The whole nation: You're put to survive on a desolate planet, you'll be running an alien b

The encrypted chat room was deathly silent.

The dark red emblem representing "Scorpion" remained motionless, like a piece of blood amber frozen on the screen.

Time seemed to stand still.

Su Wan and Liu Hu even forgot to breathe.

Their brains were still being repeatedly bombarded by that perfect spherical cavity, making it impossible for them to process the even more bizarre conversation before them.

Membership packages?

What kind of member would need a skyscraper as a trial sample?

Li Haotian is very patient.

He leaned back on the sofa, picked up the encrypted phone again, tapped the funny smiley face icon with his finger, and sent a cheeky "rubbing hands" emoji.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Sister, I'm waiting online, it's urgent.

at last.

The dark red scorpion emblem flickered slightly.

A cold, hoarse female voice, as if squeezed out with all her might, rang out through the phone's speaker.

"Who...are you?"

The arrogance and probing tone of the past were gone from that voice.

All that remained was a deep-seated fear of the unknown.

Li Haotian smiled.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: I'm a concerned citizen, and I helped you deal with your non-performing assets. Look, now the bad debts are gone, the troublesome employees are gone, and even the office building has been demolished for you—all in one go.

He typed at a moderate pace, as if he were chatting with a friend.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Such thoughtful service, why not get an annual membership? You can get a 20% discount.

The "Scorpion" on the other side remained silent for even longer.

So long that Su Wan thought the other party had disconnected.

"...I need time."

Finally, the female voice rang out again, and then the dark red scorpion emblem disappeared directly from the chat room.

It's offline.

Or rather, they fled in disarray.

"Tch, boring."

Li Haotian pursed his lips and tossed the phone back to Su Wan.

He stood up, stretched, and his bones cracked and popped.

"After all that, I'm starving."

He spoke as he walked toward the kitchen.

"gentlemen……"

Liu Hu's voice trembled slightly as he looked at Li Haotian's retreating figure and mustered his courage to ask a question.

"Just now... that... really was..."

"Oh, that one."

Li Haotian opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of chilled cola.

"It's just an energy annihilation phenomenon at a microscopic scale, a miracle in physics, don't make a fuss about it."

He unscrewed the bottle cap, tilted his head back, and took a big gulp.

"belch……"

"Speaking of which, I was so focused on watching the show that I forgot to order takeout."

Li Haotian took out his old cell phone and quickly swiped names across the screen.

"What good food is around here... Hmm? Hellfire spicy crayfish? Sounds exciting, this is it."

He placed the order quickly.

Su Wan and Liu Hu looked at each other in bewilderment.

Watching the man carefully selecting takeout while burping from a Coke, they felt like two mortals who had stumbled into a divine realm and witnessed the daily life of a god.

It turns out that even God gets hungry after leveling a building and wants to eat crayfish.

……

at the same time.

Genesis Building.

The piercing alarm shattered the bustling night sky of Donghai City.

Dozens of special riot control vehicles from the Dragon Shield Bureau completely blocked all intersections within a one-kilometer radius.

Qin Yue stood at the very front of the blockade line, her face extremely grim.

The Genesis Tower behind her, like a steel behemoth cut in half, was slowly and painfully groaning, twisting, and collapsing.

Countless steel bars and glass, like the bones and blood of a giant beast, fell from the sky and crashed to the ground with a deafening roar.

"Shut down the power! Shut down the gas! Evacuate all residents!"

Qin Yue's voice, transmitted calmly and clearly through the walkie-talkie, reached every corner.

But her hands were clenched tightly.

"Team Leader Qin!"

A technician in protective clothing scrambled across the edge of the rubble, his face covered by a mask that looked like it was about to burst into tears.

"Underground...seven underground floors..."

"Speak!" Qin Yue shouted sternly.

"Everything's gone!" The technician's voice broke completely. "We scanned it a hundred times with the life detector! There was no signal at all! Not even... not even a signal from microorganisms!"

"The scariest thing is that hole..."

Another elderly man with white hair and beard, supported by two young team members, staggered over.

He is Professor Wang, a physics consultant specially appointed by Dragon Shield.

At this moment, this highly respected academic giant had a lifeless gaze and trembling lips, looking like a mental patient who had suffered a great shock.

"A perfect sphere... with edges smooth to the atomic level... it cuts through steel bars, through concrete, through space itself..."

Professor Wang abruptly broke free from the team members who were supporting him, grabbed Qin Yue's arm, and his thin fingers turned white from the force.

"Team Leader Qin! This isn't science! This isn't technology that humans can master! This is theology! This is metaphysics!"

He roared like a madman.

