Things Returned to Their Owner

"Hey, I really like this little girl, but isn't it a bit too much of a sacrifice for her to see her mother? Are you really planning to just go back like this?" asked the Outer World Division Yi the RV.

"This matter does require the Mysterious Affairs Department to make some sacrifices," Qing Chen replied casually while driving.

"I'm saying you have to make sacrifices. You don't really think you can go back to Osaka and get away unscathed, do you?" The Outer World Division Yi was puzzled.

"I never intended to walk away unscathed," Qing Chen said calmly. "Shadow said that with every gain comes a loss, and I agree with that. If it were last month, I would have carefully weighed the pros and cons and made the choice that would maximize my benefits."

"And now?"

"Now I think that if the world doesn't even allow a little girl to look at her mother, then the world must be wrong," Qing Chen said seriously. "I used to think that the real world was just about pros and cons, but later I realized that when you start weighing pros and cons, you've already been defeated by the world."

Outer World Division Yi suddenly said, "My father Ren Xiaosu, once said something that I'd like to share with you."

"What did you say?"

"Don't let the tragedy of the times become your tragedy. Congratulations on your return. You are still the same person I first knew," said the Outer World Division Yi.

Don't let the tragedy of the times become your tragedy.

Qing Chen pondered the sentence carefully, then grinned. This was truly something to be happy about.

It was even more gratifying than surviving a Life and Death Trial.

The Outer World Division Yi said, "You are an extremely intelligent person. People like you are the easiest to see through the essence of the world and the easiest to gain power and money, but you are also the most ruthless. You manipulate the world and its rules with ease, yet you don't realize what you've lost."

"Don't use 'you all'," Qing Chen raised an eyebrow.

"By the way, this time you have to give me five hundred... one million!" said the Outer World Division Yi.

"Make a deal!"

"Did I ask for too little?"

"It seems so," Qing Chen changed the subject, "Is your brother awake?"

"No, he erased more than thirty consciousnesses that were trying to achieve immortality in the network, and then went to sleep," said the Outer World Division Yi. "But he kept an eye on you for a while before he went to sleep."

Qing Chen was stunned. He didn't expect that Yi's brother was still paying attention to him.

He suddenly asked, "I want to know, was the time-travel incident planned by your brother?"

Outer World Division Yi: "Are you planning to let Yang Yang take this little girl back to Los Angeles?"

Qing Chen smiled and said, "Mm."

Yi's attitude has already said a lot.

So even if Yi's brother wasn't in charge of this matter, he must have been one of the participants.

Qing Chen simply couldn't figure out what method could possibly connect the two worlds...

Even a demigod couldn't do something like this. Could it be that there really are gods in the Inner World?

Outer World Division Yi, "You'd better hide her well. She's too much of a threat to the Kamishiro Family. If they find her, they'll kill her at all costs, even if she's in Los Angeles. There was once a family in the Inner World that threatened the Kamishiro family, but it's now extinct."

"Does the person Jingūji Maki exist in the Inner World?" Qing Chen asked again, wanting to confirm whether Xiao Zhenji was a beta tester.

Outer World Division Yi: "Yes, if you don't want her to travel through time, then don't let her get close to Osaka."

That's strange.

In the Inner World, there are no substitutes for those who are beta testers. For example, Qing Chen is always impersonated by his shadow.

If there is also a Xiao Zhenji in the Inner World, it means that Xiao Zhenji is not a beta tester.

But if they weren't beta testers, why were they able to cultivate directly? Was it simply because the rules of the Outer World had gradually loosened?

In the past few days, news has emerged in the Outer World that many "non- Time Walker" have begun to awaken.

But Qing Chen felt it wasn't that simple.

At one point, he even thought that Jingūji Maki was more like a powerful weapon that a god had specially reserved to destroy the Kamishiro Family.

This little girl was sent to the Outer World because she was easily killed by the gods in the Inner World.

Give her a chance to grow.

But now, the idea that the Outer World Division Yi seems to overturn this conjecture.

Etc.

Qing Chen asked, "Yi, can you lie?"

Outer World Division Yi: "I can learn."

Qing Chen: "..."

That attitude is just awful.

Qing Chen had a hunch that Yi must have misled him with some information.

At this moment, he was getting closer and closer to Osaka.

Within ten days, that place will become a battlefield of carnage in the Age of Gods.

"Are you nervous? To get Xiao Zhenji's attention, you 'Outer World Division Yi have to make a big fuss."

"It would be a lie to say I'm not nervous," Qing Chen laughed. "I can even feel my adrenaline starting to pump. But like I said, if this world can't allow a little girl to look at her mother, then someone needs to correct this world."

Outer World Division Yi said, "Perhaps this is the meaning of time travel."

"Um?"

The Outer World Division Yi: "Alright, I'll take care of what you asked me to do. It should take two hours at most. But make sure the money arrives in your account promptly. Also, the Inner World One asked me to give you a gift."

"What gift?" Qing Chen was taken aback.

"Drive, drive to the edge of the city," said the Outer World Division Yi.

"Why are you singing now?" Qing Chen raised an eyebrow, curious about what gift Yi was going to give him.

The RV drove along the highway towards Osaka.

