A Gamble with Life

Lan Mu burned all the comics himself, smiling as he looked at Adonis.

"I've decided to go back."

Adonis froze. "Go back? What way do you have? Don't tell me you won't use 2D Paint?"

Lan Mu smiled. "I still have to use it. After all, fighting in the 3D dimension would cause too much collateral damage. I don't want to die and drag Earth down with me."

Adonis fell silent. He realized that by saying this, Lan Mu had already decided to die.

"Are you giving up? Listen, use the same method—spend at least a hundred million years to..."

Lan Mu shook his head. "It's meaningless. Tell me, why did fate give me two answers?"

Adonis frowned. Lan Mu truly had two strange fates on this timeline: one was to remain on this timeline forever and live, while the other was to return to his own timeline and die.

Lan Mu said, "If I spend a hundred million years here accumulating strength, never mind whether it would work—even just staying here for a hundred million years would be little different from staying forever. Perhaps 001 wanted me to cling to life here from the start. That way, I could never complete the Life Sphere and would no longer be Original Sin. I would no longer threaten 001, which would be almost the same as getting rid of me."

"Why didn't He simply say that I was certain to die? Why did He insist on giving me a way to live? In truth, I've repeatedly wanted to choose to give up. To live forever on this timeline, possess the entire Omniverse, and stand invincible across it all—wouldn't that be good? Here, how am I any different from the one true god?"

"Here, I could create heaven, create civilizations as I