A Drifting Bottle from Another World

Xin Kou Street Coffee Shop.

Xu Nan and Zhang Yingluo sat together. This was the first time the latter explained the origin of the Thousand Radiance Society to Xu Nan.

Since everyone had gone to see the commotion at Lü Junyi's hospital, there was only one bored employee left in the coffee shop. The two of them sat far away, so they weren't afraid of being overheard.

According to Zhang Yingluo, the Thousand Radiance Society was actually an organization that was still in preparation but had already started operating.

The rumors of another world descending weren't just recent; they had started a year ago.

And the reaction speed of the state organs was much faster than Xu Nan had imagined.

A year ago, special forces infiltrated another world and successfully brought back first-hand information. From that moment on, the higher-ups specifically began preparing how to deal with the descent of another world.

In fact, starting a year ago, leaders of various countries around the world had secretly held many meetings, and friction in various parts of the world had significantly decreased.

Once it was confirmed that another world was eyeing Earth covetously, as long as it was proven to be real, anyone who wasn't an idiot would understand that reducing internal conflicts was the top priority.

Not just China, but other countries also had various spy organizations that, through accidental or inevitable spatiotemporal rifts, infiltrated the other world.

The current confirmed intelligence was that the anti-espionage level of the other world... still needed improvement.

Of course, all of this was based on the premise that the Gods of the other world did not interfere in mortal affairs, and even those Archmages and Prophets mostly turned a blind eye to this matter.

Otherwise, in the Pro World with its powerful divination techniques, so many invaders would have been discovered long ago.

The reason for turning a blind eye was probably disdain.

Getting back to the main topic.

Although many people were lost in the process of exploring the other world, China also successfully established an intelligence system targeting the other world.

In this process, the Thousand Radiance Society, an organization hidden in the shadows, played a very important role.

And recently, the higher-ups decided that it was time to make everything public.

The Thousand Radiance Society would also move from behind the scenes to the forefront.

This was a crisis for the entire Earth, not a narrow crisis for a certain region or nation. It required all of humanity to work together to overcome it.

At least, the major powers had reached such a consensus on the surface for now.

As for whether some countries would go back on their word after the other world descended, it was hard to say. After all, this was a completely new world, the laws of the world were about to undergo earth-shattering changes, the rules of the entire world's game were different, and the way of playing would naturally be difficult.

According to Zhang Yingluo's current statement, at least within China, they were still very united. After all, the invading Pro World was more Westernized, and Chinese people were not interested in faith or anything like that, and even had some resistance and aversion, unlike some Western countries where there might be a tendency to defect.

"With the fusion of the two worlds, there will definitely be more and more Professionals."

"Currently, there are two strategies for the placement of Professionals. The first is a registration system, which is under the jurisdiction of the Thousand Radiance Society."

Zhang Yingluo whispered, "Most Professionals only need to complete the most basic registration and related information in the Thousand Radiance Society. For example, this registration form you are filling out now, we need to know your home address, contact information... and some basic information, such as your profession and abilities. But for parts that are too private, you can choose not to fill them out. The Thousand Radiance Society is only responsible for filing and managing civilian Professionals."

"You can also choose to join the Thousand Radiance Society, but this requires a series of tests and assessments. I actually came into contact with the Thousand Radiance Society half a year ago, but I'm still a reserve member."

Xu Nan nodded. He believed Zhang Yingluo's words. The sensitivity of state agencies to such matters was definitely far beyond that of the private sector. It was only normal that they had been prepared for a long time.

And the other management strategy was the military.

If the physical laws of Earth changed, it was still unknown how many visitors from the other world hot weapons could deal with. According to the intelligence currently gathered, Professionals were the main force in warfare in the other world.

If Professionals were willing to join the military and obey certain management, the higher-ups would provide very generous treatment and resource allocation.

After all, most professions required a large amount of resource investment to cultivate before they could grow into super powerhouses.

The descent of the Pro World to Earth was also because they saw the resources that might be contained in this virgin land that had not been polluted by magic and divine power.

In short, there were two paths, choose one yourself. This was the current plan of the higher-ups for dealing with Professionals.

Of course, Xu Nan didn't want to join the army. He was a Ron Sorcerer who purely leveled up by doing shameful things. What shameful things could he do in the army... Bah! Even if he could, he was naturally lazy and not cut out to be a soldier!

"I'll fill out the form."

Xu Nan seemed very straightforward.

Zhang Yingluo was slightly surprised. Before coming, she had prepared a series of excuses to persuade Xu Nan to fill out this form, but she didn't expect Xu Nan to agree so readily.

Xu Nan is very politically aware. It took my dad half a month of ideological work to convince me, Zhang Yingluo thought to herself.

