"When I saw Doom extracting the wreckage of Krako Island in a special way in Utopia, I thought I had a glimpse of the end star, and I thought you were using the essence of the various dead worlds to forge an immortal star to shelter the core members of the Council through the change of epochs.

It turns out that I was thinking too simply.

Or I can't imagine why so many of you would choose such a seemingly safe but super risky project.

I still have a lot of doubts about this, for example, you have cycled in the Dou Realm thirteen times, has this Terminal Star been reshaped here thirteen times?

I know from Doom that this thing is actually a marker core for rewinding the sacred timeline, right? ”

In the facility where the Endstar had been activated, Mason stood beside Tony Zero, looking at the tens of thousands of various data that appeared on the large screen of optical projection in front of him, which was the functional monitoring of the circulating device they had set up on the Endstar, and these data were constantly beating, indicating that the entire device had entered the second half of activation.

It's hard to stop it anymore unless Mason can destroy the entire planet in an instant.

It's not impossible to be honest, but there's no point in simply destroying it, and the Council's plan has never been centered on the stars in front of them, but on a powerful guy hiding in their shadows.

If the captain wants to solve the problem once and for all, he can't rudely blow up everything he sees in front of him.

In the face of his question, Zero Tony did not become a riddler anymore, he held a coffee cup, looked at the various data that was constantly beating in front of him, and said:

"Ling Yuan's initial guess can't be wrong, although the theoretical basis of the entire circular system was still in a relatively complete situation when the sacred timeline was proposed, we thought of the worst-case scenario when we set up this system.

Once the sacred timeline breaks or is too fragile to withstand such a massive time regression, the Star of the End will indeed serve as an ark of doom through the epochal change.

It is strong enough and symbolically has the dual nature of death and rebirth, which makes it much more likely to survive the end of the cosmic epoch than other worlds.

At this point, you do guess part of the truth, but under normal circumstances it doesn't work that way.

The end world you see has collected the world characteristics of more than 500 extinct stars, and its world power system has the lowest rating of A, which is the essence of the parallel world system.

Having these world traits ensures that the best worlds are restored to their 'alive' state when the cycle is actually activated, just as it is a matter of transferring important files to a secure partition in advance when you complete a computer system reinstallation.

As a result, the Star of the End was actually only minted once.

What you see at this time is the true complete form, and only such a complete endstar can withstand the ability to pull the entire universe back to the source at the timeline level.

The previous thirteen cycles were just simulations of reality, although in the Dou Realm, there was not much difference between false and real.

I'm watching the Council of Hope fail thirteen times. The difference is only that the first twelve times you died by yourself, and the last time you were defeated in reality by you, who represents hope and future. ”

"Huh?"

Mason blinked in surprise and said:

"So, there are actually vulnerabilities in your technology, and there may be 'random packet loss' in this loop? That's why the Terminal Star is used as a cyclic anchor for important stars? ”

"Almost."

Zero Tony took a sip of coffee and said:

"Although the previous thirteen cycles only occurred in the Dou Realm, each time the cycle was activated, it would still cause a huge space-time disturbance at the entire cosmic level.

In the process, it is inevitable that the rules of some marginal planes will be disrupted, causing them to disappear as if they were deleted data, and occasionally some 'outside things' will be rolled into the system.

Like the Spartan nomads of the Tenth Fleet, or the Laughing Bats you faced, they were all accidentally pulled into our closed universe at the start of a cycle.

There are a lot of things like this, after all, you can always see strange small probability events in a continuous cycle thirteen times, and it is not difficult to conclude from these past experiences that once the cosmic backtracking takes effect, the entire sacred timeline will suffer heavy damage and even lead to space-time disorder at the cosmic level, so the end star must be minted to this scale.

The characteristics of more than 500 essence worlds are enough to maintain the entire parallel world system without collapsing too much when the cycle starts.

But I really didn't expect that this kind of small probability event would bring hope for a real breakthrough, and the cosmic tuning fork hidden by the Laughing Bat completely reversed the terrible situation we were facing.

The Council has actually grasped the key point, but they are unaware of it, and finally let the key to hope fall into your hands. ”

"You can be clearer."

Mason rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"Doom has just confidently announced that he will adopt my method after the start of this first cycle, and make reasonable use of the cosmic tuning fork as the new main body of the plan from the beginning.

If his idea can be realized, then perhaps when the first impact occurs, the entire parallel world system will be able to survive this cosmic-covering catastrophe without danger.

It won't take a second impact, and with the wisdom of your people, you may be able to reshape the universe in a few months, and then everyone will join hands and sing songs to enter the new world together.

Although I hate Doom.

But I have to admit that guy is really good at drawing pies, and even I can't help but imagine such a future. ”

"He had a good idea, but the chances of success were basically zero, because it wasn't going to go the way he thought or what I thought.

