Eternal Night

Chapter 616 Super Brain Assist Device

Wu Pifu certainly didn't think about it from this perspective.

According to the mainframe's judgment, the mission system is actually a fragment of the mainframe of this world. However, because it has mixed the essence of Predestined Death and the origin of dreams, it has become distorted. Basically, only it can bind to it, and any other being that comes into contact with it may cause Predestined Death.

The tasks issued by this task system were so obviously idiotic and completely nonsensical that Wu Pifu never considered that they might be describing Wu Pifu's situation in this timeline.

If these descriptions are entirely true...

Wu Pifu from this timeline is still alive!

The group that had left were summoned back. They were all unaware of what had happened until they were told that Wu Pifu at this point in time might still be alive. Everyone was shocked, questioning, and overjoyed. Finally, they all looked at Wu Pifu with fervor... Wu Pifu standing in front of them.

“I don’t have much time left, so if you want to do something… do it as soon as possible, before I leave this timeline,” Wu Pifu simply said.

He didn't participate in any discussion; he simply walked silently to the entrance of the military base, squatted down, and looked outside.

Not long after, Gao Changgong came out of the base and squatted down next to Wu Pifu, offering him a cigarette.

Both of them silently smoked cigarettes. Halfway through, Gao Changgong asked, "When did you activate the time travel?"

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "It was around the time I returned from searching for and containing the civilization. My three pendants, no, I should say four pendants, three small animals and a golden tree bonsai, were trapped in the Mind Civilization. Then I planned to fight desperately, but I was stopped by Chu Minghao and Liang Min. Finally, after establishing a strategy, all of humanity declared war on the Mind Civilization. After that, I entered the Zero Point Five Dream World alone and faced the three major sources of the subspace and the Mind Civilization. It was at that point in time that I used time reversal."

Gao Changgong recalled carefully.

For him, nearly five hundred years had passed, but fortunately he was a superhuman, so his memory far surpassed that of ordinary people. After careful recollection, he quickly recalled that past event.

"...That's exactly the time you disappeared around this point in time."

Gao Changgong looked up at the sky and said, "We were all prepared for war, but suddenly the highest level of the government issued an order to cancel the war. How could such an order concerning the total war of human civilization be changed in just a few days? I knew something was wrong at that time, and sure enough, a few days later, Chu Minghao revealed the reason to us slightly stronger superhumans... You disappeared in the target battlefield dream world. At the same time, the target battlefield dream world also disappeared, as did the mental civilization. Everything disappeared."

Wu Pifu already knew this information, so it did not cause any distortion. Gao Changgong did not continue speaking, and the two remained silent.

After a long pause, Gao Changgong asked, "I don't understand why you fought alone back then. What was your reason? This has always been our biggest question."

Wu Pifu had nothing to hide, so he told Xu Ruonan what he had heard at the time, and then he looked up and said, "This is my own business. If it is necessary to use a lot of lives to fill the gap in victory, then what about all my previous battles?"

Gao Changgong seemed to have known the answer all along. He lowered his head and said, "Foolish, truly foolish. And it really was Xu Ruonan... It could only be her. Although we went through a lot later, with the family, the company, and the People's Revolutionary Alliance, none of them were easy to deal with, but she remained very calm. And because of you, and because she adopted some of your 'accessories,' everyone was quite tolerant of her... Although some people do say that she was the one who ended up with you, and that she was the most likely to cause you disappointment, there is no evidence to prove that..."

Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "Whether she had ulterior motives or not, the decision to fight alone was my own and has nothing to do with others. As for her later behavior, that's her problem."

Gao Changgong also recalled Wu Pifu's personality. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, remaining silent for a long time. After a while, footsteps came from the military base behind him. Gao Changgong suddenly asked, "When you return to your time, how will you treat Xu Ruonan? You won't let her go just because she hadn't done those horrific things in that time, will you?"

Wu Pifu stood up abruptly and said without hesitation, "You should know what I'm capable of. I'm not good at the roundabout ways of you politicians, nor am I intelligent enough to devise a plan. If I go back, I will directly ask Xu Ruonan if she wants to be a human being, or if she is still a human being. If she was still a human being at that time, but made a mistake in the future and is no longer human, then I won't do anything to her. Anyway, my purpose in this time travel is to revive Xu Shilan. At that time, the relationship and grievances between Xu Shilan and her will be their own business."

"But if she wasn't human by then, but merely a non-human in human skin..."

The conversation didn't continue, but how could Gao Changgong not know what Wu Pifu would do?

He uses two completely different standards to treat humans and non-humans. If it is a human, he can talk, discuss, and understand each other. But if it is a non-human, he will not have any desire or emotion to negotiate with it at all. Basically, killing is the only thing he will do.

