The Webmaster didn't answer, just stared at Karn in silence. His fingertips gently stroked the metal helmet he had just taken off in his hand, and said nothing.

The entire restaurant fell silent, with only a faint red light flickering in the darkness, casting a faint halo.

A faint red light swam between the spider web master's fingers, outlining intricate patterns.

Karn narrowed his eyes, trying to peek into the creature's heart, but behind this mechanical shell, he couldn't find any trace of emotion. This mechanical body seems to be beyond human comprehension, and is an ancient and unknown existence.

But he is so similar to himself, no, almost identical.

Despite the indescribable emotions surging through his heart, Karn forced himself to remain calm, he took a deep breath and stared sharply at the Cobweb Master, his voice revealing a hint of urgency:

"Explain, what's going on? Who are you?! ”

The Web Master finally spoke, his voice cold and mechanical, unaffected by emotional fluctuations: "I am your future, or rather, you are my past. We co-exist at different points on this timeline. ”

As he spoke, drops of red wine fell to the ground, and broken red wine bottles were scattered all over the ground.

The red liquid stands out in the dark, dripping like the passage of time, and the crimson liquid intertwines into a strange pattern, like a spider's web.

Bai Ye glanced down and moved to the side, so as not to get on his shoes.

Past? Future?

Karn bit his lower lip tightly, trying to clear his thoughts. The aroma of red wine fills the room, but it gives a faint sense of bitterness.

His mind flooded with memories of the past, including the day he was banished by his family, the countless totems he hunted, and every universe he stepped on. Even memories of the day his mother died.

"Explain it to me!" He shouted urgently, anger and confusion in his eyes.

The webmaster stared at Karn silently, and several spider legs in his lower body moved, causing him to lean upwards a bit.

His tone remained aloof: "At some point in the future, I will become the master of the spider web, and Ling will be me. We are different states of the same entity. The future you see is the past I have experienced. ”

"There are human literature that say that the past and the future are not intertwined, and I think they have been proven wrong, at least for this moment."

Karn's words further confused, unable to accept what was happening in front of him. The future becomes the past, the past becomes the future, and the chaos of the timeline makes him feel dizzy.

He is indeed a hunter and traveler who travels through different parallel universes, but the timeline is still a little too foreign and esoteric for him.

He's not an X-Men, and he's really not familiar with playing time.

Bai Ye watched all this indifferently from the sidelines, he didn't intend to intervene, just quietly waited for the situation to develop. The red light in the dining room flickered in his eyes like a cold flame.

This kind of thing should still be left to Karn to make his own decisions, and he can't help them with anything.

"You are the crosser of time and space." The Web Master went on to explain, "The connection between us is unusual and special.

"When you come to me, I become your future in that moment. Everything you see is the future of the past, and you yourself are part of the future of the past. ”

"In a sense, the present is our past and future."

"I still don't understand"

Karn shook his head, he tried to get up but failed, and the knives were still stuck in his limbs, nailing him to the wooden table.

Just like the Spider-Man who was captured and brought here to enjoy.

"Is it my destiny to be you? Yes"

Karn suddenly raised his head, his sharp gaze staring directly at the Cobweb Master, as if for a moment he could catch some glimpse of some answers in the other's mechanical eyes. His voice was full of eagerness and doubt:

"But I, you! Master of the webs, my mother...... Why did you kill my mother? Isn't she your mother? “

He finally shouted out the most painful question in his heart.

What could be more painful than witnessing the death of one's own mother?

The answer is. The person who killed his mother in front of him is his future self. Or the past self.

The half-human, half-spider guy lying on the spider web when he heard this question was stunned, and did not answer directly, but fell into a short silence.

"Click."

He swam a few steps from the massive web, sometimes away from Karn, sometimes closer to Karn, causing the red light from the helmet he held in his hand to flutter.

After more than ten seconds, the spider web master seemed to want an explanation for the answer, and finally spoke, his voice cold and powerful, revealing a calm that transcended human emotion:

"Karn, the mother I killed, was for me just a character, a being frozen in a moment. It may make you feel bad to say that, but her death is inevitable. ”

"You need to know that thousands of years have passed before I reach the point of my mother's death, and my time as heir or exile is like a drop of water in the ocean, and their proportion is too small."

"The only thing I care about at this time is the totems connected by the sacred cobwebs."

The Web Master's words were filled with an understanding of time and fate, but Karn was only confused, and the confusion in his mind deepened.

"But she's my mother, and no matter what happens, she's my real mother!"

He shouted again, unwilling to accept this absurd and cruel reality for him.

Even if you let yourself be the target of the original hunt, why did you kill your own mother with your own hands?

You'll understand, trust me, I'm you, after all."

The spider web master slowly stretched out his hand, his fingertips lightly touched a faint spider silk in the void, and then ripped it off with a "snap", and the broken silk thread disappeared into the air without a trace.

At the same time, the long knife that had been stuck in Karn's limbs underwent a strange change under the gestures of the Cobweb Master. The blade of the long knife faded into wisps of silk thread, and then drifted away like a dream.

Bai Ye's eyes lit up, this guy really has a power that cannot be underestimated, he can easily control spider silk in the void, and even make the originally dangerous blade turn into silk threads in an instant.

If you can easily turn a carbon steel knife into a thread and dissipate it, you can naturally dissolve other weapons or attacks into nothingness, whether it's a nuclear bomb or something else.

Of course, that also includes Karn's mother.

(End of chapter)