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Chapter 279 The Past of the Time Loop

Night fell, and a deathly silence enveloped the streets of New York.

A warm flame, absent for decades, quietly ignited in a corner of an abandoned building.

It was a fire lit with wooden furniture found in the ruins, and the leaping flames dispelled some of the chill.

In the firelight, Spider-Man's face looked somewhat dazed. He absentmindedly fiddled with the small wooden stick in his hand, making it crackle softly in the flames.

Before long, the two fish roasting by the flames were cooked. Fang was brushing seasoning on them and handing one of them to Spider-Man.

Looking at the fragrant and spicy grilled fish in his hand, Spider-Man's throat bobbed. He tentatively took a bite, and tears of emotion welled up in his eyes.

After eating the hot food he hadn't had in decades, he hesitated several times before finally glancing hesitantly at Fang Zheng sitting beside him. After a long struggle in his eyes, he made up his mind, straightened his expression, and began to slowly recount that long-buried past...

It was a story so long it was almost forgotten.

The story begins one day when Spider-Man is an ordinary hero on the streets of New York.

However, a sudden and massive explosion completely changed everything and set the stage for a nightmare.

The Avengers keenly detected the unusually large energy fluctuations, and many heroes went to investigate. Little did they know that this would be the beginning of their descent into the abyss.

At the epicenter of the explosion stood a superhero known as the Sentinel, a being of indescribable power possessing the strength of a million stars.

But his current form was extremely terrifying, like a walking corpse, a monster that should only exist in science fiction horror movies.

The real nightmare began the moment the Sentinel turned into a zombie...

The Sentinel's terrifying power remained even after he turned into a zombie. The superheroes were bitten by him without any resistance, and one after another they were infected and turned into man-eating monsters, devouring humans without restraint.

In a very short period of time, nearly 80 billion people on Earth were nearly wiped out.

Subsequently, these zombie heroes devoured the Silver Surfer and gained powerful cosmic energy from the cosmic god Galactus.

Together they flew into space, summoning and besieging this cosmic deity known for his hunger, using the power of the Silver Surfer.

To Galactus, this cosmic deity who was utterly useless if he wasn't well-fed was easily defeated by these zombie heroes.

It could even be said that he was easily killed in a parallel universe without any prestige whatsoever.

The zombie superheroes absorbed the power of Galactus, greatly enhancing their strength. They began to use the entire universe as their hunting ground, constantly infecting and devouring others.

Until they devoured all life in the entire universe, just to satisfy their endless hunger.

The universe has become a desolate void, almost devoid of life.

Once superheroes, these insatiable monsters who have turned into zombies, their insatiable hunger is gradually diluted in the endless emptiness.

Gradually, they stopped feeling hungry and even felt themselves regaining their senses, yearning to return to Earth, find the surviving humans, and become heroes again.

However, when they returned to Earth, their brief sanity, not yet consumed by renewed hunger, was unexpectedly transported to another parallel universe by a ridiculous political struggle.

Perhaps his body was reassembled during the teleportation, or perhaps for some other unknown reason, in any case, the hunger that had been suppressed by the emptiness erupted wildly once again.

Yet another universe faces the crisis of destruction because of this endless, absurd, and utterly illogical hunger.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Spider-Man, who had regained his senses but was tormented by the heinous crimes he had committed, fought with all his might.

Using the nanobot technology left behind by Iron Man, he modified the body of Sandman, one of his former adversaries, and turned it into a weapon specifically designed to fight zombie heroes, ultimately wiping out the zombie heroes whose power had been greatly reduced in this universe.

In the end, the only remaining zombie hero—the Sentry—was locked in a cage by Mr. Fantastic as a source of energy for traversing the universe. He was too powerful to be completely destroyed.

He was eventually transported back to the past of the universe where the zombie crisis first broke out by a powerful race called the "Observers" through time manipulation.

Thus, the zombie Sentinel crashed into New York in the past, ate its counterpart from that timeline, and became the initial source of infection that triggered the zombie crisis.

