Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

[Feixiao: Boshi Zun is dead, the cosmological constant is changing, the Black Tower communication is down, and the Star God is completely unreliable. Isn't this just pushing all the responsibility back onto Jiang Jiu?]

[Jing Yuan: The Star Gods don't act collectively simply because they like something. They must have their own considerations, but these considerations cannot yet be interpreted using the logic we understand.]

[Laigushi: Why worry too much about what might happen in the future? It's better to enjoy the present moment. Even if the end times still come, the boundaries of our current knowledge will have truly collapsed.]

[Lagushi: Don't you think this is a great opportunity to calculate and explore the boundaries of knowledge? Things you've never had the chance to explore before are now right in front of you. Aren't you happy about that?]

[Star: It seems like Lai Gushi is so happy he's acting like a madman.]

Sambo: He's been a madman all along.

[Star: I voted in favor.]

[Sai Fei'er: I'm really at my wit's end... I feel like Jiang Jiu is really going to break down if this continues, after all, I can see he's already exhausted.]

[Sai Feier: I can't even imagine how much pressure Jiang Jiu, as the person involved, is under right now.]

In the video, Jiang Jiu remained silent for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally spoke, his tone questioning but it was unclear who he was talking to.

Has this story ended?

『......』

He received no answer, but Jiang Jiu did not stop asking questions.

"Is this the end of the line?"

"Without the anchor of intellect, with both the Pioneers and Xilian present, Iron Tomb could be crushed, right?"

"Memories won't be the end; everything will go back to normal, right?"

"...This storyline is over, isn't it?"

Everything was silent, and no one answered.

Watching a Movie (147) - The Death of a Star God, A Wrong Answer

Jiang Jiu's questions immediately dampened everyone's spirits.

While everyone else was thinking that Bo Shizun was finally dead and things were finally over, Jiang Jiu was only concerned with the so-called end.

Everything else can be unimportant; all his actions are aimed at achieving this.

but......

[Star: Oh no...]

[March 7th: This is really bad, we're doomed...?]

[Hanabi: What's wrong? It's just verifying an error, right? Can't we just try a different method?]

[Topa: That's easy for you to say. How about another method? How? What should we change it to? Are there any other options now?]

[Topa: At first, there were still options, but this isn't the first time. He's tried many times. Is there really any other way now? Are there really any other options?]

[Qingque: Suddenly I can't laugh anymore.......]

Just now, many people were jokingly discussing the survival rate of the Bo Shi Zun, but now, many people just want to ask...

What is our survival rate?

Do we really have a chance of survival? If death is inevitable in the future... then what's the difference between dying now and dying in the future?

Are they just barely clinging to life?

[Feixiao: But what's the use of Jiang Jiu standing there asking if it's right or wrong? This kind of self-talk won't get him an answer; there's nothing in front of him.]

[Yao Guang: At this point, there's no need to demand so much of him. So many of us can't find the cause, and all the pressure is on him alone. It's already a miracle he hasn't collapsed.]

[Jingyuan: Actually, what he fears most isn't being unable to do it, but not knowing how to do it.]

[Fu Xuan: The Venerable Master of Broad Knowledge died too easily, the Star God departed too quickly, and the Black Tower's communications were cut off too suddenly—all of this points to the same answer...]

[Fu Xuan: The end is definitely not over yet.]

[The Forgotten One: Memories won't be the end, everything will return to normal... right?]

[Forgetful Person: Actually, all of this was just needless worry, right? It's all over now. Next, everyone can eat and play as usual and enjoy their future, right?]

[Fu Xuan: Indeed, I can eat and play as I please and enjoy what little future I have left.]

[Forgotten Returnee: You know I don't want this kind of answer...]

[Hanabi: That's terrible, this joke isn't funny at all.]

[Fireworks: Aha is completely unreliable; he's left Jiang Jiu with this mess all by himself.]

[Dan Heng: The Star Gods never clean up messes; they simply fulfill their own destinies. Nanuk came for destruction, Lan came to hunt down the unjust, and Aha came for fun. With the death of Bo Shizun, their mission is over, but Jiang Jiu's mission is not.]

[Gui Naifen: So, does the end times still exist? Wasn't the Venerable Master Bodhidharma the one who anchored the end times? He died, shouldn't that anchoring disappear?]

[Su Chang: Yeah! Why did the Black Tower say the cosmological constant is changing? Why was communication cut off? This doesn't seem like a victory should be happening!]

