Welcome to Rewind World Game

Enter code, output result—from the essence, equivalent to "tweaking one end of a thread, causing changes on the other end." One doesn't need to be bound by the thread.

——System instructions.

Moreover, if everyone is equivalent to "Players," and their [Life] is equivalent to a [Game], then what can most dominate their destiny, if not the thread?

What can dominate the [Game], what is it?

Keyboard and mouse.

It's game system instructions, it's programs, it's code.

——It's here.

This control room full of surveillance screens, these keyboards and system instructions——

——is the locked [Destiny].

Fingertips tapping, results output.

Delete using the "←" key, select with the left button, copy with "Ctrl+v," cut with "Ctrl+c." Completely fixed instructions.

As he glanced around these surveillance screens, he felt a stiffness in his neck, his gaze sticky and tugged between these keyboards.

...A faint sense of panic spiraled.

People's lives from all eras are broadcasted to the control room through surveillance screens and beautified as Dream Patrol games for people of other eras to play. Under surveillance, people have no way to seek truth or freedom.

Players do not know their world is also someone else's game. When others are playing games, they do not know they are also someone else's someone else's game, someone else's someone else's someone else's game... to infinity.

Previously, Hei Que mentioned those "Su Ming'an Fragments" live in various rooms, watched and fine-tuned by Hei Que, akin to the Truman World. But little does Hei Que know that the world he inhabits is still a Truman World, his every move monitored by this control room, unbeknownst to him. He considers himself the Master of Nine Serenities, not knowing the true Master of Nine Serenities is seated in the control room, watching his distress with a smile, and implanted the subconscious thought of "not allowed to enter the control room" within him.

"...So, to [kill destiny], means to destroy this control room... right?" Su Ming'an said.

He finds it hard to grasp this truth.

Even though he understands destiny's stubbornness thoroughly, he sees it as magical, much like eliminating a spell. But he did not realize—the essence of destiny is the keyboard and mouse.

——It's the [three-dimensional] absolute suppression of the [quasi-two-dimensional].

——It's the absolute surveillance of the [outside screen] over the [inside screen].

——It's the control of [instructions] over the [quasi-program].

Looking at these cold screens, Su Ming'an's pupils seemed scalded.

At this moment, he saw a surveillance screen from the Steam Age. He stepped forward, fixed the screen angle on an airship in the sky. This was Su Rin and Little Black's airship.

"Mind if I do something?" Su Ming'an tilted his head.

"I don't mind. I've stopped playing this game, and Little Black is gone." Su Rin said indifferently.

Su Wensheng did not stop him either, watching Su Ming'an with interest.

Su Ming'an entered [7837] according to the instructions on the note. The moment his finger struck the last digit, a highly destructive scene occurred—the airship suddenly seemed ravaged by an invisible giant hand, splitting into pieces and crashing into the sea.

Such a sturdy airship fell merely because someone outside the screen tapped a few keys. The meaning of the [7837] command was: eliminate the item in the center of the screen.

...This made the coldness freeze in the grand hall.

Su Ming'an silently stared at the surveillance screen. On the ground, people shouted:

"Look, the airship in the sky has fallen!"

"Could it be the Deity's rage! Thinking flying objects shouldn't exist in the sky hence sliced it down?"

"Oh Deity! Forgive us! I'm going to report to the Church now, hold a ceremony, and calm the Deity's anger..."

They knelt on the ground, praying to the air with fear and humility. Much like... a game's real-time calculation system.

...If everything is dictated by keystrokes and arbitrarily changed by the mouse, how can the people inside the screen resist destiny?

——Who are they supposed to express their anger toward?

——Who do they intend to raise the blade against?

——Who are they supposed to hold their overwhelming unwillingness and anger against?

Those outside the screen watch their every move coldly, able to change their life's destiny with a few commands.

——Who can break through this barrier and pierce the blade towards the outsider?

——How can they——kill [Destiny]?

Suddenly, Su Ming'an felt his breathing heavy.

He looked at these screens, the dense screens glowing faintly:

...

