If you were made a mascot, you would become a legend in the police force.

When Li Tuantuan led the entire advance team and stepped into the world behind the bronze gate, everyone was speechless with astonishment at the sight before them.

Outside the door lies the familiar Qinling Mountains, but inside is a completely unfamiliar and bizarre world.

The sky here is not blue, but a magnificent, ever-changing purplish-gold, as if Van Gogh's Starry Night painting has been brought to life.

There was no sun in the sky, but countless floating islands of all sizes, emitting a soft glow, were like natural lanterns, illuminating the whole world as bright as day.

The ground beneath our feet wasn't solid; instead, it was a strange, faintly glowing moss that felt soft and yielding, like walking on the finest carpet.

The dense spiritual energy in the air, almost tangible, formed wisps of white mist visible to the naked eye, drifting slowly through the forest.

Just one breath makes you feel like every pore on your body is opening up, and the energy you lost due to tension is recovering at an amazing speed.

"My God... is this... paradise?"

In the team, the classical beauty codenamed "Heavenly Voice" couldn't help but let out a dreamlike sigh.

"Spiritual energy... the concentration of spiritual energy here is at least a hundred times that of the outside world!" The old Taoist priest, carrying a peach wood sword, trembled with excitement. "If I could cultivate here for a year, it would be equivalent to sixty years of arduous cultivation in the mortal realm!"

Even the most goofy, muscular giant, "Tarzan," gaped open, feeling the exhilaration of the superpower core within him.

However, Li Tuantuan's focus was completely different from theirs.

He was squatting on the ground, carefully picking up a small grass growing by the roadside, its entire body crystal clear, like it was carved from jade, and putting it in his mouth to chew.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Hmm, crisp texture, juicy, and with a refreshing minty aroma. Verdict: Top-notch after-dinner snack.

He chewed while discreetly activating a system scan.

[Ding! Unknown spiritual plant detected: Emerald Dragon Beard Grass.]

[Efficacy: Contains traces of dragon energy; long-term consumption can temper the body and strengthen bones and muscles.]

[System buyback price: 100 merit points/plant.]

What the hell!

Li Tuantuan's eyes instantly turned green.

One hundred merits are worth one plant?

These roadside weeds, which can be seen everywhere, are actually considered merit points for walking?!

He looked up at the boundless primeval forest and felt like a mouse that had fallen into a rice jar, so happy he was about to faint.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: What's the point of exploring adventures? What's the point of saving the world? Don't fucking stop me, I'm going to be a happy lawnmower here! I'll do it for ten or eight years, and once I've accumulated a hundred million merit points, I'll go back to the system shop and exchange them for a planet, and become its governor!

Just as Li Tuantuan was immersed in her dream of getting rich, her mouth was practically watering.

"team leader!"

Lin Wan's voice pulled him back to reality.

Lin Wan was holding a specially made tactical terminal, but the screen was full of gibberish.

"No, all electronic devices, including our specially made quantum communicator, have become scrap metal here." Lin Wan's expression was somewhat grim. "We've completely lost contact with the outside world."

Moreover, several members of the team who used firearms also discovered the problem.

They tried to pull the bolt, but found it was as if it were welded shut, completely immovable. Some intricate mechanical structures seemed to have been "locked up" by some unknown law the moment they entered this world.

"The firearm has malfunctioned!"

"My superpower... feels like it's been suppressed by 30%!"

"The magnetic field here is too strange; my perception range has been compressed to within ten meters!"

In an instant, a series of bad news arrived, and the morale of the team, which had just been high due to the abundance of spiritual energy, plummeted to rock bottom.

The failure of modern technology means that their greatest reliance has been lost.

Everyone felt an unprecedented sense of panic and helplessness, like a group of babies who had been stripped naked and thrown into a primeval forest.

"What's the panic!"

A deep, muffled growl interrupted the commotion.

It's Li Tuantuan.

He slowly stood up, swallowed the grass root "worth one hundred merit points" in his mouth, and then looked at the so-called "elites" with an extremely contemptuous gaze.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: A bunch of useless trash! You can't fight without a gun? You can't walk without GPS? Your ancestors could take down saber-toothed tigers with stone axes and wooden clubs back in the day, but you guys are getting worse and worse!

He walked up to the team member who was still struggling with the bolt, stretched out his paw, and snatched the automatic rifle from his hand.

Then, to everyone's astonishment...

He gripped the ends of the gun with both paws and exerted force with his waist.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound.

He actually managed to break that automatic rifle, made of special alloy steel, into two pieces as easily as twisting a rope!

He casually tossed the pile of scrap metal on the ground, then clapped his hands, pointed to his fist, and then to the surrounding primeval forest.

The meaning is very clear:

Here, might makes right!

Everyone was stunned by his simple and brutal action.

Yes, what are they afraid of?

Modern weapons have failed, but they still have their captain!

This monster, capable of tearing apart tanks with its bare hands, is itself the most terrifying "humanoid weapon" in the world!

The wavering morale within the team was once again forcibly stabilized.

"The captain is right." Lin Wan took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said, "From now on, abandon our reliance on technology. Everyone, return to the most primal way of fighting. Taishan, you're in charge of clearing the way. Tianyin, you're in charge of guarding the surroundings. Shadow, you infiltrate the forest to scout. We..."

Before she could finish speaking, another change occurred!

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

A golden bolt of lightning shot out from the crack in the door they had come from; it was Jin Dou, who had been sent to gather information.

At this moment, Jin Dou's fur was soaked through, her small body was trembling, and her eyes were filled with unprecedented terror.

It buried its head in Li Tuantuan's arms and, through a mental connection, used a jumbled, fearful mind to stuff all the information it had just heard from the mysterious white deer into Li Tuantuan's mind.

"Return to the Ruins..."

"The end of all things..."

"The world... will be buried with it..."

Upon receiving this information, for the first time, a truly serious expression appeared on Li Tuantuan's honest panda face.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Things seem to be much bigger than I thought...

He suddenly raised his head and looked into the depths of the forest.

There, he sensed a terrifying aura that was slowly awakening, a aura that made his heart pound.