Chapter 128 Invitation Altar - Lamp!

Du Yu looked at the two people standing there performing with a strange expression.

After the last incident, Bian Shaoyan only retained his original head; his body had been completely replaced with a cyborg-like form. The special crystal looked fragile, as if it would shatter at the slightest touch, but in reality, it was a hundred times harder than the latest hard alloy developed in the laboratory. If it weren't for cost, it could easily be used to make weapons.

Gu Tu was so clingy and careful in supporting Bian Shaoyan, was she afraid that he might accidentally fall and make a hole in the ground?

Gu Tu was quite an extraordinary woman. Her fiancé had become such a grotesque figure, yet her attitude remained completely unchanged. She could still approach him and act coquettishly without any reservations. In a sense, this unchanging attitude was even more chilling than a drastic change in attitude.

Thinking of their unchanging attitude, Du Yu suddenly frowned. Bian Shaoyan and Gu Tu's clumsy and completely inconsiderate behavior here made people feel a sense of unease.

It's like watching two living people being manipulated by strings, suspended in mid-air performing a farce. Unless you have an inhuman personality, probably no one can resist feeling nauseous watching this.

Bian Shaoyan and Gu Tu naturally had no strings attached to them, but the "character settings" in the original work were like invisible puppet strings that manipulated the puppets, making the two ignore any external circumstances and follow the framework given by the character settings perfectly...

It fits the character's established framework perfectly...

Inspiration swept through his mind like lightning, and Du Yu inexplicably shivered.

Ruins, a severely injured male protagonist, a female protagonist who stays by his side, a villainous supporting character who watches from the sidelines and puts the two in such a predicament, a spatial invasion that inexplicably appears in the city-state... Ignoring all the mismatched details and only extracting the main elements, the scene in front of us actually matches the penultimate major event in the original novel, "Love in the Fallen City," perfectly!

Romance novels often end with "In the end, the two overcame all difficulties and lived happily ever after," and the extremely melodramatic novel "The Real and Fake Heiress: The President's Imprisoned Love 99 Times" is no exception.

Of course, before the sweet and happy ending arrives, there will naturally be some earth-shattering twists and turns. The "love in the fallen city" incident is the last and most dangerous obstacle preventing the male and female protagonists from being together.

Du Yu remembered the "fallen city" incident very clearly, not only because she had a good memory, but also because the incident was utterly inexplicable; the novel's author, Guanshuren, seemed to have suddenly lost his mind—

In this incident, the originally promising situation—where all misunderstandings were cleared up, all the brainless male and female supporting characters were dealt with, the two sides finally stopped fighting each other and signed a cooperation agreement, and the male and female leads were about to get together—suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse.

Without any foreshadowing, without any hints, and without any reasonable explanation, as abruptly as a seafood market opening in a deserted desert, a sudden gray fog appeared inexplicably in the upper city. After appearing, it expanded rapidly at a speed that caught everyone off guard, instantly engulfing most of the upper city and the entire lower city.

Compared to Lange Communications, whose building was swallowed up, Quark Pharmaceuticals is in a better position, having only lost a little over half of its assets. Furthermore, the demand for medicines in Sunrise City is expected to rise significantly, so Quark might be able to weather this crisis smoothly.

But the problem lies in the fact that only a small portion of the assets were lost.

The remaining forces in the Upper City didn't care much about the fact that their headquarters had been completely swallowed up, except for sending some free condolences and eulogies, since disaster relief wasn't their obligation.

As for the companies affected, it depends on which aspects were affected. As luck would have it, Quark's security department was almost completely wiped out, while its core R&D and marketing departments were almost intact. If Quark is not the fat sheep, then who is?

Although he successfully escaped under the cover of his loyal subordinates and reunited with the female lead Gu Tu, he was stranded in the ruins, struggling to find food and clean water, and constantly having to evade pursuit. It was arguably the most miserable time in Bian Shaoyan's life.

It was during this period that Bian Shaoyan, whose mouth was harder than a android's heart, finally realized his feelings for Gu Tu and made a promise to stay with her for life amidst exile and ruins.

A surge of emotions welled up in her chest. Du Yu pursed her lips, a hint of melancholy in her eyes. Even though the plot had become unrecognizable due to her interference and various butterfly effects, the world stubbornly continued to correct the plot, forcing the two of them to force themselves to complete it in a comical state.

Although "The Real and Fake Heiress: The President's Imprisoned Love 99 Times" is melodramatic and heart-wrenching, it is a happy ending novel. Even the city that was captured in the "City of Fall" chapter was restored to its original state by the heroine's sudden burst of superpowers. But what would happen to the world if the novel were left to its ending?

