Chen Tianwu's words stunned Shu for a moment. The next second, Chen Tianwu's hand flipped over, and a blood-red core appeared in his palm.
That was... the core of Evolution?!
Shu immediately looked down at the scattered parts of the Key of Genesis at his feet. Sure enough, the core embedded in the center was gone.
When...
Shu hurriedly looked up. In Chen Tianwu's other hand, the Book of Time was hovering ten centimeters above his palm.
The next moment, right in front of Shu, Chen Tianwu's face hardened. He raised the core of Evolution high, then, with all his strength, stabbed it fiercely into his own heart.
Blood spurted from Chen Tianwu's chest and mouth. At the same time, the energy crystals embedded in the energy positions of his armor actually emitted the unique pinkish-purple light of Honkai energy crystals.
Those energy sources were all Honkai energy crystals!
No, there was still a difference!
Along with these Honkai energy crystals, countless specks of light blue light also lit up. Shu was also very familiar with that kind of light. It was the authority of Theory!
Honkai energy crystals as the energy source, the authority of Theory to correct its path, and in contrast, the core of Evolution that Chen Tianwu had inserted into his chest was activated!
What on earth is he trying to do?!
Shu didn't know, but he knew that at least Kiana and the others shouldn't be here anymore!
Shu turned around, wanting to drag the two of them and run, but he couldn't. The weight of Kiana and Bianka was dragging him down. The Thousand Stars of Reason had also been exhausted. He was still holding a singularity in his hand, and there was also Theresa next to him...
Looking at the seemingly crazed Chen Tianwu, Shu gritted his teeth and directly dropped the singularity, which was possibly Chen Tianwu's target. He turned around, unhooked Bianka's hand from his waist, and carried her on his back.
Then, he dragged Kiana with his left hand and pulled Theresa with his right, and began to huff and puff his way out.
Chen Tianwu had said before that this was a gift prepared for him by Otto. Then he would trust Otto one last time!
The singularity did not follow Shu after being dropped, but hovered in the position where he had dropped it.
Chen Tianwu vomited another mouthful of blood. The lines of Honkai energy erosion had already climbed up his cheeks. His face was pale, and his lips were purple. But when he saw the singularity that Shu had left behind, he still managed to pull out a smile.
"Just... a little longer... it'll be over soon..." The severe pain had almost deprived him of his ability to speak, but he still whispered to the swaying pendant in a comforting tone.
Then, he fell silent. It was not until Shu had struggled to bring the three of them thirty meters away that a trace of determination to bid farewell to the world appeared on Chen Tianwu's face.
"**[Evolution]**—grant her a completely identical body! Let the one who was once here stand again!!"
A dazzling red light suddenly erupted from Chen Tianwu's chest. Along with it was his scream of pain.
Shu looked back in shock, only to see that Chen Tianwu, who was shrouded in blood-red light, was actually changing within the light.
His limbs began to become slender, his skin became tight and snow-white, his gray hair began to lighten in color and grow in length, and even his male-specific Adam's apple began to shrink...
That was...
Chen Tianwu was changing into another person. And that person, no, that appearance, Shu had seen with his own eyes not long ago!
Ana! Chen Tianwu's body was truly changing into Ana's!
Tearing apart flesh and blood to reshape, crushing bones and blood to re-condense! Even his personal genes were completely dismantled and then reassembled into the appearance of another person.
Just as Chen Tianwu had chanted, it was as if the person who had once passed away was standing here again!
And this was by no means the end!
"**[Memory]**—grant her a completely identical past! Erase my useless remnants, and grant the soulless one a self!"
Following the blood-red light of Evolution, the Book of Time also began to flash with a pale brilliance.
Shu could even see the memories of Chen Tianwu, projected from the flipping pages of the Book of Time, shattering, and the memories of a girl named "Ana" re-forming.
The lives of the two people were now rotating and playing around "Chen Tianwu" like a slideshow. It was just that the proportion of one person was getting smaller and smaller, while the other was getting larger and larger.
Just like the red spider lily, when the flower blooms, the leaves fall, and when the leaves grow, the flower withers. They never meet, never coexist.
Until the last piece of Chen Tianwu's memory disappeared, and only Ana's memory was left around him.
The third voice sounded at this time.
"[Desire]! Grant the one who has returned the script of [Resurrection]! Let the world know that only she exists in this world! Not me! Let the world know that the one who died in the disaster was Chen Tianwu! And she! Is the real Ana!"
Chen Tianwu's third shout was like a morning drum and an evening bell, finally waking up the clueless Shu at this moment.
From Chen Tianwu's first chant, Shu knew what he wanted to do.
He wanted to "resurrect" a person.
Using Evolution to grant a body, using Memory to grant memories... If it were just these two points, Shu believed that this could definitely not be called a resurrection.
Vakh had already proven the existence of the "soul" with his own life. The composition of a person was by no means a simple combination of body and memory. The superposition of these two would only create another brand new existence.
But when Chen Tianwu used the authority of Desire, Shu was shocked to realize that Chen Tianwu, like Otto in the original work, was pursuing a true "resurrection"!
The script of Desire!
If everyone in the world believed that Ana had lived until now, and the one who had died was Chen Tianwu, then this script, constructed by the "cognition" of everyone...
Was even enough to pull back the real Ana!
That's why Chen Tianwu had been active in the Fire Moth as Ana, and had only shown his face to Otto, in order to create the illusion for everyone that "Ana is still alive, and Chen Tianwu is already dead"!
No, that's not right... this is ultimately an illusion! Chen Tianwu is a real existence, after all. He will always leave traces...
"[Theory]!" Chen Tianwu's voice had even begun to become hoarse, but his roar had not stopped, carrying his extreme emotions.
"Sweep away all the coincidental factors that will lead to failure for me! Erase my omissions, and annihilate my existence!"
Theory!
The traces of a person's existence can theoretically be completely eliminated! And now, even the Book of Time was in this grand "resurrection" ceremony.
In this world, besides himself and Otto, who else could see through the illusion that "Ana is still alive, and Chen Tianwu is dead"?
No, perhaps Otto had already used the Book of Time to delete his related memories! At this moment, only he knew that this was a lie that Chen Tianwu had told the world.
But... the traces of the future can be changed, what about the past?