This endless world

"... Really? Dr. Manhattan is missing."

At this moment, Zheng Zha, who was in the universe, faced the communicator that Chu Xuan had given him before, and listened to this unsatisfactory news, and sighed: "Are there any other news?"

"No."

Chu Xuan's calm voice was as usual, as if Dr. Manhattan's disappearance was not a sudden news, but a fact he had known for a long time, and it was within the corresponding expectations: "He disappeared suddenly seven days ago. No one knows his whereabouts, and no one knows where he went. Even the second generation of Silk Soul did not get any information."

"What about Mars? I remember that when Dr. Manhattan was unhappy in the movie, he often left the earth and went to Mars to relax and meditate."

"Similarly, no energy reaction was detected, as if Dr. Manhattan had completely left the universe."

"Okay, Chu Xuan, thank you for your trouble."

After cutting off the communicator in his hand, Zheng Zha looked back at the moon that had moved a position after he opened "Honghuang-Kai Tian Pian Di", and sighed silently.

As Zheng Zha exerted his strength again, his exquisite and meticulous skills gradually unfolded, slowly pushing the moon back to its original orbit.

This process that is unimaginable to ordinary people is as easy and comfortable for Zheng Zha as gently moving a glass ball. Even if this "glass ball" is actually a huge star weighing 700 trillion tons.

——Even clay figures have three points of anger.

If Zheng Zha only regarded the reversal of time as the rule of this world, as difficult as the world of Red Alert 2, then the inexplicable disappearance of Zhang Heng and Zhan Lan touched his reverse scale.

Just like the reverse scale of a dragon, once touched, it will lead to fatal consequences. For Zheng Zha, the teammates of the Zhongzhou team are his reverse scales, those partners he will never tolerate others touching.

In fact, the method of "pushing the moon away from its original orbit and affecting the ecology of the earth" is already a change that cannot be gentler. Whether it is to start "Honghuang-Creation of the World" to smash the moon to pieces, or to directly push the entire earth into the sun, these are all methods that Zheng Zha can choose... However, Zheng Zha did not put these ideas into practice in the end, but chose a "gentle" method.

Perhaps in the face of the sudden disappearance of his partner, the previous Zheng Zha would be so angry that he would yell and punch the sky angrily, pouring his anger into his fist to blast away the clouds. But now Zheng Zha has long been out of the stage of being unable to control his emotions, and he will not do those unnecessary things.

——Power is only a way to achieve the goal, and solving the corresponding problems is the purpose of using power.

Those who try to manipulate and play with time will often be backfired by time itself in the end. Zheng Zha always remembers this lesson.

He has never forgotten how Yuri, who was full of confidence and tried to control everything with the time machine, finally ushered in a tragic end. Therefore, although Zheng Zha realized that this attempt to go back in time would probably not be the last, he still did not choose to embark on the path of extinction.

He did not know what the triggering conditions for time reversal were, nor did he know how many times this time reversal could happen. Therefore, even if he was extremely anxious about the disappearance of his partner, Zheng Zha would not cross the line he set for himself.

With Chu Xuan's precise calculations and the assistance of the List of Gods, he was confident that he could push the moon back to its original orbit even in the face of the smallest possibility. However, if the earth was completely destroyed, they would really be in a desperate situation.

Therefore, in this action, Zheng Zha did not follow Chu Xuan's strategy, but chose a more direct and thorough way to solve the problem. His goal was to find Dr. Manhattan himself and get all the answers from him face to face.

In order to achieve this goal, Zheng Zha took a bold move and went directly to the White House, determined to uncover all the mysteries in one fell swoop... But as Chu Xuan had stated in advance, this overly reckless plan ended in failure as expected.

"...I was impulsive this time."

Feeling the coldness in the universe, Zheng Zha calmed down a little, then turned on the communicator again and said to Chu Xuan on the other end: "It was a waste of effort."

"There is no such thing as a waste of effort. Sometimes taking a long detour is actually a shortcut."

Saying something that made Zheng Zha a little confused, Chu Xuan said calmly: "We have room for trial and error, and we also need to verify certain conjectures and eliminate wrong paths."

"...What do you mean?"

Chu Xuan did not answer Zheng Zha's question, but continued: "Zheng Zha, you don't have to return to the earth next, but stay in the universe like this, try to use your mythical gene to feel the feeling before returning."

"Next, I need to confirm something."

"Is that so? But my power is still unable to fight against this huge time reversal... No, I understand."

Before he finished speaking, Zheng Zha suddenly interrupted his speech, as if he had changed his mind at that moment. Then he followed Chu Xuan's instructions, mobilized all the power of his mythical gene belonging to "Zhu Jiuyin", quietly closed his eyes in this vast universe, and devoted himself to the action that was about to begin.

One second, ten seconds, a hundred seconds.

One minute, ten minutes, a hundred minutes.

Time is passing, time is changing, Zheng Zha just maintains the minimum of life activities, while pushing his perception to the extreme.

——Until he opened his eyes, everything returned to the starting point.

"Did you find anything?" Chu Xuan's voice sounded beside him at the first time.

"Of course there is... I didn't feel any signs of time reversal just now. This is not time reversal at all. I preconceived it."

Zheng Zha opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath. He first looked back at the partners of the Zhongzhou team, and after confirming that no other teammates were missing, he raised his head and looked at the clock tower in front of him, which was still pointing at 11:10.

This man felt the mysterious feeling of the last moment before he returned to the present node, and muttered to himself: "Just now I tried to resist with the Zhu Jiuyin gene, but it didn't work at all, as if it was blocked by a higher-level force. No, rather than blocking, it is more like a "reset"..."

"...A reset of the world." (End of this chapter)