"Have you never seen the detailed contents of the backups?" Lan Mu asked.
Best smiled. "Of course not. But now that I have True Sight of Information, I can take a look... see what I was like across countless timelines."
"But..." Best said coldly, "only after you die!"
"Ha! Once I'm dead, you won't be able to see them..." Lan Mu suddenly laughed.
Best sneered, unconcerned.
"If I'm not mistaken," Lan Mu said, "once I die, everything ends."
"You mean the timeline ends when you die? You are the ending?" Best mocked. "You're far too full of yourself. The end of a timeline must be a fixed moment. Though you exist in many timelines, there are also plenty where you never existed at all!"
"But at least every backed-up timeline definitely has me, doesn't it?" Lan Mu said. "The amount of Best Metal isn't infinite; it's finite. Even if there are hundreds of millions of them, they are still countable. So do those timelines that weren't backed up mean they were utterly meaningless in the Agent's eyes?"
Best froze, then sneered. "That only proves it takes you seriously! It backed up every timeline where you existed, like an exhibition of achievements... That only further demonstrates the Agent's power. What does it have to do with you?"
"I understand... You're trying to mislead me into thinking that killing you will end everything, so I'll deliberately stall for time?"
"Idiot. Stalling is your business. Because of the contract, if I can kill you immediately, I won't delay."
Best suddenly found Lan Mu pitiful. Especially compared to the Agent, everything Lan Mu had done seemed utterly ridiculous.
At death's door, he was still so arrogantly self-important.
Lan Mu smiled. Did he not know how ridiculous his words sounded? Of course he did. If