The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

When Lin Mo spoke, there was a slight, almost imperceptible tremor in his voice.

He closed his eyes.

The hellish scene flashed through my mind.

The land is scarred and ravaged.

Piles of bones.

And those...

A terrifying creature that feeds on humans.

He lived through that apocalypse.

To eke out a living in the end times.

He eventually died in that apocalypse.

It all feels like it happened yesterday.

That deep-seated fear cannot be erased even if one is reborn.

Listening to Lin Mo's description.

Chi Zhengyang fell silent.

He still couldn't believe it.

Or rather, they are unwilling to believe it.

monster?

The end times?

This sounds even more absurd than time travel.

"Since the whole world is dead."

"So how did you survive?"

Chi Zhengyang seized upon the flaw in the other party's logic.

Lin Mo took a deep breath.

"To be honest."

"I did not survive."

"I'm dead too."

"He was slapped into a pulp by a gigantic monster."

"Just when I opened my eyes again..."

"I have arrived in the world fifty-five years in the future."

"That is, fifty-five years from now."

Lin Mo's words were somewhat convoluted.

But Chi Zhengyang understood.

Reborn?

cross?

These words are somewhat beyond the vocabulary of someone his age.

However, Chi Zhengyang's ability to accept things is far beyond that of ordinary people.

He forced himself to calm down.

Because the chair had fallen over, he didn't bother to pick it up and simply sat back down on the table.

How can you prove it?

"You alone cannot make that kind of life-saving potion."

"If the future is really as you say, a wasteland, a paradise for monsters."

"Then where did you get the medicine in your hand?"

This is the most crucial issue.

What if civilization were to perish in the future?

Such high-tech products should not exist.

unless......

The other party is lying, or is hiding something from you.

On the other end of the phone.

Lin Mo glanced at the general store. From the very beginning, when he contacted Chi Zhengyang, he had no intention of hiding anything.

The other party was Chi Zhengyang, who had seen more lies than he had eaten meals.

Showing off your petty cleverness in front of him is tantamount to courting death.

Lin Mo took a deep breath and slowly began to speak:

"Given by the system."

"I was reborn into a general store."

"Those are items sold in the general store."

"As long as I have enough turnover, I can redeem anything."

"even......"

"Including weapons capable of fighting those monsters!"

Chi Zhengyang was stunned.

It's another new term.

"What is a system?"

He really doesn't understand.

For him, the settings in these online novels were like a foreign language.

On the other end of the phone.

Lin Mo was clearly taken aback as well.

There was a few seconds of silence.

Lin Mo asked tentatively:

"Forehead......"

Do you read novels?

"If you haven't read it, just pick up any online novel and you'll know."

On the other end of the phone.

Chi Zhengyang loosened his grip on the receiver slightly.

Web novels?

The appearance of this word in such a serious conversation seems out of place, even somewhat absurd.

But he didn't think the other person was joking.

At this level, he has seen far too many things that ordinary people cannot understand.

What we call common sense is often just the boundary of cognition.

Chi Zhengyang did not dwell on this topic.

He was silent for a moment.

The office was eerily quiet, with only the faint hum of the air purifier.

But he had just witnessed a miracle.

That is an undeniable fact.

It is also the cornerstone of all trust.

"To be honest, Comrade Lin Mo."

Chi Zhengyang finally spoke, his tone much gentler than before, more like an elder talking to a younger person.

"I find it really hard to believe what you're saying."

"Time travel, systems, apocalypse—these things are too impactful for a materialist like me."

"But I'm willing to believe you."

He spoke slowly, each word carefully considered.

"For no other reason than..."

"Because you truly saved my wife's life."

Although it is unknown how the other party did it, his wife and children did indeed survive because of the medicine he gave them.

Facts speak louder than words.

Faced with a vast unknown, grasp the only certain fact, and then use it as a fulcrum to leverage the entire situation.

On the other end of the phone.

Lin Mo's tense body instantly collapsed.

He leaned against the cold counter of the grocery store and exhaled a long breath.

That feeling.

It's like someone who has been walking alone in the dark for a long time finally seeing a glimmer of light.

trust.

This is the most expensive, and also the cheapest thing.

In the end times, trust is a deadly poison.

But at this moment, trust was his only lifeline.

"Thanks."

All those words could be summed up in just two.

Lin Mo's voice was a little hoarse.

Chi Zhengyang sensed the fluctuation in the other person's emotions, but he did not point it out. Instead, he quickly steered the conversation back on track.

He must obtain the core intelligence in the shortest possible time.

"You said you're in a very dangerous situation."

Chi Zhengyang sat up straight, picked up a pen from the table, and prepared to take notes on the paper at any time.

"What happened?"

"Is it because the monsters over there haven't disappeared yet?"

If it really is a monster siege, then the situation is troublesome.

Even if the Dragon Kingdom had the strongest firepower, it couldn't provide any support across time and space.

Moreover, as the other side just said, human firepower is useless against those monsters.

"The monster is still there."

Lin Mo turned his head.

Looking out through the glass window of the grocery store.

A gloomy sky.

Cracked earth.

In the distance, amidst the ruins, several colossal beasts, each the size of a small mountain, were slowly moving.

With each step they took, the ground trembled slightly.

But all of this was blocked out by the faint light curtain surrounding the grocery store.

"But they can't hurt me."

Lin Mo looked away, staring at the empty shelves in the store.

"The place I am in is an absolutely safe zone."

"As long as I don't go out, those monsters can't do anything to me."

"The real threat does not come from them."

"It's the system I just mentioned."

When Lin Mo mentioned those two words, his tone became somewhat resentful.

Even if I were to live another life.

Even with a cheat code.

The feeling of having one's fate controlled by some kind of will is still extremely unpleasant.

"The system gave me this store."

"But it also imposed limitations on me."

"I only have one day."

"If a grocery store cannot open normally and generate revenue within a day."

"The system will directly determine that I am worthless."

"Then......"

Lin Mo paused for a moment, then squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth.

"Just kill me outright..."

To obliterate.

This term is not unfamiliar.

But hearing it in real life sends chills down your spine.

It's not the death penalty.

It's execution!

It's like erasing a typo on a blackboard, completely removing any trace of it.