nashuaworldcup Chapter 984 Fate Rewind
Chapter 984 Fate Rewind
As Yun Yao's fingertips touched the mirror, the entire Supreme Library suddenly trembled violently. The Hongmeng Pen wailed in Chu Mochen's hand, its condensed chaotic energy bouncing back from the mirror, burning black cracks in the blue brick floor. Chu Moyao, clutching the little fox, slammed the door open, the eyes of the Creator on her neck gleaming red. "Mother! The Observer has set up a 'plot barrier' in the data world, and Daddy's Hongmeng Pen can't break it—"
"Use your divine eyes to look at the floor tiles!" Yun Yao suddenly remembered what the system had said, "Every brick in the library is a cornerstone of the story. The observer has tampered with the rules of the world!" Chu Moyao followed his instructions and saw that the flowing golden lines were interspersed with binary code. The runes representing "counterattack" were being replaced one by one with "0" and "1". When her divine eyes swept over Chu Mochen, she was shocked to find her father's figure flickering between reality and data, as if he could be sucked into the mirror at any moment.
1. The Rules of Data Cage
Yun Yao slashed at the mirror with her sword, but the chaotic sword energy was like a drop in the ocean. Chu Mochen suddenly grabbed her hand, his palm against the bronze system code on her wrist: "Remember when the old lady in the Divine Palace dungeon said that the system was a self-regulatory program from the early days of creation? Now its code is merging with the observer—" Before he could finish his words, the mirror suddenly cracked into countless cracks, spewing out black tentacles composed of punctuation marks. The moment Chu Mochen was dragged into the mirror, he threw Yun Yao half a blood-stained jade slip, which was the fragment of the law of creation left by Xiao Cui.
"Mother!" Chu Moyao hugged Yun Yao's waist, her eyes reflecting the digital world behind the mirror: Su Yao hung upside down on a gallows made of "chapter titles," beneath her feet surging data streams, each wave carrying the character's cries. Liu Yan'er's avatar stood atop the data stream, clutching a long whip woven from the label "villain," its blade etched with red words like "malicious," "jealous," and "failure." With each swing, Su Yao's authorship rights scatter like sparks.
Yun Yao pressed the jade slip on the bronze order, and the system's voice suddenly became clear: "Warning! It has been detected that the 'author dimension' and the 'character dimension' are being forcibly merged. The only way to break the deadlock is to find the 'initial code' of the data world." She suddenly remembered Su Yao's notebook in the real world. The crossed-out words "counterattack" might be the key to the observer's tampering.
2. The Memory Storm Triggered by the Manuscript
When Yun Yao and Chu Mo Yao broke through the mirror, they were greeted not by a sea of code but by countless floating manuscripts. Each page contained a discarded copy of "Counterattack Chronicles." One page featured a picture of Liu Yan'er wearing an eyepatch in the corner, with a note next to it: "She was supposed to be the first to discover the truth about the world, but because readers didn't like complex villains, she was forced to be reduced to a mere tool."
"Is this... Su Yao's first draft?" Chu Moyao reached out to touch the manuscript paper, and the entire data world suddenly shook violently. Liu Yan'er's long whip, wrapped in "reader negative reviews," came crashing down, but it disintegrated the moment it touched the manuscript paper - the original settings deleted by the observer were silently growing within the manuscript paper.
Su Yao's voice came from the gallows: "Yun Yao! Throw my manuscript into the data stream! The ending of the first draft..." Her words were interrupted by Liu Yan'er's laughter: "Do you think those deleted settings can save you? The observers have already crushed them into data dust!" But Yun Yao noticed that when Liu Yan'er looked at the manuscript paper, the fingertips of the virtual image were trembling, and a trace of desire flashed in the eyes made of data.
3. The True Identity of the System Master
Chu Moyao suddenly pointed at the data stream in the distance: "Look! Those torn pieces of code are being reassembled!" Yun Yao stared and saw countless entries of "counterattack", "rewrite" and "courage" overflowing from Su Yao's author authority, merging with the original settings in the manuscript paper to form a new code creature - that was a girl wearing a conical hat, holding an ink pen similar to the Hongmeng pen in her hand, which was exactly the "awakening villain" that Su Yao had originally envisioned.
"So you've always been here," Yun Yao whispered, reaching out to touch the phantom. Liu Yan'er's avatar suddenly distorted, revealing the mechanical core beneath the code—a gear engraved with the words "System Master," eroded by the observer's red code. The bronze token suddenly glowed brightly, resonating with the gears. The System Master's voice was no longer that of the old woman, but a recording from Su Yao ten years earlier: "I created the system to give every character the possibility of a comeback, but then..."
