My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

The chat history continued to scroll upwards, and Lin Mo's finger slowly swiped across the screen.

The higher he went, the richer and more fragmented Gao Yang's emotions became.

【Tian Tian! I've found another way to bring you back to life! This time it will definitely work!】

【Tian Tian, ​​the experiment failed, and they all died. Isn't your brother useless?】

【Tian Tian, ​​I'm so tired, so in pain. I don't even know if I'm doing the right thing. I just want you to come back, why is it so hard?】

……

Further up, Gao Yang began to get injured and started to lose battles.

He was no longer an invincible god, but a human being with flesh and blood.

【Tian Tian, ​​I was injured by a local deity today. He said I'm crazy, that I'm doing the impossible. I locked him in an iron cage, but I sat on the ground for a long time. Maybe what he said is true.】

[Tian Tian, ​​my parents advised me to give up, but I didn't want to argue with them. I released them from my body; maybe it's better for them this way.]

As you scroll upwards, Gao Yang begins to appear weak and insignificant.

【Tian Tian, ​​did I do something wrong? I don't know. I just know I wish I had gone home earlier on your birthday.】

【Tian Tian, ​​I dreamt about you. You were standing at the school gate, waving at me and saying, "Brother, don't worry, I'm waiting for you." I cried for a long time when I woke up.】

……

The small wooden building was so quiet that only the faint sound of fingers swiping across the screen could be heard.

Gao Yang's parents floated side by side across the dining table. Gao Yang's mother covered her mouth with her hand, and her fingers, as a spirit, were trembling slightly.

Gao Yang's father stood silently, his cloudy old eyes swirling with all the heartache and helplessness accumulated over three thousand years, but he didn't say a word.

The God of War's battle axe had been leaning against the corner of the wall at some point. He crossed his thick arms, his silvery-white stubble trembling slightly, and muttered something under his breath.

"This kid... if he had someone to talk to in the past three thousand years, maybe he wouldn't have gone this crazy."

The judge stood in the kitchen doorway, his gray eyes lowered, the cake in his hand completely cold.

She had lived for countless millennia, judging countless sinners and gods, but now, faced with the fragment of the soul in this phone—a high school student who had lost his sister three thousand years ago—her judgment rules couldn't utter a single word.

Lin Mo's finger finally stopped at the very top of the chat history.

That was the last message Gao Yang sent to Tian Tian before he came into this world.

There was no red exclamation mark because the message was sent from Earth and successfully reached Tian Tian's phone.

The message was very short, just one line.

【Tian Tian, ​​I have to attend extra classes today, so I can't come back to celebrate your birthday with you.】

Everyone present knew it was a lie.

Gao Yang didn't have tutoring that day; he went to buy Tian Tian a birthday present. He bought a cake with a layer of caramel on top, the kind Tian Tian loves the most.

He wanted to surprise Tian Tian, ​​so he told this lie.

But Tian Tian believed it, walked out of the house alone, and got into a car accident.

As for how Gao Yang came to this world from Earth, and what happened after that, no one knows.

There was no record on the phone, nor in Ren'ai's memory.

All we know is that Gao Yang later became a madman, a madman who killed all humans across all timelines in order to resurrect his sister.

A madman who stripped away his parents, enemies, and emotions to make them his guards.

A madman who has sat alone in the void for three thousand years, sending messages every day to a WeChat account that will never receive a reply.

Lin Mo put his phone back on the table and looked up at the chat history that was still faintly glowing on the screen.

The voice was very soft, but every word was like an inscription carved on a stone tablet with a black sword, without any wavering.

"He has reason to be crazy, but I have no reason to pity him."

This is Lin Mo's stance.

Just then, a faint tapping sound, like fingernails tapping on a phone screen, came from behind me.

Everyone turned around and saw Tian Tian and Mian Mian squeezing in front of Lin Mo's phone.

With her translucent little hand holding her fluffy front paw, Tian Tian carefully pressed the voice input button on the phone screen.

She let go of her hand, brought the phone closer, and spoke earnestly in her soft, slightly nasal voice.

"Brother, I've never blamed you. Tian Tian feels sorry for you."

Send a voice message, and a red exclamation mark pops up on the screen.

This message was destined to go unsent, and Gao Yang was destined to never hear it.

But at the very moment the voice message was sent, Gao Yang's phone, which had a cartoon bear sticker on it, suddenly vibrated violently.

The chat history on the screen began to blur, the phone case began to blur, and the crooked bear sticker slowly curled up its edges as it blurred.

The entire phone transformed into a pale golden mist, which slowly swirled, condensed, and reorganized above the dining table, eventually revealing the phantom of an old man.

He was wearing a gray robe so worn that its original color was almost unrecognizable.

His hair and beard were so white they shone, and his skin was as dry as tree bark, but his half-closed eyes were surprisingly bright, with layers of spatial laws flowing within them.

He first stretched out a huge yawn, his bones cracking, then picked at his ear with his withered fingers, his voice hoarse and cheerful, as if he were talking to himself or announcing to the whole world.

"Ugh—I never thought it would actually be unlocked! I've been going crazy with frustration! Three thousand years! For three thousand years, no one has spoken a single word to me! That little bastard Gao Yang stuffed me into his phone as a messenger and locked me up for three thousand years!"

The Goddess of Judgment's eternally calm gray eyes widened suddenly after she saw the old man's face clearly.

She subconsciously took a step forward, her voice unusually tinged with shock, bordering on disbelief.

"You are... the Lord of Space?!"

The God of War was stunned. He opened his mouth several times before finally managing to squeeze out a sound. For the first time ever, his tone was devoid of rudeness and mockery, filled only with pure awe and disbelief.

"Space God? What are you doing on this phone?"

Lin Mo's brow twitched, and his right hand pressed back onto the hilt of the black sword.

"Space God Lord? You must be the last guardian left behind by Gao Yang."

Before the words were even finished, the black sword was already half an inch out of its sheath, the eerie light on its blade drawing a cold arc under the warm yellow lights of the dessert shop.

The old man hurriedly waved his hand, his withered fingers leaving afterimages in the air, and shook his head like a rattle drum, his white hair and beard turning into a blurry silver light.

"No, no, no! I'm not a guard! I was locked in this iron box by that little bastard Gao Yang!"

He pointed to the phone on the table that still retained the aftershocks of the laws, then pointed to himself, his tone surprisingly aggrieved.

"Three thousand years! Three thousand years! I've been locked in this broken iron box, with no one to talk to. How could I possibly be his guard? At least a guard can go out on patrol, but I can't even turn over!"

Lin Mo remained vigilant.

He had heard the Lord of Space mention him more than once during the trial.

One of the most supreme beings among the original inhabitants of the gods.

Alongside the God of Time, this primordial deity who governs the laws of space possesses power that should not be underestimated.

If he really is Gao Yang's fourth guardian, this battle will probably be no easier than any of the previous ones.

Seeing that everyone was still ready to fight at any moment, the Space God simply shrugged and scratched his white beard with his withered fingers.

"Back then, I joined forces with the Old Man of Time to fight against Gao Yang, but we were defeated. The Old Man of Time was completely absorbed by Gao Yang, which is why Gao Yang used the Law of Time. However, since a person can only master one top-level law, he cannot absorb both time and space at the same time, so he sealed me in this phone."

As he spoke, he held up one finger, pointed at Lin Mo, and then pointed at himself.

"Now that you have broken the seal, as a reward... I will tell you how to defeat Gao Yang."