Chapter 1682: Chapter 658: Victory Will Ultimately Belong to Humanity

The City Lord continued, "Once he achieves his ideals, he is destined to be consumed by solitude. It’s an inescapable predicament for him. Meanwhile, he also faces an unavoidable major dilemma. The Red Blade Army now employs a new form of imperial rule, but this is merely a temporary measure, not what he truly desires. Only this kind of imperial rule can ensure the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the Red Blade Army in an absolutely disadvantaged situation, and avoid unnecessary internal conflict."

"In short, the demands of the era force him to do things against his will. However, whether it’s him or us, we all know the drawbacks of the imperial system."

"One day in the future, he will surely realize that after completing his phased historic mission, there is only one path to bring Earth’s human civilization back on track, that is, to let himself, the Eternal Emperor, disappear. Only then can the power be returned to others, and human civilization return to the right path."

"However, there is only one way for him to truly disappear, and that is to die. With Ren Zhong’s intelligence and resilience, he will ultimately choose to embrace death. This is the inevitability of history, the ultimate fate of an emperor who became the Eternal Emperor to cope with the times and was forced to do so."

"This fate isn’t tragic because he approaches death with calmness after achieving all his ideals, and we will be here waiting for him. His life following this will not be lonely."

The Young Girl asked, "After he dies, he can reunite with you. What about me and Tai Hong? What will happen to us after he dies?"

The City Lord responded, "You are unfortunate because you got involved here; once you arrived and interacted with us, you can’t leave anymore. But you are also lucky, for at least you’ve learned the truth, and no longer live in oblivion like others. As an ancient saying goes, you have already crossed the River of Oblivion and become one of our kind. You have also attained eternal consciousness. Ren Zhong will be our leader, and I will be his deputy. From now on, we will live together in the crevices of space and time, becoming a new race that both exists and does not exist. We will shelter Earth’s humans until we reach the true end of the universe."

The Young Girl said, "Hiss..."

Tai Hong asked, "What...exactly is the race?"

The City Lord replied, "I don’t know, it doesn’t have a name yet. And naming is the leader’s job, but I guess with Ren Zhong’s naming syndrome, he probably won’t think of a good name either."

Tai Hong said without hesitation, "A race between illusion and reality, known only to itself, might as well be called the Illusion Race, since everything is imaginary. So boring."

The City Lord chuckled, "Maybe he will really adopt your suggestion. Let’s leave it here for today; you can discuss among yourselves, or go out and chat with others to get familiar with the environment. After all, you’ll be with us for a long time."

After speaking, the City Lord’s silhouette suddenly dissipated, leaving no trace of where he went.

In the hall, Tai Hong and the Young Girl exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.

Then, the two turned and dashed out without greeting others, heading straight to the city’s border.

Unexpectedly, they passed through the boundary that previously barred entry unimpeded, rushing into a desert.

They did not pause and continued forward, never looking back.

At this point, Tai Hong and the Young Girl actually believed the City Lord’s story.

The story left some marks in their hearts, making them less hateful and wary of Ren Zhong, and less obstinate about the war between the four tribes, but neither was willing nor wished to truly stay here, at least not to be forced to stay.

Your fate should be decided by yourself, why should we be unable to leave just because you say we can’t?

In this subconscious space, the concept of time no longer exists.

Yet Tai Hong and the Young Girl instinctively felt that a long time had passed.

After leaving the Nameless City, they got lost in the desert, unable even to find their way back to the Nameless City.

Only time knew how long they wandered aimlessly, until the two decided to choose a direction and just kept moving, eventually managing to return to the Nameless City.

Subsequently, the two finally resolved to settle in the Nameless City and met with others, as a means of passing the time.

They were surprised to find that the people trapped here weren’t despondent but were instead active and optimistic.

Even though they had the complete Grand Unification Formula, they continued thinking, eagerly discussing, and calculating theories with devotion, seeking the next form of the complete Grand Unification Formula as ideas clashed and sparked.

They seemed intent on exploring the future universe, to find the truth behind the universe’s end and discover the pattern of the next universe.

This is humanity.

No matter what height is reached, never stopping, never satisfied, always curious about the unknown.

However, these theoretical concepts were too challenging at the moment for Tai Hong and the Young Girl, making it impossible for them to even begin.

After a period, they considered themselves prepared and once again set out on their journey to explore the unknown.

This time, they fixed upon a direction from the start and kept moving forward, but ultimately returned to the Nameless City once more.

It was then that the City Lord informed them that others had already done similar things long ago.

Ren Zhong’s subconscious is not a plane but a distorted space-time, which geometrically presents a spherical characteristic. No matter which direction the two take, forward or backward, their coordinates in time and geometry always move forward, inevitably leading back to the depths where the Nameless City resides.

Faced with this situation, Tai Hong and the Young Girl sighed in unison.

It seems they were truly stuck.

They must believe the City Lord’s words.

At this time, they sighed both for their fate and for the plight of humanity, and also for the Philosopher.

Simultaneously, they marveled at humanity’s strength.

Humans were enduring a terrifying disaster, yet risk and opportunity coexisted.

As long as annihilation had not occurred, not even billions of years of slavery could extinguish humanity’s will to resist.

Victory will ultimately belong to humanity.

Ren Zhong was unaware of what happened in his subconscious; he merely felt slightly unwell but paid no mind, resting briefly before ordering a full-scale attack against the Pilgrim Intelligent Machinery.

Under the fierce assaults of the First Army and the Eighth Army, the two Divine Level allied demons waiting for a miracle by the Wise Men didn’t achieve any miracle, as their firepower was gradually neutralized and their Intelligent Machinery bodies were also taken over.

Although the battle among the two Wise Men and Sun Ai in the virtual network had not yet concluded, with their main bodies as captives, resistance had naturally lost its meaning.

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