134: Chapter 134: All sign-in points were blocked, driving the sign-in protagonist crazy.

On the monitoring screen, the orange-red heat source representing Zhao Si seemed to have been completely vaporized under the intertwining tongues of fire at thousands of degrees, leaving not even a scrap behind.

But Qin Yuan's gaze turned cold.

He had not heard the system's kill notification.

"Boss, something is wrong!"

Gu Qianqian's fingers flew across the keyboard, pulling up an energy monitoring chart from another frequency band.

"That fat guy isn't dead!"

"The SkyNet has captured an extremely faint but solid energy fluctuation escaping through the underground air defense pipes!"

Qin Yuan let out a cold snort.

It seemed that fifty years of Nine Yang True Qi, combined with this broken system distributed by the Heavenly Dao, provided decent survival capabilities.

"Boom!"

At an abandoned sewer outlet three kilometers away from the Qin Family cemetery, a figure covered in black smoke and emitting a pungent burnt smell crawled out with great difficulty, looking like a boiled turtle.

It was exactly Zhao Si.

His appearance at this moment was miserable to the extreme.

His clothes had long been burned away, his fat body was severely burned over a large area, his skin torn and flesh gaping, looking just like a plucked roast suckling pig.

If it weren't for the fact that he had frantically burned his True Qi to protect his heart pulse at the last moment, and the system had temporarily overdrawn energy to activate a one-second "invincible shield" for him, he would have truly turned into a pile of ashes by now.

"Cough... cough cough..."

Zhao Si lay in the mud, coughing up black smoke mixed with bloodshot.

"Qin Yuan... you son of a bitch!"

He cursed through gritted teeth while gasping violently.

"Did you build a military fortress in your ancestral grave, damn it?! I just wanted to sign in, was it really necessary to burn me with napalm?!"

"Ding!"

Just then, that familiar mechanical sound echoed in his mind again.

But this time, the voice carried a cold severity.

"Warning! Host failed to complete the [Epic Sign-in Mission] at the designated location on time!"

"Mission Judgment: Failed!"

"Beginning to execute punishment: Deducting thirty years of internal energy cultivation from the host, and randomly depriving the host of one acquired skill!"

"Ah!"

Zhao Si suddenly clutched his head and let out a scream like a slaughtered pig.

He felt the surging Nine Yang True Qi in his dantian leaking out frantically, just like a punctured balloon!

Not only that, but the memory in his mind regarding that set of "Dog-Beating Staff Technique" was also forcibly erased completely.

The emptiness and excruciating pain of having his power ripped away alive made him wish he were dead.

"Don't... don't deduct any more! System master, I know I was wrong!"

Zhao Si rolled frantically in the mud, begging for mercy repeatedly.

Fortunately, the system's punishment ended quickly.

Although he suffered heavy losses, he still had twenty years of cultivation left, which was much stronger than an ordinary person.

"Given the host's insufficient strength, the [Epic Mission] has been revoked."

The system's cold voice continued to echo in his mind.

"Alternative plans for [Advanced Sign-in Point] have been regenerated for the host."

"Alternative Point One: Top of the lightning rod on the 'Cloud Tower', the tallest building in Jiangzhong City."

"Alternative Point Two: Inside the safe at the bottom level of the Jiangzhong City Treasury Reserve Center."

"Please choose one and complete the sign-in within 24 hours."

Hearing this, Zhao Si, who had been like a dead dog, felt a greedy light shine in his eyes once again.

Cloud Tower? Treasury?

These two places surely couldn't have machine guns and flamethrowers too, right?

He patted the dead skin on his body that had already formed scabs and struggled to stand up.

"Qin Yuan, you just wait for me!"

"Once I sign in to get the advanced reward and recover my cultivation, you will be the first person I go to twist the head off of!"

He found a tattered raincoat that someone had thrown at the sewer outlet, wrapped it around himself, and, taking advantage of the night, hobbled toward Jiangzhong City.

"Boss, this fat guy is quite tenacious."

Inside Half-Mountain Manor, Gu Qianqian looked at the red dot on the screen representing Zhao Si's vital signs, which had lit up again.

"The system intercepted the new coordinates just sent by his [Myriad Worlds Sign-in System]."

She projected the intercepted data onto the big screen.

