Shen Ge directly chose to open the [Log]. At that moment, he felt a burning sensation at the center of his forehead, as if the skin there was being torn apart.
He immediately got up and went to the bathroom to look in the mirror. To his astonishment, the skin on his forehead had split open, and a black eyeball was trying to push its way out of his skull.
This “eyeball” was precisely the Strange Eye Bead that the system had devoured earlier.
The eerie thing was, once this eyeball fully emerged, Shen Ge was surprised to find he could control it. It felt no different from his own eyes.
The skin it had pushed aside worked like an eyelid, allowing him to close and open this new eye.
“Wow, so I’m cosplaying as Erlang Shen now, am I?” Shen Ge joked to himself. He sat back down on the bed and continued to summon the [Log] panel.
Previously, the [Log] was a system projection window that displayed the log content as text.
But now, when Shen Ge summoned the [Log], the Strange Eye at his brow acted like a projector, emitting a beam of light that coalesced into a clear image in front of him.
“…” Shen Ge’s expression became a bit complicated. After the system evolved, even the [Log] had changed from text to images.
At that moment, the image in front of him split into two. The window on the left was labeled “07,” and the window on the right was labeled “13.” Below them was a line of annotation:
“*****07 Restart World”
“*****13 Restart World”
Clearly, these were the two luminous fragments Shen Ge had snatched when the dream world collapsed, allowing him to see the outcomes of these two restarts.
Shen Ge focused on the left image. The scene slowly zoomed in from a distance, showing two black sedans driving on a mountain road during a thunderstorm.
The camera slowly moved inside one of the cars. A child was tied up tightly and thrown onto the back seat, with two sturdy middle-aged men sitting beside him.
As the scene progressed, subtitle-like explanations appeared below.
[Time —, you are awakened by a “vibration.” Disoriented, you find your hands tied behind your back, a cloth stuffed in your mouth, sealed with several layers of duct tape.]
[You struggle hard, but your hands and feet are bound, and your hands are tied behind your back with multiple wraps; you can’t muster any strength.]
[During your struggle, you bump into the person next to you. Then you hear a deep male voice curse: “We’re almost there. If you move again, I’ll throw you out of the car.”]
“Is this… the experience of entering the dream world for the first time?” Shen Ge quickly recognized the scene from the visuals and subtitles—it was when he was kidnapped and taken to Rongshan Mental Asylum.
“No, it’s not the first time I entered the dream world. This should be what happened in the ‘*****07 Restart World’ timeline.”
To verify his guess, Shen Ge started playing the image on the right. Based on his own dream world experience, as this was his second time entering the dream, he had learned from the first time and hadn’t provoked the kidnappers. Instead, he chose to cooperate with them and slowly got closer to Doctor Chen.
However, as the right image played, Shen Ge was surprised to find it wasn’t his second dream world experience. Instead, it was a storyline with only slight deviations from the left one.
After a moment’s thought, Shen Ge understood why this “change” had occurred. The two dream world fragments he obtained weren’t from when his spirit entered the dream world. He had gotten them while entering the dream world in his normal state at the Ping An Hotel and with Fang Yaori. Only by entering as his complete self could he snatch fragments when the world collapsed.
In other words, these two dream fragments were just two outcomes from countless restarts of Blue Star 2, not the ones Shen Ge had personally “experienced.”
[Detected Dream Fragments releasing an unknown signal. Does the host choose to receive?]
An unknown signal?
“Receive.” Although Shen Ge didn’t know what this unknown signal from the dream fragments was, this was the system-managed [Log]. It couldn’t be that right after upgrading, it would try to kill its host, right?
Just then, Shen Ge felt the burning sensation in the Strange Eye at his brow intensify, as if it were about to catch fire. Then, the two images in front of him merged into one, revealing a scene that Shen Ge found incredibly “familiar.”
In the image, within the vast starry sky, there was a region shrouded in black mist at the center. Above and below this misty area were two identical planets. As the scene shifted, the lower planet split into two, ultimately forming a triangle with the upper planet, encircling the black vortex at the center.
