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Since Lan Yun was willing to answer honestly, there was no need to keep her hanging from the tree. After landing, she quickly spat out a... large hard drive?

"Why does your Universiade vehicle have a large hard drive?" Ji Mo felt that there were a lot of counterintuitive things about Lan Yun.

"My configuration was too low-end back then, and it wasn't good enough for the world of destruction, so I upgraded it a few times and added some things."

Ji Mo thought about it and decided that reading the stored content directly was a good idea. He rummaged around in his spatial ring for a while, took out the projector, and inserted the hard drive into it.

The two of them and their car were together, like watching a movie in the countryside; they could get through the night with just a small stool.

When Chen Yingsheng was born, legends of gods and ghosts from the old society were still passed down among elders, while the technological conveniences of the new society were rapidly spreading everywhere.

He is caught in the middle, possessing the advantages and disadvantages of both.

[They both revered spirits and gods, and knew how to use factory equipment in a simple way.]

[They are both looked down upon by college students sitting in offices for their outdated ideas, and have only a superficial understanding of those sophisticated machines, knowing how to operate them but not how they work.]

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he should be able to hold onto his secure factory job and live a peaceful life.

Jiu Chonglou pressed the pause button first, and the projected image stopped changing. She turned expressionlessly to the large delivery truck beside her: "Isn't there a simplified or summary version?"

"Who would cut out their own memories..." Lan Yun retorted, "Don't just skip over other people's lives."

"Then I might as well use soul-searching magic to destroy your soul and turn all the information into a book. Then I can read whichever page I want," Jiu Chonglou threatened.

The reason I didn't use the Truth-Searching Technique or the Soul-Searching Technique before was because with the former you could ask the wrong questions and the other person could selectively hide the truth; with the latter, the soul would be completely destroyed, and if there were any other needs later, the person would not be able to come back.

For example, someone wants to kill Lan Yun with their own hands... As far as Ji Mo knows, You Tianding would definitely be happy to be the executioner.

Ji Mo thought of Bai Que, whose abilities combined the advantages of both. If she were here, he could simply turn the page.

Skills are the analysis and imitation of the laws of the world, while abilities are the superior substitutes for skills, and are closer to the essence of the world.

Although Jiu Chonglou's attack limit was level six, the power it unleashed was far beyond that. Lan Yun, unaware of the secrets behind it, was overwhelmed by the force and could barely breathe. His tires were tilted outwards, and he managed to compromise: "You can fast forward, I'll summarize from the side..."

Ji Mo nodded in agreement.

Lan Yun then began to recount the story again: "That day, he was delivering goods for a colleague. Although he didn't have a driver's license at the time, the checks weren't strict, and many people were driving without a license..."

"Keep it brief." Ji Mo pulled himself out of his thoughts and repeated it for Jiu Chonglou.

"...We've traveled through time." Jiu Chonglou suddenly pressed the fast-forward button, and sure enough, the scene changed, from a highway to a lush forest.

Ji Mo: "?"

Do you really have to choose between lengthy explanations and extreme brevity for your car?

Lan Yun let out a bitter laugh. She recalled Li Wei's words when he assigned the task, and felt that the cycle of karma was inescapable: "It's not uncommon for people to accidentally travel through time-space rifts. It's not surprising that you might fall into a collapsing world and be killed by the deformed creatures there."

Chen Ying was such an unlucky guy, falling headfirst into a temporary spatial rift with a probability even smaller than the probability of getting exactly the right result when flipping a coin ten thousand times, and then miraculously passing through the void to arrive at an unknown world.

The images on the projector began to become tense and exciting. In just two days and nights, Chen Ying had already been attacked five times. Back then, he was just an ordinary person, and he survived all of that thanks to his drunken, crazy driving skills and the sturdiness of the brand-new truck.

Judging from the images alone, it's difficult to guess which world this is.

"Chen Ying ran wildly for a long time, and finally plunged into a sacrificial site, where she witnessed the descent of the gods."

When the projector played the corresponding image, it emitted a buzzing malfunction sound, and the image immediately became blurry. Both the people kneeling on the ground and the descending gods were very blurry, and only human outlines could be seen.

Lan Yun's last right wheel scraped the ground, and he said awkwardly, "This really isn't my fault, it's a limitation set by God... He forgave his rude intrusion and allowed him the opportunity to speak like a believer."

"He told Chen Ying the whole picture of the world, letting him know that his hometown was just one of many worlds. It is very difficult for ordinary people to have the good fortune to cross the void in their physical bodies again, let alone return to their hometown."

"So God gave him the ability to travel through the void... My teleportation is essentially the power that Chen Ying shared with me before he died."

"After two rounds of sharing downwards, the effect is still so outstanding?" Ji Mo began to believe that the god Chen Ying encountered was a real god, and not a superhuman who was actually not even at the seventh level, but was just using the name of a god.

Jiu Chonglou remained silent, simply skipping over the plot.

Skip, skip, skip.

Judging from the fleeting glimpse, Chen Ying did indeed arrive in many unique worlds, but without exception, they were all destroyed worlds, with almost no living people.

Chen Ying's only companion is that large truck, so she uses the suitable materials to modify the truck. Lan Yun's image changes several times in the picture. Finally, he awakens his consciousness in the 23rd world and learns to become human in the 27th world.

Jiu Chonglou stopped "skipping" and stared at the humanoid Lan Yun in the picture for a moment before looking at the truck that was still restrained, as if he realized something.

"Hmm...you guys...haven't you spent as much money on me as I have on you?"

As if remembering something, Lan Yun moved forward in a fit of rage, knocking the remote control out of Jiu Chonglou's hand with a wheel. He displayed the perfect hand speed of a rhythm game demon king, frantically pressing the skip button until the screen was just a blurry blur.

Decades of memories can vanish in an instant.

Lan Yun's previous appearance was tantamount to telling Ji Mo the ending: even without truly experiencing the fatal flaws of these worlds, the harsh environment was enough to slowly kill Chen Ying.

"...Realizing that his time was running out, he gave up his journey and chose to stay here. We built this mountain villa, spent his last days here, and finally I buried him."

In the end, Lan Yun's voice was barely audible, and the engine roar was almost nonexistent.

"He didn't want me to fall into the same loneliness, so he tried to share the power to cross the void with me, so that I could go to other worlds and start a new life."

"It sounds like you're supposed to be living as an ordinary person in some other world, not causing trouble for us as an immigration assassin." Assuming these stories weren't entirely false, Ji Mo was left with only one question: "Why are you hanging out with immigration officials?"

"...Their condition was that I help them find Chen Ying's hometown. What I needed to do was use that power to help them relocate those immigrants who were difficult to move."

"Just for an empty promise, you've prevented so many living, breathing people from ever returning to their hometowns?"

Lan Yun remained silent.