[Year 24, Old God Era. People sing songs and recite psalms of the Old God, hoping to summon back the Old God.]

[Game Name: "History of Faith Struggle." This game is a faction game, as a Player, your ultimate task is to assist God in obliterating the remnants of the Old God.]

[Current main storyline progress: 66%]

[Online Users: 29,103,819, Emotional Accumulation: 1,210,239,471 entries.]

...

[Year 87, Primitive Age. As the Deity obliterated all traces of Old Gods, humanity fell into the Primitive Age, adapting to the farming and weaving lifestyle, tribes competing.]

[Game Name: "Primitive Village." This game is a farming management game, as a Player, your ultimate task is to establish the strongest tribe.]

[Current main storyline progress: 85%]

[Online Users: 201,927,421, Emotional Accumulation: 1,920,391,471 entries.]

...

[Year 213, Age of Knights. People championed knight duels to determine land and slave ownership. Plague spread thick, many metamorphosed into monsters, making life difficult.]

[Game Name: "Knights and the Undead." This game is a competitive strategy game, as a Player, your ultimate task is to find the potion that ends the plague.]

[Current main storyline progress: 76%]

[Online Users: 129,103,721, Emotional Accumulation: 381,926,318 entries.]

...

[Year 287, Undersea Age. Atlantis' Mermaids encountered land explorers, exchanging pearls for food. Opportunists started capturing mermaids, leading to prolonged war.]

[Game Name: "Atlantis Legend." This game is an RPG role-playing game, as a Player your ultimate task is to explore the deepest secrets of Atlantis.]

[Current main storyline progress: 68%]

[Online Users: 381,110,121, Emotional Accumulation: 2,910,271,812 entries.]

...

[Year 328, The Witch Age. The Church hunted witches, with the Supreme Mage's adopted child, Blackberry, proclaimed emperor, intending to unify the world.]

[Game Name: "Witch's Epic." This game is a war strategy game, as a Player, your ultimate task is to help or stop Blackberry's unification.]

[Current main storyline progress: 87%]

[Online Users: 391,027,419, Emotional Accumulation: 3,629,371,021 entries.]

...

[Year 398, Age of Talisman. Eastern people mastering talismans crossed oceans, resulting in cultural integration and a fervent academic atmosphere.]

[Game Name: "Eastern Style Talisman." This game is a casual farming game, as a Player, your ultimate task is to establish an eternal institution, cultivating students.]

[Current main...]

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[Magical Age...]

[Steam Age...]

[Faith Age...]

[Martial Heroes Age...]

[Louyue Era...]

[Industrial Age...]

[Electrical Age...]

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[Year 818, Experimental Age. Politicians capturing children and confining them in the Experimental City, attempting to create Artificially Eligible Persons.]

[Game Name: "Escape from Experimental City". This game is a high-difficulty operation-type game, where you, as a test subject, have the ultimate task of setting fire to the Experimental City.]

[Current Mainline...]

...

Su Ming'an felt as if he was reading a vast history book.

From the earliest Era 23, extending all the way to Era 818. Countless eras gathered here, all called "games".

The current world is Era 833, it seems, fortunately, the present world doesn't belong to a game... Hmm?

Su Ming'an suddenly thought of something.

In an instant, a thunderous inspiration flashed across his mind.

He looked at the instruction codes on these notes: [Create Stone], [Labor Gathering], [Descend Miracle], [Spread Scientific Knowledge], [Plague]... suddenly realizing something.

His hands and feet felt extremely cold.

...

[Throughout the game, you will have three values: Faith Value, Goodness Value, Danger Value.]

[When any of the three values reach 100 points or 0 points, the game will immediately end. Please balance these three values until reaching the conclusion.]

[Countdown to Conclusion: Ten Turns.]

[Su Ming'an immediately lowered his gaze and saw an Action Card icon. He clicked it open, revealing various cards — [Create Stone], [Create Plant], [Descend Miracle], [Plague]...]

[He pulled out the card configuration of [Stone Block] + [Labor Gathering], placing these cards in the most demanding areas, and soon, the Faith Value rose. This is indeed an interesting strategy game that isn't too exhausting to play.]

