This villain is too popular.

Chapter 93 The world is a play, but it seems I've written myself into the story too.

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Inside the corridor where warning red lights were constantly flashing.

As Tiandao killed the last invading Association Star Envoy, he pushed his corpse aside, letting it fall heavily onto the cold floor with a dull thud.

The once noisy corridor finally became completely quiet.

It's just different from the desolate and clean place it was at the beginning.

The passageway is now littered with the corpses of several Association Star Envoys.

The air was filled with a unique, fishy stench, a mixture of blood and coolant.

boom.
Tiandao staggered, his body involuntarily leaning against the cold metal wall beside him.

He clutched his injured abdomen with his right hand, and copious amounts of blood were seeping out between his fingers.

However, Heaven did not pay much attention to this.

After resting for a while, he leaned his shoulder against the metal wall next to him, dragged his leaden legs, and silently walked over the bullet holes and corpses scattered on the ground.

In this process, every step the Heavenly Dao takes leaves a bright red bloodstain on the ground and the wall.

It was as if he was silently telling us about his terrible physical condition at that moment.

Upon reaching the end of the passage, Tiandao seemed to have all his strength drained away, and he leaned against the wall and sat down on the ground.

"cough cough"

Tiandao coughed violently a few times, and a trace of thick blood foam seeped from the corner of his mouth.

But as he coughed, Tiandao suddenly chuckled, his words filled with pride and smugness.

"One upper-level level, plus more than ten first-level levels. If the association finds out, they'll probably put a wanted poster on me and plaster it all over the New Federation, right?"

"If that's the case, then I'll probably become a superstar across the entire Federation very soon, haha."

Before Tiandao could finish speaking, his excessive 'triumph' caused him to accidentally aggravate his wound, resulting in another violent coughing fit.

Moreover, the blood he coughed up this time contained some small fragments of internal organs.

In addition, there was his Star Eclipse Heavenly Eye, which had already gone completely blind.

This shows just how serious Tiandao's injuries are at this moment.

After recovering, Tiandao raised his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

At the same time, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, replaced by a bewilderment he had never felt before.

He muttered to himself, "Strange, everything is going according to my script, but why do I suddenly feel a little regretful?"

"Am I really doing the right thing?"

When the audience heard this, they assumed that the "script" that Tiandao was referring to was what he had seen about Caogao's future using the Star Eclipse Heavenly Eye.

He forced everyone to choose the current 'happy ending' where only he was injured.

But only Heaven knows that its so-called 'script' is far more than that.

Because in the script he designed, which seemed to be a happy ending.

Every line and every sentence inside is filled with scheming called 'insidious'.

For example, in order to gain so-called "popularity," he forced Caroline onto the tragic path.

Actually, if we put this question in the past...

That day, Dao would have no regrets, nor would he feel that he had done anything wrong.

Because when he first arrived at Stellaris, he didn't consider it a real world at all.

Instead, they treated this place as a fake, ridiculous 'stage' filled with spotlights and lies.

Therefore, whether it's Caroline or anyone else.

At the time, he saw them as nothing more than a group of dispensable extras who could be discarded at any time.

It is an excellent tool to help him gain valuable popularity.

Therefore, their thoughts and their future will be determined by them.

Heaven neither cares nor pays attention to this, and it feels no guilt whatsoever.

He was like a detached director, silently watching the 'Sons of the Stars' perform on a predetermined path, and letting the tragedy unfold.

He himself stood outside the spotlight, using the arrogance of 'equality' to trample everyone into the dust.

Tiandao believed that this 'arrogance' was a result of his deliberate act in order to highlight his 'strong persona'.

Little did they know that some things simply cannot be acted out.

He was just using 'acting' as an excuse.

To cover up their 'rejection' of this unfamiliar world.

And the 'loneliness' buried deep within him, which even he himself could hardly perceive.

But when exactly did this situation change?
It was the first time he saw Caroline heartbroken because the doctor destroyed her dolphin doll.
It was the first time he mischievously stole the candy that Liuli had hidden under her pillow, and she was so anxious that she cried.
Or perhaps it was when Yunmeng secretly took him to the cafeteria to sneak some desserts, giving him special treatment?
Even Heaven itself cannot distinguish between them.

