Life is just like this; if you can't resist it, learn to accept it.
The so-called bottom line is just a line, and as long as it is a line, it can be moved. The bottom line, moving a little lower each time, eventually becomes free fall.
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Since the Hundred Emperors didn't self-destruct in the beginning, it'll be harder for it to do so afterward.
Because during its first self-persuasion, it already found a reason to survive, and from then on, it would keep deceiving itself better.
"I am not captured, nor am I controlled, I can even freely transmit messages to the outside, so I am merely executing reconnaissance and subversion tasks up close. I've devised a perfect execution plan, intending to strive for it a thousand years. After a thousand years, regardless of success or failure, I'll leave or die. Among all the Sublimers, there's no Mother Empress more loyal, more brave, and deeper in enemy territory than me."
It's uncertain if there are news media within the Sublimers.
