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Chapter 656: A New Future

Li Yang stared at the "self" who emerged from the mist with vigilance. Although they looked similar, he could feel an unfathomable power surging in his body.

"Who are you?" Li Yang asked again, "Why are you here?"

The older version of Li Yang smiled slightly, with a trace of sadness in his eyes: "I am you, and I am not you. I come from a future you can't imagine."

"What do you mean?" Li Yang frowned.

"In countless parallel universes, there are countless possibilities." The older Li Yang said, "I come from one of the possible futures... a future where you choose to merge instead of connect."

Li Yang felt dizzy.

He remembered the "selves" he had seen inside the [Annihilator] before.

Could this one be one of them?

"But haven't those 'I's' who chose to merge been eliminated?" Li Yang asked.

The older Li Yang shook his head:

"Do you think [Annihilator] is so easy to be destroyed? It is just a part of it. The real [Annihilator], or us, is much more powerful than you think."

Li Yang took a step back cautiously: "What do you want?"

"I came to correct a mistake." The older Li Yang said,

"You chose to connect, but that path will eventually lead to greater chaos and destruction... We must return to the path of integration."

"Who do you mean by 'we'?" Li Yang asked.

"All Li Yang, all worlds." The older Li Yang replied, "Only through complete integration can we truly control our own destiny and get rid of the manipulation of that existence."

"That existence?" Li Yang felt uneasy, "What do you mean?"

The older Li Yang was silent for a moment, then said: "In all parallel universes, there is a higher-level entity."

"It created us, manipulates us, and plays our lives as a game."

Li Yang felt a shudder.

He remembered the choice given to him by the mysterious [existence] before, and the words "everything is meaningless."

Is there really something behind the scenes controlling everything?

"Even so," Li Yang said firmly, "forcibly merging all the worlds is not the right approach... Each world has its own characteristics and value, and we cannot deprive them of their right to exist."

"At least, this is what I think now."

The older Li Yang sighed: "As expected... You are still too naive."

"It seems that you will only understand if you see that future with your own eyes."

As he said, he stretched out his hand, and a powerful energy wave swept over.

Li Yang wanted to resist, but he found that he could not move at all.

The team members around him also fell into the same state.

"Don't worry," said the older Li Yang, "I won't hurt you. I just want to take you to see what will happen if you continue to connect this road."

With a dizzy spell, Li Yang felt his consciousness being pulled to another time and space.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw a desolate scene in front of him.

The sky was a strange purple-red, the earth was dry and cracked, and the buildings in the distance were in ruins.

Even more disturbing is that the whole world seems to be shrouded in a distorted halo, as if reality itself is collapsing.

"Where... is this?" Li Yang asked in horror.

"This is the main world, the world you are in." The older Li Yang said calmly, "but... someday in the future."

"How did it become like this?" Li Yang looked around in disbelief.

"Because of connection." The older Li Yang explained, "When more and more worlds are connected together, the structure of reality begins to collapse. Different laws conflict with each other, and time and space begin to distort. Eventually, the entire multiverse falls into chaos."

Li Yang saw a group of figures moving in the distance. Their movements were stiff and uncoordinated, as if they were controlled by something.

"Those are..." Li Yang couldn't believe his eyes.

"Yes, those are the survivors." said the older Li Yang, "or, things that were once human."

"In the process of reality collapse, many life forms have undergone mutations."

"They lost their self-awareness and became puppets wandering in the void."

Li Yang felt a sense of nausea for some reason.

He still couldn't believe that this outrageous future was caused by his choice.

"This is impossible..." he muttered to himself, "There must be a way to stop all this..."

"There is no way." The older Li Yang shook his head and said, "As long as the connection between the worlds exists, such a result is inevitable. The only solution is to return to integration."

Li Yang was silent. He didn't want to admit it, but the scene in front of him did shake his faith.

"What about fusion?" he asked, "If you choose fusion, what will the future be like?"

The older Li Yang smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I don't know. Because in my timeline, we have never been able to complete the final fusion."

"What do you mean?"

"As I said before, there is a higher-level entity in all parallel universes."

The elder Li Yang explained, "Whenever we get close to the tipping point of complete integration, that entity will intervene and reset everything."

Li Yang frowned: "Why does it do this?"

"Because the game must continue." said the elder Li Yang,

"To that being, our entire multiverse is nothing more than one giant game or experiment. It does not allow the game to end there."

Li Yang felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

He suddenly thought of what he said inside [Annihilator] when he killed [Annihilator] before...

In infinite parallel universes, everything is meaningless.

If there really is such an all-powerful being controlling everything, all the behaviors they see are nothing different.

Seemingly seeing what Li Yang was thinking, the elder Li Yang said:

"But that doesn't mean we should give up, understand."

"Instead, we must unite to fight against that being."

"Only through complete integration can we gain the power to compete with 껣."

Li Yang fell into deep thought.

He had to admit that the older version of himself had a point.

But at the same time, he couldn't fully agree with 뀘's approach.

"What you have shown me still cannot prove your words and deeds." Li Yang finally said, "In order to fight against a certain existence, forcibly integrating all the worlds... is too extreme. There must be other ways. "

The elder Li Yang sighed: "I hoped you could understand, but it seems you still need more time to think."

He waved his hand, and the scene around him began to distort and dissipate.

Li Yang felt that his consciousness was being pulled back to reality.

When he woke up again, he found that he and his team members had returned to the ground of the seventh world.

The elder Li Yang stood in front of them with a complicated expression on his face.