MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 283 The Time Traveler

Even now, in Fang Zheng's eyes, life, such as the zombie Spider-Man, is like a sculpture.

It is not a smooth, dynamic movement, but rather a series of discontinuous sculptural forms arranged together. It requires Fang Zheng to actively examine each form from front to back to barely piece together the illusion of life activity from the transitions between these forms.

This is essentially no different from a stationary stone.

If the two parallel universes in which Spider-Man exists contain an astronomical number of possibilities and timelines, with everything existing in parallel, then Fang Zheng could choose a portion of his perspective along different timelines, thus seeing the world he wants to see and hearing the answers he wants to hear at will.

Of course, he could choose to respect Spider-Man's established persona and select answers that fit his personality and logic, or he could ignore the persona and choose to let Spider-Man say answers that his persona shouldn't have.

However, this is not the case for this part of the set.

In these two parallel universes, there are no other timelines at all.

Those other timeline possibilities were forcibly divided and cut off from the very beginning, flowing into other parallel universes.

Therefore, the timelines of these two universes have no forks at all; they are only a straight line running from front to back, completely nailed to the same framework.

It's like a river with a fixed course, a comic book whose story has already been written and whose ending is already determined.

The only ending to this story is that Spider-Man, by completely sealing off the two parallel universes, ensures that the zombie virus can no longer spread to any other universes from that moment on.

However, the timelines of these two universes are not an absolutely closed whole.

Although it is firmly fixed, it has not completely cut off external interference.

Travelers from other parallel universes, whether they rely on technology, magic, or superpowers, may find it difficult to break through Spider-Man's rough yet effective blockade, the spacetime silencing device built from the total mass energy of both universes.

Therefore, they are unable to enter the blocked area.

But they can still easily travel to the past of the universe, back to those times when the blockade had not yet been established, and the zombie crisis was still repeating itself endlessly.

If they had made even the slightest change in the past, it would have been like throwing a boulder into the river of time.

The upstream river channel may experience slight ripples, but the powerful converging force will eventually bring it back to its original state, ultimately allowing it to flow into the same sea.

That time loop in the past, that endless zombie story, will remain forever unchanged without external interference.

Once interference occurs, stories with slightly different outcomes but ultimately the same result will unfold one after another.

Now, this story, which was already destined to be told, is being broken and reconstructed.

Within one second, there are 1.854 × 10^43 Planck time intervals, which is equivalent to the number of Spider-Men who are completely frozen in time.

One second, one minute, one hour, one day, one year...

Fang Zheng traveled back in time from the future to the past, taking out Spider-Man from each point in Planck's timeline and giving them continuity, so that they could embark together on a journey to the past of the zombie universe.

……

Standing in the void, a glowing road stretches into the distance, and one Spider-Man after another strides forward with excitement.

As they moved forward, countless Spider-Man figures began to overlap endlessly, like countless two-dimensional planes superimposed to form a three-dimensional space.

The energy he emitted alone seemed enough to crush the void and shatter all paths.

Fang Zheng simply watched quietly, then asked the Spider-Men again, "Is this enough for you?"

Seeing Spider-Man about to answer, Fang Zheng shook his head. "No need to rush to answer, go do what you want to do now."

……

Beyond the scale of time, starting from the point when the zombie Spider-Man severed the loop, we travel backwards to the beginning of the final time loop...

In a secluded room beneath the Avengers headquarters in New York City, a scene of desolation unfolds.

Bottles were scattered on the ground, and a strong smell of alcohol filled the air.

Tony Stark, the Iron Man who has saved the world countless times, now looks exhausted, with dark circles under his eyes that are almost like panda eyes, and a pale face, as if he might suddenly die at any moment.

Not long ago, a strong sense of crisis and dread began to grow from the depths of his mind, almost robbing him of his reason.

Despite Tony Stark's enormous investment, using vibranium, adamantium, and even Uru metal from Asgard to create this impregnable chamber and the new armor.

But the soul-devouring fear, the eerie feeling of drooling when looking at every living person, and the hidden joy that came from the heart still haunted him, keeping him in a constant state of panic.

Woo! Woo! Woo…

Suddenly, a sharp alarm sounded through the built-in earpiece, startling the drowsy Tony Stark awake.

(Sir, a meteorite has fallen in downtown New York City. An extremely high-energy reaction has been detected at its center, suggesting the presence of an extremely high-energy entity. Please be careful.) Jarvis's urgent alarm sounded in the room.

But Tony slumped to his feet, ignoring Jarvis's repeated warnings, and took another big gulp of liquor before rubbing his head, which was throbbing from a night of heavy drinking.

His face was blank, but his eyes trembled rapidly. In a hollow and numb tone, he repeated the line he had said countless times: "Damn it... what the hell is that thing falling down... the energy reaction is about to explode..."

"Jarvis, get dressed..."

