Bengtie: My death fueled their madness.

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At the beginning of the Amber 2158 era, the Interstellar Peace Corporation proudly announced:

Ms. Heta, a renowned scholar from the Genius Club, has officially pledged to establish a long-term friendly cooperative alliance with the company.

This will be the third intellectual genius, after #22 Liltha and #56 Elijah Salas, to join forces with the company to safeguard the universe of the Amber King.

This concludes this broadcast. Please tune in for the next interstellar peace broadcast at the designated time. Goodbye.

Qi Zhimu turned off the news and opened his mouth to bite the piece of fruit that Heita had put in his mouth.

Then, a head appeared on my left shoulder and leaned in.

"Aren't you going to ask me anything?" Black Tower laughed.

"You have your reasons. I have no grudge against the company. I'll support you, no need to ask." Qi Zhimu put his arm around Hei Ta's waist.

She is no longer the girl burdened with heavy responsibilities; she now carries weight that the company cannot ignore and can handle any situation on her own.

"Same as before..." Hei Ta revealed a gentle smile that belonged only to Qi Zhimu.

"before?"

"When I was little, you always supported me silently and never made decisions for me."

Even if the path might be wrong, he chooses to silently cover for the victims rather than stop it at the source.

"It's still a little different." Qi Zhimu chuckled.

"What's different?"

"When you were a child, I always silently supported whatever you did because I was confident I could handle the consequences. That's not possible now."

At this point, Qi Zhimu's tone became somewhat sentimental.

"Just like you said before, our roles have been switched. Not only can you cover for your choices, but you can also clean up the mess I've made. Come to think of it... I seem to have become your gigolo, haha..."

Hearing Qi Zhimu's self-deprecating tone, Hei Ta rolled her eyes at him and straddled him.

She reached forward and wrapped her arms around his neck, their eyes meeting.

"Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"

Suddenly, the Black Tower snapped its fingers, and a mirror appeared, acting as a display screen, beginning to play a certain memory.

"My little tower will definitely become the most remarkable person in the history of Azure Star... no, even in the entire universe, he will be worthy of being called a great person."

The man in the mirror smiled, but his words caused the girl's pupils to tremble violently.

Just as the girl was about to speak, Black Tower snapped his fingers again and put away the mirror.

Qi Zhimu felt a pang of nostalgia and turned his gaze back to her.

"You didn't actually store all those experiences in this way, did you?"

"store?"

Black Tower extended his index finger and waved it from side to side, smiling broadly as he said:

"The second mirror has many uses, and memory projection is just one of them. The unforgettable experience with you has been in my mind for many years and has never faded."

"When those parting words became a reality, what were Brother Mu's thoughts?"

"When I said that, I wasn't aiming to become a gigolo..."

"Hmph, others don't even have the right to eat it, but I am..."

As he was speaking, Black Tower suddenly fell silent.

Noticing her smile fade, Qi Zhimu was slightly taken aback: "What's wrong?"

The former remained silent, lowering his head and resting his chin on Qi Zhimu's shoulder.

"After you disappeared... for a long time, your words kept replaying in my mind..."

"That was the spiritual pillar that kept me going, and the guiding light that led me forward. I worked really hard back then, and apart from necessary rest, I was always moving forward."

"Keep moving forward... just to find the power to change the past, to find you again, and to truly achieve redemption."

"But I can't do it. Even if I could reverse a portion of time and become young again, I still couldn't overcome the paradox of cause and effect."

"If Qi Zhimu, a mage of the ethereal human species, does not die, there will be no Black Tower, nor will there be Azure Star."

"And the original human, Qi Zhimu... sigh..."

Black Tower let out a rare long sigh and said no more.

The magician Qi Zhimu was born from the death of the original human Qi Zhimu. If the original human Qi Zhimu had not died, there would only be one reason—

He neither heard the girl Black Tower's call nor responded.

That way he could survive, and even use the time-spaceship to defect and search for a new civilization.

The consequence, too, was the death of the girl, Black Tower.

Unable to find its correct spatial coordinates, the Azure Star eventually disappeared into the Memory Mist, becoming an insignificant speck of dust in the universe.

Each link in the chain of cause and effect is interconnected; without any link in the past, there would be no present, and naturally, no more distant future.

…To be precise, it's a future without the Black Tower.

Qi Zhimu can reincarnate again, but he will never see the Black Tower again. That memory will be sealed away forever, and that's all.

"Zhimu, in your previous life, did you know that you could be reincarnated after death?"

"I don't know."

Qi Zhimu was not lying.

Only upon death, when one reviews their entire life in the realm of the system's soul, can they learn this. All of this is to avoid being influenced by past lives and to become a different version of themselves in a new cycle of reincarnation.

Black Tower breathed a sigh of relief.

She wouldn't doubt Qi Zhimu.

Because neither Brother Mu nor the Magician would lie to Little Tower.

Upon receiving the answer, the fear in my heart vanished completely, but I also felt guilty.

She was afraid, afraid that Qi Zhimu had said those words because he wanted to enter the next cycle of reincarnation as soon as possible...

Guilt is an inescapable thought. Qi Zhimu didn't care much about life and death because he knew he could be reincarnated, yet he didn't hesitate to give his life for her.

Actually, it's not surprising that Black Tower is overthinking things.

Even Qi Zhimu was unaware of one fact:

After dying in his first life and awakening his memories of the previous life in his second life, he asked the system to block the belief that death could lead to reincarnation.

He didn't want to become indifferent to life and death just because he knew this fact, thinking that since he wouldn't die in the end anyway, he could do whatever he wanted.

Then what's the point of reincarnation?

From his second life on the Immortal Boat in Cangcheng to his current fourth life, he has always held the belief that once life ends, it cannot be relived.

Without this understanding, choices have meaning, and death carries indescribable weight.

Not long after he figured this out, Black Tower suddenly realized that he had gotten himself into a dead end again.

Even if Qi Zhimu knew that he would have a next life, so what?

His death might be insignificant to him, but his sacrifice for her was real, and he lost a life in the true sense of the word forever.

Like the Wisdom Clan in the Immortal Boat Alliance.

We cannot deny the merits established by the hero in his previous life simply because he was reincarnated from an egg.

Once this mindset takes hold, merit is no longer merit, and sin may no longer be sin.

The reason why the Vidyadharas do not inquire about past life's grudges and hatred after being reborn from eggs is because they have lost the ability to reproduce; if one dies, there will be one less for them to live.

The prerequisite for molting and reincarnation is being alive in order to perform the relevant rituals.

While Heita was lost in thought, Qi Zhimu's phone rang.

"Dr. Zhimu, save me!"

As soon as the call connected, the voice of the humanoid self-propelled star core spirit came through, sounding aggrieved.

"...Xing? What's wrong?" Qi Zhimu asked, puzzled.

"I've been... blocked. I don't know if you can understand, but after I take action on something I want to do, it becomes something completely unrelated."

"Where are you?"

"Medical ward..."

Hei Ta heard Qi Zhimu's speakerphone call and her delicate brows furrowed.

Didn't Xing go to see Ruan Mei? Why does this sound like he's been poisoned by that guy's anti-vomiting drug?

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