The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

Chi Zhengyang's words were like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, stirring up huge waves in everyone's hearts.

time.

An adversary with its own will and the ability to actively rewrite history.

This concept shattered their preconceived notions.

The meeting room was deathly silent.

Only the two suns on the holographic projection silently shone with light.

Old Qian opened his mouth, but it felt like his throat was stuffed with cotton, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Faced with such an absurd reasoning, his volatile temper found no outlet.

absurd?

But the strange phenomena in the sky provide the most solid and irrefutable evidence for this absurdity.

"cough."

Old Wei coughed lightly, trying to break the tense atmosphere, but found that his throat was also a little dry.

Just then, the usually silent Old Man An suddenly voiced his doubt.

His voice was soft, with a hint of uncertainty, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

"Don't you guys think that this second sun seems a little bigger than the first one?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's thoughts were instantly pulled from that grand and vague conjecture back to the most pressing crisis at hand.

All eyes turned back to the real-time holographic projection.

The newly appeared, slightly smaller sun still hung high in the sky, radiating a breathtaking light and heat.

"It's gotten bigger?" Old Qian's eyebrows furrowed into a straight line as he stared intently at the screen. "It seems... a little."

The initial changes were minimal, but over time, the visual expansion became increasingly apparent.

It is no longer a distant point of light.

It is transforming into a clearly defined sphere.

Moreover, as time goes by...

An indescribable sense of oppression pressed down heavily on me, even through the screen.

However, before he could finish speaking...

"Thump! Thump thump!"

The heavy door to the conference room was knocked on urgently, in a manner completely out of line with regulations.

A middle-aged man in a researcher's uniform rushed in. His hair was disheveled, and he was clutching a tablet computer tightly in his arms.

"Elder Chi! Elder An..."

The man rushed to the conference table, so fast that he was breathless and couldn't even finish a sentence.

Chi Zhengyang raised his hand to stop him, and looked at the newcomer, uttering five words.

"If you have something to say, just say it."

The middle-aged man swallowed hard, trying to calm his wildly beating heart. He held up the tablet computer in his hand, and the image on the screen shook because of his trembling arm.

"That...that thing in the sky isn't the sun!"

His voice was distorted by fear, sharp and hoarse.

"Get to the point." Old Wu was sparing with his words, uttering only three words.

The middle-aged man seemed to be choked; he took a deep breath and roared with all his might.

"It's a coffin!"

"A burning coffin!"

The air in the entire conference room seemed to be sucked out in that instant.

Mr. Qian's hand, which had just picked up the teacup, froze in mid-air.

Old Wei's movement of pushing up his glasses also stopped.

coffin?

This word cannot be associated with that terrifying celestial body in the sky, which is as bright as the sun.

Seeing the astonishment on everyone's faces, the middle-aged man broke out in a cold sweat. He frantically operated the tablet computer, projecting the image onto the main screen.

"Look! This is the image we obtained after super-resolution overlay of all the satellite images and then filtering out unwanted halos!"

On the giant holographic projection, the image changed rapidly.

The original blazing ball of light was analyzed and peeled away layer by layer.

Once the outermost flames and blinding halo were technically removed, the thing hidden at the very core of the light finally revealed its true form.

That......

It really is a coffin.

A coffin of immense size, beyond description.

It floated there silently, its surface engraved with extremely intricate ancient patterns, which seemed to be alive, flowing slowly in the endless flames.

The flames burning fiercely are not the nuclear fusion fire of stars.

It's the coffin itself!

It was like a piece of stubborn iron thrown into a cosmic furnace, heated until it was completely red-hot, constantly spewing out terrifying heat that was enough to distort space.

The so-called "second sun" was, from beginning to end, just a disguise formed by the light and heat it emitted!

"hiss......"

The sound of gasps for air echoed throughout the conference room.

The scene before us has completely transcended the realm of science fiction and entered the realm of mythology.

"It's not that it's getting bigger..."

Old An murmured to himself, his face losing its composure for the first time, replaced by utter shock.

"But it's getting closer to us."

Chi Zhengyang picked up where he left off, speaking slowly and deliberately.

The middle-aged man nodded heavily, his fingers flying across the tablet, bringing up a star map filled with complex calculations and ballistic trajectories.

"That's right! Its speed is constantly increasing, and it has already broken through the third cosmic velocity! Its gravitational parameters... are completely chaotic! Incomprehensible!"

"But according to our newly established provisional model, its final landing point..."

He paused, looked up at the five old men, and uttered a place name with difficulty.

"It's located within the territory of the Holy Elephant Kingdom!"

Holy Elephant Kingdom!

The moment that name was uttered, the atmosphere in the meeting room changed once again.

That is the most densely populated area in the world.

What kind of terrifying disaster would be caused if such a strange giant coffin fell there?

Nobody dared to think of it.

Just as everyone was shaken and their minds were racing, trying to come up with a solution...

"Boom—!"

A deafeningly loud bang came from afar.

Immediately afterwards, the entire building began to shake violently!

The scalding hot tea danced in the teacup.

The overhead lights were flashing wildly and making a buzzing sound, as if they might go out at any moment.

earthquake?

At the same time, everyone felt a sense of dizziness.

The sudden and dramatic change left everyone staggered.

"Hold on!"

Chi Zhengyang let out a low growl, bracing himself against the table with one hand to steady himself.

The vibrations came quickly and went quickly.

In just three or four seconds, everything returned to calm.

It was as if the tremor that had shaken the mountains was just an illusion.

The meeting room was a complete mess.

But no one had time to clean it up.

Everyone instinctively looked up at the huge holographic projection.

on the screen.

In the azure sky, only a lonely sun remained.

That burning bronze coffin, that terrifying entity mistaken for a second sun...

Disappeared.

It just vanished into thin air.

It vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.