When the game shut down, I took my skills with me.

The sports car landed smoothly on the beach, as if it had never left.

Lu Yuan got out of the car yawning, feeling like he had just gone for a short drive.

But Su Muqiu and Lin Wei were in completely different situations.

Lin Wei was still immersed in the surging power of the god-level and the shock of that demiplane. Her eyes were a little glazed, and the uncontrollable golden battle aura on her body baked the surrounding sand into a glassy state.

After a few seconds of lapse, Su Muqiu forcibly rebooted her brain. She pushed up her glasses, and the light in her eyes behind the lenses was astonishing—not from shock, but from extreme excitement.

She quickly caught up with Lu Yuan, a tablet computer appearing out of thin air in her hand, her fingers flying across it.

"Mr. Lu, I've already made a preliminary plan for the new dimension... our new home." Her speech was so fast it sounded like rap. "The core of that world is a giant energy tree, which we can call the 'World Tree.' We can establish a central administrative region around it. The eastern plains are suitable for agriculture, the southern mountains are rich in minerals and can be used to build an industrial zone, and the western waterways can..."

"stop."

Lu Yuan raised his hand to interrupt her, a pained expression on his face.

"Get to the point, how can I go back to grilling chicken wings?"

Su Muqiu took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and pointed to the core of the report.

"The key point is relocation. I've made a very optimistic estimate: with our current technology, transferring the nearly three million survivors gathered here, along with the most basic life support facilities, would require at least ten thousand continuous large-scale spatial teleportations. This process... will probably take fifty years."

"Fifty years?" Fatty Wang nearly choked on a skewer of grilled chicken wings he'd just stuffed into his mouth. "By then, Yuan's kids would probably be old enough to run errands, right?"

Lu Yuan frowned.

Fifty years? Are you kidding me?

By then, forget about chicken wings, the barbecue grill will be rusted to dust.

"Too much trouble," he concluded.

He stared at the complex relocation plan on Su Muqiu's tablet, its dense array of arrows and flowcharts making his temples throb.

"Just tell me what things need to be moved," Lu Yuan asked.

"Everything." Su Muqiu's answer was straightforward. "Everyone in this city, all the buildings, factories, hospitals, schools... We are rebuilding civilization, and no part of it can be abandoned."

"Oh, so you mean moving the whole city there?" Lu Yuan understood.

He casually swiped his hand in the air, and a virtual map covering the entire city, visible only to him, popped up. On the map, countless buildings and crowds were clearly presented as data.

He stretched out his finger and drew a huge circle on the map, which perfectly encompassed the city's core area and all the survivor settlements.

A simple operation menu pops up next to it.

【複製】

[Cut]

【Paste】

【attribute】

Lu Yuan chose "Cut" without hesitation.

Next to the confirmation "Cut" pop-up window, a series of advanced options appear, such as "Include attached units?" and "Preserve source coordinate markers?".

Lu Yuan didn't even bother to look at them, finding the pop-ups a bit too numerous and annoying.

Following his muscle memory, he casually clicked on the default checked option, "Include subordinate units (fellowship: Ye Tian)," unchecked it, and then pressed the "Confirm" button.

"It's peaceful now," he thought with satisfaction.

……

Meanwhile, in the world's few remaining national command centers, sirens blared across the sky.

On the Dragon Shield command ship, Qin Shiyue and a group of experts were staring blankly at the vanished spatial fluctuation signal, trying to analyze which dimension Mr. Qin's "divine kingdom" was located in.

Suddenly, a technician responsible for monitoring land data jumped up from his chair, his face ashen.

"Commander-in-Chief! Something terrible has happened! A hole has appeared in our territory!"

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Qin Shiyue shouted.

"Really! Look!"

On the massive holographic map, the heart of China, the area containing City A, which houses millions of survivors, was completely transformed into pure black, representing "data missing."

It was as if an invisible hand of God had erased the entire city from the map with an eraser.

"Satellite imagery! Quickly!" Qin Shiyue's voice trembled.

The scene changed, and everyone gasped.

What should have been a city ruin made of reinforced concrete has now transformed into a vast, boundless primeval forest. The forest is unrealistically green, brimming with life, and even has a faint golden mist swirling among its branches, completely out of place with the surrounding desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape.

The city that was erased, along with all its inhabitants, simply vanished into thin air. In its place stood a forest that did not belong to Earth's ecosystem at all.

The command center was deathly silent.

"Were they...were they wiped out?" a young staff officer asked in a trembling voice.

"No!" Dr. Chen slammed his fist on the table, his eyes burning with fanaticism. "Not annihilation! It's an exchange! It's ascension!"

He rushed to the map and pointed to the newly appeared forest.

"Don't you understand? The Master isn't moving house; he's exercising the authority of creation! He's cut and pasted his entire earthly divine kingdom from our mortal world into the divine realm! Then, with compassion, he cut a piece of land from the divine realm and pasted it back into its original place!"

Qin Shiyue's body trembled slightly with excitement, and he instantly understood what Dr. Chen meant.

This is not a disaster, but an incredible opportunity!

The sage ascended to heaven, but he did not forget this world. He left behind a "Divine Realm Forest," whose energy level far surpasses that of any other corner of Earth. This will be the hope for Earth's future, a sacred ground for nurturing a new generation of powerful beings!

"I understand..." Qin Shiyue murmured to himself, a magnificent picture forming in his mind, "The Master... he guided his believers to heaven. Then, he left behind the 'Garden of Eden' on earth, a gateway to heaven!"

He took a deep breath and gave the order in an extremely solemn tone.

"Immediately seal off the original site area of ​​City A! Designate it as a top-level restricted area, no, a 'holy site'! Also, immediately attempt to contact... contact the Ark Community, no, contact the 'Heavenly Court'!"

……

In a residential building in City A.

Zhang Wei, an ordinary office worker, is happy that he has just reached level 10.

Suddenly, he felt a barely perceptible tremor in the ground beneath his feet, like a heavy truck driving past.

The sky outside the window seemed to flicker, as if someone had pressed a light switch.

"Strange, is it just my imagination?" He scratched his head, walked to the window, and wanted to see the sky outside.

Then, he froze completely.

Outside the window, the familiar yet oppressive cityscape, now overrun by monsters, was no longer visible.

Instead, he was greeted by a sky so blue it seemed unreal, a sky he had never seen before. The air was filled with the scent of fresh grass, and every breath felt like a cleansing of his lungs.

At the edge of the horizon, in the center of the horizon, stands a colossal tree of indescribable size, composed of light, connecting heaven and earth, with specks of starlight hanging from its canopy, like a dream.

Zhang Wei rubbed his eyes hard and then pinched his thigh hard.

The excruciating pain shot through me, but the scene before me remained unchanged.

Just when he thought he was going crazy, his phone vibrated in his pocket.

He took it out with trembling hands and saw that it was a notification from an app he had never seen before.

[Ark Community Announcement: Dear residents, welcome to your new home. This community has been connected to World Tree Energy, providing 24-hour heated water and electricity. The network signal has been upgraded to 'Divine Realm WIFI'. Friendly reminder: The view outside your window has changed, please don't panic. —Your Administrator: Lu Yuan]