When Qin Siyang heard Lu Daoxing's voice, his heart skipped a beat.
Then his shock immediately turned to delight. "Professor Lu?! Is it really you?!"
A soft chuckle came from the other end. "It's me. But I'm no longer Professor Lu. I'm Guardian Lu now."
"That doesn't matter!" Qin Siyang brushed it off. "Professor Zhang Kuang hasn't been a kindergarten director for ages, but don't I still call him Director Zhang?"
Qin Siyang and Zhang Kuang had first crossed paths at Yucai Kindergarten, so calling him Director naturally felt much warmer than calling him Professor.
As for Lu Daoxing, whether he had joined the World-Destroying Church made little difference to Qin Siyang. In his eyes, Lu Daoxing was still the same Professor Lu with the bulbous nose.
"Xiao Qin, you're still as cheerful as ever."
"Come on, Professor Lu. We've only been apart for two months. How much could I have changed?"
Lu Daoxing sighed softly. "But I can never go back to who I was."
At that, Qin Siyang fell silent too.
He could hear a numb weariness in Lu Daoxing's voice.
He didn't know whether Lu Daoxing was in a bad state mentally, physically, or both.
Lu Daoxing continued, "Enough about me. Xiao Qin, I'm calling today to pass along a message for the World-Destroying Church. Since we know each other, the job of contacting you fell to me, their newly appointed Guardian."
"What is it, Professor Lu? Go ahead."
"On the last day of this year, December 31, the World-Destroying Church will publicly reveal part of the [Apocalypse Fragment]'s contents in the Sigma District."
They were going to reveal part of the [Apocalypse Fragment]'s contents?
He had already seen this news in [Yu Gu]'s text message.
What did that mean? What was in the fragment?
Lu Daoxing