Thus, a complete cycle is formed: a zombie crisis erupts in Universe A, and Universe A is destroyed; the zombie heroes are transported to Universe B, and Universe B faces a crisis; the zombie heroes are wiped out, and the last remaining Sentinel is transported to the past of Universe A, becoming the starting point of another crisis...

This is a story that takes place on a certain timeline in two parallel universes, and it is a story that keeps repeating itself endlessly.

The bizarre and terrifying zombie virus was thus trapped between two universes.

But that was all so long ago. One time loop, two time loops, three, four, five, six...

How many times has this cycle happened? Nobody knows.

From which point onward did they begin to experience a strong sense of déjà vu?
From which point onward, before Spider-Man was officially infected by the zombie virus, did he already vaguely feel that man-eating hunger?
From which point on, and again, did that terrifying hunger no longer need to be spread through the ridiculous, illogical so-called virus, but instead erupt directly from the depths of my soul?
Nobody knows.

No one knows whether time loops exist at that higher level, or whether there are so-called "numbers".

All zombie heroes, all beings who have ever been infected with the zombie virus, will experience a profound sense of déjà vu and a hunger from the depths of their souls as soon as each cycle begins, regardless of whether they have been bitten or not, once they reach the point in time when they were bitten in the previous cycle.

From whichever cycle it began, no matter how much they struggled in the intense sense of déjà vu and tried to stop themselves from being bitten, they would still be transformed into zombies without any transmission process under the soul-devouring hunger.

The strong sense of déjà vu created by the repeated time loops, after hunger had consumed their reason, actually became a tool for the zombies to find survivors and devour lives more quickly.

From the beginning of an unknown cycle, in each new cycle, the zombie heroes are able to devour lives with near-maximum efficiency, causing life to be consumed by hunger even earlier than in the previous cycle.

However, the continuous accumulation of déjà vu also allows the emotions within those déjà vu to gradually settle and accumulate.

At a certain point, a very small number of superheroes who possessed special sensory abilities began to attempt to transcend this cycle.

Spider-Man remembered...

In the moments before the zombie Sentinel crashed into New York, his ability known as "Spider-Sense," which allowed him to perceive danger, flooded his brain with more information beyond the current point in time.

He began to try to stop it, to try to prevent the outbreak of the zombie crisis.

But he still failed.

Just like in the previous cycle, he was easily infected by the zombie virus and his sanity was consumed by hunger.

After a brief moment of satiation and a brief return to his senses, he was once again confronted with the terrifying nightmare brought on by the spider's senses—Aunt May and Mary Jane were once again devoured alive by him.

The repeated pain and despair gradually enabled Spider-Sense to provide Spider-Man with more precognitive information before the start of a new cycle of suffering.

This continues until a certain critical point is reached, at which point Spider-Man fully knows everything that will happen before the story even begins.

He desperately tried to stop the zombies from leaving their cages and to stop the bizarre zombie virus that made no sense at all.

However, no matter how hard he tried to break the chain of the zombie virus's spread, he always failed. The most difficult thing to stop was the past that was repeatedly transported to another universe, serving as the sentinels at the source of the zombie virus outbreak.

Through repeated failures and cycles of reincarnation, Spider-Man in this new cycle gains enough information through his spider-sense. With time and effort, Spider-Man finally succeeds.

After all life in the universe was devoured by zombie heroes once again, he tried every means possible and finally succeeded in killing all the zombie superheroes, including Sentry.

He successfully prevented the cycle from starting again, successfully severing this seemingly endless loop of time.

only……

It seems that it was not entirely successful.

That strange and inexplicable zombie virus still exists within Spider-Man himself.

In this universe where no life remains, Spider-Man himself is the last carrier of the zombie virus.

In theory, if Zombie Spider-Man were to kill himself, the zombie virus that has harmed countless lives would be completely eradicated.

However, something still didn't quite seem right...

It seems that some characteristic of the zombie virus, or even some kind of will, prevents Spider-Man from committing suicide and ending his filthy life.

At the same time, as he became the last host of the zombie virus, he sensed something strange.

Those who were eaten by zombies, those who turned into zombies...

They were clearly dead, but it seemed...

Is he still alive?

(End of this chapter)