[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arrival-in-1994":3,"chapter-arrival-in-1994-arrival-in-1994-chapter-606":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arrival in 1994",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2353087,4601,"Chapter 606: Agree to One More Condition","arrival-in-1994-chapter-606",606,"\u003Cp>\"It seems you're not surprised by my arrival.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beth gently plucked a string on her harp, releasing her control over Ye Nan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's simple—I want to know how my consciousness was destroyed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your consciousness?\" Ye Nan’s face twisted into a strange smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He naturally remembered that he had shattered Beth’s consciousness with the Cosmic Crusher; now that she was asking him, he felt an urge to laugh out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew this wasn’t the time to laugh, so he forcibly suppressed his smile—resulting in this eerie expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have no idea what happened to your consciousness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before my consciousness lost contact with me, it was in the same place as Harris and you—how could you not know?\" Beth’s face hardened into a cold sneer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, she had always behaved well and never displayed such a malevolent smile—but this time, she had lost a fragment of her consciousness projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her own world, the destruction of a consciousness projection would be like a slap to the face, but it wouldn’t provoke such fury; yet this was the Milky Way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Milky Way was the representative of technological power, possessing unparalleled suppression capabilities. She had paid countless costs just to send a few projections here, and that Beth was the first one to be annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find out exactly how her projection was destroyed, Beth personally activated this projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, Beth’s figure grew taller—her silver-white tousled hair, pupils, slender body, runes, and the radiant light spurting from the ground all confirmed who she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Orochi?\" Ye Nan’s heart jolted, his expression darkening instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orochi—the embodiment of Gaia, the Earth’s consciousness—the very being he had forgotten—had appeared. And now, as Beth’s projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s right. I am Orochi.\" Beth gave a light laugh, then returned to her original form. \"Long ago, I deliberately infiltrated and interfered with the training worlds of other chosen ones, and you were one of the most interesting people I encountered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it was you,\" Ye Nan’s face lit up with sudden understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always felt something was off—because Orochi’s appearance had been inappropriate. After he learned his own identity, his confusion deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a chosen one, experiencing only sci-fi films, yet Orochi clearly didn’t belong in any sci-fi world. This question had always been buried deep within him, surfacing only occasionally for fleeting thought. Now, with Beth revealing the truth, his hidden suspicions naturally rose to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So you’re Orochi. No wonder the Milky Way, which should have been filled entirely with sci-fi films, contained impossible magical forces. Beth, how many projections do you have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many projections I have? I won’t tell you. But if you tell me how my consciousness projection was destroyed, I might consider revealing all my projections in this Milky Way. After all, you’re already at the final stage—keeping secrets serves no purpose now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the final stage?\" Ye Nan pondered the phrase, instantly understanding what she meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of the Cosmic Emperor meant all storylines were destined to end—no matter how many film plots the chosen ones had completed or how many benefits they had gained, every film plot would be disrupted and forcibly terminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the birth of the Milky Way Empire, whose emergence signaled that all storylines were now heading into chaos. Ye Nan could still encounter Luke only because the Milky Way Empire had just been consolidated and hadn’t yet interfered with the plots—but over time, every storyline would eventually be corrupted, collapsing into utter disorder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, whether Beth concealed herself or not was meaningless. Her only goal now was to use intelligence gathered by her projection fragments to continuously simulate possible enemy strengths and devise countermeasures—that was her true purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force that had quietly and completely erased her projection’s consciousness was precisely the information she sought. Thus, betraying her hidden projections was not too great a sacrifice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding this, Ye Nan naturally began to haggle over the information he held—even though it directly pointed to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What can you offer me?\" Ye Nan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My secrets,\" Beth replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not interested in your secrets,\" Ye Nan shook his head. \"Even knowing who your projections are brings me no benefit, does it? I never trade my most valuable information for mere curiosity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what do you want to know?\" Beth, realizing her secrets couldn’t pry open his mouth, immediately urged him to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About the Cosmic Emperor,\" Ye Nan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know,\" Beth refused outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t be so definitive,\" Ye Nan smiled faintly. \"Don’t be so absolute. For you, information about the Cosmic Emperor isn’t that important, is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should know the Milky Way has reached its endpoint—all storylines will end. A new Sci-Fi Master will be born here. Whether it’s me, Harris, or anyone else, none of us matter to you. Why refuse me over a piece of outdated information?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should also know how terrifying it is to have your connection to your consciousness severed completely, stripping you of power over that moment, don’t you?\" Ye Nan said with full confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, no force could stop the Milky Way’s film storylines from ending. A new Sci-Fi Master was about to be born—only the identity of that new master remained uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the identity of the new Sci-Fi Master meant nothing to Beth. She was merely an outsider. Even if she held the secret to defeating the Cosmic Emperor, that secret clearly brought her no direct benefit—and it would soon become entirely useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better to trade it for information advantageous to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beth fell into deep thought. The force that could erase her consciousness and obliterate her memories was crucial to her—but trading her secret for it felt deeply unsatisfying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Agree to one more condition, and I’ll tell you the secret.\" (To be continued.)\u003C\u002Fp>",968,"2026-06-21T03:32:52.969Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","df4c427d09037905bdc4a5e333624b4ea919893f1e1c2b54f081d87cc0dcc593","arrival-in-1994-chapter-607","arrival-in-1994-chapter-605",643,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farrival-in-1994-cover.jpg"]