Chapter 703: Chewing the Nausea-Inducing Delicacy

As a Legendary Investigator, you pacified the forbidden zone, eradicated anomalies, killed the anomaly god, and personally slaughtered countless Insect Disasters! With the help of another version of yourself, the Insect Disasters you killed could blanket the entire mother star! And you, under the direction of that other self, fought until death!

You achieved one of the perfect endings: waking from the dream.

And the other you unified your entire timeline and secured a satisfying perfect ending for yourself, but his journey has not yet ended.

Zhang Jie opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

What... a tremendous nightmare.

The surroundings were a familiar room, a familiar layout; Zhang Jie came to, realizing he was now on the Alliance's huge ship.

Fortunately, it's a simulation.

If it were really real, I'd probably go crazy on the spot.

Zhang Jie gave a wry smile; this time, clearly the species was correct, the simulated species was clearly human, yet what came out in the end was a monster with tentacles all over its face.

Truly lamentable.

The simulation results have been archived to reality; rewards are being calculated, please wait patiently.

Hint: this reward may have two determinations; please get ready.

Two times?

Zhang Jie frowned, feeling strange; could it be because he was split into observer and observed?

However, I seem to have no memory of being an observer; how strange.

Zhang Jie suddenly froze; no memory—could it be that the other party hasn't actually emerged from the simulation yet?

Thinking of this, Zhang Jie's pupils contracted; this situation is indeed somewhat... weird.

Almost three hours have passed.

Two simulation settlement rewards mean that the observer-self's memory will also return in the upcoming simulation settlement.

Enough already, why think so much—rest!

Zhang Jie stopped thinking further; the simulation world consumes the mind most—even if the body isn't fatigued, mental fatigue is real.

One of life's blessings is nothing more than waking from a nightmare and discovering it was just a dream.

Zhang Jie sighed, the him in the simulation is always like this—helpless, powerless.

He entered true dreamland, where there was nothing.

But... safety is joy.

"Tomorrow I still need to check the research institute's progress; I don't know how Professor Yuan's research is going."

Zhang Jie thought that, gradually entering dreamland.

And the story of a certain world continues.

The Insect Tide's attack has ended.

Black insect corpses were scattered everywhere, drifting, almost covering the entire star system membrane above Cloud Star.

A silhouette, pulled by the Evil God, slowly descended toward the mother star; its main body broke free from Cloud Star, carrying Zhang Jie's corpse, and landed above the mother star.

The first to sense the Evil God was Lei Na; the Evil God brought him, and it happened to land right above Lei Na's head.

Master!

How is he?

Lei Na stared at the Evil God's large eyeballs, her voice trembling as she asked, afraid to hear the answer she didn't want.

The Evil God glanced at her, tone unfluctuating, and said calmly.

Dead.

How could it...?

Lei Na suddenly looked around, trying to find something, while muttering something under her breath.

But the Evil God understood; she was looking for the man who holds all timelines.

No no no no no... there must... there must be a way...

She stood aside, shaking her head continuously, while the belated crowd finally realized what had happened.

No, they realized that what they had long anticipated had finally happened.

Zhang Yan, who usually loved joking with Zhang Jie, showed no loss of composure now; she simply silently held Zhang Jie's hand.

There are still various means in the Anomaly Bureau to resurrect humans.

There must be something... that can bring him back.

The older brother put on a brave front, comforting everyone, but the Evil God directly poured a basin of cold water.

Don't think about it; he's a Legendary Investigator, dead, and can't come back.

High-dimensional energy isn't as omnipotent as you imagine.

Alright, after seeing this, let's go; I only brought his corpse to let you see him one last time out of humanitarianism.

He still has a more important mission.

Hearing this, Lei Na and Zhang Yan could no longer maintain their composure; Zhang Jie is already dead—can't even bring back his corpse?

Enough!!! What more do you want!

He's already dead!

Zhang Shuo beside them said nothing, but his gripping wrist showed everything—he was about to throw a punch the next moment.

But the Evil God merely glanced at this rabble, said nothing, and a force field sprang into being, instantly throwing everyone back.

I don't want to fight you; he himself knows this—people can't be resurrected from death, so grieve and move on.

After the Evil God finished speaking, it carried Zhang Jie's corpse, turned and left, while the human community at this moment went into an uproar.

Although the Evil God's true form isn't as large as a planet, it's still not small; when it stops in the sky, it looks like an alien invasion—how could it not be visible?

"What's going on!"

"That Zhang Jie, really dead?"

Ignoring the people's discussion, the Evil God directly left, arriving in the mimicked territory.

"Master!!!"

"How could this..."

Qi Yu gazed at that familiar body, suddenly realizing what had happened, but her reaction was the same as everyone's; for a moment she thought there must be some way to salvage it.

But no matter how she tried to make amends, she could not hide the fact that she never got to say her last words to Zhang Jie.

"No... wrong! What are you doing! Stop!!!"

Qi Yu screamed, she suddenly felt her body being taken over, uncontrollably moving toward Zhang Jie.

"... Sorry."

The Mother Goddess continued apologizing to Qi Yu; this was already who-knows-how-many times she had apologized to the other party.

"No.. no no no no... not allowed!"

"Don't you dare move him!!!!"

Qi Yu struggled, but to no avail; the outcome of seeking skin from a tiger is just this.

"Crack...."

"The sound of chewing flesh and blood suddenly rang out!"

The bloody smell spread in her mouth, nauseating, but that flavor seemed to mix Qi Yu's despair together, making it a delicious yet sickening taste.

"Cough cough! Cough! No! Stop!!!"

The chewing sound rang out again; that blood's taste, Qi Yu was too familiar with it—she had drunk it for ten years...

That blood she regarded as a delicacy, at this moment actually became so... nauseating.

"Sorry... my child."

"This is the last time I will say sorry to you."