[Topa: Changes in the cosmological constant, communication disruptions, the collapse of the boundaries of knowledge... these don't sound like the end of the world, but rather the beginning of another kind of end.]

[Gold Sand: So what the Wise One said is true, that the end times weren't caused by Him, but that He foresaw it? We killed the wrong person? No, we killed the wrong god?]

[Fu Ruo: The Venerable Master Bo Shi says that the future is heading towards the end, not that He has predetermined the end of death. You yourselves don't believe it.]

[Sangbo: That learned scholar was wronged.]

[Pearl: Correction: Killing the Wise One cannot stop the end times; this is a proven conclusion. The next question is: Who is the true source of the end times?]

[Opal: Fuli, it can only be Fuli. The wise one is anchored to the end of memory. The wise one is dead, but the end of memory remains. The source is the star god of memory itself.]

[Long Jing: We've come full circle... The Iron Tomb isn't the root cause, the Learned One isn't the root cause, the root cause is Xi Lian? Is it Fu Li? Is it that girl still waiting to ascend to godhood in Onpharos?]

[Sai Fei'er: So Xi Lian must die? No, didn't we already discuss this? Killing Wu Lou Jing Zi is useless; another Wu Lou Jing Zi will ascend to godhood! It's a vicious cycle.]

[Feng Jin: It's not a vicious cycle... What if there's something wrong with Fu Li himself? It's not that Xi Lian ascended to godhood and became Fu Li, but that the position of Fu Li itself is bound to the end?]

[Xia Die: You mean, no matter who ascends to godhood and becomes Fu Li, it will trigger the end of memories? Then how do we fight this war? Should we abolish Fu Li's divine position?]

[Aglaia: Dethroning a Star God is harder than killing a Star God.]

[Dr. Truth: It's more than just difficult.]

[Doctor Truth: How many people hunted down the Star God Taizyuros back then? In the end, all that happened was the fall of the Star God; the fate of procreation remained unscathed, let alone the divine position.]

[Sai Fei'er: Well, now we're at another dead end.]

So... isn't the starting point for this storyline the Star God?

"..."

Jiang Jiu remained silent for two seconds.

An absurd, yet plausible, idea flashed through my mind.

Is there any possibility...?

Whether they helped or the learned man sacrificed himself... was their reason for doing so simply because they wanted to?

Is it just because he felt it was worth a try that they were willing to help him even if the answer was wrong?

What an absurd idea, so absurd it's almost laughable.

"■■, can killing Iron Tomb now change the end of the world?"

『......』

"What about killing the one who caused the end?"

『......』

"■■".

『......』

"You're such a piece of trash."

"You know what you can't do to change the end result, but do you know how you can change it? You've been denying it, so what's the right answer?"

"It's a pity."

"Will we end up accomplishing nothing?"

[Star: Who is he talking to? Is there something we can't know? Why is it that only he can hear him, while we can only see him talking to himself?]

[March 7th: The world is full of wonders, isn't it? Maybe it's a celestial being? Although I can't hear it, I feel that thing is probably pretty useless... It can't handle anything, nothing works, so why not just tell it the correct answer?]

[Danheng: But is there really a correct answer?]

[Danheng: Perhaps it's not that we don't want to tell, but that there simply isn't a correct answer, or that the correct answer never existed in the first place.]

[Fireworks: This isn't funny, not funny at all.]

[Fireworks: Shouldn't there be some kind of resolution? What is this? A nonsensical dark joke? The most boring kind at that.]

[Bai E: I don't know if I'm qualified to comment, but...]

[Sai Fei: You're alive?]

[Bai E:........]

Bai E's carefully cultivated emotions vanished.

[Fu Xuan: This is very annoying... I just did some deduction, and the result is a complete mess.]

[Dahlia: The pressure is just too much. If I were in that position, I probably would have collapsed long ago. He's already in a pretty good state.]

[Black Swan: Is this the fate of those who self-destruct...? Due to the lack of emotion, even their breakdown is silent?]

[Qingque: I support Jiang Jiu not doing anything, just slacking off, taking a few days off, and letting the world fend for itself...]

[Fu Xuan: Can those who choose self-destruction really slack off? Will they really not die?]

[Qingque: I don't know...?]

[Topa: So what can we do? Besides sending encouraging messages in the chat, what else can we do? It feels so awful to feel like we can't do anything.]

Jiang Jiu felt a little tired.

It's not physical exhaustion, but the feeling of powerlessness that comes from doing a lot of things and traveling a long way, only to look back and find that nothing has changed.