Chapter 468 Echo

When the darkness in front of him dissipated, Chen Ke found himself standing on a cliff.

The dark green sky was surging with wind and clouds, but he could not feel a trace of wind. A small path meandered down to a small circular terrace in the distance. On the cliff behind the circular terrace, there was an apartment building.

He stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. He only saw the same surging green sea of ​​clouds as the sky.

There was no countdown in the corner of Chen Ke's eyes. Only the blue words "Deep Sleeping Land" remained.

The things he carried were still there, the holy diamond in his wallet, and the black stone in his heart were still in his hands.

He wanted to try whether his psychic power could still be used, so he wanted to summon the Moonlight Greatsword and the Black Gun.

His hands were empty, nothing.

He tried to condense the Ashes of Angele and the Soul Gun in his right hand, and even tried to kill and see the future, but all his power was declared invalid.

"Fuck..." Chen Ke cursed.

He walked down the path on the cliff, wanting to see the apartment building. From a distance, this apartment building looked a bit like the one he lived in before he crossed over.

When Chen Ke came to the circular terrace, he found a white-haired old man in a white suit sitting on a big rock, facing the cliff, as if he was looking at the scenery.

Chen Ke subconsciously thought of Colonel Friedman.

He became alert and slowed down his pace. He didn't know whether to quietly walk past him from behind, or just sneak up behind him and give him a throat lock or a push. After all, those who can come to such a place are not normal people.

"It's spectacular, isn't it?" the old man suddenly said. He turned around and didn't wear black-framed glasses.

"You don't seem surprised." Chen Ke was bending over at this time, as if he was going to touch the old man's back. As he spoke, he straightened up and put his hands in his pockets.

"This is your territory, not mine. You should be surprised." The old man said.

"Hehe... my territory... This is my first time here. You seem to be more familiar with this place than I am. Where is this?" Chen Ke asked.

"This is the frontier of dreams. Maybe you will know another name." The old man smiled.

"The Dream Center..." Chen Ke thought.

"I have been waiting, waiting for the owner here to appear, but I didn't expect to wait so long, but fortunately there is no concept of time here, and my old bones will not die here." The old man smiled and walked towards Chen Ke.

"Then who are you? The housekeeper here?" Chen Ke asked.

"Me? My name is not important, but I want to ask you first, have you been to the base reality?" The old man asked back.

"You also know the base reality? Are you from the Foundation?" Chen Ke was stunned.

"It's hard not to know, after all, I come from there. And... I am not a member of the Cradle of Humanity Project Foundation, but from the Human Connection Project Foundation." The old man laughed.

"Human Connection Project..." Chen Ke knew that this foundation was Lin Yayin's organization.

"It seems that you have been to the base reality. Tell me, how are they?" The old man asked.

"All dead, the last one summoned me... Wait, how do I know whether I should believe you?" Chen Ke said vigilantly.

"I will tell you everything you should know, and you certainly don't know as much as I do, young man." The old man laughed.

He turned around, facing the unpredictable wind and clouds outside the cliff, and said: "You should know your mission, right? They told you the current situation of mankind and their choice. And you are their gamble."

"That's right...they..." Chen Ke sighed.

"I know about the HCP Foundation's mechanical deity plan. They hope to restart the world and give mankind another chance." The old man nodded.

"Is there really a way to kill the gods?" Chen Ke asked.

"No." The old man answered very straightforwardly.

"That is to say..." Chen Ke hesitated.

"The Foundation tried 999 times, and luck was not on their side. You are their last chance. I have to say that they at least had good luck this time. When they launched their abilities, at least the person who gained the abilities was a young man. I originally expected the ending to be worse." The old man said.

"This is not fair to me." Chen Ke shook his head.

"So, that's why I'm sitting here waiting for you. Young man, besides restarting the world, there is another way to choose." The old man said.

"Another way..." Chen Ke was stunned.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to push the responsibility on you like they did." The old man said, he invited Chen Ke to sit on the stone on the edge of the cliff.

"In our reality, we didn't come into contact with gods until 2100. Human civilization is still too young. It's only been more than 5,000 years from slash-and-burn farming to the information age. So, when we first faced that power, unrestrained abuse and reckless demands were inevitable." The old man said.

"Then, what are those gods? What do they want to do?" Chen Ke asked.

"Who knows? They suddenly appeared there and used their great power to influence us. The purpose of the gods is simple and direct. They just want to give birth to their own offspring." The old man replied.

"Give birth? Just for this?" Chen Ke was a little unconvinced.

"Don't get me wrong, the way gods give birth is different from us mammals. Have you ever seen a clan?" asked the old man.

"I have killed two." Chen Ke replied.

"Well, very good, it seems that the Foundation has really hit the jackpot this time. You know and have experienced more than I expected. I should also have guessed how you killed the clan. You should have an Old One in your hand." The old man laughed.

"I have heard of this, the rulers, and the outsiders." Chen Ke said.

"You are right, the gods are divided into the Outer Gods and the Old Ones. They are all gods, but their manifestations and relationships with humans are completely different." The old man said.

"The Old Ones are gods that have existed on Earth for billions of years. They have played an important role in our mythology and history. They have a symbiotic relationship with humans and have achieved great achievements of great men. And the Outer Gods... are gods from outside the Earth. Their only purpose is to turn all humans into clans." The old man added.

"The Old Ones can't kill gods either?" Chen Ke asked.

"Gods can't kill gods either. The Foundation has been trying to find a way to kill gods, but we don't have much time. This is why they want to advance the time for humans to contact gods when they restart the world." The old man said.

"But it doesn't work." Chen Ke said.

"It's hard to get the timing right. If it's too late, there won't be enough time. If it's too early, people will be more easily corrupted. I have a negative attitude towards this plan." The old man shook his head.

"How to explain these... holy objects? At least in our place, this kind of thing is called a holy object." Chen Ke took out the holy diamond from his wallet and let the old man take a look.

"999 restarts have shaped 999 timelines, among which there are many heroes who use psychic power. You have to know that this is the dream of God, and dreams are also a kind of complex memory. When a world is restarted, the things held by those heroes will form an echo and float in the new world. What they have done will also form a unique space and float in the new world. Those are just the echoes of the past." The old man explained.

Chen Ke finally understood the origin of the holy diamond and the great void. It turned out that these things came from the timeline before the first 998 restarts.