# Chapter 2936: Let Us Be the Ones to Save You for a Change
In the cracks of reality, Jiangnan's scalp went numb, and a bone-deep chill ran through his entire body!
So this was the truth of the system he had been searching for all along. Its origin?
Using Ai Jiang as the operational foundation, with Lan washed pure white as the system's main consciousness, along with the existence of the system space, and using Mila as a bridge across time to send all the crafted items back to the past!
To help himself make up for all his regrets!
Bing Shen was the one who developed those items, the woman standing behind the system!
Da Li was meant to compensate for his early lack of strength, the regret of being beaten up by Wang Lin!
Vitality Ginseng was meant to make up for the regret of Shan Mao dying in his arms...
Lucky Little Cherry saved Wu Liang...
The Large Green Stick, Durian, Zodiac Cookies...
Too many, too many. This was the real reason why all the system items appeared at exactly the critical junctures, helping him overcome difficulties!
Because every system item was designed to make up for his regrets, help him grow, break through situations, and overcome obstacles, making everything smooth and beautiful!
And the reason for absorbing resentment value was to borrow the power of emotions to restore emotional color to the washed-white Lan?
The system darling had been Lan from the very beginning...
That was why she was so greedy for money, so fond of embezzling his cash and resentment value — because this was her preserved instinct!
Was this also why, as he collected resentment value, the system darling became more and more human?
The reason the system darling stopped talking much later on was that she didn't dare to speak. As her emotions gradually recovered somewhat, she was afraid of conflicting with Lan's existence?
So that was it... the truth was actually like this!
Everything... it all made sense now... connected...
In the original reality, facing a desperate situation and a tragic reality, Jiangnan and the others created the system, sent it back to a past node, and created a dream reality, overlaying it on top of the original reality!
So that was why the dream reality was as perfect and beautiful as a fairy tale — everything was altered based on the original reality, wasn't it?
And Jiangnan had also found the correct interpretation of that answer...
Modifying the past node violated the world's truth. Two realities could not exist simultaneously!
For the dream reality to be established and transform into true reality, the original reality would cease to exist, and naturally, no one would create the system and send it back to the past!
Therefore, the Jiangnan in the dream reality had to make up for the past node, doing the same things as the Jiangnan in the original reality! Forming a complete time loop, a logical loop!
In this way, the dream reality would become real, and the original reality would become as if it never happened, ceasing to exist...
Jiangnan's heart shattered along with it!
But doing this meant he had to create a system himself, send it back to the past, make up for the past node, and close the gap at Aunt Zhou's warehouse when he was sixteen!
Lan had to be washed clean and made into the system. Mila had to use her time travel skill and transform into a time bridge...
He also needed Ai Jiang and Li Bing's help!
That way, the past would be filled, and the dream reality would stabilize!
Except Lan would disappear, turning into the system carried on his person, because she had been sent back to the past and developed alongside him until now...
And what sacrifice would Mila have to make?
Jiangnan pressed his head against the pages of reality, tears falling like pearls...
This was the only correct answer he had found!
But it required Mila and Lan, those two little ones, to sacrifice themselves for him, to save reality?
The correct answer was equally cruel, but compared to the original reality, it could only be considered a good outcome...
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In the original reality, Jiangnan refused, still shaking his head.
"No! It can't be done! If there's a way to restore emotion to someone who's been washed clean, then use it on me! I can go become a god, kill Xun Zu, and then use that method to restore my emotions. That way—"
Li Bing bit her teeth hard: "Do you know how much emotional power that requires? An unimaginable amount! And it's only a possibility!"
"What if it doesn't work?"
Jiangnan pressed urgently: "Only a possibility? How can it be only a possibility? If it can't work on me, then why would it work on Lan? What if she can't be restored either? Use it on me—"
Li Bing grabbed Jiangnan's collar, her eyes red, shouting loudly, hysterically:
"Even if you become a god, even if you achieve the Cosmos Realm! Can you change the reality that has already happened? Can you save the people who have already died?"
"Can you do that? You can't!"
Jiangnan's eyes were filled with gloom.
Yes...
Even if he achieved the Cosmos Realm, he couldn't change this tragic reality!
"You... are you also dissatisfied with this reality?"
Li Bing's eyes were red, her teeth clenched tightly. She released Jiangnan and, right in front of him, slowly began to unbutton her clothes!
She stood naked before Jiangnan. He didn't know what Li Bing was trying to do...
But the next moment, Li Bing's body split open, her skin decomposing into a mechanical shell, even her head doing the same, opening up toward Jiangnan!
Jiangnan was completely stunned...
What was revealed before Jiangnan was a pure mechanical body, with a brain-shaped crystal culture chamber on top of her head, filled with nutrient fluid, inside which floated a bright red brain...
This was the only flesh-and-blood part left on Li Bing's body — just a single brain!
Jiangnan's eyes were filled with shock...
"How... how could this be..."
Li Bing smiled bitterly, silently putting her clothes back on: "This is all I have left. My body is long gone. Do you think I've been spending all these years in the Creation Lab for nothing?"
"Do you think the Silicon-based race hasn't done anything to me? This suffering reality isn't just targeting you — it's for all of us who survived..."
"Go alter reality. Give everyone a happy, beautiful life..."
Jiangnan's eyes were red. He nearly ground his molars to pieces, looking at Lan and Mila with complicated emotions...
