Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

This is a subway station. In front of you is a subway map, and the nodes on the map are intertwined, like a horizontal tree diagram. The roots and crowns are huge, and they are intertwined to form a huge trunk.

There were only a few scattered figures in the empty subway station. People of different looks were standing on the roadside waiting for the subway. There was no communication or conversation.

The clothes they were wearing were fashionable, retro, and shabby. You could even see steel knights and weird-looking orcs waiting for the train.

He tried to walk onto the arriving subway, but a wall of air prevented him from entering.

When I wanted to take the elevator to leave the subway station, I also encountered an invisible barrier.

The restricted activity space is limited to the 50 square meters of this platform.

"What kind of ending spoiler is this?" Bai Yu was very confused.

At this time, another subway train stopped at the platform, the door of the carriage opened, and a person got off the car.

Just happened to be face to face with Bai Yu.

He looked at him.

He looked at him.

Their eyes met, and they looked at each other in silence.

Because the two look the same, almost exactly the same, like twins carved from the same mold.

However, the young man who walked out of the subway was older and his temperament was more vicissitudes of life. Although his face had not changed, the aura in his eyes was as heavy as a pile of extremely thick dark clouds. Only by clearing away the clouds could one see clearly whether it was a clear sky or dark clouds and thunder.

"You..." Bai Yu was about to speak.

"Come with me." The young man who walked out of the subway said lightly, then walked towards the subway exit and stepped into the elevator.

"Wait a minute, I can't get out."

As soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, he found that the air wall that had just restricted him disappeared, and he caught up with the young man in front.

Taking the elevator all the way up, the elevator was very long and it took a full two minutes to reach the ground.

"Shouldn't you explain to me? Where is this place? Who are you?"

After reaching the edge of the road, Bai Yu couldn't help but ask a question.

"Don't worry, I'm looking for a suitable place to chat. After all, I haven't talked about the past with anyone for a long time."

The young man walking in front suddenly took out a cigarette box from his pocket, put it in his mouth and lit it up with extremely skillful movements.

Bai Yu was stunned because he himself had no habit of smoking.

The young man saw Bai Yu's eyes through the glass window on the roadside, glanced at the cigarette in his hand, and then said calmly: "Smoking is to relieve mental stress, would you like one too?"

"no thank you."

"It seems that you haven't been through much... which is good." The young man took a puff of cigarette, exhaled white smoke, and casually pushed open the door of an old coffee shop on the street: "To put it simply, you who appear here are just a thought, and I who stand here is the real me, so no one can see you, and no one notices you."

"This is a new world about a thousand years from now."

Chapter 886: Time flies, but the hair remains, a thousand years of loneliness facing the sunset

I walked into this old coffee shop and chose a seat by the window.

The weathered young man asked calmly, "What would you like to drink?"

"Don't you know what flavor I like?" Bai Yu replied.

"Tastes change...If you drink too much happy water, you'll get tired of it."

"Iced American coffee will do." Bai Yu said casually.

“I don’t like coffee.”

“I don’t like it either.” Bai Yu said, “But this is a coffee shop.”

Two glasses of iced American coffee were quickly brought to the table. The waiter seemed not to notice the two people with highly identical appearances. His attention was distracted, and after serving the drinks, he returned to the back of the bar and continued watching the old cartoons on TV.

"Are you thinking about how to start the conversation?" Bai Yu looked at the young man and asked, "I don't intend to waste my precious time here drinking coffee with you."

"Your time is indeed precious, but mine is different." The young man picked up the cup and took a sip of the bitter liquid, staring into the eyes of the young man sitting opposite him across the table: "The rest is just garbage time."

"You sound very world-weary."

“That’s what everyone does when they grow up.”

"I feel like I've lived two lives, but I haven't become like Huo Qiushui." Bai Yu said, "I never expected this life to be so long, actually a thousand years."

He looked at the street outside the window: "But where exactly is this place? Why don't I recognize it at all? Is this Daxia a thousand years later, or Rome and Fuso a thousand years later? It seems that the level of technology has not made much progress."

"What did you expect to see?"

"Space elevator?" Bai Yu thought for a moment and said casually, "Traveling to the moon with the widow?"

