In the instant Chen Ke bent over, everything shifted, and when he straightened up again, it was no longer that dark, muddy alleyway.

Looking at the skyscrapers and bustling traffic in front of him, Chen Ke's face darkened. "System, what's going on?"

"Master, an intrusion virus has been detected! An intrusion virus has been detected!" The system's mechanical voice was filled with panic.

Chen Ke frowned slightly and immediately commanded the system, "Start the virus removal program!"

"Virus cleanup process has been initiated."

"Master... what do we do now? The virus invasion has caused time travel chaos, and we've suddenly been transported to the 21st century..."

What could Chen Ken do? Just thinking about Chen Zhuo's sinister threat in his ear a second before he disappeared gave him a headache!

How long does it take to clean up the virus?

"This virus isn't a common interstellar virus, so it'll probably take a while," the system said weakly, feeling extremely guilty and remorseful. If it hadn't been so useless and failed to prevent the virus from invading, its master's mission wouldn't have become so difficult.

How long exactly will it take?

"Probably...maybe...estimated three days." The system's voice grew weaker and weaker. After speaking, it looked at Chen Ke and his eyes visibly turned cold, so it quickly promised, "I will definitely work day and night to investigate and clean up the virus, and do my best to shorten the time!"

"Alright, use the soul liquid if you need it." Chen Ke sighed inwardly, knowing that there was no way to force the system now. What all the mission takers bound to the system feared most was the interstellar virus. Once the virus invaded and the system could not check and clean it up, not only the system but also the bound host would perish in the end.

"Received, Master!"

After the system cleaned up the virus, Chen Ke began to look around at his surroundings. The system had just said that he had arrived in the 21st century, but whether this 21st century was a continuation of Chen Zhuo's history or a parallel universe was something Chen Ke needed to investigate himself.

"This is absolutely outrageous! Japan's actions are utterly appalling!"

"Yeah, how are we going to eat seafood in the future?"

"Still eating seafood? Hahaha, do you think ocean pollution is just the ocean being polluted? The water cycle will pollute the land as well. On that day, it will be difficult for us to eat pollution-free fruits and vegetables."

"That's disgusting!"

"They are simply criminals on Earth!"

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Chen Ke looked at the group of people walking by with a puzzled expression. They were discussing something in a heated tone with disgusted expressions.

Marine pollution, crime, Japan...

Disgust welled up in Chen Ke's eyes. Heh, the word "Japan" can be accepted when separated, but when put together, it's disgusting no matter the era.

Because he was suddenly transported to this place, and the system was busy cleaning up the virus and couldn't create an identity for him, Chen Ke was essentially an unregistered person. Fortunately, he still had a few pieces of gold in his storage space...

Chen Ke entered the gold shop penniless, and came out rolling in money.

Indeed, gold has always been a universal currency, regardless of the era.

Money makes the world go round. Chen Ke got a temporary ID card in less than an hour, then went to an internet cafe to learn about the world.

As Chen Ke sat in the VIP booth and turned on his computer, he was still somewhat amazed. This was the first time he had ever experienced the novelty of going to an internet cafe. After all, in the past, if he wanted to know something, he could just tell the system what he needed.

Now, all I can do is obediently turn on the computer...

"Shocking! Japan has decided to discharge nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea despite opposition from many countries."

"Japan has decided to carry out the discharge into the sea on August 24."

"Japan officially launched its ocean discharge operation today. Here's a live report from our reporter."

As soon as he turned on his computer, the pop-up news window made Chen Ke instantly understand what those passersby were angry about.

Chen Ke clicked on the news to see what had happened.

"Twelve years ago, Japan was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, which triggered a tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion and the release of radioactive materials... Japan's ocean discharge operation will continue 24 hours a day for the next 30 years!"

Below the news article are netizens' indignant condemnations:

"Japan is committing a crime against the Earth! They will one day reap what they sow!"

"The Earth can lose an island nation, but it cannot be without oceans!"

"They are harming themselves and others!"

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Looking at the angry but powerless voices, Chen Ke remained calm, but a storm was brewing in his eyes.

"Hey bro, you're also following the Japanese ocean reclamation incident?" At this moment, a young man with white-dyed hair glanced at the screen as he passed behind Chen Ke and came over to ask.

Chen Ke concealed his emotions and nodded slightly.

"Hehe, that's true. Nobody doesn't care about this these days, but there are still few people who come to internet cafes specifically to read this news."

"But buddy, don't you get angry watching this all by yourself? You won't feel better unless you swear a little."

The young man with white hair seemed to be a very outgoing person, constantly talking and saying one sentence after another.

"Hey, let me tell you, I have a group where everyone's a master at denouncing the Japanese. Want to join and vent your frustrations?"

Chen Ke never imagined that in this day and age there would even be groups specifically for criticizing the Japanese...

Seeing that Chen Ke remained silent and unresponsive, the young man kindly advised, "Handsome guy, let me tell you, you need to find a place to vent your anger to feel better. Otherwise, if you keep it bottled up, people will just keep venting, and you'll get sick from anger. That would be a loss."

"Hey, look at you still hesitating. Here, I'll give you the group number. You can choose whether to join or not. I'm in a hurry to go to the bathroom, so I'm leaving." Before leaving, the young man lowered his voice and said, "Let me tell you, there are hacking masters in there. They can hack into the Japanese network. Then we'll translate all those insults into Japanese and broadcast them on their TVs!"

Chen Ke: ······

What started as a real, physical fight has now devolved into an online insult exchange?

However, it's not entirely impossible...

So Chen Ke created an account and joined the group.

"Mr. Republic of China" joined the group chat.

There were many messages in the group, and Chen Ke's joining was inconspicuous. It was only when the group owner posted a message welcoming the newcomer that it caught everyone's attention.

"Mr. Republic of China? Who invited him?"

"This is a confidential group. You can't just join casually. It would be terrible if our secret plot were discovered!"

"Give me the password, give me the password."

"Kick him without saying a word? Could he be an enemy spy?"

Chen Ke stared into thought as he looked at the group messages and the list of famous officials at the top that read "The Vanguard Army to Annihilate Japan".

“Mr. Republic of China, do you have any secret signals? If you don’t speak, I’ll kick you.”

Chen Ke was about to type that he might have joined the wrong group when the administrator "Anti-Japanese Fenzi" spoke up.

"Don't kick me! The person I'm inviting is one of our own. He was so engrossed in watching the news about the Japanese tsunami protests at the internet cafe, I could feel the murderous intent in his eyes! He's one of our own!"