He numbly called out to his armor. Once fully equipped, he staggered out of the secret chamber and, along with the other Avengers—whose faces were equally numb and whose eyes held a mixture of pain and joy at what was about to happen—headed to the city center to face their destiny, just as they had done countless times before.

The Avengers members, their expressions numb, seemed to be acting solely out of habit, guided by a sense of déjà vu.

None of them noticed that Spider-Man, a member of the Avengers, had disappeared without them noticing.

In downtown New York City, a strange flash of lightning tore through the sky, bringing an eerie atmosphere. A meteorite had just fallen there.

When the superheroes arrived, they found no meteorite in the still-lingering dust, but instead a muscular zombie with a ferocious and terrifying face, wearing a yellow bodysuit and a blue cape.

This is the Sentinel, the superhero who claims to possess the power of a million stars.

In reality, his power is far more terrifying than the power of a mere million stars; he only earned this title because he mistakenly believed that he possessed only such power.

His power is so great that many god-level beings in the multiverse would not choose to provoke him, even if he only exists in a single parallel universe, unless absolutely necessary.

After he turned into a zombie, he became an almost unshakable anchor point in the zombie crisis that had lasted for countless time loops.

As long as he remains alive, the time loop will be forced to start again and again.

The future zombie Spider-Man also paid an unimaginable price, relying on the Watcher's technology and drawing energy from the multiverse to barely "kill" him.

Or rather, to force the sentry to believe he had been killed.

At this moment, with the power of Fang Zheng, Spider-Man's time begins to reverse, finally arriving at the starting point of this final cycle.

Looking at the superheroes before him, the zombie sentinel grinned and charged forward at a speed no one could react to.

Whether driven by the instinct of the zombie virus or by his inherently low moral standards, he would choose to infect the superheroes in front of him in order to better "feed" on fresh meat, turning them into zombie companions, and then together they would conquer the world and embark on a gluttonous carnival.

Although the zombie sentinels also experience déjà vu due to time loops, who cares?
At least he doesn't care.

Originally a drug addict, his becoming a superhero was just an accident.

The pleasure derived from devouring fresh flesh and blood had already made him lose himself.

Other superheroes at least regain some of their sanity after eating, and might even feel guilty, but Sentry, throughout all the time loops, has never felt even a single trace of guilt.

No matter how many times time loops, no matter how many memories déjà vu brings, he remains the same.

He remains as addicted to the pleasure of devouring fresh meat as he was during his drug-addictive days before becoming a superhero.

But then, in the next moment, just as that hideous maw was about to bite Captain America...

boom!
A thunderous roar suddenly erupted.

A hand, a red, striped arm, slammed down on the zombie sentry's head. Almost simultaneously, the sentry, who had been thrown back by the terrifying force, found his neck firmly gripped by this hand.

"Sentinel, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to change all of this!" Spider-Man emerged from the void.

The Sentinels are said to possess the power of a million stars?

Behind it lies an even more terrifying, almost wish-fulfilling power.

so what?

Originally, due to his low intelligence and weak will, the Sentinel was almost unable to fully exert his strength and could be easily defeated by people who were much weaker than him.

Moreover, this is in front of the current Spider-Man.

In this universe, every Planck time, every Spider-Man in the smallest unit of time, is being stripped and reconnected by the power of the Square.

What is revealed here now is the entire Spider-Man.

Even using the least efficient addition method, Spider-Man's power at this moment is indescribably formidable.

To break through his defenses, you have to simultaneously break through the combined defenses of all Spider-Men throughout all Planck time.

However, even with the addition of continuity by the Square, Spider-Man under Planck units remains an indestructible sculpture, lacking any concept of "defense" that requires a process.

Even calculated using the least efficient method, his power is the sum of all Spider-Man's power in Planck time units.

His speed is so fast that it's as if there's no process between different Planck times; it requires no process at all. To be precise, it's not speed, but rather the beginning is the end.

At this moment, Spider-Man simply gripped Sentry's neck tightly, releasing the power he had been given, tightening his grip little by little.

With his other hand clenched into a fist, he punched him repeatedly on the head.

The sentinel even began to unleash its potential, with golden energy surging forth.

But this was useless; the enormous energy was forcibly suppressed on his body surface, making it difficult for his own body to withstand.

Gradually, each punch became heavier than the last.

Even the relativistic effect was triggered, and surrounding objects began to move closer to Spider-Man's fist, which contained terrifying energy, due to the force of gravity.

Even the air itself began to distort, forming streaks of black lightning as if space itself had been torn apart.

No matter how much power was activated, as long as the sentinel had not truly awakened its true nature, it was powerless to resist. With a crisp "smack", the head was completely shattered.

His rotting flesh, still teeming with zombie virus, was directly crushed into a miniature black hole.

Looking at the superheroes, at the numb expressions on the faces of his familiar companions, Spider-Man took a step forward, walking back to the beginning of the previous cycle...

Again and again, again and again.

Spider-Man is constantly going against the flow; he's going to break every cycle!
(End of this chapter)