The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

The moment Lilith finished speaking, thick black fog suddenly began to rise from many places throughout Lungmen City.

The black fog arrived quickly and in large quantities, soon covering most of Longmen City.

Then, Lilith ignored Gu Ran and the others, turned around, opened a spatial portal with the demon legion, and left.

Another spatial artifact?

Moreover, it's a spatial artifact capable of teleporting an entire legion. How did the demon acquire it? Did the demon kill a spatial ability user and loot his collection?

Gu Ran couldn't help but think to himself.

As for Lilith not killing those members of the research team, Gu Ran could roughly guess that she simply wanted to annoy him.

After what they just said, he and these people were now complete enemies. So she decided not to kill them, but to let those who hated him come after him.

If anyone's going to kill, it'll be him. She doesn't know if it will annoy him, but if there's even the slightest chance, she won't give up on doing it.

This was the reason Gu Ran thought of; she still cared about making him lose face, even if there was only the slightest possibility.

What a competitive succubus.

Will Lilith's move annoy Gu Ran?

Obviously not, because the black fog blocks people's vision, making it impossible for them to see into the distance. But if someone wants to see into the distance, they don't need eyes.

As soon as he unleashes his mental power, he can clearly see everyone and everything around him.

On the contrary, those few people found it difficult to move an inch in such an environment.

Gu Ran used his telekinetic power to lift the unconscious Wu Wang, then gently landed beside Xue Xiling and asked, "Are you alright?"

After a while, Xue Xiling's complexion finally returned to normal.

"I'm fine, I won't be a burden to you."

Looking at Xue Xiling, who still held a hint of stubbornness, Gu Ran sighed softly, "Why bother? You are the daughter of the president of Lanxin University, the princess of Lanxin University, no, you could even say the princess of Canglong City. You can find someone far more outstanding..."

Xue Xiling paused, then her face turned deathly pale. Her lips trembled as she asked, "Do you...hate me?"

Xue Xiling said bitterly, "If you say you hate me, then I will never appear in front of you again."

Gu Ran remained silent.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and Xue Xiling's eyes were red. She tried to hold back her tears and wipe them away with her hands, but the tears flowed like pearls from a broken string, and no matter how she wiped them away, more and more of them dripped onto the ground.

Seeing Xue Xiling weeping, Gu Ran opened his mouth and said with difficulty, "I... don't hate you."

In the end, he didn't say the words that would sever their connection. Perhaps it was her determination to help him, or perhaps it was her vulnerability when she cried. He didn't know what touched his heart, but he couldn't bring himself to say such cruel words.

"Let's go." Gu Ran turned around and walked towards the center of Longmen City.

As for the members of those research teams, let them fend for themselves here.

Regardless of Lilith and her demon legion's plans, his biggest goal now is to obtain the triangular crystal cone that serves as the city's central hub in the center of Lungmen City.

"We're saved! Hahaha, that damn bounty hunter, better not get caught by us!"

"If he falls into my hands, he'll be in big trouble!"

"He's just a live-in son-in-law, what's he so smug about? Really."

Those few people were venting their dissatisfaction incessantly.

However, they soon realized their predicament and began to try to find a solution.

"It's all this black fog here. How are we supposed to get out? Maybe we should climb up to a tall building. There won't be any black fog up there. Then we'll have a better understanding of the city and be able to escape."

"Climb a tall building? How is that possible? Let's not even talk about the fact that we can't find any tall buildings right now, and even if we did, we wouldn't be able to climb them. Are all your martial arts skills that strong? Can you all climb tall buildings with your bare hands?"

"I don't know how, but can you think of another way? If you can, then we'll do as you say."

Immediately, another person retorted.

......

Their voices gradually faded until they were completely inaudible.

Gu Ran walked forward, with Xue Xiling following behind, occasionally letting out a pleasant laugh.

It seems that the happiness she experiences today is the kind of happiness she hasn't felt in over a decade.

Gu Ran was somewhat helpless about this, so he could only quicken his pace and walk forward. As long as he could take the triangular crystal cone, then the task given by the "Tyrant Phantom" would be completed, and this exploration of the ruins would come to a successful end.

Finally, Gu Ran was even somewhat dissatisfied with his current speed, so he used his telekinesis to create two long legs, and he and Xue Xiling were contained in the long-legged monster on the left and right.

The long-legged monster strode forward with its long legs, heading towards the center of Lungmen City at several times its original speed.

"Wow, is this the same psychic power as my father? It's amazing!" Xue Xiling exclaimed as she felt the psychic power enveloping her.

"Tell me, why didn't you use your superpower before?" Gu Ran suddenly asked. "And this superpower should even have a name, right?"

153. Do you want to know the truth about this world? (4.2k views)

Xue Xiling didn't use her special ability when she encountered such great danger before, but now she suddenly uses it in front of him. No matter how you look at it, it's very suspicious.

Gu Ran's first thought was of Xue Yingsong, that old fox, and whether he was plotting something.

Others might mistakenly believe that Xue Yingsong is merely a researcher with little fighting ability or cunning, someone who only knows how to bury himself in scientific research.

