I'm just an internet cafe owner

As he was pondering, the sound of an explosion not far away caught his attention.

"what happened?"

He looked in the direction of the explosion and saw a large truck crashed into the wall. People around him took out their phones to take pictures, but Lelouch frowned.

Without thinking twice, he jumped down to carry out the rescue. But just as he was about to start the rescue, he heard someone calling him from inside the box.

With the activation of mental power, the driver appeared to be a member of a terrorist organization. They claimed that this place contained poison gas, but after mental detection, it was discovered that it was not poison gas at all, but rather people.

Feeling the gazes of those around him, he stood up straight and covered his face in a childish manner.

"In the name of heresy, I command you! Forget your memories, delete all records, and go home to rest!"

A powerful burst of mental energy erupted instantly. Mental power has little effect on people with strong will or those who have undergone special training, but apart from the two drivers from the terrorist organization, everyone else around was an ordinary person, and none of them were people with strong will.

Having dealt with all that, Lelouch simply pulled a pickaxe out of thin air and smashed it down on the so-called poison gas bomb.

This smash revealed a green-haired girl.

Having prepared beforehand, Lelouch didn't panic but instead held the girl in his arms. At the same time, he also focused his attention on the two drivers in the carriage.

"In the name of Lelouch vi Britannia, I command you to follow me!"

Using his mental powers once more, Lelouch found the two men resolute. He wasn't particularly interested in manipulating people's wills; he only controlled their bodies, keeping them by his side.

At the same time, a large number of soldiers surrounded him, and Lelouch put on a pair of glasses.

Based on the glasses modified from the prosthetic eyes used in Cyberpunk 2077V, his image is completely pixelated in all surveillance footage, and all smart devices within his field of vision are hacked by him.

And so, Lelouch took away two rebels and a beautiful girl in a jar in public.

Saying it happened in public is a bit inaccurate. Lelouch's escape route involved digging down with a pickaxe, filling in the gaps after every three digs, and having the two terrorists follow him while he dug and filled in the gaps, until he reached a depth of 100 meters. After slightly expanding the surrounding environment, Lelouch placed a torch inside, and then released the two men from their mind control.

Who are you?

The girl named Karen tried to draw her gun, but her body was completely out of her control. She realized that the person in front of her had definitely tampered with her.

“Me? My name is Lelouch vi Britannia, the 11th prince of the Holy Britannian Empire. I know your identities: rebels? Or perhaps…”

Karen's pupils contracted, and the man beside her trembled involuntarily.

Lelouch placed the awakened girl aside and calmly said, "There's no need to be afraid. I fully support your spirit of resistance. However, I'm thinking about something interesting. Even if you succeed in your rebellion, so what?"

"Ha, are you trying to say we're like ants, easily crushed underfoot?"

Faced with the girl's sharp retort, Lelouch smiled and shook his head: "Not only are you an insect, but I am too. See this? This is a high-tech pickaxe from the Six Lizards civilization. It has molecular recombination technology and can completely excavate stone and metal."

As he spoke, Lelouch used his diamond pickaxe, enchanted with Silk Touch, to dig into the surrounding walls. Then, he took out a Minecraft torch and introduced it, saying, "This is a controlled fusion torch from Cybertron. It cannot be extinguished by any means. Why don't you give it a try?"

Lelouch controlled Kallen's body, trying to destroy the torch, but no matter what he did, he couldn't extinguish its light. Touching it, the temperature told her it was fire.

"What... exactly are these?"

Lelouch said calmly, "Don't rush, this is a toy from Cybertron in the Centaur Galaxy, Super TNT, one cubic meter of TNT! Yet its explosive power can be perfectly limited to a ten-meter radius. It's simply a technology that we humans cannot control."

At that moment, the driver next to Karen gasped.

"Are you an alien?"

"No! I just introduced myself. I am the 11th prince of the Holy Britannian Empire. You can call me Lelouch. What I want to tell you is that the planets that possessed these technologies have perished. These planets transmitted some of their world's technologies to Earth through quantum entanglement, and I was the lucky one who received them. At the same time, there is more bad news: the Protoss civilization that destroyed the Hexas and Cybertron has discovered Earth's coordinates, and they intend to destroy humanity. Earth's technology is now locked down, and we can no longer break through the alien civilization's blockade. In four hundred years, all of humanity on Earth will be destroyed. To them, both you and I are just insects."

"How is that possible!"

Karen wanted to argue, but then she saw a horrifying scene.

"My superpower was bestowed upon me by the inhabitants of the Hexaloid planet; it allows me to control the thoughts of all life forms."

I want to, but at the same time, I can also allow others to see some of the truths of the world through this ability.

What did Karen see? In the blink of an eye, all the planets in an entire galaxy vanished, and the sun looked as if it had been squeezed and played with like a ball by a merciless hand.

"what!!!"

Kallen felt her brain trembling, but Lelouch didn't stop; he made the two people in front of him see everything.

After seeing this, the two of them completely lost consciousness.

Lelouch, meanwhile, calmly glanced at C.C. beside him and said, "Now that you're awake, stop pretending to be asleep."

"Are you telling the truth? Extraterrestrial civilizations and all that..."

Lelouch said calmly, "I have no need to lie, because these things can all be verified."

After a long silence, C.C. looked at Lelouch and said, "Would you like to sign a contract with me? I can grant you..."

