Dealing with these players turned out to be much simpler than anyone had imagined, especially for the usually timid Lan Xiaoke, who was now wearing a rare expression of unsatisfied eagerness.
She crossed her arms, her single visible eye beneath her white bangs constantly scanning the surroundings. "Who's next? Come out!"
Seeing no one step forward to respond, she finally nodded in satisfaction, then turned and walked back to where Luo Xi and the others were—who had been busy putting out fires in the surrounding shops.
"That should be enough." Luo Xi had also managed to rescue many people. She had always enjoyed doing volunteer work and helping vulnerable groups. Faced with children crying from fright, she patiently soothed them.
"Luo Xi, you'd actually make a pretty good mom," Lan Xiaoke remarked, scratching her head after watching Luo Xi calm the kids down in no time.
Luo Xi just smiled faintly, then glanced at Lan Xiaoke. "You could be too, Xiaoke."
"Really? Hehe, I do think I'm pretty gentle," Lan Xiaoke said, scratching her head again.
Though that wasn't exactly what Luo Xi had meant.
After all the players were dealt with, the Alliance began sending people to handle the aftermath. Fortunately, they were highly efficient, quickly transporting the injured to the hospital and cleaning up the scene.
"Good work," Wang Yanran said to Lan Xiaoke and the others. If not for their help, those players would have been a real headache.
Moreover, those players didn't seem afraid of conventional firearms; bullets and guns were useless against them. The local superhumans were still too weak, completely outmatched by these invaders.
So, after much thought, Wang Yanran had decided to come seek Ye Chuan's help.
And the facts proved her right. As long as Ye Chuan was willing to step in or send someone, these problems ceased to be problems.
Even someone on the brink of death could be brought back by one of Ye Chuan's special serums.
"Whew, I'm exhausted. I have to get some reward from Ye Chuan for this," Lan Xiaoke was saying when a voice sounded beside her.
"What reward?"
Lan Xiaoke turned to find Ye Chuan standing nearby. He had clearly used spatial teleportation to arrive, having observed everything that just happened within his divine sense.
"You were hiding all this time?" Lan Xiaoke blinked.
"Hiding?" Ye Chuan raised a hand for a karate chop. Lan Xiaoke instinctively covered her head, but he instead poked her under the arm, making her burst into uncontrollable giggles.
"So mean!"
"Chuan Chuan, how did I do?" Luo Xi asked with a smile from the side. It was her first real fight, and while she trained regularly, practical combat experience was still quite rare.
"Not bad," Ye Chuan said, pinching Luo Xi's cheek. "Just not decisive enough."
"Not decisive enough?"
"If it were me, I'd have cut their heads off directly. You're still too gentle, only severing limbs." For wanton destroyers like these, there was no need to give them much chance to struggle, Ye Chuan implied.
Luo Xi thought for a moment, hands behind her back, then tilted her head and smiled cutely. "I understand."
"Ye Chuan, these players were eliminated too quickly. We didn't get a chance to interrogate any," Wang Yanran added.
"It doesn't matter. They're most likely from those other worlds too, just treating our world as a dungeon instance." Ye Chuan was used to it by now. Since he could travel to other worlds, it was natural for players from other worlds to come to his.
So far, the strength of these players didn't pose any real threat.
"Am... am I too late?!"
Just then, Ye Chuan heard a commotion. He glanced over and saw a figure in armor standing not far away, weapon in hand. Upon noticing the surroundings had already calmed down, she scratched her head in confusion.
"That's..." Seeing the familiar armor, Ye Chuan seemed to recall something. "Oh right, the girl called... Puppy?"
"You probably remember wrong. That's Xiao Yang (Little Lamb)," Wang Yanran corrected with a slight sweatdrop.
At that moment, the armored figure clearly noticed Ye Chuan's group. The moment she clearly saw Ye Chuan's face, she jogged over.
"B-big brother!"
As she spoke, she deactivated her transformation, revealing a petite girl with fluffy, wool-like hair.
"Hmm, I do remember you," Ye Chuan said, looking at the girl before him. After all, he was the one who gave her that transformation device.
"I... I've defeated many criminals recently, and lots of monsters too! I've protected our city!" Her eyes shone brightly as she spoke excitedly to Ye Chuan, clenching her fists. "Am... am I a hero now?"
"Perhaps," Ye Chuan said, feeling a flicker of interest as he looked at the young girl. "So, is being a hero fun?"
"It's fun... Those guys are despicable." Xiao Yang tightened her fists. "But, I'm willing to protect everyone!"
Ye Chuan saw the purity in her eyes, untainted by ulterior motives. Such a person with maxed-out justice points made him regard her a bit more highly.
"First, give me the transformation device."
Xiao Yang was stunned for a second, but subconsciously took out her device and handed it to Ye Chuan.
"Alright. From today, you are no longer a hero," Ye Chuan said, putting the device away. "Go back to living an ordinary life."
Xiao Yang froze. A few seconds later, her mouth fell open. "Huh?!"
"What's wrong?"
"I... I really need that."
"Then take it back from me. If you can," Ye Chuan said playfully, looking down at the curly-haired girl who was a head and a half shorter than him. "If you can't even do that, don't talk about protecting everyone."
With that, Ye Chuan released a trace of his aura. Just a wisp was enough to make the girl's eyes widen, forcing her to bend under the pressure.
"Huh?!" Lan Xiaoke and the others beside Ye Chuan were taken aback. "Y-Ye Chuan?!"
Ye Chuan just waved his hand, signaling them to stay quiet.
Xiao Yang's pupils trembled. A feeling akin to facing death made it hard for her to even breathe. "Ah..."
"What's wrong? Without the transformation device, you can't even stand up?" Ye Chuan said calmly. "Being a hero isn't child's play."
"If it weren't for the transformation device, those monsters, those superhuman criminals... they could take your life, your family's lives, at any moment."
"What do you think life is?"
Ye Chuan extended his hand again, the transformation device resting on his palm.
"Come on. Prove it to me."
Xiao Yang remained kneeling, unable to stand, her whole body trembling.
Time ticked by. Watching this, Ye Chuan simply shook his head.
"As I thought. You can't do it, can you?"
Just as Ye Chuan started to turn away, he seemed to sense something. He looked back and saw Xiao Yang, still kneeling, stretch out a hand and clutch tightly at the hem of his pants.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
