My Dream Connects to 3000 Years in the Future

Chu Bamboo stared blankly at the scene. For some reason, it reminded him of when the All-Powerful Lineage had caused the All-Knowing God to descend, plunging the entire world into darkness—

‘So it wasn’t just about plunging Jinghai City into darkness… it was about corrupting the entire world!’

This time, however, it didn’t seem to be the All-Powerful Lineage causing the All-Knowing and All-Powerful God to descend… Instead, they had directly detonated the All-Knowing God on Mars, then detonated Nuwa on Earth, along with whatever that thing on the other side of Earth was…

Soon, Earth was plunged into complete darkness.

“Human civilization of this epoch has been extinguished once again!” Huo Yuan sighed deeply, looking at the monitor. “East Asian human continuity device, Nuwa! Declared destroyed. European and American human continuity device, Celestial Net! Declared destroyed.”

Chu Bamboo pondered. ‘The other one was called Celestial Net? Is that the same one from the Golden Dawn? Or did they just happen to pick the same name?’

“…” After a moment of silence, Huo Yuan glanced cautiously at Chu Bamboo and added, “Z! Declared destroyed!”

Chu Bamboo’s heart skipped a beat. He looked up again at the pitch-black Mars and fell silent for a long, long time.

“So!” Huo Yuan said, cupping her chin. “Hmm… looking at it this way! Does that mean we’re the only human continuity device left?”

“We’ll just have to wait and see… Once the darkness recedes and the enemy’s attention is elsewhere… it’ll be our turn to go to Earth and restart human civilization! Ugh, it feels like we’re just throwing ourselves at them one by one.”

Chu Bamboo ignored Huo Yuan, his mind churning with thoughts. He looked gravely at Lin Xia. “So…”

“Yes. Your guess is probably right. The Emperor is almost certainly the mole,” Lin Xia said calmly.

“If you’ve known all this time, why didn’t you kill him?” Chu Bamboo’s brow furrowed deeper. “Besides, even if he really is a mole… he became the Emperor of the Human Empire! With that kind of power… why would he still take orders from an Outer Civilization?”

“Would it have done any good?” Lin Xia asked in return.

Chu Bamboo faltered.

“Without you, how many moles do you think there are in human civilization?” Lin Xia said with a faint, wry smile. “You have to understand one thing… over these past three thousand years, that Memory Divine Power Cultivator from the Outer Civilization has most likely been improving constantly!”

“We once tried killing a prince whom we were almost certain had been successfully corrupted by the Outer Civilization… I’m not talking about the current one! This was about seven hundred years ago.”

“The end result… was that his replacement was also suspected of being corrupted! And this new one’s disguise was exceptionally good…”

“Basically, after God lost the ability to oversee the Human Empire… any prince with a claim to the throne became a high-risk target! You can’t just kill them all… And don’t look so surprised; the Human Empire is a ritual, a necessary part of maintaining human continuity!”

Chu Bamboo fell silent, then sighed. “So in the end… you figured that rather than killing the Emperor, only to get an unfamiliar prince who was still highly likely to be corrupted, it was better to just leave him on the throne, since he was a mole whose cover was already blown?”

“Oh, not exactly,” Lin Xia said with a somewhat awkward smile. “Like I said… I’ve only synchronized my memories with this civilization once! So I don’t know what my other self was thinking… I can only say that it’s a possibility!”

After a brief silence, Chu Bamboo gritted his teeth and started pinching Lin Xia’s cheeks. He quickly figured it out, though. ‘Lin Xia went into the Grand Ancestral Temple to be imprisoned with Nuwa two or three hundred years ago… So trying to kill the Emperor was probably impossible for him, right? After all, trying to take down a Crown Prince with whatever contingency plans he’d left behind… would have been incredibly difficult!’

As Chu Bamboo continued to pinch his cheeks, he suddenly heard sobbing.

“…” Chu Bamboo paused. Following the sound, he saw the Big Orange Cat with her head buried in the sofa cushions, bawling her eyes out. His expression was conflicted. “She’s…!”

“Her mom just died. This is a normal reaction,” Lin Xia said matter-of-factly.

The Big Orange Cat’s head snapped up, her eyes bloodshot, and she swiped a paw toward Lin Xia.

“…That scared me!” The corner of Lin Xia’s eye twitched. He gently slapped the empty air, and frost instantly bloomed, as if time itself had come to a standstill.

“I—!”

“Alright, alright.” Chu Bamboo rushed forward, scooped up the Big Orange Cat, and started stroking her fur. “Your mom isn’t dead yet. There’s still a chance to save everything! Trust me…”

“R-really?” the Big Orange Cat asked, opening her eyes pitifully.

Lin Xia watched the scene with a helpless sigh.

Suddenly, the tone of Huo Yuan’s voice changed. “Something’s not right… Something is very not right!”

Lin Xia whipped his head around, his pupils contracting. Chu Bamboo looked up as well and saw a new light-screen that Huo Yuan had pulled up. On it was a figure that was completely pixelated.

The only thing was, this being had appeared in the Old Guanghan Palace Industrial District…

“…They’ve found us?!” Lin Xia’s face turned ugly. ‘This makes no sense. Besides the Cat of Destiny, you can count the number of visitors on one hand… just God and my original self. Without the exact coordinates, how could they possibly…’

And then…

A beam of black light suddenly erupted from Earth, shooting toward the Moon. It slammed down into the Guanghan Palace Industrial District!

It was a pale-faced man with pitch-black pupils, his expression utterly devoid of emotion.

“I knew it!” Huo Yuan facepalmed.

Lin Xia was rendered completely speechless. Because this man… looked exactly like him!

A corrupted Lin Xia!

Lin Xia instantly whipped his head toward Chu Bamboo and snarled through gritted teeth, “Go back to the real world! Now! Or it’ll be too late! No matter what happens, you can still make changes from there… but if you actually die in here…!”

Chu Bamboo froze for a second, then he realized something. ‘Lin Xia probably doesn’t know… that my real ability is to reset things after I die!’

‘I see…’

‘His explanation to Lin Xia had been that he could travel to the future in his dreams, obtain information, and then use it to constantly make changes in the real world. Even if the world was destroyed in that future, he could alter reality back to a state before its destruction…’

‘Plausible!’

Chu Bamboo even let out a sigh of relief, because he realized that if the Memory had known, then the corrupted Lin Xia here now would have definitely known, too.

“…Don’t worry.” A gentle smile spread across Chu Bamboo’s face. “Everything is under control!”

“…Under control my ass!!!” Lin Xia’s eyes were bloodshot. He roared in utter despair, “You don’t think you entered the Memory Domain with your physical body, do you? Your body is still out there! He’s got us trapped! If you don’t reset now and that thing finds your body, it’ll be too la—”

Before he could even finish his sentence, the world froze in that instant.

Then, time began to reverse!