Start in Terra, immortal

Chengdu, night falls. "XX Bridge, arrived at the station..." A rushing stream of people poured out of each subway car, carrying one young yet old face after another.

He pulled out his phone; it read, "22:10".

The numbers displayed on the screen that woke me up indicated that it was now late at night.

Stepping out of the subway station, Rosso gazed around at the deep darkness of the night, lost in thought.

"Something doesn't feel right today."

The rumbling in his stomach snapped Rosso out of his daze.

"Never mind, let's hurry back and eat!"

Ten minutes later, the aroma of instant noodles filled the entire rented apartment.

"Should I add sausage? Or eggs?" Rosso hesitated in front of the computer. "Or both?"

These were Rosso's last thoughts before he collapsed onto the bed.

"Huh? My egg... no, my noodles?" Staring at the boundless sea before him, calm and deep, Rosso was dumbfounded. "Where did I get all this?"

Looking down, the water plants swaying with the waves were appearing and disappearing with Luo Suo's movements, seemingly about to sink to the bottom of the sea at any moment.

Turning around, I saw towering waves reaching the sky in the distance, their crests carrying clumps of mixed grass and broken houses, and a sailboat drifting further and further away in the distance.

"Boat!" Rosso plunged into the sea and swam with all his might toward the sailboat.

As soon as I swam out, I saw the sailboat heading straight into the giant waves as if it were being controlled by someone.

"It's over!" Rosso hurriedly turned back, trying to find the water plants where he had previously landed.

However, there was no seaweed left on the deep black sea surface.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Rosso cursed under his breath, using his hands and feet to float on the surface of the sea. Exhaustion was beginning to spread. His body, which had become weak from working long hours, was already limp after that outburst.

Feeling his limbs growing heavier, Rosso was utterly despondent: "I should eat the noodles..."

"How did I get here?" Rosso lay on his back in the sea, no longer struggling. "Will anyone come to rescue me?"

As I was pondering this, I suddenly felt a tearing sensation on my back, and then I disappeared from the surface of the sea.

In an instant, the world spun around him. "This is... a whirlpool?" Struggling to open his eyes, Rosso saw only a white, linear object extending from top to bottom, swirling around him—no, he was swirling around it. An unprecedented pressure surged from all directions, as if to tear him to pieces. The whirlpool seemed to be relentlessly pulling him towards the seabed. A feeling of suffocation and tearing filled his entire body. In a daze, Rosso felt as if he were plummeting into a dark, deep abyss at the bottom of the sea.

"Black holes are nothing special..."

Meanwhile, in the rented room, a similarly dark and deep hole appeared above Rosso's head. His body, lying on the bed, gradually twisted and compressed, spinning into the 'black hole,' which then collapsed into nothingness. Inside the room, the computer screen still emitted heat, and Egg and Sausage remained quietly on the desktop. Only Rosso's clothes lay flat on the bed, as if deliberately arranged to make it appear as if someone was lying there.

When he regained consciousness, Rosso was already floating in the smoke-filled city, in a semi-transparent state, his expression bewildered.

"Where am I?" Looking at the towering buildings before him, Rosso was surprised. "I'm not dead? Have I come back? But... this doesn't feel right!"

Not only the architectural style, but even the form of vehicles, are vastly different from those on Earth.

"This futuristic vibe... could I have time-traveled?" Looking down at the technologically advanced city through the semi-transparent instep, she was utterly shocked. "Or is it a true soul-travel? Well, the question is, at which stage did I die?"

As he pondered, Rosso became increasingly transparent, and a sudden sense of urgency welled up within him.

"This state doesn't seem like it can last?" Instinctively, Rosso drifted in one direction.

Blinding flashes of light erupted intermittently in the sky, accompanied by thunderous roars. Passing through a tall building, all that could be seen were ruins and rubble, burning everywhere, with cries and screams echoing beneath the rubble. Crimson and charred black marks littered the cratered streets.

All of this seemed less alluring to Rosso than the only remaining relatively intact building in the distance. The translucent Rosso's eyes were now fixed solely on that building. In the blink of an eye, Rosso floated into the building. Before the dilapidated structure lay rubble and broken earth; a sign leaning precariously in the open space still bore a few legible characters.

"Beyana..."

The heavy metal walls seemed to pose no obstacle to Rosso, and the various containers he passed, containing bodies that resembled young girls, failed to attract his attention. He simply continued moving deeper and further away until—before a container containing a humanoid body of indeterminate gender, emitting a bright light yet shrouded in darkness—only then did Rosso gradually come to his senses.

"Is this what's attracting me?" Reaching out to touch the body inside the container, the translucent Rosso disappeared into the container. Immediately afterwards, the shape and properties of the body inside the container began to change in the direction of Rosso.

Meanwhile, within the mysterious sea, a 'Rosso' identical to the outside world is constantly emerging as energy gathers, causing towering waves to rise on the surface of the sea, and whirlpools of all sizes to form, extending into the dark abyss.

Beyond the planet, twelve figures emanating various strange phenomena relentlessly attacked something. Laws and energy intertwined, unleashing attacks of all forms without regard for cost, blasting the center of the siege into a forbidden zone, as if nothing could survive such onslaught. Yet, even so, the twelve figures dared not cease their attacks, dodging and weaving, constantly forming a pincer movement, attempting to tear apart the golden-glowing figure in the center.

"You possess form and thought, yet you are still not satisfied, insisting on seeking illusory powers. It seems you should discard the physical bodies and minds that bind you, and return with me to the primordial light..."

The figure being besieged seemed unharmed, and with a few words, he decided the fate of the twelve figures. However, what responded to him was an increasingly intense frequency of attacks.

"Hayd, you're still creating artificial gods! You're playing with fire! The 'Water of Life' is not something we can control!"

"Jero, whatever you're hiding, it doesn't matter anymore. The outcome is the same anyway. Beyana was..."

"Terra is already in grave danger. Those who attempt to manipulate the power of 'God' will ultimately be devoured by that power."

"The 'immense power from the universe' that Napoleon spoke of has arrived. Everything will eventually return to the beginning!"

"That is both light and darkness... the abyss and chaos... returning to the great will... becoming eternal."

Fragmented memories surged like a tide, falling into Rosso's mental sea—the name of that mysterious sea that Rosso had only just learned.

"These are the memories etched into this body, Terra? Is this Terra?"

The sea of ​​the mind, swirling with fragmented memories, forms surging waves.

"Is there any Terran that's suitable for human habitation?"

Before he could figure out which Terran this was, a violent explosion instantly engulfed Rosso.

The great battle in the starry sky has long ended. The place that once belonged to Terra is now a void, and the many fragments shooting outward at high speed tell the story of the outcome of this battle.

The imposing being revealed itself, its aura no longer as powerful as before, seemingly injured. It scanned the twelve forces that had lost their physical bodies and returned to their origins, then fixed its gaze on the original location of Terra.

A figure rapidly coalesced in the starry sky at an abnormal speed; it was Rosso, who had vanished in the explosion.

"Infinite possibilities... light and dark energy... merge... replace... the future... help... the universe... external interference..." Before he could finish speaking, he disappeared from the spot.