But perhaps due to only having two dream fragments, the “received” signal fluctuated significantly, and most of the explanatory subtitles were replaced with “***,” making the information quite incomplete.
However, if Shen Ge had discovered this information a few years earlier, he might have been utterly confused. But now, combining it with the intel gathered over the years and the situation at the Haiya Research Institute, he quickly pieced together the missing parts of the images and text.
But after piecing together the “truth,” Shen Ge felt a mix of frustration and amusement. Setting aside the premise that the emergence of Strange Energy led humanity to extinction, the reason for his tragic childhood and why he had a system in the first place was, apparently, due to some idiot’s “mistake”!
Based on the information from the fragments, Shen Ge connected all the known intelligence:
[Originally, World 1 and World 2 were “operating” normally. Until one day, a black fog emerged from the dark vortex at the central region and connected with World 1, causing a mutation in World 1.]
[Because World 1 and World 2 were “connected” by some force, with the black vortex passing through the center, when World 1 evolved towards a certain “outcome,” World 2 would cycle that outcome.]
[As Blue Star was corroded by the Strange Energy released from the central vortex, excessive damage and destruction to World 1 would cause Blue Star to generate “negative emotions”—a substance that could cause non-human organisms to mutate.]
[Humans, as the primary destroyers of Blue Star, would not react to the black Strange Energy, only suffering from illness and death. However, non-human organisms absorbing the black Strange Energy would mutate, becoming killers seeking “revenge” for Blue Star.]
[When humanity was completely extinct, Blue Star would initiate a restart, resetting the entire world and starting everything over again.]
[However, due to biological evolution, “humans” would inevitably reappear, leading the world into a “vicious cycle” of endless restarts.]
[Until, after countless iterations, a person appeared in World 1 who changed the course of the world.]
[The “***” in World 1, relying on his researcher father and a gifted researcher, continuously used Strange Energy equipment to strengthen himself and hunt anomalies. But despite their efforts, the world was gradually heading towards destruction.]
[A Rank 10 Strange King emerged. World 1 mobilized all its remaining strength to suppress it, but the world was already devastated, and all life had been consumed by anomalies.]
[After suppressing the Rank 10 Strange King, the “” of World 1 gained the ability to merge with Blue Star’s will. After successfully devouring the World Strange King, the World 1 “” saw the existence of World 2 through Blue Star’s will. Not wanting the world to continue this infinite vicious cycle, he stopped the “restart,”peeled off a part of the Strange King from his body, and sent it to World 2.]
[However, after learning that a Strange King resided within him—one that could devour and digest other anomalies, especially those with unique traits, which would disappear permanently once consumed—the “” in World 2 abandoned the path of crafting Strange Energy equipment from anomalous traits. He continuously devoured anomalies, concentrating various traits within himself. Initially, under the control of the World 2 “,” anomalous incidents were successfully suppressed, until the emergence of the Rank 10 Strange King.]
[After devouring the Strange King, the part of the Strange King within the World 2 “” couldn’t suppress the complete form of the Strange King. This led to a failed fusion, causing the World 2 “” to lose control. The World 2 “***” transformed into a Strange King, and the world once again headed towards destruction.]
[The “***” from World 1 and World 2 joined forces to contain the collapse of World 2. Unexpectedly, this split World 2 into two, leaving three planets in a triangular formation around the dark vortex.]
[Although Worlds 1, 2, and 3 successfully avoided the influence of the dark vortex, this act linked the fates of the three planets together.]
[As the final link, World 3 will undergo its last restart. If this restart collapses, it will completely shatter the balance of the three worlds, leading to ultimate destruction.]
[The “” of World 1 attempted to awaken the remaining consciousness of the World 2 “.” Combining their powers and consuming most of Blue Star’s will, they successfully sent the last Strange King cells to World 3.]
[The “” of World 1 and World 2 were completely destroyed. They placed all their hopes in the “” of World 3, hoping he could prevent this final restart. This would allow World 3 to survive with their hopes, or perhaps find a way to restart Worlds 1 and 2, which had already perished.]