Du's furrowed brows deepened. She couldn't answer the question, but just from the countless times she felt like an old woman using her cell phone on the subway while reading the novel, she knew that the plot written by the reader was probably not what she liked.

Moreover... even a marginal character in the original story could vaguely sense that she was being manipulated and subtly resist. As the center of the novel's plot vortex, did Gu Tu really not notice anything amiss at all?

Whether it's not true or they discovered it but pretended not to, it's not good news for Du Yu.

Never mind.

Du Yu clenched her fists, then loosened them and moved her fingers, repeating this several times until her furrowed brows finally relaxed. No matter how complex or abstract the facts were, she only needed to follow one principle in her actions—whatever the enemy tried their best to achieve, she would do her best to destroy.

Watching the two walk in, whether flirting or harboring ulterior motives, and then enter the temporary encampment after talking with the patrolling sheriff, Du Yu glanced once more at the slowly expanding building complex before leaving.

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Wow, that's amazing!

Tian Yinuo looked up at the temple, which had completely changed its appearance, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Behind her, Xiao Yi was chewing on the fallen brethren's dried meat without much concern, but when she heard Tian Yinuo's cheer, she raised her hand and clapped a few times in support.

"Coo coo".

A six-winged white dove fluttered past, its scarlet eyes giving a disdainful look to the astonished fools and the gluttonous idiots below. It landed atop the highest building of the temple, surveyed the area, and nodded in satisfaction. Not bad, it finally possessed even a fraction of its former glory…

"Gurgle!"

"Meow!"

The nine-tailed cat screamed in despair, clutching a handful of feathers as it plummeted to the ground. The moment it hit the ground, it turned into a puff of black smoke, from which a black cat emerged and elegantly licked its front paw.

Even those who don't understand cat language can see a hint of despair on that furry cat's face.

166 charged down in anger, flapping its wings and relentlessly hammering the black cat's head. The nine-tailed cat initially hissed and tried to fight back, but it was quickly overwhelmed by the intense onslaught and lay down, paws on its head, letting itself be hammered.

Once the opponent gives up, the beating loses its meaning.

166 stood listlessly atop the black cat's head, glaring angrily at the woman leaning casually against the wall with her arms outstretched below her chest and a smile on her face.

"166, beating up your teammates is not a good thing."

The mild accusation came, and 166 rolled its eyes very obviously, slamming heavily on the woman's shoulder. Don't think it didn't know; without Du Yu's help, how could that stupid, degenerate creature have touched it so quietly?

"Okay, don't be angry."

The kinetic energy of that pigeon's charge was probably measured in tons, yet Du Yu's shoulders didn't even sway. Amused, he stroked the pigeon's ruffled feathers and, unsurprisingly, found that the feathers that had just been pulled out had grown back.

"Don't you want to see the changes in our new home?"

Although he spent more and more time in the redwood church, Du Yu still preferred the feeling of being in the temple, which gave him a rare sense of security and relaxation in this world full of mystery and pain.

Currently, apart from Tian Yinuo and Xiao Yi, no one else is allowed to enter. Those of higher status among the believers can vaguely guess that they have other rest areas, but Du Yu is not considering allowing more people into the temple—at least not now.

"Gurgle."

166 rolled her eyes dramatically, her head practically reaching for the sky. "It's just a temple of the same level as the [Altar Lamp], isn't it? It's nothing to be surprised about."

Despite having a panoramic map of the temple in her mind, Du Yu didn't expose the guy who had just flown around it. Instead, she used her feet as a ruler to remeasure her temple.

The temple's architectural style remained unchanged, still possessing a simple yet elegant aesthetic. However, with the upgrade to the [Lamp], the temple's area had expanded several times over. Standing on the best bell tower and looking down, the white-gray buildings resembled mushrooms after the rain, clustered together intimately, stretching as far as the eye could see.

With the temple extending as its boundary, Duyu's divine kingdom now finally resembles a country in terms of area.

Du Yu rested her chin on her hand and looked around for a while. Suddenly, she felt that the vast temple seemed a bit empty with only a few of them there. She raised her hand and snapped her fingers, and purple flames flashed in mid-air for a second.

Splash!

It was as if an invisible wind was blowing across the desolate land. In an instant, grass, flowers, birds, wild cats and dogs... all kinds of plants and animals came out of the void and ran happily through the streets, looking for a place to settle down.

Du Yu couldn't help but laugh as he watched a calico fat cat being repeatedly defeated by a cactus.

166 squatted down next to her, unusually not finding fault, and after a moment of silence, spoke: "Why did you bring in more humans?"

Du Yu looked down at Tian Yinuo, who was excitedly picking up the puppy, and smiled: "Some people are still waiting for me to personally send them invitations."

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Author's Note: Dudu: God said, "Let there be furry things," and so there were furry things in God's kingdom. [Sunglasses]