This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 311 Time and Space Background and Life

Chapter 311 Time and Space Background and Life

As darkness gradually gives way to light outside the doors and windows, the clear chirping of birds begins to drift in from the outside.

Inside the room, the young Wang Huo looked at the two people in front of him with suspicion and uncertainty, then looked outside.

He always felt that something had changed, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He just felt that the whole world was out of place with him.

This is a very strange feeling—

"Reset?" Bai Lin looked at Ye Yang.

Ye Yang nodded.

However, he didn't say anything more, but instead turned his gaze to the tightly closed door.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps, neither too heavy nor too light, could be heard from outside—experienced cultivators could tell that it was a person of short stature (with short strides) approaching, who was relatively light in weight but whose steps were very steady.

He should be a twelve or thirteen-year-old child who has been practicing martial arts since childhood.

"That footstep sound is so familiar, but who is it? Could it be my cousin? It doesn't seem like it—"

Just as Wang Huo felt the footsteps were incredibly familiar yet he couldn't immediately identify the person, and was filled with confusion, the door opened.

As the door creaked open, Wang Huo's eyes widened immediately, his expression turning utterly horrified.

Bolin also saw the person who came, his eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

Only Ye Yang kept observing with great interest.

"This—this—this—"

Wang Huo pointed to the person in front of the door, and it turned out to be another version of himself dressed in different clothes!

When the two King Huo met, one was shocked and terrified, while the other was stunned, then his face showed surprise, and he turned to run away.

However, Ye Yang waved his hand, the door closed, and the second Wang Huo had appeared in the room at some point.

"What are you going to do?" The new King Huo gritted his teeth, staring intently at his previous self before the reset.

The anxiety, doubt, and despair in his eyes could not be concealed.

Of course, he knew himself best. Old King Huo naturally saw through his thoughts from his eyes, so he tentatively said, "Perhaps he thinks someone is trying to switch him out—..."

As expected of the protagonist of this world's destiny, Wang Huo quickly regained his composure and even cleverly began to explain his inner thoughts to Ye Yang and the other person.

"Two kings? What's going on?" Bai Lin looked at Ye Yang in confusion.

Ye Yang's gaze was deep as he said, "The cycle of reincarnation has reset, returning to three months ago. And coincidentally, the historical King Huo wasn't in the room at that time, which is why—he was able to walk in from the outside."

Bolin was even more astonished: "Wouldn't that be creating a clone of the Kingfire? Leaving aside the conservation of energy and matter, wouldn't the protagonist's fate and the world's trajectory be completely disrupted?"

Ye Yang smiled and said, "Yes, cause and effect, fate are indeed in disarray, but it's only just begun and we can't see it yet. As for the law of conservation—I didn't say that the new King Fire at this moment is composed of matter and energy, did I?"

Bolin was stunned: "Composed of non-matter and energy? How is that possible?"

As he spoke, he reached out and pinched Xin Wanghuo's face. The twelve-year-old boy's face was very elastic, and it was stretched long by Bolin. Xin Wanghuo grimaced in pain, but he did not dare to be presumptuous in front of the two old monsters.

"Old King Fire" was speechless. He had been completely confused by what Ye Yang had said before, and felt as if he had been drawn into some kind of terrible event.

"Impossible. It has a physical form, temperature, weight, and internal organs; all the properties of its physical composition are perfect—how could it be composed of non-matter and energy?"

Bolin couldn't understand: "And if it's neither matter nor energy, then isn't that just nothing at all?"

"It's a shadow," Ye Yang said.

"New Kingfire's" eyes widened in terror: "No, I'm not the shadow, that's the shadow!"

He pointed at the former king and said unhappily, "What do you want me to do? I can help you—"

Ye Yang sighed, looking at him with some pity: "The shadow formed by cause and effect is completely equivalent to 'reality' in terms of information, but it has no material essence."

"By breathing air and ingesting food, we might be able to fill ourselves with external substances and transform them into reality through metabolism, but that takes time."

"The causal chain of this world has already developed a loophole, and as time goes on, the loophole will only grow larger and larger, eventually becoming uncontrollable. He won't be able to wait until then."

"New King Fire" was taken aback. He sensed that Ye Yang didn't seem to intend to harm him; instead, he seemed to pity him. He was both confused and angry: "I am not a shadow, not a fake! I am real! You cannot deny me!"

Bolin and the old king Huo could not understand, and still looked at Ye Yang.

Ye Yang shook his head: "Bai Lin, you should have heard of the philosophical zombies, right?"

"Corpses that have no consciousness but can go to school, socialize, work, reproduce, get sick, bleed, and die normally"—they have no consciousness, yet behave exactly like conscious humans.

"No one could identify them; even autopsies and EEG tests could not identify the bodies."

