Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Zhao Hao had wanted to get a spatial device for Elena before, but it was in high demand and there was no stock available.

Even if Zhao Hao were to find someone within the Silver Secret organization to barter for a custom order, it would still take a very long time.

And that grandson of mine, I don't know what's wrong with him, he can only make rings.

Damn, Zhao Hao was worried that if he gave Elena a ring, Elena and the Adams family would misunderstand that he was proposing.

I wasn't ready!

This book has less than 300 chapters, isn't it too early?

The main problem is that Elena hasn't graduated high school yet! That won't do!

It's all fixed now!

July 4th is a good day; it's America's Independence Day.

The North American continent was so large that no one could swallow it all at once, so it was a group of powerful European countries that came together to colonize it.

But later, when the power of their homeland weakened, these colonial governors had their own ideas, and that's how they gained independence.

Although the Song people didn't feel anything special about this day, treating it as just a holiday, it was a very important day for the Ami people.

It's roughly equivalent to National Day, right?

However, this day was anything but peaceful.

At the end of last month, Zhao Hao was reminded by the system's monthly report that next month was "Gotha Church Month".

At the time, he didn't quite understand what it meant, but at the beginning of this month, people in Afghanistan were fighting each other like dogs, and there were various unrest and riots all over the world, with the number of violent incidents greatly increasing.

But what he didn't expect was that on America's Independence Day, America also encountered trouble. And it was a massive, extraordinary event that occurred nationwide.

On this day, which should have been a day of celebration across the country, shootings occurred everywhere.

According to statistics at 3 a.m. on the third day, more than 500 shootings had occurred in the past 72 hours, resulting in more than 400 deaths! The number of injured was also close to that!

This is so damn free! Even the Amis were stunned when they saw the reports!

But in the end, everyone concluded that since bad guys have guns, good guys need guns with larger calibers, so gun shops became even more popular.

Zhao Hao had to equip the Adams family with more protective charms to prevent them from being attacked by madmen on the street.

For the past month, the air has been thick with the smell of gunpowder.

If you're reckless enough to venture into the alleyways, you'll likely spot a few eye-catching things on the brick walls.

Fortunately, this fluctuating and eerie spiritual energy dissipated by the end of the month, and everyone's temper seemed to have calmed down. Otherwise, some wealthy people would probably have already started building doomsday fortresses.

On August 1, the renowned automobile brand Chrysler released its financial report.

They reportedly lost $5.361 million between April and August, creating the largest loss in the history of the Aramco automaker!

This indicates that the effects of the financial crisis have begun to extend from finance, commodities, and prices to the most basic industrial manufacturing.

The United States' strongest sector is industrial manufacturing, which enjoys various preferential policies and support. However, even it can't hold on any longer, and it was hit with a major crisis right from the start!

When Zhao Hao put down the phone, he thought: the days of tightening my belt are yet to come!

However, he did not expect that this day would come sooner than he imagined.

Initially, it was the owners and employees of small car companies who had problems, such as mutations or crimes.

But soon more serious problems arose.

Because of the large number of new and old cars piling up during this period, many car recycling plants are already overwhelmed.

As a result, a strange creature was found among the pile of wrecked cars that was more than ten meters high!

When Zhao Hao heard that driverless cars were running amok on the streets, he thought it was because Tesla had been founded ahead of schedule.

Then I heard that those cars could even talk, and I thought they had come to life. After all, there's no rule against cars becoming sentient.

Finally, he heard that some of those cars could even transform into psionic mechanical beings that were five or six meters, or seven or eight meters tall, like robots from the Bureau of Mysteries. He immediately wondered if the AllSpark had descended upon Earth.

This time it's definitely a shapeshifting Grimlock!

Moreover, this phenomenon, like the wave of bankruptcies among car manufacturers, is nationwide, not just limited to Liberty City.

In other words, this newly emerging species of extraordinary monsters could be found anywhere.

Moreover, this thing is also camouflaged; it can actually be disguised as an ordinary car.

Because of this, Zhao Hao and his team, along with their equipment and black-clad agents, drove around the city every day, detecting psionic fluctuations.

After discovering the deformable Grimoire, a great battle was inevitable, with metal parts flying everywhere and explosions occurring repeatedly.

Although the cleanup team has been doing its best to cover it up, many people are beginning to believe that something strange is happening. After all, you can't expect a gas pipe to explode three times in one month, can you?

Moreover, the government's efforts to cover it up have further eroded public trust.

After working for almost half a month, Zhao Hao had memorized the street map of Liberty City. His vacation was also more than halfway over, and he felt that he hadn't enjoyed it at all.

