"So it failed after all..."
"You chose this in the end, Lin Li."
Huang Ji was not surprised by Lin Li's decisive betrayal. His voice held only a trace of disappointment and resignation, as though he had accepted the inevitable outcome before him.
Lin Li froze. Then panic crept in.
"What? What do you mean?"
Huang Ji still seemed to be fighting a force more powerful than Lin Li could comprehend.
Though he struggled desperately, his voice remained calm. "Just like the fate of the Wall-Breaking Legion... your betrayal here has turned my only chance of survival into a fleeting dream. It's also the outcome I foresaw long ago."
"But I refused to believe in that outcome. I hoped you would create a miracle... Unfortunately, these countless chains of cause and effect are like things falling into a black hole. However winding their paths, they all end the same way."
Lin Li's heart pounded. Had his supposed discovery of a false Huang Ji actually led him straight into the fate he had been trying to avoid? He had stopped. The plan was ruined, and resuming it would be pointless. The moment had passed.
Huang Ji was still resisting the Nine Dimensions Ultimate Body's invasion, and Lin Li had failed to win him that slim chance of survival. He had wrecked Huang Ji's entire plan.
The thought nearly broke him.
"Impossible... Was I wrong?"
"I betrayed you? I actually betrayed you?"
That battle plan had been Huang Ji's only chance of survival, and Lin Li had thrown it into the Abyss on the strength of his so-called intuition.
What if he was wrong? Of course he could be wrong. He was an idiot. People had been fooling him since childhood.
What Lin Li could least bear was the thought that his