Strange Power

Chen Xuan couldn't help laughing.

Even a negative passive ability counted as an ability. In a sense, he could be immune to every curse without the Saint Maiden's blessing, as long as he could connect to Wi-Fi.

As for the Thousand Thoughts Sword and Divine Eye Method he'd replaced, they hadn't vanished. Chen Xuan found both abilities in his inventory.

"What is it? Something good happen?" Lin Qing asked from the sofa, playing with her phone. Liu Shuyue wasn't in the store; she had probably returned to Mala Village.

"Not exactly. A customer died."

Chen Xuan opened the Ability Butler app. Sure enough, Gilles de Rais's name was gone from the invitation and follow-up section.

Chen Xuan suddenly realized how easily his expression could be misread. A customer had summoned him away, the customer had died, and he'd come back without a word, walked to the counter, and burst out laughing. To Lin Qing, that had to look frightening.

After all, she was both an employee and a customer.

"What kind of person do you think I am? Why would I laugh because a customer died?" Chen Xuan glared at her, then briefly recounted his harrowing experience.

"I see... An Erosion Point leading to a world on the verge of collapse." Lin Qing's expression grew grave, as though it struck close to home. "I don't know how they reached that point, but it doesn't sound like the Nanobug Plague destroyed them."

"Could there be many worlds like that?"

"Who knows?" She sighed. "To us, worlds that haven't been discovered might as well not exist. But statistically, countless worlds must have been destroyed before anyone found them. Life emerging at all is incredibly unlikely, let alone surviving long enough to develop a vast civilization."

"At first, I thought our world was