Old Acquaintance, Birdman Again

The old guy's words sounded somewhat bleak, but they were the truth.

Sometimes, I had to admit that he saw many things very clearly.

Of course, he was a system. Who knew how many cases were stored in his database, or how many times he had simulated and analyzed the affairs of the world?

Or rather, perhaps he understood human nature even better than humans did. He knew where humanity's greatest weakness lay, and he knew even better that human nature was inherently evil.

At that moment, Ox-Head was dead, and the Underworld Officials had fled. We successfully entered Fengdu City.

Of course, getting in had gone smoothly, but trouble found us again soon enough. Less than ten minutes after we entered the city, two squads of Underworld Officials surrounded us.

The leaders were actually Black and White Impermanence.

They had clearly recognized me as well.

"It's you? Since you already left, why did you come back?"

How the hell did I end up back here? Ye Jinghong and I had clashed with them before, and only because Ye Jinghong used some means had we managed to escape.

"Catching up with old friends? Kid, there's nothing to explain to them. Kill whoever blocks our way—kill, kill, kill! We'll slaughter our way through, make them scared enough, and then they won't dare come out and yap nonsense anymore!"

The old guy looked at Black and White Impermanence with disdain.

The two of them seemed startled when they saw the old guy. Could it be that they knew him?

It was hard to say. The old guy was a system, and in Yanxu, systems were terrifying existences. Moreover, many people and events were within a system's calculations. Perhaps even the so-called underworld was no exception.

"Well, I think we can talk this