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

He used his telekinesis to survey Canglong City and discovered that he was the most talked-about person in the city.

They feared him, describing him as a cruel "tyrant."

Gu Ran remained completely unmoved.

Then he found a quiet place and pondered for three days.

He was contemplating the so-called destiny, and also his own destiny. What troubled him most was what he should do and what he should do in the future.

Three days later, he still hadn't figured it out, but instead of racking his brains, he decided to go for a walk.

He started from the inner city and walked step by step towards the slums of the outer city.

He didn't even try to conceal his presence.

Then, naturally, he was seen by everyone, amidst cries of fear and curses; no one would run away when they saw him.

Gu Ran remained completely unconcerned.

He slowly walked into the slum and saw that it remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Compared to other areas, the slums of Canglong City are quite humane; at least the residents of the Canglong City slums still have some hope.

But the prevailing atmosphere in the slums remains apathy, still revolves around... food and crime.

Unlike the people in the inner city, the people in the slums, though also afraid when they saw Gu Ran, did not run away.

For them, their greatest enemy was not Gu Ran, the so-called "tyrant," but poverty and the scarcity of resources.

Gu Ran silently looked at those numb faces and made a decision in his heart. He finally knew what he should do.

Since so many of you say I'm a cruel "tyrant," then I'll just be that "tyrant"!

The Human Alliance has been complacent for too long, and the connections between the various major cities are too weak.

Human Alliance Unification Plan, launched!

352. Those who obey me prosper, those who defy me perish—the name of a tyrant! 4k

Gu Ran didn't care at all about the discussions about him among the ordinary people of Canglong City.

He originally planned to leave Canglong City after this incident, or go to Zhuque City to visit his sister and inquire about Leng Feng's past, or go to another major city to live a "normal" life under an assumed name.

There's no need to ask Leng Feng now; he's pretty much figured things out, and Leng Feng has passed away.

There was no rush to visit my sister, so I suddenly realized that I didn't seem to have any urgent goals I wanted to achieve.

He walked all the way from the inner city of Canglong City to the slums.

Several of his students had died because of people from the slums, but at this moment he felt little hatred; instead, he felt a pang of unease.

After the development of Starstone Technology, the beast tide no longer poses a significant threat to humanity.

The main purpose of dividing the main city into an inner city and a slum is to treat the people in the slum as resources, not as human beings, but as a barrier to delay the beast tide.

This is because, although humans had top-tier experts in the early days, the number of ferocious beast tides was too large, and the direction in which they attacked human settlements was also very random. Even top-tier experts could not arrive at the scene in a short time to wipe out the ferocious beast tides.

Each wave of ferocious beasts causes massive loss of life and property, posing a severe challenge to human reproduction.

Then a trend of thought emerged—human beings should first protect those who are "valuable" in order to minimize losses and allow humanity to better reproduce and continue civilization.

In order to better concentrate human power to deal with the beast tide, humans built main cities that could gather millions or tens of millions of people, moving from the scattered "city-state era" to the centralized "main city era".

After entering the era of the main city, this ideology reached its peak.

Humans began to drive those who were "worthless" to the outermost part of the main city and strictly prohibited them from leaving the outer perimeter of the main city to enter the core area.

As humanity discovered the effects of star stones on cultivation, more powerful individuals emerged, possessing even greater survival abilities. The scale of the main city expanded repeatedly, eventually reaching a population of over 100 million.

The main urban structure of the inner city and the slums was thus formally established.

In recent centuries, the emergence and rapid development of Star Stone Technology has further enhanced human survival capabilities, and the population of various major cities has increased several times over. For example, the population of Canglong City has even reached more than 400 million, approaching 500 million.

Starstone Technology enabled the human army to defeat the beast tides for the first time, and then top experts would snipe the occasional lord-level beasts, so the beast tides no longer became a crisis threatening human survival.

However, the status of the slums remained essentially unchanged. At most, the ruling center of the inner city took notice of the slums' large population and allocated some school places to the geniuses produced in the slums in order to absorb them into the inner city.

Leading the way is Canglong City. Its martial arts schools not only attract the most students, but also proactively distribute basic martial arts techniques, giving the people in the slums something to look forward to.

However, compared to the vast population of the slums, the number of martial arts students recruited is still extremely small, and the geniuses who are qualified to bring their families to relocate to the inner city are even fewer.

Living in a slum means not only living hand to mouth in the present, but also having no future at all.

Therefore, even a rumor that one can acquire martial arts talent will be clung to by them as a lifeline in their despair.

This is a distorted social structure.

what should I do?

