Strange Rules: It doesn't matter, the system will take care of it.

"My lord, your house is on fire!"

In response to Jia Xu's call.

Chen Feng jolted awake from his reverie.

A series of crackling sounds filled the air, accompanied by a burning smell. Chen Feng looked around and sighed, "So that's what burned."

Although Chen Feng's body, now at the Foundation Establishment stage, is no longer afraid of the Holy Flame, being constantly burned is still not a good thing.

So he recited: "I will not compete for opportunities or be the first; I will not leave the mountain until everything is perfect."

The Xuanwu Longevity Technique's supernatural power: Turtle Breathing Technique.

The curse is lifted by faking death, and then the primordial spirit is manipulated to forget the memory of the sacred words.

After the flames on his body died down, Chen Feng fell into deep thought: "I always thought this was my first time in Cihang City, but I never expected that I was actually a second-time player."

Currently available information includes:

Chen Feng, who played the first timeline, also known as Zero, came with a complete save and load system, just like his predecessors.

Not all veterans failed at Happiness Internet Cafe; some veterans cleared the beginner village but died elsewhere.

After the previous time traveler dies, time will reset to the entrance of the Happiness Internet Cafe in July, waiting for the next time traveler to arrive.

"Why that specific time? Is there some secret about Happiness Internet Cafe that I don't know about, or did something important happen at that time?"

Since the system rewards are retained with each reset, it can be deduced that the system is not affected by time resets. This caused the predecessor's system to be lost in the streets and alleys of Cihang City. Fortunately, Zero collected them all and placed them on the third floor of Happiness Internet Cafe.

By modifying the save file, Zero left a way to sabotage the second save file, thus helping himself evade the hounds' pursuit in his second playthrough.

Finally, Zero must have encountered some major upheaval, which forced him to reset his abilities, points, system, power, and even the save/load system was damaged to version 1.0.

"Was it done by a hunting dog?"

"Or have Zero and Cihang clashed?"

There are too many complicated questions to ponder here; we'll just have to wait for the next upgrade to the save/load system to uncover the answers.

Chen Feng led Jia Xu away from the underground city: "So much time has passed, I wonder how the Great Demon and Cihang are doing."

With a loud bang, the manhole cover was lifted.

When Chen Feng peeked out, he saw that the sky was pitch black, with no sunlight visible.

That doesn't make sense.

If it weren't for the streetlights nearby, Chen Feng would have thought they were still underground: "When we went underground, it was only noon, and the fight only took less than an hour. How come it's dark now?"

At this moment, Old Wolf and Erha, who had left earlier, along with She Qingqing and the trio who had been called there, had been waiting for a long time next to the manhole cover.

The fat man exclaimed, "My God, Brother Feng, you've finally made it up! It's the end of the world!"

What nonsense is this?

Chen Feng learned from his inquiry that during the time he went down there, the sun suddenly fell from the sky and created a fire pit in the suburbs.

It must be the artificial sun that the Empress Dowager and the others created that fell down.

Chen Feng knew from the beginning that Cihang City was within a barrier, so the weather was fake, and the sun, stars, and moon were also fake.

"I didn't expect the Empress Dowager's death to have such a huge impact. Now, the lord and the great demon probably won't be able to cover it up anymore."

At this moment, Huang Mao couldn't help but ask, "Brother Feng, did you guess that this would happen, which is why you called us out?"

Of course not.

The reason Chen Feng had Lao Lang leave early was to call out the trio and She Qingqing.

It was to prevent seeing the two people at the Happiness Internet Cafe.

One is called the Great Demon, and the other is called the Lord.

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At this moment, I am standing at the entrance of Xingfu Internet Cafe.

The fiery demon and the savior were indeed blocking the door.

The savior circled around: "My lord, is what that three-eyed woman said credible? Is the time traveler really here?"

The great demon nodded: "That's right! That's right! I just found immortal herbs on the balcony, and also an alchemy furnace inside. The transmigrator must be living here, but he's smarter than I thought. He probably guessed that Cihang would betray him and ran away in advance."

