Cautious Luo Ji

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Zhang Sanfeng: A mere mortal, yet he could deter an alien civilization and save all living beings?

Zhang Sanfeng: This man must possess great wisdom, great perseverance, and great responsibility.

Huang Rong: He sounds like the strategist type? He might not be able to fight, but his brain works exceptionally well?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: You could put it that way. His combat power is zero, but his strategic intelligence... should be very high.

Xiao Yan: ...What about the third one?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: The third is Feng Baobao. She comes from the world of Under One Person. She is a... very special person.

Huang Rong: Special? How so?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: She had probably lived for several centuries, perhaps even longer, but her mind had remained in a very innocent state.

Her combat strength was extremely high, her physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people, and she had mastered all kinds of combat techniques. She was practically immortal. Yet she knew almost nothing about social customs and human relationships, and sometimes did things that left people torn between laughter and tears.

Sun Wukong: An immortal body? And she can fight?

Sun Wukong: Then she's really strong!

Huang Rong: Innocent... You mean the airheaded kind?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: More or less.

White Snake Successor: Group Leader, which one do you think is more suitable to join us?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Well... I don't want to make the decision for everyone. I'm only providing information. You can choose for yourselves.

White Snake Successor: Understood.

Xiao Yan fell into deep thought.

He instinctively compared the three in his mind.

Tang San had great potential and a high ceiling, but he was deeply calculating and difficult to get along with.

With a straightforward personality like his, wouldn't getting along with Tang San inevitably lead to problems?

Though Xiao Yan hesitated, he already had an answer in his heart.

Huang Rong soon came to an answer as well.

Huang Rong: I choose Luo Ji.

Xiao Yan: Why?

Huang Rong: Because I want to compete with someone smart.

Huang Rong: Think about it. We already have a super expert like Immortal Senior and a battle maniac like Brother Wukong... What we need is someone who can think about problems from a strategic perspective, not someone who only knows how to fight.

Zhang Sanfeng: Miss Huang speaks reasonably.

Zhang Sanfeng: I have lived for a hundred years and know one truth well. A man's brute courage can only defeat one person; a wise man's schemes can defeat tens of thousands.

Zhang Sanfeng: If this Fellow Daoist Luo Ji truly possesses the great wisdom the Group Leader described, then I am willing to choose him.

Sun Wukong: But... he's an ordinary person. He doesn't have any combat power at all.

Huang Rong: Brother Wukong, wisdom is also a kind of strength!

Sun Wukong: But...

Huang Rong: No buts. If you want to fight, there are people in the group who can fight with you. But when you can't come up with an idea, who will help you?

Sun Wukong scratched his head. What Huang Rong said seemed to make sense, yet something about it also felt off.

White Snake Successor: Miss Huang speaks reasonably. This junior also chooses Luo Ji.

White Snake Successor: The Group Leader had told this junior about my fate script in advance. If not for that, this junior would still be muddleheaded now.

White Snake Successor: Someone who can see the situation clearly and make plans in advance is far too important.

Xiao Yan: I choose Luo Ji too.

Sun Wukong: You're all choosing Luo Ji? Then Old Sun will choose Luo Ji too.

Sun Wukong: But let me make this clear first. If he comes, Old Sun wants to fight him and see whether he's really as formidable as the Group Leader says.

Huang Rong: ...He's an ordinary person. You want to fight him?

Sun Wukong: Old Sun will wait until he starts cultivating. I won't use the King Kai Fist, and I'll only use an ordinary person's strength!

Huang Rong: That still won't work. You're a Saiyan. Even your ordinary strength is much greater than an ordinary person's.

Sun Wukong: ...Then Old Sun will go easy on him?

Huang Rong: Just don't fight him.

Sun Wukong: Fine, fine. No fighting.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Looks like everyone's opinions are fairly unanimous.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Then I hereby announce the invitation of a new member—Luo Ji.

"Voting concluded. Invitation program initiated."

The group fell silent for several seconds.

Then, a system notification popped up.

"Ding!"

"New member 'Luo Ji' has joined the group!"

The group fell silent again.

Everyone was waiting for the newcomer's first words.

A moment later, a message appeared on the screen.

Luo Ji: ...

Luo Ji: What is this? A hallucination? Or some new trick from the Trisolarans?

The corners of Yang Xuan's lips lifted slightly when he saw that sentence.

A new trick from the Trisolarans.

It seemed Luo Ji's timeline was after he had been chosen as a Wallfacer, or at least after he had learned of the Trisolaran Civilization's existence.

This man had already undergone the transformation from an ordinary person into a Wallfacer. His will had been tempered enough that he would not panic simply because he had suddenly joined a chat group.

Xiao Yan: Welcome, newcomer! Hello, Luo Ji. This is the Heavens Chat Group, a place connected to countless worlds!

Xiao Yan: Did a panel appear in your mind? That's the group interface!

Luo Ji: ...

Luo Ji: Countless heavens and worlds?

Luo Ji: Are you saying that you are people from other worlds?

Xiao Yan: Yes, yes, yes! We come from different worlds!

Xiao Yan: Let me introduce everyone—this is Sun Wukong, this is Wudang Sect's True Man Zhang Sanfeng, this is Miss Huang from Peach Blossom Island, and this is Sister Bai, the White Snake Successor.

Xiao Yan: And this one, Fellow Daoist Immortal, is one of the big shots in our group!

Blue Planet World, United Nations headquarters.

Luo Ji sat silently in his office.

Clearly, this amount of information had struck him hard.

He stared at the translucent light screen before him, his brows tightly furrowed.

The panel in his mind was far too clear to be a hallucination.

No, a hallucination could not possibly be this detailed.

The font, the colors, the arrangement—every detail was just right, more perfect than any UI design he had ever seen.

"Impossible."

Luo Ji muttered before rising to his feet and pacing back and forth through the office.

The Trisolarans' Sophons were everywhere, monitoring his every move.

If this was the Trisolarans' doing, they were fully capable of creating such a hallucination.

But the problem was that the Trisolarans' thoughts were transparent.

They did not understand deception or concealment, much less what "humor" was.

The conversational style in this chat group was far too human.

Xiao Yan's loudmouthed enthusiasm, Huang Rong's clever cunning, Sun Wukong, Zhang Sanfeng, Bai Suzhen—these characters from fantasy stories did not seem simulated.

"Perhaps it's a more advanced civilization?"

Luo Ji muttered to himself.

He sat back down, activated the internal communication system, and sent a message to his assistant:

"Help me schedule a full physical examination tomorrow morning. The complete set, including a brain scan."

After sending the message, he glanced at the chat group again.

Xiao Yan: Luo Ji? Are you still there? Why aren't you saying anything?

Huang Rong: Maybe he was frightened? An ordinary person who was suddenly pulled into a Heavens Chat Group would definitely need time to process it.

Sun Wukong: Old Sun wasn't scared back then! Old Sun thought it was pretty interesting!

Huang Rong: You're a Saiyan, not an ordinary person.

Sun Wukong: How am I not an ordinary person just because I'm a Saiyan? Old Sun is perfectly normal!

Huang Rong: ...Forget I said anything.

The corner of Luo Ji's mouth twitched slightly as he watched the exchange.

He did not reply further.

Until he had confirmed the situation, he could not respond.