312: Xu Le is dead.

Xu Le booked a flight to X City, the closest city to the Yuzhou Desert.

Having just booked the ticket, he felt a premonition and looked up at the sky, seeing his natal star shimmering with a faint blood-red light.

Wuwang Hexagram: Thunder over Heaven; no medicine needed, joy is coming.

"This trip is actually a death tribulation. If I stay put, the benefits will come to me instead.

Interesting. I've only learned more than half of the Star Pattern Deduction Technique, yet I've already developed a Divine Ability similar to a Whim of the Heart.

But staying here and not taking a look, how could that be my style?"

Xu Le shook his head, called a taxi, and headed straight for the airport... Yuzhou Desert Military Base.

The burly man's phone rang. He picked it up and saw a text message:

[Target has arrived in X City.]

"Damn pretty boy, he really is coming here to seek death!"

The burly man picked up the walkie-talkie and began assigning tasks to the people in the base. Soon, everyone received their orders and quickly left the base.

The phone rang again.

"Why the hell did you send everyone out? What if the target notices?"

The burly man laughed. "So what if he notices? Can he dodge a nuclear explosion?"

"If the target doesn't fall for it, you know the consequences. Not just you, but your family as well..."

"Anything else?"

"No."

The burly man hung up immediately and walked to the monitoring room with a cold expression.

Three hours later.

An off-road vehicle charged into the military base.

Xu Le looked around, but he didn't see a single soul.

He wasn't afraid and walked forward boldly.

Several red arrows led the way forward, but he did not follow them, choosing to walk straight ahead instead.

In the monitoring room, the burly man watched that damn pretty boy wandering around as if searching for someone.

After waiting for half an hour, the other party still didn't realize there was an underground base and kept circling around the surface buildings.

"Does he think there's an ambush underground? Hah, even if you're afraid of an underground ambush, I can still arrange for people to kill you on the surface!"

The burly man took a pistol, walked out of the underground base, and ran to the last building to wait.

"You don't look very smart."

Xu Le nodded. "Right. But since you're the only one in this base, killing you is enough."

The burly man laughed. "Haven't you noticed? This building is full of bombs. A single shot can set them off and blow you to bits."

Xu Le said, "But you'll die too."

The burly man laughed. "I'm not afraid of death! I just want to know, what makes you think you're worth the entire military base being buried with you!"

"..."

Bang, bang, bang... Three consecutive shots hit Xu Le's chest on both sides and his head, but he was unscathed.

"Indestructible Vajra body?"

The burly man was surprised and was about to press the remote control button.

Xu Le's voice was cold. "It's useless; those bombs won't kill me either."

The burly man was silent for a long while. "If I die, will you stop?"

Xu Le: "No."

The burly man asked, "What do you want? To be its lackey and kill all the members of the Hidden Immortal Society?"

Xu Le: "No. I just want to kill you all, or be killed by you."

"You lunatic!" the burly man cursed and pressed the remote.

Boom!

All the explosives planted in the building detonated, and the burly man along with the entire building were blown to ashes.

Xu Le was also charred black, his clothes burned to ash, revealing the... suit underneath. Although covered in scorch marks, it was almost intact... In the largest hotel in X City.

Xu Le looked at the black screen of his phone, somewhat speechless.

The intelligence of the paper figurines was a bit low after all. Although it looked exactly like him, it failed to draw out the opponent's trump card that could kill him.

The previous bombs seemed powerful, but with the Ghost's Spirit Domain, he wouldn't even lose a single hair.

Just as he was thinking about whether to go and see for himself, the paper figurine Xu Le felt the mission was complete and was about to drive away from the military base when the woman with glasses spotted him through the surveillance and pressed the button to detonate the nuclear bomb.

To be precise, it was a hydrogen bomb!

A new-era hydrogen bomb even more terrifying than the Tsar Bomba!

Boom!

The entire military base was instantly razed to the ground, and the surrounding desert was swept by the shockwave. Some creatures in the desert were instantly turned to ash by the heat, while those further away were severely irradiated and fled even further.

A massive mushroom cloud rose, and people in the surrounding provinces and cities heard the terrifying sound. They turned to see the giant mushroom cloud floating in the sky.

Even from over a hundred kilometers away, one could clearly see the demon roaring.

"Insane!"

"Those lunatics from the Hidden Immortal Society actually got their hands on a hydrogen bomb!"

"They agreed to use Spells, but they're secretly using technology."

Killing intent flickered in Xu Le's eyes, but he quickly restrained it. He immediately turned off his phone and erased all traces of his presence in the hotel.

He decided to pull off a couple of maneuvers first, then find those lawless Hidden Immortal Society members and kill them!

...The woman with glasses slowed down the recorded surveillance footage frame by frame. In the terrifying explosion, Xu Le was directly turned to ash.

She spent ten whole minutes on just three seconds of footage, finally confirming that Xu Le was dead.

Unfortunately, precisely because it was surveillance, she didn't realize that Xu Le was just a paper figurine.

She took out her phone and sent a message: [Target eliminated.]

...That night.

A segment of surveillance footage showing Xu Le driving into the military base was exposed, from the moment he crashed through the iron gates to the moment he was turned to ash by the hydrogen bomb.

The popularity kept climbing, quickly surpassing the number one trending topic: "Military conducts secret hydrogen bomb test in Yuzhou Desert."

The comments below the video were a chaotic mess.

"A small-time celebrity should stick to acting. Why did he break into a military base? He deserved to die."

"This Xu Le couldn't really be an alien, could he? How did he get past the military's tight security?"

"I have a bold idea: the military didn't reveal any news beforehand and suddenly tested a hydrogen bomb. Could it be to blow up the alien spy Xu Le?"

"Good lord, I'm just stunned!"

"Respect the dead. Please don't spread rumors or slander him. May good people live in peace!"

"..."

Netizens argued for two or three days until a new surveillance video suddenly caught everyone's attention.

The video of the confrontation between the burly man and Xu Le in the base building was leaked.

Netizens were in an uproar again:

"Brothers, look at the screenshots. I'm a prophet. I said why they suddenly tested a hydrogen bomb; it was to blow up the alien spy."

"Stop it! Why do I feel like the burly man in uniform is the villain?"

"Tsk tsk, am I the only one who heard the key point? Hidden Immortal Society? Why does it give me a sense of déjà vu from a Xuanhuan novel?"

"Could someone who says 'I just want to kill you all, or be killed by you' be a normal person?"

The video was quickly taken down, but many people had already seen the firsthand information.

Just as the onlookers were left wanting more, another bombshell dropped.

A very ordinary video of a common challenge show where a young contestant easily won the top prize.

The only thing special was that when the young man took off his mask, people discovered he was actually Xu Le, who had been blown up by the hydrogen bomb.

It exploded!

A man blown up by a hydrogen bomb had reappeared. Combined with his previous TV series, a thought couldn't help but flash through everyone's minds.

He is Professor Xu, an alien with superpowers!