121: Chapter 121 He ate it, he really ate it!

Linhai Investigation Bureau.

On the third underground level, red alarm lights swept across the walls in circles.

All passageways were sealed.

All psionic armaments were loaded.

Executive Jiang Xu stood in the center of the main control room, his dark gold spear leaning by his side.

Ye Zhiwei sat before the console, her face drained of all color.

Su Yao stood on the other side, fingers pressing on her communicator, her eyes fixed on the screen.

On the screen, the psionic energy curve in the direction of the harbor had already shattered the monitoring limit.

Chen Jianguo Chen Jianguo swallowed hard.

"Is it here?"

Executive Jiang Xu did not turn his head.

"Yes."

"With the core of the Foreign Language Tribunal?"

"Yes."

Chen Jianguo Chen Jianguo's mouth twitched.

"Captain Jiang, are you sure this is a plan, and not inviting a bomb into our home?"

Executive Jiang Xu gripped the spear.

"The bomb was already in Great Xia."

He spoke very calmly.

"The only difference is, we get to decide in whose hands it detonates."

Ye Zhiwei's voice lowered.

"If it really swallows the core, it will be influenced by structures like exams, order, and judgment."

"Theoretically, yes."

Executive Jiang Xu looked at the screen.

"As long as it accepts this path of the King, it will no longer be a completely undefinable monster."

Su Yao looked up abruptly.

"Executive Jiang Xu, you still underestimated it."

Executive Jiang Xu did not refute.

He certainly knew he was gambling.

But humanity no longer had the luxury of not gambling.

The reservoir fissure, the East Sea tsunami, the six disasters of Neon, the Mirage of the Sea Kingdom.

Every single fact told them.

Conventional combat power was no longer enough.

Just then.

The lights in the control room went out.

It wasn't a power failure.

It was as if all the light had been held in something's mouth, disappearing quietly.

The next second.

A black crack split open on the ceiling.

A scarlet eyeball opened from within the crack.

Chen Jianguo Chen Jianguo's legs went weak, and he nearly sat on the floor.

Ye Zhiwei instinctively covered her ears.

Su Yao's expression changed drastically.

Executive Jiang Xu raised his dark gold spear, the tip pointing directly at that eye.

"The Rancher."

The eyeball rotated.

Su Yun's voice emanated from the four walls.

"Executive Jiang Xu."

"You have some nerve."

The air collapsed by an inch.

The uniform on Executive Jiang Xu's shoulders tightened instantly.

But he did not retreat.

"I just brought you a gift."

"A gift?"

The black crack expanded.

A tentacle reached out, coiled around the black metal box, and smashed it directly onto the floor of the main control room.

Bang!

The box lid popped open.

The ink-colored heart was still beating.

Countless letters floated on its surface, and the sound of them flipping echoed in the room.

Chen Jianguo Chen Jianguo took one look and felt his scalp go numb.

He felt as if he could see exam halls across the country unfolding simultaneously.

Executive Jiang Xu's eyes moved.

It was here.

The real key had arrived.

Su Yun did not waste words.

The tentacle coiled around the heart and slowly delivered it to the crack.

Crunch.

The ink-colored heart was bitten to pieces.

Black rules exploded, only to be swallowed by an even deeper darkness.

All instruments in the control room lit up with red light simultaneously.

[Foreign Language Tribunal First Core has disappeared]

[Rule ownership has been transferred]

[Unknown high-level entity is devouring]

[Warning! Unable to calculate!]

Executive Jiang Xu's hand, hanging at his side, tightened.

He forcibly suppressed the surge of emotion in his chest.

It ate it.

It really ate it.

At this moment, he even wanted to laugh.

Great Xia was rid of a monster with infinite potential.

If the Foreign Language Tribunal had grown along its original path, it would have been at least King-level.

It would have bound Chu Youwei, covered Great Xia, and turned the fear, resentment, and anxiety of 270 million people into fuel for its rules.

Now, the core was gone.

This path of the King had been swallowed by The Rancher.

Even if The Rancher was stronger, at least Great Xia had one less source of loss of control.

Executive Jiang Xu lowered his eyes, concealing the flicker in his pupils.

Su Yun, however, paused for half a second behind the black crack.

A System prompt appeared.

[Devoured Foreign Language Tribunal]

[Growth + 20]

Su Yun: "..."

Twenty points.

That's it?

He was almost amused to the point of anger.

This thing wasn't even as good as an A-level Anomalies in the old capital of Neon.

King-level potential?

So it was a futures scam.

Su Yun's voice sounded again.

"Truly trash."

In the control room, everyone looked up simultaneously.

Su Yun said indifferently: "Even if it could become a King, it's still trash."

"Executive Jiang Xu, did you think that if I ate it, I would be locked by this rule?"

Executive Jiang Xu's gaze darkened.

Su Yun continued.

"You must understand."

"As long as I don't ascend to King using this, how could this kind of thing lock my potential?"

The air was silent.

The slight relaxation that Executive Jiang Xu had been suppressing for a long time dissipated bit by bit.

Su Yao's heart sank.

She knew.

It wasn't over.

This monster was never something that others could lead by the nose.

Executive Jiang Xu looked up.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

A low chuckle came from behind the black crack.

"Isn't it you who wanted her to ascend to King the most?"

Executive Jiang Xu frowned abruptly.

"Who?"

The next second.

The Void Realm cracked open.

