Qi Zhengyan shut his eyes tightly.
There was no movement, no temperature, and no passage of time.
The passage of time and the changes of all things were merely illusions brought about by replication. The universe was an absolutely static world.
This was the Quantum Parallel Multiverse.
He imagined himself opening his eyes, but the one opening them was not him, but a duplicate in another Parallel Universe.
That duplicate came before the young man in a sailor cap played by the Supreme Elder Lord, but that Qi Zhengyan was actually yet another brand-new duplicate.
Even the thoughts in his mind at that very moment came from one new duplicate after another, not from the self of an instant ago.
A deep-rooted terror and void turned into an abyss deeper than the darkness before him, gradually Devouring him.
He recalled the first time he met Meng Qi. It turned out that Meng Qi of that time was not the Meng Qi of today, and Qi Zhengyan of that time was not the Qi Zhengyan of today.
The "one life" Meng Qi pursued had always been pieced together from countless future lives and the memories of innumerable duplicates.
Without a future life, there was no living, no human life.
It was not that humanity had actively chosen Memory Immortality; the universe had decided that every living being in the world would possess Memory Immortality.
Qi Zhengyan's consciousness roamed through the Demon Lord's inherited memories. What he was experiencing was the Eternal Nihility that the Demon Lord, an Other Shore One, had endured.
He saw the ordinary people on those living planets and saw the essence behind their appearances.
As a child, one silently waited at home for one's parents to return from work, but the parents who came home were not