MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 289 Closed System
The timeline has reached a crucial point in the zombie story...

In the distant depths of cosmic void, the Temple 2 spaceship drifted alone, like an abandoned tombstone.

This ship, which once belonged to Thanos, the cosmic warlord, has now become a prize for the zombie heroes after Thanos was attacked and bitten by them, witnessing their twisted fate.

The spaceship's metal hull was covered in shocking scars, remnants of a recent, brutal civil war.

In that battle, the zombie heroes who still had a shred of conscience joined forces with Spider-Man to eliminate the completely corrupted zombies.

After the fierce battle, the interior of the spaceship was in a mess, the energy system was completely paralyzed, and the remaining energy sparks were flashing everywhere.

At this moment, the final battle inside the spaceship is about to end.

Only Spider-Man remained, preparing to end the last zombie hero, a middle-aged man encased in tattered, blood-red armor, his flesh already decaying—it was Iron Man, Tony Stark.

In an effort to eradicate this damned zombie virus, Spider-Man has repeatedly tried to communicate with the intelligent zombie heroes in a cycle of despair, attempting to find a cure that can break the virus and kill it.

Whether it's the zombie Reed Richards, the zombie Ant-Man, or the zombie Iron Man in front of him, they are all potential partners he seeks to cooperate with.

These former geniuses, after becoming zombies, even with their brains beginning to rot, could still unleash astonishing scientific abilities under the drive of extreme hunger.

On more than one occasion, Zombie Iron Man and Zombie Reed have developed devices that can traverse the multiverse.

But apart from being driven by hunger, they no longer possessed their former scientific research capabilities, let alone the ability to research a cure for the zombie virus.

Fortunately or unfortunately, in the first few cycles, the zombie heroes were still lucid for a moment after eating their fill and were able to communicate with each other.

But as the number of cycles increases, the hunger, like a maggot clinging to their bones, devours their remaining humanity more and more quickly.

The intense sense of déjà vu drove the zombie heroes in later cycles even crazier, making it difficult for them to communicate effectively even after they had eaten and entered a brief period of lucidity.

This also prevented them from using the inspiration from déjà vu to create a multiverse travel device too early.

However, even though their brains are rotting, they are still more functional than ordinary people.

Even with their reason almost completely gone, they still managed to capture and invade parallel universes, such as the Avengers universe for gorillas and the Avengers universe for pigmen, countless times, and fight against the superheroes of those universes.

Even though they were repeatedly driven back, the casualties they caused in those universes were still a tragedy.

In order to completely eradicate the hidden danger and prevent the zombie virus from continuing to spread, these monsters, along with themselves, must be completely eliminated, and not a single one can be left alive!
Even those zombie heroes who occasionally show a glimmer of conscience and choose to resist, or even himself, must be reduced to nothing.

However, just as Spider-Man was about to smash Iron Man's helmet with a punch and turn his rotting brain into a pulp, a strange change occurred!

Amidst the intertwining of endless hunger, the rage of unfulfilled desire, and the eerie relief of impending liberation, Iron Man suddenly saw a bizarre sight. "What...what the hell is that?"

Suddenly, from behind the silent zombie Spider-Man standing in front of him, about to throw a punch, countless arms stretched out and grabbed his hands, feet, and torso.

Those arms wrapped around Spider-Man, fixing him in place so he couldn't move.

"What?!" Iron Man recognized the arms. The red striped bodysuits covering them were eerily familiar—they were all Spider-Man's hands!
Then, these eerie arms extended infinitely as if they were alive, not only binding Spider-Man but also quickly entangled Iron Man, who was trying to fire back.

An unimaginable, immense force surged forth, causing the Zombie Iron Man's armor to groan in pain and creak.

Then, something even stranger happened.

Zombie Iron Man felt like a puppet being manipulated, his body being twisted and bent involuntarily.

The zombie Spider-Man in front of him moved in perfect sync with him, as if drawn by an invisible force. The two involuntarily repeated every movement from their intense fight, only in completely opposite directions.