"But what about them—"
Lan shook her head, her eyes filled with soft light: "Brother Jiangnan... you should know that I absorbed the Void Engine. My body is constantly being assimilated by space. Eventually, I will become space itself, losing my consciousness, everything..."
"This process is irreversible. Even if I'm not made into the system, I won't live much longer. I can't keep walking with you..."
"Becoming the system, at least I can be with you, always walk with you. Whether the power of emotions can eventually restore me or not, I'll be content..."
"For me, that's enough... Brother Jiangnan, give me this chance, okay? I don't want you to send me away again. I don't want to die meaninglessly..."
Jiangnan's heart felt like it was being torn apart. The Void Engine... Lan shouldn't have absorbed it!
If the end was to become space, then becoming the system did offer a chance of recovery!
"But what about Mila? Can Mila withstand it? She doesn't have much lifespan left, let alone using a Star Devourer skill to transform into a time bridge!"
"She... will die..."
Li Bing shook her head: "You know me! I always leave a backup plan for any plan!"
"Yes! Once Mila does this, she will deplete all her telomerase and enter a near-death state! But do you know there's a place in the starry sky called the Time Abyss?"
"The Silicon-based race once hid a backup terminal there, and they did some research on the Time Abyss. Inside, there's a treasure called Time Crystal Sand, which is what formed the Time Abyss!"
"Mila can absorb that Time Crystal Sand. In her last dying moment, she can smelt the Time Crystal Sand into Time Crystal Amber! Inside Time Crystal Amber, everything freezes, becomes still, eternal!"
"This can freeze Mila's near-death state, maintaining her last vestiges of life, and the time bridge can also be sustained! That way, Mila still has a chance to live!"
"All you have to do is the same in the altered dream reality. Once you achieve the Cosmos Realm and create your own world, you can save Mila sealed in the Time Crystal Amber and bring her back to life!"
"This is the remedial measure I've left behind!"
Jiangnan fell silent, his eyes filled with difficulty: "In the altered dream reality... everything is unknown. What if in that reality, I can't accomplish these things?"
"That would be like sending them both to their deaths. I—"
But Mila stepped forward, grabbing Jiangnan's hand, shaking her head incessantly: "Brother Jiangnan, let me do it. Let me make up for the regrets of the past!"
"Whether I live in the end or not, I can accept it all. I don't want you to become a god, to turn into pure white without emotions. I don't want you to forget Mila!"
"Then... would you still be you? I beg you..."
"I know you care about me, but this time, let me choose for myself!"
"Besides, you care about me so much. In that altered dream reality, Brother Jiangnan will definitely care about me even more than now. How could you not save me? Right? Hehe~"
Jiangnan's eyes were filled with love and pity. Even though Mila was now terribly aged, in Jiangnan's eyes, she would always be that adorable little golden-haired angel nestled in his arms!
Li Bing took a deep breath: "Jiangnan! Listen to me this once! Just do it!"
"How long has it been since you last smiled? Yes, you could go become a god, save everyone still alive today... but who will save you?"
"How much have you lost along this journey? Only you know in your heart! You've always been living for others!"
"Please, for once, truly live for yourself! Alter reality. In that reality, live happily and carefree, without worries. Give yourself and everyone a beautiful, dreamlike life, without regrets!"
"This time, let us be the ones to save you! You deserve it!"
Jiangnan took a deep breath, looked down at the yellowed diary with its folded page corners, his eyes filled with complex emotions...
"I really hope that what's recorded in this diary won't be sorrow and suffering, cruelty and regret anymore, but filled with laughter and joy, starlight and brilliance..."
"If we could start over... maybe everything would be different?"
At this moment, Jiangnan's large hand gradually tightened around the diary, and his gaze became firm!
"What exactly needs to be done? How does that emotional power collection work? Since it requires a massive amount of emotional power, what's the most efficient way?"
As soon as he said this, Mila and Lan immediately became excited, jumping onto Jiangnan!
Brother Jiangnan agreed!
As long as he agreed, that was fine!
Li Bing smiled brightly: "That's simple. I'm planning to set up something like resentment value, anger value. As for efficient collection, we can put some work into the items we send back, adding some annoying side effects — the kind that don't interfere with the main function!"
"When something like that comes out, the people using it will definitely be filled with resentment, right? But they'll still have to use it. The collection of emotional power will naturally become efficient. Making people happy, confident, or touched is hard, but making them angry? That's easy!"
"Just mess with people a lot, and the emotional power will come flowing in!"
Jiangnan's forehead dripped with sweat: "Ah? That shady? It... it can't all be like that, right? There should be normal ones too?"
Li Bing smiled: "Of course! We'll also make good items without side effects to help you grow and get through tough times!"
"But... I haven't figured out yet what form to present the system in. Do you have any good ideas?"
Jiangnan frowned deeply: "What form? How about... setting up a street stall? I used to run a street stall when I was in school. And since we need to send back various items anyway, a street stall format would be more suitable, right? We can sell those items to others, making it easier to collect emotional power and restore Lan's emotions!"
Li Bing's eyes lit up: "Great idea! That's so you! Setting up a street stall, huh? Let me research that..."
Lan was excited: "Yes, yes, yes! I like this! This can make money! It suits me pretty well..."
A few of them walked along the wilderness, chattering back and forth, one sentence after another...
Everything was gradually taking shape...