The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

"Lord Gu Ran, I will help you erase the relevant memories of everyone in Canglong City. They will not remember anything you did today."

The psychic ability user bowed slightly to Gu Ran.

"But your strength shouldn't be enough to do that," Gu Ran asked.

Erasing all the relevant memories of everyone in Canglong City is no easy task.

Not to mention that many of them are powerful individuals with incredibly solid consciousness seas, which ordinary mental ability users simply cannot affect.

Even excluding these powerful individuals, such a large number of "ordinary people" would be a challenge for any psychic ability user.

The psychic said without any emotional fluctuation, "Your Excellency Gu Ran may not know this, but if it were other memories, I would not be able to erase everyone in Canglong City. However, memories related to demons are different."

"Demons are very peculiar beings. Even if one has some knowledge of them, one's sea of ​​consciousness will change. The places where changes occur are usually the weak points of the sea of ​​consciousness. In addition, the sea of ​​consciousness itself rejects the knowledge of demons, so I only need to use a little power to erase the memories related to demons."

Gu Ran still had some doubts: "Even so, there are still too many people involved."

"Don't worry, Your Excellency Gu Ran. The number of people whose memories need to be erased is indeed very large, but before that, we have made careful calculations. If we add enough pure star stones to replenish my energy, and my own life, we can still do it."

The tone remained calm and even, even though the content involved sacrificing one's life.

Gu Ran gave him a scrutinizing look.

Suddenly, he finally understood Xue Yingsong's purpose.

Xue Yingsong's motives were complex, including his desire to save his daughter and his wish to save Canglong City and all of humanity from the cataclysmic disaster.

Therefore, he considered the sacrifice of a small number of people to be entirely worthwhile.

Even though this "small group" corresponds to tens of millions of people in Canglong City, including everyone around him except his daughter, and himself.

But even with his determination to give his all, the chances of success are actually not very high.

So he actually had two plans.

On one hand, he successfully integrated into the world's rules, using his familiarity with them to help his daughter escape that strange "illness," and on the other hand, to save Azure Dragon City and even all of humanity from the destruction of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

On the one hand, he was also prepared for his failure and death.

Whether it's the memory chip in the research lab or this psychic ability user, both are contingency plans Xue Yingsong left behind after his failure.

Only by successfully killing himself can he truly gain his "approval".

So this is your final test?

Gu Ran smiled wryly and said, "Actually, I had no other choice, did I?"

"As expected of the person chosen by the principal, Mr. Gu Ran, since you have made up your mind, let's not delay and start immediately. Time is very important to us."

......

The people outside the screen felt a chill run down their spines.

Is the "tyrant" Gu Ran about to make his appearance?

Could this be the inside story of the great turmoil in Canglong City back then?

278. But Gu Ran failed to live up to her expectations!

The great upheaval in Azure Dragon City was a momentous event worthy of being recorded in the annals of the Human Alliance.

This incident not only had a profound impact on Azure Dragon City, but also deeply affected the entire Human Alliance.

In this incident, tens of millions of people were killed or injured in Canglong City, and most of them were people with superpowers and martial artists.

As a result, Canglong City suffered a severe blow.

This triggered a series of subsequent events, and Gu Ran gradually became the supreme ruler of the Human Alliance!

At the same time, the shadow of Gu Ran's cruel and tyrannical rule began to loom over everyone in the Human Alliance.

The term "general manager," once confined to the dustbin of history, has resurfaced before everyone and become the most chilling term.

However, no one expected that the great turmoil in Canglong City back then actually had an unexpected inside story.

Moreover, they even "explained" why no one remembered them—the psychic ability users erased their related memories in order to truly resolve the crisis.

Many people frowned as they looked at the screen.

To reiterate—they are unwilling to believe this "insider information".

Even if this inside story is true, from a standpoint of opinion, Gu Ran is on the opposite side.

They still cannot abandon their stance of attacking Gu Ran.

Although it seems that Gu Ran's actions saved Canglong City, and even the world, preventing extraterrestrial aliens from descending again.

