Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 389 Inside and Out
Qi Tengyi, who was still using the Golden Apple to heal, suddenly felt a light force on his back and was pulled out of the street.

Zhao Yingkong nodded to him, and her figure quietly shattered... This was her mirror image.

Qi Teng looked up and saw a shocking scene... If the clone Chu Xuan had no other means, it would probably have been smashed to pieces, right?
Below the six telekinetic floating cannons, there was a basket hanging, and three people could be vaguely seen inside.

"Sigh, you guys still lack a sense of humor." The green-faced monster shrugged, seemingly oblivious to the pile of bricks and stones in front of him. "Just a few lines of crosstalk and you're already throwing up like this."

As he spoke, he looked down at the basket below... A young man with parted hair was leaning against the basket, looking at the boundless night; while two other young men were lying unconscious inside, with white foam and vomit at the corners of their mouths.

One of them is Long Taobing, who is unfortunately going to act with Zhang Heng, and the other is Zhao Zhuikong, a member of the Devil Team!
"Well, you understand my sense of humor best." The green-faced weirdo chuckled at the parted-hair youth.

The young man with parted hair ignored him, glanced up at him, and then turned his gaze to the high and distant night sky. Strangely, the places his gaze swept over distorted for a moment, revealing some different scenes.

Where there were once buildings, streets may appear; where there was once flat land, walls may appear... and in the streets that were once empty due to the battle between the two teams, some wandering figures have appeared.

All of this was fleeting, like an illusion, or like another world overlapping with this world under his gaze.

By wearing the green oak mask, Zhang Heng will reclaim what he has lost… or rather, he is his true self when he wears the mask. That is why he is the only one capable of carrying out this mission.

The mission is to retrieve Leon S. Kennedy, who has appeared at the Raccoon City Police Department.

Everyone else was baffled, except for Zhang Heng… or more precisely, only Zhang Heng, who was wearing a mask, understood. Back in the Main God Space, Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha had mentioned this to Zhang Heng, both of them expressionless at the time, occasionally adjusting their glasses and touching their noses as they spoke.

Zhang Heng was used to their methods; he just had to follow their instructions and his doubts would be resolved on their own. For example, the question of his origins, which had always puzzled him, was no longer an issue after experiencing "Final Destination 2".

Hmm, what was the answer again? I can't remember, but it doesn't seem to matter...

After putting on the mask, Zhang Heng, in his Modern Great Sage form, grasped all the key points. Strictly speaking, he was also involved in Mu Xiang and Chu Xuan's conspiracy in the future.

The mutual role-playing by Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha using the surface of existence (remnant) is a key, even the most important, information deception... but to completely isolate the snake from the author's power, something of equal value is needed to counteract it.

One is from the ultimate power, the other is from a perspective outside the box!
The ultimate power is easy to understand. After the Battle of Creation, the Serpent's status had completely fallen... As the ultimate being of the previous era, its ability to transform into Him in this era was entirely due to his so-called Investiture of the Gods. Without the Heavenly Dao Scroll formed from the Investiture of the Gods, this ultimate power ceased to be real. Now that the Investiture of the Gods is shattered and the Heavenly Dao has been destroyed, it is naturally no longer the ultimate power.

Even though the Investiture of the Gods is now reduced to fragments, and even though his status no longer exists, his interference in this world still carries an ultimate meaning... Although it is decayed and false, it still carries the word "ultimate".

To completely eliminate this interference, either a force of more than one dimension would be needed to forcibly erase it... or an even stronger intervention would be required. And the power of the Lord of Comedy, transmitted from the future through the Loki mask... is immortal and real in this era! As for the perspective from outside the box, it relates to the outside-of-the-box observer effect. For a conscious outside-of-the-box observer, the situation inside the box is not unique or definite... a cognitive model is a superposition of countless possible states.

For a possibility to be fixed, it must be actually perceived by an observer. Just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers, let alone a thousand, even a hundred or ten might not be literal; only when a reader actually perceives an image does that Hamlet become real in a cognitive sense.

The original point of view in this world was through the Demon Team… The snake, relying on the author's perspective, allowed the Demon Team to develop according to his needs. Meanwhile, the Central Continent Team was also perceived as an entity within a projection, truly at the mercy of others. Even if the author was constrained and couldn't design an overly absurd ending for the Central Continent Team… the Central Continent Team still didn't have a good ending; could they possibly be written as winning?

There is only one way to break the inevitable defeat of the Central Continent Team: to introduce a perspective from outside the box, a viewpoint on the same level as the author's.

Just because you say Zhongzhou Team lost doesn't mean they lost. Just because you say they failed due to various unexpected events doesn't mean they failed due to various unexpected events. You can say Zhongzhou Team lost, but I can't say they won?
In the face of infinite possibilities, two completely different major trends will coexist... and one of these trends is beyond the control of the snake and the author. At this branching point where possibilities spiral out of control, the Central Continent Team can win this battle with their own strength. The more brilliantly they fight, and the more they deviate from the opponent's setting, the more advantageous it will be.

In Mu Xiang and Chu Xuan's plan, the Central Continent team should have won without a doubt. Once the die is cast, this possibility will break free from the control of the snake and the author, and split out of the box that was being interfered with! Although it is impossible to establish a complete victory here, it has finally created more strategic space.

In the future, when different possibilities converge, this projection will become a real time state of the multiverse... At that time, we will have to have a battle between the two quasi-time states to determine the final winner.

The Leon that Zhang Heng brought was someone with a perspective outside the box... According to the movie's plot, Leon shouldn't be at the police station; that's clearly a game setting. Yet, he appeared at the police station, as if he had accidentally wandered in from another parallel world.

Because Leon, as the protagonist of the game, has both his own perspective and a perspective from outside the box... He is the one who transmits the perspective from outside the box, and only Zhang Heng, wearing the mask, can take his place and bring him over in place of Mu Xiang.

In fact, Mu Xiang had already seen Leon like this in the world that was integrated into the game's structure when he returned to Resident Evil... At that time, Mu Xiang inside the box reconnected with Mu Xiang outside the box, although neither of them was aware of it.

As someone outside the box, Mu Xiang could create different possibilities... For example, he could be guided to enter the box; or he could perceive this different world through similar worlds and projections. At this moment, Leon, who had entered the box, faced the same gaze from outside the box, bringing with him a perspective from outside the box.

The snake's and Zhang Heng's powers canceled each other out, and the gazes from outside the two boxes also clashed... The snake's and the author's influence were completely blocked at this moment. Like a long road that had forked at this moment, the snake and the author had gone down another path, and when they realized it, they could no longer cross over to that side.

The best way to separate the two paths is for Mu Xiang's Zhongzhou team to win this match!

"Even though you, an earthworm, are going all out, you're not being suppressed by me now..." The green-faced monster stopped his antics and said solemnly, "But when it comes to power outside the box, what you rely on is no match for Mu Xiang."

"Because... he is both outside and inside the box."

(End of this chapter)