Inside the heavily guarded conference room, a meeting restricted to the highest echelons of the Xia Kingdom was underway. The air was thick with skepticism and heated debate. High-ranking officials, who had spent their lives guided by logic and materialism, were angrily rebuking the High Elder's warnings. Even the Elder himself, despite the vivid memories etched into his brain, began to waver. Was it truly just a nightmare?
Jiang Yi, watching from the void in a state of nothingness, decided it was time. "My turn to appear," he whispered.
He manifested in the center of the room. His form was indescribable a shifting blur of void and shadow that defied mortal comprehension. He didn't just stand there; he existed with a crushing sense of presence that made the very air feel heavy.
"!!!"
The officials gasped, their faces contorted in horror. Some reached for their panic buttons, others opened their mouths to scream for security, but an invisible force clamped down on their voices. Silence reigned.
"Peace. I bear no ill will," Jiang Yi's voice rang out, indifferent and ethereal.
He glanced at a general in full military regalia. With a casual flick of his finger, the pistol holstered at the general's side flew into the air. Before their wide eyes, the steel weapon was twisted and crushed by an unseen pressure, rendered into a useless ball of scrap metal in seconds. The materialist worldview these men had held for decades shattered instantly. They were witnessing the extraordinary.
"Who… Who are you, Your Excellency? What is your purpose?" the High Elder asked, his voice trembling as he used the highest honorifics.
"I?" Jiang Yi paused, his hidden gaze sweeping over the room. "I am merely a humble Observer. I have come only to offer a reminder."
"A reminder?" The Elder's heart hammered against his ribs.
"Blue Star will soon be struck by meteorites. Mankind is slated for extinction," Jiang Yi stated coldly. "In the natural flow of time, your civilization ends here, leaving the world to the beasts. However… humans are a curious species. I am not yet ready to see your fire extinguished."
A heavy silence fell over the room. The skeptics were now believers; the nightmare was a prophecy.
"Observer… Your Majesty," the Elder spoke up, choosing his words with extreme care. "Is there a way to avert this cataclysm?"
Jiang Yi looked at him. Under that gaze, the Elder felt his soul being laid bare, his very consciousness sluggish under the weight of a higher existence.
"I am an Observer. I do not interfere with the main axis of fate," Jiang Yi said, stepping forward with a ghostly grace. He produced a small, sealed container holding a fragment of a meteorite. "But since you are an 'interesting' race, I shall grant you a small boon. This fragment contains the evolutionary virus. Study it. Use it. And… pay close attention to a young man named Huang."
Before the Elder could ask another question, the blurry figure vanished into thin air, leaving only the sealed fragment behind.
"He is… truly a god-like being," the Elder whispered, his eyes filled with a mixture of terror and profound gratitude.
He immediately turned to his subordinates, his voice now a whip-crack of authority. "Halt all large-scale projects and exports! Mobilize every resource to build underground fortresses immediately! Summon every top scientist to analyze this virus! And find the boy named Huang now!"
High above the deduction world, Jiang Yi looked down. Below him, the "Infrastructure Maniac" that was the Xia Kingdom had begun to roar into life. Thousands of bunkers were being hollowed out of the earth. When the meteorites finally fell, the seeds of humanity would not just survive they would be ready to fight back.