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

The next second, Lu Yuan appeared in the sky above the Antarctic Circle.

There was no teleportation light, no tearing of space; he simply appeared out of thin air, as if he had been standing there from the very beginning. He was still wearing the same T-shirt and beach shorts that read "Don't bother me," and flip-flops, which seemed completely out of place against the apocalyptic landscape of ice and fire beneath his feet.

He lowered his head and took a sip of cola; the cool liquid slid down his throat and felt very comfortable.

Below him, the most powerful combined fleet in human history was on the verge of annihilation.

That ancient, primordial force struck like an invisible hammer, repeatedly pounding on the souls of everyone. In the command center of the flagship "Explorer," more than half the crew had already lost consciousness.

Li Mo struggled to lift his head, blood seeping from his seven orifices. Through the porthole, he vaguely saw the figure suspended in the sky.

It's him!

That man!

he came!

An indescribable excitement welled up in Li Mo's heart, and his tense nerves relaxed, causing him to completely lose consciousness.

Lu Yuan naturally noticed the fleet and also saw the large creature impatiently turning over under the ice.

"Jörmungandr, the Throat of the World".

He recognized it.

This was indeed a scrapped design from an early version of "Gods and Demons Era". The original design concept was to create a "living world", and Jormungandr was one of the regulators of the world's energy cycle. However, it was later abandoned because the settings were too complex and affected server performance.

Unexpectedly, the data wasn't completely deleted; it materialized along with the game.

"hot……"

That vast and boundless thought swept across the area once more, and this time, it seemed to lock onto Lu Yuan, this insignificant being.

The ice cap began to tremble violently, and deep, bottomless cracks spread outwards from the center of the continent. The head, larger than a city, was slowly rising from beneath the ice.

Even the slightest glimpse of its aura made the eight suns in the sky appear somewhat dim.

At that moment, all the detection equipment of the combined fleet emitted a piercing shriek, then exploded together, turning into a pile of scrap metal.

The end of the world seems to be just around the corner.

Lu Yuan frowned slightly as he watched this scene.

He didn't think the thing was threatening; he just thought it made a mess of things by scattering ice everywhere.

"It's so noisy."

He stretched out his free hand and pointed it at the giant snake head below, which was slowly rising.

Time seemed to have been paused at that moment.

That ancient thought, powerful enough to crush the soul, came to an abrupt end.

The cracking ice cap instantly froze.

All eyes in the world, and all those watching this place through various top-secret channels, witnessed an unbelievable scene.

A virtual control panel, emitting a pale blue glow, unfolded out of thin air in front of Lu Yuan. It displayed a dense, cascading stream of code, the meaning of which was incomprehensible to anyone.

Lu Yuan's fingers slid randomly across the panel, as if he were playing a boring match-3 game.

He first found the core code that represented "Jormungandr".

It was an incredibly large and complex collection of data, flashing a dangerous red light.

He extended his finger and lightly swiped across the code, skillfully opening the edit mode.

[Unit Name: Throat of the World - Jormungandr (Beta 0.1)]

[Status: Data unstable, awakening, going berserk...]

[Core Attributes: Chaos, Devouring, Termination...]

Lu Yuan didn't even glance at those frightening terms. He simply deleted "Awakening" and "Berserk" from the "Status" column and then casually typed in two words.

Status: Optimized

Next, he looked at the "Core Attributes" section.

He thought for a moment, then packed up all the entries for "chaos," "devour," and "end," and dragged them into the recycle bin. Then, he entered the new attribute in the blank field.

[Core Attributes: Absolute Zero, Energy Conversion, Environmental Stability]

After doing all this, he even casually clicked on the "Apply to global" and "Save and permanently" options next to it.

The entire process was smooth and quick, taking no more than three seconds.

Then, he turned off the control panel and took another sip of cola.

"Done."

next second.

The ancient giant serpent on the Antarctic continent, which had just raised its head thousands of meters high, suddenly froze.

The world-destroying red light in its eyes quickly faded, replaced by a clear, crystal-like azure blue.

It stopped struggling and stopped emitting that terrifying intent. Instead, it slowly and gently sank its head back under the ice.

Then, a miracle happened.

The ice sheet covering the entire Antarctic continent began to emit a ghostly blue light at a visible speed. Streams of extremely pure cold air surged from beneath the ice sheet, soaring into the sky and heading straight for the eight blazing suns.

The sky looked as if a reversed blizzard had begun to fall.

The light from those eight suns began to diminish at a visible rate under the impact of this chilling air.

The suffocating heat throughout the Gaia plane began to decrease rapidly.

The cold, impersonal system announcement echoed for the third time.

[World Announcement: Administrators have discovered a bug from an older version, "The Throat of the World - Jormungandr," and have optimized and upgraded it.]

[World Announcement: The new unit "Antarctic Constant Temperature Core" is now online. This unit will automatically regulate the overall temperature of the Gaia plane to maintain environmental stability.]

[World Announcement: The difficulty of the world event "Ten-Day Trial" has been automatically adjusted.]

Lu Yuan looked at all of this and nodded in satisfaction.

This way, you won't have to worry about waking up from the heat or cold while sleeping anymore.

He turned around, and his figure disappeared again.

……

"Ark" Command Center.

Dead silence.

Qin Shiyue, Ivanov, Serafina, and all the global executives who witnessed this scene through a shared perspective were all petrified on the spot.

Their brains have completely shut down.

What was that just now?

A war of gods? A clash of laws?

No... that's more like a programmer fixing a piece of faulty code.

Relaxed, casual, and utterly unpretentious.

The so-called ancient giants, the so-called doomsday crisis, were just... "optimized"? And turned into an "air conditioner" that automatically regulates global temperatures?

Qin Shiyue stared wide-eyed, feeling as if his worldview had been utterly shattered and then pieced back together in a way he couldn't comprehend.

His previous interpretation of "saving the ancient gods" was simply a huge joke.

The administrator just felt that the world was too hot, so he went to Antarctica and installed a "central air conditioner"!

"I...I..." Qin Shiyue murmured to himself, trying to find a new and more reasonable explanation for the administrator's great idea.

But this time, he failed.

All his wisdom and imagination seemed so pale and powerless in the face of that absolute and unreasonable display of "authority".

"So...that's how it is..."

After a long silence, Qin Shiyue finally uttered a sentence, his voice carrying a hint of relief and a deeper sense of awe.

"We've been using mortal wisdom to try and guess God's plans. But God... doesn't need to make any plans at all."

"He just felt that the world should be a certain way, and then the world became that way."

Inside the villa.

Lu Yuan returned to the sofa, placed the can of cola, which was no longer very cold, on the coffee table, and smacked his lips in dissatisfaction.

"I wish I hadn't gone; I even warmed up the Coke."