Natalia did not answer. The one who spoke was Luo Yingxia, the quiet man sitting beside her.
He was somewhat feminine-looking, with a fair complexion, though he seemed a little frail.
When I turned toward him, he frowned and continued:
"Right now, the True Dragon Organization has enormous influence around the world. The main reason is that ordinary people see them
as saviors. No one
knows they're the ones responsible for the apocalypse. So... ordinary people can't be allowed to learn about the magnetic turbulence in the clouds."
So that was it...
I nodded.
"I understand."
From the beginning of the apocalypse, some kind of unusual magnetic turbulence had appeared in the clouds, crippling communications worldwide. That
was why the world had collapsed so
I did not know whether this had been planned all along or whether they had simply decided to let everything fall apart. If it was the former, the logic
did not quite hold up. After all, only a developed world
could give them more power to do what they wanted.
So I thought the latter was more likely. Perhaps some mistake had caused the virus to spread, and
then, to cover up their crime, they had been willing
to plunge all of human society into collapse. That made more sense.
Once they had made that mistake, they had seen it through to the end. Knowing when the outbreak would occur, they had
blocked every means of
communication during it. And just like that, the whole world was finished...
By then, the organization had also stockpiled enough embryos... Perhaps even Jeju Island had been
a population the True Dragon Organization preserved
to restore social order someday.
Only... they probably had not expected Jeju Island to fall. Meanwhile, I had saved the people on the mainland who were