Chapter 723

New York, a morning as ordinary as any other. The city center was bustling with traffic, while the suburban town closer to the outskirts remained quiet and peaceful. Any major events occurring in this universe had nothing to do with the people living their mundane lives on Earth.

The "ding-a-ling" of an alarm clock sounded. A hand pressed down on it, and as it slid off, it knocked the small metal clock onto the floor. The person in the dream sighed and woke up.

Having slept for a full nine hours, Schiller did not feel the refreshment and joy of a good night's sleep; his face was full of exhaustion.

Letting his tenants out was simple enough. After all, the most energy-consuming part was Charles drilling holes into every dream. But getting all the tenants back was quite difficult.

Every character in the dreams was Schiller, and every Schiller had one trait: they loved to watch the world burn.

Having the chance to travel to various single-body universes was a rare opportunity, and many were unwilling to board the return bus on time, forcing the other Schillers to hunt them down one by one.

After finding them, he had to send them to their corresponding rooms and lock the doors and windows before they could run out again. The Superego and Ego had been busy all night before finally getting all the Schillers back.

Even though the Marvel Schiller was only responsible for driving the bus—that is, using the Ship of the Underworld to send all the personality traits back—he was exhausted. And when he realized the state of this universe from the memories of the other personalities, he was quite surprised.

It was never Schiller's intention to have OAA kick the entire multiverse out of the Marvel main comic book world.

Logically speaking, maintaining the smooth operation of the entire world is the responsibility of the Supreme Being.

Using a reset is indeed simple and fast, and it can solve problems at the root. By interfering with the world line after the reset, many bugs that might have occurred simply cease to exist.

But that is from the perspective of an administrator. If you stand from the perspective of a game character, it sounds more like a horror story similar to *Triangle*.

It's like playing a game, putting in a lot of effort, drinking many health potions, and finally killing a powerful monster. The legendary loot is right before your eyes; you only need to take two more steps to pick it up.

But at this moment, the game administrator says the server has a bug and everything must be reset to before the monster was fought. Although the health potions and equipment spent will be returned, the time and energy invested cannot be returned.

Of course, for the character in the game, all states are reset. They won't know they killed the monster several times, nor will they feel anger or sadness for it. But those who can jump out of this cycle will not let their anger subside so easily.

Fundamentally, a program having a bug is not the responsibility of the characters or the players. Even if a character walks into a tavern, orders a fried rice, and then the program crashes, it can only be said that the official developers did not test it thoroughly enough.

Since the developer made this game and set up an administrator with high authority, the administrator has the responsibility to perfect the entire program. If a bug unfortunately appears, performing a rollback, fixing it, and providing compensation is what should be done.

However, what OAA did—the act of rolling back the single-body universe—was equivalent to shutting down the server for a rollback after a bug appeared, without providing any compensation.

With most lives in this universe unaware of the rollback, such behavior inevitably looks like deceiving the world.

Game characters don't deserve to be reset, and preventing the universe from being destroyed is not a valid excuse for rolling back without compensation.

Ordinary people who don't know about this are like characters in a game; they can't see the administrator and don't know of their existence.

However, beings like Schiller, Stark, and Strange have already learned the truth of the universe, making them equivalent to players who are in the same three-dimensional space as the administrator.

Characters in the game don't know about the administrator, so even if the administrator gives no compensation, they can do nothing. But players cannot sit idly by.

Time and energy were spent, materials were painstakingly farmed, and in the blink of an eye, they were gone. Not only did the official not provide compensation, but they didn't even offer an apology.

They even posted a thread saying that players who found the bug were making trouble and trying to destroy the universe, and even had the audacity to say, "You are destroying this game," claiming that the rollback was merely saving the universe—an act of mercy and salvation.

Any game that can survive three months like this is a miracle.

Therefore, Schiller's original intention was just to get some maintenance compensation.

His requirements for compensation weren't high. After all, OAA fixed the bug quickly, without even shutting down the server, so he couldn't ask for too much.

A wave of energy compensation would be fine. If they added some technology and blueprints, he'd forget everything. If they could give a few resource planets, Schiller would unilaterally declare that OAA is the eternal god of the Supreme Being realm.

Schiller's attitude toward the reset was: either don't reset, or if you do, give compensation. Shutting down for maintenance is fine, but give compensation. Fixing bugs, perfecting the system, and protecting the game world is fine, but give compensation. If there's no compensation, who else would he target if not them?

But he didn't know if his actions to demand compensation were too big, or if he had sprayed too hard, or if OAA had simply misunderstood his intent. The Supreme Being directly kicked the entire multiverse out of the Marvel main comic book world.

