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Chapter 286 Slaughtering Marvel Studios?
"What did you say?" Peter Parker suddenly realized something upon hearing Fang Zheng's reply.

He once again turned his gaze to that endless void, that vast and boundless river of time and space.

Countless familiar yet unfamiliar figures float on the river, enacting all sorts of stories.

At the same time, his consciousness also kept locking onto those parallel universes that were turning into zombie universes.

In particular, he locked onto one of the figures, who was wearing a black and red bodysuit, wielding two samurai swords, and whose ugly face was hidden under a mask.

That was Deadpool, a character who had very little interaction with Spider-Man, a mercenary with terrifying regenerative abilities, almost immortal, morally ambiguous, and eccentric.

As Peter Parker silently watched the ramblings of the various Deadpools in the parallel universes and their bizarre disappearances, his expression gradually turned grim.

He lowered his head, clenching his fists. "You mean... the root cause of the continuous emergence of the zombie universe is actually a problem with the universe's first driving force?"

Spider-Man, his face grim, reached out as if tearing a piece of cloth, forcefully creating a rift in the abstract void.

"Ah! Help! Don't kill me..."

"My God! Marvel Studios..."

A piercing scream came from the other end of the passage.

It was an office filled with superhero figurines and posters.

A Deadpool in a black and red bodysuit is wielding two swords, cursing and laughing maniacally as he slaughters his enemies.

With a few slashes, a bald, obese employee was reduced to a pile of minced meat.

Then, Deadpool turned his head and seemed to see Peter through the crack as well.

The face beneath the black and red mask instantly revealed an exaggerated expression of surprise.

He casually tossed the knife in his hand, piercing the hands of an old man who was running away, pinning him to the wall. His expression behind the mask was contorted as he excitedly waved to Peter.

"Hey! Isn't this the adorable Peter Parker? You've broken the fourth wall too, coming to slaughter Marvel Studios?"

While greeting him with a grin, Deadpool took a few steps forward, grabbed the old man who was still struggling against the wall, and said by pulling his hair, "If I had known you were coming, I would have given you this Stan Lee."

"However..." The tone shifted abruptly, and with a sudden twist of his hands, the old man's neck cracked with a crisp sound.

Then, Deadpool stepped on the old man's leg with one foot and used both hands to forcefully rip his head off.

"Hehehe, Spider-Man, you're late," Deadpool laughed maniacally, tossing the bloodied head in his hand like a basketball. "Stan Lee's life is mine now!"

With that, he kicked Peter's head towards the pale-faced man, "Come on, Spider-Man, catch!"

"Snap!" Spider-Man caught the flying head, looked at the face filled with tears and despair, dying in agony, and gently shook his head.

He ignored Deadpool's provocation, raised his hand, and wiped the crazed guy out of the void.

At the same time, the people in the office who had just been hacked to death instantly came back to life. They almost thought it was just a nightmare, but being covered in blood made them look at each other in terror, then they let out new screams and fled the room.

However, Spider-Man's expression remained grim and unchanged even after he closed the passage.

He turned to Fang Zheng and asked, "The primary driving force you're talking about can't be these guys, can it?"

Fang Zheng shook his head: "Of course not."

Suddenly, Peter saw Fang Zheng reach out his hand, which seemed to expand and split endlessly, precisely grasping certain parts in the endless river of time and space.

Peter turned his gaze to them and saw that those who had been captured were all, without exception, people who could break the fourth wall, enter the comic book world, and even step out of the comic book world into reality.

They may be villains or heroes, but without exception, they all possess some strange and unusual abilities.

Fang Zheng stared at them and slowly said, "What breaking the fourth wall, what massacring the Marvel editorial department, that universe is just a special node in your universe that ordinary people can hardly reach, but can affect other parallel universes in some way. There's nothing special about it."

Fang Zheng turned his head to look at the void, his gaze piercing through some unknown universe, and landed on a man who was typing.

On the phone screen in front of the man, the following content was displayed: (Fang Zheng turned his head to look into the void, into that universe that existed at some unknown time and place, not just in the darkness, and looked at a man typing...)

He paused for a moment before continuing, "Peter, you should know what modal realism is, right?"

Peter Parker sighed, his expression darkening. "Of course I know..."

Modal realism is a theory proposed by philosopher David Lewis.

He was a renowned 20th-century philosopher, making outstanding contributions, especially in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

The theory stemmed from Lewis's deep dissatisfaction with the mainstream philosophical approach at the time to explaining modal concepts such as "possibility" and "necessity".

In his view, viewing possible worlds as abstract stories or descriptions makes it difficult to explain why some stories are possible while others are not, nor can it explain how these abstract objects can carry modal information about the real world. Leibniz's logical possibility view holds that possible worlds are logically consistent combinations of concepts, but Lewis argues that this is too narrow and excludes many real-world possibilities (such as things that are physically possible but not logically obviously consistent).

For example, it seems physically impossible for a person to exist in two places at the same time, but logically, there is no rule to deny this possibility.

