"A tragic product of a chaotic world... Fortunately, Miss Anna is safe and sound."
By extracting Dongfang Ganting's memories, Zhang Chen, clad in a black robe, learned Anna's current location. At the same time, he uncovered information about the Jailers, Huaxia Country's overall situation, and the structure of the world's current landscape.
(At this point in Zhang Chen's first life, Zero had not yet been born. There were only the two parallel worlds of the human realm and the underworld.)
"There are powerful figures among the Jailers far stronger than this man. I never expected that, apart from the human world we inhabit, there was also an underworld that housed ghostly creatures like us. The underworld should have far less of humanity's ugliness than the human realm. My strength has not fully matured to the point where I can change the world, so in that case..."
Zhang Chen quickly arrived at the laboratory where Anna was being held and kicked open the heavy steel door.
"Miss Anna, take back what I said before. Would you come with me to live in a peaceful and tranquil place?" To Anna, the white-haired Zhang Chen in black robes still appeared to be nothing more than a low-level ghostly creature, yet he somehow seemed exceptionally powerful.
"Zhang Chen, how did you become like this... Is the Jailer outside dead?"
The Zhang Chen before her, with his flowing hair, was worlds apart from the ugly, armless, mouth-like creature she had seen in Moon Creek Town.
"I killed him. From his brain, I learned much about this chaotic world. I am still far too weak to change it, so let us go somewhere far from the sins and clamor of the human world and live well together. I promise that for at least five hundred years,