"Are you trying to ascend to heaven by not going home?"
Gu Chenan frowned in confusion. Ever since Hoshino Kannon had crossed over at noon today, he felt something was off about her, though he couldn't quite put his finger on what exactly was wrong.
Hoshino Kannon turned her head and raised an eyebrow. "Why should I go home with you? I'm an independent person with my own free will, okay? I can go wherever I want, so why should I follow you?"
Her words caught Gu Chenan off guard.
Come to think of it, he hadn't even noticed this point before. He had subconsciously assumed that these female protagonists had no family or friends in this world and therefore had to stay with him.
But he had forgotten that these female protagonists became real people the moment they arrived in the real world.
"Well... you're right," Gu Chenan nodded. "But you don't know anyone in this world except me. Where else could you go?"
"If I don't know anyone, I can make friends! There are so many people in this world, I'm sure I can make some friends!"
With that, Hoshino Kannon waved her hand casually. "Thanks for bringing me to the real world, bye~"
After saying this, she looked around, and seeing no one nearby, she suddenly jumped onto the eaves of a nearby low building.
"Where are you going?" Gu Chenan panicked and immediately chased after her.
"I told you already, to make friends," Hoshino Kannon replied coldly.
"No, this world is different from the novel world. It's dangerous for someone with your personality to go out alone!"
Gu Chenan also jumped onto the eaves and reached out to grab Hoshino Kannon's hand.
He knew her personality well, and the danger he spoke of wasn't about others harming her. Rather, if some fool provoked her and she lost her temper, killing a few people on the spot, he might never see her again.
Hoshino Kannon knocked his hand away. "Dangerous? What danger could I possibly face? Don't forget I'm one of the Twelve Hawks, and I lived just fine before I met you."
"No, Kannon, listen to me, this world..."
Before Gu Chenan could explain, Hoshino Kannon turned and jumped onto another rooftop. Standing there, she waved at him, then vanished in a flash.
Gu Chenan froze for a second before giving chase, but when he reached where she had been standing, there was no trace of her.
All that remained was the brilliant glow of massive neon signs. Looking at the bustling street scene in the distance, Gu Chenan called out Hoshino Kannon's name several times but received no response, leaving him with an empty feeling in his heart.
He hadn't anticipated this situation at all. In the latter part of the novel, Hoshino Kannon's personality had become much more subdued. How had she reverted to how she was when they first met, now that she was in the real world?
Although Gu Chenan had roughly explained what the real world was like, this was still only Hoshino Kannon's first day here. She probably couldn't adjust so quickly and might do something extreme.
If that happened, it could be disastrous.
Gu Chenan took out his phone and called Ma Bing: "Bring everyone to the bottom of Caiying Building."
"Yes, sir." Ma Bing didn't ask questions, just acknowledged the order.
After hanging up, Gu Chenan looked in the direction where Hoshino Kannon had disappeared and sighed.
"What's wrong with this girl? Why did she suddenly become like a different person?"
Soon, Ma Bing arrived at the bottom of Caiying Building with dozens of black SUVs to meet Gu Chenan.
After Gu Chenan gave brief instructions, the convoy of SUVs spread out across the city in search of Hoshino Kannon.
Ma Bing drove Gu Chenan as they joined the search party.
As Gu Chenan's Mercedes left Caiying, Hoshino Kannon emerged from the shadows on a nearby rooftop.
Her eyes were red as she watched Gu Chenan's car drive away. Like a child, she wiped her tears with her sleeve and pretended not to care as she turned her head away.
In the novel world, Hoshino Kannon had always felt she was equal to Su Qianmo, especially since Gu Chenan had stayed with her during the later Black Owl period. So when she saw how affectionate Gu Chenan and Su Qianmo were, she couldn't help but feel emotional.
If it were Liu Mingrui experiencing these emotions, she would have openly and secretly competed with Su Qianmo for attention. But Hoshino Kannon was different.
She was still that sensitive, love-starved little girl, so when she acted out, she did so completely.
Although Hoshino Kannon had no conscious intention, subconsciously she felt that acting this way might make Gu Chenan pay more attention to her.
Jumping down from the rooftop via the stairs, Hoshino Kannon walked along the street, stepping on the reflections of neon lights in puddles, like a runaway child - willful yet heartbreaking.
Meanwhile, Gu Chenan was directing his people to search everywhere for Hoshino Kannon.
But finding someone in the vast city was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Time quickly passed until eleven at night, and Gu Chenan still had no success.
"Any news?"
"No," Ma Bing shook his head after just finishing a phone call.
"Damn, where could she have gone? We've searched everywhere within a five-kilometer radius of Caiying!"
"Young Master Gu, is it possible that Miss Kannon is still near Caiying?"
Sometimes an outsider sees things more clearly. Gu Chenan's mind was so preoccupied with finding Hoshino Kannon and worrying about what trouble she might get into that he hadn't thought this through properly.
Although their search covered a five-kilometer radius around Caiying, they hadn't thoroughly searched Caiying itself, the center point.
Gu Chenan had assumed that once Hoshino Kannon left, she would go somewhere far from Caiying. It hadn't occurred to him that she might still be nearby.
It wasn't until Ma Bing mentioned this that Gu Chenan realized that regardless of what was wrong with Hoshino Kannon, there must be a reason for her leaving him.
Or rather, perhaps Hoshino Kannon didn't really want to leave him at all - she was just trying to express something through this behavior.
After all, this was how she had always been.
Understanding this, Gu Chenan's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "You're right. Send some people to search around Caiying - internet cafes, nightclubs, everywhere. Don't miss anything."
"Yes, sir," Ma Bing nodded and carried out the order.
In the passenger seat, Gu Chenan rubbed his face with both hands.
He thought to himself, "Kannon is still that sensitive child. I'll need to adjust how I interact with her from now on..."
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.”
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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.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
