I Am Shen Yu, Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association

Lin Tan stood there, his mind blank.

The volume of those words seemed amplified a hundredfold, resounding in his mind.

What? The world is ending? You must be kidding me.

The end of the world? Are you kidding me?

Lin Tan suddenly became excited.

He took a few steps forward, trying to grab the person who was speaking inexplicably.

But Shen Yu's next words rooted him to the spot. "Didn't you notice?"

Lin Tan's eyes were somewhat unfocused. He suddenly called out to the system in his mind in a panic, "System, come out!"

However, the system remained the same as before, only uttering a single sentence like a mechanical program when it was initially bound to him.

After he bound himself to the system, he never heard the system speak again.

Lin Tan had always thought it was because the system wasn't intelligent, but just a low-level program. Now, thinking about it, he realized how ridiculous his idea was.

How could a system capable of Time Stop and Time Rewind be a low-level program that doesn't even have intelligent responses?

The system doesn't respond to him simply because it deems it unnecessary to do so.

No, it's still hard to say whether that thing is a system or not. It's always been the system that's claiming to be what kind of system it is, and then assuming that Lin Tan is a host who meets the binding conditions.

Lin Tan was utterly despondent at the time, feeling like a completely useless person. Suddenly, the system contacted him and said it wanted to bind to him, so of course he didn't have much suspicion.

On the contrary, because of the system's affirmation, he believed that he finally had something to offer. At the very least, he must have some talent that others did not have. Otherwise, why would the system choose him instead of others among so many people?

Given his age, he also enjoys reading light novels online and is quite familiar with the trope of the protagonist obtaining a system and thus becoming a god.

They would be even less likely to reject this system of unknown origin.

Lin Tan wasn't stupid; he understood the implication in the man's words. "You mean, the system within me is what caused the world's destruction?"

"Any power that you want to gain must come at a price, but some prices are obvious, while others you won't see until the very last moment."

"Do you really think there's something about you that would make them want to take advantage of you?" Shen Yu leaned forward, his deep, dark red eyes reflecting Lin Tan's slightly flustered face.

"I..." Lin Tan was speechless; he couldn't say anything either.

He used to be insecure and cowardly, timid and afraid of trouble. He dared not fight back against bullying, had no admirable abilities, and his intelligence was only at the level of an average person, without any wisdom beyond the ordinary.

Without a firm will and conviction.

Even at the very end, he began to give up on himself.

Could someone like him really be one of the main characters?

"Then why did the system choose me?" Lin Tan asked.

"A person who lacks ability, once given a skill beyond their comprehension, will inevitably use it arbitrarily."

Shen Yu slowly said, "Since you obtained this power, in just one month, how many times have you used it?"

Lin Tan, who even had to use Time Stop to cheat in class because he couldn't answer the teacher's questions, turned red in the face. The person opposite him was mocking him as a good-for-nothing without any politeness.

"Then... is there any hope for the world?" Lin Tan asked. Before obtaining the system, he didn't care whether the world would be destroyed.

Perhaps at that time, if he heard that the world was about to be destroyed, he would clap and cheer, overjoyed beyond measure.

After all, at that time, he didn't even know if he wanted to live. The cruel world, the long-term violence, beatings, insults, and bullying, coupled with his personality and the impetuousness of his youth.

Isn't wanting to die a normal thing?

Of course, after everything that has happened, he has changed his previous views and even used his abilities to save another victim.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that the power he gained was obtained at the cost of the entire world.

Shen Yu suddenly raised his hand, pointed to a shop on the street next door, and said, "Buy that."

Lin Tan turned his head to look. Although he didn't know why this mysterious man wanted him to buy such an item, he still walked towards the shop in order to get the answer he wanted.

Use the remaining change to take the item off the shelf, then go to the counter to pay.

"I've bought it."

Lin Tan couldn't understand why that person would ask him to buy such a thing.

Although the other person sounded quite young, probably not much older than him, he wouldn't play things that only elementary school students would do.

Shen Yu took the thing handed to him, twisted open the lid, put it to his lips, and gently blew on it.

A string of bubbles floated out, soared in the air, and then burst in mid-air.

"Hey, hey..." Lin Tan squinted.

What's wrong with this person? They were clearly discussing something as momentous as the end of the world, so why did they suddenly start joking around?

Completely baffled, he could only follow the other person's lead and look at the string of bubbles floating in the air.

What's so fun about this? Although bubbles may look illusory and beautiful, they can't last long at all. They will quietly burst and vanish into nothingness after floating in the air for a short while.

... ah!

As he watched, Lin Tan's body suddenly began to tremble.

What came to mind was bubbles, foam, illusion, shattering, destruction.

So that's how it is. Has the world become this fragile?

Lin Tan's eyes reddened, and he glared at the man. "What should I do?"

What can he do to save the world and atone for his mistakes?

After blowing bubbles for a while, Shen Yu quickly got bored, put the lid on, and returned the bubble solution to Lin Tan.

"Can you leave these bubbles behind?"

Shen Yu looked up at the sky. After the bubbles had flown a distance, they burst one by one. After Shen Yu stopped blowing more bubbles, the bubbles floating in the air disappeared one by one. In the end, nothing was left in the sky.

"This world is too fragile."

The origin of the world has been largely consumed; if left unattended, it will likely naturally perish, with the remaining energy returning to nothingness.

Perhaps billions of years from now, a new world will be reborn.

"However, I can help you get revenge."

Lin Tan clutched his heart, his mind blank, but finally, he instinctively said, "Thank you, could you tell me your name?"

"I am the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association. You can call me Shen Yu."