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

When Lin Mo received Li Xian's message, he was lying in a courtyard house in Beijing, playing ranked games on his phone.

He was still playing his favorite mage, and his skills were incredibly flashy as he led his teammates to push the high ground.

Then my phone vibrated.

A WeChat message popped up on the screen:

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

Lin Mo replied while pushing up the high ground.

Ten seconds later, the enemy's crystal exploded.

"Victory!"

Lin Mo put down his phone with satisfaction before opening Li Xian's message and reading it carefully.

Something's not right with the space?

He thought for a moment, then pulled up the causal relationship data for Jiangcheng and took a look.

Then his expression froze.

The cause-and-effect relationship in Jiangcheng... is definitely not right.

It wasn't the kind of chaos that could be seen with the naked eye, but rather an extremely subtle "ripple," like something gently stirring it.

Moreover, the ripples are slowly spreading, affecting an increasingly larger area.

Lin Mo remained silent for five seconds.

Then he picked up his phone and dialed a number.

"Hey, Xiao Lu? Pack your things, come with me to Jiangcheng."

A confused voice came from the other end of the phone: "Huh? Going to Jiangcheng again? Teacher, didn't we just go there last month?"

"Just come when I tell you to, stop with the nonsense," Lin Mo said.

"There's a problem with the space in Jiangcheng, and your special ability will come in handy."

"Okay, I'll be right there!"

Half an hour later, the two met at the entrance of the headquarters.

Lu Ren was carrying a backpack and wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans, looking like an ordinary high school student.

However, his aura was much more solid than when they last met—mid-level B, with his mental strength steadily improving.

For high-sequence ability users like them, the rate of improvement is indeed much faster than that of ordinary people.

Lin Mo himself is a prime example—it only took him three years to go from awakening causal substitution to advancing to S-rank.

Although he was tortured by various big shots every day for those three years, the effects were real.

"Teacher, what are we going to Jiangcheng to investigate this time?" Lu Ren asked.

As Lin Mo walked, he said, "That guy Li Xian said something's wrong with the Jiangcheng Space, so he asked me to take you there to take a look."

"Li Xian? Is that Li Yu's brother from the last gathering?" Lu Ren thought for a moment.

"Isn't he a Rank B psychic? How did he detect that something was wrong with the space?"

Lin Mo paused for a moment.

"Uh..." He touched his nose, "Well, don't ask. What he said should be reliable."

Lu Ren blinked and didn't ask any more questions.

The two got into the car, and Lin Mo stepped on the gas and drove towards Jiangcheng.

On the way, Lu Ren suddenly asked, "Teacher, you said at the last gathering that the causal lines in Jiangcheng had become particularly 'clean,' as if they had been combed. Now you're saying that something's wrong with the space... Isn't Jiangcheng a bit too special?"

Lin Mo paused for a moment.

"Yeah," he said. "This lousy place is full of troubles, one after another. I just dyed my hair purple a few days ago, and I feel like I'm going to turn gray from worry."

Lu Ren: "...Teacher, you only dyed your hair two weeks ago."

"Two weeks is enough time for me to turn white with worry."

Lu Ren remained silent.

The car sped along.

---

Meanwhile, at the Beijing General Bureau, in a quaint office on the top floor.

An elderly man with gray hair but a sprightly spirit sat behind a desk, holding a report in his hand, his brows furrowed.

Mr. Zhou.

One of the pillars of the General Administration, although he rarely appears in public, all S-class personnel know the weight of this old man.

In front of him, a little girl wearing a black Lolita dress and with long, flowing silver hair sat on the sofa, holding a thick fairy tale book and reading it with great interest.

Lilith.

"Lilith," Old Zhou put down the report, his tone grave, "Are you aware of what happened in Jiangcheng?"

Lilith turned a page of her book without looking up.

"understood."

What do you think?

"I don't really watch it," Lilith said calmly. "It's a collision of worlds, something we can't stop."

Old Zhou's brows furrowed even more.

A clash of worlds.

He couldn't understand this word at all when he first heard it six years ago.

Six years ago, Jiangcheng experienced an unusual spatial fluctuation.

The spatial cracks detected at the time were extremely small in size and lasted for a very short time, disappearing in less than three seconds.

Nothing came out, and nothing went in.

But that time, it alarmed the entire General Administration.

Because that was the first time humanity discovered that another world truly existed.

It's not a theory, not a speculation; it's another complete world that truly exists.

Afterwards, the General Administration dispatched a large number of people to investigate, but found nothing.

The crack disappeared completely, as if it had never existed.

Old Zhou thought that the matter was over.

Until now.

"What happened six years ago was just a harbinger."

