Wake up

Compared to the hustle and bustle of the streets before the National Day, the streets of the capital are now much more desolate. The decorations and lights that were set up for the big celebrations have been removed, the beautifully maintained roadside flowers have become listless, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the ground.

Luo Tan inexplicably thought of a sentence: The world will still rotate even if someone is missing.

Now it seems that this wise saying is too narrow-minded and does not take into account the special situation of half of the world's population being missing.

Xu Cheng said that he would send Luo Tan back to her new residence first. After all, the royal family's work efficiency was amazing and they arranged everything in a short time.

Luo Tan sighed: "I still can't understand it. You said they don't have any conspiracy. Uh...but can you say that?"

Xu Cheng knew the truth, but he used all his acting skills to pretend he knew nothing: "Probably not. I think... uh... the emperor's reason does make sense."

The next second, Luo Tan gave him a generous look, which meant:

Congratulations, you are young but your brain is as broken as his.

Xu Cheng: “…” Who save me? He really didn’t know what to say.

Seeing Xu Cheng like this, Luo Tan's heart gradually relaxed. She stretched her waist and said happily, "Forget it. Who cares what they want to do? I am not useful at all. Even if I am useful, I will enjoy myself for one more day. I will be happier for one more day. It's not a loss."

Xu Cheng was so absorbed in listening to what he said that he saw Luo Tan turn around and ask him, "So what special privileges does the princess have? Take me to see them."

Xu Cheng: "...It seems that there are only obligations to be fulfilled."

Luo Tan's eyes widened in disbelief, then he pounded his chest and stamped his feet, ready to go back: "That's it, I'm at a loss!"

…

In the end, Luo Tan walked back with Xu Cheng with his head down and a sad look on his face.

After all, it's hard to go back on your word once you've agreed.

But no matter what, she can finally eat whatever she wants!

Xu Cheng on the other side didn't know that Luo Chen had comforted him at the speed of light. In order to divert her attention and adjust her mood, he racked his brains for a long time and squeezed out one thing: "Do you still remember the target of the parachute company, the globe that day?"

"It was completely blown up, but when we analyzed the composition of the debris left after the explosion, we found something strange."

"What?"

Xu Cheng spoke very slowly, as if even he felt that what he was about to say was very bizarre: "Its composition does not seem to come from any of the elements we know. It's like an alien."

Luo Chen: "But it was placed in the royal archives and has always been just a decorative object."

Xu Cheng: "This is the strange thing. The police station has secretly questioned the archive manager and other people who may have come into contact with it in the past few days, but no one knows when it was placed there or why it was placed there."

Luo Chen was skeptical and asked, "If it really is an alien and does not belong here, then theoretically it should be harmful to us. Then why was it placed in the archives in the first place? And why was it deliberately and recklessly blown up?"

Xu Cheng nodded: "This is indeed hard to explain."

Xu Cheng added: "Combined with what we have uncovered about their second-stage target, my current guess is that the globe is harmful to us, so it was secretly placed in the archives many years ago, waiting for someone to detonate it in the future to release the substances inside."

Luo Tan murmured, "Something's wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"Don't you think this is being handled too slowly? Would you have done it in two phases, spread over so many years? Why didn't they just blow it up at the same time when they first put it in the archives?"

Xu Cheng thought thoughtfully: "Perhaps the situation at that time was not suitable for implementing this plan..."

He stopped talking before he finished speaking, and he realized that this logic was too far-fetched.

Luo Chen took a deep breath and said, "There is only one conclusion that can explain this. The person who first placed the globe in the archives was definitely not one of them. It could have been just an accident, or it could be that... the globe was originally used to protect us."

Xu Cheng was surprised.

"When the globe is destroyed, the shield protecting us will disappear, and all of humanity will be exposed to attacks from the outside world. The people behind the scenes will be able to implement their second phase smoothly."

Xu Cheng hissed, "Why do I feel a chill on my back?"

Luo Tan said innocently: "It's just a guess. It's hard to say whether it's true or not. After all, I have never been able to pass the minesweeper game since I was a child."

She looked at Xu Cheng: "But speaking of that, did anything strange happen after the big bang?"

Xu Cheng scratched his head: "It seems not, it's just that some people have sequelae of coma..."

Just when Luo Chen wanted to ask in detail about the sequelae, she suddenly heard the long-lost alarm from the system!

At the same time, there was Xiao Ai's sweet voice: "You finally woke up! I missed you so much!"

Luo Chen forced himself to block out the sticky, continuous hugs and kisses from Xiao Ai in his mind, and then he discovered that this time the red dot was actually in the sky!