...

His fingers became stiff.

The keyboards in his eyes seemed to start twisting.

"The Cat and Her," "Louyue Nation," "Girl Dream Project," "Witch's Epic," each game represents an era, so... what about "Fate Simulator"?

It doesn't represent any specific era, merely a simulated game. Su Ming'an previously felt strange, why such an exception existed, why it lacked any mainline story.

But now he suddenly realized — this "Fate Simulator," it represents...

The present world.

— The present world is also a game.

The present world is ongoing, capable of being changed by Su Ming'an, which explains its lack of a mainline story.

...

[This game has no beginner tutorial, each second symbolizes the rapid passage of time on the map. Just dazing off for a second might pass several months on the map, making Su Ming'an curious. If he were "Little Su", he would only remain on the map for twenty days, not spanning such lengthy time.]

...

All games only represent one era, so why does Fate Simulator span such a long time?

...because the concept of "time" in the control room is flat.

The Nine Serenities control room is the place implementing this game. When Su Ming'an plays the action cards in "Fate Simulator," Su Wensheng timely strikes the keyboard based on the simulation situation, inputting system commands to various eras.

This achieves the "simulation effect spanning across millennia."

The action cards played by Su Ming'an in the game are realized through Su Wensheng's control room.

The Dream Patrol Family prides themselves on transcending beyond the chessboard, believing they can play in eras of others. However— the era in which they themselves reside is also a game, and its name is Fate Simulator.

No one can escape.

...

["Little Su" is your game protagonist. You cannot control the actions of most people, but you can control "Little Su's" actions. Please use "Little Su" to influence this world!]

...

"So, Little Su is..." Su Ming'an murmured.

Su Wensheng stepped down from the high platform. The bare flower branches fell onto the ground as his palm slightly opened.

He looked at Su Ming'an with a smile, colorful light reflecting in his eyes.

"'Little Su,' who else here has the surname Su?" Su Wensheng asked.

Su Ming'an finally knew who Little Su was.

He remembered, the red-robed boy in Fate Simulator had promised him that Fate Simulator wouldn't affect reality—of course, it wouldn't affect reality, it impacts the past!

"Is the game fun?" Su Wensheng said as he approached.

Su Ming'an stared at him.

"Didn't I say so?" Su Wensheng leaned slightly forward, his eyes deep: "… you will fall in love with this game."

But Su Ming'an suddenly thought of something.

...

[Name: Little Su]

[Health: 78]

[Expected Lifespan: ?]

[Skill: Death Rebound]

[Expectation: World]

[Personality: Calm and Steady]

...

This is Little Su's data in the game, clearly showing "Death Rebound," so Su Ming'an felt that Little Su was himself.

"Death Rebound is mine, since you are Little Su, why is 'Death Rebound' written on the panel?" Su Ming'an said. His Death Rebound wasn't Little Su's.

"Let me ask you a question." Su Wensheng suddenly came closer: "… what name did you give to your rebound?"

Su Ming'an was stunned.

He had two rebounds, his own Death Rebound, and the unique rebound of the Tenth World. He named the unique rebound of the Tenth World —

… Little Su Rebound.

"——!!"

Suddenly, his throat felt blocked. Goosebumps immediately rose all over his body.

...How did this happen?

...Little Su Rebound... Little Su's Rebound...

"I said, destiny is indeed a stubborn thing." Su Wensheng lowered his eyes and smiled without emotion: "'Little Su Rebound' is what I gave you. I am 'Little Su', so when naming this rebound, its name became—'Little Su Rebound'. See, destiny fits so seamlessly."

The logic fits seamlessly. But what made this logic work was his casually thought-out naming.

Su Ming'an remained silent for a long time:

"...Was it a calculation again? Calculating my naming habits?"

He didn't believe his destiny was controlled by anyone.

"Believe whatever you want; the omniscient Laplace Monster is essentially an utterly massive calculation." Su Wensheng spread his hands and suddenly raised his head.

Su Ming'an glanced back.

Su Rin stood in front of a monitoring screen, surrounded by flowing fire in his hands.