Chapter 417 Reverse Erosion of the Star Core
As the mirror image of Su Han's voice echoed in the skull, the entire inverted sea of stars suddenly solidified into a sticky black liquid.
The fallen stars turned into mucus the moment they touched the ground, crawled up Su Han's combat boots through the cracks in the rocks, and etched dark red lines on the metal surface.
More black vines stretched out from the crack in the center of the huge bronze gate, and this time each vine was entangled with a human-shaped object.
Those bodies with vines piercing their chests were still breathing, and the star cores embedded in their chests flickered with the pulse rate, like a string of firefly lanterns.
Su Han noticed that the left eyes of several corpses closest to the rift had turned into starry sky whirlpools, with the same star sand texture as his spear swirling in their irises.
The gravekeeper suddenly grabbed his wrist, and fluorescent blue blood oozed from the carbonized wound.
"Your blood is eroding the star core!"
Her voice was filled with metallic vibrations, and her transparent right arm suddenly materialized into countless star sand spikes.
"Look at the eyes of these corpses! The prophecy passed down by the gravekeepers is coming true - when the Son of the Eclipse awakens..."
The vines suddenly rose up collectively, and the slimy tentacles wrapped the gravekeeper around the waist.
Su Han saw that the runes that emerged on her back were completely opposite to the oracle bone inscriptions on the bronze pillar. Those burning words drilled into the vines like living snakes.
The black vine in the center suddenly cracked, revealing an internal crystal-like network of pipes, in which countless star cores collided at high speed, making an organ-like roar.
“Hold me!”
The voice of Mirror Su Han suddenly became sharp, and Su Han felt his shadow leave the ground and float into the air.
The shadow suddenly expanded into a body identical to his, and reached out to pierce his chest - it was not pain, but a cold and familiar feeling spreading along his fingertips, as if touching an already existing organ.
The entire space began to quantize and disintegrate, and Su Han saw countless parallel world versions of himself falling from the cracks.
The ancient general version wearing black armor burned to ashes in mid-air, the white lab coat version had a catheter inserted in his left eye and was recording data, and the youngest self was still in his cradle, staring into the void with bloodshot eyes.
When each clone lands on the ground, it will turn into a new bronze pillar, and the oracle bone inscriptions that appear on it will record the way of death in different stages of life.
The gravekeeper's transparent arm suddenly pierced into Su Han's back and connected to some kind of glowing catheter at the spine. "Now!"
She shouted and pushed Su Han towards the central crack, but she was dragged into the abyss by the growing vines.
As Su Han fell, he saw the mirror image of Su Han appear on top of countless bronze pillars. Those clones raised their blood-stained spears at the same time, and the positions where the spear tips pointed formed a constantly changing geometric pattern in time and space.
All the star cores in the void suddenly changed direction, forming a light bridge leading to an unknown dimension.
Mirror Su Han's voice came from all directions: "Every branch of choice is creating a new cage. The truth of the Abyss is not in front of you, but in the shadows that you ignore every time you raise your gun."
The light bridge began to collapse into countless glowing sand grains. Su Han grabbed a grain of sand while falling and found that his infant self was sealed inside. The baby, still in swaddling clothes, was smiling at the void, with the entire galaxy reflected in his eyes.
The huge bronze gate was now completely transformed into a huge mechanical device, with purple arcs constantly bursting out from the meshing of the gears.
The moment Su Han's gun tip touched the central star core, he saw the gravekeeper nailed to a certain space node. Her chest cavity turned into a transparent energy core, and countless runes flowed under her skin like blood vessels.
The most terrifying thing was that she maintained a clear smile, and her lips moved to recite the same oracle bone inscriptions as those on the bronze column.
"The time anchor has shifted."
The mirror image of Su Han suddenly appeared on the surface of all the gears. "Do you think you are fighting against the system? In fact, you are the lubricant that keeps the gears running."
His voice had a strange echo, and every syllable corroded tiny star sand holes in Su Han's skin.
Viscous liquid starlight seeped out of those holes, forming a series of dynamic pictures - the first rune was carved on the altar for the young Su Han, and when he was a young man, he awakened the star sand ability for the first time in the ancient battlefield. At every key node, there was an invisible hand pushing the plot forward.
The entire space began to collapse into a Möbius strip structure, and Su Han saw himself running on an infinitely extending corridor.
The left wall reflects his back as he fights bravely, while the right wall shows that the same scene took place on an ancient battlefield thousands of years ago, and his enemy has the same golden pattern on his face as the gravekeeper.
“Each time through the loop a new variable is created.”
Mirror Su Han suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor, with a crying star core suspended on the tip of his spear, "But in the end, they will all converge to the same solution." (End of this chapter)