Copying did not belong to Hao Jingye. Spatial power did.
Behind the mist that had intrigued Jiang Yu lay neither another world nor some paradise worth exploring. It was the Scorched Earth World they lived in.
Hao Jingye's superpower was "space," the counterpart to "time."
"Copying" belonged to M, but "space" belonged to Hao Jingye of the Human Faction.
Long before the meteorite arrived, he had used all his power to carve out a piece of black soil from their world and seal it off with his superpower.
-This was the land of hope he had preserved.
They had always wondered where the space belonged. Now, at last, they understood: the black soil belonged to their world. It was right here in their world!
As the entire world took a turn for the worse, someone had used every last bit of his power, exhausting his ability to seal off a land of hope.
Why had he never used his other superpower?
Because his other superpower had already been exhausted.
Why had Jiang Yu been kicked out of the space? Why had it become inaccessible when the world was destroyed in the fifth year of doomsday? Because-it was Hao Jingye's space, a piece of land on this planet.
He was the master of the space. Even without using it directly, he could kick Jiang Yu out.
The space existed independently. With the key, they could enter it anytime, anywhere.
But the space also belonged to this world.
They had to leave once every twenty-four hours. That "twenty-four" had already hinted at its connection to the world, yet they had never even considered it!
Once the planet was completely gone, the land of hope sealed off from it would vanish too. Naturally, they would never be able to enter it again.
That