"Well... yes... that's the situation... Yes, I think so too. Well... OK, let's do this for now, Staff Officer Manabe... Abu, Prime Minister Manabe, please go to bed early. I won't disturb you for now."

In Gu Chen's office at the MAC team's headquarters, Gu Chen ended his call with Prime Minister Manabe. After putting the phone back, he leaned back on his office sofa and sighed heavily: "Ah..."

It’s not because of anything else, it’s just because I’m exhausted from the workload.

Although this workload is less than half of what Staff Officer Takenaka usually does...

The phone call just now was Gu Chen reporting to Chief of Staff Manabe about the Alpha aliens.

After all, as a cosmic race that has been kind to humans since ancient times, the Alpha Aliens are undoubtedly a very suitable object for establishing interstellar diplomatic relations.

However, the current situation on Earth is destined to make it impossible to establish diplomatic relations with the Alpha people at this moment. After all, the regime has not yet been unified, and the Alpha people will most likely not agree to establish diplomatic relations.

But if Prime Minister Manabe's plan were to come to fruition, the chances of success would undoubtedly be much higher.

Even if the Earth's regime has not yet been truly unified, it will become the most powerful force on Earth and be qualified to establish diplomatic relations with alien forces.

At that time, Gu Chen and his team will be able to take advantage of the establishment of diplomatic relations with alien forces to further promote the unification of the Earth's regime.

Prime Minister Manabe had the same idea, so the two of them tacitly arranged the matter of the Alpha aliens.

It is estimated that in another ten or twenty years, Prime Minister Manabe's plan will be initially realized.

Oh, that's a long project. Can't we have a one-click acceleration function or something?

Just as Gu Chen was thinking this, he was about to get some coffee when suddenly his vision went dark.

When he regained his sight, he saw a little girl in red standing in front of him expressionlessly, looking up at him with eyes that were completely emotionless.

Wow, it’s the Earth’s will calling, what a rare guest.

Immediately, Gu Chen's expression changed from surprise at the beginning to serious.

The Will of the Earth has always been a non-professional, and will never come to him for help unless it is something important.

Now that He has come to find me on his own initiative, it must be that something big is about to happen.

"Earth Will, what do you want from me?"

Seeing that the Earth Will didn't speak, Gu Chen took the initiative to start the topic.

"There is something I need to inform you. I have stuffed all the dark aura I could find inside the earth into the bodies of two monsters. After that, no matter who they are, they can temporarily solve the trouble caused by the dark aura by destroying it."

Upon hearing this, the Will of the Earth spoke in His calm voice, saying that it was a complete waste of His current body.

"Well, that's a good thing, but what do you mean by temporarily..."

Gu Chen nodded, then reacted to some of the words in the Earth's will, so he asked.

"I'll take you to see something, and then you might understand."

The Will of the Earth did not answer directly, but after saying this, it took the initiative to grab Gu Chen's hand.

Then, Gu Chen felt that the world in front of him suddenly became blurry.

When it became clear again, he and the Earth Will appeared on the edge of a cliff.

And in front of him was the endless, turbulent, and extremely dark "sea".

It is called the sea, but in fact it is a large amount of energy rioting, forming an energy wave.

Feeling the energy fluctuations coming from below, the expression on Gu Chen's face gradually became ugly.

"Is this... negative energy?"

As he spoke, Gu Chen turned his head and looked at the Earth Will, which still had no expression on its face.

Hearing this, the Earth Will nodded calmly and continued, "Yes, as you can see, the negative energy inside the Earth has rioted. I don't know if it's due to the influence of the dark aura, but I'm trying my best to calm it down."

“Where does all this negative energy come from?”

Gu Chen frowned, looking at the endless sea of ​​negative energy within his perception range, and asked this question worriedly.

"This is the energy naturally emitted by creatures living on Earth since ancient times. It is also a part of the Earth's energy cycle. In contrast, there is positive energy, but I won't show it to you because nothing happened there."

"However, since humans appeared on Earth, the growth of negative energy has been too rapid. A large part of the negative energy sea you see is contributed by humans."

The Will of the Earth spoke in reply, and generously revealed some information to Gu Chen, causing Gu Chen to swallow the question that was about to come out of his throat back into his stomach.

Although negative energy is not a good thing, according to the will of the earth, it is an indispensable part of the earth's energy cycle.

But now it seems that something is disrupting the normal energy cycle. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that something is wrong with the negative energy in front of them.

"So is there anything I can do? Or is there anything I can do?"

Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen asked the Earth's will again.

"Not yet. Everything is under my control. But I can't guarantee that it will always be like this in the future, so I'm giving you a heads up. If I can't hold on any longer in the future, I will ask for your help."

The Will of the Earth shook his head slightly, then turned to look at Gu Chen and spoke.

"So, how can I help you?"

Gu Chen frowned and asked.

"Don't you have the ability to purify energy? When the time comes, I will need to use your ability to purify some of the negative energy that is beyond my control."

The Earth Will said expressionlessly something that made Gu Chen's face darken.

Purify the negative energy in front of you? Do you think there is not enough dark power in my body?

You must know that the sea of ​​negative energy in front of you seems boundless. Even if you only absorb a part of it, it is enough to break the balance of light and darkness in Gu Chen's body.

By then, if he merges with his clone, he will become the same as Zhuxingtuan and can only show himself in dark form.

Or, he would exchange identities with the current Dark Tiga clone, let clone No. 1 act as Gu Chen on Earth, while he as the original body would go to the Dark Kingdom to wreak havoc.

Eh... it doesn't seem unacceptable when you think about it this way. After all, life in the Dark Kingdom is much better than on Earth. It's just that it's easy to miss encounters with many people.

"Let me ask you a question. If negative energy goes beyond your control and riots, what consequences will it have on the earth?"

After thinking about it, Gu Chen asked the will of the earth curiously.