If you had already seen the most beautiful future imaginable, would you still choose to struggle in the past?
The first trial Wen Xishu faced gave him exactly that feeling.
The future, an unknown timeline.
A few white clouds dotted the azure sky, and the sun shone brightly.
This was unmistakably a city inhabited by humans, yet everything within it was so orderly.
Wen Xishu gazed at the neat streets and the people coming and going, taking in the comforting bustle of everyday life.
For a moment, he froze.
Not only was Wen Xishu stunned, but even the flesh belonging to Sirius that clung to him fell silent.
"This... I've never seen this timeline. It's so beautiful. It's just like a human city before the apocalypse... no, many years before the apocalypse."
High-rises stood in dense rows, crowds bustled back and forth, and traffic flowed without end.
As it happened, Wen Xishu stood at a high vantage point with no one else around.
He seemed to be in an apartment on an upper floor somewhere in the city, and he could even use a telescope to see the distant scenery.
Everything was so harmonious.
"This isn't somewhere you created, is it?" Wen Xishu asked quietly.
He knew Sirius could hear him.
Sirius's voice sounded in Wen Xishu's mind again.
"No... I know what my timelines look like. Unless I gain my freedom, any place I create will have something strange about it. Visibly strange."
Wen Xishu said nothing. He merely turned the telescope elsewhere. From his vantage point, he could look down over almost half the city.
Wen Xishu could see children happily playing on slides at a distant kindergarten. Their faces all wore smiles, but each expression was different.
There were also parents arriving late, bringing their children to