They all call me an Outer God.

Mu Wen was very puzzled. The label he had given to Riya now included a magician who appeared and disappeared mysteriously. He originally thought that the other party had completely disappeared after that instant movement, but he didn't expect to see him again here.

The distance moved is not far, so what’s the point of all the words he just said?
Mu Wen's expression was already a little subtle, but the person opposite him seemed to have suddenly thought of something, walked up and patted him on the shoulder: "I'm not trying to show off in front of you, Professor Mu, but unfortunately my skills are not that proficient yet.

By the way, Professor, can I ask you what I just said to you and where I was going?"

"Why are you asking me this? You don't even understand what you just said - wait!"

Mu Wen narrowed his eyes and stared at the man opposite him for a moment as if he was seeing him for the first time. Suddenly, his pupils shrank and he took a step back silently.

Their eyes are different.

He didn't have the mind to think about whether Ria had a twin brother. Unlike Ria's expression, the man in front of him had completely undisguised malice in his eyes.

Run, you must run now!
Mu Wen tried his best to steady the man and look for an opportunity to escape, but the next second the man in front of him took a step forward. He turned his head to look in the direction of an invisible surveillance camera and gave it a sinister smile.

Then, he turned around and quickly approached Mu Wen. Before Mu Wen even had time to react, a knife pierced through his heart. Blood quickly seeped out, staining his pure white research suit with blood.

"you……"

Professor Mu's eyes were bloodshot and blood was oozing from the corners of his mouth.

"It seems like I've seen through you. There's nothing I can do about it, professor. You can only blame yourself for your bad luck. You're born to be a tragic character."

"Are you asking me why he and I are different? Actually, we are the same. We are the same person, so how can I not be him? He is occupying my body now."

Mu Wen heard the man next to him whispering in his ear with a strange tone.

"Answer my question, where did 'I' say he was going?"

As the man spoke, he pulled out the knife, opened his mouth, and stuffed the entire bloody dagger directly into his throat.

Afterwards, he clapped his hands and said, “If you don’t want to say it, you can die now.”

This man didn't seem to be very interested in waiting for Mu Wen's answer. He just wanted to kill the other person.

"If you die, he will definitely come back."

"Riya" looked down at Mu Wen, who was full of reluctance, sneered, and then hid himself again.

……

"The fifth one."

"The sixth one..."

"The seventh one..."

By the time Ria had almost run to all the major research institutes and eaten up all the thousand-whiskered snails, and had personally found the astronauts to clean up their pollution, the emotion that should have been relieved became even more tense.

Inspiration was reminding him that something bad was happening.

He stood on the roof of a research institute in America and closed his eyes. What he saw was not Sodiris's awakening, but Mu Wen lying in a pool of blood, dying with his eyes open.

Mu Wen... is dead! ?

why.

Who did it?
Can't predict?

Riya stared at his hands, his fingers trembling slightly. He could feel that something was developing in an uncontrollable direction beyond his expectations. Perhaps this was the consequence of distorted time and space.

From ancient times to the present, time and space have always been a taboo monopolized by Yog-Sothoth. Without His permission, no one can step into this realm.

But once you step in, you are destined to become a part of this time and space.

But Riya still refused to believe that Mu Wen died so simply. He was the future Outer God Shining Sun, the god of war that symbolized the sun and fire. How could he die at such an inexplicable moment?

"I have to go back and recheck."

As he spoke, Riya stretched out his hand and tore a crack in the air, then he stepped into it and returned to the future.

At that moment, Riya saw Sodiris again, hanging upside down on the cross.

Sodiris is still alive, which means that Mu Wen's death did not change future history.

“Is this the terrible thing about time?”

Riya saw a symbol "Ⅱ" appear on the ground, which was probably recording his second time traveling through history.

At the same time, some words automatically appeared on the floor.

[Script excerpt II: Because you intervened in history, the factors that caused pollution were completely eliminated, and there will be no more "external" pollution in the next hundred years...

