MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 287 Veto
Through his interactions with Kyubey, the magical girl, and Madoka Kaname, Fang Zheng gradually came to realize that there existed a broader realm beyond the original mathematical structure set.

In that grander logical context, problems that should have been deemed mathematically unsolvable were actually accommodated and resolved, and this set continued to grow and expand endlessly.

And it wasn't until he embarked on another journey and arrived in Gotham City that Fang Zheng once again captured some entirely new information.

“This…” Walking on the streets of Gotham City, Spider-Man looked at the frozen scenes around him, like comic book panels. He reached out to touch them, trying to break them with all the power he could muster at the moment, but to no avail.

He could only watch silently as this self-proclaimed upright young man easily broke down the boundaries of these storyboards, merged them, and ultimately transformed this endless world of storyboards into a self-referential, self-determining engine.

Then, they took another step, only to find themselves back in that familiar place.

That was New York City at sunset, everything reduced to ruins, devoid of life.

A skinned, zombie Spider-Man is curled up on the top of a building, emitting a mournful wail.

"this is me?"

"No! Something's wrong!"

Looking at that familiar yet terrifying figure, Peter was filled with doubt.

With Fang Zheng's help, he had clearly consolidated his timeline, separating and merging himself from each Planck timeline.

He can indeed extend his power into various universes, forming projections that can be called "Peter Parker" or anyone else.

But the key point is that if you don't actively create it, this zombie version of yourself, this projection, shouldn't exist at all, right?
However, no matter how he examined it, this zombie Spider-Man, this universe, and even those wider worlds were no different from what he had seen before, except that there were no traces left by him at this moment.

He frowned deeply: "Could it be that even the multiverse itself contains an infinite number of identical versions?"

Fang Zheng took him for a walk again.

Spider-Man was astonished to discover that the once infinitely vast multiverse seemed to be shrinking as they progressed.

That endless river of time and space is slowly converging upstream.

Countless extremely powerful beings reside within this endless river of time and space that extends downstream; one could even say that they themselves are the sum of an entire segment of this river of time and space.

Among them are beings named "Eternity," "Infinity," "Annihilation," and "Death," as well as many other beings, large and small, that embody various concepts.

The creator god known as "eternal" is the embodiment of the entire network of time and space.

But the search did not stop; Fang Zheng, carrying Peter, continued to explore the more distant past.

第8纪元、第7纪元、第6纪元、第5纪元、第4纪元……

Until he arrived at the first era of the river of time, Peter witnessed the birth of an extremely small single universe, whose incarnation was known as the "First Firmament".

This is the beginning of everything in the future multiverse.

However, the investigation is not over yet.

Fang Zheng, along with Peter Parker, stepped into the realm of "nothingness".

Peter Parker felt his existence melting away madly.

This "nothingness" cannot be described in words, and even the act of description itself seems to have lost its meaning here.

Here, everything seems to have never existed; there is no time, no process, and even the concept of "existence" itself has vanished.

But Fang Zheng's figure remained standing. It seemed that he himself was proof of "existence".

Only through Fang Zheng's help was Peter able to barely perceive the information Fang Zheng was conveying to him in an extremely abstract form.

He then realized that they had never actually left any place; Fang Zheng had simply instilled certain things in him.

Some things that can only be perceived by the Founder set itself.

The thing seemed to be churning, manifesting, and collapsing, eventually coalescing into a form that could be understood and observed by human thought.

That turned out to be...

Peter Parker muttered to himself, somewhat lost in thought: "The story of the zombie world... actually originated from a comic book?"

A comic book labeled "Zombie Heroes".

No, this is not a comic book, but an abstract message that Spider-Man, still confined to human thought patterns, has transformed into a more easily understood form.

Peter blinked, and he saw the comic book begin to unfold, transforming into a strange scene.

It was a little boy with a runny nose, reading comics with another child on the grass. The comic was called "Zombie Hero".

The slightly taller, snotty-nosed kid said, "Zombie Spider-Man is amazing! He can actually defeat a zombie hero!"

Another child retorted, "What's so great about that? It still doesn't solve the problem! The zombie sentinels are the most powerful!"

