The dead sea of civilization

Province X, Lintong City Government
All civil servants and high-ranking officials have essentially been safely evacuated from the city hall. However, outside the ranks of the armed police, an elderly and a young individual remain, dragging and carrying documents, busily working inside the hall. The old man, despite the captain's persuasions, refuses to leave, always muttering about some confidential documents and maintaining a tough stance.

"Dad, we should go now! Those monsters are coming!" urges the young girl, carrying a stack of thick documents and looking at the flustered man in front of her.

"No, their arrival is one thing, the mission assigned by the country is another. They will only destroy this place, so we must try to take these with us!" the old man frowns, packing a set of neatly tied papers into a suitcase.

"But..." The girl glances out the window again, grabbing her father's hands that are busy packing, "Dad! Mom is still waiting for us at the camp!"

The father hesitates for a moment, turns around, and looks affectionately at his daughter, holding her hands, "Then, Clooffi, you go back first and let your mom know you are safe."

He shakes his head, "There are no 'buts'... Captain!" he shouts towards the door, and soon a pair of sturdy footsteps are heard, "Sir, have you finally decided..."

"No, take my daughter away, I am not leaving."

The captain and Clooffi exchange a glance and sigh, "Girl, go."

"Go!" The father turns around and pulls out a card from his chest, "This is my work card, it contains very important information, you must guard it with your life."

Clooffi takes the card, which is made of double-layer lamination and shines with a dark blue light under the sunlight from the window.

"Now... go..." He turns around again.

The captain holds Clooffi's shoulder with one hand and leads the tearful Clooffi out.

In the alley of Wannian Road---

"Jianjun!" Chen Li calls in a low voice, "Did you get the mainframe?"

Tang Jianjun is searching through the messy counter, "These things have smashed everything, even the WiFi is smashed." After a while of searching, he shakes his head in disappointment.

"Let's talk to the captain first and then see the situation later?" Chen Li takes out an iron rod from somewhere and plays with it in his hand.

Jianjun nods, then a rumbling sound comes from outside the door, Chen Li asks worriedly, "Do you think the deputy captain and the others... are still alive?"

"We'll stay first..."

Jianjun's face looks a bit ugly, but he immediately cheers up, "There will be no problem, the deputy captain is a fighting champion, don't worry. He actually..."

"What?" Chen Li is puzzled.

"His parents are in the United States, they divorced a long time ago, and he was raised by his grandparents when he was young."

"How do you know so much?"

Jianjun gives a mysterious smile, "Hey, we used to be kids in the same village, living in the house next to his."

This piques Chen Li's curiosity, "Do you know what his parents call him?"

"Once I saw his parents come back and call him by his nickname, something like 'Clooffi', and when we played together, I also heard that their family is engaged in scientific research."

This amuses Chen Li, "Parents engaged in scientific research becoming a policeman and suffering grievances, what happened next?"

Jianjun observes the situation outside and says, "Don't tell others what I told you."

"Okay, go ahead."

Jianjun lowers his voice, "When he was ten, I heard from the villagers that his father had an accident during an experiment, which was reported in the newspaper, something about the 'Everton Experiment', and they didn't even find the body."

"What is the Everton Experiment?"

Jianjun shrugs, "I don't know, most scientific research involves mathematics and physics, and if it's about mathematics and physics, it must be a top secret, how could I know."

Suddenly, a heavy footstep comes from the door.

Chen Li's hand holding the iron rod is sweating, and the two keep their mouths shut, hiding under the counter. The footsteps search around in the internet cafe, and then turn over the smashed mainframe and computers again. Finally, when the footsteps are about to reach the door, the two notice that it stops in front of the counter...

In the Crystal Castle of Ponyville---

Clooffi wakes up from the bed in a daze, stretches, and finds that his bedspread has been changed to a brand new purple silk, which makes him feel very comfortable with its unique smoothness.

But as soon as he sits up and rubs his head, a sharp object suddenly appears on his forehead. He immediately sits up and takes a mirror from the suitcase to look at himself.

This is a big deal, his eyes widen, full of horror. He gets out of bed, rushes out of the room, and searches everywhere, finally finding Twilight and her friends in the Friendship Hall. He anxiously asks Twilight what happened after he lost consciousness, because he clearly remembers when he fainted, Twilight and the others were not there, after all, he was knocked unconscious by pain.

Twilight then explains the whole story to Clooffi.

Clooffi listens calmly for a while, "Then, I think, I should find out about that horse."

Twilight quickly stops him, "No! You just woke up, and your body is still very weak, it will be dangerous."

Clooffi looks at Twilight's nervousness and can't help but laugh: "Hey, I didn't say I would check it out now. I was also puzzled a while ago, why my offspring are unicorns, and my father is also a unicorn, but at that time I was still young, I didn't know, the people around didn't mention this matter, and I didn't care."

Twilight is relieved to see Clooffi's attitude.

Before leaving the hall, Clooffi turns to Twilight and says, "My silk bedspread is not bad, who changed it?"

Twilight thinks for a moment: "Oh, it was specially made for you by Rarity."

"The texture is good."

Clooffi looks at Rarity on the seat, who casts an appreciative glance at him, nods, "Thank you," and then leaves the hall.

Twilight looks at Rarity: "He seems to be much more cheerful than before."

Rarity says triumphantly: "It's not because he used my bedspread."

After getting up from the bed, Clooffi always feels itchy on his head. At the same time, he also knows that this thing can only be a party hat without using it, and he still has to read relevant books, so he first thinks of the library.

Arriving at the library hall, Clooffi curses in his heart: "Who puts the books like this, afraid of Earth Ponies getting the books?" He looks around on the ground for a long time, and finally locks on the "Basic Theory of Magic and Practical Application" on the ninth row of the bookshelf. He looks around, no ladder.

Now he knows who to find.

"Spike!!!" He shouts.

In a short while, a dexterous purple figure rushes out from the room next door: "Clooffi? What's wrong?"

"Bring a ladder, I don't know where you put it."

"Oh, okay, coming right away." Then Spike rushes to the storage room.

Clooffi stares at the book, looks through all the spines of the books, such as "Basic Magic and Creature Transformation", "Basic Magic and Low-Energy Attack"...

It seems that this row is all basic, and in the end, he decides to try it himself.

He looks at the book again, holds his breath, and suddenly feels an unconscious excitement surging towards his head, and the momentum becomes bigger and bigger until he can't control it. Clooffi is very panicked, and looks around in a panic, damn it! How can it be all books!

Just as he is about to rush out, a light blue laser beam bursts out from the corner. This is not the most terrible thing, Clooffi wants to control this power, but it is useless. This excitement becomes stronger and stronger, and finally, after a few minutes, the beam disappears.

Clooffi is panting heavily, and at this time, Twilight and friends, as well as Spike, rush in and break the door: "What just happened? Ah!!!!" She sees the burned black bookshelf and the remnants of the books that fell to the ground.

"Hmm..." Clooffi is embarrassed, "I just wanted to take that... this book." He picks up a book cover from the debris, which happens to be "Basic Theory of Magic and Practical Application."

Twilight looks at the burned books in surprise, and comforts herself in a low voice: "Huh... Fortunately, these books have all been read."

Then she turns to Clooffi and says, "Hmm... How did you do it just now?"

Clooffi didn't expect her to ask like this, "Just by staring at it, and then it just happened."

Twilight is dumbfounded, but she quickly says, "I think you should read