The vast majority of people were deceived by him, including the stubborn forces at Lanxin University who wanted to establish privileges.

Gu Ran guessed that Xue Yingsong had already prepared to purge those forces in Lanxin University after learning about Ye Liqing's situation, but it seemed that he was waiting for something until he sent his daughter out of Lanxin University and out of Canglong City.

Gu Ran could already foresee that by the time they returned, Lanxin University would be filled with new and old students, one after another, and only the old man who always liked to drink instant coffee and was always smiling would be the biggest winner.

"Ah, didn't you take care of all the enemies in one go back then?" Seeing Gu Ran's serious expression, Xue Xiling's heart immediately became uneasy. "I haven't had a chance to use my superpower yet... and because my dad always says that unless absolutely necessary, I should never show my superpower to outsiders, so sometimes I forget that I have a superpower."

"..."

You've forgotten you even have superpowers, haven't you?

Looking at the simple-minded Xue Xiling, Gu Ran said with a wry smile, "So you don't usually cultivate?"

"Cultivation?" Xue Xiling looked at Gu Ran with a puzzled expression.

Looking at Xue Xiling's expression, which seemed to genuinely not know what cultivation was, Gu Ran didn't know what to say: "It's about absorbing the energy inside the purest star stone to strengthen your own ability crystal core, or practicing your ability and developing more uses."

"Oh, so this is cultivation? Then I guess I haven't cultivated. My father told me not to use star stones except for research purposes. He strictly forbids the method you mentioned of using star stones to strengthen the power crystal core," Xue Xiling replied.

Then Xue Xiling said excitedly, "But before I came, my dad told me that I can use my superpowers freely from now on, and I don't have to hide them anymore. So I said I can use my superpowers to help you. How about it? My superpowers are pretty amazing, right?"

After she finished speaking, Xue Xiling looked at Gu Ran expectantly.

Seeing the jubilant girl, Gu Ran paused for a moment, then smiled and nodded.

"It's very powerful."

.......

Outside the light screen.

Yudora felt like she was about to grind her teeth to dust. It turned out that after Gu Ran left the sea, he had met so many confidantes and had all sorts of entanglements with them.

Especially that succubus, every move she made exuded an aura of seduction. Fortunately, Gu Ran had no entanglement with her and even slammed her to the ground with a single shot. Otherwise, Eudora felt that she really couldn't control herself and would wish to go and fight that succubus general right now.

How dare you seduce my man! Die!

"If only I had discovered the secret of the Heart of the Ocean sooner back then. I owe him so much, and I even regarded him as my greatest enemy..." Eudora thought to herself, as regret and bitterness welled up together.

Merfolk are inherently passionate and decisive, and her years as queen have amplified the strong side of her personality. She knows that both she and her merfolk owe Gu Ran a debt, a feeling that prevents her from hating Gu Ran himself, but rather from hating the mistresses who "seduced" him...

Yudora began to think about how to assert her dominance over the other women present after rescuing Gu Ran. Although Gu Ran was now their enemy, wasn't she originally the same?

Moreover, even if nothing happens to change their attitude afterward, it's inevitable that some of them will still have lingering feelings.

Seeing this scene on the screen, Xue Xiling was so engrossed in her memories that she didn't even notice anything else.

The time she spent with Gu Ran must have been one of the happiest periods of her life. Before that, she had never met a man with a scientific talent more outstanding than her own.

Gu Ran was the first man she met, and the only man she ever had feelings for.

"If it weren't for what happened later, I would probably still be carefree like this, having the best father and fiancé in the world, helping each other with scientific research, chatting with each other in my spare time, and their relationship is so good... even so good that I was jealous of them."

Those beautiful memories flooded her mind, but they brought Xue Xiling only waves of intense pain.

Because whenever I think of those wonderful experiences together, there's always a bloody scene that shatters all those beautiful memories.

Suddenly, in a deserted corner, a black mark flew into the sky.

The black mark was very faint and flew away quietly, so it was not discovered by anyone else. Only Cheng Youmeng glanced at it with suspicion, but she also found nothing.

After the black mark flew high into the sky, a small spatial rift formed, and it immediately went into it.

The powerful figures present were somewhat alarmed by the harm and madness caused by the star stones displayed on the screen. However, after discussing it for a while, they discovered that there had been no such riots of star stone infected people in the past few hundred years, or at least there were no related records. Moreover, they themselves had cultivated for so many years and did not seem to have any side effects.

They couldn't help but put their minds at ease for the time being, and decided to continue looking at Gu Ran's memory scenes. Perhaps this side effect had already been resolved in history, just like what the bespectacled researcher who simulated the scene when Gu Ran was talking to the "tyrant phantom" said.

......

After what had just happened, Gu Ran felt that something subtle had happened between him and Xue Xiling.

Gu Ran could only remain silent.

However, Xue Xiling didn't care at all and often looked at Gu Ran with a smile.

Along the way, the black mist did not pose any obstacle to Gu Ran, but Gu Ran still sensed that the black mist was unusual, and the spiritual energy within the black mist seemed to be gradually decreasing.