This was a question that Gu Ran had been pondering for a while.

Or what can he do now?

As the last "destined one," he has the last chance to break the rules of the world, so he must live cautiously and avoid attracting the attention of the world's rules.

The simplest way is to "do nothing"—if you do nothing and change nothing, you can "survive" for a relatively long time.

The first president of Lanxin University is a prime example of how much he did wrong.

But can he really survive quietly?

Is he willing to live like this?

Before regaining his spatial and temporal abilities, he didn't have any particular ideas.

However, after regaining these two powers and learning about the power of "spacetime", some ideas immediately arose in his mind.

Although Dani had already told him that even the power of time and space could not revive life, but... could this be an opportunity?

He never forgot Cheng Caimeng's words about "reunion".

"Rules... If you consider rules as a program, then they must have their own bugs. What I need to do now... is to find those bugs and, before they can 'correct' me, use them to disrupt the program's operation."

"In this way, my spacetime abilities might be able to change my fate and reverse life and death!"

Therefore, the path he chose was not to "lie idly" by doing nothing, but to selectively do more, to observe, to prepare, and to fight to the death!

The slums were the first option he wanted to "do more of," as he had long been dissatisfied with the current urban structure!

Having made up his mind, Gu Ran immediately turned around, preparing to return to the governing center in the inner city.

When Gu Ran turned around, the numb people in the slum were slightly stunned. They had all accepted that they would be slaughtered and amused by Gu Ran, this "devil," but they did not expect that Gu Ran would just glance at them and then turn away.

For some reason, as they looked at Gu Ran's back, they suddenly felt that the figure carried a deep sense of loneliness.

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Gu Ran's emotional journey of transformation cannot be shown on screen.

So everyone who saw this was a bit surprised and didn't know what had happened.

It looked as if Gu Ran had simply walked from the inner city to the slums and was about to walk back.

Apart from the powerful figures in Meteor City, most people didn't really understand how Gu Ran had defeated the "Will of the Stars".

Because they lacked a deep understanding of what had happened before and were unfamiliar with the special life form known as the "Will of the Stars".

For ordinary people who have no extraordinary abilities, even the strongest individuals are unimaginable "gods," let alone special life forms like the "Will of the Stars" that transcend human limits.

Many people think that Gu Ran only defeated an "ordinary strong enemy", but it is enough to amaze many people. There was actually an enemy that made Gu Ran fight a hard battle. In the end, he was only able to defeat the enemy with the help of the space energy crystal core and time energy crystal core sent by the "reinforcements". It is really amazing.

Of course, Gu Ran's victory was even more remarkable, but this "remarkable" achievement did not exceed their expectations.

In their minds, Gu Ran was undoubtedly the number one in terms of martial prowess.

They were very interested in spatial and temporal abilities, but that was all they were interested in; they thought these two abilities might be among the most powerful in the world.

However, they did not know the specifics of how it was strengthened.

Not to mention that time-based abilities are not documented, even the extent of the power of space-based ability users who have been stationed in Suzaku City is largely unknown to ordinary people.

This is a kind of "secret knowledge" that is only passed down among the elite of martial artists and superhumans.

Therefore, ordinary people are more concerned with when Gu Ran does things they can understand, such as when Gu Ran starts a brutal war to unify the human alliance and implement his "tyranny".

"Canglong City at this time is indeed in the style of more than ten years ago. You can see that the slums of Canglong City had not been renovated back then."

"Driven by his burning lust for power, he dragged the entire Human Alliance into war. To gain enough support for his brutal war, he released the scum from the slums. It's utterly outrageous!"

"Exactly! Those people from the slums have absolutely no manners. They even force us to live with them. It's disgusting! You know, those mud-covered people from the slums make a mess of their clothes hanging out to dry. It's an eyesore!"

Many residents who originally lived in the inner city expressed their dissatisfaction.

They were living a peaceful and happy life in the inner city, but Gu Ran, this tyrant, destroyed their wonderful days. They wanted nothing more than to tear Gu Ran apart.

They often gathered together to complain to each other, and when the intercity network was launched, they found a new outlet for their frustrations.

Moreover, because the intercity network connects the nineteen main cities, they have more "like-minded" people, which greatly enhances their sense of mutual recognition.

As for the peasants who originally came from the slums, most of them didn't have the ability to use the expensive intercity network. Even if a peasant who had been "bought off" by the tyrannical policies occasionally appeared on the intercity network, they would be verbally abused mercilessly.

Soon, they saw something on the giant light screen that "excited" them.

Gu Ran has indeed begun to demonstrate his brutal methods of rule!

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