Rice Weevils, Awww

Perhaps because night fell so quickly on Al↑ka↓, people here were more accustomed to eating a hearty lunch and skipping dinner.

Al↑ka↓ began gradually darkening at around three or four in the afternoon... and the night was quite long.

Still, because Lantian Zhu had strongly insisted on staying in the big house to experience it, it probably had not been unnecessary after all.

"..." Cong Yu stood on the enormous observatory platform, gazing at the stars overhead... There was a great deal of equipment around him that he could not recognize at all.

But Cong Yu was not about to touch anything carelessly.

Earlier, Yaochuan Guang had foolishly poked at things all over the mansion and triggered the alarm, nearly getting the local cops dispatched.

All that could be said was that this truly was a grand mansion in a super-rich neighborhood. The police response was fast—over at Star Harbor, the cops would not even bother with you.

So Cong Yu merely gazed quietly at the sky through the glass dome... It was a beautiful sight.

A beautiful young man in a thin shirt stood beneath a glass enclosure, looking out at the stars, his deep and lovely eyes flickering with their light.

To an artist, it might have looked like a caged bird that had left its home planet to become the child groom in some young lady's mansion.

It would have made a fitting painting...

But unfortunately, the real reason was that Cong Yu could not sleep. There was simply no way he could fall asleep at five-thirty in the evening.

Cong Yu, who usually did not sleep until the early hours of the next morning, could not possibly drift off at a time like this...

He might as well look at the stars.

[Origin Darkness: Apophis: Speaking