"Then, what's the difference between them and normal, conscious humans? In other words, even if everyone around us is unconscious, and the only truly living being in the entire world is ourselves, we still can't prove—."

"The current king" is in a similar situation.

Ye Yang removed a hair and a drop of blood from the other man's body: "His body appears to be material, capable of reflecting light, radiating heat, and absorbing and refining the primordial energy of heaven and earth—even burning his hair would emit a burnt smell. His blood can freeze into ice; under magnification, you can see cells, and when you test the elements, all the atoms inside exhibit their proper properties."

"But, is it possible—"

"The light wasn't reflected back from the hair, but rather it was reflected here because it should have been reflected here," so the light itself appeared to be reflected, allowing us to see it.

"Similarly, we did not actually touch him, but the force field of this world 'should exhibit a reaction force here,' so we felt the reaction force and therefore 'touched' him."

"Gravity is the same, chemical changes are the same, the primordial energy of heaven and earth are the same—it is precisely because of the intertwining of cause and effect, the predetermined nature of destiny, that everything that should interact with the king behaves as if it were interacting with the king, thus giving us the illusion of his real existence."

Bai Lin covered his forehead: "Wait—Ye Yang, I don't understand, my head is starting to spin."

Ye Yangnai shook his head: "Let me show you something more intuitive."

He simply reached out and passed through the body of the new King Fire without using any magic or secret techniques.

"Um?"

"Well?"

"what?"

The new and old Wang Huo, as well as Bo Lin, all showed expressions of surprise.

"Your clone is made of the matter of this world, but my body isn't—nor is this stone. Try it yourself."

Ye Yang handed a small piece of stone from his inner world to Bai Lin. Bai Lin took the stone and went to face the new king's fire—but the hand of Bai Lin's clone landed on the other's body, while the stone passed through his body and fell to the ground.

Old King Fire also mustered up his courage, picked up a stone to try it out, and found that it was indeed true!

"I—" The "new king" looked incredulous. He quickly squatted down to pick up the piece of meat, but no matter what he did, he couldn't get it out.

He could touch the floor and the wooden chairs, but he couldn't touch the stone that supposedly came from "outside the world" no matter what he tried.

"No! This is impossible—" The boy looked at the stone in horror and sat down on the ground.

"Old King Fire" picked up the stone with a complicated expression; what he had experienced in such a short time was simply too bizarre.

"Could it be—" Bai Lin's eyes widened, "The whole world is deceiving us? Everything in this world can deceive us—like 'three men make a tiger,' even if the tiger doesn't exist, if enough people say it, the tiger becomes real."

"You could call it deception," Ye Yang said, his gaze deep. "But to use a more apt analogy—"

"Remove a gear from a working machine, but the rest of the machine will not notice the gear's disappearance and will continue to operate as if the gear were still there."

"So this isn't deception, it's that they didn't even realize there was a bug in the system and were still operating according to the original formula."

Bai Lin found it absurd that he didn't understand his own instance world at all, and had no idea how it worked.

Ye Yang said seriously, "If the gears aren't that important, it's fine, but if the gears are critical components, then the entire machine will quickly collapse due to the chain reaction."

"Where is he—uh? Where is he?" Bolin looked in the direction of "New King Fire" but found that the place was now empty.

"Old King Fire" was also shocked; such a large "person" had simply vanished.

"I didn't do anything; the causal chain of the original 'Kingfire' has broken down." Ye Yang looked at the Kingfire he had brought from before the reset and said, "Now you are free."

Wang Huo forced out an ugly smile. "What the hell is this? I'm free now. So what the hell is all this?"

"Let's go out and let Wang Huo wander around. It will accelerate the collapse of the causal chain," Ye Yang said.

The three immediately left the room, and all the Wang family members who passed by, whether elders, juniors or servants, were ignored by Ye Yang and Bai Lin under Ye Yang's mental manipulation.

"Brother Wang Huo, have you brought the book?" At this moment, a girl saw Wang Huo strolling around and couldn't help but ask.

"Uh, it's my cousin. Books? What books?" Wang Huo was taken aback. He didn't remember getting her any books recently.

"It's that one—" The girl's face turned red instantly, and she looked very angry.

"Wait a minute—" Wang Huo, recalling the profound words of the two seniors, couldn't help but ask, "What day of the month is it now?"

The girl frowned and asked in confusion, "May 16th? What's wrong?"

Wang was stunned: "Really—we've gone back three times before—"

"Huh?" Shao Bujie said, somewhat annoyed, "Brother Wang, don't interrupt—"

"Ah? Brother Wang, please don't hit me—"

"Huh? Wang?"

"what?"

"what?"

Wang Huo was startled by this sudden change, and in the blink of an eye, the girl had vanished.

Only two senior colleagues were talking.

