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Jiang You sat on the edge of the sofa in the living room, looking at a large piece of gold ingot in front of him—this was the one he had just made casually.

"I'm 。。。。。。 Finally came out on its own? ”

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Before that, Jiang You went through a long, long dream-like process.

At first, Jiang You thought that he had traveled through time as said in the novel, surviving and working hard in another world, but when he was seriously injured in a conflict with someone from another world, he found that he seemed to be in another world. At that time, Jiang You's mood was collapsed and excited, the collapse was that after more than ten years, he finally became familiar with and integrated into the first world, and found that the world was different, and he was excited that he offended himself in the previous world, and now he has no worries.

But that's just the beginning.

Almost time and time again, he became familiar with a world, or after a conflict, or after he finally succeeded, and in this case, he was teleported out of that world after he had achieved fame. This kind of process can be as fast as ten or eight years, and as slow as decades, and he can't remember how many times Jiang You has experienced this, and he is slowly tired of such a cycle, but he has to work hard to survive.

I don't know how many times later, after Jiang You changed the surrounding environment like before, he found that he was not like in the past, surrounded by a new world, but came to an environment like a living room, and in front of him, there was a strange man.

He was strange because the man looked unusually ordinary, the kind of person who could not be found even if he had seen it countless times. Yet this man is completely captivated at first glance, by a strange group of people around him (or can't be called human?). ）。 On his left shoulder sits a very cartoon-looking doll, with a small green handkerchief on his head, and on the handkerchief sits a humanoid dragonfly licking a lollipop!? Each arm is held by two little girls who look like twins, and at the feet lies a fox dog with nine tails?! Anyway, no matter how you look at it, it looks unusually disobedient!

Jiang You was in a daze when the man opposite spoke. "Well, hello. An anomalous wanderer from the planet BH-63087814-II-19800805-III. ”

Jiang You instantly received critical damage and entered a stunned state. BH-63087814-II-19800805-III planet? Anomalous wanderers? What is that? Are you talking about me?

"Yes, that's you. Oh, if you have any questions, just think about it in your heart, this is just my wife's thinking world, and my sisters and I in front of you are just a mental projection, we can have a direct heart-to-heart conversation. ”

Can you talk to your heart directly? "Who are you? Can you tell me where this is? Do you know what I'm like right now? Jiang You thought to himself.

"It's more complicated to say. First of all, I can't tell you who I am, not because I want to keep it secret from you, but because you can't afford to have too much information at the moment. If I tell you who I am, the only thing you'll end up with is that your brain becomes a piece of char because of the amount of information. The man on the other side shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly. Then, the worlds here and the ones you have experienced before are just worlds projected by my wife's mind. Because her temperament is more jumpy, she ...... caused instability in those worlds. Maybe one second it was a world with extremely advanced technology, and the next second it became a desert without any civilization. Your current situation can be said to be an abnormal invasion, or it can be said to be an accidental drop. Anyway, for reasons that we don't know at the moment, you have entered the mind of the Lord of Time, and ...... There is no way to leave here and go back to your world for a while. ”

"Can't go back for a while? How long is this temporary? Although I seem to have spent hundreds of years after dozens of reincarnations, it sounds like a good deal, and I have lived for hundreds of years! I don't know how many people envy it! But I guess you can imagine that it wasn't a pleasant thing for me, right? I think you should at least be a high-level god in my world, right? Can't you gods even do something as trivial as sending me home? "Jiang You is also quite depressed.

The man on the other side looked embarrassed. "Yes, my wife is indeed a high god, but I am not. However, the gods are not what you know before, the so-called gods, whether they are technological or mystical, have developed to the extreme, and they are all gods and demons. Punching the planet and destroying the universe or something, it is not difficult to develop technology or magic to the extreme. But...... Unfortunately, you have unexpectedly landed in the world of the Lord of Time. You may have spent thousands of years here, and the outside world may have passed less than a second. And now the situation is...... My wife is taking a nap ・・・・・・"

Jiang You's mood at that time was broken.

The conversation with the man lasted for almost hours - only in his own feelings, of course.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that there were only three possible ways for Jiang You to leave the world of the Lord of Time, one was that the Lord of Time himself noticed Jiang You's abnormality and kicked him out of his spiritual world, just like a hacker kicked out of the system after being detected after invading someone else's system; The second possibility is that the god got up from a nap, and this world will naturally cease to exist, but this possibility is very dangerous - it is said that the Lord of Time has the same temperament even when he is not sleeping・・・・・・ and the third may be very practical: the man gave Jiang You a thing that is said to be a universal tool of his empire, called a data terminal. This tool stores all the records of civilian technology and magic in the current empire, and it is also a highly intelligent AI (only for the empire, it is called a highly intelligent AI, and it is already a god for mortals)! The man told Jiang You that if he could understand and learn these techniques himself, then he already had the ability to master the laws and modify them—or rather, if Jiang You could master these techniques, then he would become a god himself—except that he was not recognized by the Void. After fully mastering these techniques and becoming a god without a god's name, Jiang You naturally had the ability to leave the master world of time.

The next thing became simple and boring, fortunately, at least Jiang You was no longer bored with the company of a data terminal this time.

Learn technology, learn magic, master technology, study technology. Day after day, year after year.

Such a day, repeated 67981 years. The surrounding world environment has changed 3032 times.

――Of course, the calculation of time and the number of changes to the environment are counted by the data terminal.

Finally, when Jiang You tried to use the "Parsec Protection Rule" he had just learned, he found that the environment around him had completely changed.

