Adonis had died, and Lan Mu had broken his promise to him.
Lan Mu wanted to grieve, just as Adonis had grieved for Lan Mu when he believed Lan Mu had died before his own death.
But he could not. Infinite Erasure had not ceased for even a moment. He had to remain calm and keep his mind at peace at all times.
Adonis's death did not create a flaw in Lan Mu's mind. Instead, it made his fighting spirit even more resolute.
If they had merely severed the time beacon, while Adonis had not yet died and was only slowly aging as time passed...
Perhaps Lan Mu would have been anxious, desperate, and all sorts of things.
But now the man was dead, having died unwillingly, as though it had been fate.
Since he was already dead, no amount of urgency would help. Instead, Lan Mu felt an unprecedented calm.
Lan Mu had lost enough already, so he absolutely could not lose again now.
This calm gave him a flash of insight, allowing him to see through a crucial detail about the Agent.
"Stored?"
The stone coffin had been deleted, and the Main God had been destroyed. Yet the Fantasy Right Hand, the Fantasy Figure, and the Abyssal Ruins remained.
For those things, the Agent had used the word "stored"!
There was no doubt that the Agent had abolished timeline travel to prevent Lan Mu from obtaining the Fantasy Right Hand and the figure.
But why had they not simply deleted those things from this timeline? Why not make them vanish outright, just like the Main God, and seal off every possible path?
Lan Mu realized that the Agent probably could not delete those items.
Contained Objects—if they could be deleted, why would there have been Adonis? Why would