Lilith finally raised her head, her purple eyes calmly looking at Old Zhou.

"Now, the real clash is about to begin."

Old Zhou was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "To what extent?"

"Jiangcheng will completely collide with that world," Lilith said.

"At that time, the spatial rift will last longer and cover a wider area. No one knows what will come from that world."

She paused, then added, "Jiangcheng will become a bridge between two worlds."

Old Zhou's hands clenched slightly.

He remembered the original 004 prophecy.

"That prophecy," Old Zhou said in a low voice, "could it possibly refer to this?"

Lilith didn't answer; she simply lowered her head again and continued reading her book.

Old Zhou looked at her and remained silent for a long time.

"Lilith," he began, his voice slightly hoarse, "do you have any suggestions?"

Lilith turned a page of the book.

"Let nature take its course," she said.

Old Zhou was stunned for a moment.

"this one?"

"That's it." Lilith raised her head, a hint of indifference in her purple eyes.

"Don't waste your energy trying to stop what you can't stop. Just be prepared and wait for it to happen."

Looking at her, Old Zhou suddenly realized that this little girl, who looked only twelve or thirteen years old, had actually lived for more than two hundred years.

She has seen far more of the world than he has.

Her saying "go with the flow" is not a negative attitude, but rather a kind of clarity that comes from experiencing too much.

Old Zhou took a deep breath and nodded.

"I see."

---

Jiangcheng.

Lin Mo's car was parked downstairs at Li Xian's house.

He took out his phone and sent a message to Li Xian:

"We're downstairs, shall we come up or come down?"

Three seconds later, Li Xian replied:

"Come on up, I'm too lazy to move."

Lin Mo: "..."

He put away his phone and said to Lu Ren, "Let's go upstairs."

The two went upstairs and knocked on the door.

The door opened, and Li Xian stood in the doorway, wearing a wrinkled house dress and with messy hair, clearly having just gotten up from the sofa.

"You're here?" He yawned. "Come in."

Lin Mo and Lu Ren entered the house.

In the living room, Fatty Orange was sunbathing on the balcony. He glanced at the two of them and then closed his eyes again.

Little Gold still sways its golden flowers in the breeze, emitting a faint pudding scent, seemingly having become a permanent NPC.

"Your flowers..." Lin Mo stared at Xiao Jin for a moment, "Why do they seem bigger than when I last came?"

"Yeah, they grow fast," Li Xian said casually. "Sit down, pour yourself some tea."

Lin Mo didn't stand on ceremony and plopped down on the sofa, crossing his legs.

Lu Ren sat down beside him, looking around curiously.

"Speak," Lin Mo said, "What exactly do you mean by 'the space is strange'?"

Li Xian recounted the discoveries made by Lingdang and Lin Wanwan.

"The two little girls drew lines on the ground, placed stones, and measured for more than ten days, and found that the distance had increased," he concluded.

"Then I checked, and there was indeed a problem."

After listening, Lin Mo remained silent for three seconds.

"Two little girls in preschool?" he confirmed.

"Um."

"You discovered it yourself?"

"Um."

Lin Mo looked at Lu Ren.

Lu Ren's expression was somewhat subtle.

"Teacher," he whispered, "when I was six years old, I was still playing in the mud..."

Lin Mo patted his shoulder and said earnestly, "It's okay, I'm playing in the mud too."

Li Xian listened from the side, his lips twitching.

"Alright, stop lamenting," he said. "Xiao Lu, right? Go check it out and see what's going on."

Lu Ren nodded, stood up, and closed his eyes.

His special ability is spatial, and his sensitivity to space far exceeds that of ordinary people.

Perception unfolds.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

Lu Ren opened his eyes, his expression turning serious.

"Teacher, there is indeed a problem," he said.

"The entire space of Jiangcheng is fluctuating slightly. Some places are stretched, some are compressed, and in other places... extremely subtle folds have appeared."

Lin Mo stood up, walked to the window, and looked outside.

He closed his eyes, and the power of cause and effect began to operate.

The causal relationships in Jiangcheng are even more complicated than when I last visited.

It wasn't a large-scale chaos, but rather like countless tiny threads being blown by the wind, intertwining and forming an extremely complex network.

"Where is the source?" he asked.

Lu Ren sensed for a while longer, then shook his head.

"I can't find it," he said. "These fluctuations don't seem to have a fixed source; it's like... the entire space is shaking on its own."

Lin Mo paused for a moment.

Then he took out his phone and started looking up information.

As the chief investigator of the General Administration, he possessed far more information than ordinary people.

A few minutes later, he looked up, his expression becoming subtle.

"Six years ago, something happened in Jiangcheng." Lin Mo put his phone back on the table.

