"Um?"

Seeing the girl in front of them suddenly fall down and faint, the gangsters were also stunned, but they soon came to their senses and approached Shiba Miyuki with a smile.

"It seems that this Japanese woman is really fragile. I didn't expect that she would fail like this."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and get her done quickly. Then we can make a video and post it online to show those bastards how their women were ruined by us!"

As they were talking, the gangsters came over and reached out to grab Shiba Miyuki's clothes. At this moment, suddenly, the man who was in the lead and grabbed Shiba Miyuki's clothes was instantly disintegrated, leaving only the clothes scattered on the ground.

"Why?"

Seeing this scene, the gangsters were stunned for a moment, but at this moment, they heard Shiba Tatsuya's murderous voice coming from behind them.

"Let her go!"

Everyone turned around and saw Tatsuya Shiba running over from the other side of the alley. At this moment, he had completely lost his usual laziness of just eating and waiting to die. His face was ashen and his eyes were burning with rage. Looking at his sister lying on the ground and the group of hooligans surrounding her, Tatsuya Shiba reached out his hand without hesitation, pulled out a gun-shaped CAD from his arms and pulled the trigger.

Soon, the bodies of the gangsters were quickly decomposed and completely disappeared into the air. Seeing this scene, the others screamed and retreated in fear, but Shibata obviously would not let them go. After killing several "culprits", Shibata went straight forward and knocked the other gangsters to the ground - for a special forces king, this was obviously a very simple thing.

After knocking down the hooligans in a few moves, Tatsuya Shiba hurried back to Shiba Miyuki and shook her hard.

"Miyuki, wake up, Miyuki!"

Shiba Tatsuya didn't know what happened to Shiba Miyuki, but from her current condition, it could be seen that she seemed to have been severely damaged. So Shiba Tatsuya did not hesitate to reach out his hand and put it on Shiba Miyuki's body. Soon, the light of magic began to emerge on the girl.

This is Shiba Tatsuya's magic - decomposition and reorganization. He can read the information on any object and overwrite it. Unlike ordinary wound healing, this is an operation that reads the information before the object is damaged, copies it, and then overwrites it.

To put it simply, it is just like the DLL file in the system is damaged, and then a healthy one is copied to overwrite it to repair the system.

However, this is a heavy burden for Shiba Tatsuya himself, because it means that as a "reading port", he will relive the pain suffered by the other party. Of course, if it is an inorganic object, there is no need to worry, but if it is a living thing, the pain will be transmitted to Shiba Tatsuya. Not only that, because the information will be highly compressed, the pain he has to experience is even dozens of times that of the original.

However, this time, the situation was far beyond Shiba Tatsuya's expectations.

When he "read" the information about Shiba Miyuki's injury, an unimaginable pain that almost tore through his body suddenly pierced through Shiba Tatsuya's body. It was a pain that a man would never experience in his lifetime. However, at this moment, this pain was increased dozens of times and directly pierced through Shiba Tatsuya's nerves.

This is!?

However, at this moment, a little gangster who was kicked away by Shiba Tatsuya climbed up, raised the gun in his hand and aimed at Shiba Tatsuya.

"You, you monster! Go to hell!"

While roaring, the gangster pulled the trigger.

The bullet flew out, spinning towards Shiba Tatsuya's head.

Under normal circumstances, this level of attack would not be able to harm Shiba Tatsuya at all, as his strength was enough to dissolve any threat. However, this time, various coincidences suddenly appeared.

Shiba Tatsuya was stunned because of the pain that he could not have predicted or imagined. At the same time, the bullet was fired, which slowed his reaction. And because he was still treating Shiba Miyuki, he had no time to react. But for Shiba Tatsuya, it only took a moment to treat his sister. With the speed of the opponent's bullet, he could have counterattacked while treating Shiba Miyuki.

However... at this moment, an accident occurred.

The bullet that had just been fired from the muzzle suddenly appeared in front of Tatsuya Shiba as if it had moved instantly, and rushed into Tatsuya Shiba's head while spinning. The huge shock wave directly blew open his skull, and blood, brain matter and skull fragments flew down. Then Tatsuya Shiba's body fell backwards and lay on the ground.

At this moment, an invisible whirlwind suddenly erupted, and at the same time, time stopped flowing again.

