In the middle of Black-Mud Marsh, Envoy Xue Sha’s own system announced [EXECUTING MANDATORY SYSTEM PENALTY: 60 SECONDS OF SOUL-LIGHTNING WHIP]. At that moment, his first instinct wasn’t even to defend his dantian.
His first instinct was sheer, mortal terror that someone might see him!
“No! If the Three Blood-Sea Demon Emperors or the demon tribes see my own Upper-Realm Golden Finger electrocuting me in a mud puddle, my reputation on Planet Canglan will be finished forever!”
Only half a second remained before the punishment bolt dropped from his system interface. Panicking, Xue Sha dove headfirst under an overhanging bank of sticky black swamp mud and pulled a clump of rotten cattail reeds over his head like an ostrich!
Ten miles away on the hilltop, however, Gu Changsheng was already holding a joystick controller connected to [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box].
“Hiding under a mud bank at midnight?” Gu Changsheng chuckled, adjusting the antenna on the camper van’s roof. “After our neighbors in the four shelters stayed up until midnight eating late-night barbecue just to watch the countdown, how can the main actor hide under the stage?”
Gu Changsheng flicked the joystick forward.
Soaring silently thirty feet above the mud bank was a mechanical bird he had fused earlier from a night-owl puppet and four high-definition projection crystals—the [Rank 6 Night-Vision 4K Broadcast Camera Owl]!