Outside the Marvel main universe, there are many additional universes, such as crossover universes, legal dispute universes, universes still in cooperation talks, etc. These universes are not in the Marvel main universe, but they also belong to Marvel, somewhat like pendants attached to the Marvel universe.

If the main universe is described as a circular cover containing infinite nesting dolls, then these additional universes are actually pendants hanging on that cover.

And now, the entire multiverse where Schiller resides has been hung by OAA onto the cover outside the main universe, becoming part of the spin-off universes.

This also fits the consistent public relations strategy. The best PR method in the world, besides playing dead, is cutting ties.

We have issued severe criticism and pursued compensation against the relevant infringing personnel; the individual behavior of employees does not implicate the company; temporary staff training was inadequate; we express deep regret but bear no legal responsibility for this matter...

In short, there are countless ways to shift blame. Cutting ties with any object that might cause legal disputes is also common practice. When asked, everything has nothing to do with the main creative team; it was all caused by subordinates not doing things strictly. This method is common everywhere, ancient and modern, domestic and foreign.

Schiller didn't expect OAA to be so decisive, but even more bewildered were the Five Cosmic Entities of this multiverse.

Every multiverse has Five Cosmic Entities, and the Five Cosmic Entities of Schiller's multiverse woke up to find they had been optimized.

As the foundation of the universe, resignation was impossible. They had simply been promoted from programmers at the company headquarters to gatekeepers in the countryside. During the process of OAA throwing the entire universe out, Eternity had the unprecedented thought of wanting to resign.

But Eternity is the universe, and the universe is Eternity; this is a lifetime position. Resignation is impossible. Moreover, as long as this universe remains Marvel-themed, Eternity is still under the jurisdiction of the Living Tribunal. That is to say, once the Living Tribunal holds a meeting, he still has to attend.

Originally, when the Living Tribunal held a meeting, Eternity only needed to send a portion of his power to listen. But now, the Five Cosmic Entities, including Eternity, have to travel across the barrier of the entire Great World if they want to go to work and successfully clock in.

If there is fault in this matter, OAA failed to carefully check the system leading to the bug and reset without compensation; Schiller targeted the official too hard for compensation, leading to the other party cutting ties directly. Then the most innocent one might be Eternity.

The company boss isn't him, project arrangements aren't up to him, and the compensation decision wasn't made by him. He was just a programmer working for a salary. As a result, he woke up to find his workplace moved from the city center to the suburbs. As a "native" of the Marvel universe, just going to work normally requires crossing mountains and seas. Who did he offend?

The Five Cosmic Entities all have personalities. Eternity couldn't help but be angry, but he couldn't vent his anger at his boss.

He didn't want to provoke Schiller again either. If this madman released infinite personalities again and turned the universe into a mess, and OAA came for another round of cutting ties, his workplace would have to move even further away.

Moreover, Eternity was very confused about this matter. He didn't know why Schiller went crazy. To find out why he suffered such an undeserved disaster, Eternity began to investigate from the root along the timeline.

As time regressed, the context of the matter appeared before his eyes.

Schiller went crazy because OAA reset his universe. OAA reset his universe because Schiller's actions caused the world to have bugs.

And Schiller had these behaviors because he wanted to go to the realm of Death, and he wanted to go to the realm of Death because he wanted to build a Valhalla.

And the reason he wanted to build a Valhalla was that he saw Death cooperating with both the Asgardian and Egyptian pantheons.

Wait, Death cooperating with both the Asgardian and Egyptian pantheons?

When investigating this, Eternity couldn't help but be suspicious. How could Death cooperate with these two organizations?

As gods managing the order of the universe, they do have some believers, such as Captain Universe Spider-Man and the Ancient One, who are Eternity's agents.

However, there are clear regulations on how to exercise their power. These agents work for Eternity, and Eternity gives them power as a salary. These are all compliant.

But for Death to deliberately refuse the death of some creatures in order to gain more death, allowing the leaders of these creatures to use them to create more death, is in itself an act of padding one's performance.

It's like deliberately letting some criminals go to create more crimes in order to meet a quota, and then taking them down after their actions become more heinous, their crimes more severe, and their reputation greater, just to pad one's resume.

So, everything was because Death was padding her performance???

Eternity's mood now was: I once feared people, but they never hurt me; I don't fear ghosts, but the internal traitor left me covered in wounds.

No need to say more. All padded performance was wiped out, and all illegally operated Valhallas were banned. Eternity sent a message to Death, the gist of which was: "If there is any similar behavior again, I will report it to the big boss."

Just like that, everything Death had painstakingly laid out in the universe for millions of years, allowing cosmic creatures to resurrect on their own, disappeared overnight, naturally including the Valhallas of Asgard, the Underworld of the Egyptian pantheon, and other similar worlds.

The first new possibility developed by this universe was that Death suffered a disaster.