Lin Aotian and Lin Fan

Looking at the middle-aged man before him, Lin Fan did not know what to make of him.

He wanted to stay on guard, yet he could not sense the slightest malice from the other man.

But if he acted too casually, the man before him was, after all, from the universe's only Transcendent Civilization, and judging by his words, his status seemed even higher than Lin Hong's.

Why would someone like that appear before him?

"Don't worry. I only came here to have a chat with you. I have no other intentions."

The same old line made Lin Fan nod noncommittally.

"Lin Fan, the one I have been most curious about is actually you. Among Alphart's original ten God-Making Plans, aside from Lin Hong, who thought highly of you humans, no one believed you would succeed."

"In fact, when the plan had first begun, I simulated humanity's future. It could be said that out of ten thousand simulations, in 9,999 of them, humanity was exterminated before it could even leave the Milky Way."

"In the remaining one, although humanity successfully unified the Milky Way, your entire civilization was soon destroyed by the insect race."

"Yet reality developed far beyond everyone's expectations. Not only did you unify the entire Milky Way at the fastest speed possible, but in just a few decades, you accomplished breakthroughs that other civilizations might need tens of thousands of years to achieve."

"It was then that I truly began paying attention to your human civilization, one that was both familiar and unfamiliar to us Alphart."

"As for what happened later, you should know. For the sake of humanity, Lin Hong chose a method that was practically mutual destruction, imprisoning both himself and Farn."

"I had thought things would end there. At the very least, human civilization