MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 284 The Mysterious Sentinel

Time flows like water, and each universe on the Planck time scale is like a drop of water, converging into a vast river of time.

Looking around, countless rivers, some wide, some narrow, some long, some short, flow endlessly nearby, within reach, seemingly without end.

Spider-Man, of course, understood that this was not a real river.

Just as humans, after losing their sight, instinctively use information from hearing, touch, and other senses to construct a perceptual picture in their minds that approximates visual perception.

Even though he has transcended the constraints of time, Spider-Man still retains human consciousness and habits.

His extraordinary computing power naturally transformed information that humans could not directly perceive and that transcended the dimension of time into a format that he could understand and "see".

At this moment, Spider-Man "saw" himself in a huge vortex formed by two rivers of time connected end to end.

The self that once flowed against the current of time is now trekking outward from the seemingly infinitely small center of the vortex, following its trajectory.

With each step he took, absorbing his previous Planck time self, his body grew stronger, while the time vortex shrank in his eyes.

Standing at the center of the vortex, he only needed to reach out his hand to feel another four-dimensional spacetime worm belonging to Peter Parker rushing downstream along a river of time that was within his reach.

He extended his finger and gently touched it. He closed his eyes, then opened them again, and the familiar New York City came into view once more.

That was war-torn New York.

At this moment, he was swinging on a spider web, anxiously rushing towards the heart of the war.

At the heart of the war, atop Stark Tower, a portal opened by the Space Stone leads to the unreachable void.

Meanwhile, Thanos's Chitauri army was pouring into New York through the gate.

At this point in time in this parallel universe, the newly formed Avengers are doing everything in their power to stop the Chitauri army from invading.

Looking back on this incident, it seems like it happened a long time ago.

Back then, Spider-Man was just a young hero who did small-time street fights, mainly dealing with thugs and bank robbers.

During a routine patrol one day, he discovered an alien invasion and was determined to go to their aid, but he was too late.

Before arriving at the battlefield, Iron Man Tony Stark throws a nuclear bomb into a time portal, which detonates and causes the time beacon to become unstable, closing the portal.

After joining the Avengers, Spider-Man learned in detail about what had happened from the other heroes and always felt regretful that he hadn't been able to contribute at the time.

“Is this a perspective that transcends time and space…” Peter Parker sighed softly.

Swinging among skyscrapers on his silken web, he suddenly released the web.

He didn't fall; instead, he stood firmly in the void as if on flat ground, looking down at this still, timeless world.

He strolled forward, and in this still space and time, the Chitauri army that had once brought terror to New York now stood like cold sculptures.

Reaching the top of Stark Tower, he looked at Loki, who had been repeatedly slammed and thrown around by the Hulk and was now lying on the ground with a bewildered expression.

Looking at this man who was one of the culprits who brought terrible terrorist attacks to New York, Spider-Man silently reached out and gently stroked him.

Loki's bewildered figure, repeatedly slammed and thrown around, was thus completely erased, as if it had never existed.

Spider-Man once adhered to the principle of not killing, but after experiencing countless brutal zombie crises, that seemingly pointless persistence has long been shattered by the iron fist of reality.

When facing an enemy, it is difficult to survive in a desperate situation if you do not kill them decisively.

With another flick of his finger, the Cosmic Cube used to open the spacetime tunnel, along with the Space Stone inside, instantly turned to dust.

With another step, he arrived in the future of this universe.

He saw that Thanos in this parallel universe, after many twists and turns, finally reversed time using the Time Stone and collected all six Infinity Stones.

He donned the Infinity Gauntlet, combining the power of the six Infinity Stones, and launched Operation Extinction, wiping out half of all life in the universe.

Such a tragedy did not occur in the universe of Zombie Spider-Man himself.

He did encounter Thanos and hear about his damned ideals while hunting life in the universe with the zombie heroes.

But Thanos of that universe, before he could realize his dream, was bitten by the zombie heroes and became one of them. In the end, during a fight with the Hulk for fresh meat, his head was smashed by a slap.

Spider-Man shook his head, and with a snap of his fingers, the cosmic beings that had just vanished were resurrected.

He then slapped Thanos to death on the spot, ending Thanos's continued spread downstream in time.

Looking out, Spider-Man could clearly feel the vastness of the seemingly endless river.

Among those rivers, there are some powerful individuals who can sense his gaze and even block the spacetime river in which they reside, preventing him from easily pointing and interfering.

But those Spider-Men in parallel universes act as natural anchor points, allowing him to intervene at this moment. Using these as a base, he can easily enter those universes, even those that are closed to the outside world.

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The perspective shifts back to the two parallel universes in which he exists.

With the support of Fangzheng Power, this time-traveling Spider-Man, Peter Parker, is steadily advancing towards the true starting point of time, step by step, through one era and one cycle.

With each step forward, across two parallel universes spanning hundreds of years, the trajectory of Spider-Man, this four-dimensional worm, is gradually converged and compressed, eventually transforming into an extremely dense singularity.

As this process continues, Spider-Man can sense that everything around him seems to be becoming more and more unreal and fragile.

Like a fleeting dream, without even needing to exert any power, reality begins to change according to Spider-Man's will simply by his thought.

