11: Are you a gangster boss?

Facing the major officer's rigid salute and burning gaze, Gu Yanci's expression remained unperturbed.

Like a born king, he calmly raised his chin.

"Notify the city's broadcasting station to continuously broadcast an announcement, stating that this is a temporary joint anti-terrorism exercise. Please, citizens, do not panic and remain in your homes."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the still somewhat chaotic streets outside the window, and added,

"Additionally, bring that so-called 'Brother Long' here. I want to see him."

Soon, the piercing siren over Yunlai City ceased.

In its place was a constantly repeating, clear, and articulate official announcement on the radio.

Order in the city quickly returned to normal in the face of overwhelming armed force.

Meanwhile, in an office repurposed as an interrogation room, the notorious gang boss, 'Brother Long,' who usually swaggered with power,

was now like a dead dog, pressed firmly into a chair by two armed police officers, trembling uncontrollably.

Gu Yanci walked in unhurriedly, pacing around him for a couple of steps.

Then, he stopped in front of him, leaned down, and asked with a tone that was almost curious, yet filled with extreme contempt:

"So you're the damn gang boss, huh?"

Brother Long's face turned beet red, choked by the question, but he dared not utter a single word.

An officer nearby immediately stepped forward to report:

"Reporting, Section Chief Gu, according to the driver's confession, the order he received was to eliminate an informant who 'saw something they shouldn't have seen.' The target... was that little girl."

The air in the office instantly dropped to freezing.

Gu Yanci slowly straightened up, and a monstrous rage ignited in his originally calm eyes.

He wasn't angry that he was dragged into it.

Instead, he was furious that this scumbag in front of him would lay such a cruel hand on an innocent, vulnerable little girl!

"Bang!"

A crisp, loud slap, fast as lightning!

Gu Yanci slapped Brother Long hard across the face.

The immense force made him, along with the chair, topple to the ground, and blood immediately seeped from the corner of his mouth.

Gu Yanci shook his hand, his eyes filled with disgust as if looking at a pile of garbage.

He had no interest in wasting any more time with such scum.

That night, due to the exposure of the plot to harm the imperial envoy,

the original leadership of Yunlai City lost trust and were all suspended for investigation.

A special work group, bypassing the provincial department, arrived in Yunlai City with orders from the central government, carrying the fury of the number one leader.

Gu Yanci carried out a simple handover of all matters and prisoners.

After discussion, Gu Yanci and the members of the special work group reached a consensus and notified the tribunal.

It was initially decided to sentence 'Brother Long,' the gang boss, and his protector, the director of the public security bureau, to death!

As for the other corrupt officials, they would also face the law's most severe judgment.

But the matter was not over.

That mysterious cave was the source of all these strange occurrences.

To prevent a repeat of the unexpected events in the 'last cycle,' where there was no time to react,

Gu Yanci, before his departure, opened the interface of the Multiverse Chat Group and unhesitatingly clicked the [Start Live Stream] button.

A barely noticeable light curtain unfolded before his eyes, synchronizing his current perspective in real-time with the group chat.

The Group Leader's sanity-draining gaze, while saving him air conditioning costs, also gave him an immense sense of security.

He led a team of fully armed, highly focused armed police officers.

He had Jiang Ruoxue sit in his bulletproof SUV, and under the cover of night, the convoy headed straight for the suburban park on the city's outskirts.

The convoy stopped at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Ruoxue, holding the unusually quiet black cat, her small hands trembling, pointed to a dark cave entrance not far away.

"Big Brother... I, I found it... in there..."

The armed police immediately fanned out into a combat formation.

A dozen bright tactical flashlight beams instantly pierced the darkness, rushing towards the ominous cave entrance.

A cold, damp aura permeated from the cave.

An inexplicable chill made everyone feel tense.

Gu Yanci watched the eerie cave entrance.

The surrounding armed police had already aimed their guns, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

But he had no intention of leading the team inside.

"Are you kidding me?"

He sneered inwardly.

This wasn't some third-rate horror movie where the protagonist foolishly rushes in to die, putting himself in danger,

only to be dragged into the darkness by monsters and picked off one by one.

This was the age of technology; there were smarter ways.

He turned around and gave a crisp, decisive order to an armed police officer carrying technical equipment next to him:

"Send the drone in and transmit the situation inside in real-time."

