Inevitability!

The God-Chosen World, within the divine treasure.

A voice echoed within the divine repository, calling out a name, "Qin Leng, you've retrieved the Mist Ghost, aren't you coming out?"

Inside the divine treasury, Qin Leng's eyes were tightly closed. "Qin Leng is dead. You killed him."

"Hehe... Qin Leng, I've put so much effort into you, how could I bear to let you go like this?" Chen Ye's voice came.

"You know my personality. The more you want to be free, the less likely I am to let you be free. Is there anything more gratifying than seeing you struggle and wander in pain?"

Qin Leng opened her eyes upon hearing this, "Do you really still need me?"

"Haven't you already found someone to replace me? With Bai Ye as an obedient and useful pawn, isn't that enough?"

Chen Ye: "... It's not that I need you, but that the people on Earth need you. Have you abandoned them?"

Qin Leng: "I've already lost."

Chen Ye: "But I don't remember saying that the loser should die. It's just a game."

"You are all my lovely children, how could I bear to watch you die?"

The child... or the toy.

Qin Leng closed his eyes again. "Then why don't you try to awaken those who yearn for resurrection? They are all waiting for your salvation, while I am the complete opposite, my revered God."

"No matter what you say, my answer will remain the same."

Chen Ye's voice came again, "What a pity, what a pity, sometimes I just like to go against the grain of the future."

"Since you don't want to come out, I won't force you. You can stay here forever. You can't go to heaven, you can't go to hell, you can't live, and you can't die."

Qin Leng ultimately did not respond to Chen Ye; he chose to stay there forever.

Seeing this, Chen Ye couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that the loyalty imprint brought about by evolution is getting weaker and weaker."

As these sequences gradually become more powerful, evolution can offer them less and less, while the constraints imposed by evolution are also gradually weakening.

It is foreseeable that some people have already developed the potential to break free from the shackles of loyalty.

Evolution is inevitably accompanied by risks, and the reason for evolution is that life is facing external threats.

Once life stops evolving, it means there are no external threats, and life has reached its most stable and perfect form.

Since there's no longer any risk to evolve, humanity has stopped evolving.

Is this also an inevitable consequence of evolution?

If this is the inevitability of evolution, then what is the inevitability of the future?

Chen Ye couldn't persuade Qin Leng; this was the future he envisioned, and the inability to change the future was its inevitability.

Yes, the future cannot be changed, but it has countless possibilities.

Just like a line forks and extends into countless outcomes, choosing one outcome is not about changing the future, but about choosing a possible future, no matter how small the probability.

However, if a certain possibility does not exist among the existing results, then that result cannot be achieved.

For example, if Chen Ye tries to persuade Qin Leng to return, Qin Leng will definitely not be moved unless Chen Ye uses words to change his mind.

If Chen Ye chooses the future based on the outcome, he can distort Qin Leng's consciousness and directly control him.

But this is one possible future that has already occurred.

Chen Ye did not do that. Instead, as he said, he knew it was impossible, but he still wanted to try.

Since the result is the same, there's no need to say more. At least we can be sure that the correctness of the present and future remains beyond doubt.

"So that time really was an accident after all..."

Well, since entropy has already arrived, let's focus on the immediate issues first.

Not everyone in the loser's bracket has a chance to be dragged out of the Divine Treasury by Chen Ye. Only those he takes a liking to will be dragged out to join the battle against Entropy.

For example, Insects.

"The little bugs have been hungry for long enough."

Chen Ye deliberately pulled the Insects out of 009's body, which was premeditated.

This matter could actually have been simpler.

For example, if Li Yuan hadn't formed an alliance with Chaos, then 009 would have directly entered the losers' bracket, and Chen Ye wouldn't have bothered with the Chaos Splitter members; he could have just left them inside 009's body.

It was because the alliance was formed that Chen Ye was able to extract his alliance members one by one from 009's body.

That's completely unnecessary.

However, Chen Ye could easily ignore it or even change the rules, as that's his usual style.

However, now that the future has entered this phase, Chen Ye must continue to control and plan for what lies ahead.

For example, Chen Ye's shameless act of not reviving Arthur and others is one future branch, while reviving them is another.

The advantage of knowing the future is that you can foresee the outcome in advance, and thus proactively guide the future into the path that is favorable to you.

The names of those chosen by Chen Ye in this loser's bracket are also quite noteworthy.

The Frost King was able to reclaim the Mist Ghost on his own, which was a rare exception; most people and sequences fell at the very first step.

They directly lose consciousness and become Nameless Soul wandering without entering the logic of feeding.

Chen Ye reached into the Divine Treasury and grabbed a Mist Ghost, whose number was 074, also known as the Lord of the Morning Star.

The reason he was eliminated so quickly was because Chen Ye orchestrated the ending where Ao Zuo self-destructed prematurely.

He became a victim of this future. Of course, he was not the only victim. And for these victims, just like Bai Ye, Chen Ye also gave them a chance to be reborn.

Even if this might add a bit of instability to the future.

Within the God-Chosen World.

In the Chaos Empire, the ancient consciousness Iron is assembling and repairing a pile of wreckage—the very ships that Otto destroyed years ago.

Elon collected the wreckage of the spaceships and began to repair them, intending to leave the area.

At that moment, the laboratory door was suddenly pushed open.

Elon's head instantly rotated 180 degrees to look behind him, where he saw a broken mechanical life form walking back.

Otto?

Looks like that old man didn't completely get rid of you.

Upon hearing this, Otto spoke in a synthesized voice, "You and I are both data beings. What carries our existence is information, not soul or flesh and blood. You know this better than I do."

Elon continued:

That's right.

So I guess you made a backup somewhere.

Otto walked into the laboratory. "So your logic has always been wrong. We are fundamentally different."

"You are a man-made creation, while I am a creation of God. Don't misunderstand, I'm not arguing with you about the hierarchy of our creators; I'm just stating the facts."

"I am also a sequence, I am Number 0 20."