Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Colt learned from the Bureau of Mysteries that in just three days, the Bureau's Handbook of Extraordinary Creatures had included fifty-nine new species!

The vast majority of these creatures are dangerous, at the very least large carnivorous animals with strong bodies, sharp teeth, and claws.

They are already very vigilant and wary when they suddenly appear in unfamiliar surroundings, and will go berserk at the slightest disturbance.

It breathes fire, freezes ice, whips up raging winds, spews rainbow rays, and can petrify anyone it glares at...

It seems that major cities have been invaded by supernatural beings!

All the major powers were originally mobilizing troops to contain those dangerous enemies, similar to the Zerg, that could cause devastation to the entire surface world, but suddenly their own backyard caught fire.

Almost every city has come to a standstill!

People kept their doors tightly shut, gripped their guns tightly, and hid behind them, ready to fire a burst at any unfamiliar creature.

Of course, for most superhuman beings, the lethality of a single-person firearm is limited.

Those who can truly protect themselves and their families with just a gun are all big shots.

Of course, there are also many people who, when faced with a life-or-death crisis, directly unleash their inner power, awaken their spiritual energy, and escape from a desperate situation.

In short, from his vantage point high above, Zhao Hao saw that the entire Free City was in complete chaos.

Strange, supernatural creatures rampage through the streets, sometimes even fighting each other.

Black smoke, flames, gunshots, animal roars, screams, and cries for help—a scene straight out of the apocalypse.

But what worried him even more was whether the evil spirit could slip into those big holes.

Chapter 509 Believe in the Cat God Cult, and You Won't Go Hungry

There are many small restaurants on a small street on the edge of Songren City in Liberty City Queens, including a small breakfast shop called "Hangzhou Xiaolongbao".

This small restaurant has only been open for a little over three years. The owners are a husband and wife who came to Americo five years ago. After two years of hard work, they used their savings to open this small shop.

Although the shop is small, the steamed buns are very delicious, and the local Song people often patronize the business, making it surprisingly popular.

However, their timing was unfortunate. They had thought that the royalists and reformists within the Song Dynasty were fighting each other so fiercely that they almost went to war. Thinking that they knew some fellow countrymen in Ameriko, they left their homes to escape the war.

However, in the past two years, there has been no safe place in the world.

Especially the Free City of America.

America is one of the world's two major powers, a bipolar world power!

That was naturally a place of great entanglement of cause and effect, a place of great right and wrong. And Free City was the heart of America.

In recent years, the West Coast has seen a continuous influx of people, with more than eight million people now making a living in this so-called free metropolis.

This place is far more complicated than it seems.

As the 1980s progressed, the resurgence of psychic energy accelerated, and supernatural events began to escalate.

Places like Liberty City, despite being suppressed by several extraordinary organizations and branches of the Mysterious Bureau, are still gathering places for extraordinary individuals, making them a chaotic and disorganized mess.

They came to escape the war, but unexpectedly found themselves in an even more terrifying supernatural crisis.

This is what I said before: the strong often die a bad death, and the weak often live a bad life.

However, since it was near Songren City, with the help of compatriots and the headquarters on the west coast of Hongmen, it was manageable.

(Those who are actually going abroad should be careful. It is said that some people from the same hometown will stab each other in the back. There are people who make a living by ripping off their fellow countrymen. Don't fall for it.)

Although Liberty City was in chaos, the couple who ran the steamed bun shop weren't affected too much.

But then even more chaos ensued.

One afternoon a week ago, the golden sun shone down.

Suddenly, chaos erupted in the streets of Songren City as a giant beast, four or five meters long, emerged from the city.

He ran wildly along the rooftops and eaves, with four or five superhumans from the red gates yelling and chasing after him.

The giant beast was shaped like a tiger or lion, but its face was not as long; it was somewhat flat, like a Pekingese.

Its body is covered in long golden fur, and its mouth is filled with fangs, just like the stone lions guarding the temple gate.

It lightly takes flight from the eaves and rooftops, passing by like a cloud.

Behind it was a dazzling five-colored tail, like a ribbon fluttering in the sky. As it walked by, it was as if a colorful cloud had drifted by, which was quite dreamlike.

Several Black Iron-level Red Gate superhumans behind it, despite using grappling hooks, speed boosts, and teleportation talismans, simply couldn't catch up.

This thing ran from one end of the street to the other, causing chaos and destruction all the way.

When ordinary Song people saw this thing, they were so terrified they nearly jumped out of their skin, ran away in panic, and cried out, "Oh my god!"

What happened after that is generally unknown to most people.

But the steamed bun shop owner knew, because the next morning, several people from Hongmen were eating steamed buns there and talking openly.

Actually, we don't need to hide it from anyone anymore during this period. Many strange beasts and extraordinary creatures that suddenly appeared have made it into the newspapers. It feels normal to see them on TV in a few more days.

The steamed bun shop owner listened intently for a while, and it was said to be a mythical beast called Zouwu! Later, experts from the Red Gate went out to chase after it. As for how it came to be, no one knows.

Although I was still shaken, I didn't know what I had actually seen; I had only heard about it.

The couple who ran the steamed bun shop didn't think much of it and simply stayed home, living their own quiet lives.

But in this kind of world, no one can expect to live a peaceful life.

Having just finished a busy morning, selling seven or eight trays of steamed buns and mantou, the proprietress began to complain: "Why hasn't business been good these past few days?"

