After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

The maid who brought in the food tray placed it in front of the little girl at the front, then opened it, releasing a rich aroma of meat.

The plate contains two pieces of fried meat from different parts of the body.

The little girl sitting at the front picked up her knife and fork and said as she cut her food.

"All guests are welcome, Shana..."

The red-haired, icy maid walked up to the little girl and bowed.

"Master, what are your orders?"

"Serve these guests a steak dinner as well."

"understood."

The icy maid named Shana left the conference room, and a little while later, more than a dozen maids came in carrying trays covered with dome lids. They placed the trays in front of each member of the investigation team and then opened them.

The rich aroma of meat was like a hot punch, hitting all the investigators. Several young ones couldn't help but swallow.

The little girl sitting at the front put a perfectly fried piece of meat into her mouth and said as she chewed.

"Eat, eat, everyone can relax and chat while eating."

The thirty investigators below all looked somewhat embarrassed.

The little girl picked up a piece of meat mixed with fat with her fork and laughed.

"In this world, only human and chicken fat is yellow. Look at the meat in your bowls, which piece of fat is yellow?"

The young, handsome man below took a deep breath and nodded.

"There's no mistake, this aroma is from beef."

The young man thought for a moment, picked up his knife and fork, cut a piece, and put it in his mouth.

"Yes, yes, that's right, it tastes like beef."

The young man's eyes lit up.

The others looked at each other, still hesitant to make a move, but Old Wu picked up his knife and fork and said bitterly.

"Eat up, eat up. We're already at this point, so it's fine to die with a full stomach."

Old Wu started cutting meat, and the others followed suit.

Upon tasting it, everyone showed expressions of amazement.

In this post-apocalyptic world, resources are scarce. As an investigator who has to risk his life to obtain intelligence and supplies in dangerous places, he can only make sure he has enough to eat. As for eating meat, fruit, or vegetables, that's a luxury.

The beef is now sizzling and dripping with oil, and paired with black pepper sauce that masks any gaminess, it's so delicious that everyone almost doesn't want to swallow it.

The little girl sitting in the main seat smiled and said.

"Everyone, enjoy your meal. Shana, go and urge Xiao Yan to make some juice." ≈￥7♂〔'∑？ 【

"understood."

The icy maid Shana left, and when she came out again, she was carrying several bottles of freshly squeezed juice, which she placed next to different investigators.

Several investigators took a sip one after another, their expressions strange, only the young man said with a shudder.

"This, this, it really is juice! I, I've eaten the sealed canned fruit I keep at home, and the fruit inside tastes just like this..."

The young man looked at the little girl sitting in the main seat with disbelief.

"I heard that fruit has become extinct..."

The little girl nodded.

"They are extinct, but who says that just because fruit trees are extinct, we can't drink fruit juice anymore?"

The little girl propped her face up with one hand, looking down at the thirty investigators.

"Alright, everyone, this meal isn't free. I just want to ask you a few questions about history."

Old Wu put the half-empty juice glass back in its original place.

"Madam, what would you like to ask? I'll answer any questions you may have."

Little Yama clapped his hands.

“Very good, I like your attitude. I don’t have many questions, first of all.”

Little Yama glanced at Shana, and the icy girl Shana walked to Little Yama's side, casually taking out a history book.

This is a history book that Shana and the other maids found while cleaning the city library; it hasn't rotted into dust yet.

Xiao Yan Sou Suo∑:◎” Doctor〔№6舅＿,∪叭℃⌒跉君 turned the page to the page from a hundred years ago, the page where the dead were resurrected.

"I want to know, when the Eternal Night Calamity occurred..."

"Where have the other true gods gone?"

"Where are the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Eastern Dipper Star Lord, and Central Dipper Star Lord?"

With the Four Divine Beasts around, the current situation is nothing; we can definitely stabilize it.

But what's strange is that after Xiao Yanjun came to the library, he found the history books but couldn't find any information about the Four Divine Beasts, or even the Eastern Dipper Star Lord, the Central Dipper Star Lord, or even Zhu Jiuyin, Bai Ze, or himself after the Eternal Night Calamity.

Where did we all go?

Especially for himself, in the Eternal Night Calamity, the underworld and the human world were reversed. As the Central Ghost Emperor, even if he is not as good as the Fengdu Emperor, he is still qualified to manage all of this, right?

However, in any history book found in the library, any book that tells or studies the past, there is no mention of Yan Shenglin who turned the tide.

Oh no, it never even appeared.

Most of the investigators looked bewildered, but Lao Wu was pleasantly surprised.

"This lady, could you be a deity who has been dormant since ancient times and has now been awakened?"

As a high-ranking investigator, Lao Wu knew that hundreds of years ago, there was an awakened race with immense power. These races were strong, wise, and kind, protecting the development of humanity. The most powerful awakened among them even possessed godlike power.

Before the Great Night Calamity, it was these god-like awakened beings who protected the entire world, allowing all living beings to live in happiness and joy.

Since the Great Night Calamity, many desperate mortals have formed a religion with devout faith in the Awakened. The pope of this religion daily proclaims that the Awakened will gradually awaken from the darkness, bringing salvation and new ideas to mankind.

The awakened ones are the inevitable saviors!

