Chapter 1394: To Humanity

To Humanity

"What's going on? What happened to Lu Xun?"

As soon as Ji Xuan lifted the flap and entered, he saw everyone surrounding the blood-soaked Lu Xun, and was instantly shocked.

"Someone came to assassinate us..." Wu Tongyuan, gesticulating wildly and adding vivid details, recounted what had just happened, and along the way roughly explained his understanding of his own abilities.

After listening, the gazes of the other Nine Monarchs became strange.

"You're saying you can tamper with the physical rules of an area through mathematical models?" Dr. Qi's eyes widened. "Bro, isn't that a bit too overpowered??"

"Indeed... the development of modern physics cannot be separated from mathematical formula descriptions. Putting it that way, your ability should directly encompass all of our abilities." Yang Xiao was deep in thought.

"No, no, no, it's not that exaggerated." Wu Tongyuan waved his hands repeatedly. "I can only change some parameters. Even if it could encompass all fields, it has an upper limit. The more complex the formula, the more exaggerated the parameter adjustment, and the harder it is for me to achieve... I definitely wouldn't be able to be as specialized as you guys are in your respective fields."

Wu Tongyuan paused, his gaze turning to Yang Xiao. "For example, no matter how much I change parameters, I can't converse with souls... Within humanity's current mathematical formulas, not a single formula regarding souls has been deduced."

Listening from the side, Ji Xuan's face grew increasingly flushed, looking as if blood was rushing to his head. He was evidently overwhelmingly jealous.

He turned his head, wanting to go back and continue digging.

In the end, Lou Yu grabbed him. "There might still be enemies lying in ambush outside. It's too dangerous for you to go over there right now."

Ji Xuan gritted his teeth and struggled internally for a long time, but ultimately didn't go out immediately. The meteorite crater was right there anyway. If he couldn't dig anything up today, he would just continue tomorrow!

"When you guys went to the crater just now, did you not encounter any enemies?" Chen Ling, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked.

"No." Ji Xuan shook his head.

"It seemed like the power went out for a moment just now, but it recovered in a few seconds..."

Beside him, Lou Yu, draped in the black raincoat, nodded slightly. His thick lenses were covered in rainwater, making the expression on his face indistinct.

Dr. Wen looked at him, then looked at Chen Ling beside him, hesitating to speak.

"It's good that nothing happened." Yang Xiao checked the time on the wall. Less than three minutes remained until the 24-hour deadline.

"Then shall we... sit down and have a proper chat?"

Naturally, everyone had no objections. Except for Lu Xun, who was still being treated, everyone else returned to their respective seats. After a moment of silence, Wu Tongyuan proactively spoke up:

"So, we truly have no way out anymore?"

"No." Chen Ling's gaze swept over the crowd, and he spoke calmly. "I know that all of you obtained this power unintentionally, but fate was never one to bargain with anyone. Whether you subjectively desire it or not, once you step onto this path, there is no turning back... Behind you is the abyss of humanity's destiny."

"Then as long as we unite as one, we can save humanity's destiny?" Dr. Qi couldn't help but ask.

"Not necessarily." Chen Ling paused. "But if you don't unite, humanity will definitely perish... and you will die without a doubt as well."

Unlike Yang Xiao's emotional and logical persuasion, Chen Ling's words were calm and absolute. He had already witnessed that tragic era; the words he spoke were unquestionable reality...

What was overbearing was never Chen Ling, but the ruthless fate itself.

"It seems then... we haven't had a choice for a long time." Dr. Qi chuckled bitterly, leaning back helplessly against his small folding stool. "Alright, I have no objections."

"Neither do I." Dr. Wen's voice remained composed, as if he had figured out the logic within long ago and calmly accepted his mission.

"Count me in... even if I don't have an ability, please absolutely count me in." Ji Xuan answered almost pleadingly.

Yang Xiao, Lu Xun, and Su Zhiwei went without saying; they had been prepared for this long ago...

Thus, everyone's gaze turned toward Wu Tongyuan.

Wu Tongyuan's messy curly hair was stained with blood and dirt. He blanked out in place for a long time, as if a battle between heaven and man was raging within him... Ultimately, his gaze swept over Lu Xun, who was still undergoing treatment, and he let out a miserable chuckle.

"Why are you all looking at me... do I even have room to refuse? I don't want to die..."

"But let's make this clear first, don't hold too high expectations of me. I'm not the kind of great hero who can turn the tide like you guys think... I'm just a lousy mathematician."

With the biggest variable resolved, Yang Xiao's heart finally settled. Beside him, Su Zhiwei proactively raised the tea in her cup:

"Since we are of the same mind, then from now on we are comrades on the same battlefront... shall we clink glasses?"

The few of them successively raised the tea in front of them. Dr. Qi raised an eyebrow:

"At this time, shouldn't we say something?"

"Say what?"

"I don't know... don't those who do pre-battle mobilization in the movies always give a little speech?"

"Does this count as a pre-battle mobilization? Furthermore, this kind of thing like a little speech... who among you knows how?" Wu Tongyuan looked at everyone with a strange expression.

Yang Xiao's face turned somewhat red, as if trying to squeeze something out, but in the end, he couldn't utter a single word... Everyone sitting here were researchers in science and engineering. They weren't good at dealing with people, let alone giving impromptu speeches.

Just then, a weak but smiling voice sounded from the side:

"We're all our own people, there's no need for those things..."

Everyone turned around, only to see that Lu Xun had awakened from his coma at some unknown time. He signaled Yang Xiao to pass him a cup of tea. After pondering for a moment, he lightly raised his cup toward everyone.

"... To humanity."

Just three simple words, yet they were like a rivet in the torrent of the era. With a light strike, they secured humanity's future for three hundred years.

Within the precarious, storm-tossed tent, everyone present successively raised their cups. Sitting to the side, Chen Ling picked up his teacup, thought for a moment, and put it down. However, upon seeing the expectant gazes from the surrounding crowd, he ultimately raised it anyway.

"To humanity." The crowd softly spoke.

"... Dr. Lou?" Seeing that Lou Yu beside him had not yet raised his cup, Ji Xuan couldn't help but nudge him with his elbow.

Lou Yu remained silent for a long time, ultimately picking up the tea in his hand.

"... To humanity."

BOOM——!!

The moment Lou Yu's tea clinked with everyone else's, an explosive sound like terrifying thunder rang out from the heavens. An incredibly surging and terrifying aura, like a meteorite, directly pierced through the silent Shennongjia!

The crowd was startled by this sound. Before they could recover their senses, the entire tent was cleft in twain by a single sword strike!

A dazzling particle longsword, like the judgment of a god, was thrust directly at the back of that black raincoat!

"Lou Yu... you madman!!" The aura of the Lord of Hanging Jade surged violently into the surroundings.

"You actually killed the you of this era with your own hands??"