"A spatial rift, lasting three seconds, with an extremely small area; nothing came out, and nothing went in. It was noted in the General Administration's files, but it wasn't taken seriously."

Li Xian raised an eyebrow.

"You mean, this fluctuation is related to the one six years ago?"

"It's possible," Lin Mo said.

"Those cracks, although the surface has healed, may have damaged the underground spatial structure. These fluctuations are like the aftereffects of the wound healing."

Listening from the side, Lu Ren couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, can it be cured?"

Lin Mo glanced at him.

"Do you think this is a human injury? That it can be healed?"

Lu Ren shrank his neck.

Li Xian leaned back on the sofa, his expression remaining calm.

"So, you can't find anything?"

"At the moment, we can't find anything," Lin Mo admitted.

"These spatial fluctuations are too weak, too dispersed, and have no definite source. Unless they become stronger or new cracks appear, there's nothing we can do."

Li Xian nodded without saying anything.

Lin Mo looked at him and suddenly asked, "Aren't you curious?"

"What are you curious about?"

"I'm curious why this is happening."

Li Xian thought for a moment and said, "I'm curious. But curiosity is useless; if we can't find anything, we can't find anything. Let's wait until it gets worse on its own."

Lin Mo was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.

"Your attitude is really..." He shook his head.

"Alright, then I won't worry about it. Anyway, the General Administration will be keeping an eye on things, and they'll know immediately if anything happens."

Lu Ren whispered from the side, "Teacher, shall we go back now?"

"What else? Save it for dinner?" Lin Mo stood up and stretched.

"Let's go, let's go. We can play a couple more ranked games when we get back."

As the two reached the door, Lin Mo suddenly remembered something and turned back to ask Li Xian.

"By the way, who are those two little girls you mentioned?"

"My daughter Lingdang and her deskmate Lin Wanwan."

"Lin Wanwan?" Lin Mo was taken aback. "Su Wenjin's daughter?"

Li Xian raised an eyebrow: "You know him?"

"I don't really know him, but I've heard of him," Lin Mo said.

"The Su family is quite famous in China, the second largest conglomerate in the country, with two S-level executives in the family. Su Wan is a member of the Su family, and Lin Wanwan's mother is Su Wan's younger sister."

Li Xian was taken aback.

Su Wan?

The one who tried to pinch Lilith's face at the gathering in the capital?

Is she Lin Wanwan's biological aunt?

"Not many people know about this," Lin Mo added.

"Su Wenjin is very low-key and rarely makes public appearances. It seems that she moved to Jiangcheng to find some peace and quiet."

Li Xian paused for a moment, then nodded.

Seeing that he didn't react, Lin Mo didn't say anything more, waved his hand and left.

The door closed, and the living room returned to silence.

Li Xian leaned back on the sofa, staring at the ceiling.

Is Su Wenjin Su Wan's younger sister?

No wonder.

A-level butler, custom-made bulletproof car, and ten million yuan donated without hesitation.

It turned out to be the case.

However, none of this concerns him.

He only cares about one thing now—

What should we eat for dinner?

---

Lin Mo and Lu Ren went downstairs and got into the car.

Before starting the car, Lin Mo glanced at the sky over Jiangcheng one last time.

This city looks no different from any other ordinary city.

But he knew that this place was no ordinary place.

The spatial rift from six years ago, the spatial fluctuations now, and Li Xian, who appeared out of nowhere and can tear apart the fog of cause and effect...

"Teacher," Lu Ren suddenly asked, "Are we just going back like this? Don't we need to report it?"

"Report what?" Lin Mo said, "Report that 'Jiangcheng Space is shaking but the cause cannot be found'? Wouldn't Old Zhou scold me if he heard that?"

Lu Ren thought about it and realized that made sense.

"What should we do then?"

"What should we do?" Lin Mo started the car. "Let's just leave it at that. Anyway, there are people at headquarters keeping an eye on things. We'll wait until something serious happens before we talk about it."

He paused, then added, "Besides, with Li Xian around, we won't have to worry about anything if something really happens."

Lu Ren blinked: "Teacher, you trust him a lot?"

Lin Mo thought for a moment and nodded seriously.

"Yeah," he said. "That guy's reliable."

The car drove out of the residential area and disappeared into the night.

---

Li Xian's family.

Li Xian was lying on the sofa, looking at his phone.

The screen displayed a message from Lin Mo:

"We can't find anything, so we're heading back now. Call me anytime if you need anything."

Li Xian replied with an "OK" and then tossed his phone aside.

If we can't find it, then so be it.

Anyway, it doesn't have much of an impact right now.

"Troublesome," he muttered, turning over to find a more comfortable position.