Livestreaming Forbidden Zone: Starting with a Qilin Tattoo Terrifies the Entire Internet

The voice was devoid of any emotion, just like Siri. But it possessed an added air of authority that made you want to kneel before Siri.

Mechanical puppet. Jiang Han made the judgment immediately.

This isn't the First Emperor; it's just a high-end figurine.

"It's fake," Jiang Han sneered. "After all that, it turns out he's just a stand-in."

Old Man Zero didn't laugh. He stared at the mechanical puppet with a fanatical gaze.

With a thud, the old man knelt down and kowtowed heavily to the puppet.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects." Jiang Han was stunned.

Is this old man crazy? Kowtowing to a pile of scrap metal?

The red light in the mechanical puppet's eyes flickered. It looked at the old man kneeling on the ground.

"You've come."

"Did you bring the medicine?"

Medicine! More medicine! Jiang Han's temper flared up instantly.

"Screw you!" Jiang Han raised his knife, pointing it at the puppet. "I'm a human being! A living, breathing human being!"

The puppet turned its head, and its ruby ​​eyes locked onto Jiang Han.

Scanning. Beep beep beep.

"High concentration of Qilin bloodline detected."

"The Five Elements Origin has been detected."

"Meets the activation requirements."

The puppet stood up. It was very tall, easily three meters high. Beneath the dragon robe was a metal skeleton.

"Put it in the furnace." The puppet pointed to the side.

Jiang Han then noticed that there was a huge bronze furnace next to the table.

The furnace was carved with hideous beast heads. The furnace mouth was open, and green ghost flames burned inside.

"Put it in the furnace and refine the elixir." The puppet walked over step by step, and with each step, the platform beneath its feet trembled.

"I want to borrow your blood to mend the sky."

Mending the sky? Jiang Han laughed.

"Screw your patching up the sky! Even Nuwa has patched it up, what's it to you?"

"Zero! Let's get it!" Jiang Han struck first.

"Gravity field! One hundred times!"

Although Zero was scared, she still widened her eyes when she heard her father's command.

Boom! A terrifying gravity pressed down on the puppet.

An ordinary person would have been turned into mincemeat long ago, but the puppet only swayed slightly. Its dragon robe emitted a burst of golden light.

[Protected by the nation's destiny].

Gravity is useless.

"A mere trick." The puppet raised its hand and slapped the puppet across the face.

It was pure physical attack, nothing fancy. It was just fast. It was just heavy.

Jiang Han raised his knife to parry.

Clang! An indescribable force came.

Jiang Han felt as if he had been hit by a train, and his whole body flew out and crashed onto the edge of the pyramid.

*Pfft!* He spat out another mouthful of blood. This thing… is far stronger than Bai Qi. They're not even in the same league.

"Jiang Han!" Old Man No. 0 stood up and stood in front of Jiang Han.

"Your Majesty!" the old man cried, "Times have changed!"

"We don't need blood sacrifices anymore!"

"We have technology! We have nuclear weapons! We can protect ourselves!"

The puppet stopped. It tilted its head and looked at the old man, as if processing a line of complex code.

"Mortals...protecting themselves?" the puppet chuckled shrilly.

"Ridiculous." It pointed to the top of its head.

"You can't even see it, so what are you talking about protecting?" Everyone subconsciously looked up at the artificial starry sky.

Jiang Han had sensed something was wrong earlier. The stars were moving.

Now he saw it clearly; those weren't stars. They were... scales. Glowing scales.

A dragon so enormous it defies description coiled on the dome of the entire underground palace.

Its body is the sky, its eyes are the sun and moon, and it is always watching them.

"That is..." Jiang Han's voice was dry.

"The First Emperor," the old man said, trembling, "that is His Majesty's true form."

"He refined himself."

"He refined his body and soul into the Great Wall and into the dragon vein of this underground palace."

"He transformed into a seal."

"Suppressing...the outer heavens."

Jiang Han felt his brain couldn't process what was happening. The First Emperor had become a seal? What... is outside the heavens?

The puppet continued, "Two thousand years ago, the sky cracked."

"The indescribable has arrived."

"I mobilized the entire nation's resources to cast twelve bronze statues and build the Great Wall, not to defend against the Xiongnu."

"It's for defense against the heavens."

"I used my own body as a shield to plug that gap."

"But I get tired too."

"The seal has loosened."

The puppet pointed at Jiang Han.

"We need new energy."

"Qilin blood is the battery."

"Sacrifice one of you to ensure peace throughout the land."

"This deal is a good one."

A logical loop, no problem. This is the logic of emperors. Sacrificing the individual for the greater good is taken for granted.

Jiang Han fell silent. If it were before, if it were watching a movie, he might have thought this was great.

But now, the one who has to be sacrificed is him.

On what grounds?

Why should I be born only to die?

Why should my life be exchanged for your safety?

"I refuse to accept this." Jiang Han stood up, wiped the blood from his face, and his eyes were as fierce as a wolf's.

"I don't care about anything beyond the heavens or the inner heavens."

"All I know is..."

"My life is mine."

