My Stand-in is Steve
Chapter 834

Say That Name Again?!

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"What... do we do now?"

After a brief silence, someone in the cabin suddenly spoke up.

Yet the question received no answer. It was only after a long while that a flash of white light appeared out of nowhere inside the cabin, and Fang Mo slowly stepped out of it.

"I really do love Earth."

The moment he appeared, Fang Mo carried his greatsword over his shoulder and began talking to himself. "Look at this little broken planet. It has plenty of water, it's a loli mommy capable of nurturing life, and in the end, it caught fire..."

"..."

By this point, no one knew what to say.

The people from X Academy were doing slightly better. At the very least, they already knew what kind of personality Fang Mo had.

But the mutants under the Bishop were different. Their understanding of power had practically been completely overturned, and when they saw Fang Mo now, their faces even showed a dazed expression.

Yes, it was not fear.

Instead, it was confusion so deep that they could no longer tell what was real from what was false.

Yet that was precisely the most normal reaction. It was like how people who suffered a major tragedy did not feel grief immediately. Instead, they became numb, only realizing what had happened much later... before finally breaking down and sobbing.

It was the brain's self-protection mechanism.

It temporarily suppressed truths that could not be accepted, preventing a mental collapse.

After all, this was not some nuclear war caused by humanity. It was Divine Punishment in the truest sense—a mass extinction that would not leave behind even the slightest ruin. Humans, other species, any organism... every trace that they had ever existed would be completely erased, leaving behind only a scorching dead star.

And yet

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