Ye Ruoyu’s hand hovered in midair, and her expression flickered slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.
“What’s your talent? Would you mind telling us? We can all clear this scenario together.” She gestured toward the group of people nearby.
Fang Zhiyi glanced at them but still had no intention of acknowledging her.
“You may be lucky, but you can’t be this selfish, can you? We’re all citizens of the Dragon Kingdom. Are you really going to abandon your fellow countrymen?” Lin Wei couldn’t hold back any longer.
The eerie woman standing beside Fang Zhiyi immediately changed expression. How dare he threaten her idol?
But Fang Zhiyi raised a hand to stop her.
“Sorry, but moral blackmail doesn’t work on me. I don’t have much of a conscience.” Fang Zhiyi spoke in an unhurried tone, then looked at Lin Wei. “I may be selfish, but I also don’t use my teammates’ lives to find a way out.”
The moment those words were spoken, even Ye Ruoyu’s expression changed.
“You—you know what you’re saying?”
“I’m saying that you all know exactly what you’re doing. You call yourselves heroes, but why are the teammates around you constantly changing?” Fang Zhiyi’s voice was full of disdain. He then sauntered away.
“Stop right there!” Lin Wei gritted his teeth.
“Security! Someone’s trying to hit me!” Fang Zhiyi raised his voice.
The crowd immediately saw a security guard storm over in fury.
“What are you shouting for? The residential compound has rules...” The moment he saw Fang Zhiyi, however, his confidence wilted. “The rules... I-I forgot them.”
“I don’t care what the rules are. That guy was trying to hit me.” Fang Zhiyi pointed at Lin Wei.
The security guard turned to look at him, and his vanished authority instantly returned. “Fighting is strictly forbidden inside the compound!”
“I wasn’t trying to hit him! I only wanted to ask him...” Lin Wei was dumbfounded. What kind of nonsense was this?
Seeing Huang Si about to step forward, he hurriedly flashed his identification badge. “I’m security too! I’m also a security guard!”
Huang Si merely glanced at him, then looked back at Fang Zhiyi. Before dawn, he had already received a notice from the manager and learned that Fang Zhiyi was someone he absolutely could not afford to offend.
“Security my ass! A security guard assaulting someone? That makes it even worse!” With that, Huang Si grabbed Lin Wei by the arm and gave it a vicious yank.
Lin Wei’s scream immediately echoed throughout the entire residential compound, attracting the attention of numerous eerie beings.
“This is your punishment. If there’s a next time, heh heh...” Huang Si gave a sinister laugh, then dragged him away by the arm.
“Lin Wei, are you all right?” Ye Ruoyu only dared approach after Huang Si had left.
Lin Wei clutched his injury. “I’m fine. I still have another chance to regenerate. That bastard...”
Ye Ruoyu also looked toward Fang Zhiyi’s retreating figure. “Forget it. He’s right to only look out for himself. He’s not like us. We have to consider the bigger picture.”
The live-stream chat exploded.
Half the viewers were cursing Fang Zhiyi, while the other half were praising Ye Ruoyu. The chat was in complete uproar.
“Those two are both hypocrites. They pretend to be doing everything for everyone, but all they do is use other people to test the way forward. They’re utterly shameless...” Fang Zhiyi grumbled angrily.
Hongling didn’t hear him clearly and was about to ask what he had said, but Fang Zhiyi’s gaze had already fallen on the peeling paint of the wall beside them.
“This building is really old.”
“They’re all like this. As long as they’re still livable, that’s enough,” Hongling said. “This area is actually pretty good. In the western district, a lot of the buildings have already collapsed.”
Fang Zhiyi cast a meaningful glance at the surrounding buildings and nodded.
A moment later, someone called Hongling’s name. She jogged over and began speaking with animated gestures. Then she pointed toward Fang Zhiyi, and the eerie beings there immediately turned toward him with eager expressions.
Little Hei chuckled. “I used to think Ye Ruoyu had a lot of brain-dead fans. Looks like you have quite a few yourself.”
Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. The moment he turned around, he saw several participants approaching him.
“You there! You should apologize to Lin Wei!”
“You need to apologize to Ye Ruoyu too! They’ve been working hard to help everyone survive, and you actually got security to tear Lin Wei’s arm!”
“How can you be so selfish?”
Fang Zhiyi frowned. “Were you all born without fully developed brains?”
“What did you say?” The curly-haired man from earlier was clearly furious and wanted to step forward, but he didn’t dare. Fang Zhiyi was too eerie—even more terrifying than the eerie beings themselves.
“You were sold off and still happily counting the money,” Fang Zhiyi said, shaking his head.
When he saw Fang Zhiyi turn to leave, a woman shouted, “Just wait and see! We’ll all make it back, while you’ll die here, you selfish bastard! We originally had information, but now we’re not telling you!”
Fang Zhiyi couldn’t even be bothered to listen. Information? What information could he possibly need?
When the anxious participants returned to their homes or their temporary lodgings in storage rooms, everything seemed to have changed.
The deadly multiple-choice questions that had previously been limited to eating, sleeping, and playing with children or pets had vanished. In their place were brand-new tasks.
“Look at you! You’re getting on in years and still don’t have a job! Tomorrow, you’re going out to find one!”
“Your little brother’s grades are terrible. You’re going to tutor him. What do you mean you can’t? Look at that kid next door. How come they can do it?”
“You don’t even know how to wash the dishes after eating! You don’t sweep the floor, either! I must have owed your family something in a past life!”
Even Ye Ruoyu, who had thought she had the eerie parents completely under control, was left speechless by what the eerie father said.
“I’ve arranged a blind date for you with Old Huang’s son tomorrow. How old are you now, and you still aren’t married? Your mother and I are just waiting to hold our grandchild!”
Overnight, it was as though the eerie beings had all turned into ordinary people. Yet the things they said sent chills through every participant.
At that moment, inside the property management office, the Fat Manager’s mouth hung open.
“Boss, why is this happening? They haven’t even killed anyone, so why are fear and hatred levels much higher than usual?”
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. “You don’t understand humans.”
The live-stream chat was buzzing with excitement.
“Oh my god, that eerie creature’s expression and tone are exactly like my mom’s!”
“There they go again, talking about the kid next door. I don’t even know who lives next door!”
“Why is she forcing my Ruoyu to go on a blind date? What’s wrong with not getting married?”
“Did I enter the wrong live stream? Is this really still an eerie-creature survival stream?”
Ye Ruoyu couldn’t understand it. There had been no danger today, so why did she feel worse than ever?
As she was pondering this, someone knocked on her door.
Ye Ruoyu took a deep breath. “Who is it?”
“Who, who, who? I’m your mother! Open the door!”
Of course, Ye Ruoyu didn’t open it.
“I’m telling you, you’re not allowed to wear that dress tomorrow. What’s a young woman doing dressing herself up so flamboyantly every day? It’s indecent!”
Ye Ruoyu almost choked. How exactly was she being indecent?
“And you’re going on a blind date tomorrow morning. I’ve already asked around. That family has only one son. He’s a little older, but he knows how to treat a woman. You’d better behave yourself and make a good impression, or I won’t let you off!”
Ye Ruoyu had never felt so miserable in her life.
Who came up with this scenario?
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
