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

The next day, Lu Yuan woke up from a hangover... no, from the grogginess of drinking too much cola, and it was already noon.

Sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains, casting a golden line on the floor.

He picked up his phone and flipped through the "property certificate catalog" left by Li Mo, as casually as if he were ordering takeout.

"A courtyard house in Beijing? Too stuffy. A large apartment in Shanghai? Too crowded. Hmm... This sea-view villa in Sanya looks alright."

He made his decision and then dialed the number of Li Mo, the "property manager" he had saved yesterday.

The call was answered almost instantly.

"Sir!" Li Mo's voice was filled with excitement and a hint of barely perceptible tension.

"I'm planning to stay at that villa in Sanya for a few days," Lu Yuan said lazily, his tone as if informing a servant of his itinerary. "Make the arrangements; I don't want any trouble on the road."

"Understood! The top-class special plane is ready to take off at any time! We will clear the flight path for you!" Li Mo's voice was firm and powerful.

"A private jet? Too slow." Lu Yuan curled his lip.

To him, a tin can flying at subsonic speeds is no different from a snail crawling.

"Then... what do you mean, sir?" Li Mo's breath hitched, his brain racing as he tried to understand the deeper meaning behind the phrase "too slow."

"I can go there myself. That's all, bye."

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he hung up the phone and slowly stood up from the sofa.

He walked to the center of the living room, too lazy to even change his clothes, wearing a T-shirt with "Don't bother me" printed on it and shorts, and casually took a step forward facing south.

With one step, his figure flickered in the air of the living room like a poorly signaled image, then vanished into thin air.

……

Meanwhile, at the Dragon Shield command center.

Qin Shiyue and a group of core members were gathered around a huge sand table, which was a precise model of the residential area where Lu Yuan lived.

"How is the 'Guardian' contingency plan going?" Qin Shiyue asked in a deep voice.

"Reporting to Director Qin, the three-layered silent domain has been completed. The logistics team's disguised 'Ele.me' and 'Meituan' deliverymen are in place. The information team is filtering the network 24/7 to ensure that Mr. Li doesn't see any annoying spam messages." Li Mo's voice came from the encrypted communicator.

Qin Shiyue nodded in satisfaction.

However, at that moment, a technician responsible for monitoring Lu Yuan's vital signs suddenly stood up, his face pale.

"Report! Target...target has disappeared!"

"What?!" Qin Shiyue's heart skipped a beat. "What happened?! Were we attacked?"

"No...no! The life signal wasn't interrupted, it's just...their location shifted faster than light in an instant! We...we lost them!"

The atmosphere in the entire command center froze instantly.

Just then, another group responsible for monitoring energy fluctuations across the country also screamed.

"Warning! A violent spatial oscillation has been detected in Sanya, Hainan! Energy readings... have instantly exceeded the threshold! It originates from the same energy fluctuation as when 'Nidhogg' disappeared yesterday!"

Qin Shiyue's pupils contracted sharply. He turned around abruptly and pointed to SY City on the national map.

"Connect Li Mo immediately! Have him report the contents of the master's phone call!"

Once the call connected, Li Mo reported the conversation in a trembling voice.

"He said... the private jet was too slow?" The chief of staff gasped. "And then he went there himself?"

"The straight-line distance from Beijing to Sanya is over 2,500 kilometers..." an advisor muttered to himself, "He... just crossed it in one step?"

"This isn't movement, it's spatial teleportation! It's the legendary 'shrinking the earth to an inch', 'a world within reach'!"

"Amazing! This is absolutely divine skill!"

After the initial shock, a fervent realization appeared on Qin Shiyue's face.

"I understand... I understand everything!" He slammed his hand on the table, his eyes shining with an alarming intensity.

"The master is giving us a warning! He thinks the mundane tools we provide are too inefficient and unworthy of his status! He's using this method to motivate us to break with convention and serve him with the mindset of an 'immortal'!"

He took a deep breath and issued new instructions.