Indeed, only holidays during student years are true holidays; it's hard to get a proper rest during holidays after starting work.

Of course, he also abused his power for personal gain, destroying several shapeshifting monsters before leaving the wreckage to his own monster jeep.

Let it use it; who knows, it might evolve some strange abilities.

Forget about the transforming mecha beauties; that monster doesn't have that ability. Just some kind of armed force would be enough...

However, his complaints about working overtime soon subsided.

Because something big is starting to happen in those states inside.

When it comes to America, the East and West Coasts are definitely the most prosperous and important. Next, you can also visit the Great Lakes. As for the inland states, you can use any word you can think of to describe them: vast and sparsely populated, desert and Gobi.

However, there are advantages as well. In places with fewer people, the probability of mutants and supernatural events is very low.

Indeed, people are the root of everything.

Similar to the previous incident involving the shapeshifting monster, the inland states have hardly encountered such cases.

Therefore, the offices of some secret bureaus there are very relaxed.

But now, they can't stay idle; they even need to request support from several branch offices in the east, west, south, and north.

Because the psionic resurgence accelerated this summer, it happened to stimulate a type of creature—the cicada.

This thing is called cicada by some people and cicada monkey by others. In China, some people even deep-fry it.

Most people find its squeaking annoying, but few know that this insect lives underground for several years before it has the chance to crawl out of the ground, climb up a tree, and squeak all summer.

This year, whether due to psionic stimulation or biological cycles, we unexpectedly encountered a massive cicada swarm.

How many are there?

To put it simply, the streets of this small town were covered with cicadas. The trees were teeming with them, a dense, dark mass.

A tree as thick as a bowl was sucked to death in less than a day.

Once these cicadas start chirping, it's like a bomber flying overhead and then back, flying for an entire afternoon.

Moreover, this kind of thing has happened in many towns in various states, totaling more than a dozen locations!

Originally, it was just a matter of secret agents from the Bureau of Mysteries working overtime to catch cicadas, but somehow, the legend of "Golden Cicada" started circulating in the underworld.

It is said that among these cicadas are extraordinary individuals, and eating them can prolong life.

That's great! A wealthy businessman has already posted a reward of $100 million for a single golden cicada.

All the superhumans in America mobilized, and even some foreign superhumans tried to smuggle themselves over to catch cicadas.

There's clearly something wrong with this.

The story of Jin Chanzi is true, and there are indeed such "golden cicadas" among those riotous cicadas. The question is, who is spreading this kind of story?

This is luring away extraordinary individuals!

To quote Uncle Tie: "Golden cicada? You should know that the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!"

This is a blatant conspiracy, because all the information revealed is the truth.

Upon hearing this, those extraordinary individuals exclaimed, "Hey, it really is true!" Not only did they not want to leave, they were even more determined to come!

In just over a week, all of Amei's superhumans have surfaced, and their numbers have increased dramatically.

The water got murky in no time!

On August 17th, Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day), Zhao Hao received a banana for checking in.

Mukla's Bananas

Black Iron 3-Star Item Card

Consume: +1 Strength.

Note: This is for eating, not for use.

Eat it, and give the banana peel to Xiaoruan to see if she can find any benefit in it.

Xiao Ruan: ...Is that polite? Is that polite?

Zhao Hao originally planned to take Elena out for a stroll that day and then experience the newly opened couples' hotel.

I never expected something to happen at the branch office!

Superhumans actually managed to infiltrate the Liberty City branch while most of the manpower had been transferred to the mainland.

Although they were quickly discovered and hunted down, many of the strange creatures were still lost.

When Zhao Hao took Elena to see the spectacle, the list of stolen artifacts had not yet been compiled.

As soon as Zhao Hao entered, he heard the staff of the sealing department muttering to themselves.

"Greek painted pottery jar, Class B mystery item. The jar is painted with a simple line drawing of naked Greek men wrestling... The effect is that if you look at the drawing on the jar for more than 5 seconds, you will become gay, including any image, photo, or video."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hao grabbed Elena and turned to leave!

I can't help you, I can't afford to offend you, goodbye!

Chapter 265 The Fat Man's Enemies and Secret History

On August 25th, the Ghost Festival, during the day in Songren Street, you can see many shops burning paper money at their entrances or in their backyards to commemorate their ancestors.

Zhao Hao woke up and signed in full of anticipation, only to receive a Black Iron 2-star item, the [Wolf Hunter Emblem], which allows him to sense extraordinary beings around him, especially witches, sorceresses, female sorceresses, and female monsters.

"What use are you to me? If there's a sorceress, would I need you to remind me?"