(Time and Space Correction) ■%#? ? ? After killing Mu Wen, he waits for your return. If the target fails to wait, he decides to revive Mu Wen, making him a new source of pollution in advance (Time and Space Correction is over, and the historical ending remains unchanged)]

Seeing the ending, a hint of anger flashed across Riya's pupils uncontrollably, but he still did not let it sway him. He just watched the words disappear automatically, then looked up at Sodiris.

"Who killed you?"

He asked softly. Sodiris didn't say anything, but Riya's figure was silently reflected in his lifeless blue eyes.

If you want to awaken Sodilis, you must change history, but changing history will be automatically corrected by time and space, and the inevitable ending will still be inevitable.

"Those who tamper with time and space will inevitably become a part of time and space..."

Liya opened her mouth and bit the tip of her thumb: "I can't change the final outcome. Is the ending really more important than the process?"

He began to wonder if he was being too picky and thus overlooked some things that should have been paid attention to.

For example, who killed Mu Wen?

For example, why did he appear in the research institute in person, and why could the machines in the research institute detect that he was over 300 years old.

"Judging from its age, it is indeed my previous body. It cannot be the original one, otherwise those machines would be scrapped in an instant."

"After I first traveled through time and left that body, it should have been automatically sealed into nothingness, so I was in a state where I could neither see the living nor the dead. But this body strangely appeared in the research institute more than 300 years later, and was even watching the news...

Someone took control of it!? "

This conclusion was simply horrifying. While he was struggling to deal with the extraordinary pollution, his original body had lived like that for more than three hundred years.

Thinking of this possibility, Riya immediately put down his hand.

So the ??? in Scenario II most likely represents himself, but this is the result that Liya is most unwilling to accept. He just guessed that Mu Wen was killed by himself, but there are still many doubts about this matter.

For example, during the first flashback, Ria, who was in a phantom state, had never seen him, as if this person did not exist in history, but the second time she squeezed back into that body.

It was as if the body had been there waiting for him.

"Is he targeting me?"

Looking at Sodiris who was still unconscious, Riya thought for a while and finally decided to take advantage of the situation.

Since the result is already determined, he will keep changing the process. He will prove that the process is far more important than the result at certain moments. In addition, Liya is also very curious about what the soul that occupies his original body is...

【Scenario III】

[You traveled through the time-space gate and returned to the past. Facing the news about the Thousand Whiskered Snail that was played in front of you again, you took the Thousand Whiskered Snail and did not let anyone see your whereabouts. Instead, you used your magician's ability to leave the institute directly.]

[Then, you follow the procedure to destroy all the snails and pollution, and completely destroy your own body as well]

[Ending: Mu Wen survives, and ??? flees to the stars after discovering his body is destroyed (time and space correction is complete, the historical ending remains unchanged)]

【Scene IV】

[You re-enacted the process according to Script II, but did not leave immediately when teleporting, but stayed in the dark to observe Mu Wen]

[Ending: Mu Wen survives, and releases the snails from the three research institutes, causing the pollution to spread (time and space correction ends, and the historical ending remains unchanged)]

【Scenario V】

[You destroyed the Thousand Whiskered Snails ahead of time, killed everyone in the research institute, and deliberately took away Mu Wen's body]

[Ending: Unknown pollution from the stars still appeared on the earthlings. The pollution spread, and Mu Wen's soul reappeared on the earth and gained a physical body. (The time and space correction is completed, and the historical ending remains unchanged)]

【Scene VI】

【Scenario VII】

【script……】

After countless attempts to change history, Riya's patience and inspiration had been almost worn out. He returned to the future and could barely maintain his human side, revealing his true form as a mythical creature.

But after trying it out, Riya was not completely without gain.

He found that no matter what he did, ??? and himself would never be in the same place, and he could not see ???.

??? I can’t see him either.

"Under what circumstances would it be impossible for two people to appear at the same time?"

