Infinite Possibilities

Adonis spoke with utter seriousness.

Lan Mu listened in complete confusion.

"Eight years old? By Earth time, I'm thirty-five this year, because of the time differences caused by black holes and different universes. By the time I've personally experienced, I'm about twenty-nine. There's no way I could be eight. When I was eight, I was in elementary school."

Lan Mu was speechless. What the hell was that supposed to mean?

Had Adonis suddenly been restricted by 001 and blurted out something nonsensical?

Adonis said, "Haven't you realized it yet? I said so much before about the Blood of Years and timelines. You should have thought of it..."

"This timeline was created so that you could arrive in 1860. A timeline that never had you, nor any of the items on your person."

"In other words, for me, for every living being on this timeline, we have existed for less than a day."

"We all exist because of you."

"Time began at the very second you arrived."

Lan Mu fell silent. He finally understood.

He should have realized it long ago. Viktor had also said that the universe had only begun at the moment Earth was born. Before that, nothing had ever truly happened; it was merely information that had been set.

Now, Lan Mu understood. Half of what Viktor had said was false—or rather, Viktor had also been deceived by 001.

The universe had indeed not begun more than ten billion years ago, but neither had it begun when Earth was born. It had begun... eight years before Earth's present.

"Eight years before Earth's present... 2016? That was the year I obtained the Life Sphere..."

"Then what about the past... my twenty-seven years of life?"

At that moment, Lan Mu was on the verge of collapse.

If that was true,