191: Chapter 188 From the Unseen to the Visible
The backtracking began with that hand.
The last line of the post's main body contained only one sentence.
"It was Him. Everything, it was all His doing."
Symphony Realm — Dead silence.
A dead silence that lasted for a full eight seconds.
3.6 billion people stared at these twenty-three photos simultaneously, all falling silent at once.
Eight seconds.
For the Fate Platform Symphony Realm, eight seconds of silence was equivalent to a century.
Then — everyone spoke at once.
[Storm Eye (Yanhuang Civilization): Did I see that right?]
[Iron-Faced Ruthless (Yanhuang Civilization): Did I see that right too???]
[Little Taro (Yanhuang Civilization): These photos... are these photos real? They aren't Photoshopped, right?? They aren't synthesized with some editing tool, right??? Can someone who knows their stuff come out and verify this!]
[Fishing Light Song (Yanhuang Civilization): No need to verify. life ring screenshots come with built-in timestamps and coordinate watermarks, and the Fate Platform hasn't even enabled photo editing features yet, so how could they be faked?]
[Iron Straight Man (Yanhuang Civilization): Wait, wait, wait. Let me sort this out. From the fourth to the thirteenth photo — what is that golden light wave the figure waved with one hand?]
[Dream Maker (Yanhuang Civilization): Need you even ask? It's definitely some external manifestation of a powerful ability; I suspect it might even be a temporal fluctuation. Look at the fourteenth to twenty-third photos. After the golden wave, the Houseboat was repaired, and the people came back to life. They were pieced back together from fragments: bones — flesh — complete humans. Brother, this is time reversal.]
[Roaring Conch (Yanhuang Civilization): If these photos are real, then everything everyone said about the "Magic Sea official disaster test" is overturned. Because the Magic Sea authorities wouldn't need a humanoid figure to carry out disaster elimination. This was done by a human.]
This comment was like kicking over the table.
The "official disaster test theory" that had been built up for tens of minutes was shattered to pieces by these twenty-three photos.
Symphony Realm instantly split into two camps.
[Deep Sea Old Six (Yanhuang Civilization): Done by a human? What kind of human could do something like this? You tell me, who in the Magic Sea has this ability? Flattening a hundred-meter tsunami with one hand? Resurrecting millions of people? This isn't a human; this is a god.]
[Salted Fish Turnaround (Yanhuang Civilization): No, that's not right. There is one person in the Magic Sea who has always been doing things we thought were impossible. The compass, the Fate Platform, the Trading Realm, the combat assistance System... which one of these isn't a miracle?]
[Salted Fish Turnaround (Yanhuang Civilization): Don't you think? This golden figure... is it possible that it is —]
He didn't type those two characters.
But everyone knew what he wanted to say.
The comment section went quiet for an instant again. Then it exploded like fireworks.
[One Punch Man Dream (Yanhuang Civilization): Lord Fate Master??? Are you saying this person is Lord Fate Master???]
[Dont Panic Let Me Analyze (Yanhuang Civilization): Wait, calm down. What is one of the most core characteristics of Lord Fate Master? Invisibility. From day one until now, most of us have never seen Lord Fate Master's true face. If this golden figure is Lord Fate Master — how can we see him in the photos?]
[Fucked Up Life (Yanhuang Civilization): Yes, yes, yes, I even specifically went to watch the videos from the Revival Society and the Little Life Society earlier, and I still couldn't see Lord Fate Master's figure, but I can see him in this photo.]
This sentence precisely struck the biggest doubt in everyone's heart.
[Iron-Faced Ruthless (Yanhuang Civilization): Indeed. The fact that Lord Fate Master is invisible has been verified countless times. In the videos released by the Revival Society and the Little Life Society, the vast majority of people still haven't been able to see Lord Fate Master's figure. In the description posts made by several Survivors who personally experienced Lord Fate Master's rescue during that beast tide, they also said that Lord Fate Master's face was blurry in their memories and couldn't be remembered. This is definitely a characteristic emitted by one of Lord Fate Master's abilities, not something you can break just by taking a screenshot.]
[Wind-Chasing Youth (Yanhuang Civilization): So this figure cannot be Lord Fate Master? Then who is it? Is there an existence in the Magic Sea stronger than Lord Fate Master?]
[Deep Sea Pig Farming King (Yanhuang Civilization): If it's not Lord Fate Master, then there exists a super entity in this Magic Sea that we know absolutely nothing about, one capable of extinguishing a tsunami with one hand and resurrecting millions of people. This possibility... honestly, scares me more than "it being Lord Fate Master."]
[Deep Sea Pig Farming King (Yanhuang Civilization): Everyone can feel what Lord Fate Master has done up to now; he is absolutely our guardian god. So, no matter how powerful he is, there's nothing to worry about; on the contrary, the safer we are. But if it's a strange, unknown powerhouse, then that's hard to say...]
The discussion had completely spiraled out of control.
Various speculations were flying around the Symphony Realm — some said it was the Incarnation of the Magic Sea's will, some said it was a super powerhouse from some hidden civilization, some said it might be the mastermind behind the Transmigration events, and some even said it might be an alien.
But these speculations didn't last long.
Because — the second nuclear bomb had arrived.
A Survivor from the Fog City Camp with the ID "Roman Worcester" posted a video.
The post title had only five characters.
[Full version video.]
The main body read: "Coincidence. My Houseboat was also quite close to the disaster core area, but I managed to avoid many disasters. I used a camera I opened earlier to record the whole process."
Video duration: 4 minutes and 17 seconds.
The first two minutes showed the sea surface suddenly beginning to tremble violently, and a wall of water rising slowly on the distant horizon, blocking out the sky. The recorder's breathing grew increasingly rapid, and their hands were shaking.
Two minutes and twelve seconds in.
The water wall was already close enough to see the debris churning inside.
Then — the sea surface in the center of the distant screen exploded silently.
It wasn't an explosion.
It was something piercing through the sea surface from below, moving so fast that only a blurry afterimage remained on the screen.
The sonic boom took a fraction of a second to reach the recorder's location, shaking the screen violently.
The key part arrived.
This afterimage — couldn't be seen clearly.
No golden light. No humanoid outline. Only a mass of distorted air, like the visual distortion during heat haze, shooting straight from the sea surface to the sky.
Couldn't see a person.
Not even a trace of a humanoid outline could be seen.
Then, two minutes and forty-one seconds in.
That "invisible thing" hovered at a hundred meters in the air. Immediately after — golden ripples spread from that position in all directions.
As the ripples spread, the "invisible thing" began — to become visible.
First, a blurry outline. Like ink spreading on paper, pale golden lines emerged from nothingness, outlining the boundaries of a human shape.
Then the shoulders. The arms. The five fingers hanging by its sides.
Finally, a complete golden humanoid figure coalesced a hundred meters in the air.
And by this time, the tsunami was already receding.
The remaining minute or so of the video was consistent with the content recorded in Pierre's photos — the tsunami retracted, the Houseboats reunited, and the dead were resurrected.
But everyone's attention was no longer on this.
Everyone's attention was locked tightly onto those twenty-nine seconds between two minutes and twelve seconds and two minutes and forty-one seconds.
From invisible — to visible.