Even if the cycle does start as we expected, I'll tell you that nothing will change.

The Stars will still be born, your home world will still die, the dark expansion of the Council will be in order, and the stars will return to despair and despair like a tragic fate.

If there really is a Creator watching all this, then I guess this Creator has probably enjoyed watching tragedies in recent times. ”

Tony Zero snorted.

He glanced at the time, and it was time for the Last Star to set sail, and time was zeroing little by little, so he put down the coffee cup in his hand and said to Mason:

"You think I'm alarmist, right? Then let me tell you what made me determined to put an end to the final plan prepared by all of us for the end of the day with my own hands.

At the beginning of it all, we were like toddlers, struggling to survive the apocalypse.

At that time, everyone was very unskilled.

The lack of technology, resources, and experience made it impossible for Endstar to even complete the construction of the core area, which directly led to major problems in the previous simulation loops.

We couldn't even keep the complete memory, so we had to record important discoveries again and again, then repeat the same mistakes, and rely on fragmented memories to constantly revise plans and accumulate technological reserves, until the fifth cycle we made the first effective planetary shield and survived the second impact.

It was also from that time that the construction of the Endstar was really on the right track.

We've formed the Fox Nest and have gone to great lengths to build and preserve the database in front of you to store the collective wisdom.

Since the sixth simulation cycle, we have tried to use various methods to preserve the 'data' of the entire parallel world system as well as possible, in fact, if we are just trying to enter the next era, then we can already do it in the seventh cycle, but it was also at that time that I discovered a serious problem.

A problem that can destroy all our efforts. ”

Zero Tony sighed, waved his finger and drew a circle in the air, and said:

"I found that the cycle could not be stopped, and even if we wanted to, we could no longer interfere with the automatic operation of the whole system, and we were trapped in the cycle of regression again and again.

Maybe it's because there's a hole in the plan from the beginning that we haven't yet discovered, maybe it's because the sacred timeline has broken through the constant backtracking at key points, or maybe it's simply a punishment from time.

In short, this cycle has become a nightmare of disaster and apocalypse.

Either the collapse of the council system is forced to restart the cycle, or we need to find the key to solving the problem in this cycle.

Since I'm at the heart of the circularity and maintaining it, I'm not affected by the memory meltdown that comes with rebooting, which allows me to go back to the root and find the problem.

And it turns out that my worst conjecture is correct, the cyclical system codenamed 'Endstar' does have a hole from the beginning, and once this cycle is amplified to the cosmic level, this loophole will not suddenly disappear.

It only draws everything into a desperate situation.

By 'vulnerability' I mean Dr. Manhattan.

Or in your words, Dr. Blue Jay. ”

He looked at Mason, who was frowning, shrugged helplessly, and said:

"We chose Dr. Manhattan as the core of the Endstar project, he has the ability to change the universe regardless of time, and we made a brainwave amplifier-like device for him, which can enhance his influence on the sacred timeline, and he stays in the Endstar to drive the backtracking cycle of the Dou Realm again and again.

In this way, we will accumulate experience for the great cycle that will expand to the entire cosmic level after setting sail for the end star.

But we ignore that the Doctor is also a living being, and that just because he can do this job perfectly doesn't mean that he won't change his mindset after witnessing our struggles time and time again.

He gradually changed from the beginning of his conscientiousness, and began to consciously manipulate the process of the regression cycle, and the memory loss of other people after each Doujie cycle was his ghost, according to our design, the cycle of the end star after casting and forming will not have amnesia.

Someone deliberately erased it and stole our precious time to save ourselves.

I didn't tell anyone else about this terrible fact, and I was afraid that it would affect their motivation to constantly try to find the perfect way in the post-apocalyptic times.

I can't actually do it, I'm stuck here, and Dr. Manhattan is keeping an eye on me.

I guess I couldn't hide what I found from him.

I could only try to relay what was happening here to the outside world without trying to disgust him, but I didn't even know what I was expecting. ”

"So, you sent the Rorschach diary?"

Mason asks:

"That's how you call for help?"

"No, my choice is to make Tony the Tyrant and ask Doom for help."

Tony Zero shook his head and said:

"I wanted him to unite people in the outside world who don't want to waste their lives in cycles of despair against the guy who is presiding over it all, but when Tyrant Tony was sent to the outside world, his memories of this place were completely erased and he became a free conqueror commander.

As for Doom

He knew what was going on in front of us, but he didn't think it was a problem, he thought we hadn't found a perfect solution yet, and he thought that if we could find a way, it would all end.

He put too much faith in his own wisdom and thought I was worrying about it, and he saw the First Great Cycle as both the beginning and the focus, both destruction and rebirth.

As for the Rorschach diary, it was just an accident.

