"Huff, huff!"

Yue Qin ran frantically down the street.

She had no idea what was happening.

In her memory, the annual event had begun, everyone had gotten off the bus, and then her brother and Chu He started acting very strangely.

Then, they were dead, dead in the exact same way the death omen had predicted.

"Is this... destiny?"

She stared at her now lonely self, her spirit nearly broken.

Just then, the sound of a rumbling large truck approached from the main road ahead, seemingly driving toward her direction.

The surrounding scenery was vaguely familiar.

Yue Qin remembered clearly, this was the place foretold in her death omen!

She would die here!

Crushed into mush by a truck!

But now, with her brother dead and her own spirit shattered, she had already lost all attachment to the world.

She willingly stepped into the middle of the road, ready to embrace her own death.

She saw a truck hurtling toward her, but there was no one at the wheel, as if an invisible hand was controlling everything!

Yue Qin stretched out one hand and closed her eyes.

The next moment, the truck roared past.

But she didn't die - instead, she fell into a warm embrace.

"Miss Yue Qin, please don't die. You must live, you have to survive."

Han Bingjie shook Yue Qin, "Do it for your brother!"

Yue Qin's expression was wooden, only when her brother Yue Shan was mentioned did a flicker of light appear in her eyes.

"We can survive, there's no need to restart, Brother Gui has already agreed to help!"

Yue Qin turned her head and saw Zhong Shenxiu, dressed in casual clothes, with a vague figure dangling from a black umbrella, slowly walking out of the alley. "This wily creature was indeed well hidden, luckily when Chu He was killed, it had no choice but to show itself, and there was its flaw!"

Looking at the approaching savior, Yue Qin felt numb inside.

If she had met Zhong Shenxiu at the start, she would have been willing to pay any price to survive.

But now, her brother was dead, and her life had lost much of its color.

Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

The distant, lonely chime of a bell rang out once more.

Zhong Shenxiu let out a light chuckle, opened the clip of the large black umbrella, and extended it in front of Han Bingjie and Yue Qin.

A somber shade appeared with it, sheltering all three of them.

Han Bingjie seemed to see a clock retreating before his eyes, but at a certain point, the reversing hands were stuck, as if gears had jammed, motionless.

Strange and mysterious changes were occurring.

The entire Deceit City seemed to tremble and roar...

The surroundings rapidly regressed and collapsed... yet it seemed as if nothing had changed...

"I understand a bit now..."

Zhong Shenxiu nodded lightly, looking at the Deceit City that was beginning to fade into illusion, suddenly flung her large black umbrella.

Whoosh!

The dark umbrella turned into a streak of light, rushing swiftly into the depths of Deceit City.

A shattering sound ensued.

It was like a clock, or perhaps a large bell, or some other inexplicable object.

But without a doubt, it was the core of Deceit City.

At that moment, it had been fixed in place by the ominous umbrella, nailed onto this timeline.

Not only that, all other future possibilities were continuously being destroyed.

Destruction...

Perhaps in just a few seconds, the great Deceit would face extinction.

And yet, Zhong Shenxiu's expression remained unchanged as he suddenly let out a sigh.

Because within those few seconds, the situation had changed again.

All around, reinforced concrete structures sprung up abruptly, forming a large building.

Every tile, every piece of glass... Han Bingjie and Yue Qin were all too familiar with them, even to the extent that they could say they were soaked with their fear and tears.

That was... the Anywhere Company Building!

D City.

The bustling downtown area.

Two Foundation members who had been tasked with monitoring the Anywhere to Go Express Company Building were puzzled.

Because, that building had suddenly... vanished!

"Quick! Notify the Foundation!"

"There's movement with the Deceit-level target!"

A voice cried out hoarsely.

...

"I just knew... before your damn company went bankrupt and absconded, you still wanted to kill me, a diligent and responsible employee, didn't you? Was it just because I took a paid vacation once? That's too much!"

Zhong Shenxiu was filled with righteous indignation.

And Han Bingjie was dumbfounded.

He looked at Yue Qin, and a thought emerged in his mind: "So... the real target of the company's annual meeting, was it Brother Gui?"

The go-everywhere company did not necessarily have to be based in D City.

It could appear in any location, and of course, that included Deceit City!

And due to the peculiarities of Deceit City, to deal with his opponent, Zhong Shenxiu had to temporarily part with "The Ominous Umbrella," an item of extremely high status!

Even if it was only for a few seconds, it was enough time for the remaining Deceit to face Zhong Shenxiu!

Zhong Shenxiu found that, unknowingly, he had arrived on the first floor of the Anywhere company building.

On the wall, a painting silently disappeared, revealing a huge gap.

Illusionary and cursed transparent blood flowed from the gaping hole.

The lighting around flickered uncertainly, like a faulty bulb.

In that dim moment, countless overlapping shadows seeped through the floor, from the desk lamps, from inside the walls, their eyes ashen, staring at Zhong Shenxiu.

Without a doubt, these were all... Deceits!

And under the manipulation of the Anywhere Company, they collective cursed Zhong Shenxiu!

In the void, as if numerous black ants were materializing, they attempted to enter Zhong Shenxiu's body through some illusionary connection.

Simultaneously, an even more terrifying curse emanated from the company itself.

As long as one was an employee of the company, this link remained, and the company could transmit curses at any time!

However, Zhong Shenxiu had previously been holding the great black umbrella, and was not afraid at all.

Now, however, he seemed unarmed.

"Tsck, tsck... not bad at all, you've learned to cooperate, although you still need to rely on the special rules of the annual meeting..."

Zhong Shenxiu applauded and said with a smile, "With this intensity, under a chain of scheming tactics, if I were still new to the company, I might really have been killed."

"No... You damn company, not inviting me to the farewell dinner is one thing, but to treat me like this just because I came for a free meal, does that mean a freeloader deserves to die?"

Zhong Shenxiu's expression became extremely dangerous in an instant.

To tell the truth, with a True Spirit that was almost approaching the level of a Dharma Body and capable of foreseeing danger, he of course would not put himself in such peril.

The only reason he dared to step into the trap was that it was simply not dangerous enough.

At that moment, his face wore a strange expression as he suddenly began, "O great being from the boundless mysteries, Lord of Mediocrity, King of Ruin..."

As he prayed, a profound darkness descended.

Amidst the darkness, a Dharma Body that was a thousand-faced and endlessly transforming, quietly emerged.

The Unfixed Dharma Body!

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