The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Gu Xu looked at the series of task descriptions.

First stunned.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Laughter echoed throughout the hall, carrying a hint of unbridled joy and arrogance.

This task was practically designed to save him trouble.

……

When the doors of the main hall were pushed open again,

The wind seemed to stop for a moment.

Zhang Daoxuan stood with his hands behind his back at the bottom of the steps.

Su Qiong, Jiang Shu, Zhang Xinxin, and the others behind her held their breath, dozens of eyes fixed on the figure that emerged from the dark hall.

Gu Xu had his hands in his pockets and walked briskly, showing no signs of the heaviness of having just experienced some grand ceremony.

He looked up at the crowd outside who were standing by in a tense atmosphere, and scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly.

"Um, Elder Zhang, the mission is complete."

Gu Xu spoke in a relaxed tone.

Zhang Daoxuan's eyes narrowed, and he took a step forward: "What's the situation? What are the specific details of the second job advancement quest?"

"Nothing special..."

Gu Xu shrugged and casually said, "The system told me to take a stroll in that 'Red and White Collision' secret realm, dismantle the big red sedan chair outside, find a lord-level creature that looks delicious and devour it, and finally eat the rule fragments as snacks... That's roughly the process."

The air suddenly became quiet.

Su Qiong's mouth dropped open, her jaw almost falling to the ground.

Jiang Shu's eyes widened, and she almost dropped the tablet in her hand.

Dismantle the bridal sedan chair? Devour the lord? Eat the rules?

You call this "taking a stroll"?

This is an abyss-level calamity that even Lin Yuan, a ninth-order saint, was trapped in!

How could you possibly say that?

Is it as simple as going to the market to buy two pounds of pork and grabbing a scallion along the way?

"This...this is the second job advancement quest?"

Zhang Xinxin pushed up her glasses, her face full of disbelief.

"Hmm, the system is quite user-friendly; it knows I'm hungry."

Gu Xu grinned: "Perfect, saves me the trouble of searching for monsters to level up."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Daoxuan's expression became somewhat complicated.

Having lived most of his life and witnessed countless brilliant geniuses, he was always trembling with fear and walking on thin ice when facing high-level missions.

There is absolutely no one like Gu Xu who treats disasters like a buffet.

But this is precisely the confidence he needs most right now.

The old man's expression turned solemn. He didn't ask any more questions, but instead solemnly stretched out his hands and patted Gu Xu's shoulders heavily.

"Gu Xu, I don't care if this is fate's arrangement, nor do I care if you can make a hole in that day."

"All I know is that the lives of 30 million people in Beichuan Province are now on your shoulders."

"Like I said, please!"

Gu Xu put away his playful expression and nodded seriously: "Don't worry, now that I've accepted the order, I'll definitely see it through to the end."

……

Half an hour later, in the northern suburbs of Beichuan City.

Several specially modified heavy armored vehicles sped through the streets.

The once bustling northern district has now become a ghost town.

Shops lining both sides of the street were closed, and litter was scattered everywhere. There were discarded shoes and the aftermath of a car accident left behind during an emergency evacuation.

The traffic lights continued to flash tirelessly, but no vehicles obeyed their rules anymore.

An oppressive, deathly silence enveloped the city.

"The temporary cordon is just ahead."

Su Qiong sat in the passenger seat and pointed to the area ahead that seemed to have been abandoned by the world.

Gu Xu looked out the car window.

At the end of the line of sight was a black "wall".

That wasn't a building, but a thick, impenetrable black fog.

The mist seemed to be alive, slowly and steadily undulating.

Each roll swallows up several meters of street.

Streetlights, bus stop signs, and green belts all seemed to have weathered for thousands of years the moment they came into contact with the black fog.

It decayed and turned to ash in an instant.

Above the black mist, the enormous red sedan chair, as large as a mountain, still floated there.

The paper money falling from the sky was like some kind of vicious curse.

"This pomp and circumstance is quite impressive."

Gu Xu narrowed his eyes, showing no fear, and instead licked his dry lips.

That feeling of hunger in my body started to stir again.

The convoy stopped 500 meters from the black fog.

This is already the maximum distance.

Further ahead, even high-level professionals with shields would have their minds instantly distorted by that power of rules.

The surrounding area was filled with heavily armed soldiers, but every face was solemn.

"Gu Xu, you must be careful."

Before getting out of the car, Su Qiong grabbed Gu Xu's arm: "If... if things don't work out, even if the mission fails, you must come back alive."

"Sister Su, that's a bit disrespectful to me."

Gu Xu smiled, pushed open the car door, and stepped out.

"call--"

The moment my feet touched the ground, a cold wind carrying a stench hit me.

Gu Xu stood alone in the middle of this street leading to hell, his hands in his pockets.

Before him lay an overwhelming darkness and despair.

Behind him were tens of thousands of tense-looking soldiers and a city on the verge of collapse.

"Time to get to work, guys."

Gu Xu whispered and snapped his fingers.

"Buzz—!"

Space suddenly distorted.

A bright red figure. The eerie bride appeared like a ghost to Gu Xu's left.

The blood-red wedding dress fluttered in the cold wind.

Beneath the red veil, her eyes were fixed on the bridal sedan chair in the distance, and the chill emanating from her body even caused a layer of red frost to form on the asphalt road beneath her feet.

Immediately following was a nauseating stench.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

Tuqi emerged from the void with a strange cry, leaning on a white bone cane. The pustules on its body became even more vivid under the stimulation of the black mist.

It lay on Gu Xu's right side, greedily sniffing the smell of the virus in the air.

But it's not over yet.

Gu Xu slowly raised his head and looked up at the sky.

"boom--"

It was as if an invisible giant hand had torn the sky apart.

A giant, fleshy ball of eyes, glowing with a purple aura that sent sanity levels plummeting, slowly emerged.

Countless tentacles danced in the air.

The Eye of the Ancients, descend!

At that moment, the soldiers behind were all dumbfounded.

I felt like all the blood in my body was freezing.

That woman in red was even more terrifying than the bridal sedan chair across the street!

That giant rat looks so deadly!

Especially those big eyes... just one look at them makes my brain feel like it's boiling!

"This...this is our reinforcement?"

A young soldier, his teeth chattering, said, "Why do I feel like we're the villains more?"

However, the next second, a scene they would never forget happened.

As Gu Xu led the three indescribable "servants of calamity" forward.

That once arrogant and domineering black mist, which devoured everything, suddenly seemed to have encountered some natural enemy.

It began to tremble violently.