My Dream Connects to 3000 Years in the Future

Time flew by.

One day, two days, three days…

‘Five days have passed! A total of three doomsday timelines where humanity went extinct, one Human Empire Line, and one that jumped back to the Daqian Line.’

Sitting before the floor-to-ceiling window, Chu Bamboo gazed at the slowly rising sun, his eyes filled with contemplation.

Then, he glanced discreetly at the other person in the room—Lin Xia.

His muscles were trembling slightly.

‘Lin Xia has finished his accumulation and is preparing to break through to the First Realm in the next day or two… After all, breaking through the First Realm is incredibly easy! Back then, I broke through the moment I opened my eyes after falling into a nuclear reactor pool.’

“What is it?” Sensing something, Lin Xia’s eyes snapped open and he looked at Chu Bamboo, asking in confusion.

“…Focus!” Chu Bamboo said, his face expressionless. “Don’t act like you’re doing your Cultivation for me! It’s useless to go through the motions with me, you…”

“Alright, alright, I’m begging you, stop lecturing me, Teacher Chu!” Lin Xia’s eye twitched uncontrollably as he put his hands together in a pleading gesture. “I’m usually very focused! It’s just that today is a special situation… The virtual helmets are being released today, and there’s so much flaming online! How am I supposed to calm down?”

Ever since the Japanese region was announced for the initial launch, the flaming back home hadn’t stopped.

When Lin Xia saw that even Chu Bamboo was being flamed, he flew into a rage, grabbed his keyboard, and posted a shockingly classic hot take online: “The review process back home won’t pass it, what can Ah Zhu do about it? I think you’re all a bunch of fucking idiots! If you don’t like it, come start a flame war with me!”

And then, he successfully received the one-day-ban-across-all-platforms package deal!

And that was only because of his status and out of respect for Chu Bamboo…

If he were still a regular person like before, he would have gotten a permaban!

And so…

Lin Xia successfully managed to draw all the internet’s fire onto himself. Now, it was true that no one was flaming Chu Bamboo anymore…

Because they were all flaming Lin Xia!

Although some people started flaming the home country because of Lin Xia… flaming him was just something they did while they were at it.

“Forget it, I’m not cultivating anymore!” After fretting for a good while, Lin Xia finally pulled out his phone. He scrolled for a bit, and his anger flared.

Many students studying abroad in Japan were posting about how they’d successfully bought the virtual helmets and logged in, sending the info back to the domestic internet! This caused the tide of flaming, which had started to die down, to erupt all over again.

“Z! Assist my account! Send messages.” Lin Xia directly commanded Z. “…Report every account that’s flaming Ah Zhu! And while you’re at it, use my account to mercilessly mock all those accounts flaming Ah Zhu. Didn’t I already say it? If you’ve got the guts, flame me! They just don’t learn their lesson, do they… Of course, for the ones flaming me, you help me flame them back!”

Z: “…”

She looked like she wanted to say something but held back.

In reality, she knew that Chu Bamboo couldn’t care less about the people flaming him online… To put it bluntly, those people flaming Chu Bamboo also had Z on their phones! If she wanted to deal with them, it would be all too easy… It wouldn’t even be difficult for her to guide public opinion, to turn white into black and black into white.

It was just that Chu Bamboo had specifically emphasized that her Clone software should only do what a piece of software is supposed to do… which was why things were like this.

Sighing, Z began to cooperate with Lin Xia.

Chu Bamboo shot Lin Xia a speechless look, shook his head, and continued to gaze out the window.

In the real world, there wasn’t much to say about these past five days. Chu Bamboo simply spent each day chewing out the bigwigs at the major research institutes, while also allocating some Quantum Computer processing power to them, causing their research progress to continue its explosive growth…

As for the Dream World, that was mainly used for learning and trial-and-error—

—namely, using the method Guan Qianyu had mentioned, along with the Mysterious Divine Techniques, to interfere with the Extraterrestrial Civilization’s Prophet.

All he could say was that it was indeed useful. But controlling it was incredibly difficult!

‘In the first of the three doomsday timelines I entered… even the Hive Base was dug up!’ Chu Bamboo sorted through the information from the five world lines in his mind, shaking his head with a sigh of melancholy.

In the first world line, he had searched for a long time before he finally managed to find a cryogenic life support device that the enemy had missed. Through it, he found a member of the Time Club and obtained information.

Of course, it was this information that allowed him, in the second world line—though still a doomsday scenario—to maintain a clear channel for receiving past information upon his arrival in the future, even while under enemy attack.

And in the third world line, Chu Bamboo truly confirmed it—

The Mysterious Divine Techniques could indeed have a huge impact on the Prophet!

‘A pity!’ Chu Bamboo sighed again. ‘The Prophet is clearly a Divine Level entity, so my good friend, back when he was weak, couldn’t interfere even with this Divine Technique…’

‘I would have to wait until my good friend reached the point where he was about to head to Mars—that is, when he was Becoming a God. Only then, in that limited window of time, could he use God-level power to activate the Mysterious Divine Techniques and, to a certain extent, blind the Prophet’s observations at certain key nodes, allowing for large-scale plans to be set in motion.’

But, that was enough!

Chu Bamboo was lost in his memories.

Using this experience, he successfully steered the fourth world line back to a Human Empire Line, and in the fifth world line, he jumped back to the Daqian World Line.

However, regardless of which world line he was in, Chu Bamboo didn’t do much… This was true even when he returned to the Daqian World Line.

In these five lives, he had used all his time, all his resets, entirely on Cultivation.

“Still, my luck is pretty good!” A smile appeared on Chu Bamboo’s face. Perhaps it was because of the Antimatter Heart Engine, or perhaps because the essence of his life had already been elevated to the Fourth Realm, his Cultivation speed was incomparably faster than before.

Five days was all it took for him to reach the absolute Peak of the Third Realm in the Dream World.

‘But, a Divine Being Prophet!’

Chu Bamboo pressed his lips together, his brow gradually furrowing.

It was because of the ironclad rule that only a Divine Being can fight a Divine Being that even though he had a certain degree of control over the method to decide which path the future world lines would take… he couldn’t act recklessly right now! He couldn’t wantonly spread his influence in the main world… lest the future become completely locked into just a few timelines!

Not unless he truly achieved Becoming a God!

To be precise, only by becoming a Divine Being could he truly shape the entire world into any form he desired…

Because at that point, he would be a true ‘player’ who could stand at the chessboard and play against the Prophet and the others!

‘Right now, I’m ultimately just a… pawn? One that merely has the qualifications to become a player?’

‘Although, even back in my ‘pawn’ phase, I could always flip the board.’

Chu Bamboo’s expression was unreadable. He flipped his palm over, and a vibrant red vine appeared in his grasp.

“What are you doing?” The movement caught Lin Xia’s attention, and he looked at Chu Bamboo in confusion again.

“Nothing!” As soon as the words left his mouth, Chu Bamboo refined it without hesitation.

As if it were a matter of course, Chu Bamboo broke through to the Second Realm. A series of crisp cracks, like the sound of popping beans, emanated from his body.

Lin Xia: “!!!”