"One is the roof of the Cloud Tower, and the other is the City Treasury."

Qin Yuan held a cup of coffee, looking at these two locations, a trace of mockery flashing in his eyes.

He wanted to avoid him with this?

This sign-in system probably didn't know what "God's Eye View of the Entire Map" meant.

"Since he likes signing in so much."

Qin Yuan blew on the heat of his coffee.

"Then let him sign in to his heart's content."

"Send the notification down."

Qin Yuan's voice was flat, without a single ripple.

"Cloud Tower, from now on, stop all elevators, and weld a security door shut every three floors in the stairwell. On the roof, arrange a company of the Shadow Guard, bring heavy machine guns and stun grenades, and guard it for me to the death."

"As for the City Treasury."

Qin Yuan paused, the corner of his mouth curling into a wicked arc.

"Tell President Gao Qiqiang's Jian Gong Group to transport two hundred tons of quick-drying cement over there overnight."

"Pour the bottom level of the vault, along with the ventilation ducts, completely solid for me!"

Gu Qianqian couldn't help but gasp after hearing these orders.

The boss's move was truly diabolical!

This wasn't just preventing a sign-in; this was clearly forcing someone to their death!

The next day, noon.

Jiangzhong City, Cloud Tower.

This four-hundred-meter-tall skyscraper was a landmark of Jiangzhong City.

Zhao Si wore a stolen, oversized trench coat, a baseball cap, and a mask, covering his burned face tightly.

He mingled with the crowd and walked into the lobby on the first floor of the building.

Looking at the sightseeing elevator that went straight to the top floor, Zhao Si felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

"As long as I reach the lightning rod and shout 'sign in', I can make a comeback!"

He couldn't wait to walk to the elevator door and press the up button.

However, a glaring red light was lit on the elevator's display screen.

[Elevator under maintenance, service suspended.]

"Damn it, what bad luck."

Zhao Si cursed under his breath and turned to look at the stairwell next to him.

"I still have twenty years of cultivation, what's climbing a few stairs?"

He pushed open the fire door and began his long journey of climbing the stairs.

Four hundred meters, over a hundred floors.

For an ordinary person, this was definitely an impossible task.

But for Zhao Si, who had True Qi to protect his body, although it was a bit tiring, it was still acceptable.

He climbed to the thirtieth floor in one breath.

Just as he was preparing to continue charging upward,

"Bang!"

He slammed headfirst into a heavy iron door.

Zhao Si clutched his forehead and looked closely.

The stairwell leading to the thirty-first floor had actually been welded shut with a two-inch-thick steel plate!

A handwritten A4 piece of paper was pasted on the steel plate.

"Construction ahead, road blocked."

"Fuck your grandfather!"

Zhao Si cursed angrily.

What kind of decent person would do construction in a stairwell and also weld the road shut?!

He didn't believe it.

He channeled his Nine Yang True Qi and smashed his fist hard against the steel plate.

"Clang!"

With a loud noise, the steel plate didn't move an inch, but Zhao Si's fist was shaken until it was dripping with blood, making him grimace in pain.

"What kind of material is this door made of?!"

Zhao Si was desperate.

He had no choice but to give up on the stairs here and turn to look for other passages.

But he discovered despairingly that all the fire escapes, ventilation ducts, and even the exterior walls of the entire building were either welded shut or covered with high-voltage electric nets!

He wandered around this building like a headless fly for four whole hours.

Let alone the lightning rod on the roof, he hadn't even made it past the fiftieth floor!

"Is this specifically targeting me?!"

Zhao Si sat paralyzed on the steps, panting, looking at the system countdown prompt in his mind.

There were less than ten hours left until the sign-in deadline!

"No, if I can't get up the Cloud Tower, I still have the backup plan!"

Zhao Si gritted his teeth, dragged his exhausted body, and left the building.

He hailed a taxi and headed straight for the Jiangzhong City Treasury Reserve Center.

Evening.

Zhao Si used his cultivation to silently knock out the security guards on the perimeter of the treasury and infiltrated the underground reserve center.

This was the most core financial stronghold of the entire Jiangzhong City.

The defense was extremely tight.

But Zhao Si, relying on the "Wall-Passing Talisman" provided by the system and his meager internal energy, forcefully broke through layers of obstacles.

