Sensing Xuan Ming's breath, Zhuang Li immediately came out of the space and fell directly into Xuan Ming's already open arms.
"I'll take you to see where I was born." Xuan Ming hugged the warm body tightly, and the bloodshot in his eyes finally completely dissipated.
"Okay!" Zhuang Li's eyes lit up slightly.
"Don't follow me, I'll call you when we get back." Xuan Ming waved at Huangmao and Xiaodao.
The two light bulbs immediately stopped moving.
"It's here." Xuan Ming climbed up a rocky mountain with Zhuang Li on his back and pointed to a huge sinkhole on the top of the mountain.
Zhuang Li: "..."
7480 complained: "The gods actually crawled out of the pit? This is too low-brow!"
Xuan Ming pinched the little devil's cheek and explained, "Billions of years ago, this was a heavenly pond. The water was as blue as the sky. Towering trees surrounded the water, casting shadowy reflections and raining down colorful flowers. Occasionally, I would be awakened by the gentle sound of leaves rubbing against each other. I would open my eyes and take in the world outside. The wilderness back then was truly beautiful."
Through his narration, Zhuang Li finally gets a glimpse of a distant, wild landscape. Clear water below, blue sky above, lush greenery and flowers surrounding him, a gentle breeze and the rustling of trees lingering in his ears—what a peaceful world it is!
But now, all the beautiful scenery has been destroyed, and there is only desolation and silence here.
It became a hotbed of killing and despair.
Zhuang Li secretly suppressed the hidden pain in his heart, held Xuan Ming's hand, and whispered: "It will definitely return to its former state." Kill the main god, take back the devoured energy and vitality, and even plunder the main god's power, and a better world can be nurtured.
Xuan Ming was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "What if I can't change back?"
He didn't say it explicitly, but he knew the little devil would understand what he meant. Failure to transform back would mean he had lost the final battle to the Lord God. His death would accelerate the world's path to destruction. Ultimately, no one could escape.
So, he had to find a way out for the little devil.
"Then let's treat this place as a cemetery." Zhuang Li pointed at the tiankeng and said in a light tone.
If Xuanming died, he would give up the opportunity to continue traveling through time and be buried here forever.
Xuan Ming frowned and was about to object when Zhuang Li stood on tiptoe and kissed his cold lips, murmuring, "Don't presumptuously try to find a way out for me. If you die, I'll be dead no matter where I go. You know me well. Without you tying a rope around me, I'll become another Lord God. Wherever I go, I'll bring disaster and destruction. So just consider it a good deed for the rest of the universe and leave me, a scourge, behind."
After saying that, he hugged his lover's waist tightly, buried his face in his chest, and hid his red eyes.
Hearing these words, Xuan Ming felt both distressed and amused.
His throat was severely blocked and he couldn't speak for a while. He could only kiss the person in his arms deeply.
7480 asked tearfully, "Master, you won't die, will you? You're Zhuang Li! Failure doesn't exist in Zhuang Li's dictionary."
"Yes, I won't die, but if anything unexpected happens, I will send you away." Zhuang Li sighed in his heart.
7480 burst into tears and gasped for breath.
Xuan Ming hugged Zhuang Li and sat by the tiankeng for a long time. They didn't say much, but just kept kissing each other. They kissed whenever they remembered each other, and then hugged silently for a while, gradually dispelling the uneasiness in their hearts.
It seemed that as long as they could stay together, no disaster was too great to face.
When night fell, the two summoned Xiaodao and Huangmao and returned to the surface world together.
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The next day, the players excitedly opened the task manager, only to find that the teleport button was not working and the channel to enter the game world could no longer be opened.
People kept asking about the situation on the world channel, but no one knew the reason. Someone even sent an SOS signal to Zhuang Li, asking him what to do.
He replied in unison: "I don't know the exact situation either. Why don't you all return to your original worlds and wait? We went too far yesterday. The Lord God is probably modifying the game world's settings to increase the difficulty. This closure may last a little longer."
Everyone was very convinced of him, so they all returned to their original world.
Only a few people guessed the truth and came to us.
"Mr. Zhuang, we are leaving. Thank you for your salvation." Yu Chuan bowed deeply.
The smoker standing behind him stepped forward, slammed the table hard, and demanded, "Explain to me why my system inexplicably added two test items, one called Black Heart Value and the other called Kind Heart Value.
"This must be your fucking trick! Yesterday, after I linked my task manager to the system, a hidden folder appeared inside the system, and these two things were stored in the folder. If I hadn't had the habit of regularly clearing my memory, I wouldn't have noticed it!"
She pointed at Zhuang Li's nose and said in a vicious tone: "Chuan'er also has this damn thing in his system. What on earth do you want to do?"
"Don't get excited. There must be a reason why Mr. Zhuang did this." Yu Chuan gently patted the smoker's shoulder with a gentle tone.
Zhuang Li leaned back in his chair and chuckled. "It's simple. I used the Task Manager to implant a virus into your system and added two new features. If you do something bad, your Black Heart Points will rise. When it reaches a certain level, the cards and cheat codes stored in your toolbar will be locked. Then you will lose your powers and become ordinary people.
