The Node in Hand

As time passed, the dust and smoke gradually dissipated.

A huge crater, over 100 meters in diameter, was exposed, resembling a crater formed by a meteorite impact.

Lu Bai shook his hands as he walked out of the pit.

When people saw the scene inside the pit, they immediately erupted in excited cheers.

This scene was also broadcast to all parts of the world via live stream.

In an instant, major cities were abuzz with excitement. The light of human civilization was able to continue, and no one could help but feel a surge of emotion.

Everyone saw that the gloom that had hung over the place since the strange occurrences began would be swept away from this moment on.

Some viewers in the live stream got so excited that they jumped up and smashed whatever furniture they could grab, as if they wanted to release all the pent-up emotions they had been suppressing.

Even though the sky was still bright, some people couldn't wait to light fireworks and launch them into the sky.

And right now, the internet is buzzing with excitement.

Everyone was talking about Lu Bai, praising his glorious deeds.

If anyone dares to question the title of Guardian God now, they will be bombarded with thousands of comments in no time.

Of course, Lu Bai knew that things were not completely over yet.

At least those strange occurrences scattered across the world still need to be dealt with one by one.

Fortunately, Lu Bai wasn't entirely clueless about this issue.

With a quick movement of his feet, he leaped back onto the rooftop.

Ignoring the adoring gazes of the crowd on the rooftop, he bent down and picked up the mirror that Black-winged Anomaly tossed to the ground.

The cloud pattern on the back of this mirror has a rustic charm, but unfortunately some of the gaps in it detract from its beauty.

Lu Bai weighed it in his hand for a moment, then took out a shard of mirror from his pocket, compared it briefly with the edges of the broken piece, and then pieced it back together.

The Deathmatch System's mechanized notification sounded at just the right moment.

[Bite!]

[Current Deathmatch Arena Node appears.]

The fighter who acquires the Node will receive Double Points Reward.

[The Node has been located in real time. (Click to view)]

[Bite!]

[Current Deathmatch Arena Node retrieved.]

[Double Points Reward loading time remaining--]

[23:59:59]

Although Lu Bai wore a smile as always, he wasn't actually that surprised.

In fact, for him now, "Node" are at most icing on the cake.

Even without "Node," he can still annihilate the strange entities.

It's just a matter of time.

Lu Bai pressed the Cloud Mirror against his chest and wrapped it with a strip of cloth.

Minister Zhang had already jogged over, gratefully reaching out his hands as if to grab something, but he was afraid that his behavior would be too abrupt and displease Lu Bai.

He had no choice but to grasp his right hand with his left and solemnly say, "Master Lu, I must express my gratitude to you on behalf of all the people."

Lu Bai quickly hid the title above his head and replaced his main title with "Innocent Smile," maximizing his approachability.

"You're welcome, it's what I should do."

Even in front of the live broadcast cameras, Minister Zhang made no attempt to hide anything.

He stated frankly, "Tell us what you need, and we'll do everything we can to meet your needs."

Perhaps in the long run, some people will feel dissatisfied with this; that's just human nature.

But at this Node time, no one would refute it; there wasn't even a single dissenting voice in the live stream.

Objectively speaking, Lu Bai's actions did indeed protect all of humanity, and whatever reward he desired was insignificant compared to the survival of human civilization.

"That's good enough."

Lu Bai waved his hand and added, "If I had to make a request, I would hope that you would complete the post-disaster reconstruction work as soon as possible and minimize the suffering of the people."

He said that, of course, to achieve his goal as quickly as possible; it's just that others didn't know that.

Upon hearing this, Minister Zhang and the surrounding high-ranking officials couldn't help but feel a deep sense of respect.

In their eyes, such a noble and selfless character is truly worthy of the title of Guardian God.

Minister Zhang immediately patted his chest and assured him, "Please rest assured, I will supervise the entire process, and there will definitely be no problems caused by human factors."

"Let's leave it at that for now. I'll deal with the remaining strange things."

After uttering these words, Lu Bai, without waiting for Minister Zhang and the others to respond, leaped over the railing and left.

It's worth mentioning that Lu Bai said he was going to deal with the remaining strange occurrences.

But in reality, he went to search for Deathmatchers to see if he could pick up some more points.

[Bite!]

[Points +12, Current Points: 58, Current Rank: 1/37]

While earning points, they also manage to solve some strange occurrences.

He circled the containment center twice before finally being able to say that he was the only death fighter left in the center.

The whole process was not difficult for him at all.

After all, deathmatchers have a big title prominently displayed above their heads, something completely different from the real world. You can see it from a great distance, and there's no way to escape it.

Given Lu Bai's current strength, the biggest challenge is actually how to strike before the fighters commit suicide.

As for the remaining dozens of die-hard fighters, they are truly hard to find.

They never came to the containment center in the first place, and they must have scattered and hidden themselves. Who knows where they went?

Finding them all would likely require a considerable amount of time and effort.

Fortunately, Lu Bai doesn't have any obsessive-compulsive disorder. If he's lucky enough to run into it by chance, he can just take care of it without causing any trouble.

If we don't meet until the end of this Deathmatch Showdown, then it doesn't matter.

Having mastered the two black-level abilities of [Load Save] and [Restore], the help provided by other titles and talents is practically negligible.

"I know you can communicate, so you'd better not play dead."

Lu Bai stood steadily suspended in mid-air, facing directly at a hideous eyeball larger than his entire body.

Perhaps having witnessed the Overbearing Power of Lu Bai's beating of the Black-winged Anomaly, after a moment of silence, its ferocious eyes still reluctantly responded.

His eyelids twitched slightly, expressing a rather human-like sense of doubt.

"You supernatural beings have a special way of communicating, right? I want you to notify all the supernatural beings now. I'll give you two choices..."

As he spoke, Lu Bai took off the Cloud Mirror hanging on his chest and said with a smile, "... First choice: within two days, all of you must come over obediently and live inside this mirror."

My second option is to assume it has a death wish and personally go and kill it.

The grotesque eyes seemed somewhat slow to react, only starting to tremble after a while.

Seeing this, Lu Bai's smile became even more amiable, and a Yama Blade appeared in his hand without him even noticing.

"Don't worry, just pass on the information truthfully, understand?"