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Chen Xuan and Lin Qing looked at each other for a long while, but neither could come up with a reasonable answer.

After Mother Body Lucy disappeared, not only did new Angels stop appearing, but Devils did as well. Logically speaking, these Artifacts should have fallen into the hands of Devil descendants. And since those descendants could be considered human too, perhaps after witnessing the apocalypse descend from the sky, they had turned to the Angel Alliance and helped build the underground shelters?

It was not impossible.

He shrugged helplessly. "Looks like there are still plenty of secrets hidden behind all this."

"I have an even more frightening guess," Lin Qing said slowly.

"What guess?"

"What if Devils never went extinct at all?" She stared at Chen Xuan, green data streams flickering in her eyes. "After all, all information about the future came from the 'Angel Alliance,' which had no Angels left. But if even Angels no longer existed, who could still sense the aura of Devils?"

Chen Xuan's heart skipped a beat.

According to historical records, because no new Angels or Devils were born, humanity entered a peaceful society without supernatural beings after the old special ability users died off. There were still ability users who were neither Angels nor Devils, but their numbers and influence were essentially negligible. If not for the destructive crystal that fell from the sky, that stable state might have lasted for a very, very long time.

It seemed fair enough, but one question remained unanswered: why would Devils do something so thankless and laborious?

If Lin Qing's speculation was carried through, then things became rather terrifying. New Angels had indeed gone extinct, but new Devils were still being born... Once the last Angel passed away, no one would be able to restrain the