# Chapter 2862: The Truth Hidden Under the Dream!
Jiangnan felt his scalp go numb, as if an electric current was rising from his tailbone straight to his crown!
Jiang Fan knew. He knew everything!
The reason he could cross over three thousand years and find this exact time node to return was because he had already seen the future of this period!
And once the future is seen, it becomes determined!
Normally, reality would develop according to the future he had seen!
But it didn't. Humanity did not develop as Jiang Fan had seen!
That's why Jiang Fan was confused, why he doubted he had returned to the wrong reality!
Since the future was already determined but didn't follow its original trajectory, there could only be one reason...
Reality... had been tampered with!
This wasn't the original reality. It was a tampered reality!
And the tampered node was that year when Jiangnan was 16, when the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth appeared in Aunt Zhou's storage room...
It was precisely because the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth appeared out of nowhere that a series of changes occurred in subsequent events, breaking away from the original trajectory, like a butterfly effect!
And the change at that node was also the foundation supporting this tampered reality!
The root of everything!
If not filled, this tampered reality belonging to Jiangnan would not hold and would completely collapse...
Jiangnan's eyes were red...
So he had to send the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth back to Aunt Zhou's storage room when he was 16?
To fill this node, making the current tampered reality valid, forming a complete time loop?
He would lose his system, and the Vendor Cloth and Small Stool would cycle forever in this time loop?
No!
That's not right!
Doesn't this create a grandfather paradox?
If a person goes back in time and kills his own grandfather, then there would be no father, and no him either!
He would have no way to go back and kill his grandfather!
It's a paradox that cannot hold!
Even if Jiangnan sent the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth back...
Where did the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth come from?
He was supposed to have them, but he sent them back, so he no longer has them...
The 16-year-old node would indeed be filled, but Jiangnan's current node would no longer hold because the system was gone!
Reality would still have a gap!
That gap would be the missing system!
It would just move the disturbance node of the entire timeline from when he was 16 to now!
It didn't solve the fundamental problem at all!
But such a time loop has one possibility!
That Jiangnan would remain in the Life Forbidden Zone forever. Without the system, Jiangnan would never return to the reality timeline!
Then reality wouldn't have a flicker point, and this tampered reality might hold!
But the price would be that Jiangnan would have to exist in the Life Forbidden Zone for his entire life, never able to return to reality!
Otherwise, reality would definitely collapse!
But even this was only a possibility!
It was just a makeshift solution. The most fundamental problem was still unsolved!
What was the origin of the Small Stool and Vendor Cloth?
A system couldn't just appear out of nothing and form a time loop!
There had to be an origin, otherwise it made no sense!
Jiangnan's face was pale!
"Baby! Baby! Talk to me! What's the truth?"
"Even after I've dug this deep, you still won't tell me?"
"Say it! No matter what the truth is, I can accept it!"
But the system still gave no response...
Lately, the system baby hadn't spoken much. The reason certainly wasn't that it didn't want to...
The only thing Jiangnan was sure of was that sending his current Small Stool and Vendor Cloth back to the 16-year-old node to plug the gap, losing the system, and remaining in the Life Forbidden Zone forever to avoid creating a new gap and never returning to reality, was definitely not the correct answer!
If the origin of the system wasn't resolved, everything would be a castle in the air, a bubble in a dream!
"Origin... origin?"
Memories flowed through Jiangnan's mind, figures emerging one after another...
Minghe Star Domain, Sister Li Bing, Gamma Clan, Star Farming Clan, Qing Ke, Qing Cong, Beast Hunter of the Subhuman Race, Dark Soul Clan, Antenna Clan, Air Speed Clan, Star Project, Twin Clan...
Everything...
Jiangnan smiled bitterly...
Had he sensed it long ago? Hah~
With eight hundred hearts, how could Jiangnan not think of these points?
The implementation of the Star Project was only partly to save the slave races. There was also a deeper reason...
He had his own speculations about the truth!
But Jiangnan never wanted to dig deeper!
Because he was afraid that the truth would be something he couldn't accept...
But now he had no choice. The reality line was already flickering and disturbing!
No matter what the truth was, Jiangnan had to seek it out!
Otherwise, everything that happened after he turned 16 would be flowers in a mirror, moon in the water, bubbles in a dream—none of it would hold!
Even Jiangnan himself... would disappear!
The entire line would collapse, and reality would cease to be!
Jiangnan suddenly stood up, eyes bloodshot, staring fixedly at the pages before him!
And beneath the disturbance and flickering, hidden under this dreamlike reality line, another line seemed to become gradually clear!
