The Final Chapter • The Ending

This was a question worth questioning.

Although Mei's talent was in no way inferior to Doctor Mobius's, and might even have surpassed hers by a subtle margin, she was ultimately still an ordinary person who had been unable to undergo the Fusion Gene surgery and had a relatively weak constitution.

Even Doctor Mobius, who was known as the Fusion Warrior least likely to die, had gradually exhausted her soul under that price over the long years, eventually having to anchor herself within an interlayer of the Imaginary Tree to cling to life, ending up in a state no different from death. This was even more true for Mei.

Su Qing'an understood that, if the future of that world line had continued, the most likely outcome was that Mei would have perished before she could even wait for the civilization of this era to sprout, leaving behind only a corpse sealed inside a hibernation pod.

Death was the most ordinary result of all.

That person had devoted all her time and energy to civilization, entrusting it to a future she might never witness with her own eyes. Until the final moment before the end, she had still been advancing the unfinished Kindling Project. How could she have had the leisure to leave herself a contingency plan?

Doctor Mobius said indifferently:

"I don't know."

"But after I awakened, the brain waves in Mei's hibernation pod had already ceased, and the instruments could detect only extremely faint soul fluctuations."

"Although her body remained perfectly preserved, and under the optimization and improvement of the equipment still retained the age and vitality it had back then, the smoothing effect of time had even erased most of the price her body had paid, leaving her no different from an ordinary person."

"But once the mental problems