I'm not a drama god

Chen Ling had a dream.

He dreamed that he was back in Shennongjia and back in the tent on the rainy night.

A stove was burning in the center of the tent. Lu Xun, Yang Xiao, Su Zhiwei, Ji Xuan, Lou Yu, Qi Muyun, Wen Ruoshui, Wu Tongyuan... everyone gathered together and seriously discussed how to save the world in front of Chen Ling.

Wu Tongyuan was shrinking, Ji Xuan was annoyed, Lou Yu was silent, Lu Xun was smiling... Everything was progressing in an orderly manner just as Chen Ling remembered.

But the next second, the fire in the tent suddenly went out.

Cold and darkness filled the entire tent. The sounds of laughter and discussion around Chen Ling completely vanished. He stood up in confusion, only to find that there was no one beside him...

Chen Ling rushed to the door of the tent, trying to look for the missing people, but the next moment, a figure who shouldn't be there stopped him at the door.

"Chen Ling, you shouldn't be here." Under the pale light, Chu Changqing's eyes flashed with ferocity.

Chen Ling subconsciously took a step back, his eyes looking over Chu Changqing's shoulder at the open space outside the tent.

I saw that the people who had just disappeared in the tent had dispersed in the open space outside at some point. The heavy rain soaked their bodies, but they remained unmoved. Pairs of complex and unfamiliar eyes were staring at Chen Ling who was trapped in the tent.

"Chen Ling, you shouldn't be here."

The sound, accompanied by the roar of thunder, exploded in Chen Ling's ears!

……

Chen Ling suddenly woke up from her sleep!!

A biting cold wind swept in from the end of the gray world, causing Chen Ling, who was drenched in cold sweat, to shiver. He was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses...

Then, a familiar fragrance entered his nostrils.

"Master Chen Ling, are you awake?"

Chen Ling looked down and saw a familiar girl carrying him on her back in the snow, walking step by step in the desolate gray world.

"Liu Qingyan?"

Chen Ling immediately struggled to get off her back, but as soon as her feet touched the ground, they softened slightly and she almost fell to the ground again.

Fortunately, Liu Qingyan reacted quickly and supported him:

"Master Chen Ling, Master said that you are overdrawn too severely and cannot move freely."

"…It's okay, I feel much better now."

Chen Ling was already awake, so he couldn't be so shameless as to let Liu Qingyan carry him. He had to walk on his own, even if it meant gritting his teeth. He turned around and found that the outline of the Aurora Realm was completely invisible. He didn't know how long this girl had been carrying him while he was unconscious.

"Why are you here?"

"Master asked me to come find you."

"Master?"

Chen Ling followed Liu Qingyan's gaze and saw a figure in a gray robe standing on the barren land not far away, looking at this place quietly, like a quiet and clear moon.

With Chen Ling's current strength, he didn't even notice her presence just now.

"Heart 6 Chen Ling, meet the Gray King."

Chen Ling raised his hand and prepared to salute. After all, he was still a member of the Twilight Society, and the Gray King was the second in command and a senior senior, so etiquette was still essential.

But the next second, the gray-robed figure suddenly appeared in front of him like a ghost, and firmly held Chen Ling's hand as he was about to salute.

"You don't need to salute me." The Gray King paused for a moment and added,

"From now on, you don't need to bow to anyone."

Chen Ling froze on the spot.

He felt that the Gray King's words were a little strange, but he couldn't put his finger on what was wrong. After hesitating for a moment, he asked:

"Senior Gray King, why are you here?"

"I came here specially to see you."

"Looking for me? What for?"

The Gray King was silent for a moment, "I'll take you to see...your master."

The doubt in Chen Ling's eyes became more and more intense.

"Didn't he land on the Red Star? Has he returned?"

"..." The Gray King didn't answer. She just looked at Chen Ling deeply, then turned and walked in a certain direction. "Come with me, when you see him... you will know."

Seeing that Gray King was unwilling to answer, Chen Ling turned to look at Liu Qingyan...

Liu Qingyan shook her head at him blankly.

"……All right."

Chen Ling had no other choice but to follow the Gray King. Liu Qingyan followed in small steps, silently following behind Chen Ling.

The direction the Gray King was heading was not towards the Xidao Ancient Treasures. Chen Ling compared it on the map in her mind and found that the target did not seem to be any human realm... She said she would take her to see the Red King, but where was the Red King?

Chen Ling didn't know and didn't ask much. The Gray King didn't seem to want to mention it and just walked in silence.

Time passed by,

Chen Ling's thoughts quickly returned to the dream she had just had.

Everything about the Time Archive lingered in his mind like a spell, causing him to ponder over it. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of the Gray King's back from the corner of his eye...

and many more.

Wasn't the Gray King once the owner of a time archive?

If that's the case, why not just ask her?

"Senior Gray King, regarding the era archive... I have some doubts." Chen Ling couldn't help but speak.

Gray Queen glanced back at him with a complicated expression. She seemed to have guessed that Chen Ling would ask this question. After a moment's silence, she nodded.

"If you have any questions, just ask."

"Can the Time Archive change the past?"

"Of course not." The Gray King shook his head decisively. "If the Time Archive could easily change the course of history, wouldn't everything be in chaos? If our Twilight Society truly possessed that ability, how could we only be at the level we are today..."

Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat, and her mind went blank for a moment...

"What exactly is the archive of that era?"

The Gray King asked in return, "What is the goal of our Twilight Society?"

Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, then answered without hesitation, "Reverse the times and restart the world."

"An archive of the times is exactly what it means. It is an 'archive,' and since it is an archive, it is impossible to change the established historical trajectory...

Its function is to overwrite the history that has already occurred at a specific point with the 'reality' recorded in the archive...

That is what we are pursuing... to reverse the times and restart the world."

Chen Ling frowned tightly.

Chu Muyun seemed to have mentioned a similar statement when he first joined the Twilight Society... But he didn't understand the meaning of "overwriting history" at the time, and the most important thing was that the attitude of Yang Xiao and others towards him later made him doubt the true ability of this thing.

After all, if the archive was just an archive, how could Yang Xiao and the others know him?

"But the Nine Lords of this era clearly..."

Chen Ling was halfway through his speech when a thought suddenly flashed through his mind like lightning. A possibility he had never considered before exploded in his mind like thunder!

"Wait, you mean..."

"The world we live in now has been restarted more than once??"

"The Jiu Jun I met in this era is not the Jiu Jun I saw in the era archive... but the Jiu Jun who had a connection with the previous owner of the era archive in the previous world??!"

Chen Ling felt his head buzzing. He thought this idea was quite absurd and contained too many logical loopholes!

If this is the case, many things simply cannot be explained!

"I know what you are thinking." The Gray King spoke again.

"Chen Ling..."

"The choices you made in the Time Archive are not changing the past of the Nine Lords of this world..."

"You are paving the way for their future in the next world."