Before CC could finish speaking, Lelouch covered her mouth and said, "I won't sign!"

Chapter 405 In the end, they still signed.

As a customer at the internet cafe, he had seen a tip from The Theory of Cycles on the forum.

"In any world, if someone offers you a contract to become xxx, never sign it!!! If there's a problem, talk to the boss!"

This statement received a lot of likes, with many people sharing their own experiences, saying that contracts are a real rip-off. Unless the boss helped them find the contract, they should avoid signing it if possible.

CC never expected that someone would refuse her. She tried to sign a contract directly, but her abilities were unlimited against the other party.

"I have absolutely no interest in your contract, but you are quite interesting..."

"... "

C.C. remained silent, while Lelouch said directly, "If you're afraid of danger, you can stay with me for a while, and I can guarantee your safety. If you don't trust me, you can leave directly."

Are you serious?

"what?"

"Protect me."

Lelouch lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "It's fine, even until the end of the world."

"Pfft, you think you can live until the end of the world?"

What if I said I could?

Looking into Lelouch's eyes, she wore an expression of disbelief. She had a vague feeling that the person in front of her might be... someone similar to herself.

Lelouch calmly said, "I will lead humanity to fight against the impending aliens. Until then, I will not die, nor can I die."

Since he intended to shift humanity's conflicts to outer space, he had no intention of dying. He wanted to see the expressions on the faces of Earthlings four or five hundred years from now when they saw the projection set up by Liu Yuan and the Law of Cycles!

Just guessing it now brings me joy from the inside out!

"Is what you're saying... true?"

"of course."

"I believe you, let's consider this... our contract."

"alright."

The moment Lelouch uttered his agreement, he suddenly realized that the girl in front of him was staring at him.

In that instant, he felt a jolt in his brain, and his mental power was released involuntarily. At the same time, CC's eyes widened.

What did she see? She saw a pink-haired girl playing ball with the sun?

While she was being shocked, Lelouch also saw some of her experiences through C.C.'s eyes. It was only a small part of her life, but he sensed her thoughts and desires.

For a moment, he fell silent. He had intended to reject the contract outright, but after witnessing some of the girl's past experiences, he hesitated. After a while, he spoke.

"I accept."

Lelouch's eyes turned red, and he gained a power called Geass.

However, this power was discarded by the power of the mind as soon as it was acquired.

"... "

Lelouch felt cheated, utterly cheated! He had already signed a contract, only to gain power weaker than even his own mental strength. He tried to analyze it; the power he gained was essentially a weakened version of mental strength, allowing him to force someone to do something after seeing their eyes.

The effective range is barely a fraction of the power of psychic abilities; it even requires seeing into the eyes. Then look at the psychic abilities I learned from Commissar Yuri—they're practically invincible! I can control whoever I want within a kilometer radius, I can even control the person on the other end of the phone with a simple call. And the control is permanent; I can control one person repeatedly.

What are the advantages of Geass? Perhaps its strong continuity? But the wind-up is too long and you have to look into the other person's eyes, which is too troublesome. I guess even the android teardrop wouldn't want to use it.

When Kallen woke up, Lelouch had already left with C.C., and she was still replaying the scene of the world's destruction in her mind.

Technological stagnation, alien invasion. Will aliens who will destroy other star systems invade Earth in a few hundred years? Why? What on Earth is worth invading?

Just as Kallen was pondering, she saw a notebook left behind by Lelouch, which contained his musings.

"The Dark Forest Theory?"

Kallen looked at the text above, and suddenly her pupils contracted, because Lelouch had recorded the reason why Earth might be being targeted.

Because Earth once broadcast a message into space, which was intercepted by an advanced civilization living in harsh regions, they want to invade Earth. Now she needs to verify two things: one is whether Lelouch's claim about basic science exists.

There are two possibilities: one is that it's locked down, and the other is the rumored destruction of the Centaurus constellation.

In addition, she also saw Lelouch's great dream.

"Although I am a prince, I hope that hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years from now, the descendants of mankind will still be living on Earth. I believe that all nations should unite, stop oppression and aggression, and jointly fight against the destruction of our planet by extraterrestrials."

Reclaiming Japan… honestly, she doesn't feel it matters anymore. What good would recapturing it do? Three or four hundred years later, aliens would arrive on Earth, and everyone would die.

She understood why Lelouch called her naive; at this point, it wasn't about restoring the country, but about ensuring the continuation of civilization.

She wasn't sure if it was true until she returned to school.

She was initially skeptical, until she secretly went to the place and found the physics teacher.

"Teacher... I've encountered some problems. I've discovered that some things taught in the physics textbook seem incorrect. After simulating it on the computer, the data is wrong."

"You noticed too?"

The physics teacher looked at Karen with a serious expression: "Apart from the known physics that can conduct experiments according to the original data, all the data obtained by physics is wrong. I understand, it must be a divine intervention, otherwise there is no way to explain this."

The physics teacher continued teaching with his book in hand, regardless of the experimental results; his lesson would continue.

"teacher…"

Karen opened her mouth, as if to say something, but then swallowed it back. Just as she was leaving, she saw a girl with light green curly hair leaning against a corner on the stairs.

She vaguely remembered the girl; her name seemed to be Nina Einstein.

"Why is this happening...? All the data is wrong. It was all correct before. Why?"

"Excuse me, what's wrong? Is there anything I can do to help you?"