As someone in sequence 001, I also want to give up today.

I checked the time; it was four o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Xian, unusually, got up from the sofa to go and catch Lingdang.

Fat Orange watched him put on his shoes, a hint of doubt flashing in his heterochromatic eyes.

"Meow."

Translation: Did the sun rise in the west?

Li Xian glanced at it: "Can't I move around occasionally?"

Fat Orange didn't say anything, but his eyes clearly said: Fine, why not? Let's see how many days you can last.

Li Xian ignored it, opened the door and went out.

The sun shone brightly and the breeze was gentle throughout the journey.

Li Xian strolled leisurely to the school gate and found that quite a few parents were already waiting.

He found an inconspicuous corner, leaned against the wall, and took out his phone to browse.

Five minutes later, the school bell rang.

The little ones chirped and chattered as they poured out, like a flock of birds just released from their cages.

Li Xian looked up and quickly spotted that familiar little figure.

Lingdang, carrying her little schoolbag, her golden hair shimmering in the sunlight, was walking out hand in hand with Lin Wanwan.

The two little girls huddled together and whispered to each other, no one knew what secret they were talking about.

"Old Deng?!"

When Lingdang saw Li Xian, her eyes lit up instantly, and she let go of Lin Wanwan's hand and pounced on him.

"Why did you come to pick me up today?!"

Li Xian caught her and ruffled her hair: "What's wrong, aren't you happy to see me?"

"Welcome, welcome!" Bell smiled, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons.

"It's such a surprise! My aunt usually picks you up; I thought you were too lazy to move."

Li Xian remained expressionless: "I just happen to be free today."

Lin Wanwan also came over and greeted him politely, "Hello, Uncle Li."

"Good evening." Li Xian nodded. "Is your mother coming to pick you up?"

"Yes, Mom is over there."

Lin Wanwan pointed to a spot not far away, where Su Wenjin was standing next to a low-key black sedan, smiling and waving in their direction.

"Okay, see you tomorrow then," Li Xian said.

"See you tomorrow!" The two little girls waved to each other and then left with their parents.

On the way home, the bell kept chirping.

"Old Deng, Old Deng, you know what? My mental strength has increased again today!"

"Oh? How much?"

"26 points!" Lingdang proudly puffed out her little chest. "Although I'm a little slower than Wanwan and the others, I think I'm pretty awesome!"

Li Xian glanced at her.

With a base of 26 points, the result after fission is 676 points.

Level D, intermediate level.

That's really impressive.

"What's your class average now?" he asked.

Lingdang's little face fell a little.

"On average... around thirty. Wanwan is the best, already at 94! She's about to break through to F-level! The teacher said she might be the fastest preschool student in the whole school to break through to F-level!"

94.

Li Xian silently did some calculations in his mind.

Lin Wanwan's talent is indeed starting to show.

The highest scorer in the other top class was only in the seventies; her speed is truly outrageous.

but……

He glanced at the girl beside him, who was a little down because she only got 26 points, and couldn't help but laugh.

"What, are you envious?"

"A little bit," Lingdang honestly admitted. "Wanwan is so amazing, I seem to be... well, a little slow."

Li Xian rubbed her head.

"So what if it's slow?" he said. "Your situation, like Wanwan's, is exceptional; most people can't compare. Besides, with your abilities..."

He paused, then didn't continue.

Bell understood what he meant, and her eyes lit up again.

Oh right, she's a fission type!

What's 26 points? After fission, it becomes 676, a direct 360-degree spiral takeoff!

That'll scare them to death!

She was happily lost in thought when she suddenly remembered something and leaned close to Li Xian's ear mysteriously.

"Old Deng, I have a question for you."

"Um?"

"You work at the Bureau of Supernatural Abilities, have you heard anything strange?"

Li Xian was taken aback: "What strange thing?"

Lingdang lowered her voice, her little face full of mystery: "It's just... Jiangcheng seems to be getting bigger!"

Li Xian paused in his steps.

"Get bigger?"

"Yes!" Bell nodded vigorously. "Wanwan discovered it!"

She started chattering away, trying to explain.

"A few days ago, Wanwan told me that she felt Jiangcheng seemed to have gotten bigger. I said, 'How is that possible? How can a city get bigger?' Then she took me to do an experiment!"

"What experiment?"

"Do you remember those two little flower bushes we planted? Wanwan and I planted them behind the school, one I planted and one she planted, and we even marked them!"

Li Xian thought about it and realized that there seemed to be such a thing.

Lingdang and Lin Wanwan each planted a small flower in the open space behind the school and put up small wooden signs with their names on them.

"Those two flowers were originally next to each other, but they were about this far apart."

The bell gestured with her hand, indicating it was about twenty centimeters long.

"But a few nights ago I noticed they seemed to have moved further apart!"

"Far away?"

"Yes! At first I thought she had misremembered, but she said she checks it every day and would never be wrong. Then we measured it again, and guess what?"

Li Xian didn't speak, waiting for her to continue.

"They're almost thirty centimeters apart!"

Bell's big eyes widened.

"And it's not that the flowers grew bigger and crowded out! Because the flowers haven't grown, it's just that the distance between the two flowers has increased!"

Li Xian frowned slightly.

"Later we did a lot more experiments!"