Furthermore, this view fails to explain why people happen to live in this real world, rather than some other logically consistent world.

If the possible world is merely an abstract collection of stories or concepts, then modal knowledge becomes some kind of mystical intuition or cognition of abstract objects, which is inconsistent with Lewis's preferred ontological position of naive physicalism.

Furthermore, many attributes or facts are indexable, depending on the speaker, time, or place. Without the relevant index, they cannot be identified.

For example, phrases like "It's time to eat now," "I'm hungry," and "The air here is very fresh."

According to traditional philosophical views, it is difficult to fully grasp all the possibilities of these indexical contents in a single real world.

“But,” Fang Zheng changed the subject, “if there are countless real worlds, and each world may present different indexal facts at a specific point in time and space, then these possibilities will have a natural place to be placed.”

"At first glance, the idea that there are countless worlds parallel to our observable world seems more complicated and redundant."

Fang Zheng slowly said, "However, if we adopt a non-realist explanation, we have to introduce almost mysterious phenomena such as 'causal relationship' and 'indexicality'. Modal realism is more direct; it simply admits that these possible worlds are real. All modal statements are just simple facts describing the state of existence of these real worlds. In this way, no additional mysterious explanation is needed, and it is more concise."

“In the very beginning…” Fang Zheng continued, and as he spoke, Spider-Man felt his body lighten. Fang Zheng had already stepped into that void, heading towards a realm that was difficult to describe in words.

The first thing Spider-Man sees is a vast, boundless continent spanning light-years. At the edge of this continent stands an astronomically large city, styled after an ancient feudal dynasty, its grandeur prompting one to wonder, what kind of insane design was this?
“What’s that?” Peter’s gaze fell on a box below made up of strange pixelated squares.

Within the box, a strangely shaped, pixelated block figure emerged.

Then, an unbelievable scene unfolded: from the enormous ancient city wall, light-years away, a huge white tiger, as large as a supergiant, emerged, and a red long-tailed sparrow, the size of the moon and engulfed in flames, also took flight...

They walked step by step, with Fang Zheng leading Spider-Man through the stories of his past experiences.

To date, every world that Founder has experienced has been completely different, with enormous differences in their essence.

In theory, the life forms living in these worlds cannot possibly have any cognition of each other, nor can they interfere with each other, unless there is some deeper common foundation.

Just as code on a mechanical computer cannot be directly applied to an electronic computer, it must be converted.

The mechanism of the Nether portal itself is similar to this kind of "matching" and "transcoding" process.

It is this process that allows Fangzheng to observe worlds that are fundamentally different, transform its own form, embed itself within them to interfere, and at the same time accept interference from them.

In the former world of nine heavens and ten earths, in the first universe that Fang Zheng thought he had become a cube-shaped person and stepped into at the end of despair.

There, beyond the nine heavens and ten earths, the vast sea of ​​boundaries and the even greater endless world itself constitute a set—a set that exhausts all possibilities under a similar view of space and time.

Spacetime has no minimum unit in this set. As long as the power continues to increase, it can be infinitely divided downwards. However, the microscopic scale that can be detected varies at different power levels.

The repulsive master of the bronze coffin is a sacrificial being born from the sacrifice of everything within this group.

He can reshape everything or destroy everything in the blink of an eye.

However, he also has some flaws.

Despite possessing immense and terrifying power, it still cannot break through the group itself and stubbornly refuses to change its old way of thinking.

He experienced all the possibilities within the collection, which led to an extreme sense of loneliness. He began to loathe himself and ultimately chose to commit suicide.

But his suicide attempt was not entirely successful; he repeatedly resurrected and, in order to force out entirely new possibilities, tormented all things in the world again and again.

After witnessing all of this, Spider-Man once again felt his existence being twisted, reconstructed, and woven into a completely new form before falling into a new place.

He watched as the blocky figure encountered several Stand users on the sea, and together they experienced a brief but wondrous adventure.

As they strolled along, Fang Zheng continued, "The second world I experienced had a completely different view of space and time from the first world."

In that world where he gained Stand and Ripple powers after his arrival, experienced a brief story, and was ultimately "thrown out" by an organization, Fang Zheng saw a worldview completely different from that of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Many beings who could perhaps be called higher-dimensional beings have their power sinking into the universe.

The war between these transcendent beings manifests as an existence known as "Alternates," possessing a variety of absolute abilities. The entanglement and dynamic stalemate of these higher-dimensional beings that transcend timelines themselves form distinct universes standing in the void.

"The third world I entered was the mathematical universe," Fang Zheng said.

The third world I entered through the Nether portal was also an abstract world that was difficult for ordinary people to understand.

There, everything did not exist originally; it only collapsed and reconstructed when observed, gradually forming a complete universe. Its essence exists in the unseen realm, a vast and infinite set that exhausts all solutions to the wave function and all mathematical structures.

“Then,” Fang Zheng paused, “I continued to push the boundaries of mathematics.”

(End of this chapter)