After dropping the two of them off at the Miracle Building, Qin Siyang immediately headed to District 2, entered the United Government Building, and found Qian Wendao.
The moment Qin Siyang pushed open the door, Qian Wendao hurried over and looked him up and down. Once he confirmed that it really was Qin Siyang, his whole body visibly relaxed.
Qian Wendao let out a long breath. "A week. You disappeared for an entire week. You really had our hearts in our throats."
"Old Qian, I never thought someone as willful and easygoing as you could get so worried."
"Extraordinary times call for an extraordinary state of mind." Qian Wendao reclined in his office chair and crossed his legs, exhaustion showing in his eyes. "We're in the final stretch before merging into the [evolutionary origin domain]. I really was afraid something would happen to you and all our efforts would go to waste."
"I even thought it through: if you really died, I'd have to confront Ander and tell him he couldn't keep raising his sequence level, or the entire Safe Zone would go down with him."
After a couple of complaints, Qian Wendao stopped dwelling on pointless what-if scenarios and asked, "You've finished everything you needed to do, right?"
"Yes. I'm ready."
"Next, we need to choose a time to merge into the [evolutionary origin domain]. But to keep everyone from panicking, we'll definitely have to announce it before the merger."
Qin Siyang sat down across from Qian Wendao and nodded. "Yes, that's what I was thinking too."
"Let's do what we did when we drew up the universal sequence plan: hold a small meeting first, then a big one."
"Of course. We definitely need to notify the allies on our side first. But this time, we might not be