"With your current level of cultivation, it is not difficult to leave the surface of the planet. Why don't you go to the moon?" said the young man.

"That's nonsense, the sky is not safe." Bai Yu sighed, "It's lonely up there."

"It seems that you have an idea in your mind."

"No, it's been a thousand years, and the problem of the Outer Gods hasn't been solved yet?" Bai Yu stroked his chin and said, "What about the promise that the future of civilization is the sea of ​​stars?"

"You seem to have always believed that a thousand years will definitely bring progress and development." The young man stared into Bai Yu's eyes and asked calmly, "Why can't it be decadence and regression?"

Bai Yu was stumped by this question, then he leaned back in his chair, licked his lips, and then met the other party's inquiring gaze and said, "Aren't you still alive? You clearly know what abilities we have."

With the superpower of ten guaranteed draws, it is definitely not difficult to develop civilization and revolutionize technology as long as there is enough time and enough tolerance.

"You think too highly of yourself."

"I never think too highly of myself unless that is the truth." Bai Yu said this without any arrogance. He may not believe in his own abilities, but he cannot fail to believe in his superpowers.

The young man continued to drink coffee, his voice becoming a little drier: "Maybe... But I don't have the mind and energy to do that now. Just maintaining this place has consumed a lot of my mind, so how can I have extra energy to do other things."

Bai Yu said in a low voice, "I always feel like there's a sad, thick barrier between us. We're clearly communicating but our words are irrelevant. You seem to know a lot, but you're not willing to tell me. Shouldn't we have a frank chat?"

The young man asked calmly, "What you want to talk about is nothing more than what happened in the past thousand years, what I went through, and what things I can tell you in advance as a warning."

Bai Yu nodded: "That's why I chose to end the spoiler."

"But why should I tell you?" The young man stared at Bai Yu calmly: "Why do you think it's natural to get help from me?"

"..." Bai Yu was stunned. He had never thought about this question.

"I've helped you and can help you avoid it, but what about me? What can I get?" The young man asked calmly, just like a businessman in the mall asking a partner who came to him what kind of benefits he can get. It's business, without any humanity.

Bai Yu shook his head, indicating that he couldn't think of it for the time being.

People at the upper end of the timeline can obtain information that can change the direction of the future, but young people at the lower end of the timeline cannot get help from the past.

Unless this timeline is the only one with no further branches.

But both parties are the same person after all.

"Are you expressing envy, jealousy and hatred towards me?" Bai Yu pointed out directly: "Because I can't change the past history, I also hope that I will walk on the same path as you and repeat the same mistakes... This is just venting my anger."

"I was venting my anger." The young man admitted, "I was also jealous. I admit all of that... After all, no one likes their past self, and I believe you are the same."

"That's true." Bai Yu touched his cheek, "I also want to go back to the past and slap myself in the face countless times... and if I could really go back to the past, I swear I would do the same. But no matter how much I hate it, the reason I want to slap my past self in the face is that I hope he can become better, live more easily, not repeat the same mistakes, and not experience unnecessary pain."

The young man said nothing, looking at the table and adding a spoonful of sugar to his coffee.

"The pain you've experienced has shaped who you are today, but if you want me to double the pain you've experienced, and be tortured and ravaged into a more cold-blooded monster than you, then that can only be described as a distortion, and you'll gain nothing."

“It’s not like I’ve gained nothing.” The young man smiled grimly, “At least I can feel a little comforted because I’m not the only one who has fallen into hell.”

The boiling malice is rolling.

Maybe this is blackening?

Bai Yu thought that this was the first time he saw himself so completely blackened. He really didn't know what happened in the future timeline to force such a sunny and cheerful boy to become like this.

"I'm curious." Bai Yu suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "Did you get the spoiler of the ending back then? If you got it but it was rejected by your future self, then I wouldn't ask any more questions. This is obviously a cycle of cause and effect."

The young man obviously didn't want to answer this question. His movements of stirring the coffee became slow, just like the lag and reading bar when the game was loading.

"No."

He responded: "I haven't gotten any spoilers for the finale, ever."

