"What?" Wang Chao pressed softly.
Because he had gained an even deeper respect for these researchers, the movements of his hands unconsciously became much gentler.
"When the catastrophe first erupted, there was a fundamental mutation in the rules themselves," Pan Xiaoxiao said:
"They wanted to know why large-caliber firearms had become as powerless as toys;"
"They wanted to know why the nuclear weapons they had once been so proud of had become as useless as fireworks;"
"They wanted to know why the theories they had devoted most of their lives to researching had suddenly become nothing but a pile of wastepaper."
"They desperately wanted to understand that mysterious force capable of affecting everything in the world."
"But as you said, it was a fundamental mutation of the rules themselves." Wang Chao asked in confusion:
"If they were only exploring the changes in this world's rules, what did that have to do with these Ancient Secret Scripts?"
Pan Xiaoxiao smiled helplessly and did not answer immediately.
Instead, she asked him another question:
"If you were asked to study the fundamental changes in this world's rules, where would you start?"
Wang Chao fell silent.
After pondering for a long while, he finally said with a bitter smile:
"I wouldn't even know where to begin."
"Just as Professor Wang said earlier, I'm only a lucky person who awakened relatively decent Talent Abilities..."
"Whether in terms of logical thinking or accumulated knowledge, I'm just a student who dropped out in his final year of high school."
He had assumed Pan Xiaoxiao would skip over that subject and give him a direct answer.
Unexpectedly, the woman nodded in agreement.
"You're right."
"Huh?" Wang Chao was a little stunned.
Although what he had said was indeed true, he had mostly meant it as self-deprecation.
It was