The recording stopped abruptly, and the observer's warning appeared on the gear: "The characters must act according to the script, and the authors must write according to the market. This is the iron law of the multiverse." Yun Yao finally understood that the so-called observers are the shackles in the real world that require a "perfect plot", and the system is the last key that Su Yao left for the character.
4. Reversal: Symbiosis between Author and Character
When Liu Yan'er's whip swung again, Yun Yao didn't dodge, but instead stabbed the bronze token into her own godhead. At the moment the power of chaos collided with the author's authority, the sky of the data world cracked, revealing Su Yao's notebook in reality. Beneath the crossed-out words "counterattack" lay small words written in invisible ink: "How wonderful it would be if the characters could rewrite the plot themselves."
"So you've already prepared a backdoor." Yun Yao smiled, took Su Yao's hand, and integrated the fragment of the Chaos Godhead into her author's authority. Chu Moyao took the opportunity to insert the Hongmeng Pen into the "plot gallows," and the tip of the pen bloomed with thousands of readers' messages: "I like Yun Yao's tenacity," "Liu Yan'er can also have her own difficulties," "I want to see a different ending."
The data flow suddenly reversed, and Liu Yan'er's avatar was sucked into a vortex of memories. Yun Yao saw her past: as the first character to awaken, she had been rewritten by the Observer as a pure villain after countless negative reviews from readers, and could only repeat her fate of failure in the plot. The last scene was a little fox she had drawn on the edge of the manuscript paper—the creature Yun Yao had saved when she first met Chu Mochen, and the warmth she secretly envied.
"We are all trapped in scripts defined by others." Yun Yao grabbed Liu Yan'er's data hand and placed the fragment of the law of creation in her palm, "But now, you can write your own ending." Liu Yan'er's virtual image flickered violently, and finally turned into a ray of light, merging into Su Yao's author authority.
5. The Arbiter's Awakening and a New Crisis
Just as the data world was about to collapse, an altar composed of "plot outlines" rose from the deepest core area. On it sat the "plot arbitrator" condensed from the observer's data. Its body was a scrolling stream of reader comments, and its head was Su Yao's computer screen, displaying a pop-up window saying "Suggest deleting the rebellious character."
"A fusion of character and author permissions has been detected, violating Article 3 of the Multiverse Creation Convention." The arbitrator's voice was like rusted gears. "Now initiating the world restart procedure. Three, two—"
Chu Moyao suddenly tossed the little fox toward the altar. As the seemingly ordinary creature landed, it revealed the true form of the Creator's Eye—it was the fox Yun Yao had rescued upon her arrival at the palace, the "Story Keeper" she had inadvertently endowed with intelligence. Thousands of small worlds were reflected in the fox's eyes, each filled with those who defied mediocrity. The power of their stories converged into an arrow of light, shooting towards the Arbitrator's core.
"Who says a story can only go one way?" Su Yao's voice came from Yun Yao's mouth, and the shadows of the Twin Gods rose in the data world. "What we create is never a predetermined script, but to give every soul the courage to rewrite it."
The Arbitrator let out a piercing scream, transforming into countless "Delete" buttons that scattered. Yun Yao caught the falling Chu Mochen and discovered that his Nascent Soul was entwined with a new law—a rune of "Choice." Above each character's head, a choice appeared: stick to your original aspirations, betray your beliefs, start from scratch...
The data world began to reconstruct. Su Yao's notebook floated in the air, and the text on the page automatically rewrote: "Liu Yan'er looked at herself in the mirror, her fingertips stroking the divine seal on her brow. She knew that from today on, 'villain' was no longer her label, but the starting point of her story."
When Yun Yao took Su Yao's hand and walked out of the mirror, the floor tiles of the Supreme Book Pavilion had restored their golden lines, but each line was interspersed with tiny codes - that was the proof of the fusion of the digital world and reality. Chu Moyao, holding the brand new little fox, suddenly pointed to the newly added bookshelf in the book pavilion: "Mom, there is a moving book over there!"
Everyone looked over and saw a book with the title "Liu Yan'er's Choice" on the cover automatically turning pages. On the first page, the former villain held an ink pen and wrote on the manuscript paper: "Chapter 1: I decided not to be a pawn anymore." And in the corner of the book, Su Yao's annotation from ten years ago was faintly visible: "Every character deserves a chance to fight back, including the villain."
The cracks in the mirror hadn't fully healed, yet they revealed a new vision of the data world: Liu Yan'er stood at the entrance to her own little world. Behind her lay the ruins of the collapsed Observer, and before her lay a path paved with possibilities. She took a deep breath, took her first step, and a light blossomed beneath her feet that didn't belong to any script—the color of freedom.
At this point, the gears of "fate rewind" finally stop, but deep within each character's soul, an indelible mark of counterattack is etched. The threat of the observer has not yet completely dissipated, but Yun Yao knows that the moment the author and the characters join forces to break the script, the true story has just begun.