However, they didn't really feel the reality of what Gu Ran had done.

First, they had no relevant memories of it; they only learned about Gu Ran's behavior by looking at the content displayed on the screen.

Secondly, they personally experienced Gu Ran's brutal rule. Compared with their personal experience, the memories displayed on the screen alone could hardly shake their existing knowledge and beliefs.

For them, the hatred was a personal experience that they could not forget, while Gu Ran's "kindness" was too vast and vague, and not necessarily real.

Moreover, from a realistic perspective, they are now in a life-or-death confrontation with Gu Ran, and the loser will be wiped out.

The harsh reality did not allow them to show any mercy to Gu Ran.

Each person continued to watch the screen with their own complex and different thoughts.

......

In the light screen.

Although time was precious, Gu Ran waited a while and did not leave.

The memory chip left by Xue Yingsong has not yet finished playing all the content; the progress bar is still halfway through.

Gu Ran was worried that she might have missed important information.

"If I lose, I guess it's because you still have cards I don't know about. I've already taken all your cards into account. If you don't have any cards I don't know about, I can't possibly lose to you."

Gu Ran admitted this point. Without the "Sword in the Stone" and the fact that his mental power was many times stronger than Xue Yingsong's (a fact he did not tell Xue Yingsong), and his ability to sense the emotions contained in the energy absorbed by Xue Yingsong, he would indeed have had a hard time defeating Xue Yingsong.

One wrong move and he would be the one to die.

This was the biggest crisis he had faced since he awakened his spatial abilities.

“The destined one… truly a person who stands at the very top in every era.” Xue Yingsong sighed and continued, “Although I have possessed the ‘Ark Core’ for many years, I have never been able to unravel its secrets. It was only recently that I learned some information from it that should not have belonged to me.”

"Gu Ran, have you noticed how strange our world is?"

"After much thought, I finally realized that the factor that makes this world so strange is... the destined one."

“The destined person is the greatest unknown in this world, and the root cause of why this world is so strange. This is also why I have gradually become hesitant about you.”

"So I gradually developed the idea of ​​taking control of my own life because I began to distrust the person I was destined to be with. But then I asked myself, do I really have confidence in myself?"

"The answer is no."

"Although I made thorough plans and arrangements, I still lacked confidence in my ability to succeed, so in the end I prepared for failure as well."

Xue Yingsong gave a wry smile.

"I was very conflicted and hesitant, which may be the reason for my failure."

"Forget it, since I've already failed and died, there's no point in dwelling on this anymore. Everything from now on depends on you."

"Gu Ran..."

In the projected image on the screen, Xue Yingsong's gaze was fixed straight ahead, as if looking directly at Gu Ran through the screen.

"Finally, I'm entrusting Xiaoling to you. Take good care of her."

Xue Yingsong revealed a faint smile, then the screen disappeared, and the playback progress bar of the memory chip finally ended.

He understood Gu Ran, so he said those words at the end, not worried that Gu Ran wouldn't take good care of his daughter.

......

Xue Xiling's eyes instantly reddened. She had been restraining her emotions, but now her heart was churning with them.

If it weren't for her years of experience as the president of Lanxin University, she would definitely have found it difficult to control her emotions and would have burst into tears.

Every moment she had spent with her father in the past came flooding back to her mind.

Then came another man who left an indelible mark on her heart.

After the great upheaval in Canglong City, she and Gu Ran practically became strangers.

Gu Ran ignored her completely, and the two seemed to have no connection whatsoever.

If she hadn't questioned him with her last glimmer of hope, the two of them might never have had that opportunity to be alone together again.

However, now Xue Xiling thinks that this might be the best outcome for the two of them.

Because he did kill her father.

The premise of her father's words was that she did not know that Gu Ran would eventually kill her father, and that the two had the harmonious relationship they had always had.

That way, she could still rely on Gu Ran, remain a clueless researcher at Lanxin University, and be Gu Ran's fiancée.

But she found out.

Because of the succubus general Lilith, she learned the cause of her father's death.