Chapter 1422: Chapter 1252: Another Possibility (2)

"..."

Logically, there’s nothing wrong... but isn’t there a crucial part you haven’t mentioned? Why do you want me to help you chase him?

"Because he represents another possibility!"

As the old ox looked startled, Fredri 2, who was probing its thoughts, pursed her lips and said:

"Ah Huang, the part of you that made you an escapee originates from me, so your thoughts are almost transparent to me. But you actually know little about me, I... never mind, see for yourself!"

As Fredri 2 spoke, the old ox felt its head swell slightly, the roots from the spiritual realm within it activated, and a massive amount of memories were forcibly infused into its mind.

Origin remnants... ultimate mission... artificial origin races... a No. 1 unlike anyone else... ritual piercing through time... the only ’finished product’ that met the standard... an endlessly long companionship... destined to lose half of the choice... be No. 1 or be Fredri?

"..."

So... it wasn’t that Fu’s body was taken by someone else, but she was forced back to the distant past, living another endlessly long life?

"That’s about it..."

Looking at the completely stunned old ox, Fredri 2 sighed softly and then began to speak:

"I have no intention of justifying myself. After all, what’s done is done. The current me is the common enemy of all beings across all timelines, and the reason I tell you this is in hopes that you can trust me and take me to find that man named Leon.

Although he doesn’t belong to the world you came from, he isn’t an escapee either. I haven’t found his ’origin’ on any timeline. He seems to have appeared out of nowhere and suddenly filled every possibly existing timeline. This is important!"

"Moo moo moo? (What can Leon possibly do? Why did you let him go earlier, and now suddenly want to find him?)"

"You take me to find him first. If he leaves for too long, I’m afraid even you might not be able to find him. Let’s get going, and I’ll explain to you slowly on the way, okay?"

"..."

"Ah Huang! Trust me! I’ve never lied to you!"

You don’t directly lie, but that’s because there’s no need; you can mislead me without lying... but never mind...

Looking at the sincere face of Fredri 2 in front of him, remembering his memories from his time as a calf and the complex emotions in her eyes when she sent him to Ring Time Mountain, the old ox finally nodded and lowered his head towards Fredri 2.

"Moo! (Get on!)"

Phew... it worked!

Seeing the old ox kneeling down in the chaotic flow of time, letting her sit on it, Fredri 2 couldn’t help but let out a long breath, responded, and climbed onto the ox’s back.

Then, the old ox, like a big yellow dog of the wrong species, lowered its head and sniffed around, ultimately following the guidance of a small fragment of Leon’s soul, finding the time turbulence with a similar aura, and tread into it slowly.

And just like a long time ago, Fredri 2 sat side-saddle on its back, assisting in widening the corridor while explaining as promised:

"Ah Huang, although my people cannot ’understand’ the existence of time, they are not unaware of being torn apart by time, with the entire race heading towards termination. So a lot of preparation was made accordingly.

The ultimate mission that I and thirteen others represented was not the only response. It was just considered the most feasible among them, and the most accepted idea at the time was to reincarnate as another race if they couldn’t survive the time calamity themselves.

Like humans cannot survive in the ocean, yet creatures ’lower’ than humans like fish can, everyone can transcend time but are harmed by it, whereas species far less powerful, like humans, are not spiritually annihilated by temporal divisions.

So, if they scattered the will of everyone in advance and reincarnated into fourteen selected and manufactured races that could survive the time calamity, it would be equivalent to everyone surviving."

The old ox was curious upon hearing:

"Moo moo? (Doesn’t that sound good? Why didn’t they do it later?)"

"Because everyone thought that although they might survive, the final survivor would no longer be themselves."

After recalling with eyes closed for a moment, Fredri 2 sighed and said:

"Think about the origin remnants. Although they possess the former power and are no longer harmed by temporal divisions, they are also no longer themselves.

While everyone retains some habits, No. 2 still enjoys all kinds of interesting things, and No. 4 remains always serious. It feels like they are still them, but at the same time, they’ve become two different people from their original selves.

Moreover, while there are many races that are not affected by time or are less affected, not many can bear the massive will of one member and complete reincarnation from the ’origin’, only saving a small portion of the people... never mind, let’s not talk about that."

After slightly shaking her head, feeling another world appearing before her, Fredri 2 sighed:

"The reason I brought this up is mainly to talk about the person who proposed this method... She was the smartest among all people, single-handedly proposing over a dozen plans to survive the time calamity.

Although the ultimate mission finally adopted was not her proposal, it was based on her reincarnation theory that the other 13 members transcending time came to be, and the technology to simultaneously send countless copies of me back to the distant past also came from her artificial origin race project.

Without her, there would not only be no ultimate mission, countless versions of me wouldn’t have been simultaneously brought back to the distant past to become one among them, and the current situation wouldn’t have arisen..."

Hearing this, the old ox was stunned, then said with some sense of "shared resentment":

"Moo?! (So is she your enemy?!)"

"No, she’s my friend."

"???"

Seeing the puzzled gaze of the old ox, Fredri 2 shook her head slightly, looking a bit wistful as she said:

"She could even be said to be my best friend, the first to come and persuade me to abandon the ultimate mission, not to do these things in the future. She even went and destroyed a lot of reincarnation rituals, trying to stop me from going back to the future, but didn’t succeed in the end, caught by others.

By the time more and more people slowly agreed with me and started regretting letting me execute the ultimate mission, it was too late to stop the rituals, and because of her destruction of the rituals and injuring many people, they locked her up, preventing her from finishing her final research."

"Moo moo? (Research? What research?)"

"Research to find someone who doesn’t belong to this world, and use that to completely break ’destiny’."

"Moo?"

"Simply put, time itself, though fragile, is terrifyingly resilient, absolutely unalterable."

With a complex expression, Fredri 2 explained:

"When I was born as Fredri, I had already appeared as No. 1 in the distant past. No matter how I try to influence everything now, I will only become part of this time loop.

This means that at the moment of my birth, the event of Fredri becoming No. 1 was destined to happen and already had, something undeniably unchangeable, which she referred to as destiny.

She was herself born from the origin of destiny, even named Destiny, so she understood the rules of destiny extremely well and was the first to see everyone’s path towards extinction, striving to break it all.

According to her hypothesis, if you can find someone who doesn’t exist in any world, whose destiny hasn’t been intertwined with anyone else’s, and throw him into an already completed destiny, it equals applying external force to fixed destiny, potentially allowing for an ’alternate’ ending."

"Moo?!!! (That person you’re talking about?!!!)"

"Hmm..."

Confirming the old ox’s thought, Fredri 2 bit her lower lip, nervously saying:

"I suspect she actually succeeded in her research, and Leon is the ’external force’ she found!"