How"
"Can humanity save itself?"
"Grant them power first, then guide their beliefs?"
"Can the guidance succeed?"
Beneath the starry sky, Lin An slowly closed his eyes and sealed away all his senses.
Within the Mind Space, which resembled the Primordial Nebula, Lin An instantly split his thoughts into two, beginning a logical deduction as if asking and answering himself.
The scene abruptly changed.
Within the Mind Space, Lin An seemed to transform into a third-person perspective, watching another version of himself.
The simulated version of him likewise silently gazed at the earth, just as he did in reality.
Time flowed backward within the deduction. He had now "returned" to before the first girl had her head cut off.
"If I hadn't used my Mental Strength to kill those scavengers back then"
"and had instead given her some power"
Lying on the ground, the girl stared despairingly at the blade chopping toward her head, her eye sockets red.
She did not regret her choice. She only knew that this Salt Rock, which would have been considered too dirty to pick up off the ground before Doomsday, might be her only hope.
How much could it be exchanged for? One piece of currency, or two?
Without power or talent, she had no choice at all. This Doomsday had not even given her the slightest chance to struggle.
Her life and her sister's were as worthless as garbage on the ground.
Yet just as the girl waited for death, a voice that seemed to come from another world suddenly rang out in her mind.
"Do you hate it?"
"Are you willing to die like this?"
"Do you want to resist all this?"
The voice was calm, like an illusory whisper. The girl listened in astonishment to the voice that had appeared in