Time was still accelerating, and the singularity lay ahead.
This was only natural. Now that the planet had collapsed, they could not possibly stop here and leave everyone drifting through space for the rest of their lives.
The universe surged beneath Lin Qing's feet, racing forward toward the singularity of time and space.
Before long, the universe would restart.
There were two types of universe resets brought about by Made in Heaven.
The first was the "Heaven" Father Enrico Pucci had longed for.
From the moment Lin Qing began accelerating time until the universe reached its end amid that acceleration, every living creature in the world would mentally experience their future lives within that brief span of time. In other words—
A pilgrimage through the old world.
All humanity would learn their destinies during the pilgrimage. After reaching the singularity of time and space and entering the New World to be reborn, everything would unfold according to their predetermined fates.
If the original universe, before it underwent acceleration, was called the "First Universe"—
Then Lin Qing called the universe after the acceleration had successfully concluded the "Second Universe."
The Second Universe was what Father Pucci meant when he said, "Those who attain resolve are forever happy"—the Heaven he had wished to reach.
But Lin Qing did not see it that way.
Those who knew and accepted their fate might perhaps find happiness.
But how could those who knew their fate yet could not accept it possibly be happy?
They both knew their destinies. Zhang San's fate was to feast on delicacies, live in comfort, and remain healthy until eighty. Li Si's fate was to lose his father in childhood, have his mother remarry when he was young, live a lonely and miserable life, and die tragically at twenty...
Why should