I, the Rock King Emperor with 21 billion in power, have joined the chat group.

These words immediately gave the two girls who had come with Zhongli a genuine sense of the tragedy of this apocalyptic world.

Reimu Hakurei, dressed in a shrine maiden's outfit, originally came with the intention of a free trip to see this world where humanity is on the verge of extinction, but at this moment, a different kind of turmoil is stirring in her heart.

As for the other girl standing next to her, Yukino Yukinoshita, who was wearing a short skirt and a suit jacket, she was more melancholic. She already had a sense of loss and pity for the deserted post-apocalyptic world, and when she heard Chito's words, it was as if the softest part of her heart had been pierced.

This direct confrontation with sorrow caused her even greater pain than seeing the frail appearance of children in underdeveloped countries like Africa.

A feeling of helplessness welled up in her heart—even if she became a so-called "real thing," it would only prove herself; there were still so many children and adults in the world who struggled even to become "real people."

And the same is true for the thousand households before us.

Yukino Yukinoshita's dark eyes scrutinized the girl with braided hair named Chito in front of her. She was only about thirteen or fourteen years old, even younger than Yukinoshita. The braids she used to tie her hair were something she had picked up from somewhere, pure white coils that looked like metal. Her complexion was not good, her lips were almost bloodless, and she was so thin that one would think that this child would probably fall over if the wind blew her down.

In addition, the little girl Yuri next door, with her messy blonde hair, thin arms with almost no fat or muscle, and a body that was practically the epitome of thinness, made people feel even more heartbroken.

This world is not lacking in people who are sad. Compared to that, what are the difficulties I am facing?

It was nothing more than parental resistance, a slight inferiority complex towards her older sister, and a certain degree of hatred and disapproval.

-----even.....

Thinking this, the girl turned her gaze to Zhong Li, who was dressed in modern casual clothes. He was someone who could save a universe, reverse time, and resurrect long-dead beings.

What would the world look like through his eyes, and what scenes would it contain?

What are his worries and his hopes?

For the first time, a girl named Yukino Yukinoshita, who had not yet entered high school, gained a new understanding of the world.

Her still-undefined worldview began to subtly change when she stepped into this doomed world and met the two girls struggling to survive there.

Perhaps, in the future at a different time.

Her experiences must have been very different from what fate had in store for her.

Chapter Ten: My Doomsday Begins in Loneliness

Aside from Zhongli, who is adept at understanding people's hearts, no one else noticed Yukino's little scheme.

Zhongli only glanced at her twice before ignoring her.

Zhongli's original intention in inviting these people from peaceful worlds to these post-apocalyptic worlds was to elevate their souls to a certain extent, so that they would at least know how wonderful their current world is.

Be aware of suffering and be grateful for peace.

So far, Yukino Yukinoshita's change of heart is not surprising to Zhongli, and it makes him somewhat relieved.

Of course, this was just a little scheme that Zhongli used to achieve his own goals. Whether Yukino Yukinoshita would change her mindset or not, it didn't mean much to him.

Therefore, Zhongli quickly put the girl's inner turmoil behind her.

After greeting Yuri, who was wrapped in a blanket, and Chito, who was a little shy, he began to observe the world.

First and foremost, of course, you should watch it.

As a limitation of the beginner mission card, he couldn't even use one-tenth of the power of a complete clone to enter the void passage constructed by the Multiverse Chat Group.

The person he is in this world now is merely a body formed from a few drops of blood from his clone in the world of Teyvat.

Even so, he can see many things that are not visible to ordinary humans or ordinary superhumans.

His gaze swept across the vast expanse of white snow, then over the ruins of the colossal city in the distance, and finally over the towering, mountain-like city, looking towards the distant land.

Clusters of ruins, towering cities reaching into the clouds, and the unchanging color of the sky.

Above the sky are translucent domes that absorb solar energy across the entire planet. These domes replace the function of the ozone layer, absorbing most of the energy from the sun and then transmitting it to various tower cities.

However, it is clear that this function has been destroyed. Above the sky, the translucent light shields can no longer perform the functions they were originally designed for, and can only let sunlight pass through like the most ordinary glass.

Zhongli glanced at the light barrier twice, then looked past it and saw the sky above.

That was space filled with ruins and debris, and the lunar city was also a ruin.

Further afield, human bases built on Mars are now nothing but ruins, devoid of any life.

Low Earth orbit and Lagrange orbit are filled with the wreckage of various large space cities, as well as obvious traces of armed warships around the wreckage, and many human corpses frozen into ice in outer space, still drifting aimlessly to this day.

Near the outer edge of the solar system, one can see a huge, lifeless, floating immigration ship. Clearly, this was a spaceship attempting to escape the solar system, which was completely engulfed in war, but it failed due to a series of massive nuclear missiles.

Zhongli shifted his gaze slightly, turning away from the edge of the solar system and looking towards the interior of the planet.

Towering, mountain-like cities occupy most of the world.

Moreover, it is obvious that these cities have been perfectly planned, with the ecological environment of each city perfectly positioned on the edge of the ecological environment of another city.

Outside the city, there are various terraced industrialized farmlands created by automated machines, with all sorts of unmanned machinery completely paralyzed and covering the entire land.

But strangely, the earth was devoid of the wildly growing plants that should have existed after the extinction of humankind; instead, it was completely desolate.

Zhongli was not puzzled. He turned his gaze again and looked down at the ground.

