Three Minutes and Twenty Seconds

Li Dong frowned at the message Gauss had sent.

"Can I only ask one question?"

There was actually quite a lot he wanted to ask, such as what exactly the Azure Dragon Study Group was, and where Gauss was. But in the end, he chose...

[Li Dong: Lord Gauss, am I helping the group members, or killing them?]

After the message was sent, a typing indicator appeared beside Gauss's profile picture.

Then, a new message appeared in the chat box.

[Gauss: Neither.]

Neither?

That left Li Dong rather confused.

He wasn't killing these group members—well, that was certainly good.

But... he wasn't helping them either.

"Then if I'm helping them, why are these big shots giving me rewards?"

With that thought, Li Dong immediately sent Gauss another message.

[Li Dong: But Lord Gauss, didn't you tell me to help the group members before? They even gave me rewards.]

However, the moment that message was sent, a red exclamation mark popped up.

Li Dong: ...

Wait, I really only got one question?

Li Dong sighed helplessly.

Forget it. He had already gotten the answer he wanted.

Whether Feynman's profile picture had gone black or Bohr's had gone gray.

What state were they actually in? Li Dong still didn't know, but Gauss had said he wasn't killing them. That was enough.

As for the remaining questions, he would have chances to figure them out eventually.

Once the guilt faded, Li Dong suddenly felt eager again.

It seemed his basic attributes had not increased in a long time.

Since he wouldn't kill the group members, what was there to fear?

So he immediately found the message Pauli had sent him.

[Pauli: Professor Li Dong... I discovered something even stranger.]

Li Dong @-mentioned Pauli.

[Professor Li Dong: Lord Pauli, what stranger thing did you