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

"Cough cough..."

Lin Yuan coughed violently, each cough expelling fragments of his internal organs.

He felt his consciousness fading, and the world before him becoming increasingly blurry.

"Am I going to die here...?"

Lin Yuan gave a bitter smile.

He spent his whole life playing with eagles, but in the end, an eagle pecked out his eye.

He underestimated the eeriness of this secret realm; the thing inside the bridal sedan chair had no sense of martial ethics whatsoever.

That was a crushing defeat in terms of status.

Just as Lin Yuan was preparing to detonate his soul fire for a final self-destruction.

He suddenly sensed a presence.

An aura even more terrifying, more domineering, and more soul-chilling than that bridal sedan chair.

They are approaching from the front.

"Another big one has arrived..."

Lin Yuan closed his eyes in despair.

With wolves in front and tigers behind, there's really no hope now.

However, the aura did not attack him after it approached.

On the contrary, the pressure of the rules that had been eroding his body suddenly lessened.

It was as if a mountain that had been pressing down on us had been removed.

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

Upon seeing this, he froze completely.

Even the Grim Reaper, who was used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, was stunned by the scene before him, leaving his mind blank.

He saw a young man standing less than fifty meters in front of him.

The young man looked like a high school student, dressed in ordinary casual clothes.

He was wearing an ill-fitting military combat uniform over his clothes.

But this is not the point.

The key point is what was with that young man.

On the left is a woman wearing a blood-red wedding dress, though her face is not clearly visible.

But the woman in red exuded an aura a hundred times more ferocious than a vengeful ghost.

On the right is an upright walking creature, its body covered in pus.

A giant plague rat that looks like its internal organs are rotting.

What made Lin Yuan feel most suffocated was the thing hovering above the young man's head.

That enormous purple eyeball covered in tentacles and tumors.

The one-eyed creature merely glanced at him casually.

Lin Yuan felt that his "Death Realm" almost collapsed on the spot.

The soul is screaming, it is terrified.

To submit to that great being.

"What...what kind of monster is this...?"

Lin Yuan's voice was hoarse, and his body instinctively wanted to back away, but he was too badly injured to move.

"Oh, isn't this Sage Lin?"

Just when Lin Yuan thought he was about to be torn to pieces by this terrifying group, the young man suddenly spoke.

The voice was clear and bright, carrying a hint of surprise, and perhaps a touch of...disdain?

dislike?

Lin Yuan was stunned.

Gu Xu walked up to Lin Yuan, looking down at this former top expert, and clicked his tongue: "Tsk tsk tsk, quite badly injured."

"Luckily I arrived in time, otherwise I would have had to burn paper money for you this time next year."

Lin Yuan struggled to lift his head, staring intently at Gu Xu's face.

Trying to search for this face in the memory bank.

but.

In his mind, there was no such person in the Divine Xia Empire, or even in the entire Blue Star.

To be able to control a summon of this level, one's strength must be at least at the peak of the ninth rank.

They were even beings who had touched the threshold of demigodhood.

How could someone be completely unknown?

"Who are you……"

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth, suppressing the tremor deep within his soul, and asked, "Is it an old monster from some reclusive family? Or... from another dimension?"

"An old monster?"

Gu Xu was amused. He pointed to his face, which was full of collagen: "Grandpa, are you blind? I just turned eighteen this year, a legitimate citizen of Shenxia."

"As for who I am..."

Gu Xu straightened his collar and spoke in a slightly more formal tone: "When I'm working, I call myself a plant! Gu Xu, newly promoted captain of the 18th Group Army's God-Slaying Legion, Supreme Command of the Divine Xia Empire."

He paused for a moment, then added, "Oh, by the way, Minister Zhang said before I left that as long as I resolve this matter, I'll be the deputy chief of staff when I get back."

"So you can call me Staff Officer Gu in advance."

"Captain...?"

Lin Yuan felt that he must be dreaming, or experiencing a hallucination before he died.

A captain?

Bringing three summons capable of instantly killing a ninth-tier enemy?

You call this a captain?

So what am I?

Are they greenhorns?

Stop spacing out.

Gu Xu didn't give Lin Yuan much time to question his existence. He pointed around and said, "Look, I've been keeping the domain shut down for half a day to take care of you, the injured one."

"If you can still move, retreat immediately."

After Gu Xu reminded him, Lin Yuan noticed the abnormality of his surroundings.

He was shocked to discover that the black mist of rules that had driven him to the brink of despair and which he could not dispel no matter what magic he used was no longer there.

At this moment, they all retreated to a distance of several hundred meters.

At the edge of that black mist, there seemed to be an invisible wall.

The fog churned and roared outside the wall, yet it never dared to cross the line.

"Are you suppressing them?"

Lin Yuan's pupils contracted sharply.

He knew all too well what this phenomenon meant.

This is not a simple contest of strength; it is a crushing defeat at the level of rules.

In other words, the rule level of the boy in front of us.

It's even higher than this so-called calamity-level secret realm!

I guess so.

Gu Xu shrugged: "These guys are a bit shy, they don't dare to get close to me."

Shy?

Lin Yuan's lips twitched.

Is this shyness? It's more like fear of death!

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his heart.

Regardless of who this young man is, at least one thing is certain—he is an ally.

Moreover, they are allies who are ridiculously strong.

"I see."

Lin Yuan wasn't the kind of person who was pretentious.

He was well aware of the current situation; staying here would not only be of no help, but would also be a burden.

He struggled to stand up, but his body wouldn't obey him.

He slumped back down heavily.

"Um... Staff Officer Gu."

Lin Yuan spoke somewhat awkwardly; the way he was addressed made him feel very uncomfortable, but he said it anyway: "Could you help me up? Or perhaps cast a healing spell?"

I don't know healing spells.

Gu Xu shrugged; he was a mage, not a priest. "But I can give you a ride."

As he spoke, Gu Xu snapped his fingers.

"Tucci, don't just stand there, give this old man an injection... oh wait, lend him your cane."

Tuqi, who was lying idly drawing circles to the side, grumbled a couple of times reluctantly after hearing the order.

But he still handed over the cane he had made from a human leg bone.

Lin Yuan looked at the bone cane that was still covered with an unknown green slime.

His expression changed repeatedly.

This thing...can it even be used?

Won't I get poisoned?

But seeing the menacing black mist surrounding him, he still gritted his teeth and accepted it.

"Gu Xu".

Just as Gu Xu was about to continue forward, Lin Yuan suddenly called out to him.

Gu Xu turned around: "Is there anything else?"

Lin Yuan leaned on the foul-smelling cane to keep his balance, and his expression became more serious than ever before.