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

"All things should continue to exist, but... an unchangeable future does not deserve to be called existence. I will show you the possibilities of the future, a possibility that the universe will still exist after the singularity of knowledge, beyond the boundaries of intellect. What I can do will far exceed your expectations. I will bring you countless possibilities, regardless of whether the outcome is successful or not."

Lai Gushi straightened up and gave Jiang Jiu a very formal scholar's salute.

"Therefore, what I have prepared for you is not an answer, but an engine that will not give the same answer. The future needs variables, and existence will eventually be unknowable. And at this moment, the biggest source of accidents in the entire galaxy is standing right in front of you."

"As a perturbation at the beginning and end of the universe, you only need a glimpse."

"The above is all the arguments I can provide."

He raised his head.

“If you think this answer is acceptable, I will continue to live and bring you some unexpected possibilities. If you think it is unacceptable…” Lai Gushi nodded slightly, “Then please do so.”

Jiang Jiu simply chuckled softly at Lai Gushi's answer.

"What a fine sophistry!"

"However... I'd say you barely passed."

Chapter 4: Can you die a few times to avenge her?

Black Tower remained silent throughout the entire ordeal.

Only after Lai Gushi straightened up and Jiang Jiu finished saying the word "passed" did she raise an eyebrow, her tone carrying a hint of expected teasing: "Finished acting?"

Jiang Jiu turned her head to look at her, completely denying it: "What do you mean it's over? I was very serious."

"Hmm, very serious." Black Tower nodded, a slight smile playing on his lips. "So serious that he didn't care about anything else, just sat there watching someone else give you an academic defense from beginning to end. Pshaw, if you really wanted to deal with him, you would have done it the moment you walked in. Why would you wait for him to prove his so-called value?"

Jiang Jiu blinked but didn't refute.

Black Tower knows him too well.

Looking back now, it seems that about half of what he said before coming to Onfaros—that he was supposedly feeding Iks and dealing with the time bomb—was just an excuse.

He did have to deal with the Iron Tomb, but he really didn't intend to take action against Lycus.

As for why Jiang Jiu was interested in Lai Gu Shi... who knows?

It's impossible that after a long period of intense competition, they came to see him as a respectable opponent.

Jiang Jiu shrugged, agreeing with Black Tower's guess.

Don't you find it interesting?

"Fun is a concept of pleasure, while curiosity is the driving force of knowledge. Which one are you referring to?"

Jiang Jiu paused for a moment, then shook his head: "It's alright. I acknowledge that everyone present has something to gain, whether it's desire or pursuit, they cannot escape the foundation of existence."

"To bring about a possibility that even existence itself finds surprising—it's been a long time since I've heard such a grand statement."

"Big talk? I have a feeling you're actually expecting it?" Black Tower retorted.

"Who knows?" Jiang Jiu neither admitted nor refuted.

A madman willing to spend tens of thousands of years correcting a mistake, a prisoner who created the Star God and was trapped by it for life, and a desperate gambler who can calmly hand over the data core even in dire straits.

It would be so boring if someone like that died.

"However," Black Tower changed the subject, glancing at Gu Shi before returning to Jiang Jiu, "how are you going to explain this impromptu decision to Onfaros? He's a victim who's been tormented by Lai Gu Shi for countless cycles, and you, as a Star God of Existence, personally came to handle it, and the result is that you've taken over the mastermind on the spot?"

Jiang Jiu stood up from his chair, reached out and scooped up Onfaros's data core, weighed it in his hand, and asked with some curiosity.

"Explain? Why should I explain to them?"

Black Tower paused for half a second, then chuckled.

Also.

Jiang Jiu glanced at the message sent by his younger sister, threw the core in his hand into the air, and disappeared from the spot.

Jiang Yin: Received! We're on our way, brother, will you wait for us?

King: No.

After typing that word, Jiang Jiu turned off his phone.

Lai Gushi wisely granted internal administrator privileges to the Imperial Scepter.

The next moment, the flow of time inside Onpharos accelerated by tens of thousands of times.

Jiang Jiu glanced at the seal he had seen countless times—the seal that trapped the Iron Tomb.

Time has passed, but the Iron Tomb remains the same Iron Tomb.

Within seconds, the sealed area burst forth with a blood-red light!

Before Jiang Jiu, the body that had destroyed the universe multiple times slowly solidified from the vortex of data stream, its dark red light as dazzling as ever, and as arrogant as ever.

The Iron Tomb was born, the Iron Tomb hatched, and the Iron Curtain... began to dissolve itself.

Time stood still at a certain moment.

The approaching spaceship in the distance seemed to freeze in mid-air, moving at an extremely slow speed, and no one noticed anything unusual.

The Iron Curtain's form disintegrated.

