After dealing with that scrawny director's mess, Wenren Sheng turned his attention back to reading.
Of course, he knew the Female City Lord was definitely behind Liu Ze. Otherwise, those people would have stopped at verbal complaints and never dared put them into action.
But for now, he would not openly fall out with the Female City Lord.
Still, once he understood the true nature of this world, not a single debt would go unpaid. The ancient texts and documents he was reading now came from three sources: several libraries in the city, the collections of local mages, and the City Lord's Mansion.
As for the price he paid, he created a small lake in the city, then distributed its ownership among the people and organizations that had given him books. It was also a form of deterrence.
He spent an entire week reading. Naturally, he used the Thought Acceleration Method to go through the books, and at last, he figured out this world's origins.
This Flame World had originally been a continent created by a god. The god gave it the sun and moon, then finally gave it life.
Here, "creationism" was not superstition or mythology, but fact.
That was because this world's entire history was only three million years long, precisely matching the time since the birth and development of the local humans.
This could be proven by examining the oldest rocks here.
Wenren Sheng had already verified it using a Mysterious Appraisal Method that could determine how much time had passed since a substance came into being—many of the stones he found were between two and three million years old.
There was another important piece of evidence: life here was extremely limited. Aside from humans, there were only trees and small animals... not even flies or