Of course, with Lao Wu's experience, he could see that the content of these propaganda and the interpretation of past history might have added a lot of subjective factors, but in such an apocalyptic world where humanity is about to perish, Lao Wu could only reluctantly believe in these awakened true gods.

What if it works?

Unexpectedly, it actually happened. The little girl in front of me clearly has a very high probability that she is the awakened true god who can lead humanity out of despair, as mentioned in many prophecies of salvation.

Little Yama shook his head.

"These are all minor matters. Please answer my question first..."

Old Wu shook his head.

"I'm not very clear about the past either, but based on the information I've gathered over the past few decades, it seems that several hundred years ago, when the Eastern Xia Federation was still in existence and was the strongest country in the world, an unimaginable catastrophe occurred. Several of the pillars of the Eastern Xia Dynasty, the Awakened Ones, perished in this disaster, and after that, the entire country fell into decline."

A great disaster from hundreds of years ago?

Did they drag all the pillars of the Eastern Xia Federation into this mess?

What major disaster?

A knock sounded at that moment, and then a young man dressed in a white chef's uniform walked in, carrying a Black Forest cake.

The other investigators didn't notice anything unusual at first, but a few astute investigators had a subtle feeling about it.

It seems that from outside the city to inside, all the people I encounter who aren't my own are women.

The only person who came in was a man.

What does it mean?

A man among a group of women...

In this situation, either the man is at the bottom of the social hierarchy among all women, or he is the center of attention for all women.

Zhou Yan brought the Black Forest cake to Xiao Yanjun, and Xia Na bowed beside him.

"Sir, I can do it."

Little Yanjun, who had just taken a spoonful of the cake Zhou Yan had brought, asked.

"Did you come out specifically to find something?"

Zhou Yan, dressed in a chef's uniform, stared at Lao Wu.

Do you have any more detailed information about the major disaster you mentioned?

Old Wu leaned back in his chair, pondered seriously for a while, and then hesitated.

“This happened three hundred years ago, and it seems to be a very serious matter. The Eastern Xia Federation has been very strict in its secrecy, not even allowing it to be written in normal history books. Our base only discovered some information after deciphering the database of the Eastern Xia Federation government at that time.”

When a disaster is so severe that it plunges the entire society into panic, any normal country would inevitably choose to suppress the news.

The catastrophe that occurred three hundred years ago was clearly of this level, forcing the federal government of the Eastern Xia Federation to use various methods to block information and suppress all channels of communication. As a result, even now, Lao Wu is not entirely clear about what exactly happened three hundred years ago.

Zhou Yan asked again.

"Is there anything of value in this information, like who caused the disaster and where it occurred?"

Old Wu pondered for a moment, then clapped his hands.

"I don't have any very specific information, but... I seem to remember that the Dongxia government documents mentioned Mount Tai, and at that time they even sealed off the entire Dabie Prefecture where Mount Tai is located."

Zhou Yan and Little Yama's expressions changed drastically.

Mount Tai...

What major disaster could possibly befall Mount Tai?!

In addition, the true gods have fallen...

Zhou Yan and Little Yama said in unison.

"Tianzhu..."

The fact that the Four Nine Elephant Beasts and the Four Gods themselves could be trapped, coupled with the location of Mount Tai, suggests that after the Five Falls from the Western Heavenly Gate, the Heavenly Pillar could not support it and collapsed.

So, the world I'm in isn't just the world where the Emperor of Fengdu has fallen, but also the world where Optimus Prime has collapsed?

Things have become more complicated...

Chapter Eight Violence

The Four Divine Beasts can provide most of the necessities needed for life for all mankind.

The Vermilion Bird can provide endless energy, enough to supply more than four billion living people daily.

The Azure Dragon can make plants skip sunlight and grow at an unscientific rate. When needed, the Azure Dragon can also ensure the food supply for more than four billion people.

The Black Tortoise can bring clean water, while the White Tiger can bring various metal materials.

Theoretically speaking, as long as these four divine beasts are still alive and well, humanity will not face major survival resource problems.

So in this apocalyptic world, the Four Divine Beasts are gone.

As for why it disappeared, there is no record of it in the history books. Xiao Yanjun and Zhou Yan thought about it a lot and even looked through many books in the library to make some guesses, but unfortunately they came up with nothing.

It wasn't until now, when Old Wu, the veteran investigator, came over and confessed everything to Little Yama, that Zhou Yan and Little Yama realized that only an event of the magnitude of the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar could cause the disappearance of the Four Divine Beasts and other True Gods.

"so……"

Zhou Yan sat down next to Little Yama.

"In this timeline, didn't we rescue Bixia Yuanjun and prevent the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar?"

Little Yama took another piece of Black Forest cake, put it in his mouth, and said...

"Don't be too optimistic, little one, you need to think about the worst-case scenario."

Zhou Yan: "..."

What could be the worst that could happen?

The worst-case scenario is that even after exhausting all their efforts and expending countless resources to rescue Bixia Yuanjun, they still couldn't prevent the pillar of heaven from collapsing.

Nuwa only said that with the combined power of the Five Sacred Mountains' ancestral spirits and Zhujiuyin, there was an 80% chance of preventing the pillar of heaven from collapsing, and the remaining 20%...

"We need to understand one thing..."

Little Yama swallowed the cake in his mouth.