A tentacle reached in, like scooping something out of water, and gave a gentle coil.

...

Linhai No. 2 High School.

Senior Year Class 2.

The Homeroom Teacher was explaining a problem.

"For this conic section, set the points first as the first step."

Li Hao lowered his head, pretending to understand.

Gu Lang stared at the Su Yun Clone beside him, sweat breaking out on his back.

The black characters on Chu Youwei's wrists suddenly all stood upright.

She was stunned.

Before she could react, the shadow beneath her feet suddenly spread open.

Black-red tentacles emerged from the shadow, coiling around her waist.

The whole class exploded instantly.

"Holy crap!"

"School Beauty Chu!"

"Are the Strange Tales here again?"

Li Hao slapped the table.

"Brother Yun! Your wife has been snatched!"

Su Yun Clone looked up, his expression very convincing.

"Think twice, Li Hao; there are legal consequences for spreading rumors."

Gu Lang's face turned green.

He saw it very clearly.

That wasn't an ordinary Strange Tales.

That was a tentacle of The Rancher!

But Su Yun was still sitting beside him.

Still talking.

This was wrong.

This was very wrong.

Before Chu Youwei was dragged into the Void Realm, she glanced at Su Yun.

Su Yun Clone winked at her.

"Don't be afraid."

These two words were very light.

But Chu Youwei suddenly calmed down.

The next moment, she disappeared from the classroom.

The Homeroom Teacher's chalk fell to the ground.

Li Hao's mouth hung open.

"No way... does tutoring include pickup and drop-off these days?"

...

Investigation Bureau main control room.

Chu Youwei landed on the ground.

She was still wearing her black teacher's uniform, and the rule characters on her wrists were swimming frantically.

Seeing Executive Jiang Xu, Su Yao, and Ye Zhiwei, she was stunned for a moment.

Then, she looked up and saw that scarlet eyeball.

Her breathing stopped.

This aura.

She had seen it before.

Last night at the Su residence, when the residual rules were scared away, it felt exactly like this.

Su Yao rushed over to support her.

"Youwei!"

Chu Youwei's voice was a bit dry.

"Sister Su Yao, where is this?"

Executive Jiang Xu stared at the black crack.

"The Rancher, don't mess around."

Su Yun laughed.

"Mess around?"

"Wasn't it you who said this rule would ascend to King?"

"I am now fulfilling your wish."

Executive Jiang Xu's expression changed.

"No."

"She cannot bear it."

Su Yun couldn't be bothered with him.

A mass of ink-colored light core was spat out from the crack.

That was the essence of the rules stripped away after he chewed up the Foreign Language Tribunal core.

He had swallowed the Origin.

He left the structure.

To him, it was trash.

To Chu Youwei, it was a stepping stone.

The tentacle cradled the light core and stopped in front of Chu Youwei.

Chu Youwei instinctively backed away.

Su Yao blocked in front of her.

"Do you want to kill her?"

Su Yun's voice turned colder.

"If I wanted her dead, would I need to go to such trouble?"

Su Yao stiffened.

The tentacle bypassed her and gently tapped on Chu Youwei's brow.

The black letters on Chu Youwei's body instantly surged.

Lines of rule prompts floated in the air.

[First Core returned]

[Second authority bearer confirmed]

[Invigilator status upgraded]

[National Unified Examination in preparation]

Executive Jiang Xu stepped forward abruptly.

"Stop!"

A gravitational field spread out.

But with a gentle flick of the tentacle, Executive Jiang Xu's gravitational field was cut in two.

Su Yun said indifferently: "Executive Jiang Xu, you are not good at guarding the gate, but you are quite diligent at scheming."

"Since you wanted to use an exam to put a leash on me."

"Then I will give you a real exam."

Chu Youwei's face was pale.

She could feel countless voices approaching.

Students.

Parents.

Teachers.

Curses.

Cries.

Resentment.

Expectations.

They were like a tide, crowding into her mind.

She bit her lip.

Su Yao hugged her shoulders.

"Youwei, don't listen!"

Su Yun's voice fell.

"Exam advanced."

The four words were spoken.

The rules exploded.

Across all of Great Xia.

Everyone who had experienced emotional fluctuations due to the cancellation of foreign languages saw everything go black before their eyes.

In classrooms.

In offices.

On subways.

In internet cafes.

In hospital corridors.

Countless people stopped what they were holding.

The next second, the same black examination paper appeared before them.

There was only one line of text at the top of the paper.

[Foreign Language Tribunal · First National Unified Examination]

[Invigilator: Chu Youwei]

[Number of examinees: 273.62 million]

[Exam time: Now]

Linhai No. 2 High School.

Li Hao looked at the examination paper that had suddenly appeared on his desk, completely dumbfounded.

"You've got to be kidding me?"

"Wasn't foreign language cancelled?"

Gu Lang looked down at the examination paper, his mouth twitching.

He suddenly understood.

The Rancher hadn't been restricted.

He had transferred the restriction to someone else, and in the process, dragged the whole country into the exam hall.

Investigation Bureau main control room.

Chu Youwei was suspended in mid-air.

The black letters formed a huge Invigilator's seat behind her.

She opened her eyes.

In the depths of her eyes, half was panic, and half was coldness lit up by the rules.

Su Yun's voice sounded from her ear.

"Don't be afraid."

"Only those who do poorly on the exam should be afraid."