That was the truth hidden under the dream!
The original development trajectory, the reality that had not been tampered with!
Covered and obscured by the current tampered reality!
And as the tampered reality flickered and disturbed, the truth in the darkness was about to reveal itself!
Jiangnan's eyes were red as blood!
He knew very well that when this reality belonging to him collapsed, the original line would emerge!
That was the true trajectory!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth, using both hands to pry at the gaps between the pages, using all his strength!
As if trying to pry out the truth hidden under the dream!
"Let me see! What is the original trajectory? What is the truth?"
"Come out! Come out for your daddy!"
At this moment, Jiangnan was like a demon possessed!
Who could remain calm when encountering such a situation?
Learning that everything was tampered with, that the dreamlike reality had no roots or foundation, and could collapse and disappear at any moment?
Who could bear that?
But as Jiangnan moved, the flickering disturbance suddenly disappeared!
As if it had never existed!
Everything returned to normal, showing no signs of abnormality...
Jiangnan grabbed at empty air, standing there in silence!
His eyes continuously examined the current reality!
Jiangnan knew very well that beneath this seemingly normal reality line, starting from the node when he was 16, there was another hidden line!
That was the original trajectory, the truth under the dream!
Jiangnan gently stroked the pages, his thoughts gradually calming down!
"The disturbance flickering of the tampered reality line doesn't persist..."
"That means... it's not yet time to fill that node? This line... can still exist for a while..."
But this was only temporary. Once the time came to fill the node, and it wasn't filled, then this tampered reality would collapse!
Everything would return to the correct path!
The truth hidden in the darkness would emerge...
He still had time!
Jiangnan closed his eyes, constantly adjusting his mindset!
When he opened his eyes again, they were full of determination!
"No matter what the truth is, this is my reality. I exist here!"
"Whatever the cost, I will protect it to the end!"
"This beauty... is worth protecting with my life!"
"I have to get out! I must get out!"
Having made up his mind, Jiangnan stopped trying other methods. There were no other methods anyway!
There was only one path left—look toward the future!
Rather than worrying about seeing a bad future, the complete collapse of reality was more concerning!
Jiangnan was even a little glad he was trapped here, discovering the reality's disturbance flickering!
Otherwise, by the time it was too late to fix, everything would be over!
Jiangnan no longer hesitated. He returned to the page of his own reality and looked sideways at the future to come!
And in the future pages, Jiangnan saw everyone's worry and discussion after he left!
They waited for three days in worry, then Wang Youzhi became anxious, suspecting that Jiangnan had gotten stuck in some part of the process, trapped in the Life Forbidden Zone!
He even collaborated with Jiang Fan, trying to throw a black hole into the Final Black Hole to create a disturbance, hoping to help Jiangnan escape!
Jiangnan's eyes reddened!
(งᵒ̴̶̷̥́﹏ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀)ง "Damn! It could work! Why wouldn't it? A disturbance caused by them throwing a black hole in would be enough to let me break out of the Life Forbidden Zone, right?"
His luck was too good!
Of the countless possible futures, he randomly picked one, looked three days ahead, and found a turning point?
If he had known this earlier, why would he have gone through all that trouble?
He should have looked sooner!
But thinking about it, Jiangnan suddenly froze!
No... this wasn't about luck!
It was that, among the countless possible futures, no matter which one, Black God would throw a black hole into the Final Black Hole, doing everything possible to try and pull Jiangnan out!
It wasn't luck, but an inevitability!
So Jiangnan could randomly choose one line and "luckily" see the turning point!
This "good luck" was given to Jiangnan by Black God's unwavering loyalty!
And at that moment, Jiangnan recalled what Wang Youzhi had said to him before he entered the Final Black Hole!
"You can always trust your big pot..."
At this moment, Jiangnan even felt like crying. He rubbed his eyes!
(๑ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ωก̀) "Damn it! That's my big pot! When I get out, I'm going to kiss you!"
Jiang Fan had already taken people to drag a black hole over. According to this speed, in about three months, they could drag it over and throw it in!
Jiangnan just needed to find the node three months later when the Final Black Hole was disturbed, and he could drill out, escape the Life Forbidden Zone, and survive!
And Jiangnan didn't dare look too far into the future, because if he looked too much, he might skip past the node that needed to be filled, causing the reality to collapse!
Jiang Fan was slowly dragging the black hole outside, while Jiangnan was inside, slowly finding pages and watching Jiang Fan drag!
During this time, Jiangnan didn't exist in reality, but he could check everything happening in the starry sky through the pages!
And the future was gradually being determined by Jiangnan's observation!