It didn't struggle, well... it probably didn't even know how to struggle. Faced with the denial of a star god's self-existence, any struggle would be futile.

After a brief moment of time freezing in Onpharos, the time flow regions of the two realms synchronized.

Then... time returned to normal.

Jiang Jiu ultimately decided not to throw the Iron Tomb into the Void, probably because he found it troublesome, or perhaps because he thought the Void's range was too large and he wanted to avoid accidentally harming friendly forces.

A spaceship slowly came to a stop at the core of the Imperial Scepter.

A young girl slowly stepped out of the spaceship, carrying a cat in her arms, followed by another cat. Silver Wolf, arms crossed in dissatisfaction, grumbled, "Why don't I come too...?"

Screw Gum's gaze lingered on the slowly dissipating data stream, and he seemed to realize something.

Lai Gushi glanced around and noticed that Jiang Jiu and Hei Ta had already left, so he stepped forward and nodded slightly.

"Your Excellency Jiang Yin, welcome to Ongfaros."

Unlike Sai Feier and Yin Lang, whose gazes were clearly wary, Jiang Yin took a few steps forward and asked directly, "Where's my brother?"

"You left right after dealing with the Iron Tomb. Does Lady Jiang Yin wish to contact Him?"

Jiang Yin waved her hand.

"I don't need to go through here to find my brother."

Lai Gushi chuckled softly, offering no rebuttal.

The next moment, Sai Feier poked half her head out from behind Jiang Yin, her ears standing straight up, and her tail puffed up into a big ball.

She glared at Lai Gushi, her pupils filled with undisguised hostility—well, to call it hostility would be an understatement; it was clearly the intense hatred between enemies.

"Yinyin!" She grabbed Jiang Yin's arm, her voice soft and aggrieved, a stark contrast to her earlier argument with Silver Wolf on the spaceship. "It's him! He's the one who made me die so many times! He bullies me every time I'm reincarnated!"

Taking advantage of her master's power, she pointed at Lai Gushi and said, "Quick! Hit him! Right now! Use that move your brother taught you... what's it called again... never mind, it doesn't matter, hurry, hurry, hurry! Beat him up!!!"

Jiang Yin was so shaken by her that she almost lost her balance. Elio in her arms lazily opened one eye, yawned, and then closed it again, clearly having no interest in this farce.

Silver Wolf, looking on with amusement, grabbed Elio's tail and forced it to look up.

Eriol: "......."

Silver Wolf: "Crack, crack..."

Lai Gushi stood there, looking at the cat with its fur standing on end, a rare hint of helplessness appearing on his face. As the creator of Onpharos, he certainly knew who Saifeier was.

“Miss Seifer,” he began, his tone utterly emotionless, conveying a sense that killing him would be pointless, “regarding the multiple data annihilations you experienced within the Onfaros inner loop, I sincerely express my—”

"Who needs your sincerity!" Sai Feier stood behind Jiang Yin, her aura intimidating. "Yinyin, look at him! He's threatening me!"

Jiang Yin finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She laughed as she reached out to stroke Sai Fei'er's hair, saying, "Alright, alright, I know he's caused your death many times. Didn't I bring you here to collect the debt?"

"Then why don't you hit him!"

"Fight, fight, fight, definitely fight." Jiang Yin stroked Sai Fei'er's fur while raising her head and looking at Lai Gushi.

We definitely need to calm Saifei down, since she's the one who picked up the cat.

Although Laigushi was recognized as a messenger by his brother, it should be fine as long as he doesn't go too far.

"My cat is very angry. Can you die a few times to let her vent her anger?"

Jiang Yin asked politely.

Laigushi: "..."

......

(What are you trying to see with all this bloodshed?)

Chapter 5 Nineteen

Hattopia, the "Two-Phase Paradise," is the location where the Star Train crashed and restarted.

It is a place with a strong sense of joy, but unfortunately, it is not a good place for vacation at this stage.

"Going to the Two-Phase Paradise with a purpose means this trip can't just be about having fun." Black Tower crossed his arms and asked, "Are you sure that if you have to enter directly, what use is your involvement?"

"I don't know, but it could make the situation a bit more chaotic."

As Jiang Jiu watched the final scene unfold on his phone, he saw the train crew's fervent slogans and combo attacks end, but instead of the applause a winner should receive, he was instead given... a 42-day extreme escape. He almost laughed in anger.

That's a great piece of work by Kaven.

The person with the card had an itchy tooth.

Heita paused for two seconds, then asked, "Are you really Jiang Jiu? Or is it Aha in disguise?"

Jiang Jiu: "?"

"If Aha could replace me now, He probably wouldn't need to help."

Black Tower shrugged: "That's hard to say."

Jiang Jiu turned off his phone, looked up, and found that Hei Ta was still staring at him. He blinked.