this infinite world

"It's you……"

After seeing the finger that shifted the world line, Zheng Zha felt surprised and enlightened.

After listening to Dr. Manhattan read the book titled "Infinite Horror" with him as the protagonist, Zheng Zha has always been curious about why his experience is so different from the original world line.

Not only the partners and enemies encountered, but even the mission world of the main god has undergone earth-shaking changes, Harry Potter, Pacific Rim, Red Alert 2, The Legend of Sword and Fairy... If there really is a so-called "world line deviation", then the world line that Zheng Zha is in now is only similar to the most original Infinite Terror in name.

"The universe is constantly splitting into different world lines, emerging in an endless stream like the branches of a growing tree."

Dr. Manhattan said calmly: "And I just promoted the possibility of the birth of another world line at the end of the era, which led to the world you exist in now, and reached this point today."

——Even so, it is beyond my imagination...

Zheng Zha shook his head and smiled bitterly. Although Dr. Manhattan said it was easy, Zheng Zha felt that even those so-called primary saints or senior saints who knew about this matter could not imagine how the blue giant in front of him could do it... He intercepted the timeline of ten years and drew an independent world line with his gestures. This was something that only a "god" could accomplish.

"But compared to these, there are more important things in front of me now."

Zheng Zha's gaze fell on the charred page in Dr. Manhattan's hand again. At this moment, the two people who were in confrontation before had already started fighting. Behind Yang Yun stood a towering Jianmu tree, and he was fighting fiercely with Chi You, who was showing the form of a three-headed, six-armed demon god.

Zheng Zha, who remembered everything, would not sit idly by and watch his teammates fight. A firm light flashed in the man's eyes: "Yang Yun is still fighting... I have to go help him."

But Dr. Manhattan shook his head and gave a negative answer: "You can't do it."

Hearing this, Zheng Zha, who was thinking about how to get into the book again, suddenly looked up in astonishment: "What do you mean I can't do it?"

"Because in that era that is about to be destroyed, your story has already ended. Only those whose ending is still uncertain when the story unexpectedly ends can resolve the unfinished cause and effect."

Dr. Manhattan replied: "There shouldn't be a corresponding intersection between the 'past' and the 'present', and now that you meet me, you also have your own choices to make."

"What choice?"

Even if Zheng Zha was slow-witted, he understood at this moment that this might be the reason why he entered this blank space, which might not even be within the current multiverse, and met Dr. Manhattan... And after so many conversations, the blue giant in front of him was finally getting to the point.

"Decide on the choice 'now'."

But the next moment, Dr. Manhattan's words made Zheng Zha stunned on the spot: "Similarly, it is also a choice that determines the fate of the 'future' of the entire multiverse."

"...Huh?" Suddenly, the importance of the topic was raised by Dr. Manhattan to a level that Zheng Zha could hardly understand. He was stunned on the spot, with a confused expression on his face as if to say "I don't understand what you are saying."

Fortunately, Dr. Manhattan immediately made the charred pages in his hand float up slowly, allowing Zheng Zha to see the scene more clearly: "The bell of doom has rung, and the ten-year deadline is about to expire."

"When all causes and effects are resolved, the previous era will come to an end, and the entire multiverse will be completely reborn."

As he spoke, countless other scenes appeared in the surrounding space. Zheng Zha was surprised to find that Qi Tengyi, Luo Gandao and others who were still in the Rorschach diary world, Zhan Lan, Zhang Heng and others who were in the real Watcher world, even Xiao Honglu who was in the North Ice Continent team, and Wang Xia and Liu Yu who had not entered the main god space in this era, were all in a deep sleep at this moment...

What surprised Zheng Zha the most was that the bodies of these sleeping Zhongzhou team members were not only translucent, but also had double images from time to time, as if two of them were overlapping at this moment...

"What's going on?" Zheng Zha looked at everything in front of him that he couldn't understand, and quickly turned to look at Dr. Manhattan, seeking an answer from this omniscient blue giant: "Doctor, could it be you..."

"I didn't do anything."

In response to Zheng Zha's question, Dr. Manhattan replied: "This will not endanger their safety. It is just a normal natural phenomenon."

"There is quantum entanglement between the same person in the past era and the present era. Their destinies will tend to be synchronized until they are completely integrated. And because the battle in the old era has not yet been decided, all the people involved in that battle are trapped in a superposition state of the new and the old."

——Is this kind of thing really possible?
Zheng Zha subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he saw Wang Xia and Liu Yu, who he had never seen before but felt inexplicably familiar with, he found that he could call out their names. At the same time, some memories seemed to be gradually revived in his mind...

"At the moment when the new era and the old era are changing, because everything is chaotic and different concepts are confused with each other, I can interfere."

Watching Zheng Zha rubbing his temple, Dr. Manhattan's words showed no emotion at all: "For example, let the relationship between the old era and the new era be swapped, so as to achieve the rebirth of the old era."

"Then make your choice, Zheng Zha. If you choose to let the old era continue, then the world line will return to its original track, and your past companions will return, but everything you have experienced since entering the main god space will be the same as if it had never happened."

"How is this possible? How can I abandon everything I have now?" Zheng Zha denied it without hesitation: "I..."

"And if you choose the continuation of the new era, it means the complete destruction of the old era. Yang Yun, who is still in the old era, will also lose the chance of resurrection and will be forgotten."

But then, the news was so shocking that Zheng Zha could only stand there, staring blankly at Dr. Manhattan in front of him, listening to him speak those cruel words -

"Now is the time for you to make a choice." (End of this chapter)