Restart?
Hearing Guiguzi say that, I thought of a term: an endless loop!
I looked at him and frowned. "Could it be that all of this has been repeating in a loop?"
Guiguzi took a sip of wine without answering.
My parents and Bai Ye both looked extremely grave as well.
It seemed I had guessed right.
I asked Guiguzi, "Where's the doctor?"
Guiguzi froze for a moment, then asked in return, "Are you asking about Xiao Jingfeng?"
I nodded. Guiguzi continued, "Do you want his help?"
I nodded again. I really did want his help, because in my eyes, he should have been capable of anything.
Guiguzi sighed. "Unfortunately, no one can help you. He especially cannot interfere, unless he is willing to bear a price he does not wish to bear."
Ye Jinghong asked curiously, "What price?"
"The complete destruction of the system, including that woman and himself."
At that, Guiguzi gave a bitter smile. "Xiao Jingfeng actually knew long ago that he and the system were the root of everything. Only if they were both destroyed could everything truly end. But he did not want that, and it was not his fault. Some might call him selfish, say he was not great enough—if they sacrificed themselves, the world could be at peace. But that was not how it worked. Whether it was him or the system, they were lives too. Their lives were simply different from ours. Why should they be sacrificed? That was why all of us were willing to accompany him in trying again and again, willing to fall into this endless loop with them."
I understood what Guiguzi meant.
Those who stood on the moral high ground and claimed that peace under heaven could be achieved as long as they sacrificed themselves were the