Zhang Liang: Why Did Everyone Here Seem a Little Off?

"I've finished reading..." Zhang Liang set down the chronicle, his feelings more tangled than ever.

Xu Lang sat with one leg crossed over the other and set a report aside.

"You should have seen my name in the sections about Mad King Building."

"I'm not an ordinary person who happened to gain Transcendent powers. I'm a chosen player, and I rule Mad King Building."

Zhang Liang jolted. A name mentioned again and again in the chronicle flashed through his mind. "You're Xu Lang?!"

"Yes," Xu Lang said.

"Then why did you infect the shelter's residents? What do you want from us?" Zhang Liang's tact seemed to have deserted him. Or perhaps everything he had been through was simply too bizarre for him to think straight. Agitated, he pressed on. "Do you want to protect us, or... rule us?"

A mocking smile touched Xu Lang's lips. "Protect you, of course. Earth is my home. How could I let the cataclysm ravage it?"

Back when Xu Lang had a gun, he had also said he wanted to protect the other players.

Who climbed onto a throne without claiming they were doing it for everyone's sake? Going around saying "I want to rule you" would be a bit much.

Though with Xu Lang's current charm, perhaps he really could act as willfully as Red Butterfly.

I wonder what ability the Black Crown will gain if I conquer Earth...

Xu Lang considered it privately.

He had once marked Heaven's Wrath Building, Evil King Building, and Paradise Building as targets for conquest, but in the end, he had conquered only Evil King Building.

Even that conquest had taken effect only after he met Evil Dragon while logged out.

Conquering the players of Mad King Building had given the Black Crown the Endless Challenge to the