At this moment, the crowd emerged from the military base again. Upon seeing Wu Pifu and Gao Changgong, they excitedly saluted and bowed to Wu Pifu before running out of the military base to continue their mission of searching for the mainframe fragments.

After a moment, Wang Yihui and the others came out. When they saw Wu Pifu, Wang Yihui said first, "Brother Wu, we have reached a conclusion. Come on, let's talk as we walk."

The group helped Wu Pifu board a hover transport plane. Only after the plane took off did Wu Pifu learn of their plan: "To open President Chu Minghao's tomb!"

Chu Yuyan explained, "We do have a trump card. Even if the mainframe is doomed to death, we are confident that we can survive this calamity. One of our trump cards... or rather, our biggest trump card, is actually in Chu Minghao's grave."

Wu Pifu exclaimed in surprise, "What? You can even revive it?"

Everyone chuckled wryly. Hao Cheng whispered to himself, "Brother Ant is still so humorous..."

Wu Pifu looked over and saw a beautiful girl dressed in Lolita fashion. Her appearance was about 80% similar to Hao Cheng's, but she had big, cute eyes, fair and smooth skin, and was dressed in Lolita fashion and black stockings. She was sitting quietly in the same spot. With Wu Pifu's martial arts skills, he could tell at a glance that she was a pure woman... a woman who was absolutely pure both psychologically and physiologically.

He shook his head and sighed, "Haocheng, Haocheng, you've still chosen this path of no return..."

Unexpectedly, his words did not cause Hao Cheng any sadness or anything else. She seemed to think of something and blushed, lowering her head.

Wu Pifu felt a chill and immediately said, "No, why are you blushing like a teapot?"

Everyone watched Wu Pifu and Hao Cheng interact, and smiles appeared on their faces in unison. After the smiles faded, Chu Yuyan said seriously, "Mr. Wu, you misunderstand. We cannot resurrect President Chu Minghao. Although his death is not as irreversible as a predetermined death, at least we cannot reverse it... We cannot tell you about his death and the person who killed him right now, because the amount of information involved is too great. If we tell you, it may cause you to leave this point in time."

Wu Pifu's heart skipped a beat, and after a few seconds he asked, "So what are we going there for this time?"

Everyone paused for a moment before exclaiming in unison, "Super Brain Assist Device!"

"...A super brain-assisting device."

Wu Pifu was somewhat dazed, repeating those words several times. He then asked in confusion, "But isn't this thing only usable by the supercomputer? How can this be considered your trump card?"

Wang Yihui said with a sorrowful expression, "Indeed, the superbrain auxiliary device is something that only superbrains can use. It is very precious, but it is ineffective for us because no more superbrains have been born. So, a single superbrain auxiliary device is useless. However... we still have the legacy of President Chu Minghao. When he was about to die, in his final moments, he left some power in his superbrain auxiliary device. We can use our current invincible power twice more. This is our biggest trump card, and the reason why we are confident in protecting the Land of Redemption in this calamity."

Chu Minghao's power...

Wu Pifu sat there silently, lost in thought.

For some reason, a sense of melancholy arose in his heart.

Things have changed... Even the invincible Chu Minghao is dead, leaving behind two powers. But these are more like tombstones, both Chu Minghao's own and the tombstone of "human civilization"...

The land of redemption in this era is much, much larger than the place in Wu Pifu's time. Even a hovering transport plane traveling at more than ten times the speed of sound took more than ten minutes to reach Chu Minghao's grave.

This is a memorial square. In the center of the square is a huge tombstone and a sculpture of Chu Minghao sitting in a chair.

Chu Yuyan walked at the front, saying as he went, "Chu Minghao left behind two powers, each equivalent to 100% of his output when using the super brain assist device, lasting for twelve to fifteen seconds. The first power is set to activate once more than 30% of the humans on the Redemption Land have died, and the second power is set to activate once the Redemption Land is in a state of destruction and collapse, so it's safe for us to go in normally..."

Wu Pifu listened to these words, but the voices grew fainter and fainter. He walked forward, and the surroundings gradually became hazy. Then, he saw Chu Minghao.

He was sitting in the presidential office chair, smiling at him.

"You're back? Brother Wu, I'm so sorry, I failed to protect humanity. I... failed."

"Also, whatever you do, don't use time reversal to resurrect me. I know you took the only item from the mainframe, the Absolute Time Anchor Protocol, so you have the ability to rewind time from absolute spacetime. But don't resurrect me, because..."

"This will trigger the Time Wheel!"

(End of this chapter)