After the Ancient One left, Su Lin kept turning one question over in his mind.
What, exactly, was a person's so-called fate?
Was it working like an ox or a horse, shouldering inflation, deflation, and the prices of food and everything else, while paying off car loans, mortgages, and Huabei debt on a salary that hadn't changed in years?
That couldn't be right.
He couldn't accept a life like that. A fate like that.
But fate's gears were caked with rust. By the time you noticed them turning, it was always too late.
"While there's still time, I want to see the worlds out there."
Su Lin bent, swung his travel bag onto his shoulder, and used a Cross-Boundary Talisman to open a portal. He waved goodbye. "Ghana."
Strangely, he hadn't even looked back, and this wasn't some alley where looking back would drag him into Hell. Yet a mass of arms surged from the darkness and grabbed him from shoulder to trouser leg.
Ah. How terrifying.
Would somebody please save him?
"Hey, guys, leave this world for me to devour on my own! God Almighty can go wherever he wants!" Tony Stark tried to persuade the others.
"Ghana? Forget Ghana." Meng Qi held a fleck of light up before Su Lin. "What is this?"
Su Lin smiled warmly. "The Ghana Republic. I'm planning a trip there."
[I've booked you a flight from New York to Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, sir. Would you like tickets for your female companions?]
Everyone froze and stared at the three-dimensional model JARVIS projected.
"JARVIS?!" Tony shouted, clasping both hands behind his head.
"Brother Su Lin~" Xiao Yan said in a teasing singsong. "You're abandoning your wives to travel alone?"
Kaguya hugged Stelle's head with one arm and caught Elaina, who was trying