Bolin looked shocked: "This is—"

"It seems there is still some repair mechanism. It automatically skips errors. Oh, the technology in the main world is very advanced now, so you probably haven't seen what a corrupted video file looks like when it's playing. Releasing a corrupted video file is probably like this," Ye Yang said.

"Alright, that's enough. If we don't move soon, the spirits will be utterly destroyed."

Then, his expression hardened, and with a wave of his hand, he swept the two of them up into the sky.

The blue sky gradually turned deep purple, then pitch black—and slowly the stars began to appear.

"Xuan Tian—" Wang Huo exclaimed in astonishment.

"He's not just a Xuan Tian Realm cultivator—" Bai Lin looked at Wang Huo. Speaking of which, during their first reincarnation, they were enemies, and he had been killed countless times by Wang Huo, who was the protagonist of the world.

However, it is clear that after the dramatic changes in his life, Bai Lin has come to terms with it. The dungeon world has been reset many times, and he no longer regards the current Wang Huo as an enemy.

"Rest assured, with your character and talent, you will surely achieve great things even after leaving this world—I just discussed it with him, and the entire world will belong to him, while everyone in this world will be relocated to another world. If you are willing, I can guarantee your citizenship in my main world."

Bai Lin said to Wang Huo with a smile.

The protagonist in his own instance world has great potential; at least, Bailin feels he far surpasses himself.

If he can grow stronger in the main world, then he'll have two powerful allies to rely on.

The three stood silently in the starry sky.

"I have come to understand the true nature of this world. My next actions will cause the entire world to collapse, so let's move the whole continent away."

Ye Yang looked down at the land below and said calmly.

"Move the entire continent away?" Wang Huo's eyes widened. This was too much to ask. Even the strongest Xuan Tian Realm expert on the continent could not shake this vast continent even slightly. Even if this young man was unfathomable, he couldn't possibly be that exaggerated, could he?

However, Ye Yang simply stretched out his hand, and boundless void power surged from his palm, instantly enveloping the entire continent.

Spacetime was instantly distorted and broken, then curled up into a small crystal ball in Ye Yang's hand.

The entire continent is contained within it.

This method completely shocked Wang Huo, leaving him dumbfounded.

Clearly, Ye Yang's actions had completely enraged the world, triggering another cycle reset and causing time to flow backward.

However, Ye Yang remained unmoved, and everything within a 10-meter radius around him remained unchanged, completely unaffected by the reversal of time.

"I thought it was a real time reversal, but it turned out to be just that." Ye Yang shook his head in disappointment.

That's right. Reversing time and space is a power that only the Lord of the Universe can control, even in the world of Swallowing the Stars!

Moreover, that is a power bestowed by the original cosmic will, and one can basically only use it. To fully understand and control it, one needs to reach a higher level.

For example, Luo Feng, who later achieved the realm of the Lord of the Universe by using the "Gold and Void" Beast God Path, did not comprehend the laws of time at all, but he knew how to reverse time and space. This was entirely an ability bestowed upon him by the primordial universe.

This mere level 5 dungeon world contains less energy and laws than even a king-level expert who devours worlds, and it is impossible for it to possess the true power to reverse time.

As time reverses, the continent that Ye Yang took away reappears, and countless people there begin to live their lives busily once again.

However—this time, Ye Yang took out a stone from his inner world and released it.

The stone was not affected by gravity and simply floated in the void.

"Ye Yang, what are you holding?" Bai Lin only saw Ye Yang's movements, but couldn't see the stone at all.

"There is no real matter in the entire world, so light will not be reflected when it touches this stone." Ye Yang said, pointing his finger to make the stone glow on its own, which allowed Bai Lin and the other person to see the stone.

Ye Yang pushed the stone, sending it crashing to the ground and then obstructing its way through the endless earth before disappearing into the distance.

"Could it be—" Wang Huo's expression was somewhat horrified: "Senior took away the entire continent, and then time reversed—this continent is now just an illusion?"

"Yes, the real continent is with me." Ye Yang took out the crystal ball again, which contained a continent.

Wang Huo felt horrified; his worldview had been completely shattered.

Even Bai Lin, the dungeon master, felt something was incredibly sinister looking down at the seemingly normal life on the continent below.

"What on earth is going on?" he murmured.

"Tch—it's just because the backdrop for the stage has been changed."

Ye Yang sneered, his right hand forming a claw, and he suddenly tore through the air in front of him!

Instantly, spacetime was torn apart, but what appeared behind it was neither a pitch-black spacetime rift nor a dazzling, turbulent spacetime current—

Instead, one, two, three, four, five, six—dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions—countless densely packed concentric circles appeared, twisting and flickering.

Ye Yang was as if he had lifted a dirty blanket, revealing countless cockroaches underneath.

It was as if countless pairs of insect eyes were watching the three of them.

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