Who could take Alvin's place and sit upon the Mechanical throne?
His bewildered gaze fell upon the enormous Mechanical throne, colliding in the void with the eyes of Alvin, who was as thin as a dried draft and frail to the extreme atop the throne.
At last, the fog that had shrouded his heart seemed to be pierced by a ray of light.
So that's how it is... A bolt of lightning seemed to strike Luo Ji's heart, and his jumbled, chaotic thoughts suddenly formed a complete chain of reasoning.
Why had he been awakened? Why had Shi Qiang and Zhuang Yan chosen him as the person to "awaken" Alvin?
There was only one answer to these questions!
What truly mattered wasn't this "key," but the person who delivered the "key"... in other words, him!
He was the one chosen to replace Alvin and sit upon the Mechanical throne!
"So... this person is me, right?"
Having figured it out, Luo Ji stared at the figure atop the Mechanical throne with half bewilderment, half confusion, and half helplessness.
Alvin fell into a brief silence.
Then, under Luo Ji's gaze, which seemed to have lost its focus and vitality, he nodded slightly:
"Yes."
"Why me?"
Luo Ji's expression was calm, without the slightest emotional fluctuation. His composure was frightening.
In fact, even he found it strange. He was clearly the "victim." Shouldn't he have felt angry?
Yet after experiencing this entire series of events, even anger felt meaningless to him.
Did anger have any meaning?
No. It had no meaning whatsoever. Unless it merely consumed extra energy, it would not change the course of events.
He only wanted to ask one thing... why.
"Do you know what a 'protagonist' is?"
Suddenly, Alvin spoke and asked a seemingly unrelated question.
The question seemed