"Anyone who wants it can pay with their life!"

All the scales on Jiang Han's body stood up; he was burning away the last of his life force.

Even if it means death, I'll knock out a few of your teeth!

The puppet shook its head. "Stubborn to the end."

It extended its mechanical arm, and a tremendous suction force came from it. Jiang Han felt his body being uncontrollably thrown towards the bronze furnace.

"Let go of my dad!" Zero rushed forward, grabbed the puppet's leg, and bit it.

*Snap!* Zero's tooth broke, and the puppet kicked him away. "Get out of here, you defective product."

"Zero!" Jiang Han watched as Zero slammed into a pillar and passed out, his rage completely overwhelming his reason. "I'll kill you!!"

Just as Jiang Han was about to self-destruct, Old Man Zero moved. He pulled a red remote control from his pocket.

That was… Jiang Han recognized the symbol. A nuclear weapon detonator.

"Stop." The old man's voice was calm as he looked at the puppet.

"His Majesty."

"I've said it before. Times have changed."

"If you insist on eating people."

"Then let's die together."

The old man pressed his thumb on the red button.

"There is a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb buried down here."

"As long as I let go."

"Everything here. Including you. Including the seal in the heavens."

"They will all turn to ashes."

The silence was eerily tense; the mechanical puppet had stopped. Its ruby ​​eyes were fixed on the remote control in the old man's hand.

It's calculating whether this mortal is bluffing.

Are you threatening me?

"No."

The old man smiled, a very serene smile.

"I'm proving it to you."

"Even mortals can kill gods."

"We don't need God to save us."

"We will save ourselves."

Jiang Han hovered in mid-air, watching the old man's back.

At that moment, he suddenly realized that this old man who had been scheming against him all along was kind of handsome.

Is this the trump card of mortals? The courage to perish together with others.

The mechanical puppet remained silent for a long time, as if it were weighing the pros and cons.

Suddenly, the starry sky above and the giant dragon coiled for thousands of miles appeared.

He opened his eyes. Two golden beams shone on the platform like searchlights.

An indescribably powerful divine thought resounded directly in everyone's minds.

That was the true voice of an emperor! It had traversed two thousand years, carrying endless vicissitudes and weariness.

There is only one word.

"allow."

......

The mechanical puppet slowly retracted its steel claws, and Jiang Han crashed heavily to the ground, panting heavily.

Suddenly, the strange voice of "mechanical puppet" echoed in Jiang Han's mind.

"The bloodline of the Qilin... Interesting."

"Two thousand years have passed, and finally another vessel has appeared that can bear my legacy."

Jiang Han shuddered as he felt the Qilin tattoo inside his body burning intensely!

"Judging from your appearance, I find it barely acceptable."

"But with your current strength, you can't even get out of the first level of my mausoleum."

"Do you truly want to awaken the Qilin bloodline?"

"Go and gain experience."

Images were projected into the dragon's golden eyes—

The ancient ice caves deep in the Kunlun Mountains, the underground city beneath Lop Nur, the sleeping wonders in the Heavenly Lake of Changbai Mountain…

Jiang Han's pupils contracted sharply. Those places were all the [S-level restricted areas] previously marked by the system! He had indeed been lazy a lot.

"Time is running out. Your abilities are still far too inadequate! Far too inadequate! I will reshape time for you, collapsing it into the past!"

"What do you mean? Traveling back in time?"

"Okay, go back the way you came and complete your system task!"

"A system? Even our ancestors knew about systems? What exactly is a system? Why did it choose me?"

"I don't know, I only know that she has had many masters!"

"Does that include you?"

The enormous dragon soul above remained silent for a moment, then let out a low laugh.

"How dare you... Go ahead! The answer is for you to discover!"

"You must remember, your time is really, really short!!!"

Jiang Han's pupils suddenly contracted.

He felt the space around him begin to distort, and time seemed to become a river that he could touch.

"Ah! Ancestor, you haven't answered yet... I..."

"time?"

"When I sought immortality, I did not succeed, but I did gain some insight into the laws of Heaven."

The dragon soul's self-talk grew increasingly faint.

"I will send you back to continue exploring the mysteries of creation."

"Memory, bloodline, experience—I allow you to retain them. But she cannot guarantee that."

"but--"

A hint of majesty flashed in the golden dragon's eyes.

"This is your only chance."

"If you come to my tomb again and are still this useless..."

"I will personally send you on your way."

Jiang Han wanted to say something, but everything around him had already begun to collapse and spin.

Old Man Zero, the mechanical puppet, Zero, that illusory starry sky... all turned into countless points of light and flew backward at high speed.

He saw himself lying in a hospital bed.

I saw myself tear up the critical illness notice.

I saw that I had bought that one-way ticket to Kunlun Mountain.

Time is flowing backward! It's collapsing!

At the last moment, the dragon soul's voice left its mark deep within his consciousness:

"Go, little Qilin bloodline."

"Traversing all the forbidden zones of the world, hunting down all the ancient ferocious beasts."

"The day you truly awaken..."

"Come see me again."

"I will tell you then—"

"The real secret of this world."