Cut off my way home? You'll sacrifice the entire other world in return!

Li Fan sat on the hood of the deformed off-road vehicle, seemingly lost in thought or perhaps in a daze.

The burly man at his feet, known as "Boss," was clutching his severed mechanical arm, sweating profusely from the pain, his eyes filled with terror.

"Um... sir..."

The burly man spoke tremblingly, "Iron Fortress is in that direction, about fifty kilometers away... If you want to go, this car can still be driven..."

Li Fan came to his senses.

"No rush."

Li Fan's gaze passed over the burly man and landed on the two eerie purple moons in the sky.

"I have something to ask you."

"Has the world always been like this?"

Li Fan pointed to the endless mountains of garbage and ruins around him.

"This...this isn't it..." The burly man swallowed, seemingly recalling some legend.

"I heard from the old scholars in the city that a thousand years ago, this place was also a beautiful place with green hills and clear waters. Back then, we called it Old Land."

"And then?" Li Fan narrowed his eyes.

"And then..." A deep sense of unease appeared on the burly man's face. "Then 'that thing' came."

"That thing?"

"Yes, nobody knows what he is, nobody knows his name," the burly man said in a low voice, afraid that something in the sky would hear him.

"According to ancient books, on that day the sky cracked open and a black giant whose face could not be seen fell down."

"He was very hungry."

"He started eating."

"He ate mountains, he ate seas, he ate gravity, he ate the atmosphere..."

Li Fan stopped moving.

This description... why does it sound so familiar?

Isn't this exactly what he did in the previous world?

"And then?" Li Fan's voice deepened.

"Later... he seemed to have eaten something bad? Or maybe he was punished by something?" The burly man shook his head. "Anyway, he suddenly exploded in mid-air, turning into countless black fragments that scattered down."

"Those fragments polluted the earth, causing biological mutations, but they also brought energy."

"Our current mechanical technology is built on his corpse."

The burly man pointed to the mechanical lizard's corpse not far away.

"That blue core is actually the excrement or blood clots of that giant from back then."

Li Fan felt a churning in his stomach.

Was the blue core he just ate a piece of the previous Devourer's corpse?

Even... excrement?

"system."

Li Fan coldly shouted in his heart.

no respond.

The system that used to reply instantly even to nonsense is now silent.

"System, stop playing dead."

Li Fan emphasized his words.

"Is what he said true? Is the source energy of this world left behind by the previous host?"

[Sizzle... sizzle... sizzle...]

A crackling sound of electricity rang in Li Fan's mind.

The system's voice finally arrived after a full five seconds.

[Severe environmental radiation interference caused delays in data analysis]

[Answer: This world contains residual high-dimensional energy, which, upon testing, is of the same origin as the dimensional devouring technique practiced by the host, thus classifying the individual as a failed evolver.]

Failed Evolvers?

Li Fan keenly grasped this word.

Not a time traveler, not a demon king, but an evolver.

Moreover, the system's delay just now seemed too deliberate.

"So, you also took him along this road?"

Li Fan stared at the system panel with a cold gaze.

"Does he also want to go home?"

[The database is corrupted and cannot be searched.]

[The host is advised to focus on the current task: collect source energy to repair the spacetime coordinates and open the portal.]

The system is changing the subject again.

Li Fan did not ask any further questions.

He is a smart man.

If this system really is a navigator, then it's no coincidence that it led him into a pit filled with the corpses of his exes.

Coordinate offset?

Oh.

Li Fan raised his head and looked again at the two purple moons in the sky.

He suddenly had a feeling.

That's not the moon.

Those are two eyes.

They were staring intently at him, the new guinea pig.

An unprecedented sense of crisis, even stronger than when facing a massive army or the Heavenly Dao, crept up Li Fan's spine.

He thought he was a hunter.

It now seems that he may just be a cleaner kept in a cage to clean up garbage.

"interesting."

Li Fan suddenly laughed.

This time, the smile lacked the previous madness and instead carried a deep, sinister edge.

If going home is a scam.

If this road leads to a slaughterhouse.

Then I'll eat the owner of the slaughterhouse too.

"Walk."

Li Fan jumped off the hood of the car and kicked the burly man in the butt.

"To Iron Fortress."

"I want to see what good things that loser left behind."

The burly man scrambled into the driver's seat of the off-road vehicle, which wasn't completely totaled yet, and started the engine with his only remaining left hand, which was trembling.

"My lord... please sit tight..."

Boom!

The vehicle spewed out a plume of black smoke as it drove toward the steel behemoth.

Li Fan sat in the back seat and closed his eyes.

His consciousness sank into his personal space.

There, the little girl was curled up in a corner, fast asleep, still clutching her tattered doll.

In this cold, eerie world filled with lies.

This little life, brought from the old alien world, became the only real thing in Li Fan's heart besides his family.

"Go to sleep."

"The outside world is dirtier than you imagine."

Li Fan opened his eyes and took out the missing person notice from his pocket.

The smiles of his parents in the photo were still warm, but in Li Fan's eyes at that moment, they carried an unspeakable irony.

"system."

Li Fan said softly to himself.

"You better pray that my parents are really waiting for me at the finish line."

"otherwise........."

Li Fan used his fingers to crush a piece of scrap metal into powder.

"I will dismantle you, breaking you down piece by piece, from your code to your logic."

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