"Unless that person is my alter ego... that doesn't seem right. Where does my alter ego come from?"

Another space-time gate was torn open in front of Ria. Ria turned her head and looked at Sodiris, who was hanging upside down with a suspected cerebral congestion, and couldn't help feeling a little sorry for him.

In any case, this person cannot escape the fate of witnessing destruction. Even if he dies, there will always be people willing to dig up his grave.

Riya even tried to swallow Mu Wen whole, but not long after, another Mu Wen appeared in the same place.

It was as if time was deliberately making things difficult for him.

"Alas." Just as he was about to step into the space-time gate again, Sodiris' eyes moved slightly.

"Li...Ya...Kelcha..."

He made a weak and vicissitudes voice. Hearing this, Liya stopped walking and turned to look at Sodiris, with a flash of surprise in his eyes.

Can He speak?
"Tampering... cannot be... taken..., witnesses... only witnesses..."

"Witnessing...everyone's...viewpoint, I know...the origin of everything, and then...start again."

Perhaps because the shadow cast upon Ria was too heavy, Sodiris actually spoke to him for a rare moment. He gave Ria some unknown authority, and then a force pushed Ria back into the gate of time and space.

The force was so great that it was as if the shining sun was deliberately taking revenge.

Leah hoped she was overthinking it.

……

【Script■■】

……

On May 2348, 5, Huaicheng Research Institute welcomed a special biological sample.

This creature looks like a snail and is a gift from the stars brought back by American astronauts.

Formalin solution has a special calming effect on them. The organism's vital signs have dropped significantly after being immersed in the solution, but it has not reached the point of death, so formalin solution can be used for sedation and containment.

The people in the institute placed the sample separately in Laboratory 013. Mu Wen forbad anyone to contact it in advance because he always believed that these creatures from outer space carried deadly pathogens.

They must not be allowed to remain active.

But before a day had passed, the Ai in the monitoring room detected a dark figure appearing at the door of Laboratory 013. Before it could sound the alarm, the figure disappeared automatically.

The figure avoided all surveillance equipment and entered the laboratory silently. When the sealed thousand-whiskered snail sensed the visitor, its dense tentacles silently poked out from the shell and happily moved towards the direction of the figure.

"You're so happy to see me. I missed you too. If it weren't for your help, I don't know how long I would have to wander in outer space before returning to my hometown...if this can still be considered my hometown."

【…】

"Are you asking me to take revenge? I've been exiled here, how can I take revenge? Ha, the original body is really cruel, and the group of followers around him are not good people at all. They actually instigated him to abandon me, the most important person to him, and exile me.

Without me, He will never be able to advance to Meme Zero again in this life!"

As if he was extremely angry, the man's eyes revealed a sick look. His eyeballs moved slightly, staring straight at the thousand-whiskered snail in front of him.

"You will help me, right? After all, it was me who made you discover this place. If I hadn't helped you change your form, you wouldn't have been able to enter the atmosphere with your original form.

【…】

"So, you agreed?"

【…】

The snail's tentacles lowered and rubbed the container obediently. Faced with this scene, the man was stunned at first, then turned his head away.

"How could I forget that even though I cannot use His authority, I come from Him after all, so I still have some influence."

"It's just that my abilities have been greatly limited. Damn it, if the real body was here it wouldn't be so troublesome."

As he spoke, the man stretched out his hand towards the snail, and the snail happily stretched out its hook and scratched frantically inside the container.

Finally... with a "click", the container broke.

The snail rolled out of the jar mixed with formalin solution and fell to the ground with a "plop".

The alarm in the laboratory sounded instantly. At this moment, the snail suddenly stretched out one of its tentacles and slapped the man's hand.

Their body shapes transformed into each other, the Thousand-whiskered Snail turned into Li Ya, and Li Ya also successfully changed into the appearance of the Thousand-whiskered Snail.

(End of this chapter)