The Lord of the Holy City witnessed the changes Ethan brought to Flynn Seine.

This was far more valuable than the infighting within the High-tier Council or the Origin Society. No matter how they bickered at the negotiating table, they would eventually return to a stable balance. However, Flynn Seine was different. His life had been completely transformed. In the new calculation, he was like a butterfly flapping its wings, seemingly insignificant, yet destined to bring earth-shaking changes to this stable structure.

More importantly, His calculation could no longer yield a definitive result.

Seven months was no longer a deadline for Flynn, and after this deadline broke, something named "possibility" appeared in his life. As a result, in the new calculation, He could only broadly infer a few branches with the highest possibilities.

He initially thought this was a means Ethan used against the Holy City, but it now seemed not to be the case.

But that was precisely the worst situation.

Ethan’s influence on Flynn Seine was neither due to hostility towards the Holy City nor did it contain any malice. In fact, to Ethan, he believed he was doing Flynn Seine a favor.

This meant that even without considering positions and preconceived notions, he would still do it.

His existence itself was spreading unpredictable chaos. Perhaps even Ethan himself didn’t know where these hopes would lead those he had helped. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"And then what?"

The bald man once again asked, his raised forefinger tapping rhythmically on the windowsill. A holographic projection shone on the square table in the interrogation room, displaying Flynn Seine, whose life was moving forward at thousands of times the normal speed. Whenever a branch appeared, the holographic projection would split into a sub-screen.

These were the futures of Flynn Seine:

Exceeding the "expected lifespan," he was deemed a heretic by the gray-robed Priest Griffin and neutralized this abnormal individual during the last follow-up visit. After that, Flynn’s body was dissected and studied. The monks of the Sanctuary of Logic divided him into dozens of samples. Flynn’s brain was soaked in a research vessel, sometimes briefly activated by the priests to determine the cause of the anomaly. Unfortunately, until Flynn’s brain was deactivated for the last time, the priests still couldn’t find the truth.

Alternatively, Flynn Seine, through "clear" cognition, realized Griffin Monk’s unusual interest in him. He disguised himself to pass the final test. However, life did not turn for the better. He discovered his uniqueness, bringing immense pain. He continued his past life, gradually realizing that even his wife and children could not understand his turbulent emotions. Their reactions were like bionic men, leaving Flynn confused. Years later, a persistent thought emerged in his mind — this was a false world. He soon found a way to leave this false world. Years later, on a rainy night, he climbed to the rooftop of an apartment building alone, took one last look at the colorful and psychedelic nightscape of the First Special District, and then leaped down.

A stronger Flynn Seine recognized the world’s abnormality and corruption. Over the years, he witnessed the various corruptions of the High-tier Council. He always hid in the shadows, trying to understand the source of his changes. Flynn was still convinced that his suddenly cured cancer was not a misdiagnosis by the hospital; it was a real miracle, and all of it had a reason. He believed this was a mission granted by the Lord of the Holy City. When he understood the cause of the changes, he tried to bring the truth to more people — through years of effort, Flynn successfully changed many people. He became a thought leader, repeatedly representing workers in negotiations with companies and even the High-tier Council. Finally, Flynn caught the family’s attention, and his actions brought significant trouble to the family. After a protest march, he was taken away by the arbitrators of the Ministry of Justice. Flynn refused to compromise with the Ministry of Justice and the High-tier Council, resulting in his spinal cord being broken during interrogation. In a dying state, he was sent to a garbage disposal plant, and his body was thrown into the furnace until it completely disappeared. All the workers influenced by Flynn were also sent to the Edge World after undergoing modifications by the priests of the Sanctuary of Logic.

There were many similar endings, all ending in bleakness.

These continuously evolving futures displayed the heavy burden hope brought to Flynn Seine with blood-stained images. No matter what attitude he held towards this transformation, in the end, they all shared the same fate.

Because, as the Lord of the Holy City said, hope is the heaviest burden for the inhabitants of this world.

Flynn Seine was granted the power to experience happiness, yet in the rest of his life, he could never feel happiness again. Only in a certain destiny where he completely fell, becoming addicted to drugs, did he temporarily alter his brain’s neuron feedback through substances.

But that was no different from the life initially planned for him by the Lord of the Holy City.

"This is the impact you brought him."

The bald man said, "The happiness you brought him lasted two to three days, followed by a steep decline. In the subsequent decades, those changes only made him feel burdensome and painful."