Finally, he arrived in front of the core vault door on the bottom level.

That was a super titanium alloy explosion-proof door, three meters high and half a meter thick.

As long as he passed through this door and shouted "sign in" in front of the safe inside, he could get the reward to defy the heavens and change his fate!

"Hahaha! Heaven does not cut off all paths!"

Zhao Si looked at the door, a fanatical light flashing in his eyes.

He took out a "Primary Wall-Passing Talisman" that emitted golden light from his bosom.

This was his trump card for survival that he had exchanged with system points; it could ignore all physical obstacles and penetrate walls up to one meter thick.

"Pass through for me!"

Zhao Si stuck the talisman on his forehead, closed his eyes, and charged forward violently.

"Bang!"

A very dull sound of bones breaking rang out.

Zhao Si did not pass through the door.

Instead, like a watermelon hitting a south wall, he bounced back directly and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ah—! My nose!"

Zhao Si covered his blood-filled face and wailed in pain.

What happened?!

Did the wall-passing talisman fail?!

He endured the severe pain, opened his eyes, and looked carefully at the explosion-proof door.

He saw that the explosion-proof door had actually already been opened by someone.

But, the space behind the door was not the treasure vault filled with gold bricks that he had imagined.

Instead, it was a gray, pungent-smelling solid cement wall!

In the few seconds he was stunned, a huge roaring sound came from overhead.

Zhao Si looked up.

He saw several thick pipes reaching down from the ventilation duct.

Immediately after, gray, quick-drying cement slurry emitting intense heat poured down from the pipes like a waterfall!

"Holy shit!"

Zhao Si was scared out of his wits.

This was no treasury; this was clearly a cement mixing plant!

He scrambled to run outside.

The scalding cement slurry followed right behind his butt, frantically submerging the underground passage.

By the time he finally escaped the reserve center and returned to the street, one of his shoes had been stuck off by the cement, and his pant legs were full of dried cement chunks.

He looked like a migrant worker who had just fled from a construction site.

"Ding!"

"Warning! Host failed to complete the second alternative plan for [Advanced Sign-in Point]!"

"Punishment execution: Deducting twenty years of internal energy cultivation!"

In his mind, the system's cold and ruthless voice became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

"No... don't..."

Zhao Si's legs went weak, and he knelt on the bustling street.

He felt the last bit of True Qi in his body used for survival being ruthlessly extracted by the system.

He had completely turned into an ordinary person.

No.

He was even worse than an ordinary person.

He was now a crippled person with severe burns all over his body, penniless, and unable to even afford a meal.

And in front of him, the system panel that had once given him infinite hope was currently flashing red frantically.

"Host is extremely incompetent, ten consecutive sign-in failures!"

"System judgment: This host has no cultivation value!"

"[Myriad Worlds Sign-in System] self-destruct program, initiated."

"Countdown: 3... 2... 1..."

"Boom!"

Zhao Si only felt a slight explosion in the depths of his mind.

The system that had accompanied him for a few days, let him experience soaring success, and then knocked him into the abyss, had completely disappeared.

His trump card, which he was so proud of, was shattered.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

At this bustling intersection, Zhao Si suddenly clutched his bald head and let out a chilling, miserable scream.

He rolled frantically on the ground like a mad dog.

The mud and cement chunks on his body were smeared all over the ground.

Passersby avoided him in horror, looking at him as if he were a lunatic.

"I want to sign in..."

"I want the elixir of immortality..."

"I am the Son of Destiny... I can sign in on your ancestral grave..."

Zhao Si rolled his eyes, foamed at the mouth, and kept repeating these nonsensical, crazy words.

His mental defense had completely collapsed under that series of inhumane physical blockades and the double blow of the system's self-destruction.

He had gone mad.

"Hey, is this the psychiatric hospital? There's a lunatic here..."

A kind passerby, hiding far away, dialed the phone.

And Gu Qianqian, who was watching all of this in front of the monitoring screen, couldn't help but shiver.

"Boss, aren't these methods... a bit too cruel?"

Qin Yuan turned off the monitoring screen.

He looked at the traffic outside the window, picked up his cup, and his tone was as calm as if he were discussing the weather.

"Cruel?"

"For dealing with these cheaters who try to get something for nothing, this is the gentlest way to see them off."