Infernal Artist

Two mechanical fingers gently clamped Liu Ping's ID card.

"Okay, Night Watchman Liu Ping, now it's time for you to make a choice." S0005 robot said.

"What choice?" Liu Ping asked.

The robot said: "You are the only living person. Now please make a choice: report the news to the company, or give up here and flee to the wilderness immediately."

It further explained: "If you escape, I will mark your ID card as 'escape' and pass it to the company; if you stay, then you will report the situation to the company, and you will be responsible for both luck and misfortune." Carry."

"Let me report. There is no point in running away." Liu Ping said.

"Well said, that's what men should be like, full of discipline and hard-core style." The robot said.

It raised its arm and pressed a button.

Surrounding the outside of the town, a steel city wall several meters wide slowly rose.

Liu Ping looked at the steel city wall.

"Raise the city wall during the day?" he asked.

"This is an automatic combat-style city wall that can protect against wild beasts and wilderness thugs during the day - it is better than nothing, after all, there is no one to defend the city," the robot said.

"what's next?"

"Let's pass the information back to the company quickly," the robot said.

"How to do?"

"It's very simple."

The robot squatted down, slowly changed its shape, and transformed into a phone booth again.

"A connection request has been sent to the company. When the bell rings, you will answer the phone and think about your information in your mind." A voice came from the phone booth.

"Just think about it once?" Liu Ping asked.

"Yes, I am responsible for converting the information you want into images and passing them to the company."

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

"What's wrong?" the robot asked.

"It's okay, let's start." Liu Ping said.

"good."

Waited for a few minutes.

Suddenly, there was a ringing sound in the phone booth.

Liu Ping walked in, answered the phone, and put the receiver to his ear.

"Start." The robot's voice sounded.

Liu Ping closed his eyes and directly recalled the scenes he saw last night——

The outer world collapsed and fell towards the world of cultivation.

Darkmist Town was destroyed.

The terrifying monster appears.

And his helpless avoidance.

If you think about it from another perspective, as a manager above, you may not care about how a border town was destroyed. Even if you find out the cause, you may not necessarily violate the existing rules and pay for a little-known night watchman. show mercy.

Killing yourself is also a management tool for managers.

but--

If this night watchman explores something as important as the collapse of Tianwai Tian——

This kind of thing definitely comes with huge opportunities!

Managers might be tempted.

——This is your own way of survival!

Besides, the guy named Luo Sheng has said that no one knows what happened here yet!

Liu Ping finished recalling the scene after the selection and slowly opened his eyes.

"I've finished thinking about it," he said toward the phone booth.

"Then, all we have left is to wait." The robot's nervous voice sounded.

Time passed slowly.

The sun rose a few inches and slowly moved towards the center of the sky.

It's getting closer to noon...

Liu Ping was looking at the scene outside the glass window in a trance, when suddenly there was a sound in his ears.

A pleasant female voice sounded from the receiver:

"Trainee night watchman Liu Ping, please stay where you are and don't move. We are capturing your coordinates. You will be teleported back to the company in ten seconds."

Liu Ping opened his eyes wide.

Just teleport yourself back like this without using any magic circle or external force?

It seems that the importance of this matter is even greater than what I imagined.

Ten seconds passed quickly.

Suddenly, sharp piercing sounds sounded from deep in the sky.

It seemed like something was flying towards the phone booth.

The next moment.

The world is spinning.

Before Liu Ping had time to sense anything, he found that everything around him had changed.

The dark, wilderness, and ruin-like town disappeared completely, but in front of us was a different scene.

Buildings made of metal tower into the sky, like a steel forest.

The surfaces of these buildings have neat openings and are covered with glass to form windows, proving that they are the product of human civilization.

Various technological aircraft flew back and forth in the sky.

Liu Ping, on the other hand, stood in a phone booth and appeared on the terrace of a high-rise building.

In front of the terrace, a woman in a black dress came up, reached out to open the phone booth, and smiled at Liu Ping:

"You are so young, but it is almost noon now, and night will fall soon after. We will talk about you later. What matters now is, are the images you just thought about true?"

Liu Ping looked at the woman in the black dress.

I saw a line of small words floating above her head:

"The substitute of the gods, the realm of sainthood."

"Effect: The gods will come to this body at any time and do things in the human world."

——She is the stand-in for the Goddess of Pain!

Liu Ping's expression remained unchanged and he nodded: "I experienced it myself."

The woman looked down at the book in her hand.

Two lines of small words appeared quickly on the book:

"Passed polygraph."

"He told the truth."

The woman smiled.

At this time, the sky quickly darkened.