Little did she know, while Xu Nan was filling out the form expressionlessly, he was silently sighing in his heart.

This form was actually just a formality during the transition period.

For his profession, he wrote Bard. For his main instrument, he carelessly filled in [Piano]; although it was a bit absurd, before his mother passed away, Xu Nan was very fond of the piano and had passed the tenth-grade exam, but he had gradually neglected it later.

Something like a piano was not suitable for combat and was easy to use to cover his identity.

Furthermore, the bloodline of a Ron Sorcerer was special. The Appraisal Technique of ordinary spellcasters couldn't see his profession. Continuing to blend in as a Bard was something Xu Nan was very happy to see.

After all, the next era would be a chaotic world or even the end of the world!

All sorts of ruthless characters would appear in the world. He didn't want to be targeted by some terrifying character early on. Keeping a low profile was the most important thing.

Liking Zhang Yingluo was one thing, but protecting himself and his family was more important to Xu Nan.

The so-called Thousand Radiance Society doesn't exist at all in the future I saw.

So, if what I saw is true, this organization will soon vanish into thin air.

The best outcome would be to fade away without a trace.

Xu Nan handed the completed form to Zhang Yingluo, then paid and left.

He was recalling the prophetic images hidden within his bloodline.

The prophecy was from the Ten Days of Swimming.

Those were ten fated days.

Each day, Earth would undergo earth-shattering changes. Xu Nan remembered that on the seventh day, the entire Earth would be flattened, turning into floating continents, and the cosmic laws governing Earth – at least the Solar System – would be completely altered.

There would be no rotation or revolution, no satellites; everything would seem to return to the primordial era of a round sky and square earth.

China would also change drastically at that time. Towering mountains, vast seas of sand, endless forests, and majestic snowfields would rise up, and the entire world would no longer be as it was.

Large numbers of otherworldly races would enter Earth – or rather, the two worlds would approach merging infinitely.

And by the tenth day, the Gods of the Pro World would descend. That was the true beginning of the disaster. After all, this descent was led by the new generation of Pro Gods – the original multi-universe world could no longer satisfy their demands for harvesting faith power. Planes were beginning to wither and decline, and the only way was to constantly capture other worlds and integrate them, using powerful laws to change everything.

In the bloodline memory of the Ron Sorcerer, this wasn't the first time the Pro Gods had done this. In the past tens of thousands of years, they had merged at least dozens of civilizations. Although some civilizations fought back fiercely, they ultimately couldn't resist the power of the laws.

But this time, something was different.

Earth was the first world they were merging that had a super large population, which was why they were using the main plane to merge. 7 billion people, more than the population of all the Pro Gods' divine kingdoms combined!

Plus, Earthlings had advanced and pioneering minds.

Xu Nan felt that this time, perhaps something would be different.

Perhaps Earthlings would suffer some losses in the merging of the two worlds, but in the end, the victors might not be those high and mighty Gods.

But the premise of all this was that his memory was not wrong.

"Then let's wait and see." Xu Nan touched a date he had selected on his phone calendar and drew a circle.

November 29, 2019.

This was the first day of the Ten Days. It was also the day the Pro Gods would release the first batch of monsters onto Earth.

One week left.

"Many people might die, but I'll still do my best to become stronger and protect as many people I care about as possible."

Returning home, Xu Nan looked at the light still on in the second-floor room and silently made up his mind.

He went to the garage to check on the Giant Panda. This guy was carefree, watching a huge TV screen while the air conditioning was on. When he saw Xu Nan return, he just nodded his head in a rather cheeky manner.

Xu Nan confirmed she was fine and turned to leave, but the next second, he suddenly turned back!

"Where did you get the air conditioning and TV?" Xu Nan was shocked.

Xiao Xiao picked her teeth with bamboo and said, "I took them from the mall. I walked in so openly, took them out, and no one stopped me. It doesn't count as stealing, right?"

"Besides, can it be called stealing when a national treasure takes something?"

Xu Nan's eyes widened.

He didn't know when, but a few lines of text had appeared under the pet section –

Additional Shame Points +1

Additional Shame Points +1

The corner of Xu Nan's mouth twitched slightly: "This guy, as expected, won't disappoint me."

He asked for the mall's address, thinking he would return the items later.

Then, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, he returned to his room and opened his workbench.

Just then, his backpack trembled.

It was that teleportation portal.

Xu Nan held the gray ball that the teleportation portal had turned into in his palm. Suddenly, a wet bottle jumped out of the teleportation portal!

Inside the bottle was a tightly rolled piece of parchment.

"Huh? A message in a bottle?"

Xu Nan looked at the bottle. There was a label on it, and the sender was: Caesar.

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