"Order! Sanya branch, immediately activate the highest level of response! Locate the man's position at all costs! Remember, once found, do not disturb him. Simply observe from a distance, record his every move, and analyze the deeper meaning behind each step!"

……

Sanya, Haitang Bay, Villa No. 1.

Lu Yuan appeared in the living room of the villa.

This place is indeed extremely luxurious, with huge floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a private beach and the azure sea.

But he only glanced at it and shook his head in dissatisfaction.

"Alas, the imagination of mortals is still too limited."

He walked to the edge of the large swimming pool, where the water shimmered in the sunlight.

"The water is fresh water, it's boring."

He snapped his fingers.

"Snapped!"

The pool of clear water instantly turned into a golden, translucent liquid, emitting a cool breeze, and the aroma of sweet oranges filled the air.

[System notification: You have transformed "Ordinary Water" into "Life-Glowing Spring Water," which slowly restores energy after drinking and has an orange flavor.]

"Hmm, that's more like it."

He walked onto the beach again; the sand was fine, but not white enough.

"This beach isn't big enough, and it's not bright enough."

He waved to the beach.

The private beach, which was originally only a few dozen meters wide, began to extend out to sea at a visible speed, stretching to nearly a hundred meters before stopping. The sand became as bright and fine as moonlight, and felt as soft as cotton candy underfoot.

[System notification: You have transformed "Ordinary Beach" into "Moonlight Beach," which includes cleaning and temperature-regulating effects.]

Back in the villa, he felt the living room walls were a bit monotonous.

"Not even a holographic projection, bad review."

He casually made a mark on the main wall.

The wall instantly transformed into a massive screen with crystal-clear resolution, playing a live "Animal World" broadcast of dragons from a magical world fighting in a volcano crater.

[System notification: You have created a "Multiverse Live Stream Window," which can randomly access real-time images from various realms.]

After doing all this, Lu Yuan finally threw himself onto a beach chair, scooped up a glass of "orange juice" from the "swimming pool," and comfortably closed his eyes.

His casual modification triggered a magnitude 12 earthquake on a surveillance vessel disguised as a fishing boat, located several kilometers away.

"Report! Report to command center! The energy response in the target area is continuously exceeding the maximum allowable levels!"

"He...he turned the swimming pool water into a highly concentrated energy liquid! The composition analysis...is incomprehensible!"

"He's expanding the land! He's changing the terrain! The sea level is being pushed back by his power!"

"High-intensity spatial signal detected! He's in the living room... opened a stable spatial portal!"

One hysterical report after another was transmitted in real time back to the headquarters of the Dragon Shield Bureau in Beijing via quantum communication satellite.

Qin Shiyue and his staff were completely numb as they watched the alarms flashing red on the screen.

"Transform the terrain, create an energy source, open a portal to another world..." The chief strategist's voice was trembling. "He's not on vacation..."

"He's building a 'forward base'!" Qin Shiyue said decisively, his eyes filled with a fanatical light that was a mixture of fear and worship.

"Facing the sea, it can repel enemies at sea! The energy source can replenish the strength of 'allies' who come to join us! The spatial portal can summon an army from another world at any time! Under his transformation, this villa has become a super fortress that can be attacked or defended at will!"

"Every step you take, sir, is indeed meaningful!"

"He's telling us in this way that the battlefields of the future are not just on land, but also on the sea and in other dimensions! He's guarding the southern gate of heaven for our country!"

After some mental imagery, everyone in the command center looked at the distant screen with the same adoration they would give a god.

Meanwhile, Lu Yuan, the "god," was lying on the beach, utterly bored.

Although the environment is comfortable, I still feel a bit listless being alone.

He thought for a moment, took out his phone, found a familiar number, and dialed it.

"Hey, Fatty, what are you doing?"

On the other end of the phone, Wang Pangzi's pig-like screams immediately came through.

"Brother Yuan! Help! I'm trapped in the company restroom by a bunch of green dwarfs! They look like... they want to eat me!"