In the noisy casino, smoke lingers. The chips collide with each other, making a clattering sound, but the sound of human conversation can drown out the sound of money.

The lights were on in the room. The boss in a Tang suit leaned back in his chair, holding a long smoke gun between his two fingers, and his narrow eyes scanned the noise in the store.

This is his shop and his territory.

As long as he sits here, this place is the most impregnable fortress.

In this world, there are many low-level psychics, but very few mid-level psychics, and the number of high-level psychics can be counted on two hands.

As long as a superpower reaches the middle level, he can act tyrannically and become the master of others.

The boss here is a mid-level psychic, the strongest in this area.

The next second, the boss's movements froze.

"Bang!"

The wooden door of the casino was kicked open, smoke and dust filled the air, and the noise in the store suddenly quieted down to the point where you could hear a pin drop.

Both the guests and the staff turned their heads and subconsciously looked towards the source. They saw a dark shadow appear behind the smoke and slowly approach, neither fast nor slow, as if walking in his own backyard.

There was a startled gasp.

These people are all regular customers. They have seen people who dare to act wildly here before. The boss's casino is the safest and most trustworthy of this generation. There are often outsiders who don't know the truth and come to challenge. But without exception, those people will be killed instantly by the boss's supernatural power after committing offensive behavior.

The boss's special ability is unknown, but it is confirmed to be a territorial type. In his territory, he is the king and can control the lives of humans in the territory at will.

That's how it should have been.

But that person is still standing there, still strolling leisurely!

The door on the ground was like the boss's face. It was stepped on by Martin's boots and crushed under his feet, making a sharp squeak as if it was about to break.

"I heard Hua Yizhi is here?" the visitor said. What was surprising was that the voice sounded extremely young.

In the smoke, the man's face was revealed.

He was a young man with black hair that was half-length to his shoulders, wearing a neat black long windbreaker. The long and thin belt fluttered in the wind around him. The young man wore black sunglasses that were large enough to cover half of his face. His hair was disheveled, and only the corners of his lips were exposed.

A two-finger-wide black choker was placed on the young man's neck, blocking his Adam's apple.

Although he was asking where the person was, the young man turned his head casually, and his eyes seemed to pierce through his sunglasses, directly at the boss.

His purpose is very clear.

The boss, Hua Yuzhi, stood up slowly, spun the cigarette gun with his slender fingertips, and placed it on the table. A gorgeous smile appeared on his face.

"I wonder who this distinguished guest is and why he has such a bad temper." He made a gesture of invitation, indicating that the guest should follow him into the next room.

The young man didn't worry about being deceived and followed him in.

Maybe he really doesn't need to be afraid. After all, the fact that he can survive in the boss's domain already proves that he is a stronger superpower than the boss!

No one dares to mess with these powerful people with special abilities, and no one dares to risk their life to test the bottom line of the strong.

In this world, people with special abilities can kill people without paying any price.

The door of the room was closed, hiding the secret. After a moment of silence, the casino became noisy again.

Only one or two employees lifted the broken door and replaced it with a new one.

Looking back, it's like nothing ever happened.

...

There was only a kerosene lamp lit in the dim room. The boss turned around, sat behind the table, and asked the guest to sit opposite him.

This is the secret of the casino, where the owner runs his second business.

The boss here is openly a casino owner, but secretly he also sells intelligence.

The code associated with his second career is the name 'Hua Yizhi'.

"Please take a seat, distinguished guest." The boss brought tea, but the young man raised his hand to refuse it.

The black-haired young man glanced up into the air without leaving a trace, and then said, "I want Tang's position."

Where the young man's eyes were, there was a countdown that only he could see.

[Item [Immune Power (3min)] Countdown 01:12]

Young man, no, actually 'he' is not a strong man as others guess, just like she is not a man at all.

Contrary to her pretended arrogance and leisure, Li Li actually felt her hair stand on end.

The boss in front of her had a smile on his face, showing no emotion, and it was hard to tell whether he was intimidated by her or not.

The boss is a mid-level psychic as confirmed in the comic book "Ultimate Black and White". He is a tricky territorial type, and the entire casino is within his territory.

Unfortunately, Li Li had just arrived in this world and was currently a newbie without any special abilities.

An hour ago, Li Li was not in this magnificent world, but in the ordinary and scientific three-dimensional world.

She worked on her thesis for three straight nights and then died suddenly.

Fortunately, the system found her, allowing her to temporarily sober up and feel her body gradually cooling down.

[Hello, this system can give you a second life.]

"What are the conditions?" Li Li asked unconsciously.

She doesn't believe there is such a thing as a free lunch in the world, and that if you want something you have to pay a price.

The system does not hide this aspect and states it directly.

[This system only serves the comic book "Ultimate Black and White", and transactions are equal exchange.]

[You may need to travel through time once a day, enter the comic "Ultimate Black and White", and exchange your popularity in the comic for your survival value.]

[In the first week, the system will provide you with assistance. After one week, you need to rely on yourself to continue exploring.]

[Gaining high popularity can be exchanged for survival points, extending your resurrection time.]

Li Li had read the comic that the system mentioned. Her roommate was a big fan of this comic and often asked her to write a short essay.

It is a comic book with the Empire as its background, with strong people protecting the royal family, nobles who can pass down superpowers from generation to generation, superpower guilds that claim to protect low-level superpowers but actually back the nobles, and uncontrolled idle strong people. They are all the top of this world.

