of being the strongest team member, I will tell you everything...'"

"After Zheng Zha said this, he looked at the EVA Unit-01 under his feet, then pointed forward and said, 'Let's go and create our future, a truly free future!'"

——When Dr. Manhattan closed the book in his hand and ended his inorganic reading lecture, Zheng Zha was still immersed in the story in which he was the protagonist and had not yet come back to his senses.

Perhaps for others who don't know the truth, this is just a good novel, and Dr. Manhattan's straightforward, emotionless voice completely fails to capture the essence of the novel, making it impossible to be immersed in the story. But for Zheng Zha... can this really be called a 'story'?

Zheng Zha had a good memory, and he listened very carefully, even memorizing the novel of more than two million words word for word, and could recite it by heart at any time. But the more he repeatedly understood these words, the more Zheng Zha could personally experience the authenticity of them, because although the writing style of this novel was quite rubbish, the emotions and core contained in it could not be faked.

—What’s that saying? Oh my god, that’s exactly me.

In Zheng Zha's opinion, this novel is not a so-called "story" at all, but another thing he personally experienced. However, he still has one biggest question that he wants to ask...

"…Why is there no 'Yang Yun' in this story?"

Zheng Zha was not an idiot. After listening to a novel of more than two million words, he naturally knew that this novel, titled "Infinite Horror", was written from his first-person perspective in most cases, and he was the undisputed protagonist of the novel... The problem was that no matter the items and skills he exchanged, or the worlds he experienced, they were all very different from reality. He had even never heard of many of the people in the novel.

"Could it be that this is another world line that was extended from when Yang Yun did not enter the main god space with us in Resident Evil 1?"

Zheng Zha often reads science fiction novels on weekdays. He knows about the settings of parallel worlds and knows that sometimes a trivial change may cause the train of history to move in another direction.

What if Chu Xuan had not died in the Grudge? What if his clone, Loli, had not died? In the dead of night, Zheng Zha sometimes thought about this possibility, but he did not expect that Dr. Manhattan would actually put this "possibility" in front of him today.

"This is the most original world line that has not been changed."

Dr. Manhattan calmly replied: "My power allows me to exist at every time point and every extended timeline at the same time, allowing me to see anything I want to know."

"This kind of thing..."

Even for Zheng Zha now, he still finds it hard to imagine the power of Dr. Manhattan. This ability is completely beyond his worldview... At this moment, Zheng Zha suddenly doubts Dr. Manhattan's strength. Saint? Immortal? Can those powerful beings really do such a thing?

"……etc."

But as if a flash of inspiration came to his mind, Zheng Zha suddenly discovered the blind spot: "Since you exist at every time point at the same time, why can you only see the story before I entered the main god space?" Looking at the blue giant in front of him, Zheng Zha asked: "I don't know how long before I was born, the main god space had already been established, and the saints and cultivators have existed for who knows how many years. Even if I am the so-called 'protagonist', then all the stories cannot have started from my entry into the main god space..."

"That's because my perspective is completely different from yours."

Dr. Manhattan's voice was calm as usual. Facing Zheng Zha's questioning, he did not show any extra emotions: "Time, or more precisely, the definition of timeline and parallel universe has lost its original meaning to me."

Although his tone remained the same, Dr. Manhattan's voice revealed some unfathomable secrets: "No matter what the main god space is, no matter what saints and cultivators are, or anything else. In front of me, in front of the 'author', in front of the 'readers' of the higher dimensions, they are equivalent to non-existence."

Author, reader...

These two heavy words from Dr. Manhattan's mouth immediately made Zheng Zha's breath choke. Although he could not fully understand the corresponding meaning, he truly felt the gap between himself and the other party at this moment...

"Let's go back to your previous question, about the existence of 'Yang Yun'."

As Zheng Zha watched, the book in Dr. Manhattan's hand disappeared again. This time, what appeared from his hand was not the previous book or diary, but a charred, worn page.

This fragment of the page looked extremely dilapidated, sad and unbearable to look at. Even at this moment, it was still slowly dropping ashes, as if foreshadowing that in the next moment it would completely turn into dust and disappear from this world completely...

However, through the charred remains, Zheng Zha unexpectedly saw two figures confronting each other. He did not recognize one of them, but he was very familiar with the other figure.

"Yang Yun!"

Zheng Zha couldn't help but exclaimed. He didn't care about anything else and directly grabbed the torn page in Dr. Manhattan's hand. But before he stretched out his hand, he found that he had returned to his original position, as if the action of stretching out his hand had never happened...

"This is the story that 'he' entrusted me to preserve until now. It is also another story that ended unexpectedly due to some force majeure before the restart."

Without looking in Zheng Zha's direction, Dr. Manhattan looked at the torn page in his hand. His eyes penetrated all restraints, as if he saw something else through Yang Yun's body in the torn page -

"Now, it is time to put an end to it and let the past and the future merge into one." (End of this chapter)