[To avoid the World 3 “” repeating the erroneous path of the World 2 “,” the World 1 “” devised a plan—a gamble. He peeled off half of the remaining half of the Strange King within him. Using distant memories, he forged this piece into a “system” as camouflage. This system would give tasks to the World 3 “,” allowing him to devour anomalies in an orderly and “healthy” manner, giving the system enough time to grow.]
[Additionally, he created a special ability called the “Log” for assistance. The “Log” synthesized the growth trajectories of the World 1 “” and World 2 “,” hoping to provide useful information and hints to the World 3 “***.”]
[Since anomalies were rated based on their Strange Energy content (Rank 1 anomaly 100%, Rank 2 300%, Rank 3 1000%…), the World 1 “” had to disguise the other system panels as Strange Energy data to prevent the World 3 “” from discovering too early that the system itself was an anomaly.]
[However, this time, when the World 1 “***” sent the system to World 3, the black hole at the center of the triangular worlds fluctuated. This affected the system during its transport. Originally set to arrive in the normal timeline, the system was sent over a decade early to World 3.]
[During this period, the “” was still an “embryo.” This caused his parents to discover the system, which hadn’t fully fused within him, during a prenatal check-up. The father, mistaking it for a “tumor,” gathered his connections for a consultation and attempted to remove the system during the birth. However, by then, the system had already mostly fused with the ““; only a small part was successfully peeled off.]
[The father and his team found this small part of the system to be a miraculous existence and began researching it. Through this research, they discovered Strange Energy and, tracing it, found the juvenile Rank 10 Strange King in World 3. During the research on the World Strange King, a researcher’s mistake led to the juvenile Strange King’s “death.” The research team then dissected and separated its parts for study.]
[After the Strange King was dismembered, each part became a “trait.” The indestructible claws were used by researchers to create a butcher knife by fusing them with Strange Energy. The Strange Eye was “unseeable.” The Strange Stomach had the power of “devouring”…]
[With the Strange King’s death, Blue Star’s negative emotions intensified. Anomalies that should have appeared over a decade later began emerging prematurely. To deal with these anomalies, the father’s research team accelerated their work. However, their secret was discovered by other nations, who demanded joint research.]
[Following the principle of confronting the world crisis together, China opened some research to the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council. However, someone attempted to steal the Strange King’s corpse, causing an accident during an experiment. During the escape, the father was parasitized by the Strange King’s “heart.” Fearing that the Strange King’s origin from the “” might be discovered by other nations, he took advantage of the chaos to delete all research files and records related to the “.” He faked his “death” during the experiment accident, used his connections to assume a new identity, and went into hiding.]
[The remaining limbs and organs of the Strange King were scattered across the globe, and anomalous incidents worldwide gradually became more frequent.]
[When the “***” was ten years old, his family went on a trip to the seaside. The father, parasitized by the Strange King’s heart, was drawn to Strange Energy at the beach and found another Strange King organ. The two organs reacted, causing the heart to rapidly take over and successfully devour the father.]
[The World 1 “***” had used the Strange King’s power to devour Blue Star’s will before consuming the Strange King, allowing his consciousness to dominate. The father had no protection from Blue Star’s will, so the anomaly dominated instead.]
[Thus, after being devoured by the anomaly, the father completely died, leaving behind only basic instincts similar to a zombie’s “need to feed”—to find the other limbs and organs. Since the original laboratory was established underwater, this “resurrected Strange King” spent years in the sea searching for its body parts.]
[With the death of his parents, the “***” became an orphan, leading to a series of tragic experiences that caused severe mental problems. The system within him remained in a “dormant” state due to its “incompleteness.”]
[Although the broken system was full of flaws, the effect where devouring a trait would cause a “system crash” was successfully preserved. This allowed the World 3 “***’s” strength to develop healthily, at least temporarily.]
Setting aside everything else, after learning this “truth,” Shen Ge truly felt sorrow for the strange individuals of the Tian Gan organization, who had pinned their hopes on the next restart.
They had twisted themselves into grotesque, inhuman forms, betting their future on the “next civilization” after the restart, unaware that this was already World 3’s final restart. If Strange Energy spiraled out of control again and the Rank 10 Strange King awakened, the entire world would collapse!
