Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

"404, what an unoriginal house number."

After making a complaint, Shen Xingzhuo looked at the two seats with vastly different table spaces.

After only a couple of seconds of hesitation, he pulled out the chair from the small table less than 80 centimeters long at the edge of the long table.

She sat down and saw that the table was piled high with stationery and books.

Although it's still a bit messy, it's much less messy than the bed.

"It seems... Shen Xing is in a slightly better situation in the dormitory."

The female student who suddenly appeared and started the fight obviously didn't live in room 404.

Otherwise, given the bully's temperament, she would have driven Shen Xingzhuo away after being hit, instead of angrily leaving the dormitory herself.

Shen Xingzhuo casually flipped through the stacked books.

"Um?"

She pulled out a notebook with a combination lock from the bottom shelf.

【DAIRY】

Is it Shen Xing's diary?

The combination lock is a bit loose.

"The important information should be here."

Shen Xingzhu muttered to himself as he began pressing the keys on the codebook.

【Hey? Isn't Sister Shen going to look for the password?】

[You think you can just open it by pressing buttons like that? Can you please stop acting like you know some kind of mystical magic and doing whatever you want?!]

[Exactly! How are other countries supposed to survive? The leaders of Tianxia Kingdom, come out and give us an explanation!]

"Everyone knows that the mastermind put more than a dozen chosen ones into the same ghost story this time. Xingzhuo's performance in the ghost story is too outstanding, which inevitably arouses the jealousy of other countries."

They are highly likely to copy Xingzhuo's answers, but they may well try to sow discord between the stars when Xingzhuo passes the test easily.

We don't provoke trouble, but we must retaliate when we see this kind of rhetoric.

When Guan Shanyue saw the scene of more than a dozen people in the void under the sky, he said the words above.

She immediately prepared contingency plans of varying degrees.

However, the first point in every contingency plan is to monitor the direction of the barrage comments.

Therefore, the Huaxu team had already written and released the announcement immediately.

The core message is just one point—

When you see comments from people from other countries trying to sow discord or expressing their discontent, you can freely retaliate.

However, we cannot act arbitrarily just because we are currently in a good position.

As the nation behind Shen Xingzhuo, their primary responsibility is to ensure the freedom of their chosen one to act within the supernatural tales.

Some people have also raised different opinions, feeling that Guan Shanyue was too protective of Shen Xingzhuo's reputation.

However, Guan Shanyue forcefully suppressed everyone's dissatisfaction, silencing them with just one question.

If Shen Xingzhuo's freedom of action is restricted, she is very likely to misinterpret the information given by the ghost stories.

Who will bear the consequences after she makes a mistake?

Guan Shanyue silenced her with a single sentence: "Once Xingzhuo's freedom of action is restricted by public opinion, she may misinterpret the information given by the supernatural tales. Who will bear the consequences if she makes a mistake?" No one answered this question, because everyone knew the answer—the consequences would not be borne by Shen Xingzhuo alone, but by everyone who stood with her.

Guan Shanyue withdrew her gaze and landed on the face in the sky that was flipping through a diary: "Responding to the comments is fine, but remember—Xingzhuo isn't helping us win in the ghost stories; she's helping us find our way. Once the way is found, how we walk it is up to us."

You cannot interfere with any decisions Shen Xingzhuo makes.