Chapter 506: 500: Anomaly of Zero (Part 1)

Chapter 506: Chapter 500: Anomaly of Zero (Part 1)

Honestly, Finn Lewis had to be pretty badass to not be scared by what had just happened. You don’t believe me? Then try putting yourself in his shoes. Even a towering figure like Oscar would have peed his pants in the face of such a scene.

“Aren’t you going to explain all this to me?” Finn asked, pointing at his surroundings which had returned to normal.

“It’s a restoration beam, purified using deep cosmic energy infusion technology. It may seem like time is reversing, but it’s simply using pure energy to restore damaged objects to their prior states. When technology is advanced enough, most ordinary objects can be artificially manufactured through energy infusion. Producing a copy of Earth is a simple matter if there is enough energy,” Zero answered in an unusually lengthy explanation.

“Damn, that technology sounds cool as hell, but that’s not what I asked about,” Finn complained exasperatedly. Who gives a damn about this when the main question is who these aliens are and why they are after his life?

“The rest is beyond the scope of my explanations!” Zero promptly shut Finn down with a single statement.

“Bullshit! You were just scared shitless by our guest just now, weren’t you?!” Finn accused, half-mocking, half-serious. It seemed that way from his perspective since Zero disappeared when the stranger appeared, and came back once the threat had left.

Zero disappeared again without a word in response to Finn’s accusation.

“Fine, let me ask this, could you destroy that spaceship?” Finn asked, changing the subject. Being a punching bag is not his style. However, his current capabilities seemed as threatening as an ant preparing for a head-on showdown with a full-grown, fully armored man.

This wasn’t even a fight on the same level, was it?

“Is there anything I can help with, young master?” Fishy asked.

“Oh, nothing much, I’m just on my way back home.” Finn, running through his thoughts, responded.

“Oh my, you’ve already finished hanging out with your classmates?” Fishy asked, surprised.

“Uh huh, they had to leave because something came up,” Finn explained casually, brushing Fishy off. She didn’t think much of it and ended the call.

After hanging up, Finn asked, “Did you tell her I was meeting up with some classmates, Olivia?”

“No, I didn’t say that,” Olivia replied, leaving Finn even more confused.

“What did you tell her?” Finn asked, his eyes wide in anticipation.

“I said we had some urgent business to attend to and proposed that she leaves first,” Olivia answered, leaving Finn stunned. Olivia’s statement couldn’t be false, as she wouldn’t lie. Besides, Fishy’s tone in their conversation didn’t seem deceitful either. There must be some misunderstanding somewhere.

Finn stayed silent for a moment, before asking, “Olivia, where do you think the misunderstanding happened?”

“Unable to judge. It seems like a form of memory manipulation,” Olivia speculated.

Finn tilted his head and thought back to the horrifying scene from earlier. Way beyond understanding, the seemingly time-reversing process that restored everything around him to its original state was disconcerting, even though he might not understand due to his current technological state. This overwhelming technology left him feeling rather powerless.