Chapter 1688: Chapter 662: I Have No Home Anymore, Time Has Buried Everything_3

Compared to the past, the natural landscape here has hardly changed.

The rock that once bruised his backside is still there.

The tree, fully grown with blue moss, which he used to rest against, also stands tall.

The stream that once saved half of his life still burbles along.

The only difference is himself, and those abandoned, malfunctioning Frozen Storage chambers are gone.

The metal parts from them were gnawed and digested by the Ruined Beast, and some remaining non-metallic materials have been collected. This was something he did with his own hands.

Ren Zhong returned to where his Frozen Storage chamber once stood, then lifted his right hand to activate the Wrist watch.

A vivid three-dimensional projection appeared before him.

In the projection, Sun Ai used simulation algorithms to convert flat content into three-dimensional visual recordings.

This footage was precisely the recording stored in his Frozen Storage chamber.

At that time, when he left, he took the auxiliary brain center of the Frozen Storage chamber and saved this recording. Now, this is Ren Zhong’s last link with his past self.

Seeing his parents’ likenesses and smiles, Ren Zhong was momentarily lost in trance.

He slowly raised his hand, reached out, trying to touch his mother’s hand, but his hand grasped air.

Ren Zhong startledly came back to reality, realizing it was just a virtual image.

Though he appeared composed and decisive in front of others, in this moment of solitude, he could finally let his emotions flow recklessly.

He murmured to himself, "I can’t believe billions of years have passed. The Milky Way should have long gone like the Vortex Triple Star System, disappearing and resurging, yet everything has changed. No surprises can occur anymore. No wonder I have aimed the astronomical telescope at the Laniakea Supercluster for so long without finding anything. With my current data analysis capabilities and information observation precision, if the Milky Way were still there, I should have seen it by now."

"I no longer have a home."

"Time buries everything."

In the distance, the virtual sun projected on the Space Membrane was setting, as if a real sunset.

Ren Zhong’s shadow elongated.

At this very moment, he felt the strong "sense of solitude" the City Lord of Nameless City described, so intense it almost engulfed him.

Time passed again, and Ren Zhong eventually managed to gather his emotions calmly.

Questions lingered in his mind.

The humans in the Ancient Disk Galaxy still manipulated each other under the control of an unknown enemy, struggling and suffering, living tragic fates.

Ren Zhong knew he couldn’t collapse yet, he had to hold on.

Even if he no longer had a home in reality, at least the memories in his heart remained, and his beliefs persisted.

"At least, I still have this recording."

Ren Zhong called up the video of his parents’ last words again, now with less melancholy and more sense of responsibility.

He thought inwardly, if mom and dad, and my brother whom I never met knew I am still striving for humanity’s rise even after these billions of years, they would certainly be proud of me.

Perhaps, one day, when our technology advances further, when we truly master the Grand Unification Formula, when our God’s Particle reaches the godly level, could I then reverse time, or see human Souls, and possibly, the world of Souls after death?

Could I meet them in the afterlife?

Wait, the recording...

If billions of years have passed, why does the data on such fundamental semiconductor carriers still persist?

Why are Fourth Level Microscopic Particles with real lifespans of only 4.6 billion years still found in the soil of this dense forest?

At that moment, a flash of inspiration struck Ren Zhong’s mind.

A bold idea suddenly emerged in his heart.

...

"I want to return to Source Star. More precisely, I want to return to the place Source Star used to be. I will go back alone. You are responsible for staying here."

In the top-secret conference room, Ren Zhong said this to Ju Qingmeng, Ma Xiaoling, Yujin, Hu Yang, and other core management members.

Of course, Ren Zhong didn’t finish his statement.

More accurately, he meant returning to the moment he awakened on Source Star, to the absolute precise coordinates of that dense forest in the Three-dimensional Universe space.

He guessed there that there was a patch of Absolute Stationary Subspace.

This was both his intuition and a bold judgment based on the knowledge he grasped.

Of course, even if he truly returned and found that patch of Absolute Stationary Subspace, he might not be able to unravel all the mysteries right away.

For example, his Frozen Storage chamber, being transported from Earth to here, had to cross a distance of over 10 billion light-years, which must have required a long time. The 21st-century-level data preservation technology should have failed by then.

But overall, if doubt arises in the heart yet isn’t pondered over, it’s destined to yield nothing.

Only those who press forward relentlessly can traverse mountains and rivers.

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