Truth Ruler

The incandescent light overhead emitted a "buzzing" electrical hum, the light flickering along with the holographic screen.

In the next instant, the light source went out.

The entire bedroom was plunged into darkness.

Gu Shen got up immediately to pull open the curtains. Looking sideways, he saw that even the few streetlights that usually illuminated the old, unfinished building were extinguished, plunging everything within sight into pitch black.

Someone wanted to kill him.

Those people had already made their move... Cutting off the power was just the first step.

"Meow."

A calm meow sounded in the darkness. The Orange Cat, who had been lazily sleeping in its nest, appeared beside Gu Shen at some point, tiptoeing and nudging his trouser leg.

The words Chu Ling had said flashed back in his mind—

["I will contact you in another way."]

Gu Shen was stunned, "Could it be...?"

The Orange Cat simply nodded with a cold look in its eyes, while raising its paw and pointing towards the door.

Accompanied by the sound of "thump thump thump" impacts, sizzling smoke wafted from the door crack. The lock tongue was being corroded. This kind of backward, old residential security door couldn't resist this erosion at all. The door frame trembled, and the uninvited guests outside would soon be able to break in.

"Meow."

The window was opened, and the Orange Cat gracefully leaped onto the windowsill, signaling Gu Shen to act quickly.

"Are you kidding me... This is the seventh floor..."

Gu Shen's expression changed slightly.

The Orange Cat meowed once, leaping out. It landed steadily on the iron frame of an external air conditioner, coldly turning its head to look down at Gu Shen.

Gu Shen took a deep breath, glanced at the door frame that could break at any moment, and decisively decided to jump out the window.

There wasn't much time left, and there was no time to hesitate!

His skills were actually not bad. He climbed out of the window, leaped lightly, then used the air conditioner's external unit frame as a springboard, hugged a pipe, and stepped on the outer edge of the old building's wall. The protruding stones were only enough for half a foot to gain purchase.

"Phew... Success..."

Gu Shen breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was preparing to rest for a moment before sliding down the pipe, the Orange Cat urgently called out, signaling him to climb up quickly.

Upwards... Was the path below a dead end?

Gu Shen didn't hesitate. He quickly followed the Orange Cat and climbed upwards.

"Boom!"

In the next moment, a violent roar of exploding airflow came from below, billowing air waves surged, breaking through the glass. The sound of the heatwave seemed to be mixed with a few weak screams, which were swallowed by the flames before they could be transmitted.

Gu Shen's face suddenly turned pale.

The gushing fire tide dyed the field of vision in the corner of his eye into a scarlet red. The pipes became scorching hot, but under the crisis, Gu Shen climbed extremely fast. This old, unfinished building had a total of eleven floors. After climbing to the top, there was a wide rooftop. Rolling clothes and bedding were stacked on the rooftop's iron frame, rustling in the hot wind.

"Is there still justice? Is there still law?!"

Gu Shen couldn't believe the scene he had just witnessed.

He leaned against the edge of the rooftop, barely managing to stand, and looked down, feeling a wave of dizziness.

These guys were simply insane. Their actions just now were far beyond simple breaking and entering to kill... Did these people intend to blow up the entire building?

The sudden explosion shattered the silence of the deep night. Many people were awakened by the loud noise. By this time, the fire had already spread, rapidly expanding from the seventh floor. From a close distance, this old, unfinished building stood tall amidst the raging sea of fire, its swaying silhouette surrounded by blazing flames, like a mirage of hell.

However, the real disaster was more than just this fire—

The awakened people tried to dial for help but failed. For some reason, the signal was unusually poor, and both the power and the internet had been cut off.

When disaster struck, humanity itself was too insignificant.

They could do nothing but watch as a scene of hell on earth unfolded—

Several charred, blurry figures thrashed in the flames, trying to shout for help.

Even without hearing their voices, one could feel the pain and despair of the sufferers at this moment.

This sudden explosion trapped innocent residents above the seventh floor in the tide of fire.

Some chose to jump from the windows to survive.

"Whoosh—bang!"

Burning torsos fell through the air in broken arcs, landing on the ground with a crisp sound. The black coke crashed to the ground, splitting into pieces, still carrying scattered sparks of fire.