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"Very good, mate, it looks like you've succeeded!" A miniature brick flew out of Jiang You's pocket—at least it looked like a miniature brick. This is the compensatory gift given to Jiang You by the husband of the Lord of Time, the Emperor.

"yes・・・・・・ it looks like I've made it. But what if I succeed? It's nothing more than getting rid of the endless world reincarnation. Besides, are you sure I'm really out of world reincarnation? Jiang You was at a loss.

The data terminal flew up in the air and hit Jiang You's head hard. "I said, partner, are you losing your way in the spiritual world of the Lord of Time?"

"It's not that I'm lost, it's just that I'm bored all of a sudden." Jiang You grabbed the data terminal floating in mid-air, "You say, what can I do in my current state?" In my own ability, exploring this universe is already easy, and it is not too difficult to break through this universe to explore other universes, but what's the point of me doing this? You have been by my side for so many years, my knowledge base is also taught by you, and you have watched the process of learning and exercising, you say, what do I lack, what do I need? Resource? Food? Opposite sex? I don't need anything anymore, and even if I do, I have also imitated civilian-grade information-matter conversion equipment according to Imperial technology - although the power is too small to build small planets, small spaceships or something, I can't directly create the universe like the Empire's Genesis, but why should I create the universe? So you see, what else do I have to pursue now, what's the point? ”

"Oh, then I can't help you with that, mate. I guess this is what His Majesty the Emperor said, a matter of the values of the gods, right? If you don't need it, but you can't find your own value proposition, you will become empty and bored? "The data terminal turned a somersault in Jiang You's hands." Maybe you should contact the Imperial Leader? He is also said to have been a human 4.8 billion years ago. ”

"4.8 billion years? It's really worthy of being the emperor of the empire・・・・・・" Jiang You was instantly shocked. "Won't contacting his old man disturb his official business? After all, he is an emperor. And I have a link to the Empire's main network here, can I directly contact His Majesty the Emperor? ”

"Hey, he's idle. This universe only has a sovereign hub 7.9 billion light-years away, and it has not yet sent Imperial officials to settle in, but it is enough to contact the Imperial Network. I'm going to contact the boss? "The data terminal is looking very positive.

Jiang You hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth, "Try to contact him." "The emperor can't eat people, and besides, it's not like he hasn't seen him!

A holographic projection popped up behind the data terminal, and after about 10 seconds, an image appeared on the projection, which was the strange man I saw last time in the mind world of the Lord of Time. But it seems a little strange, this time he is sitting on the sofa with a comb in his hand and a ・・・・・・・ angel sitting next to him??? The angel's wings rested diagonally on the man's lap, and he was combing the angel's ・・・・・・ feathers??!!!!

"Yo, Jiang You, came out so soon? It's pretty good, it's only been less than 20 minutes, and I'm still taking a nap. The man glanced up at Jiang You and greeted him with a smile, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all, still gently combing the feathers of the angel.

"It's less than 20 minutes・・・・・・ but I've spent tens of thousands of years. Your Majesty Chen Jun, thank you for giving me the data terminal, and thank you for allowing me to learn these knowledge that should be considered taboo for human beings. Jiang You stood up and saluted the man very formally. With nearly 70,000 years of study time, no matter how much you just learn knowledge and technology, you won't even know about the empire boss.

"You're welcome, I'm just handy. Besides, you can come out because of your own hard work. As for forbidden knowledge, where is the forbidden knowledge in the void? Any knowledge, which is knowledge in itself, is taboo or something, it is just a disaster caused by the user, and has nothing to do with the knowledge itself. Chen Jun didn't mean to be polite at all.

Jiang You felt a lot more relaxed. Yes, no matter how much he learned so many things of the empire, in the eyes of the emperor, he was still just a mortal. Perhaps, I can really ask him for help to solve my predicament?

"I'm very confused now, I've learned so much imperial knowledge, and even mastered the power of some laws, so to speak, in addition to the lack of information disturbance, I already have the power of a god. But I don't know now, what's the point of me mastering this power? Or rather, what is the meaning of my existence? Jiang You asked His Majesty the Emperor for advice.

"Yes, the meaning of life, I guess you will be temporarily lost because of this. In fact, if you think about it carefully, what is the meaning of a life's existence? For mortals, it is their meaning to make their relatives, friends and even the world better; For the beasts, their own reproduction and the expansion of their race are their meaning; What about the gods? Actually, if you think about it, what is a god? The Empire's definition of a god is that of an advanced intelligent life that possesses information perturbation, wields great power, and is capable of creating and modifying laws. In fact, to put it bluntly, gods are still human beings, with mortal characteristics: they want to be able to help others, and they want to be recognized by others. Since gods are also human beings, why can't gods do what mortals can do? ”

This time the conversation lasted for several hours, during which the people around the emperor changed from angels to dolls, from dolls to a gentle big sister, from a gentle sister to a nine-tailed fox waiting to comb his hair, and finally the two sentences left by the emperor to Jiang You made him determine the meaning of his future life:

"Jiang You, you have to remember that the empire exists for only one purpose: to defend order and the glory of the empire."

"The Empire has never been concerned about the proliferation of technology, and what the Empire wants is for the infinite universe to develop a diverse civilization - whatever it may be - even if this civilization can eventually surpass the Empire."

Well, in the end, what Jiang You himself summed up the emperor meant: whatever you play, as long as you don't deliberately play until a civilization disappears, the empire won't care what you do.

As a result, Jiang You felt that he would definitely have a lot of toys in the future, and it was impossible for him to be bored in the future.