“——!!!!”

Even though the flow of time was frozen, the whirlwind emerging from Shiba Tatsuya's body still shot out violently. At this moment, Fang Zheng suddenly appeared, holding a pitch-black sword in his hand with a blazing flame, and stabbed at the storm in front of him.

This is his goal! White Frost!!

"call--!!!"

Ice, heat, thunder, strong winds, countless natural phenomena broke free from the constraints of time at this moment and began to spread in all directions. In any case, this is also a civilization weapon created by the Order Clan. Even if it has been contaminated by Chaos, it should not be underestimated.

But fortunately, it has now lost the support of the world and is no longer the protagonist of this world.

The pitch-black sword burning with the First Fire cut through the violent wind, rainstorm, lightning, and raging waves of fire, and pierced directly through the center. In the blink of an eye, the First Fire burst out with a blazing flame, rushing straight into the sky. The bright red flames swirled and swallowed up everything that the white frost burst out, and it completely melted into the flames along with itself.

Fang Zheng drew out his greatsword, and the raging flames disappeared instantly.

At the same time, floating in front of him was a transparent, crystal-like cube. Its center had been pierced, leaving a crack. Through the crack, one could see an illusion like a starry sea and universe emerging from the inside of the cube.

"This is the real body, right?"

Fang Zheng frowned and stared at the square in front of him carefully. But what puzzled him was that he could not feel the power of chaos on it at all. Just now when the bright frost erupted, Fang Zheng could still feel the aura of chaos mixed in it, but after being burned by the first fire, the aura of chaos completely disappeared, leaving only this thing...

But what exactly is this?

Fang Zheng did not think that his First Fire had the ability to purify. First Fire was a flame that burned everything and turned it into firewood. No matter what it was, even a world or a universe, it would be burned to ashes, leaving nothing behind. However, this thing could actually survive the burning of the First Fire, which really surprised Fang Zheng.

What the hell is this?

Facing such a thing, Fang Zheng did not dare to attack casually. He first kept a safe distance from the cube, and then quickly contacted the Goddess of Order. He told her about his situation, and after hearing Fang Zheng's explanation, the Goddess of Order was quite shocked.

"Are you sure? Is this really the case?"

"Yes, what on earth is this?"

"This is a star seed... I didn't expect someone would use this thing as a civilization catalytic generator..."

"Uh... I still don't understand. Could you please explain it to me? I'm an elementary school student."

Fang Zheng said that his knowledge of the Order Clan was still at the kindergarten level, and asked Aunt Goddess of Order to explain it in detail.

The Goddess of Order quickly calmed down and explained to Fang Zheng.

"I think you also know that the actions of the Order Clan towards the world are to observe, determine, and consolidate the concept of order."

"Yeah, I know, and then you guys got into trouble because you went to extremes."

“That’s not important.”

The Goddess of Order was obviously unhappy that Fang Zheng had exposed her scars, but she didn't care.

"Star seeds... how should I put it? They should be considered as something we observed."

“…??? I don’t quite understand what you mean. Are you saying… this thing wasn’t made by you?”

Hearing this, Fang Zheng distanced himself from that thing again.

"Strictly speaking, we don't know."

"???"

"The Order Clan is not a race born at the beginning of the universe, and we have never thought so. Of course, we have different opinions about the origin of the Order Clan. But this is what has been passed down in history. In short, if you insist, star seeds are a kind of 'man-made objects' observed by us, which is actually a bit like relics excavated from ancient ruins. It's just that 'star seeds' are not excavated from ancient ruins by us, but have been in the universe from the beginning."

"...Uh, I'm a little confused."

"According to records, the first to discover the 'star seed' was the exploration team of the Order Clan. They discovered the existence of the 'star seed' when they were observing a certain galaxy during the expansion period. This substance has a very strange property, that is, it only exists when you observe it, and it does not exist if you do not observe it. In fact, this was also the case at the time. According to records, when the observers of the Order Clan observed the existence of the 'star seed', information about it also appeared on our instruments, but when the observers looked away, all the information was completely erased and could not be read at all, as if nothing existed."

"Is that so?"

