Age of Heroes, ten consecutive guarantees.

Chapter 886: Time flies, but the hair remains, a thousand years of loneliness facing the sunset (two in one)

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.

"Are you a seeker?" Bai Yu was startled: "That's not right."

"It's a long story."

The conversation paused here, like a halftime break, or like a preparation for the next part. Bai Yu had a feeling that the next part would be the key point, and the young man would need some time to control his emotions and organize his words.

Time stood still inside the coffee shop, not affecting the hustle and bustle of traffic outside the window. Everything inside the shop was gray and white. In the dead silence, only the happy water was still bubbling.

“I screwed up…”

With a dull, introspective sigh, the conversation entered the key topic.

"The Demon Ancestor revived, the Outer God descended, and the defenses of the two major countries in the East and the West were destroyed in just one day. With the death of the two throne masters, the anchor was pulled out, and the final nail controlling the dark tide also disappeared. In just less than two months, the world was declared destroyed."

He spoke quickly and generally.

It was so vague that Bai Yu couldn't feel the truth of these words.

But he soon realized.

"Both throne masters died in battle?"

"Yes."

"Bai Potian and Scathach...are both dead?"

"He died, and died heroically." The young man touched his forehead and recalled: "Bai Potian raised Penglai Island to the sky, and crashed into the Demon Ancestor along with the throne, dying heroically without a complete body. He delayed the Demon Ancestor for an hour, but only an hour."

"The Demon Ancestor has revived, how did he..." Bai Yu opened his mouth. At this time, he thought of two people, one was Luohou and the other was Huang Qixia. He just didn't know whether he should ask, but it was definitely not satisfactory.

"In the battle against the Demon Ancestor, Luohou was at the front line. He was the first to die because Ketu's arrows were no longer useful... After the soul of the evil woman experienced reincarnation, she was no longer afraid of Ketu's arrows." The young man said, "Once the Demon Ancestor is resurrected, Luohou will not be able to stop him."

"How did Scathach die in battle?"

"She died at the hands of an Outer God... The battle was on the moon. It was a great fight. She deserved to lose. Unfortunately, no one could pick up her body."

Bai Yu's fingers tapped lightly on the table. He didn't want to continue asking many questions.

The young man said slowly: "If you don't want to ask, then don't ask."

Some things don’t need to be said clearly.

What else is there to say?

What about those people who didn’t make it back alive?

It is said that Bei Mingque ultimately failed to be canonized as a saint, and was buried in the first wave of undercurrents just like Lin Haiya?

It is said that in order to stop the Demon Ancestor, Hua Sheng and Yan Wuji carried two mountains together to cover their retreat, and even their bodies were buried in the mountains and could not be dug out?
It is said that when Ren Nanbei was trying to stop the undercurrent, he had a brief moment of vigour, broke through to the realm of sainthood, and managed to hold on for three more days before he ran out of energy and died?

Or it was the day before the world ended, when Sister Daxia held her own hand, smiled, closed her eyes, and fell asleep humming a ballad.

"Are you the only one who survived until now?" Bai Yu asked.

"...Yes, only me." The young man replied.

He was the only one alive; everyone else was dead.

include……

"Why are you still alive?" Bai Yu asked again.

He wasn't making a personal attack, but rather a question.

If everyone else is dead, why are you still alive?

Just reincarnate directly, is it that difficult?
The young man raised his eyes, looked at Bai Yu quietly, and then answered: "Because I can't die. If I die, the 30 million people here will not survive."

"The Ark Project is the last resort for survival in despair."

"After the arrival of the Demon Ancestor and the Outer Gods and the destruction of the two great nations, everyone knew that there was no possibility of defeating the powerful enemy. The final decision made after the meeting was that I would take out all the canonized interiors and piece them together into a small world."

"The small world is the ark. It will accommodate 30 million people and carry them to the new world 100,000 years from now."

"I am the pilot, the only pilot."

The young man spoke in a low voice, and their positions were reversed at this moment. Bai Yu became tense, like an angry lion; but the young man acted calm and composed, as if he was talking about someone else's business.

The reason why the former appears to be very calm is that he has long passed the emotional stage.

He experienced life-and-death battles time and time again, and experienced countless losses. What continued the flame of civilization was courage and strategy, sacrifice and abandonment.

Then, carrying all the pain and scars brought by the loss alone, with 30 million survivors and the spark of Earth's civilization, he was cautious, treading on thin ice, all alone... and waited like this for a full thousand years.

Just hearing and seeing it is shocking.

And this is the future that Bai Yu will arrive at sooner or later.

One by one, friends, relatives, and loved ones were all heading towards death, but I was powerless to do anything, and in the end, I lost them all, not being able to keep any of them.

But he couldn't die, couldn't go to reincarnation to reunite with them, he could only move forward alone, leaving all his past in the past.