In the comics, the strong exploit the weak, power is in the hands of the upper class, and the only rule is that the strong are respected. The superpowers are internally in conflict with each other, the upper class exploits the lower class, and the life of the low-level superpowers is even worse than that of ordinary people without superpowers.

The protagonist crawls and grows up in this cruel world, looking for the trace of his adoptive father. Where he passes by, there may be sunlight, but in the darkness, there are still piles of bones.

At this moment, Li Li suddenly felt a little creepy. If the system could find her, it could also find other people. So how many people in that comic were real people?

That comic is not a funny comic like playing house, but a comic with real guns and bullets that can kill people.

Before her, had someone died in that world?

"Is there anyone else besides me?" Thinking of this, Li Li also asked.

[You can explore on your own.]

Li Li subconsciously wanted to move her index finger to tap something, and then she realized that she was already cold.

To be honest, this feeling is really bad.

Li Li knew she had no other choice. The price of rejection was that her roommate would wake up tomorrow morning and find her dead in bed, and then the campus forum or news tabloids would have a headline of "A student from xx University died suddenly", and someone might use it to criticize the daily routine of contemporary college students. Or maybe she wouldn't even make it to the tabloids, and could only be called "a student died suddenly".

No one knows Li Li's ideals, what she wants to do, and what kind of person she will become.

Although she was unconscious at that time, she didn't want to die like this.

She agreed to the deal, which seemed like a trap: "I agree."

She didn't know what the future held, but it couldn't be worse than dying now.

No matter what, she was going to take a gamble.

The system's voice announced the result of the transaction with inorganic indifference.

[Transaction completed, preparing for the first time crossing.]

[The channel has been opened. I wish you to become a popular character and bring new inspiration to comics.]

...

Time goes back to the present. Li Li looks calmly at the boss in front of her. She sits on the seat with her legs crossed in a relaxed posture, looking extremely unbridled.

In fact, her heart was racing and her adrenaline was pumping.

In the past 19 years, she had never lied to anyone in person like this, especially since the person she deceived was a mid-level psychic in a comic book who had taken several lives.

But she knew that she couldn't hold it together, as that would expose her too easily.

She couldn't show any weakness.

"'Tang'?" The boss thought for a moment and said with a smile, "It seems that you know a lot."

When the boss speaks, he likes to draw out the last syllable of his words, which brings out a sense of laziness of an ancient person.

However, this slowness became Li Li's death warrant. The slower he went, the less time Li Li had left.

The items she currently holds are her only chips.

The so-called assistance of the system is a mall. There are indeed many things in the mall, but they need to be exchanged for survival points.

This item used up all her initial funds, which meant that she couldn't afford a second item.

If she failed here, she would die, and there was no second chance. She was gambling with her life.

No matter how calm she was, it was the first time that Li Li felt this kind of black market-like atmosphere.

She was just a student before this.

"You don't know?" Li Li's tone rose slightly.

She knew the boss knew because the protagonist of the comic got the information from the boss.

The boss continued slowly, "Integrity is important in my line of work. I have already sold the news to someone."

"Where is that person?" Li Li asked.

Her brain was spinning wildly under the stimulation of hormones. Her sunglasses covered half of her face, making her almost frozen smile look flawless.

However

"You seem to be in a hurry," the boss said suddenly.

Li Li was shocked.

She knew very well what would happen if she was exposed, she had seen it in comics before. She would fall to the ground like glass, shattered into pieces, and become a temporary bright red on the dark floor of the store.

A mid-level esper, the intelligence dealer in this area, his boss is not a good person.

He would kill anyone who offended him.

There were only forty-three seconds left. If she wanted to leave the casino naturally, it would take thirty seconds, which meant she only had thirteen seconds left.

It's twelve seconds now.

She sat up straight, lowered her long legs, and her Martin boots made a heavy sound as they stepped on the ground.

"Are you interested in my movements?" she asked mockingly, "or do you just not want to talk about it?"

Li Li feels that all her life's acting skills have been put into practice now.

Is she afraid? She is afraid, but she has no way out.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the smile on the boss's face was like a mask.

She couldn't see through it, and there seemed to be a drum beating wildly in her heart.

And that sound echoed the countdown of the props.

Eight seconds left.

Seven seconds.

Six seconds.

...

One second.

It's too late.

The only way to have a chance of survival is to kill the boss and run away immediately within the thirty seconds of being immune to superpowers!

There seemed to be a hint of madness in Li Li's dark eyes.

Meanwhile, the boss spoke.

"Don't be angry, my dear."

The suffocating atmosphere seemed to dissipate.

The boss in a Tang suit stood up with a charming smile on his face, pulled out a piece of white paper from the side, leaned over and wrote an address on it.

"This is my apology." He handed the paper over, and then said, "Then please listen to my advice. There are many old monsters in this city. You are still young, so you might as well restrain your murderous intentions."

Li Li put the note away and walked out immediately as if she didn't want to talk any more.

She had twenty seconds to leave the casino safely.

Fifteen seconds later, she opened the door of the room.

Behind him, the boss was still saying, "Too many people have been buried in this city."

In five seconds, she turned and walked towards the repaired casino door.

"And..." the boss's voice came from behind.

In a second, she crossed the threshold.

"Welcome to 'Jiaohuang'."

When Li Li stepped out of the casino, the system prompt sounded.

[Item [Immune Power (3min)] Countdown 00:00]

Li Li left here without stopping and dived into the darkness.

...

[Opening the channel for you...Welcome back to reality.