"If you want to get cards and golden fingers, you can only do good deeds. Once you accumulate a certain amount of kindness, you can redeem a card or a golden finger and slowly restore your strength.
"If your Black Heart Points reach the red line I set, your system will self-destruct, killing you and the other hosts along with them. If you want to escape the danger of being killed, do good deeds and accumulate the maximum amount of Good Heart Points. The system will then return all your cards and cheat codes to you and automatically unbind you."
He spread his hands and shrugged. "Then you'll be completely free. You've plundered too much power from the dungeon. If you were to drift into another world, you'd be a ticking time bomb, enough to destroy human society. So I have to contain you. Do you understand?"
Smoker: "...Fuck, you're a fucking demon! Are you still responsible for saving the world?"
For some reason, hearing this explanation, her anger subsided. At the same time, she felt even more deeply that Zhuang Li was terrifyingly scheming. With just one small lie, he had everyone's life and death in his hands.
Who the hell could have thought of using the Task Manager to tamper with the system? Who the hell could have overturned the game world in just a few strokes? This was all planned by the Lord God! How could a mortal man compete with the gods?
But Zhuang Li can do it! While others only see immediate benefits, he has quietly reached the end. Even the gods can't stop him.
The more the smoker thought about it, the more horrified he became, but the more convinced he became, and his expression unconsciously softened.
Zhuang Li pointed at Xuan Ming who was sitting beside him and said, "Saving the world is my husband's dream, so it's also my dream."
Xuan Ming smiled solemnly, his eyes filled with happiness.
Yu Chuan had already guessed Zhuang Li's intention, so he sighed, "Your union with Mr. Xuanming is the luckiest thing in the world."
"Lucky bullshit! What's the difference between what he did and what the Lord God did? The Lord God uses the system to control us, and he uses the system to control us too! His heart is full of holes!" The smoker scratched his hair in frustration, then said tangledly, "Then won't I have to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures when I go back? Shit, this life is unbearable!"
Yu Chuan held her hand that was constantly scratching her head and said softly, "With me here, you don't have to be a vegetarian. There will be meat to eat. Let's go home."
heavy smoker:"……"
While she was stunned, Yu Chuan took her hand and slowly walked towards the sunshine outside.
After a long time, the smoker's voice, with a hint of excitement, could be vaguely heard from outside the door: "Chuan'er, were you just making dirty jokes to me? What do you mean by there's meat to eat? Explain it to me clearly! If you don't, I'll bite you!"
Yu Chuan answered her with a gentle, low laugh.
Zhuang Li leaned back in Xuan Ming's arms and sighed, "I want to eat meat too."
Xuan Ming kissed his cheek and chuckled softly.
---
On this day, people kept coming to say goodbye to Zhuang Li.
These people had a vague feeling that the game world would never be open again.
Zi Wei rushed into the fortune-telling parlor, sweating profusely, his voice trembling. "My master said you helped us destroy the game world, right? The fog is gone, completely dissipated! No more monsters will crawl out of the inner world, right?"
He walked slowly into the reception room and sat down with weak hands and feet.
He originally thought that there would never be sunshine in this world again, but today, the fog dissipated and the sunshine came out!
He stared at Zhuang Li eagerly, trying to hear the answer he most wanted to hear from him.
Zhuang Li nodded under his burning gaze, his voice brisk, "Yes, the game world has been destroyed. No more monsters will emerge from there. Everyone is safe. You, the Dragon Team, just need to use the cards in your hands to kill the monsters that escaped earlier."
Zi Wei collapsed in his chair, covered his face, and cried like a child. His extreme ecstasy made him express it in this way.
Zhuang Li and Xuan Ming left the reception room, leaving the quiet corner to him.
Zi Wei cried for a long time before he took out his phone and called Master Huoyun. He choked up and said, "Master, he admitted it. Your guess was right. He helped us destroy the game world."
True Man Huoyun nodded faintly, as if he was very calm, but behind him a large group of people burst into screams and cheers.
Zi Wei started crying again, but he couldn't stop laughing while crying.
When he left the fortune-telling hall, he looked back and murmured, "Master Zhuang is truly a master!"
At the same time, Zhuang Li used the magic circle on the back of his hand to recall the bottle demon that was foraging outside, then packed a pile of clothes and sighed, "Okay, we can go to the wilderness now."
Xiaodao and Huangmao were already ready to go.
Xuanming opened the star track and brought everyone into the wilderness in an instant.
The three palaces that originally stood on the endless wasteland have now collapsed into a pile of ruins. Vultures are circling above the ruins, and several taskers are searching among the broken tiles and rubble for treasures that have not been picked up by anyone.
Xuanming pulled Zhuang Li to his side and said to Xiaodao and Huangmao, "Go and inform all the team members to leave the wilderness as soon as possible. Go as far as you can and don't look back."
Xiaodao and Huangmao felt nervous and immediately asked, "Boss, why?"
"Because the Lord God is going to destroy the world." Zhuang Li pointed into the distance.
Xiaodao and Huangmao looked in the direction of his fingertips, and discovered that the dark clouds in the sky were actually pierced by a column of white light. Millions of purple lightning bolts fell from the dark sky to the ground, splitting the mountains and creating a vast sound.
The entire wasteland was shaking, as if crawling to welcome the arrival of the gods.
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