Perhaps it's because they were too distressed over the money.
They truly ignored an important factor.
That is the matter of everyone previously begging the Ancestors to rule Earth.
If the Ancestors really wanted to rule Earth by spreading rumors of a gamma-ray burst, then why hadn't they responded to everyone's desperate pleas earlier?
This is a question that anyone with a bit of sense could figure out.
Yet Raj and Trish, in their anger, completely overlooked it.
...
It wasn't just Raj and Trish.
Many people all over the world shared similar thoughts with them.
In a small country in Europe, Delding, who had spent a fortune on a good bottle of wine to drink himself into a stupor, originally intended to perish drunk. But as he sobered up slightly, no gamma-ray burst arrived on Earth to exterminate humanity.
So, half-drunk and half-awake, he burped alcohol and went online to check the situation with others.
It didn't matter when he wasn't online.
