What came into view was the familiar space filled with gray fog.

Ning Yu stood on the blue lake again, calmly looking at Yue Ji who looked exactly like her.

"Hmm? What are you talking about?"

Yue Ji showed a puzzled expression and looked at Ning Yu who was asking her questions.

"Is it interesting to manipulate and modify other people's memories like this?"

Ning Yu continued to remind her.

"No, you probably misunderstood."

Yue Ji suddenly understood, covered her mouth and laughed softly, then stretched out her arms and waved them gently in the air.

A line was drawn with her fingers, and then the line began to branch out like a branch, and continued to expand on the basis of the branch.

Soon it turned into a huge pattern from left to right, with countless branches in the middle.

Ning Yu was a little confused.

Tsukishime pointed to a spot above and said:

“You came back from here.”

There was a green light flickering gently, and it disappeared when Ning Yu glanced at it.

"What is this?"

She didn't understand what Yue Ji meant.

“There are countless possibilities.”

Yue Ji's whole body floated up, her pure white dress fluttering with its skirt, and the golden vortex pattern on her forehead lit up.

Ning Yu saw the light spot just now in an instant, and it was infinitely magnified in front of her: she had a happy family since childhood, was well taken care of, her parents were healthy, and her grandmother had not fallen to picking up garbage for a living.

In the possibility represented by this light spot, I did not become a cold-blooded killing machine, but instead reached the end of my life like an ordinary person.

It is a complete and fulfilling life.

"You see, you humans are limited by language and are creatures locked in time."

Tsukishime explained.

“What does this have to do with language?”

Ning Yu was a little confused.

"All your language, including what I'm saying to you right now, is full of linear relationships."

Yue Ji picked up a line without branches from it and gestured to Ning Yu.

"Linear relationship?"

Ning Yu stared at the line on her hand and asked for details.

“It’s cause and effect.”

“When light hits water from a horizontal surface, refraction occurs.”

"From your description, there is a causal relationship implied here."

"You can only understand linear thinking, so light appears to you to be temporal, because it hits the water surface, the medium changes, and so it refracts."

"This is the shackles that language and time place on you. You cannot escape cause and effect, and you cannot escape linearity."

"But to higher-level creatures, it is just like a picture, neither from left to right nor from right to left, neither from cause to effect nor from effect to cause."

Tsukishime rolled the string, which represented possibility, into a circle.

“It has no direction, it’s just a fact.”

“Light in the middle always chooses the shortest path, or the most beautiful path, to present itself.”

"With this kind of thinking, the past and the future coexist, and there is no cause and effect."

The thread composed of the past and the future began to stretch again in Yueji's hand and developed many branches.

Ning Yu was already confused after hearing this, and spread out his hands and started to show off.

"Can't you put it in a way that I can understand?"

"Oh well."

Tsukiki shook her head slightly.

"There are countless parallel spaces in this universe, and you just came back from one of them."

"If you didn't come back, I would have gone to get you back."

Ning Yu raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and finally understood this time.

"So I'm so important? How come I didn't know that?"

"You surprised me. I'm curious about what force drove you to come back here from that state."

Yue Ji looked at Ning Yu, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Ning Yu burst out laughing and spread his hands:

“It turns out there are things you don’t know.”

"Theoretically, no, but in order to be able to communicate with you, I must have it. You have to know that omniscience and omnipotence are always contradictory to free will."

Tsukhime started saying some incomprehensible words again.

“Have you seen Interstellar?”

Ning Yu threw out the name of a movie.

"I am not interested in your artistic creation. That is your freedom."

Yue Ji shook her head without even thinking about it. It seemed that she was really not interested.

"Then you won't understand."

Ning Yu curled her lips, then took a deep breath and said seriously.

"Let's get down to business."

She raised her finger and pointed at herself:

"Do you think I still have a chance?"

Yue Ji heard Ning Yu's stiff tone and suddenly laughed: "You're imitating the lines so soon?"

Ning Yu immediately narrowed her eyes and stared at Yue Ji. She felt that this girl was beginning to become disdainful: "You said you don't look at human art?"

Yue Ji ignored Ning Yu's questioning and raised her finger to magnify a part of the pattern of countless branches.

The enlarged pattern is very strange. There are countless branches branching out from one branch, arranged in parallel, but there is no follow-up.

It looks like it will continue to expand downwards.

"What's going on?"

Ning Yu noticed that the pattern on this piece was obviously different from other places.

If this really represents different possibilities for the future, then there seem to be too many possibilities to start from this branch.

“That’s the problem.”

“Originally, this is where my intervention was needed.”

Yue Ji flipped up and down all these parallel branches, and it turned out that what Ning Yu saw was only a small area.

Looking at Yueji's fingers sliding constantly, the number is far more than what can be seen on the surface.

"Now, there's a little kid causing some trouble."

It seemed that there were too many branches, and Yue Ji was too lazy to continue searching.

"According to what you just said, since the past and the future are all within your knowledge, why do you still need me? Can't you just solve it with a wave of your hand?"

Ning Yu seemed to have thought of a logical loophole.

"Yes and no, this is a painting that I have to finish."

Yue Ji placed these countless branches in front of Ning Yu.

"There is a small problem with this painting now, and you are the pen that must be used to complete this painting."

"I can't just draw it. It's a little hard to explain to you."

"You are somehow created by the suppression force. Only you can be this pen. I am just a bystander at best."

Yue Ji clicked on the top branch and placed it in front of Ning Yu.

"Compared to the nonsense I said, I think you might care more about these things."

The golden vortex on her forehead lit up, and the first branch of all the parallel branches unfolded in front of Ning Yu like a scroll.

Ning Yu was stunned when she saw the picture:

The entire Ark base fell into a sea of ​​corpses, tall Wraths destroyed the buildings, and Gluttons jumped everywhere to harvest survivors.

High in the sky sat that sickeningly familiar face—the Morning Star.