Chapter 36 The Reverse Ouroboros and the Lord Who Reverses the Current
Meanwhile, during these thirteen years, Bai Zhe also sensed a new world. With the successful completion of the conquest of the Star Beast Jungle World, Bai Zhe began to dissect the information dissipating from this new world little by little.
"What the hell is this thing?"
The plane of this world was completely different from any world he had ever seen before.
This world has an extremely unique dimensional structure; it is a world where the flow of time is completely reversed.
If time flows from the past to the future in a normal universe, then in this world, time flows from the future to the past.
If a recording of a normal universe were played in reverse, the result would be the "normal world" as seen by the inhabitants of this world.
The residents here also live life in reverse.
A person's life in this world begins with awakening from the grave, which is death in the common sense. Then their body will gradually recover its health, going through adulthood, youth, adolescence, and childhood, and finally disappearing completely from this world at the moment of birth, or returning to the mother's womb in the future.
And their memories, too, gradually fade as time goes by, as they forget their past.
What has already happened in the normal universe will gradually become blurred in the eyes of the inhabitants of this world, while future events that have not yet happened in the normal universe will become increasingly clear in the eyes of the inhabitants of this world.
The ruling class of this world is known as the "Reverse Lords".
They are a special group of beings favored by the "Reverse Ouroboros" and the "Mysterious Corridor," people who are eternally yet to arrive, gradually awakening from the reversal of time (they are forever in what normal people see as the "past," which is the "future" of this world).
The Lord of Reversal holds the deep secrets of time, capable of manipulating its flow and even altering the origins of events.
They are the only people in the world who can see into the past and the future and can manipulate the timeline.
The ordinary inhabitants of this world are limited by the reversal of time and can only live according to the law of "life flowing backward".
They cannot control their own destiny and can only passively accept the arrangement of time flowing backward.
The civilization of this world is referred to by the Lord of Reversal as "the civilization of time reversal and oblivion".
The development of the entire civilization depends on the reverse flow of time.
The buildings and technological structures of the residents also follow the principle of time reversal.
Those old, damaged items will gradually be repaired and eventually restored to a brand-new state.
The formation of language and culture is also a process from "speech" to "unspeech".
People first learn complex ways of expression, then gradually degenerate to simple words, and finally return to the most primitive, unspeakable state.
The technology in this world is not progressing, but gradually disappearing.
Those once-advanced technologies will be forgotten over time and eventually disappear from the world completely.
Naturally, art and knowledge are also forgotten as time flows backward.
Those once glorious and brilliant achievements of civilization will eventually become blurred and indistinct, until they vanish into nothingness and disappear without a trace.
Lord of the Reverse Current is one of the few people in this world who can understand and utilize "future" technology.
They transmit information from the "future" world in a special way, influencing the changes in the entire world.
They use these "future" technologies to maintain their rule, while also sustaining and even accelerating the demise of the world.
Bai Zhe named this strange world "Reverse Time Domain".
Just as Bai Zhe was trying to further explore the internal knowledge of this world, his divine sense suddenly sensed an indescribable terrifying aura.
This aura does not originate from any specific creature or object, but rather from a certain "form" and "meaning" of the world itself.
Bai Zhe seemed to see an ouroboros rotating counterclockwise behind this world.
The snake was enormous, blotting out the sky, and its body twisted and coiled continuously, forming a bizarre cycle.
Its head and tail are connected, symbolizing the reverse flow of time and the eternal cycle.
But unlike the normal ouroboros, which symbolizes a cycle, this snake's head is not connected to its tail. Instead, it inserts its head deep into its anus, extending endlessly into the deep, dark intestines, as if without end.
It does not represent cycles and eternity, but rather a terrifying existence that is incomprehensible and indescribable.
The serpentine image of its head protruding into its own anus and extending infinitely into its body was absurd, bizarre, and indescribable, like a nightmare, deeply imprinted in Bai Zhe's mind.
This is a complete subversion of logic and order, a fundamental denial of life and existence.
Just one glance was enough to send chills down Bai Zhe's spine with its terrifying madness and chaos.
Just then, a strange sense of absurdity, accompanied by a fear originating from the depths of his soul, suddenly surged into Bai Zhe's heart.
He began to doubt everything around him, even his own "existence".
Is the time I am in right now truly 'now'?
An even more chilling thought appeared in Bai Zhe's mind without warning: "Could I just be a character in some story conceived by that ouroboros? It peers into the future from the 'past,' creating a false timeline to verify the possibility of certain things changing in the future, and I am just a tiny, insignificant figure on this false timeline. My existence, my thoughts, my memories, even my 'free will,' are all just fabrications created by the 'reverse ouroboros' to 'perfect' the authenticity of this false timeline?"
"No...this is impossible...this is absurd..."
Bai Zhe tried to deny the idea, but it lingered in his mind like a leech, becoming clearer and clearer, more and more real.
The more he tries to deny it, the more he realizes that he is confirming its correctness.
"Wait... what is this...?"
Suddenly, Bai Zhe seemed to realize something and woke up with a start.
"Mental pollution?!"
Thinking of this, Bai Zhe immediately withdrew his divine sense and dared not continue watching.
At the same time, he immediately mobilized his remaining divine power to begin clearing the mental pollution from his mind.
Fortunately, because it was detected in time, the pollution was not too serious.
Under Bai Zhe's all-out efforts to eliminate the absurdity, the sense of surrealism gradually subsided, and his mind gradually returned to clarity.
"Phew...that was close..."
Bai Zhe breathed a long sigh of relief, still feeling a lingering fear.
This experience made him fully realize the terrifying nature of "reverse time domain" and "reverse ouroboros".
That kind of existence is something he cannot comprehend or confront in his current state.
"Can information and images alone have such terrifying pollution power?"
Bai Zhe muttered to himself.
"For now, it's best not to provoke this world."
He shook his head and shifted his attention to other things.
"Let's study the 'Hero Project' first. If it succeeds, it will be a good thing for me."
After all, compared to that terrifying world full of unknowns, the "Hero Project" is more realistic and more important in the struggle for faith.