Did souls have a temperature?
The answer was yes.
No matter what kind of life a soul belonged to, its temperature would change when its beliefs changed.
Fear was cold, happiness was warm, hope, love, madness...
Soul Mechanical Technology.
The underlying logic of this technology was to harness that temperature.
But ordinary souls were of no use.
They could not even ignite a sheet of white paper as thin as a cicada's wing.
But... what if someone's belief reached its utmost limit at a certain moment?
Belief, burning eternally.
Belief, more dazzling than the sun!
Belief, how scorching could it make a soul?!
And so the mechanical heart began to beat.
Rolling waves of heat spread outward with every beat.
Thump! Thump!! Thump!!!
The heartbeat grew louder and louder!
The entire Escape Pod was reduced to ruins in a single instant. Burning-everything in sight was burning.
At this moment, the mechanical heart seemed to have become a true sun.
And before this scorching sun.
Someone still stood there.
Ye Qiyan.
The Astral Sacred Crest blocked every wave of heat.
Yet as his [Ever-Burning Belief] collided with this scorching soul, he could still feel its sunlike heat.
Thump, thump...
The scorching pulses seemed to be testing his mettle, and also seemed to be confirming his existence.
Ye Qiyan walked forward, no matter how powerful the resistance ahead.
He was right here, taking one step after another until he reached this scorching heart of souls.
"Though I don't know your name, neither you nor the people of GT World were failures.
You were only a little short on time, a little short on miracles.
As long as you struggled until the very last moment.
Even if you failed, even if you fled, there was no shame in that.
This is the Wasteland,