It was a near-impossible miracle that Molecule Man and Detective Rorschach had accomplished in their misadventures, and I saw the detail and gave a little help.

But Rorschach chose to come alone, and he should have brought more with him.

Fortunately, there is also a fixed time stream in the fighting world that is not affected by the outside world so that he does not lose his life, and to tell you the truth, I am actually desperate.

I knew nothing could change the continuation of the cycle, and the Hallowed Timeline had withered and shattered to the point where it could no longer withstand the stress of looping.

I could only watch as we continued to repeat all the mistakes of the previous thirteen simulations in the physical world until we died in the replacement of epochs with the entire sea of stars at the last moment.

But that's when you show up.

You have made a difference, can you imagine the excitement and joy I felt when I found you?

It's like a rehearsal of a play that has been repeated thirteen times and is about to take the stage in real time, and suddenly there is a discordant murmur that undoubtedly ruins the whole show, but that's what we need most right now.

You found Rorschach's diary and deduced clues from it, and instead of indulging in a simple hunt, you made all preparations in advance before stepping into the fighting world. ”

Zero Tony let out a sigh of relief, and he said:

"It means we can finally put an end to this."

"But why did he do that?"

Mason asked:

"Dr. Manhattan should have volunteered to participate in your project, as a person who can see the future at a glance, he should have understood his responsibilities before he joined, what made him change?"

"I don't know why he did that, but I can probably guess that his change of mindset is the weary of witnessing the destruction that is bound to happen, and wants us to stay in the process of everything that can be changed so that we don't have to worry about the harsh reality.

He was like a god on high, observing again and again the hope of the collapse and the end coming, and he had no interest in the real cycle of regression, perhaps because he already knew that it would not work. ”

Tony Zero said in dismay:

"But what is even more terrifying is that I thought that Dr. Manhattan's indifference and observation would be desperate enough, but it was only when he actually took action to help us that I realized that I had despered too soon.

Remember what I told you last time?

His god-like continued indifferent observation is best for us right now, which means you can push your neo-utopian plans all the way to the results you want to see.

However, he got into action.

He may have seen the difference you've made to the stars, and decided to make the simulation loop a reality, expanding your victories into the past and the future.

He genuinely wanted to help us solve the problem at the source, but unfortunately this could lead to unpredictable results.

The help of the gods would completely bury the victory that we mortals had worked so hard to advance to this point, and I have given up guessing his thoughts.

The mind of the god is so varied that he can decide to help us because of you, or he may choose to destroy us in the future, and we have no means of counterbalancing the gods except praying, so we should not ask for his intervention and intervention in the first place.

I only have one request right now.

End it!

Bury this end-star project that shouldn't have been there in the first place. ”

He reached out and patted Mason on the shoulder, and said with a smile:

"And that's the trouble you're going to face, Mr. Mason, you've come here to meet that Doctor Bluebird, and maybe you can pry his guard on the side of turning everything around the outside world.

I guess he's looking forward to meeting you now, and I've told you everything, so go on, man, and get done with what you're supposed to do.

So that the entire sea of stars does not have to go through the torment of the cycle of despair and can be truly liberated, and proudly move forward into the next era with the attitude you expect. ”

Mason nodded.

He glanced at the instruments around him that had increased their computing speed to the limit, and the light emitted by the entire terminal star on the outer periphery of the star was also at its peak, like a star that had been ignited.

After thirteen simulation cycles, a truly cosmic cycle is about to begin.

The world's features stored on this planet are about to be transported back to the past, like a pre-show where the actors are in place for the final curtain call on the reopened curtain and stage.

"Your cancer is the result of your frequent contact with Dr. Manhattan, right?"

Mason Says:

"When you see the magical existence of Dr. Blue Bird's quantum state, you should know not to get so close to him, after the death of the tyrant Tony, I extracted a little biological information and studied it, but this thing can't be cured, sorry."

"Nothing to be sorry about."

Zero Tony waved his hand very optimistically and said:

"I'm dead anyway, seventeen years later, at your hands, which means I can't do anything, and this cancer can't kill me in seventeen years.

But I didn't want to waste the last time of my life on watching another script that I was tired of reading, I hid that he made my own resistance, and it took seven cycles to deliver the news and wait for you.

I've done what I have to do, I've done what I can.

So if you really want to help me, stop him, I don't believe in saviors, but it turns out that there are some things that only you can do.

We all have our own tasks, and now it's up to you to complete it.

Persuade or defeat.

I've been wrestling with God for a long time, and now it's up to you to put an end to this, and I'm sorry I'm going to leave you with the mess we've caused.

But don't worry.

When it's all over, I'm going to apologize for my sins with death, well, and die again after I'm dead, and embrace true liberation and freedom. ”

(End of chapter)