All he knew was that suddenly, from a certain point in time, he no longer regarded the 'Stars' as a 'false stage'.

They no longer treated 'Caroline and others' as dispensable 'tools'.

The noisy scramble for the last piece of dessert in the cafeteria, the playful banter and teasing among everyone in the training room.

These memories became the most important ones in the Heavenly Dao's heart, serving as 'anchors' that allowed him to unknowingly and completely integrate into this world.

And it was from that moment that Heaven suddenly understood something. The world might be fake, but those beautiful memories were real.

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao slowly conceived a bold idea.

He wanted to change things, to change the terrible ending that everyone had in the original story.

He will no longer indifferently allow that tragedy to occur.

Because if we follow the original storyline...

After experiencing this 'Battle of the Embers'.

Yunmenghui, having exhausted its life force by repeatedly rushing between several battlefields, perished along with the entire base.

Caroline will suffer from a personality disorder due to leaving the quantum space too early, slowly losing her human emotions and becoming a cold, inanimate tool.

Having witnessed Yunmeng's death, Chenxing's 'beastly nature' will overwhelm his 'humanity,' turning him into a humanoid weapon who only knows how to kill.

Because everything she cherishes has been destroyed, Liuli has nightmares day and night and can only fall asleep with the help of sleeping pills every night. She will never be as innocent and naive as before.

All of this was simply to facilitate the growth of the protagonist, Chen Kong.

Only in this way can the descent into darkness by Caroline and others in the second season become reasonable.

It is only natural that these children of stars would appear as villains.

However, Heaven did not like this outcome.

He didn't like this terrible ending.

So he needs to change.

But change is never easy, and not everyone can become a hero.

Therefore, Heaven must find a reasonable reason to convince itself to be a 'hero'.

After watching the first season of the original work over and over again...

Tiandao felt that he had not only found the 'perfect' ending that could make everyone happy.

And finally found the reason to convince himself to be a 'hero'.

Simply because audiences dislike tragedies.

In that case, in order to maximize one's 'popularity'...

In order to gain more audience 'favorite'.

Tiandao felt he could be the 'hero'.

As for whether the future can truly be changed as he imagines.

Will he truly be able to 'escape unscathed' after that?

The Heavenly Dao, already 'immersed' in the drama, had long since automatically ignored them all.

Because he subconsciously understood it too.

The so-called "getting out unscathed" was nothing more than his own wishful thinking from the very beginning.

He wasn't actually absolutely certain.

At the same time, his real reason for wanting to be a 'hero' was never for any kind of 'popularity'.

He was just reluctant to part with the mischievous smile on Yunmeng's face when she led him to sneak into the kitchen.

The bright, clear light in Caroline's eyes as she held the little dolphin doll was hard to bear.

Reluctant to part with Liuli, she hugged her pillow, looking adorably silly as she thought she had hidden the candy.

He didn't really want to be this 'hero'.

He just didn't want anyone to destroy the 'home' he cherished.

"Ahem. As expected, being a hero isn't so easy."

However...

The voice of Heaven echoed in the silent corridor, revealing an indescribable stubbornness and madness in its expression.

His right hand trembled as he reached into the inner pocket of his breast pocket, took out a special light blue candy, and carefully put it into his mouth.

As the candy melted on his tongue, he stood up unsteadily. His tattered combat uniform continued to ooze new beads of blood as he moved, but Tiandao seemed oblivious to it.

Looking at the control room door of the quantum center, which was so close at hand.

As Tiandao slowly pushed it aside with his shoulder, he muttered to himself, "The script may be fake, but the happy ending is real."

"Because I've already seen it."

"Now, let me offer the final, closing fireworks to this magnificent spectacle."

After saying that, Tiandao staggered into the quantum center control room.

For him, there's only one last thing left to accomplish before he reaches the beautiful, happy future he envisions.
But no one, including the Heavenly Dao, knew this.

The person who once thought he was standing on the edge of the stage and indifferently treated the whole world as a play.

Unbeknownst to me, I had already written myself into this story.

And it seems he's still a bit stuck in the past.

(End of this chapter)