Zhang Kuang froze for a moment, then stared at Qin Siyang with wide eyes. "Xiao Qin, what do you mean?"
Qin Siyang took the [Apocalypse Fragment] out of the Storage Box.
"This scroll is the [Apocalypse Fragment]. It explains why the apocalypse descended."
Li Tianming studied the scroll in Qin Siyang's hand. "This is the [Apocalypse Fragment]? This is what the World-Destroying Church is going to make such a fuss about in a few days?"
"Really?!" Hearing that the question that had troubled him for years finally had an answer, and that it was right before his eyes, Zhang Kuang immediately grew excited. "Xiao Qin, let me see!"
Qin Siyang shook his head. "Director Zhang, I'm sorry. Only the owner of the [Apocalypse Fragment] can see its contents."
Zhang Kuang didn't seem disappointed by that. Instead, he asked, "Xiao Qin, could you tell me what it says, then?"
"Of course. That's what I'm about to explain."
Then, in front of Li Tianming and Zhang Kuang, Qin Siyang recounted the entire first part of the [Apocalypse Fragment].
Zhang Kuang and Li Tianming were both dumbstruck.
Li Tianming swallowed. "Xiao Qin... are you saying a year was stolen from our memories?"
Zhang Kuang said, "Old Li, what Xiao Qin means is that the apocalypse had already been going on for a year before we came to this world. We were the second batch of chosen ones, who arrived a year later."
"Of course I understood that! I just can't quite believe that the land beneath our feet isn't the place we used to live, and that all our memories are false... it's absurd."
"They aren't necessarily all false," Zhang Kuang reasoned. "I think only our memories of the apocalypse's arrival are false. Everything else really happened."
Even these two professors, who had