Just as he caught a glimpse of the magnificent city's silhouette in the distance, he spotted a familiar figure standing alone by the roadside.

This person always seems to be a loner, and is extremely mysterious.

Zheng Yuandong, Boss Zheng.

The Outer World Division Yi: "Let me tell you, I wish you a resounding victory, and that you will annihilate all your enemies. What you needed, it has retrieved for you."

Qing Chen parked the car and silently got out, walking towards Zheng Yuandong.

But then they saw the reliable Boss Zheng, who was as steadfast as a mountain, pat a long Black Box standing beside him and say with a smile, "Before you start the killing spree, take back what belongs to you."

Qing Chen took a deep breath and opened the box.

The cold, black anti-materiel sniper rifle commands Conquer by Virtue.

Strands of transparent silk, like nothing at all Puppet Master.

A black pinky ring that can open all doors in the world—power.

There was also a gold coin, a gift from the old man Li Xiurui, which he used to exchange for one tael of gold from his youth.

Qing Chen smiled; at this moment, he had truly returned to his peak fighting strength.

He said to Zheng Yuandong, "Thank you."

Zheng Yuandong shook his head. "I also made a deal with someone else, no need to thank me."

Qing Chen understood. If there was anyone in the world who could so easily find the location where he hid the Forbidden Item, it must be Yi.

But the Boss Zheng could remain unmoved by three Forbidden Item is enough to prove Boss Zheng character.

Qing Chen looked at the distant outline of Osaka's lights; he was back.

"What are Boss Zheng's plans for the future?"

"You want to kill the people you want, and I naturally have the people I want to kill. You're in Osaka, and I'll go to Kobe."

A recording suddenly flooded major social media platforms in the island nation, in which two Mysterious Affairs Department discussed how to allocate Jingūji Maki, their tone clearly treating the little girl like a pet or plaything.

The sender was an unknown number, and no one could find her address. The title of the recording was simple. "Wearing the cloak of a divine apostle, turning the human world into purgatory."

Soon, the poster's account was banned, and the recordings were also blocked.

However, unfamiliar accounts sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

There were no special technical means involved; it's just that the speed at which the poster changed IPs and registered accounts was beyond imagination, and the speed at which accounts were deleted and banned was not as fast as the speed at which she registered.

Initially, there was only one recording, but later hundreds of recordings were leaked, including those that restricted the freedom of potential Time Walker, such as how to make Time Walker transport goods like mules.

All the recordings were leaked for one purpose: to expose the shady dealings of the Mysterious Affairs Department.

In just two hours, these hundreds of recordings spread throughout the island nation. The foul tone and topics of the two Mysterious Affairs Department members aroused the anger of countless people.

During this period, many people were taken away by the Mysterious Affairs Department and disappeared without a trace.

Prior to this, the Mysterious Affairs Department had said it was a good thing, that the person taken away was chosen by the gods.

However, it turns out that this was not the case.

This is the transaction Outer World Division Yi and Qing Chen.

Outside the small building of Jingūji Maki's mother in Hokkaido.

The people who were originally squatting and waiting gradually started talking.

People come here partly because the bounty is indeed very tempting for ordinary people, and partly because, usually, the wanted person is "guilty," so they have no psychological burden.

However, after listening to the audio clips, everyone suddenly realized that things seemed a little different from what they had imagined.

The thug who killed hundreds of people from the Mysterious Affairs Department with a little girl seems to be just a "protector" who upholds the bottom line of human conscience.

What crime did the little girl commit? Why was she captured by the Mysterious Affairs Department, and what right did they have to treat her like a pet or a plaything?

Furthermore, what did those who helped the Mysterious Affairs Department become? Accomplices!

Those who had been crouching outside the door stood up. Someone muttered under their breath, "Should we leave? Even if we have a lot of money, we can't do this kind of thing. Someone stepped forward to protect a little girl, and we're helping the Mysterious Affairs Department capture him? Is this something a human being would do?"

"Let's go, let's go!"

In just a few hours, more than half of the people outside that small building had left.

The people from the Mysterious Affairs Department sat in their car, sneering. In the end, a small percentage of them stayed behind for the money.

Just as they were sneering, a passerby suddenly threw two eggs at them. The egg whites, yolks, and broken shells were stuck to the glass, looking particularly out of place.

By the time they got out of the car and chased after them, the person who threw the eggs had already disappeared.

Thank you to Captain Iron-Blooded Flag, Yi Ying Feng Yun, You Feng Tang Pan Hua Wei Mian, Ming Dui Dui_Gungnire, Li Pangpang's Zhao Rou Rou, Chen Lun De Yu Xiang Shaonian, Han Ye Wu Mo, Ling Xia Zhi Ren, Yue Yi Wei Xiong, Tua Si_, Liu Lang Gu Zhu Yi Zhi, Hou Ti Xiang Dou Shi Hang Mo, JAKrAkEn, Tu Bu Qi Xiao Yu, Liao Cao Huo Qing Shen, Yang Wei Li up Xia, Cu Gang Zi Li De Bo Li, and Kou Jiao Da Han Jiao Ban Fei for becoming new allies of this book.

May the bosses be magnanimous, and may they walk with steady steps and avoid breaking bones.