"You betrayed your people, destroyed our civilization!"
After receiving the alarm, Taylor, Mr. Qin, and the other five directors imdiately rushed to the headquarters nestled in Buzhou Mountain at the fastest speed possible.
But when they arrived and saw the scene inside Lab No. 2, they instantly fell into a fit of rage.
Li Yu didn't speak, just sat at the laboratory door, feeling a bit drowsy at the mont.
First, it was because the continuous battles earlier had drained him physically, and second, because the last stone in his heart had finally settled.
Just three minutes ago, he had successfully destroyed the headless giant corpse in the lab, thwarting the Third Epoch's salvation plan.
Li Yu didn't seize the remaining ti to escape, not just because he was out of strength but because he knew there was no escape route left for him.
"Why did you do this?" Taylor asked, her face ashen.
"For the past six months, I've been working almost all the ti. The longest continuous work stretch exceeded a hundred days." Li Yu said, "I want weekends off."
"So all this is just for weekends off?" Bernard couldn't believe his ears.
"Our world is about to end, and at a ti like this, you are still calculating your goddamned weekends off?" Windsor also raged.
"You're not the first person to say this to . At every company I've worked for, my bosses told that if I couldn't finish my work before the deadline, the world would end, so I maintained an intense work state for a long ti.
"If one day I didn't work overti and my boss found out, he'd think my workload wasn't enough, assigning more tasks."
"Honestly, at the beginning, I thought this matter would be difficult for , but in fact, I quite enjoyed it during the process; I couldn't deceive myself." Li Yu said.
"You are the anest, most selfish, cruelest, and most irrational madman I've ever seen!!!" Windsor shrieked, "You've dood us all!!! All of us!!! You are a traitor to humanity; everyone will spit on you!!!"
"I know." Li Yu didn't deny it. "But haven't you ever felt like that, after several days of continuous overti, returning ho late every day.
"So exhausted that you just collapse onto the bed, too tired to even undress, wishing you could fall asleep imdiately. But because of all the coffee and tea consud during the day, your nerves are completely disrupted, making it impossible for your brain to secrete latonin properly.
"You're dead tired. But can't fall asleep no matter what, then you start frequently checking your phone because in just a few hours, you have to go to work again, and the ti left for sleep is dwindling.
"For a mont, the evil part inside you awakens, thinking how wonderful it would be if the world ended tomorrow morning, so you wouldn't have to work anymore."
"Incomprehensible." Taylor said coldly.
"Forget it, you all look like the kind of bosses who would call employees during vacation demanding they return to work early, so you surely wouldn't have thoughts like that."
"You should feel sha and remorse." Mr. Qin said, "Instead of standing here spouting nonsense."
"Indeed I do feel guilty, but not towards you or those twenty million who couldn't escape, and your arrival has interrupted the guilt I was brewing."
By now, Taylor had lost interest in engaging with Li Yu, turning to Dr. Robbin beside her, "Have you estimated the losses this ti? And are there any redial asures?"
Robbin shook his head, "Other damages aren't too bad; with so ti, they can be repaired, but the most crucial battery was destroyed. We can no longer leave the Earth. Reluctantly admitting, but our civilization has indeed reached its end.
"Perhaps I can use so other thods, utilizing newly developed materials to store so faith. But... "
The old man adjusted his glasses, his voice tinged with helplessness, "With only the faith generated from our own universe field, it can barely sustain this virtual world for one to two months, then the extre cold will descend, destroying everything."
His words plunged everyone present into silence.
After a mont, Taylor resolutely said, "Then initiate the final backup plan, we can't count on the Ark anymore. Let's use the Rebirth Bell to send important individuals from various countries to another plane.
"If it's two months, we should still be able to send away sixty people."
Yet, Li Yu, standing nearby, had already taken off his suit and placed it by the door, "You all can find soone else for this work; I'm done."
"I never intended to give this job to you." Taylor's voice was very cold, "Have Shi Yitong co to my office in half an hour, as for you..."
Taylor's gaze fell back on Li Yu, "You don't think this matter ends so simply, do you?
"You've just betrayed your people, destroyed the world. You can't just dust off and go ho, pretending nothing happened, comfortably spending the last two months—it doesn't work like that."
"What punishnt does the board intend to give ?"
Mr. Qin said, "Do you rember the warning I gave you a few months ago when you ca to my manor?
"Don't think having the Rebirth ability ans we can't do anything to you. We'll lock you in an iron crate and throw it into the deep sea.
"When the oxygen in the crate runs out, you'll experience death, but because of Rebirth, you'll co back to life, experiencing the suffocation pain over and over, repeating endlessly until the end of the world."
"I haven't tried this trick yet, it sounds quite interesting." Li Yu said.
Sergei grinned, "It's more than interesting, I guarantee you'll fall in love with this feeling. I really hope you can hold out until the day of apocalypse cos, rather than going insane too soon; that would lessen my fun."
After he finished speaking, two guards approached, grabbing Li Yu, who was still seated on the ground, and putting handcuffs on him.
Li Yu was escorted out of the Third Epoch headquarters, brought to the seaside, and boarded a cruise ship.
The cruise sailed at sea for seven days. To prevent Li Yu from using the Transformation Technique, during this ti, he was given just enough food and water to sustain his life.
So much so that by the ti he was placed inside the iron crate, he had grown emaciated to the point of seeing bones beneath his skin.
Sergei followed alongside Li Yu the whole ti, supervising his escort to ensure he wouldn't escape. Once the cruise reached unpopulated waters, Sergei ordered the iron crate to be sealed.
Before it was dumped into the sea, he knocked on the thick iron plate, speaking to the person trapped inside.
"Enjoy your journey, if you can still enjoy it twelve minutes from now."
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