Is it possible to return to Earth?
In fact, Jiang Ran hadn't thought about this question for a long time.
“Jiang Ran,” Arceus spoke again, “Once you’ve resolved the matter of the Dream Sea, we’ll go to the Strange World. We can’t let others lead us by the nose anymore.”
"Perhaps we can find a way back to Earth in this strange world!"
Jiang Ran nodded.
A day passed without incident, and as night fell, Jiang Ran returned to his dream and went back to the City of Paradise.
He now possesses abundant spiritual power, his [Miracle] has been fully replenished, and all candidates have been eliminated, so there is nothing that can stop Jiang Ran from becoming the city lord!
"The selection of the city lord for this year has officially begun! All candidates, please come to the stage to give your speeches!"
The crowd was completely bewildered, because Jiang Ran was the only person standing in the audience. Although they didn't know who Jiang Ran was, they knew that no one else was there!
The deputy city lord didn't come, General Tie didn't come, and the peace ambassador didn't come! This made them both curious about this young man and a little afraid of him.
"Hello everyone, I'm Wips, thank you."
Since the outcome was inevitable, Jiang Ran didn't even bother to pretend anymore. He just wanted to end this tedious ceremony as soon as possible. Even though he only said one sentence, no one dared to say anything to him.
"Please invite the other candidates to come up on stage and give their speeches!"
Even though that's what they said, the host knew they couldn't come!
"Otherwise, it will be considered a waiver!"
Ten minutes later, still no one arrived.
The host immediately knelt on the ground and presented the city lord's token with both hands: "Your Majesty! We believe you are a wise city lord who will surely lead Paradise City to a brighter future!"
"Lord City Lord!"
The cheers from the audience rose like waves. Even if others were unhappy, they didn't dare to show it in front of the city lord. They could only pretend to cheer and become part of the atmosphere.
Jiang Ran ignored them and headed straight for the City Lord's Mansion after receiving the City Lord's token!
Just one step away from clearing the level!
Who are you?
The guards in front of the city lord's mansion clearly did not recognize Jiang Ran, the new city lord. Jiang Ran took out the city lord's token and waved it, and the guards immediately knelt down on one knee: "Greetings, City Lord!"
They immediately moved aside to make way for him.
Upon entering the city lord's mansion, Jiang Ran suddenly felt that the token in his hand had become somewhat warm. He then realized that the closer he got to a certain place, the warmer the token would become, and conversely, the farther away he was, the colder and lifeless the token would become.
"In this direction!"
Jiang Ran arrived at the large study on the first floor of the city lord's mansion. Standing in front of a bookshelf, he quickly noticed the irregular arrangement of some of the books. After pressing it, a secret passage appeared before his eyes!
"The City Lord's Secret!"
The passageway was not long, only about five meters long, and contained only a somewhat dilapidated table with a yellowed notebook on it.
Jiang Ran opened her notebook.
I am the third lord of the City of Heaven. You may call me Mi. The reason I have recorded my name here is so that future generations will remember me as a sinner, and at the same time, never make the same mistake as me!
When the City of Paradise was first established, people's material needs were not met, so everyone was full of energy. Thanks to the efforts of the first and second generation city lords, we finally achieved prosperity for the entire city.
However, this led to instability in the city. The occurrence of numerous heinous incidents felt like a series of slaps in the face to my governing career. We could only punish the perpetrators, but we couldn't predict who they would be.
Looking back now, I realize I was being too sensitive. Similar incidents occurred during the reigns of the previous two city lords, but I became overly sensitive and somewhat extreme during my time in power.
At the time, I was thinking of a way to address the fact that people do bad things because there is evil within them. I began researching the spiritual realm, hoping to extract this malice directly from people, leaving them only with the good side!
[A city lord's reign is only ten years, so I have to speed things up. I first found a criminal with a goat's head to experiment on, extracted the malignant elements from his body, and released him back into society to continue observing him.]
Good heavens! This incorrigible thug has actually become an absolutely good person, making everyone marvel at his reformed ways. In the three months I've observed him, he hasn't done a single bad thing, and in fact, he's suffered quite a bit for doing good deeds!
[Suffering these losses can be seen as some compensation he's making for his past misdeeds, but it doesn't matter. As long as the evil in the entire city is eliminated, no one will suffer losses anymore!]
The experiment was a success, and I immediately began secretly promoting this method throughout the city, but little did I know that this would lead to a grave mistake!
[The malignancy won't disappear. Even if I remove the malignancy, it only removes it from that person's body. As I remove more and more malignancy, it accumulates and eventually gets out of control!]
[The malignant energy spread outwards, contaminating everyone in the city. Furthermore, a portion of the malignant energy coalesced, and the ram-headed man from whom I initially extracted the malignant energy possessed him, transforming him into a demon!]
The entire city was struck by disaster. The two previous city lords immediately stepped forward and declared to everyone that this was the work of demons, that demons had brought evil to the world!
They told me that I absolutely could not admit to doing everything, because I needed to use the city lord's authority to direct the entire city in resolving this disaster!
[The demon has disappeared. I could only extract the contamination from everyone. Then I found tens of thousands of sheep and implanted the contamination into their bodies. However, the malignancy and desire of the contamination swelled, causing the original malignancy to increase dramatically. I simply couldn't completely extract the contamination from everyone.]
[Next, the three city lords set up an array to slowly transform the evil within everyone in the city into "grass," and then had shepherds bring their sheep to eat the "grass" every day to neutralize the ever-growing evil.]
We are exhausted. The responsibility of maintaining the formation rests with you, future city lords.
Don't kill the demon; he was a pitiful child too. All the goat-headed people were corrupted and turned into vertical-eyed beings, but only his descendants retained their horizontal-eyed forms.
I think this is also a warning to us not to repeat the same mistakes. The root of all this is my own error. Don't try to cleanse the offspring of evil, because they are not evil at all!
If I had to say, I'd be the devil.
The devil doesn't bring evil to the world; it's us who do these things.
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