Chapter 1887
This was a classic question.
It was also a question with no correct answer.
Everyone would make different choices based on their own experiences and beliefs.
At the very least, Meng Chao asked himself, no matter the circumstances, if he watched Lü Siya—who had not yet done anything wrong—about to be swallowed by surging Spirit Flame, he could never stand by and do nothing.
No, not just Lü Siya. It would be anyone—anyone who had not committed a wrong, anyone whose crimes did not merit death. He would do everything in his power to save them.
But was that really so?
He remembered that just after gaining Doomsday Memory, his high school class monitor, Zuo Haoran, had provoked him. In the end, Meng Chao had struck too heavily, cracking Zuo Haoran's spine and severely affecting his performance in the National College Entrance Examination, most likely cutting off his path upward.
Half the blame for that lay with Zuo Haoran, who had brought it upon himself.
But the other half was because Meng Chao had seen in Doomsday Memory that years later, Zuo Haoran would betray Dragon City Civilization and become a lackey of the Holy Light Faction.
That was why he had wanted to "nip danger in the bud."
But was what he saw in Doomsday Memory necessarily correct, destined to happen, or perhaps something that had already happened once before?
Clearly, it was not.
The future held infinite possibilities.
In some possibilities, Meng Chao was civilization's hope, a general commanding Dragon City, a black hero who was half man and half beast yet still fought on stubbornly.
But in another possibility, Meng Chao ruled over the entire Otherworld as the High Priest of the Holy Light Temple.
If, following the logic of "nipping danger in the bud,"