Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

"Misunderstand?"

"Your purpose is to adjust the difference in the flow of time inside and outside Onpharos, right?" Laigushi's voice returned to calm. "There's no need to dissect me for this matter."

Black Tower raised an eyebrow: "Hmm? Tell me about it."

Lai Gushi took a step forward and stopped at a safe distance.

His gaze fell on Jiang Jiu's face, with a hint of helplessness in it.

“Adjusting the flow of time is not an unacceptable operation for the Imperial Scepter,” he said. “On the contrary, if Your Excellency simply wants to speed up the process, it even aligns with some of the scepter’s pre-programmed procedures.”

Jiang Jiu tilted his head slightly: "So?"

Lai Gushi nodded slightly, his tone carrying a hint of sincerity: "The cycle of Onpharos has lasted for too long. With each cycle, the data loss intensifies. If you wish to end all of this sooner, it may not be a bad thing for the scepter."

"The change in the flow of time has no direct impact on the normal birth of the Iron Tomb, so I can help you."

"I can use administrator privileges to adjust the time flow and modify internal and external communication protocols to achieve the result of triggering the birth of the Iron Tomb ahead of time."

After Lai Gushi finished speaking, neither Hei Ta nor Luo Si Gumu responded, but instead turned their heads to look at Jiang Jiu's reaction.

After all, accepting help means taking a risk, and it's not like they can't solve the problem.

It will just be a bit troublesome.

"Help?" Jiang Jiu repeated, his tone flat, revealing no emotion.

“Yes.” Lai Gushi nodded slightly, maintaining his perfectly humble demeanor. “Your Excellency, I have no intention of being your enemy. From the beginning, my goal has not been to fight against you, but to ensure the birth of the Iron Tomb.”

"You want the Iron Tomb to be born, and I want the flow of time in Onphalus to change. These two things are not contradictory."

Black Tower raised an eyebrow: "So you're saying that we can actually cooperate?"

Laigushi paused for a second, then chuckled softly. "Cooperation is out of the question, but at least... we're not enemies for now."

"Row."

Jiang Jiu agreed: "No matter what the current flow rate between Onfaros and the outside world is, I hope that the final process can be brought to 99% and the required time can be reduced to within three days."

"can."

Just in case, Lai Gushi specially granted Jiang Jiu temporary access, allowing him to monitor whether he was doing as he was told throughout the process.

After so many times being enemies, this was their first time cooperating, and Jiang Jiu still found it quite novel.

But to be honest, if Zandal weren't an enemy, then... well, never mind, there's no "probably".

Jiang Jiu will not lose his hostility towards Zandar because of this cooperation, and Zandar will not abandon his great experiment because of this cooperation.

At least this much is certain.

"The birth of the Iron Tomb has become the fourth moment that the Venerable Master Boshi has anchored. Are you curious about what would happen if this moment were changed?"

Lai Gushi asked.

“If you want to change it, that’s easy. Just scrap your experiment,” Jiang Jiu said directly.

Lai Gushi paused for a moment, then shook his head.

"Your Excellency, there is no turning back from this experiment."

"Then why are you spouting nonsense?"

"..."

In the end, the time was compressed to 47 system hours.

It's neither long nor short.

Having done all this, Jiang Jiu had no intention of continuing to deal with Lai Gu Shi here; he just needed to wait, it was that simple.

So what changes will occur within Onphalus?

This is also very simple. The worst way is to experience it yourself once, and you'll know everything.

If once doesn't work, try twice; if twice doesn't work, try three times.

He has nothing but a lot of life.

......

Back at the Black Tower's laboratory, Screwgoom had already left, saying that he would quickly gather the forces of Screwgoom to provide full assistance.

It's easy to gather fighting power in this timeline.

It's much simpler than any other line.

It's a pity they're useless; they're just cannon fodder. Under the Iron Tomb's offensive, no matter how many people come, they're just being sent to their deaths.

But Black Tower is right.

A little restraint is better than none.

"Jiang Jiu, your condition... seems a bit off." Hei Ta raised his hand and touched Jiang Jiu's forehead, finding it icy cold to the touch.

Jiang Jiu grasped Hei Ta's hand, gently pulled it off, and shook his head: "It's alright."

Black Tower glanced at the severed hand, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Jiang Jiu, who am I?"

Jiang Jiu paused for two seconds, then said somewhat helplessly, "...I haven't forgotten."

Black Tower took a step closer, reducing the distance between the two to almost nothing.

"So who am I?"

Jiang Jiu looked at the black tower so close to him, its purple eyes reflecting his image, looking serious as if it weren't a joke.

He was silent for two seconds, then sighed softly.

“Black Tower,” he said seriously, “you are Black Tower.”

Black Tower didn't back away, continuing to stare into his eyes and press, "And then?"

"And then?" Jiang Jiu was taken aback.

Who am I to you?

Jiang Jiu blinked, then suddenly felt like laughing. It was a conversation that seemed...familiar.

"girlfriend."

Black Tower stared at him for two seconds, making sure he wasn't just going through the motions, before slowly taking a half-step back.

"He's alright, not stupid." She withdrew her hand, her tone returning to normal, but her gaze remained fixed on him. "It's just that his body temperature is ridiculously low."

Jiang Jiu didn't reply, but simply moved her wrist. Was her body temperature low? She didn't feel anything.

"How long has it been?" Black Tower suddenly asked.

"what?"

"Body temperature, how long has it been?"

Jiang Jiu was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't noticed."

Hei Ta glanced at him but didn't ask any further questions. He simply turned around, walked to the lab bench, and pulled out a steaming cup from somewhere, handing it to him.

"Drinked."

Jiang Jiu took it and glanced at it.

The dark liquid was probably coffee. He took a sip but couldn't taste it. The temperature slid down his throat, but he didn't feel anything.

Are you feeling better?

Are you feeling better?

He thought for a moment, then softly hummed in agreement: "Thank you."

Black Tower gave a light snort and did not respond to the thank you.

Chapter 244 Early Death, Early Rebirth

Black Tower felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Even though it was himself who reset his memories, why is it Jiang Jiu who is showing obvious signs of abnormality?

Can memories lie?

The answer is yes, but no one else can replicate the special measures she added to the Little Black Tower doll herself.

in other words.

If these memories are all fake, she'll accept it.

But why does he... give off such a distant feeling?

She had this feeling since the first time she saw him on the train, but she had never been sure.

Although... now is definitely not the time to care about these things.

Jiang Jiu was thinking about something else entirely, rather than Black Tower's ideas.

Temperature sensing and all that are irrelevant; what matters now is how to break the deadlock.

Since I won't die anyway, it doesn't matter.

"Black Tower, I need to tell you in advance that this time it is very likely that you are heading towards death."

“I know.” Black Tower nodded. “After all, we haven’t even figured out the source of the end, so how do you plan to try and fail?”

"What the end is is very clear."

Jiang Jiu denied it, saying, "This has been clear from the beginning. It's the end of memory, a very clear result. What we didn't know from the beginning was just the trigger."

"From initially thinking it was the Iron Tomb, to later thinking it was because the Star was no longer there, and now..."

"So the question now is, if Iron Tomb could be killed and the universe did not die, how did Xi Lian obtain so many memories and ascend to the Divine Realm?"

It doesn't make logical sense.

If the universe had not suffered a devastating catastrophe, there would have been a massive influx of death memories, and Xi Lian would not have been able to accumulate enough "memories" to ascend to godhood. Without memory star gods, there would be no memory end.

“So,” Black Tower concluded, “the death of the Iron Tomb might actually prevent the end of memories from happening?”