Wei Changming looked utterly exasperated.
"Ask yourselves honestly: back when we were still in school, if the big shots at the Four Symbols Department had issued a joint statement, with every organization telling everyone to die once immediately, would we have done it?"
Ye Buyu blinked. "Definitely not, but who said we were going to force them? Forcing everyone to self-detonate-isn't that what some world-conquering demon king would do? We don't do that."
Everyone: "Huh?"
What did she mean, they wouldn't force them?
"Why would we force them?" Ye Buyu asked, puzzled. "We just have to tell them the correct time of the Universe Collapse, have all living beings prepare for it, hold firm to their convictions, and keep their souls safe.
"When the universe clears out all matter, won't they explode on their own? Why go to all that trouble?"
Everyone sucked in a cold breath.
"That makes sense."
They had been too caught up in appearances.
Little Whale spoke leisurely. "But without self-detonating beforehand, how do we speed up the Universe Collapse process? What if the process takes a very long time, and the living beings at one end have already perished while those at the other are still alive?
"How do we ensure that the New River of Forgetfulness we construct can close in time and preserve the souls that enter it?"
Ye Buyu smiled at Little Whale and dropped a bombshell.
"I only said we wouldn't make them explode. I never said we wouldn't make you explode."
[Fear] and the other Calamities instantly fell silent.
Ye Buyu explained, "You're all top-tier calamities. In other words, aside from us, you're the ones who've absorbed more of the universe's expansion energy.
"As long as we explode, the Universe Collapse is bound to speed up. It'll only take an