The reality of the past seemed like a dream to him. Spider-Man knew that at this moment, he only needed to dream to realistically create a complete universe.

He can make the universe he is in vanish into nothingness simply by closing his eyes and choosing not to observe; he can make it reappear when he opens his eyes again.

Looking downstream in time, he saw, in the final cycle, the spacetime silence device that had taken decades of effort to build, using the mass energy of the two universes themselves as its material.

That powerful barrier, capable of rejecting both the outside world and the inside, was now as fragile as a thin film; he could easily pierce it with a mere touch of his finger.

Once this convergence process begins, Spider-Man will no longer need the power of the square to support him; he can break through the time barrier on his own and gather his past selves one by one.

With each step he took towards the past, at the beginning of each time loop, at the beginning and end of each cycle of zombie crises, those damned zombie sentinels were all easily shattered with a single punch.

However, during this process of convergence, Spider-Man sensed something was amiss.

That damned sentinel also seems to possess some kind of power that transcends the norm, transcends time, and even transcends the essence of the world.

Looking back at the initial backtracking through time, reaching the last loop and attempting to end everything, Spider-Man's first punch at the Sentry, seemingly ordinary, actually contained enough power to literally shatter a planet.

As for the despicable Zombie Sentinel, despite claiming to possess the power of a million stars, Spider-Man at the time thought it was nothing but boasting.

Whether it's real memories from the past or information from the "déjà vu" accumulated through repeated time loops, it all indicates that the zombie sentinels have extremely low intelligence and combat performance.

In each cycle, the zombie sentinels were easily tricked into the observer's instruments by the zombie ant-men and imprisoned to serve as an energy source.

All of this made Spider-Man realize that although the Sentinels had abundant energy reserves, they were far from being able to maintain a truly stellar level of sustained output.

Let alone a blow that could shatter a planet, even just crushing a mountain or simulating the immense pressure at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion would be enough to severely injure or even kill a Sentinel.

However, when Spider-Man's punch, which was powerful enough to shatter a planet, landed on the Sentinel, it only sent the Sentinel flying, and only a dozen meters away. It did not reduce the Sentinel to near-light speed, nor did it destroy it directly.

This was definitely not the feeling of missing a shot; this strange phenomenon made Spider-Man suspicious.

Over hundreds of years, countless Spider-Men existing at every point in Planck's time have accumulated, resulting not only in a surge in strength and speed, but also in a terrifying increase in computing power and cognitive abilities.

The superposition of countless Spider-Men's thoughts produced a superhuman transformation, like the collective wisdom emerging from an ant colony, or the vast structure formed by human society, allowing Spider-Man's consciousness to undergo a leapfrog evolution.

Countless Spider-Men, anchored by their shared unwavering conviction, bind their leapfrog evolutionary consciousness together, thereby unifying their personalities and collectively constructing a "consensus algorithm."

This indescribable power, along with the control brought by even stronger and more ineffable computing power, allowed Spider-Man to naturally decipher the superpowers of many Avengers superheroes without even having to think actively.

Even Thanos, the Titan who was infected by zombie heroes in countless loops and became one of them, could have his Infinity Stones deciphered by Spider-Man with just a glance.

No longer needing the six Infinity Stones, which are almost like remote controls, Spider-Man can communicate with the universe through imitation, concentrate the power of the universe on himself, and achieve the level of control over the universe that would require the six Infinity Stones to be stacked together, all with just his will.

But something still didn't feel right; the sentry was just too strange.

In the penultimate loop, after Spider-Man discovered that his first punch was ineffective, he immediately unleashed an even greater power, enough to destroy the entire solar system, but the zombie Sentinel still only suffered minor injuries.

He unleashed an even stronger power, enough to destroy the entire galaxy, and the Sentinel only suffered minor injuries.

As the power continued to accumulate, no matter how many times it exploded, even if it reached the point of easily destroying the universe, the zombie sentinel looked badly beaten, but it was still not seriously injured.

It wasn't until Spider-Man, in the process of continuously building up his power, made a tiny, insignificant miscontrol of his power, tearing apart the surrounding space and unleashing black lightning-like cracks, that the zombie Sentinel once again showed signs of being severely injured.

This strange phenomenon made Spider-Man suspicious: the Sentry might possess the ability to "make his mind work".

This is an ability far more powerful than the Reality Stone's ability to alter reality, many times greater. The so-called "power of a million stars" is perhaps just a tiny fraction of the power manifested by "wish fulfillment."

Realizing this, Spider-Man entered the penultimate loop. This time, instead of deliberately controlling the spread of his power to avoid affecting Earth, he casually shattered space with a single punch, causing destruction over a radius of tens of meters and obliterating the zombie Sentinel.

As Spider-Man continues to trace back in time, he discovers that he doesn't even need to exert much power; simply creating a sufficiently frightening visual effect is enough to severely injure and kill any zombie sentinels who fail to recognize him.

Similarly, even if it was originally just a terrifying visual effect, it will become real and have a truly terrifying destructive power when the zombie sentinel is killed by this "special effect".

Spider-Man's consciousness is detached from the river of time he inhabits, allowing him to look down upon the Sentinels in more distant parallel universes who have not yet mutated.

(End of this chapter)