"Yes!"

The armed police officer immediately took action.

A small military quadcopter drone buzzed as it ascended.

Like an agile swift, it silently flew into the deep cave.

The screen on the control panel began to display images.

However, the signal interference was severe, and the image was distorted, flickering with static.

Only the outline of the cave, damp and narrow, could barely be made out.

Combining Jiang Ruoxue's fragmented description, Gu Yanci's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

Suddenly, the drone rounded a corner, and a gleam of light, one that should not exist in nature, appeared on the screen.

It was an irregular, slowly rotating purple light gate, seemingly composed of broken glass.

It just floated there in mid-air within the cave.

"Is this the Nether Portal from 'My World'?"

No... this is a planar rift... an otherworldly portal!

It actually appeared on Blue Star.

Gu Yanci's heart sank.

When he participated in joint missions in the chat group, he had heard high-level group members describe such things; they were fragile passages connecting two worlds.

Just then, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

A grotesque monster, composed of chitinous carapace and slimy tentacles, violently squeezed out of the light gate!

Gu Yanci's pupils contracted sharply.

He didn't give those around him time to react; almost simultaneously with the monster's appearance, he issued a series of commands in the coldest, swiftest tone:

"Drone, self-destruct on target! Now!"

"Boom!"

The screen was instantly engulfed in flames, and the signal was lost.

But he didn't stop.

"Heavy firepower team! Target the cave entrance, give me indiscriminate saturation bombing! Bury it in there!"

Several armed police officers carrying rocket launchers and grenade launchers instantly followed the order.

Deafening explosions rang out one after another!

Flames shot skyward, and shattered rocks flew.

The entire mountain trembled violently, and terrifying firepower reduced everything near the cave entrance to scorched earth.

However, even so, Gu Yanci was still not at ease.

"Ceasefire!" he shouted, then, to everyone's stunned gaze, he gave another order.

"Chemical defense soldiers, use the sprayers to inject the backup black dog blood and virgin boy's urine into the cave! Quick! Don't worry if physical attacks are useless; just in case it's a spirit!"

Although the armed police, who had received over a decade of materialistic education, had doubts,

their duty as soldiers compelled them to immediately execute the order.

Two streams of foul-smelling liquid were sprayed into the still-smoking cave entrance by high-pressure water guns.

Only after all this was done did Gu Yanci feel slightly relieved.

He took a life detector and scanned the direction of the cave entrance seven or eight times.

Only when the screen confirmed no more life signals did he slowly put down the instrument.

He turned and walked aside, took out a black encrypted satellite phone, and dialed a number.

"Leader, it's me, Gu Yanci."

His voice was terrifyingly calm.

"The situation in Yunlai City has been brought under control. Also, I discovered a portal connecting to another world here, and I just annihilated a creature that emerged from it. Yes, you heard correctly... I suggest immediately activating the highest-level 'Mythological Emergency Protocol.'"

After a long pause, Gu Yanci put down the satellite phone, listening to the dial tone.

The heaviness in his heart did not diminish in the slightest.

He looked up at the sky, blackened by gunpowder smoke.

The feeling of 'luck' in his heart completely shattered.

"My Blue Star, my everything... my peaceful and tranquil life... all of it... can't go back."

He looked at the distant, alluring blood-red moon.

He looked at the armed police around him, now relaxed, laughing and joking, saying they wanted to go home and warm the beds for their wives and children.

He looked at the little girl, Jiang Ruoxue, who had just settled down, skipping and jumping, happy to be going to school tomorrow.

Gu Yanci's Adam's apple bobbed, as if he wanted to say something.

That melancholy, those countless wronged souls who would wail in the future, were like invisible hands clutching his throat.

"Thump."

The satellite phone slipped from his grasp, like the fate of Blue Star plunging into an abyss.

On the distant hillside, a figure resembling Gu Yanci, without internal organs or eyeballs, its limbs sewn to its torso with thick thread,

let out a muffled sigh.

Then it transformed into specks of stars, drifting towards the sky, and was seen no more.

Gu Jianghan, who had been watching this realm, instantly became interested the moment he saw that person.

"Is that...? The future Gu Yanci..."

When he extended his causal vision, he found that the person was always shrouded in a mist.

"Haha, is my future self also among them?"