One hundred meters, two hundred meters... one thousand meters.

Life finally began to stir in the desolate depths.

They were strange, glowing, mushroom-like luminous creatures.

They filled the underground, and after a cursory glance, Zhongli discovered that there were at least tens of billions of these creatures sleeping in the geothermal layer underground.

Zhongli then realized something was amiss and took a closer look at the glowing creature.

Then it dawned on me that these glowing intelligent life forms did not seem to be native to this planet, nor were they aliens from outer space.

This is a special kind of artificially created biological life.

No, perhaps it could be called a "biological weapon".

At least in Zhongli's view, such a creature, which is specifically designed to absorb all kinds of energy, including tidal energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and so on, and can reproduce by fission according to the amount of energy, could absolutely not have been conceived by the planet Earth.

It can only be a biological weapon designed by humans and prepared for war.

In this era where human civilization has been wiped out, this biological weapon has gone out of control, continuously absorbing the heat energy of the planet beneath its feet and splitting itself to reproduce.

According to Zhongli's estimation, it might only take less than seven hundred years for this planet to completely collapse into the geothermal layer, leaving the entire planet devoid of heat except for sunlight.

Look back.

Zhongli turned her gaze back to Qianhu and Youli.

He then nodded slightly to the two of them: "Thank you for inviting me to your world."

Yuri, still wrapped in the blanket, waved her hand and said, "It's nothing. I just haven't seen any living people other than myself and Qianhu in a long time, so I wanted to see you all."

"Speaking of which, we could still see some living people here and there at the beginning of the trip, but now we can't see them at all."

"Uncle Zhongli".

Yuri pointed bluntly to the surrounding white ground: "I heard from people in the group that you're incredibly skilled. Can you tell us if there are any humans on the top floor of this [tower]?"

“Those aliens told us that, except for the top floor which they don’t monitor, there are no other living people in this city of towers besides us.”

Zhongli didn't seem to mind her rudeness.

He hesitated for a moment, then said bluntly, "I did not observe any human life on the top floor of this tower. In fact, I did not observe any kind of life at all."

"As for the kind of 'aliens' you mentioned, I think I've seen them too. But I need to correct you, they probably aren't aliens. They might be 'biological weapons' created by humans. Of course, I can't be sure about that. If you want to know the truth, can I observe their origins by looking back at the history of the world? Do you need that help?"

Although Qianhu really wanted Zhongli to help him with this, Youli naturally didn't care about it.

Yuri, a thin girl wrapped in a quilt with only her eyes showing, quickly turned her head to look at Qianhu when she heard Zhongli's words.

He was shouting loudly, "See, Commander Qian, see, Commander Qian. I told you long ago that there might not be anyone at the top of the tower. Uncle Zhongli said there was no one there."

"So why don't we wait a couple more days before setting off? It's so cold in this snowy weather, Qianhu..."

Yuri's loud words gradually faded as she spoke.

In the end, as she looked at the tears slowly dripping down Qianhu's cheeks, she felt somewhat at a loss.

She hurriedly untied herself from under the covers, ran to Qianhu in small steps, waving her thin, slender arms, and frantically tried to explain.

But the tears on Qianhu's face were truly unstoppable.

As Yuri watched, she felt her eyes stinging more and more.

That kind of deep, painful feeling was completely uncontrollable and impossible to resist.

Even someone as kind-hearted as Yuri felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness welling up inside her, and a feeling of shattered hope was brewing within her.

Without realizing it, she hugged Chito, and just silently watched Chito, who was constantly shedding tears and sobbing, without saying a word.

After an unknown amount of time, Qianhu's tears gradually subsided.

Although the equally thin and slender girl with braided hair did not cry loudly, her voice was slightly hoarse.

She looked intently at Zhongli, her voice unusually calm.

"I also want to go to the top of the tower and see it with my own eyes."

Zhongli naturally wouldn't disagree with such a determination.

He nodded slightly: "Then I'll go with you. I also want to go to the top of the tower."

After saying this, he turned to look at Yukino Yukinoshita, who was still lost in her own thoughts, and Reimu Hakurei, who had begun to look around at the scenery, and asked for their opinions.

Are you planning to come with us?

"If you don't want to come with us, you are free to wander around this world. At least on the surface, there are no large creatures or life forms that can pose a threat to humans."

Zhongli said casually, "Even poisonous insects, viruses, and germs are extremely rare in this honeycomb city."

“Even an ordinary girl like Yukinoshita wouldn’t have to worry about her life being in danger here.” At this point, Zhongli felt it wasn’t quite accurate, so she added, “As long as there is enough food and safe shelter.”

“I’ll go with you, Mr. Zhongli,” Yukinoshita replied without hesitation.

Although she also longed for the freedom of surviving alone in another world, she was even more curious about what purpose Mr. Zhongli, who was a god, had in coming to this world.

Is it for salvation? Or to offer a final requiem to this destroyed world? Or is it to act as if one were the Creator, recreating a civilization on this planet?

Yukino Yukinoshita was very interested in these things.

"Lord Divine Dragon." Reimu Hakurei addressed Zhongli in a slightly different way. "I think I won't go with you. I want to go and see other places. I just added a spiritual energy mark to Yukinoshita and Yuri over there, so it shouldn't be too much trouble for me to find you if I want to."

"Hmm." Zhongli naturally didn't care.

Having decided on their destination, none of the people present, except for Yuri, were the type to hesitate or drag things out.