After hastily scribbling a few lines to Bao'er-jie and those idiots Zhang Chulan and the others as a farewell and a brief explanation, Annie abandoned those founding disciples of the "great immortal sects" and resumed her endless journey, wandering through the myriad worlds and different universes.
And along the way!
Of course, she couldn't resist secretly taking a peek at a certain world and lending a hand to some idiot who did nothing but go around muttering her name all day. After helping out a little, she didn't bother with him any further, nor did she bother with those idiots named Darius who couldn't get even the smallest things done right. Instead, she resolutely plunged into yet another brand-new world.
However!
This time, Annie had only just arrived when she noticed that something wasn't quite right.
It seemed...
This new world, this world that was also Earth, was a little different from some of the other versions of Earth she had visited?
Anyway, when she appeared and found herself standing on a city street, she looked around and saw all sorts of strangely ominous billboards and slogans. The people coming and going also seemed a little off, looking rather oppressed, as though everyone had something weighing on their hearts.
For example...
She saw signs on the streets that said things like "Join the New Energy Revolution and Give Mother Earth a Tomorrow," "Crisis Era," "The Mainstream Defense Plan Is Humanity's Pillar for the Next Four Centuries," and "Large Hadron Collider," along with slogans like "Wartime Economy," "Wartime Stockpiles," and "Decisive Battle Against the Sophons," as well as billboards covered in huge numbers.
Although those jumbled advertisements only offered a few words here and there, they contained a great deal of information. Anyway, Annie had more or less figured out a