I Really Didn't Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 858: Chapter 513: Realization_1

Regarding the inheritance of his own age, Harrison Clark had myriad speculations.

Sometimes he was optimistic, while other times he was pessimistic.

Many scientists had performed countless tests on him, but none could draw a definitive conclusion.

For Galactic humans, whose lifespans could be extended to as much as three to five hundred years or at least two hundred years, conventional methods such as bone age, DNA tests, cell senescence detection, and stem cell division detection were of little significance. Quark-level tests were also of little use, as the human body is highly random.

In the previous timelines, when he went to the thirty-first century, he directly inherited another Harrison Clark’s body, and then transformed and assimilated it into his own.

But in the ninth timeline, he was reshaped based on his own remains.

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Moreover, in the first eight timelines, he only lived for one year each time, and even if there were discrepancies, they were only a day or two apart.

Compared to the two hundred-year lifespan of Galactic humans, he simply didn’t care about the mere eight years of difference.

But this time, something unexpected happened.

He inherited his own body and lived in the thirty-first century in a fleshly form for a hundred and four years.

Even though his lifespan was much longer than ordinary people, it was observable even with the naked eye that he had indeed “aged.”

“A lot happened this time, didn’t it?”

Carrie Thomas asked softly.

Harrison Clark replied with a smile, “Yes, a lot happened. We both did quite well.”

“I won’t ask you about the specifics; you have your own plans. Go clean up and then come to eat breakfast.”

“Alright.”

It seemed that Carrie Thomas knew he needed solitude, so even though she had many questions in her heart, she hid them away and sent him off to wash up.

As he closed the door to the bathroom, Harrison Clark looked at himself in the mirror.

He couldn’t quite remember the last time he had looked in a mirror; it had been too long ago.

His hairstyle was the same as before he left, and his facial features hadn’t changed much, but there was a sense of agedness in his brows and eyes.

His skin seemed deeper than before and his pores slightly larger.

There were faint crow’s feet at the corner of his eyes, but they were hardly noticeable if one didn’t look closely.

His current appearance was on par with that of a well-preserved middle-aged person in his thirties, and he could even participate in the top ten youth selection.

With the average life expectancy of Galactic humans close to three hundred years, his one hundred and thirty-eight years equated to just thirty-five in twenty-first century human terms.

Now his gene activation level had reached 50%, making him a perfect Galactic human.

Although he didn’t have access to the thirty-first century’s life expectancy testing methods, Harrison Clark estimated, based on his past experiences, that he now had a chance of living to be five hundred years old.

It was a pity that he was slightly showing signs of aging when he became a perfect Galactic human, and his appearance was likely frozen at that stage, only to gradually reveal the true signs of aging another two or three hundred years later.

Harrison Clark estimated he had about three hundred years left in his lifetime on this timeline.

He thought that was pretty good.

Previously, he looked too young as a “successful person” and now he finally had some maturity to his appearance.

Logically, his changes weren’t that noticeable; 99% of people in the world might not even be able to tell the difference. It was just that the first person he encountered upon his return was his bedside partner, Carrie Thomas, whose observational skills were simply too sharp.

Harrison Clark was not usually a narcissistic person, but this time he stared at himself in the mirror for a full five minutes.

He was carefully analyzing his current situation.

Since it was proven that his physical age in the thirty-first century would be inherited, it meant that his initial judgment had been seriously flawed.

He didn’t have thousands of chances to waste.

As he got closer to success in the thirty-first century, the closer he was to a true aging death, and thus the loss of his time-traveling ability. @@novelbin@@

There was a safer method: after each trip to the past, he could finish all that needed to be done and then promptly kill himself to end it early.

Although this seemed like a solution, Harrison Clark now realized his own importance to the humans of the thirty-first century.

In order to successfully overcome the dual threats of higher-order civilizations and Compound-Eyed Observers, humans needed more than just technology but also steel-like determination and absolute unity in execution.

In other words, the humanity of the thirty-first century needed the guidance of a great leader, and that leader was Harrison Clark.

He had no choice.

So, Harrison Clark began to develop a genuine sense of urgency in his heart.

Perhaps the next time would be the last time.

Harrison Clark recalled the inner turmoil he had experienced while wandering the Orion Arm with Freddy in the previous timeline.

At that time, he had wanted to commit suicide more than once, but couldn’t bear to waste Freddy’s efforts, so he decided to bet it all.

Eventually, he waited for Freddy’s countless results, the Grand Unified Formula, all the people in the Shadow Galaxy, and the technological explosion of mankind’s step into a fourth-class civilization.

So he had both lost and won the bet.

When asked if he had any regrets,

His answer was no.

As a gambler who went all in on a daily basis, he was already prepared for the price to be paid.

Harrison Clark stared blankly at the mirror and thought seriously for about ten more minutes.

He slowly cleared his thoughts and made a decision.

As the truth about his age inheritance was revealed, both he and the shortcut of mankind had reached their limits.

So, the next timeline would be both his and humanity’s great battle.

This time, I will become a true perfect leader and take everything to the ultimate extreme.