Iron Man watched in horror as the Spider-Man arms that emerged from the void began to split, spread, and thin with each passing second, becoming as fine as red down, filling every corner of the spaceship.

These fine, hair-like "fuzz" penetrated his armor, seeped into every electronic component, every gap in the metal lattice, and even burrowed into his decaying flesh, into every atom, and into every Planck scale...

Every Planck time, every fragment of the universe where a zombie story occurs, is treated as a whole by Fang Zheng's existence, and is completely sealed off through overall manipulation.

Spider-Man, on the other hand, built an engine based on his will, allowing a subset of the system to self-reflect.

A self-referential system.

Thus, everything that had happened and existed was enveloped and compressed by this infinitely vast power, forcibly pushed back to its original position by Spider-Man, who acted as the driving force of the universe.

From Founder's perspective, this might just be a simple "reset to zero".

But if you describe that abstract information in a way that humans can understand, in the way Spider-Man is used to, the process is that simple and straightforward.

It's like an invisible giant hand forcefully pushing an already exploded universe back to its singularity.

The first type of perpetual motion power given to Spider-Man by Fangzheng was a power that originated from "nothingness" and began to emerge due to the breaking of symmetry.

It then began to brutally carry out its mission, reversing the entire universe in which the zombie story takes place, reversing time, and returning everything to 'nothingness'!
Are zombie stories the first driving force of the universe?
The zombie virus is a terrifying thing that is almost incurable and so bizarre that even cosmic gods can be infected.
The desire to devour people is almost inevitable, an ultimate instinct capable of devouring even saints.

That's ridiculous!
How strong is the infectivity of the virus?

Can cannibalism move stones weighing several tons?

At this very moment, in that collection of zombie stories that have been forcibly twisted and reversed, those bizarre zombie viruses, no matter how mysterious their origins, no matter how far-reaching their impact, no matter whether they erode the soul or the body, or weave some kind of higher-level, magical viral network...

Everything they touch and can interfere with will be pushed back in a simple and brutal way by applying force in the opposite direction.

If the virus affects the soul and implants a craving for hunger, then directly interfere with every tiny component of the soul. Which part or unit is related to hunger, seize it, forcefully pull it back to its past course, and twist and crush the root of its infection!
Therefore, everything is regressing, everything is reversing.

When everything finally returns to its original state, when all existence influenced by the first driving force and emerging from the symmetry breaking is completely filled by reverse evolution, it will eventually return to that absolute "nothingness".

However, just as all of this is regressing and reversing, a completely new cosmic entity, a brand new world that has completely eliminated the zombie story as the primary driving force, is being seamlessly inserted into the original spacetime structure.

……

On the flagship Sanctuary 2, the zombie Spider-Man and zombie Iron Man, who were frantically wrestling, suddenly froze in their movements.

The tattered helmet on Iron Man's face fell off with a "thud," revealing his unshaven, lifeless face.

"boom!"

Spider-Man, unable to control his momentum in time, slammed his punch into Tony Stark's face. Stark's body jerked backward, his neck making a sickening cracking sound, almost breaking.

Tony rolled on the ground, clutching his face. With the swollen, purplish-blue swelling on his face, he felt the long-lost, intense pain that made him want to scream. He was completely stunned.

After a while, he subconsciously touched his face and winced in pain.

He opened his mouth, and several teeth fell to the ground with a "clatter," mixed with blood. He mumbled incoherently, "Peter?...I...I'm back to normal?"

Spider-Man, standing before him, stared absently into the empty corridor of Sanctuary 2, listening to the rapid footsteps approaching from afar.

Those zombie superheroes who had just been "killed" and whose bodies had been burned were now all appearing in the flagship hall.

Spider-Man sighed deeply, his gaze drifting across the spaceship's porthole to distant Earth, and then to his home, now covered in cobwebs.

He saw his bewildered fiancée Mary Jane and Aunt May sitting up from the ground, looking around blankly.