Fang Zheng tried to look away, and sure enough, after the strange cube disappeared from his sight, Fang Zheng could no longer sense its existence. You know, as a time dragon and a wizard, even without looking, Fang Zheng could determine the target's location through breath, magic, and time condensation. However, after Fang Zheng looked away, this thing immediately disappeared.

When Fang Zheng turned his head and returned to his original position, he saw this thing again. At the same time, he also "felt" the other party's existence.

"So this thing has nothing to do with you?"

“That’s not necessarily true.”

"What's the meaning?"

"We thought so at first, but surprisingly... Star Seeds would react to our Order Marking. This is a very strange phenomenon. We have also done experiments and found that other races are unable to activate Star Seeds. Only our Order Marking can react to Star Seeds. Therefore, there is also an argument that Star Seeds were actually created by the ancestors of the Order Clan, so they react to the Order Marking."

Having said that, the Goddess of Order spread out her hands.

"But I don't know the details. After all, this is not my research direction."

"So what's the use of this thing?"

Fang Zheng naturally wouldn't think about things that even the Order Clan couldn't figure out, as he wasn't an archaeologist.

"safe."

“…Meow meow meow?”

"There is a treasure hidden in each star seed. Some are knowledge, and some are various props. So in our opinion, this is more like a safe for storing treasures."

"Really? Is there anything interesting in there?"

Fang Zheng said, "If you talk about treasure, then I won't be sleepy anymore!"

"But each star seed contains a microcosmic universe, and it is not easy to explore treasures in it. But I remember that there are quite a few people in the Order Clan who specifically buy these star seeds and then open them to try to find treasures. Some people have indeed obtained quite unique treasures."

"Okay, then it should be okay for me to take this thing back."

"Of course, if you can't sense the breath of Chaos, then Chaos should have been destroyed. As for the Star Seed... My personal opinion is that you'd better keep it. Although I'm not sure, but... this thing may be able to avoid the invasion of the Chaos Wave."

"Oh? Really?"

"Yes, you should remember that the characteristic of star seeds is that they only exist when they are observed, but chaos itself does not have the ability to be observed, so I think if I hide in it, I may be able to avoid the attack of the chaos waves... Of course, this is just a hypothesis, and I have not conducted any experiments."

"It's enough to just imagine!"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng immediately perked up. Why was he running around so much now? Wasn't it just to protect his own world before the chaos arrived? If this thing was as useful as the Goddess of Order said, then Fang Zheng would have an invincible base that could resist chaos. When the time came, he could just move the Heavenly Dao Palace inside. Even if the chaos outside erupted again, he would just need to get in here and everything would be fine, right?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng immediately turned his head to stare at the star seed in front of him, then he raised his right hand, and soon, the light of the order imprint emerged. At the same time, the strange square body seemed to be attracted by something and quickly reorganized, then turned into a small cube and flew into Fang Zheng's hand.

"...From the outside, it looks no different from an ordinary cube."

Fang Zheng took a closer look. Indeed, from the outside, this thing felt like an unpainted Rubik's Cube. It looked plain and ordinary, nothing special. The crack that Fang Zheng had pierced with his sword before was also gone. It was unknown whether it had been automatically repaired or "no longer existed".

Forget it, I’ll study it carefully when I get back.

Fang Zheng turned his head and glanced around. Although time was still stopped, the surroundings were almost completely destroyed because of the conflict between him and Bai Shuang. Only Shiba Miyuki was still lying there, motionless.

"Well...I'm sorry, but I'll leave it to you from now on."

As the words fell, time began to flow again.

“…”

Shiba Miyuki slowly opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was Shiba Tatsuya's hand on her body.

"Brother!"

Shiba Miyuki hurriedly sat up and looked at her brother, then she was completely stunned.

Beside her, Shibata had also fallen to the ground, with the part above his nose completely gone, leaving only half of his head, blood and brain matter scattered all over the ground. The original high-rise buildings, skyscrapers and various structures around him were nowhere to be found, leaving only a huge pit several thousand meters across, as if it was caused by some kind of explosion.

"No, no, don't..."

But all this was not what Shiba Miyuki considered. She just stared at Shiba Tatsuya blankly, reached out her hand, and stroked his cheek with trembling hands.

“No, Brother, why, no… no…!!!”

Along with Shiba Miyuki's heart-wrenching screams, a howling icy blizzard broke out in all directions, covering everything.