The snotty-nosed kid shoved him: "The Sentinel is so mean! Zombie Spider-Man is clearly the best!"

"The zombie sentinels are definitely more powerful!" another child retorted.

The two little ones were wrestling on the grass in the park...

Fang Zheng's voice rang out again: "If you have to put it in perspective, this is the origin of your universe, the primary driving force behind your universe, or rather, your story."

"What you see, whether it's the First Sky of the First Era or something like the OAA, has nothing to do with the story of the zombie universe. They are just phenomena that come together as a kind of connection in a series of similar stories."

Spider-Man fell silent, muttering, "Did everything we have come to stem from two kids arguing about which comic book character was stronger...?"

Fang Zheng said, "To be more precise, it's a child who thinks that the zombie Spider-Man who ended the zombies is very strong and will definitely end the zombie Sentinels one day and end that time loop."

“So…” Spider-Man said softly, “was I born just for this idea?”

Fang Zheng nodded: "That's right, your universe exists because of you."

"The Big Bang was to create the spacetime in which Spider-Man could exist; interstellar matter condensed into the solar system to allow Spider-Man to be born; Earth experienced mass extinctions to allow Spider-Man to be born; the emergence of Homo sapiens, the founding of the United States, and the death of your Uncle Ben..."

"All of this is to ensure that a Spider-Man who can rise up in the face of a zombie crisis and solve it can be born, and to ensure that he has noble qualities and an indomitable will."

"In other words, it was all for that dish of vinegar that we made a meal of dumplings."

Spider-Man gritted his teeth, staring at the snotty-nosed child and the "Zombie Heroes" comic book, his voice filled with anger. "So, everything I have is just some kind of joke?!"

"Is this all just something created from a child's fantasy, something that's even less tragic than a story written by an author?!"

"Would you like to see your creator?" Fang Zheng suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Spider-Man was taken aback. The next second, he found himself standing in front of the two children who were reading comics on the grass.

"Huh? Uncle, are you dressed as Spider-Man? Where's your mask?" The snotty-nosed child felt the sunlight being blocked by a shadow, looked up, saw Spider-Man's figure, and excitedly got up.

"Uncle, your Spider-Man suit must be very expensive, right? The one my dad bought me is so ugly." The child ran up without any hesitation and excitedly touched the Spider-Man suit. "Can you shoot webs?" The child gestured as if shooting webs.

"Can you climb walls?" The child lay on the ground and began to imitate climbing.

"Do you know how Spider-Man lands?" The child began to mimic Spider-Man's landing posture.

Seeing these familiar movements, Spider-Man paused for a moment, a complex smile slowly appearing on his face.

He looked at his two little fans, and started to reach out his hands... making sound effects in his mouth, gesturing with his hands, and shouting "whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

After striking a few classic Spider-Man poses, he asked softly, "Kids, do you think Spider-Man is a hero? If you encounter bad guys, will a hero come to save you?"

"Of course! Spider-Man is a superhero! He's my idol! If I'm in danger, Spider-Man will definitely come to save me!" The snotty-nosed kid said with his hands on his hips, looking completely matter-of-fact.

"Is that so..." Spider-Man sighed softly, then turned and left.

"Huh? Where did that uncle go?" The child turned around and saw that Spider-Man was nowhere to be seen.

With a thud, a pedestrian who had witnessed Spider-Man's sudden appearance and disappearance in broad daylight stood dumbfounded not far away, his phone, which he had been secretly filming, slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

……

The perspective returns to that void. Spider-Man lowers his head, his voice tinged with melancholy: "The 'authors' who created us, who gave us the initial impetus, seem to be no different from us."

Despite the slight differences in spacetime structure, when Spider-Man arrived in that world, although he couldn't perceive his other parallel counterparts and felt out of place, he still managed to transform his form within a few minutes, extending his perspective to a wider area of ​​that universe and meticulously recording the cosmic structures that were completely different from the information he was familiar with.

"They are somewhat different, but the differences are not significant."

Fang Zheng's voice rang out again: "Do you want to see the world you have 'created'?"