He sighed, "Yes, we're back...we've changed back..."

……

When the completely closed and isolated system is reopened, the vast collection of universes that was originally completely isolated by Fang Zheng returns to the broader whole.

Spider-Man's figure reappeared in that endless river of time and space.

Looking around, no matter how far he extended his perspective, at least within the range he could perceive, all zombie stories had been completely erased without leaving a trace.

And a new story...

Or rather, the underlying story...

Spider-Man's gaze fell upon a laboratory in a certain universe.

A mad scientist is staring intently at a strange liquid in a test tube that emits a faint green glow.

He gazed at the viral reagent in the test tube with almost intoxicated eyes, murmuring to himself, "So beautiful..."

"The research has finally succeeded! As long as it's injected, one can gain immortality and eternal life! A little bit of appetite is nothing! From today onwards, humanity will usher in a new ascension!"

He excitedly drank the liquid in the test tube in one gulp, anticipating the arrival of evolution.

But after a while...

"Ouch..." His face turned a little green, and he clutched his stomach, tumbling and crawling towards the toilet as if he were being chased by a ghost.

A wailing sound burst from the toilet: "Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh..."

……

Fang Zheng also watched all of this, then turned his gaze back to Spider-Man and said, "The zombie story is not really 'over,' of course, that's just a possibility as a literary creation."

“Every creator can still continue to write fantasy stories about zombies, undead creatures, or all sorts of bizarre existences.”

"However, those unnecessary and disgusting zombie apocalypses that 'actually occurred' and were triggered by the first mover have been completely wiped out."

“However, speaking of which…” Spider-Man looked at Fang Zheng, his gaze sweeping over the endless parallel universes.

“You really are going too far. What you just did wasn’t just sealing off the entire zombie universe I’m in, was it? You completely sealed off the entire range that I can reach, or even might reach—all of these spacetime locations.”

"Not just zombies, but also all those other dark and terrifying stories in the eyes of humans, you dealt with them all too, right?"

“Of course.” Fang Zheng nodded slightly. “Everyone can decide their own existence and make their own self-definition and choices.”

“But,” Fang Zheng continued, “if the birth of the universe was merely due to a fleeting thought, a random idea, which was then used as a backdrop and everything existed solely to realize that idea…”

"Such a birth process is clearly unfair to those beings who are so 'predestined.' Each of them, each life, should have the right to decide for themselves and to engage in self-reference, rather than passively accepting an ending predetermined by the first mover."

"Of course, I will also keep an eye on them and deal with those I don't like."

"By closing off and resetting your universe to zero, I have accumulated some useful data and information."

"Therefore, I have decided to prevent all the activation processes within my capabilities that could lead to something like a 'non-autonomous existence'."

“Next…” Fang Zheng turned his gaze to the absolute realm of “nothingness”.

Within that "nothingness" lies the potential for everything.

Whether it's a thought or an imagination, it's just a kind of filtering mechanism that breaks symmetry, allowing a universe with a specific structure to emerge from infinite information.

Regardless of whether this thought is good or evil, or what kind of world it envisions, all living beings created by this process itself should have the right to determine themselves and engage in self-referentiality.

They should not passively accept their fate determined by the primary driving force.

But... Fang Zheng's gaze swept across the void.

In a dimension that cannot be described in existing language, at the edge of the "set" he represents, there seem to be other sets that are in contact with or intersecting with him.

"My closed-loop zeroing process first completely closes off the set I 'see', making it an absolutely isolated system."

"So, within this 'nothingness,' how many sets are completely self-enclosed, severing all logical connections and interactions with the outside world, and not having any form of contact with it?"

……

“Okay…” Spider-Man shook his head slightly, took a step, and steadily stepped back into the real world, returning to his home.

He turned to Fang Zheng and extended an invitation: "Then, as a thank you, please come and have dinner together. Aunt Mei's apple pie is delicious."

Fang Zheng smiled and replied, "Okay..."

(Marvel & DC Volume 2, End)
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