The Promise: "To the Moon"

Reality was a cold, ruthless exercise in chaotic deduction.

Su Wen knew full well that the Night Watch was a mysterious organization that safeguarded the balance between the Current World and unknown worlds.

Its purpose went far beyond fighting threats from the abyss; it also preserved the peace and confidence of ordinary people in the Current World.

Once this failed experiment and contamination incident were made public,

the resulting panic and chaos would spread like wildfire, impossible to contain.

The damage it would inflict upon the global situation would very likely surpass the shocking human life experiments Leis Angton had once conducted in Detroit,

pushing human society into an unknown abyss.

Therefore.

Suppressing it

was perhaps the result of negotiations among the Night Watch, the United Nations Astronomical Society, and even the Great Library.

He could not deny the necessity of this outcome, but he did not dwell on it either. He simply turned his attention to the world he was in.

At that moment,

the winter morning sunlight in Jiangnan seemed forever tinged with a hint of shyness, slowly peeking out from behind the clouds and scattering soft, warm light across this ancient and beautiful land.

The bustle of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year had quietly faded away, leaving only a faint festive afterglow lingering in the air.

From the streets outside the window came the occasional crisp birdsong, interwoven with distant bursts of firecrackers, forming a tranquil yet vibrant scene.

Today, he had arranged to discuss recent events with Jiang Menghan. Afterwards, they could visit Curator Yu again and talk over their upcoming trip to Lorenz Riel,

which was why Jiang Menghan had come here.

But compared to her first Lost Sea journey from Detroit, the iceberg-like girl had clearly grown far more accustomed to