"Huh?" Spider-Man's vision blurred, and a very familiar photo suddenly appeared in the void in front of him.

"Uncle Ben?"

Those are Spider-Man's family members, his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, in a photo of the three of them. The photo exudes the warmth and happiness of an ordinary family.

He could sense the imagery conveyed by the idea contained in the photograph.

That was Peter Parker, who had just gained superpowers and wasn't Spider-Man yet. He was just wearing a wrestling costume and earning money by performing in circuses and fighting arenas.
Because he failed to stop a criminal he could have easily taken down, and later his uncle died at his hands, he felt extremely guilty about it. This was a thought that occurred to him as he wept in the bathroom.

If I had been stronger or more responsible back then...

In a sudden shift in perspective, Spider-Man "arrives" in this world.

Walking down that familiar street, extending his sense of presence outwards, he could "see" that it was an exceptionally peaceful and serene world.

There are no superheroes or supervillains, no X-genes, no zombie viruses, no superpowers; it's just a peaceful, ordinary, even somewhat mundane world.

Walking down the familiar street and into his familiar home, Spider-Man saw through the door the three figures inside having dinner together.

In this world, Peter Parker was never Spider-Man; he was just a good nephew with excellent grades, countless scholarships, a confirmed relationship with Mary Jane, and someone his Uncle Ben and Aunt May were incredibly proud of.

Unbeknownst to him, tears silently streamed down Spider-Man's face.

He wiped away his tears, and his perspective returned to that "nothingness".

He understood completely.

All the stories of the world itself, if traced back, can be traced back to a certain idea of ​​a certain "author".

Similarly, tracing each thought back downwards, one can find a "story" that allows everything to happen within that thought.

Everything exists simultaneously.

It's not merely an infinite number of possibilities, but rather any "logic" or "non-logic," no matter how absurd, illogical, or contradictory...

All kinds, all types, everything exists.

No matter how powerful a person is or how humble a person is.

Everything they knew, saw, and thought...

From the moment of its birth, it began to "shape" and "choose" an infinite world as the primary driving force in the unknowable "nothingness".

There may be authors, but there has never been an author who is superior to the characters they create.

They may differ only in their order of precedence, but they are still considered equal.

Above the author are authors even more authors, and below the character are characters even more characters...

Perhaps there exists a "meta-universe" background that contains all logical possibilities, or perhaps it is simply "nothingness".

Every thought, every possibility, no matter how absurd or ridiculous, will be selected from among them to create a universe that perfectly matches that thought.

或者也可以说，就如同-1和1可以相加为0，0自然也可以同时分割为-1和1。

Any thought, any information, will cause the absolute "nothingness" to break its symmetry, and from the absolute "nothingness" a corresponding world will emerge.

Whatever logic such a world should have, it will inevitably exist.

Meanwhile, the conscious activity within the new universe activates the same filtering mechanism, creating new, nested universes and forming an infinitely recursive chain.

Alternatively, it can be viewed as everything being false, everything being a void dream, with only the subjective experience of consciousness being real.

This grander universe is an endless, self-replicating narrative network woven by countless consciousnesses; it is a dynamic, recursive, consciousness-driven emergent phenomenon.

Spider-Man looked at Fang Zheng, his voice calm: "If that's really the case, creating a universe has never been difficult. Even ordinary people only need to imagine it."

"only……"

"After the universe was created by imagination as the primary driving force, the most difficult thing is whether we can establish a substantial connection with the creator."

"The reason why the zombie story can't be ended is probably that my actions and my imagination only created a world where I ended the zombie story, but didn't completely change the beginning of the zombie story."

"You didn't completely reject that first driving force, did you!"

"As long as the First Cause is not truly negated, the universe related to it will always exist, and the story related to it will never end..."

He raised his head, his gaze sharp as he looked at Fang Zheng: "And you actually managed to do something so absurd as to reject the First Drive?"

Fang Zheng nodded calmly: "It wasn't possible before we came to this gathering, but now it is."

“So,” Fang Zheng continued, “are you now willing to reject the primary driving force behind zombie stories?”

Spider-Man took a deep breath and answered firmly, "Of course..."

(End of this chapter)