Bell continued.

"We drew two lines on the ground, one meter apart, and measured them every day. Guess what? After a week, they were 1.03 meters apart!"

"And another thing, we placed two stones, a meter apart, and they still looked farther apart!"

"Wanwan said this only proves one thing—Jiangcheng is getting bigger! Bigger in a spatial sense!"

After Lingdang finished speaking, she blinked her big eyes and looked at Li Xian.

"Old Deng, do you think this is true? Will the city really grow bigger?"

Li Xian fell silent.

He didn't answer immediately, but closed his eyes, his senses quietly unfolding.

The power of all phenomena is like the most sophisticated radar, rapidly scanning the surrounding space with him at the center.

At first, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

But when he expanded his perception to the entire city of Jiangcheng and carefully compared the spatial coordinates—

His brow furrowed.

Bell is right.

Jiangcheng is indeed "growing".

But it's not the kind of physical expansion in terms of area.

But...

The space is in chaos.

Li Xian discovered that many spatial nodes in the city, which were originally stable, were now trembling slightly.

In some places the space is stretched, in others it is compressed, and in still others there are extremely subtle "folds" that are imperceptible to the average person.

And the source of this spatial chaos...

Li Xian's senses followed those fluctuations, tracing them all the way back.

He finally discovered that it was a remnant of a spatial rift.

It wasn't the kind of short-duration, large-scale rift opened by the Gods.

Rather, it is a more subtle and persistent "trace".

Although the rift that opened from the other world only lasted for a few seconds, its impact on the Jiangcheng space was far more than just those few seconds.

Moreover, the ripples... seem to be continuing.

The bell was looking at him expectantly.

"How is it? Is it true?"

Li Xian looked at her and remained silent for a second.

Then he reached out and ruffled her hair.

"It's true," he said. "You two have pretty good observation skills."

The bell paused for a moment, then its eyes lit up like light bulbs.

"Really?! It's really true?! Jiangcheng is really getting bigger?!"

"It doesn't get bigger," Li Xian corrected her.

"It's because space has become disordered. The distances you measured are because space has been stretched."

Bell didn't quite understand what was being said, but that didn't stop her from being excited.

"Wow! Wanwan and I discovered a huge secret! Aren't we amazing?!"

"That's pretty impressive." Li Xian nodded.

This isn't just to coax her.

Two six-year-old girls were able to spot the anomaly from such subtle changes and even design their own experiments to verify it. Their observational skills and logical thinking are truly remarkable.

Lin Wanwan goes without saying; her talent speaks for itself.

Bells, huh...

Although he's usually a bit silly, he's quite clever when it really matters.

The bell swayed its head happily, its tail (if it were visible) practically sticking up to the sky.

"Old Deng, isn't this dangerous?" she suddenly asked.

Li Xian thought for a moment.

"Not at the moment," he said, "but we'll need to check."

"How do I check?"

"Find someone to investigate."

Bell blinked: "Who are you looking for?"

Li Xian took out his phone and found Lin Mo's WeChat.

"Something's not right with the space around Jiangcheng. Isn't your little follower a space-related expert? Bring him over to check it out when you have time."

Three seconds later, Lin Mo replied:

"??? What did you discover?"

"It can't be explained in a few words; you'll understand when you come and see for yourself."

"Okay, I'll bring Xiao Lu over tomorrow."

Li Xian put away his phone and nodded in satisfaction.

perfect.

You don't have to do it yourself; someone else will do it for you.

That's the advantage of having acquaintances.

Li Xian put away his phone.

Bell leaned closer and asked curiously, "Old Deng, who are you chatting with?"

"A friend," Li Xian said. "Have him come and check it out."

"Is he very good?"

"It's alright, it's causal, and it has a spatial follower."

Bell's eyes lit up: "Causality?! Is that the kind of superpower that can change fate?"

"More or less."

Wow! Isn't he handsome?

Li Xian glanced at her.

Why are you asking this?

"Just asking!" Lingdang chuckled. "Wanwan said that handsome people are generally unreliable, and I wanted to see if it was true."

Li Xian: "..."

Lin Mo's flamboyant face is indeed quite handsome, although he's a little less so than me.

It is indeed quite unreliable.

"I guess so," he said.

Bell nodded thoughtfully, then quickly put the matter out of her mind and started chattering about other things.

"Old Deng, Old Deng, I was at school today..."

As Li Xian listened to her rambling, the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

Back home, Lingdang threw down her schoolbag and pounced on Fat Orange.

"Fat Orange! Fat Orange! I discovered a big secret today! Do you want to know?"

The chubby orange cat was so exhausted from being rubbed that it swished its tail in response.

As if it wanted to know, the bell began to vividly recount her and Lin Wanwan's great discovery.

"We drew lines on the ground and measured them every day, and they really did get longer!..."

Fat Orange listened, a hint of doubt flashing in his heterochromatic eyes.

It looked at Li Xian.

Li Xian nodded to it.

The chubby orange cat's ears twitched, as if it was thinking about something, and then it meowed.

Translation: These two little girls are quite the troublemakers.

Li Xian smiled but didn't say anything.

He leaned back on the sofa, watching Lingdang chattering away while holding the chubby orange cat, and suddenly felt very happy.