"That's good." Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "This at least proves that you and I are not on the same timeline. Maybe the future trends are roughly similar, but at least I still have a chance to tamper with the future."

"What if I say yes?"

"That's even better."

“Why is it better?”

"Since you and I are on the same timeline, then perhaps you are my future self, and now is your only chance to change the past... Why are you still here arguing with me over personal emotional issues?"

Bai Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at the young man as if he were a fool.

"So, are you going to keep talking to me here, or are you going to take a gamble and maybe there's only a one in ten thousand chance? If I can rewrite the past, maybe I can pull you out of hell."

These words left the young man speechless, and he actually began to think about this possibility.

The previous answer may not be true. He may have really gotten the final spoiler, but did not get the result he wanted from the final spoiler, or he may have gotten the spoiler but still was unable to rewrite the direction of the future.

Bai Yu also knew that it was difficult to convince someone. What he actually wanted to convince was not others, but to give himself a way out... As long as the young man could get over this hurdle in his heart, there was no need for him to resist or hide things from himself.

Finally, after thirty seconds of contemplation, the young man finished the black coffee in his hand and asked for two cups of iced cola.

A drink was replaced and placed in front of him.

Bai Yu stretched out his hand to take it, but couldn't touch it. It was a waste of time... It was true. He was just a projection here. He couldn't drink the water at all. He could only stare at it.

"You must have a lot to ask."

"Let me put it bluntly..."

"This is neither Daxia, nor Fusang, nor Rome... but a new world a thousand years from now."

As soon as the young man opened his mouth, he revealed important information that made Bai Yu hold her thighs with both hands.

"New world?"

"The New World refers to this place... This small world is only one-fifth the size of the American continent. The population living here is about 30 million. This is the limit. The resources can only support this number of people."

"Besides, the technological level here is low, the resource output is limited, and the extraordinary system cannot rise above the third level."

"There are five numbered areas in total, and you and I are in area number 3."

Bai Yu frowned: "It's not that I don't understand, but I just don't understand... What kind of new world is this? Isn't this just..."

"You mean to say linger on?" The young man stared at the busy traffic outside the window and snapped his fingers. In an instant, the whole world fell into a grayish-white stagnation. "You are right. This world is an ark I expanded and built. It carries the last spark of Earth's civilization... I have said before that a thousand years may not necessarily bring progress, and it is very likely to regress. The era after a thousand years will be the post-apocalyptic era."

Bai Yu said: "Since there is a new world, there must be an old world?"

"The old world is the world you and I knew in the past...it has been destroyed."

"What?!" Bai Yu stood up suddenly.

"Nothing to be surprised about... You've known this for a long time. The entire world has been in a stage of gradual collapse... The Shadow World is a pile of past history. Sooner or later, it will engulf the entire world. Daxia and Rome are both doing their best to delay time."

"The Shadow World's expansion speed cannot engulf the entire world within a thousand years." Bai Yu shook his head: "And with the throne anchoring it, the Shadow World cannot form an overflowing undercurrent."

"That's fine, but have you forgotten that not everyone is so patient?" The young man said calmly, "There are many powerful beings waiting for the moment when Earth is swallowed by the Shadow World. They will accelerate this process, starting with the death tide blocking the ocean and isolating the countries... Many major changes in history are scripts directed by them."

"Outer Gods?" Bai Yu had a clear memory. The Outer Gods had directly attacked Scathach. As long as the Lord of the Throne was not dead and the throne was not destroyed, the shadow world would not be able to form a dark tide.

"It is one of them. There are similar ones in Daxia."

"Who?"

"Demon Ancestor."

"Why are they so obsessed with destroying Earth?"

“Destruction is not the goal. The goal is to restart and reconstruct the world. The stars in the sky are waiting for this moment to come.”

Bai Yu suppressed his voice and asked slowly, "Did they succeed?"

“It was successful in my case.”

"And they created this new world that can only accommodate 30 million people?" Bai Yu was furious.

"You misunderstood." The young man shook his head and said, "This is not the new world... The new world is still in the making and has not yet been completed. Calculating the time, it will probably take another 99,000 years for the world to be completely reborn?"

"What about this new world?"

"I created it," said the young man.