I believed my worries were not unfounded.
What if there was a force behind the system that we simply could not fight against?
Would all our resistance be in vain?
Ye Jinghong said, "Even if it is futile, there are still things we have to do. We will only know the outcome after doing them, won't we? We can't just give up on everything because we can't see any hope. No matter what, at least we have all tried to change our own fate!"
I nodded slightly. She was right.
Xu Qiuyan said, "Not many people know about this. Most people in this world still muddle through their lives, yet they do not know that their lives could be rewritten or ended at any moment—and such rewriting and ending have nothing to do with them."
I said, "Those who can live forever—or rather, those who are immortal, those who call themselves gods—have they never thought of resisting?"
I was not only thinking of Guiguzi and Jiang Shang, but also those so-called gods, such as the Eastern and Western gods I had faced before.
Ye Jinghong smiled. "Wasn't their becoming so-called gods the result of resistance? If they had not resisted, how could they have become what they are now? They would have long since vanished into the river of time. Look back again—haven't plenty of gods fallen? Their resistance has never stopped, yet most of them still ended in failure. In the end, everything fell on you. Put nicely, you are the Chosen One. Put bluntly, all of us have placed our bets on you."
Every word Ye Jinghong spoke at that moment represented the Doctor.
I said, "But why me?"
Ye Jinghong fell silent for several seconds before slowly saying, "Because only you can end all this. Because nearly