The whole world turned into darkness in an instant.

However, the densely packed metal buildings gradually lit up with bright lights, illuminating the night sky and turning the earth into a city that never sleeps.

Liu Ping had never seen such a scene before and couldn't help but take a look.

"Excuse me - it's obviously noon, why is night falling?" he asked.

"Because the Torment Lady is attacking our world," the woman said.

The woman looked at Liu Ping with a clear understanding in her heart.

——This is a teenager.

Judging from the identity card, he grew up in the wilderness and was a scavenger.

There are too many refugees in the wilderness, but few can become scavengers.

The refugees would rather fight each other for a piece of bread than have the courage to go to the world of death.

Even the refugees know——

In the world of death, being eaten by a death monster is considered a good ending.

And this young man not only became a scavenger, but also gained the identity of Darkmist Town - even though he was just a night watchman in a border town.

This has proven that he is a talented person with great potential.

Besides, he survived.

He also provided such valuable intelligence…

According to the feedback from the three hundred and twenty monitoring methods just hidden around him, this boy is only nineteen years old, and the genetic map reflected by various physical characteristics and biological waves shows an extremely beautiful shape.

I'm afraid it will take hundreds of years for a person like this to appear in the wilderness.

——There may have been many of them, but they died before they could grow up.

Sometimes luck is everything.

Such talents should only be owned by the company and give everything they have to the company.

certainly.

There has to be a little bit of investment before that happens.

The woman smiled kindly and said, "Liu Ping, what do you think is your greatest advantage?"

Liu Ping was stunned and didn't react for a moment.

He was asked.

In the world of spiritual practice, no one has ever asked him this.

The master only teaches and rarely evaluates.

And others——

Others just marveled.

This question aroused Liu Ping's interest.

He thought about it seriously and replied: "I like to create something that has never been done before. Is this an advantage?"

The lady looked at the book in her hand and saw a line of words on the page:

"He spoke from his heart."

The lady smiled and didn't take it too seriously.

"Of course, creation is indeed an interesting thing." She responded.

Creativity is priceless – especially in this day and age.

But creation needs to be based on knowledge.

In order to live, to live better, to gain status, and to become stronger, everyone desires knowledge.

But only those who reach a certain level are qualified to obtain corresponding knowledge.

Or it should not be explained with knowledge, but should be replaced with another word——

secret.

The boy in front of him is a microcosm of an entire era, representing mankind's desire for knowledge and secrets.

The lady thinks so and takes it for granted.

so--

I'm afraid it will take a long time for this lady to understand what kind of terrifying meaning Liu Ping's "likes to create something that has never existed" contains.

The two of them walked forward along the metal steps. A robot blocked the way. The woman handed the book in her hand to the robot, and the robot left.

"That is the Book of Truth, specially used to test lies - no one can lie in front of it." The woman noticed Liu Ping's curious eyes and explained.

"I never knew there was such a thing. Is it your ability?" Liu Ping asked.

"No, it's company property, and I don't want to touch it at all," the woman said.

"Why?"

"The world is full of lies, and everyone has too many ulterior secrets. If I walked around the company with it for a day, I would never survive until the sun rose the next day."

The woman clapped her hands and said, "It seems that I haven't formally introduced myself yet. I am the company's Area C manager, Wang Wei."

"What do you mainly care about?" Liu Ping asked with interest.

"I am responsible for the exploration and development of the first three acts of the world of practice. There is an entrance location for the first act near Dark Mist Town. Generally speaking, there is no danger when you first enter. Those practitioners do not have much potential unless Practitioners appear unexpectedly in later scenes.”

"So I haven't focused my attention there. I didn't expect such a big opportunity to appear this time. I'm afraid it's beyond everyone's expectation..."

She was talking nonchalantly, but Liu Ping was completely stunned on the spot.

She is actually responsible for exploring and developing the world of cultivation.

In the eyes of these people in the living world, the world of cultivation is just a resource?

Wang Wei found Liu Ping standing there, looked back, and suddenly understood.

She laughed and said: "Those people have long since died, or in other words, the dead will never die. According to their predetermined fate, they repeated the same story countless times as if they were acting - except that they were in the position of death. The world is full of dangers."

Liu Ping followed her pace and asked softly: "I really can't understand why the dead don't rest in peace, but have to perform something over and over again."

"Believe me, everyone is the same. We can't understand how it was formed - but in order to fight against the world of death, we must obtain all valuable things from it to arm ourselves, such as weapons, Taoist secrets, treasures, secrets, and even people."

"This is the opportunity given to us by the Goddess of Pain, child."