The steamed bun shop owner shook his head. "I heard that many members of the Red Gate have gone on missions and are not in Songren City. Moreover, I saw that many old shops on the street are closed. I heard from Old Chen that they have all left the city to hide."

"Honey, should we go into hiding? The news in the newspaper is pretty scary."

The shop owner wiped the sweat from his brow with a towel. "Where can we hide? This little shop is our only home!"

The proprietress thought to herself, "That's true. We should be grateful to have food to eat; why would we hide?"

As a result, less than an hour after the conversation ended, around eight or nine o'clock in the morning, the secluded street where the steamed bun shop was located suddenly began to shake.

The proprietress screamed, and then the boss grabbed her hand and dragged her outside.

"An earthquake?!" The proprietress was still in shock.

The boss initially thought it was an earthquake, but it wasn't.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the street about thirty meters away from them, and in the blink of an eye, it was more than a meter wide! It looked as if the earth had collapsed.

However, it wasn't a cataclysmic event; something broke free from below!

It was a crawling monster that was 1.5 meters tall and more than 4 meters long, resembling a crocodile but with four pairs of short legs.

As soon as it came out, it roared, shattering the windows of more than a dozen nearby shops. Then, it excitedly spewed out a burst of flames, setting a nearby barbecue restaurant on fire.

The horrified onlookers on the street witnessed the barbecue restaurant owner struggling, engulfed in flames, before collapsing to the ground within seconds...

Although this bastard, relying on his acquaintance with the Song people in charge of the city, was used to passing off inferior goods as superior ones and even using duck meat to impersonate mutton skewers, and was often scolded by customers, he did not deserve to die!

Moreover, it was done in such a brutal way, using intense fire for grilling.

However, these people had no time to feel sorry for others, because the eight-legged fire crocodile had excitedly rushed towards its breakfast—the very same group of onlookers who were now dumbfounded!

The monster's eight short legs swung clumsily and quickly across the ground as it lunged at a fat boss.

Everyone cried out and ran in the opposite direction. But after only a couple of steps, a dark figure leaped swiftly across the wall of the second or third floor, suddenly passing over the head of the fastest runner. A head rolled to the ground, blood spurting high into the air.

The head on the ground showed a surprised expression and even blinked.

He was always trying to take advantage of others and frequently caused trouble, often dumping garbage in front of people's houses. The couple who ran the steamed bun shop suffered a lot from his mistreatment when they first opened. Now he's dead.

Everyone slammed on the brakes and came to a stop.

Behind them was an eight-legged fire crocodile, which liked to roast people before eating them and had an enormous appetite.

In front of him was a brain-eating macaque with gray fur, over a meter tall, three eyes on its forehead, and two claws over twenty centimeters long.

This thing does give you a quick, satisfying blow—the head just falls off in an instant. But it eats brains, and right now it's sucking the scum from that unfortunate soul's head!

They'll both die a horrible death!

Meanwhile, an invasion of supernatural creatures also broke out in the Song people's city.

There were about a dozen extraordinary creatures appearing in the twenty-odd streets and shops.

The Red Gate had already deployed many people to support the more dangerous invasive alien species. But then their own backyard caught fire!

Currently, there are fewer than ten extraordinary individuals inside Songren City who are chasing and intercepting those extraordinary creatures. Some of them are weak and are no match for those extraordinary creatures, and are instead being chased around in a chaotic manner.

Who would even notice what was happening on the streets outside the Song Dynasty city?

Another scream rang out as someone was swallowed whole. The enormous eight-legged crocodile was now only six or seven meters away from Baozi and his wife.

The proprietress was already crying, and the couple hugged each other, looking around in despair.

Just then, the landlady, her face streaked with tears, clutched a strange badge she wore around her neck and wailed, "Help! Lord Orange, help me!"

The emblem features a relief of a fat cat standing upright, leaning on a cane.

It turns out that when the steamed bun shop first opened, the old man with the orange seat, who treated the entire Free City as his own canteen, had already come to inspect it.

I was very satisfied after tasting it and ate it for several days in a row.

With Orange's appetite, even a simple taste would require dozens of pieces to fill a steamer. The couple couldn't possibly have missed such a huge loss.

I initially thought there was a thief, but after staking out the place for half the night, I found the Orange House.

Orange-sama walks upright with a wooden cane in her hand. Although she squints her eyes and has a big belly, making her look like a fat otaku, she is still quite unusual.

The stick in the boss's hand clattered to the ground, and the boss's wife was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground and cried out, "Great Cat Immortal, please forgive me!"

Orange was also a little embarrassed, after all, she still had several steamed buns stuffed in her mouth. It would be so embarrassing to be seen like this.

As the person in charge, Orange tried her best to say a few things, such as "The steamed buns are pretty good," "You can make more chicken filling, I love it," "Make less beef, there's mad cow disease going around lately," and "Don't make sweet tofu pudding anymore, you might get beaten up..."

Finally, they made a promise: "If you eat our food, I guarantee you'll become rich." This is the emblem they left behind.

Actually, this was made by Orange casually grabbing a kitchen knife and prying off a piece of iron from the top. After all, it's Bronze 5, so it's got a lot of prestige.

After that, the couple didn't dare mention it again, and they just made more steamed buns as if they were feeding the dogs!

However, business did improve after that, and so did our luck.

Why would you buy seven or eight drawers in the morning and still think it's not enough?

So the proprietress was quite devout, and she always carried the badge with her.