The large screen in the Meeting Room lit up. Director Wang stepped onto the presentation platform. He looked well accustomed to handling situations like this, yet he still could not help glancing repeatedly at the middle-aged men in formal attire.
They seemed to be of very high status. Otherwise, they would not have been treated with such importance. The soldiers outside were probably here to protect them as well.
Director Wang had his assistant bring over his electronic screen and gently place it on the presentation platform. After thinking for a moment, he opened a folder.
The folder contained a dense collection of images, each labeled with a date. Mo Ling examined them carefully and found that they spanned an enormous period of time, beginning with the Abyss invasion and continuing until...
"One hundred years? It has already been one hundred years since the Abyss invasion?"
Mo Ling froze when he saw the dates on those images.
Although Lu Youqi had told him that time passed quickly outside the Abyss, seeing that passage of time laid out so plainly before him still left him utterly stunned.
Everything familiar remained upstream in the River of Time, while he alone had arrived in the distant future. It felt as though a lifetime had passed.
Director Wang seemed to be considering where to begin. He had not prepared this "speech" in advance, and with several important figures now present, a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead again.
After thinking for a while, he apparently decided to get straight to the point.
He opened an image. It was an aerial view of the Abyss, seemingly taken from above the Abyss Entrance using some kind of aerial photography equipment.
Mo Ling was very familiar with this angle, because he had often seen the