I'm not a drama god

Having casually killed the first guild master, Chen Ling looked at the last survivor in the Alchemy Guild's more than three-hundred-year history and slowly spoke:

"During the Great Cataclysm, countless lives were lost, and the nine Foundations, unable to bear it any longer, took in you refugees from overseas..."

"what about you?"

"Backstabbing the base, detonating nuclear weapons, nearly killing millions, and turning the Mortal Realm into a nuclear wasteland, preventing the Mortal Lord from falling into slumber... If it weren't for you, humanity could have gained another demigod, and our situation wouldn't have been so dire..."

"It is because of rotten apples like you, who affect human progress overtly or covertly, that we need to restart again and again to find the best solution."

The red paper tentacles wrapped around the mixed-race president's neck tightened more and more, and his head had turned bright red from blood engorgement, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets!

Under this extreme pressure, he couldn't even speak; he could only open his mouth wide in agony, greedily begging for even a sliver of air...

But instead of air, a hideous little centipede made of stone crawled into his wide-open mouth and burrowed into his body through his esophagus.

Then, the second one, the third one...

Chen Ling's icy voice rang out again:

"...And what about you?"

"While you've shattered both worlds... you're still hiding in this dark underground, waiting for your descendants to slaughter millions for you and bring you eternal life?"

"Fine...don't you want immortality?"

"I will fulfill your request."

Under the horrified gaze of the mixed-race president, one after another, terrifying venomous insects burrowed into his body. He could clearly feel their mouthparts tearing at his mouth, slicing through his esophagus, piercing his stomach, and then burrowing into his other internal organs, churning wildly.

Under this extreme pain, his body trembled violently. He had no way to express his pain, no way to resist, and even his vocal cords were bitten to pieces. He could only let everything happen and silently endure it.

Even Lee Ryder felt a chill run down his spine upon witnessing such a torture-like process.

The mixed-race president's pupils trembled violently.

With a crisp crack, five poisonous insects pierced through his limbs and head, instantly tearing the hybrid guild leader's body into several pieces, scalding blood splattering all over the ground!

Chen Ling simply watched this scene calmly until the entire underground space fell into dead silence.

Chen Ling had killed many people, but this was the first time he had killed someone in such a brutal way... He wasn't doing it to vent his anger, but for Su Zhiwei, for Yao Qing, for those pioneers in the mortal realm who once said, "May the tower we build restore the glory of mankind," and for everyone who struggled to find a way for humanity to survive in both worlds.

Therefore, Chen Ling would never let him off easily. After the mixed-race president had died, he slowly opened a large red paper umbrella...

The bewildered ghost, having just flown out of the mixed-blood president's body, was forcibly pulled into the red paper umbrella. Immediately afterwards, a terrible wail rang out from inside the umbrella!

This large red paper umbrella, besides being a haven for ghosts, also has the special power to torment them. The former Calamity King used this inhumane method to strike fear into the hearts of all living beings… Now, the half-blood president will become a regular guest here. Experience pain and despair in endless torment.

This was the "immortality" that Chen Ling had prepared for him.

At this point, apart from Chen Ling and Li Lai De, there were no survivors in the entire Imperial Observatory. The Alchemy Society's more than three hundred years of history had been reduced to ashes with a single breath from Chen Ling.

In the deathly still pool of blood, Chen Ling slowly turned around, her ruby-like eyes looking at Li Leide.

"...Do you understand?" he asked calmly.

Lee Ryder paused, pondered for a moment, and then nodded:

"I understand a little bit."

"Tell me."

"The Imperial Observatory is ostensibly the Imperial Observatory of the Chengtian Dynasty, but it's actually an organization disguised as something called the 'Alchemy Society'," Li Laid replied methodically, carefully organizing the information he had gathered along the way.

"You've come to cause them trouble not only because they attacked Li Shangfeng, but also because before the Great Cataclysm, they detonated a nuclear weapon at the Red Dust Base... causing very serious consequences."

Chen Ling nodded slightly, and was about to speak when Li Leide, completely absorbed in his reasoning, continued:

"But what's strange is that what you just mentioned wasn't the eight bases... but the nine bases."

“According to what that guild leader just said, you should have existed before the Great Cataclysm, so you couldn’t possibly have made such a basic mistake… Besides, you mentioned the ‘Eight Lords’ before… There’s another thing that I’m a bit confused about, which is that you mentioned ‘two worlds’ both this time and last time…”

"So, you may not belong to our world... but come from another world that is extremely similar to this one... You also mentioned 'reboot,' which suggests that the two worlds are not parallel, but rather... a successor?"

"Your world disappeared for some reason, so you restarted it, and that's how the world we have now came to be?"

"No wonder you're so strong, yet you've never appeared before, it's like you just popped out of nowhere..."

Looking at Li Laide, who was deep in thought, Chen Ling couldn't hide the surprise in her eyes.

Chen Ling hadn't answered Li Lai De's questions before because he wanted Li Lai De to see and hear for himself whether he could piece together the whole story from the fragmented information... He thought Li Lai De could just deduce his connection with the Alchemy Society, but he never expected that the other party would guess most of the truth about the world.

“…Very good.” Chen Ling rarely praised him. “You are smarter than I imagined.”

"So, does this mean you've completed your test?" Li Lai De asked immediately. "Will there be any reward, like last time?"

"What do you want in return?" Chen Ling paused for a moment. "Let's make this clear first, freedom is out of the question... So, intelligence, or gold bars?"

After a long silence, Lee Laid finally made up his mind and spoke in a deep voice:

"I want to join you, to join... the Twilight Society."

When Li Laide first asked Chen Ling who he was, Chen Ling mentioned that he was the sixth Red King of the Twilight Society. From this perspective, the Twilight Society is the organization behind Chen Ling and the key to restarting the world.

Chen Ling was stunned.

He looked into Lee Ryder's eyes and found an unprecedented seriousness in those deep blue eyes... He frowned, lowered his head, and pondered for a long time...

Then, he gave an answer that Lee Layde didn't expect:

"No."