The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 217 The Widow's Diary

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After Li Can stepped out of the portal opened by the [coordinate point], he arrived in Antarctica.

This was the farthest place our family had ever been.

Now, many years after the apocalypse, the scenery here looks much better than it did back then.

Because it is far enough away from human habitation areas, it is not greatly affected.

Li Can sensed everything around him, unaware of where his own fate, humanity's fate, and the world's fate as a whole would ultimately lead.

I felt that the scenery before me was not to be wasted, and at the same time, I was keenly aware that I might not have many more opportunities to experience the full spectrum of human emotions like this.

The Antarctic landscape has no boundaries; as Li Can looked out, a vast expanse of white filled his entire field of vision.

The ice fields stand tall in all directions, their shapes similar yet with distinct details.

"The last time I came here must have been seven years ago..."

The wind whistled past Li Can's ears. He was dressed in thin clothes, which seemed quite out of place in such cold weather.

He felt his ears were so frozen they were about to go numb.

In the distance, there were several zombie penguins, swaying like walking corpses. After the apocalypse, even the animals here had been infected by the virus sent by the pseudo-planet.

As Li Can watched, she suddenly felt a tingling sensation in her eyes. .

He then regained his serious demeanor; his reason wouldn't allow him to indulge in emotions for too long.

After thinking for a moment, Li Can moved his feet and released the house he had previously collected in the empty gashapon capsules on the open ground.

He has collected quite a few houses like this; the gashapon space is more than enough to hold them all, and there will always be a time when they can be used.

The house is deeply embedded in the ice, making it very sturdy and secure.

This is a naturally reinforced foundation.

Li Can pushed open the door, walked into the house, found the study, stomped his feet on the ground, and the snow and ice under his feet began to melt into a thick mass of black water that had been stained with other cities.

He ignored the detail, casually rubbed his shoes on the thick carpet, then pulled out a wooden chair and sat down at the table.

[The Widow's Diary] has been preserved since time immemorial, and cannot be viewed by others without permission.

Li Can took out the diary he had obtained from his first dungeon run from his inventory, placed it respectfully on the table, and spread out the pages.

"Swish, swish, swish..." came the sound of a fountain pen scratching on paper.

Li Can wrote for three or four hours before finally stopping.

He closed the diary, didn't look at it a second time, and directly put it back into his inventory.

"I'll stop here for now and finish it later, if there's a chance..."

After saying this, he stretched, pushed back his chair, got out, and reopened the portal to the [coordinates].

The next second, they traversed a distance of approximately 15,000 kilometers and returned directly to their villa in Icefield City.

The room was furnished exactly as it had been when he left.

Although Icefield City is also a snowy and icy place, it is generally more suitable for human habitation than Antarctica.

After going back and forth, Li Can even felt that this place was very warm.

A noise suddenly came from Ayun's bedroom.

Li Can listened to the sounds, "Looks like I timed my return perfectly..."

Immediately afterwards, a white, pillow-sized cloud with a familiar appearance staggered open the bedroom door and floated out.

"Human! You actually conjured up a snow-view room for me!"

Having grown accustomed to A-Yun's human-like speech, Li Can was still a little unaccustomed to his avatar transforming into Yun Duo and speaking in the same manner they had first met.

"Yes, wasn't that what we asked for before? So, is your true form a human or a cloud...?" Li Can asked, somewhat curious.

Interrupted, Ayun also began to seriously consider the question. "Oh... well... it's all me. If I had to talk about my true form, it would actually be the sphere of Earth, Blue Star."

As Ayun spoke, she drew a perfect circle in the air with her body.

"I see."

"Hey, are you ready? Let me think about what I should teach you first after we get out. Should it be teleportation, flight, or the laws of time...?"

"The law of time, I suppose," Li Can replied without hesitation.

Long before A-Yun emerged from seclusion, Li Can, through his daily work clearing out zombies, had resolved to learn the laws of time.

He couldn't wait to go back in time and change the outcome.

Those were once living, breathing humans, and he didn't want to see them become like this. Even the penguins he saw in Antarctica just now didn't look like they used to be.

The world is sick; the mechanical failures are severe, and someone needs to mend and repair it.

As for the other techniques and laws mentioned by A-Yun, Li Can was also very interested in them.

However, the time law is more meaningful in comparison.

As for his other abilities, he can temporarily rely on the gashapon capsules he gets from the gashapon machine as a substitute.

This is something that fake stars and fake people have always coveted; it must be something extraordinary.

"Great, that's exactly what I was thinking too." A-Yun was also very happy to hear that Li Can was willing to bring up the laws of time.

"But before that, I have a question I'd like to ask you."

"What is it, a person?"

"During your seclusion, I made a lot of efforts, and I gradually discovered something." Li Can prepared how to describe this phenomenon.

"The world timelines of the humans on Earth that I can contact now, both as a whole and as individuals, are completely different from ours."

"The ground beneath our feet is littered with the torsos and corpses of the dead, or those transformed into zombies. But in another dimension, they not only survived, but the entire world continues to develop..."

"Everyone can find two corresponding bodies here, but I can't find mine. Why isn't there another me, another Li Can, in this other timeline?"

"And what about you? Will you also be a completely new version of yourself there, someone who doesn't recognize me?"

Ah Yun floated leisurely in the air, making Li Can appear to be in a rather tense defensive posture.

It spoke in a very relaxed tone, as if it were just a casual question about how many eggs someone wanted for breakfast.

"Oh, you've been thinking a lot lately."

"I can tell you with absolute certainty that even if the laws of time can change the past, what is altered is merely what you humans call parallel universes."

"Regrets that have already happened can never be changed, and the dead are truly dead. Cherishing the present is the right path."

"As for you, the other Li Can in the time and space I chose has already merged with you at this moment. It can be said that you are not only yourself now, but you are also entirely yourself."

"From the moment the toy store was affected by the explosion of the restaurant next door, Li Can was transported to my side."

Chapter update reminder: Chapter 217 The Widow's Diary, read here.