Chapter 160: Failed, but not completely failed! (Fourth update, please subscribe!)

"Hum!"

Not far away, in a transparent device the size of a soda can, looking like an oil lamp, the originally golden light source had turned purple.

This was the time pruning resetter that had already been activated when the time guards appeared.

Golden turning to purple meant that pruning and resetting had begun.

With the time pruning resetter as the center, an invisible energy spread rapidly in all directions.

The originally bare brown land turned into a strange, colorful color after touching this energy.

Immediately after, the time guards and the people of the survivor team disappeared one after another.

In the blink of an eye, this energy had reached Su Quan.

Su Quan didn't have any actions, waiting quietly for this energy to rush toward him.

"Boom!"

Su Quan suffered a strong impact.

In a trance, he had a sense of confusion of space-time intersection.

It was as if he was jumping back and forth in the middle of two spaces.

No.

To be precise, it should be that he was being pulled!

He could faintly feel two forces pulling him.

One wanted to drag him away, and one wanted to keep him in place.

For a time, the two forces wrestling with each other were evenly matched.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, Su Quan felt the world spin, and then his body shook violently—the pulling sensation disappeared?!

Steadying his mind, he found that he was standing in place.

The black baton and time controller beside him were still there, and Thanos, who was kneeling in the distance, was also still there.

But the time guards and the survivor team who had been pruned earlier didn't exist in any form.

They didn't return from the void, nor did another 'them' appear.

"This is—the time pruning resetter failed, but not completely failed?"

Pruning and resetting are two concepts.

The essence of pruning is equivalent to teleportation, teleporting from other locations to the void, affecting the present and the future.

Even if Su Quan has the ability to negate time, the past is constant and cannot be changed.

But his present and future are not constant, so pruning is equally effective for him.

Resetting is more like reloading a save to play again.

Delete the current progress, jump back to the progress of an earlier time, and start over.

But involving Su Quan, this kind of reloading is not allowed.

So pruning succeeded, and the current process was deleted.

But also because of Su Quan, after the current process was deleted, the earlier process could not be imported, and it could not start over.

So—resetting failed.

Pruning and resetting are complementary and indispensable.

This result of failing but not completely failing led to the fact that although the timeline wasn't reset, the time guards and the survivor team were successfully pruned into the void.

As for why he wasn't pruned?

It should be related to the mechanism of the resetter.

Throwing the equipment that originally belonged to the time guards into the Mirror Dimension, Su Quan teleported to the void.

Half an hour later.

Su Quan brought the survivor team and the time guards, who had different expressions, out of the golden rectangular portal.

The expressions on their faces were very wonderful; some were angry and shocked, some were confused and dull.

In just half an hour, the worldviews and beliefs they had firmly believed in for a long time were shattered.

The few people in the survivor team knew for the first time that their place wasn't the only world.

It was also the first time they knew there was an organization like the Time Variance Authority and a place like the void.

It was even the first time they knew their world was an apocalyptic timeline destined to be destroyed.

The time guards were the same, even more shocked and harder to accept than them.

They thought the result of being pruned was definitely certain death.

They never expected that the target time criminal this time had actually conquered the void and become the Lord of the Void.

Those time criminals who had been judged and pruned not only survived here, but also lived very securely and very comfortably.

That was that; after all, nobody knew the situation inside the void.