These people who jumped from the building did not know that the flames in this explosion were also mixed with a strong corrosive force.

Seeing this scene, Gu Shen silently clenched his fists. He realized that he had made an incredibly correct decision at the critical moment... If he had escaped downwards, he would already be a charred corpse.

But now, trapped in the tide of fire, what should he do?

Those who were chasing him... coming with such surging killing intent, would soon reach the rooftop...

At this moment, Gu Shen was unprecedentedly calm. Because of the huge explosion, his body was still trembling with physiological reactions, but his fingers were no longer shaking.

He looked at Chu Ling... the Orange Cat, standing proudly at the highest point of the rooftop, also looking at him.

Their eyes met.

In that instant, inspiration struck. Gu Shen took out the A-009's "Silver Ruler" that A-009 had given him.

The Orange Cat spoke again, its voice still cat language like "meow."

But after hearing it, Gu Shen unbelievably understood the Orange Cat's thoughts.

"There are two enemies, expected to arrive on the rooftop in 20 seconds and 40 seconds... The retreat has been blocked. You need to use the 'Truth Ruler' here to fight back."

Truth Ruler... so the name of this ruler is "Truth Ruler"!

"How do I use it?"

Gu Shen held his breath, anxiously looking towards the rooftop door lock... Time was running out. Whether it was an illusion or not, he could now hear heavy footsteps!

The Orange Cat said quickly, "Inject your spirit, imagine the scene. The Truth Ruler can transform thoughts and make them come true... The stronger your mental power, the more successful the transformation of your thoughts."

"Thump—"

A heavy sound.

The lock was almost shattered by the powerful impact.

Gu Shen gripped the Silver Ruler in both hands, focusing his attention, staring intently at the door.

His mind was blank, all his mental power focused on one point, the scene of Nan Jin fighting A-009 flashed and collided in his mind, the Silver Sword Domain pieced together by those two longswords, at this moment, seemed to have transformed into condensed beams of light.

The scale of the Truth Ruler lit up bit by bit.

Wind arose from nothing, sweeping across the rooftop, rows of clothes and bedding were blown up—

"Boom!"

After a brief silence.

With the second impact, the door lock was directly smashed, and a tall black shadow, directly bearing the door panel, crashed sideways, his body as strong as a mature wild bull!

It was at this moment that the Silver Ruler ignited with a blazing light.

The clothes thrown from the rooftop were cut by thousands of thin lines, instantly cracking countless tiny gaps, the silver blades lingering in the gale overlapped and slashed, instantly colliding with that reckless, bull-like figure—

Nan Jin's two swords repelled the Eight-Foot Lady.

Gu Shen aimed the ruler at the tall man.

Now and then, the two scenes were strikingly similar, except that the latter one... was even more bloody and tragic.

"Ugh..."

The tall man who crashed out onto the rooftop let out a horrified muffled sound in his throat. That brief moment of silence was originally a deliberate pause in his cat-and-mouse game. According to the information, the target this time was just an ordinary person.

But he never expected... to be greeted by such a grand display of murderous intent. The petrified skin was torn apart by countless overlapping blades in an instant. Accelerating the huge inertia after crashing through the door, he personally pushed himself into an abyss of no return—

Countless blades hung on the rooftop.

The tip of the Truth Ruler was entwined with silver-white brilliance, engraving the rooftop into Gu Shen's "imagined" Nan Jin Sword Domain.

The reason it was an "imagined" Sword Domain was because Gu Shen simply couldn't understand how Nan Jin had created the Sword Domain at that time... so he relied on his imagination to reconstruct a Sword Domain.

The other party's behavior was very simple and arrogant... casually setting fire to an entire building, most likely a person who disregarded life... so it was only natural to treat himself as an ant...

Thinking of these things in an instant, Gu Shen decided to arrange the rooftop into a quagmire of hanging blades.

And this "intruder" who crashed into the quagmire at a speed of a thousand jun, at this moment, looked like a death seeker willingly being sliced into a thousand pieces... in this static picture, he was actively cutting himself open—

Sprays of blood erupted.

And a warm spray splattered on Gu Shen's face.