The savior praised, "That's quite cautious."

The great demon glanced at the savior and thought, "What kind of caution is this? If it were the old you, you would not only have run away, but you would have even left a bomb or some kind of explosive tag behind you."

At this time.

A void portal appeared at the entrance of Happiness Internet Cafe; the Demon Lord had arrived.

It glanced at the dark sky, then at the great demon, and said uncertainly, "I just had a meeting, and Cihang City has become like this? And what's with this new look? If I didn't look closely, I would have thought you were a fire elemental."

The great demon warned, "Don't touch it! Don't touch it! This is Samadhi True Fire; once you get in touch with it, you'll be in trouble."

The lord quickly took two steps back: "What on earth is going on?"

The savior cut to the chase: "My lord, Ox-Faced and Ghost King have been corrupted by Cihang, and my mother has been killed by the transmigrator."

"What?"

The lord was dumbfounded.

The defection of the ox-faced monk means that Cihang will soon gain a large number of believers and regain the power of faith.

As Cihang's power grew stronger, the seal also lost the human sacrifices supplied by the Ghost King and the Queen Mother.

Wouldn't that mean everything is ruined?

The lord sighed, "Cihang has arrived; yet another universe is about to fall."

The great demon snorted: "Not so! Not so! Lord, you should have alien insectoids on your side, right? Capture a queen insect, then I'll use pills to feed a Nascent Soul cultivator to kill him, making him the Ghost King. Wouldn't that keep things running smoothly again?"

The lord thought the great demon was crying in desperation: "So how do you plan to cover this gap?"

The great demon said it could weaken the barrier of Cihang City and let some ghostly things from outside in: "As long as I maintain the barrier of Cihang with all my might, she won't be able to get out."

That's wishful thinking!

The lord said, "I'm different from the boss. He's very stubborn. Even if the plan fails, he'll insist that the failure was part of the plan. But for me, failure is failure, and there's nothing to be ashamed of in admitting it."

"We've already lost, it's time to run. Come on, let's go to the medieval or interstellar dimension."

Faced with the invitation, the great demon shook his head and refused, saying, "No, no, there is no spiritual energy in your two worlds."

The lord pondered, "I remember there was aura in the East of the Middle Ages."

The great demon still disagreed: "I was born a person of this universe, and I will die a dead person of this universe."

That meant they were truly going to die together.

The lord warned, "You're gambling with your life, you gambler!"

The great demon warned, "Naive! Naive! We've done so much to Cihang, do you really think you can escape?"

With a powerful backer, the lord remained calm: "I have a boss, a god from the multiverse, who's afraid of whom?"

The great demon laughed, "What a joke! As far as I know, your god can only influence two universes, barely reaching the threshold of the multiverse level. You are no match for a god like Cihang, whose followers are distributed across more than a dozen universes."

The lord's face darkened. "So what exactly do you want?"

The great demon said that since quantity couldn't keep up, they should focus on quality, forcing the citizens of Cihang to become stronger by releasing all the monsters.

"Each of these Cihang citizens has reincarnated countless times and will surely become a top-tier powerhouse. When that happens, they only need to consume one of them to become stronger than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of ordinary people."

Is the barrier maintained by reaping the strength of the powerful?

That's a good idea.

but.

The lord looked at the savior and said, "We've been suppressing him, and yet a guy like him still emerged. If we don't suppress him, you know what kind of monster we'll raise. Aren't you afraid of dying?"

The great demon straightened his chest: "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid! If I die, I'll tell my opponent the truth and make him use my blood to seal it away. No matter what, I can't watch my homeland be destroyed."

Okay, you've got guts.

The lord's gaze was complicated: "Alright, for the sake of our thousands of years of friendship, I'll help you one last time. The Savior is yours, and so is PEACD."

The era of large-scale Gu breeding in Cihang City is about to begin.