章 1960: Beginning to Understand Everything

"No…"

Meng Chao's soul was being squeezed twice, and his will became even firmer. 

He was not willing to "live" as chess pieces, puppets, and components in a perfect and unchanging world that was a result of precise calculations.

Neither was he willing to break all order and obey the primeval law of 'survival of the fittest' without any rules, as shown by the Phantom. He would never fall into the chaotic hell of Asura with a group of his own kind that had evolved crazily and become grotesque.

There had to be a third path between the Phantom and Zero, absolute freedom and absolute order. Definitely!

Just as Meng Chao's soul was squeezed into a distorted state, he let out a hysterical scream. Something seemed to have heard Meng Chao's shout and resonated with him in the depths of the massive information torrent that formed the Phantom and Zero. It emitted a weak but dazzling light. 

"What's that?"