"How are we supposed to write the report? Tell the higher-ups that God scooped a piece of the building away with a spoon?!"

"Bang!"

After Professor Wang finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and slammed his forehead hard into the door of a bomb-proof vehicle next to him.

"Professor Wang!"

The team members hurriedly pulled him back.

Qin Yue rubbed her aching temples, feeling that her sanity was about to die on the spot, just like the professor's.

From the "water monkeys" at the dock to the "Spoon of God" now.

What the hell does this damn "alien" want?

Is he announcing to the world that physics is dead?

Qin Yue's gaze, like that of a hawk, swept across the chaotic scene.

She doesn't believe in any gods.

This must be man-made.

Since it is man-made, it will definitely leave traces.

Suddenly, her gaze settled on an inconspicuous flower bed on the outer edge of the cordon.

There, there was a plastic bag with a cartoon crayfish pattern printed on it.

It looked like a takeout meal that had been carelessly discarded.

"What's that?" Qin Yue asked, pointing to the bag.

One of the team members immediately ran over and carefully used the document retrieval clip to retrieve the bag.

"Reporting to the team leader, it's a takeout order, it looks like... hellishly spicy crayfish."

Qin Yue took the bag.

The bag was still warm.

A takeout order, stained with oil, is stuck to a plastic bag.

Qin Yue tore off the order form.

In addition to the merchant and address information, there is also a small note printed out in a row.

[Note: Just drop it off at the building entrance. If no one picks it up within five minutes, leave it by the flower bed. These people might... be gone.]

Qin Yue's breath hitched suddenly.

She felt as if she had been struck from head to toe by an invisible bolt of lightning.

She suddenly raised her head, her voice sharp with shock.

"Technical Department! Check immediately! What was the order date for this order?"

"yes!"

Less than thirty seconds later, a reply came from the walkie-talkie.

"Report to Team Leader Qin, we've found it! The order was placed at... 9:07 PM tonight!"

Qin Yue's heart sank heavily.

The highest level alarm was triggered in the Genesis Building's underground vault at 9:12 AM.

It was a full five minutes early.

He already knew what was going to happen when he placed the order.

He even knew exactly when these people were "gone".

This is not a provocation.

This is not a disgrace.

It's a kind of... godlike overlooking that transcends everything.

He ordered takeout, not to eat it.

It was to bid farewell to those he was about to erase from this world.

Qin Yue felt a chill run from her tailbone straight up to the top of her head.

"fingerprint!"

She was clutching at the last straw, screaming into the walkie-talkie.

"The bag! The order! Check the fingerprints on it!"

This time, the reply came even faster.

"Team Leader Qin, there are indeed fingerprints on the bag and the order."

The technician's voice was filled with extreme confusion.

"However... all the fingerprint patterns were blurred by an oily substance, making it impossible to extract a valid sample."

"Furthermore, component analysis shows... that the oil is..."

The technician paused, seemingly confirming the absurd test result.

"It's a mixture of some kind of...puffed food seasoning powder."

Qin Yue: "..."

She slowly closed her eyes.

An image uncontrollably surfaced in her mind.

A man, with his legs crossed, leisurely ate potato chips while casually placing a takeout order on his phone with his fingers covered in seasoning powder.

Then, a skyscraper disappeared from the map.

"puff--"

Qin Yue could no longer hold back; she couldn't catch her breath and began to cough violently.

……

Cloud Top Villa.

Li Haotian was sprawled on the sofa, scrolling through his phone.

On the screen, a notification from a local news app had just popped up.

[Breaking News! The Genesis Tower, a landmark building in our city, has collapsed for unknown reasons, suspected to be a geological disaster!]

Below is a blurry photo taken by a reporter from a distance using a telephoto lens, showing the building tilting.

The comments section has exploded.

"Geological disaster? Could your geological disaster possibly yield a ball?"

"Don't talk nonsense upstairs. My classmate was there. He said he saw a golden light with his own eyes, and then it collapsed. It's definitely divine retribution!"

"Holy crap! I remember now! When I passed by just now, I saw a food delivery guy leave a plate of crayfish by the flower bed! Did he know something was going to happen?!"

Li Haotian couldn't hold back any longer when he saw the comment about the food delivery guy.

"Hahahahaha—"

He laughed so hard he rolled around on the sofa, almost throwing his phone out of his hand.

"Su Wan! Liu Hu!"

"Come look! I'm on TV!"

He pointed to a close-up photo of a takeout bag on the screen that had been blurred out, and laughed until tears almost came to his eyes.

"After the Throne of the Fishing God of the East China Sea, here comes the doomsday prophecy crayfish!"

"These netizens are so talented!"