What is engraved in the soul must be the pain, despair and unwillingness that wakes you up even in your dreams.

The most cruel thing... is the wait that lasts for a hundred thousand years.

He must shoulder the mission of sending 30 million survivors to a new world. No one except him can accomplish it, so for all eternity, forever and ever, he must carry this ark made of countless corpses and wait here until he decays... Even if there are tens of thousands of dead souls lingering around, even if he is plagued by countless curses, and the heavy burden on his shoulders, it will not let his spine bend even a little, and will not let his heart soften even a little.

After countless huge sacrifices, we have come to this day... a thousand years later.

It's impossible that he has never had regrets, but now he doesn't even have the qualifications to regret.

The most despairing fact is that even if he has the power to change his destiny, he cannot prevent the inevitable destruction. Even if he gives everything, he will never see the familiar smile again, and he will never be able to embrace the warm body temperature again.

At this moment, Bai Yu suddenly wanted to escape from here, wanted to leave this place, wanted to return to his lovers, hug them, and escape the cold future filled with cruel loneliness and despair.

He began to understand why the young man had said those words before.

"How cruel." Bai Yu whispered, "They showed me this kind of future..."

"But we all have no choice." The young man said, "Don't tell me you are scared."

"Who wouldn't be scared? I'm scared to death, right?" Bai Yu said self-deprecatingly, "I may not be afraid of life or death, but instead of waiting alone for 100,000 years, I might as well enter reincarnation early and pray that we can see each other again in the next life."

"That won't do." The young man shook his head and said, "I have told you the truth, so you can't take your eyes off it. The best way to overcome fear is to face it. It's a foregone conclusion for me, but it hasn't come yet for you."

"Hiss... Fu!" Bai Yu took a deep breath and adjusted his mood: "What should I do? You should have the answer already, right?"

After a thousand years, Bai Yu didn't believe that he hadn't reviewed all the changes that had happened back then, and he didn't believe that he hadn't thought of ways to change the past.

At the moment, he should be the one who knows the solution to the problem best.

Bai Yu doesn't have time to dwell on these things.

What he needed was an answer, an accurate, standard, correct answer.

The young man also said bluntly: "The key point lies in the Outer Gods and the Demon Ancestor... Their appearance is fatal. It is impossible for you to defeat the Outer Gods and the Demon Ancestor at this stage, but the arrival of the Outer Gods takes time, and the Demon Ancestor also needs a ritual to revive."

"Tai Sui will definitely join forces with the Outer Gods' lackeys. Once the Demon Ancestor revives, the Outer Gods will have a chance to descend."

"So the most critical person among them is..."

Bai Yu had already thought of it: "Huang Qixia."

"You have two choices next." The young man raised his index finger: "Kill Huang Qixia and send Nv Xie to reincarnation. This way, we can change the future and delay another 500 years."

Bai Yu said, “I can’t do it.”

"I think so." The young man raised his middle finger. "Then you can only choose the second option... I personally recommend you to use this method, because although it is a gamble, it may be our only chance to win everything."

"What do you mean?" Bai Yu didn't understand.

"Huang Qixia is not Nv Xie." The young man said slowly: "So, you have to make Nv Xie become Huang Qixia."

"..." Bai Yu seemed to be thinking about something. This was not a riddle. The meaning was not difficult to understand.

"This is your only chance." The young man said, "Once the female evil invades Huang Qixia's consciousness, she will no longer be herself."

Bai Yu wanted to ask something else, but he saw the young man throwing something to him and he subconsciously caught it.

There is an object lying in the palm of your hand.

【Reincarnation Card】

"What is this?" Bai Yu was quite surprised: "How come you have this kind of card?"

"I didn't spoil the final episode, and that's the thing I regret the most."

The young man sighed: "If I had chosen to upgrade the final spoiler, would the ending be different now?"

"I have no use for this card anymore, so I'm giving it to you. I hope you can make good use of it."

"If it really comes to a point where it is irreversible, use this card to send Huang Qixia to reincarnation."

Bai Yu put the card away and nodded, "I'll remember that. Thank you."

"Your time is almost up." The young man saw a faint white light emanating from Bai Yu's body.

"Oh, I have one more thing." Bai Yu suddenly remembered that he had something important to ask: "The Chronicle of the Heroes..."

"Do I even need to ask this?" The young man shook his head and watched the other person disappear on the spot with calm eyes.

He picked up another cup, took out the happy water and drank it all.

The young man sitting quietly in the cafe heard a reminder sound that he had not heard for a thousand years.

[Heroic Chronicle System Upgrade Completed]

【Welcome to activate Chronicle of Heroes 2.0】

[The nostalgic server has been opened, do you want to log in? ]

"……Yes!"

(End of this chapter)