The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

"Hey? Brother, why are you leaving? Wait for me!" Wang Qing, clutching a clump of hair in his hand, hurriedly chased after him.

Following Li Can's actions, everyone moved to a different spot. Except for Wang Qing, who still looked bewildered, everyone's expressions became serious.

"Excuse me, may I show you the information on your bracelet?" Li Can stopped beside the masked man.

The white-haired masked man held the ceramic soup bowl between his fingers, looked him up and down, and remained silent for a long time.

After a long silence, he chuckled softly, "Patient number 1609, leukorrhea, patient."

Contrary to expectations of tension, the answer was delivered rather easily.

Li Can looked at those smiling eyes with some confusion; this was indeed a strange person.

He was dragging his feet, seemingly waiting for this moment.

"...Thank you." Li Can's gaze shifted from his wrist, which was hidden under his sleeve.

At that moment, the clock tower in the distance of the dense forest suddenly rang.

"Thump..."

As the leaves trembled, the rustling monsters in the forest opened their eyes one by one, countless pairs of eerie green pupils blooming in the darkness.

How far away is the destruction of Earth?

【23:10:00】

【23:09:59】

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All the players' bodies were frozen in an instant, unable to make the slightest movement.

Hourly chime! 10-second lockout.

What time is it in the instance now?

Without a precise time reference, Li Can vaguely sensed that the nurses' rounds at 12:30 were not far off.

"call……"

Only when the shackles were lifted from the sky were they finally able to breathe.

"We seem to be running out of time. Let's start asking questions now." Chen Qi cracked his wrists, making a crisp snapping sound.

"I already know what to ask."

Wu Xiuyuan nodded. "Me too."

He then bent down and looked at Xiao Mo and Xiao Yu beside him, "Kids, do you need Uncle's help?"

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yu shook their heads in unison.

"Grandma, is this TA male?" Bai Zhuo, wearing a mask, asked, tapping the rim of the bowl with one hand.

No one expected him to be the first one to do so.

The NPC grandmother, who was originally immersed in her own world, suddenly seemed to be awakened, moved the newspaper blocking her view, and looked at him.

"no."

Regarding gender, it's actually a necessary question; someone has to use their chance to be selected.

However, given the other more useful information and the two valuable questions, he would obviously have had a better option.

Li Can was surprised that he was so generous, but he was more concerned about Bai Zhuo's answer before the bell rang.

He ultimately concealed the information on his wristband; verbal explanations alone cannot be entirely convincing, but he had already done quite well.

"Excuse me, did she die in Wenxin Mental Hospital?" Chen Qi wanted to continue the question from the previous one.

But the mother-in-law did not respond; instead, she turned to another page of the newspaper and continued reading.

Why isn't she saying anything?

"Won't you have a bowl of soup, you soup drinkers? It's delicious. I bet you haven't had such fresh soup since the apocalypse," the masked man with the white turbidity reminded him calmly.

"Do I really have to drink it...?" Chen Qi thought he was in a dilemma, but his stomach rumbled at an inopportune moment.

Although she hadn't had a proper meal in a long time, she didn't dare to act recklessly in the game.

But if you have to drink the soup before you can ask a question...

Li Can caught the words in their conversation: "you" and "after the apocalypse." Was the time and space they lived in also the apocalypse?

One of his guesses about the fact that these living, breathing humans were still standing before him was about this, and it was also the one he least wanted to believe was true.

But now it seems that this group of people comes from the same world, and also from the same apocalypse...

Could they be humans from a parallel universe apocalypse?

Or perhaps, humans from another planet's post-apocalyptic world?

"Okay." As if she had made up her mind, she finally took the soup bowl from her original spot and drank it all in one gulp.

Her brows gradually relaxed, and she finally spoke up, complaining, "No wonder you kept drinking; it's a pity my bowl got cold."

"Look at what you're saying! There's still some left in the pot. I'll just give you a spoonful to fill it up. It's all self-service."

Chen Qi thought: "..."

"Then we won't need to."

After the little incident, she asked the same question again.

This time, the mother-in-law replied: "Yes."

Based on these two pieces of information, we can conclude that she was a woman who died in Wenxin Mental Hospital. The following questions require more precise targeting.

Li Can looked around, while Wu Xiuyuan lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yu were listening intently, and every now and then they would pluck a strand of their hair and whisper to each other.

Only one person was nowhere to be seen.

After learning the procedure, Wang Qing ran back to where she had been sitting, poured out the old soup from her bowl, and happily ran to Bai Zhuo with the empty bowl.

"Brother, give me a spoonful of something hot."

Bai Zhuo poured the scalding hot soup into his empty porcelain bowl, filling the air with the irresistible aroma of vegetables and minced meat.

"You have good taste. Drink more. Look how thin you are. You haven't joined al-Qaeda while you're out there, have you? You can't go on your own, you'll starve." He patted Wang Qing on the shoulder.

"I haven't awakened any superpowers, you know. Right now, ordinary people can only scavenge for food. If I don't go into dungeons, I probably won't survive."

"The base and other superpowered organizations won't accept me."

"However, my master has awakened, and I've been following him around. He's the boss of Upper Moon City, super awesome. Hey Master, why are you pinching me again? Ouch, ouch, ouch..."

Wu Xiuyuan's face darkened again. "Disciple, it's time to ask your questions."

This conversation was packed with information for Li Can.

He could understand bases, superpowered organizations, ordinary people, and awakening. When a civilization restarts in a different way, there must be something extraordinary about it.

It sounds like Wu Xiuyuan is also someone who keeps a low profile.

It was the name "Upper String City" that sent chills down his spine.

Li Can's home is in Shangxian City.

What is the probability that there is a single "Upper Horizon City" on different planets or in different worlds?

Could it really be a parallel universe?

In another world on Earth, humanity did not go extinct; instead, it tenaciously survived and developed a new way of operating.

Li Can's brain was processing multiple pieces of information simultaneously, his CPU overloaded. He was watching the countdown to the destruction of Blue Star, silently calculating the time after the clock struck, pondering the question about the soup base, and speculating on the future of human civilization.

He raised his hand and rubbed his temples, then casually looked at Wang Qing and asked, "I heard that the Moon Tower in Shangxian City is very famous. I wonder how it is now?"

Wang Qing became interested upon hearing this.

"You mean the Tower of the Moon? Didn't it collapse during repairs on the day of the apocalypse?"

"The city is now full of zombies and viruses, and there are dungeon vortexes everywhere. No one will bother to repair a tower. I guess we'll never see it again."

"Speaking of which, it was only about a month ago, bro. I didn't expect you to still be interested in this kind of thing."

A sudden "boom" echoed in Li Can's mind, as if the Moon Tower had collapsed before his eyes.

He happened to be browsing the news about the "collapse of the Moon Tower" when the natural gas explosion at the hotel next door occurred on the same day.

It seems he encountered humans from a past point in time on the same planet...