This entry is suspicious.

"Prying into fate?"

Zhou Ran's heart skipped a beat as he thought of Brother Dao and the others, as well as the words that had appeared on the strange creature.

It turned out to be the case.

As he slightly moved his mind, the Book of Fate opened on its own, and ink quickly appeared on the blank pages, slowly spreading and taking shape.

[Peeping into Fate: See through the fates of others; resolving the events will earn you rewards]

Solving the Crimson Event grants one chance to draw an affix; solving the Golden Event grants a Fate Rune; collecting one hundred Fate Runes grants one chance to draw an affix.

[Equipped Affixes: None]

[None of these terms are currently available]

[Life Line: 0]

[Number of entries extracted: 1]

At the end of the page are four large characters enclosed in a rectangle, resembling a button.

——【Extracting terms】

"To glimpse destiny, to extract key terms..."

Zhou Ran's breath hitched, and her heart, which had just calmed down, started pounding violently again.

The ability to glimpse fate alone is already incredibly powerful. I escaped death just now because of it. Not to mention, I can also extract entries to strengthen myself by solving events. As long as I make good use of it, why should I worry about not being able to soar to the top in the path of immortality?

"etc."

Zhou Ran suddenly thought of a question: "The 'bloody incident' refers to the death calamity hanging over the debt collectors' heads, but the three people with the death calamity are already dead. So whose 'bloody incident' did I resolve?"

A moment later, he realized that the bloody incident was his own.

He escaped death from the clutches of the supernatural, which meant he had solved his own mortal crisis.

If you can also help those three debt collectors escape alive, it's equivalent to resolving four bloody incidents and being able to draw four entries.

But that was nothing short of a pipe dream; without the three debt collectors risking their lives, he would never have been able to escape the alley.

"You fucking ran away?!"

From afar came Brother Dao's incredulous voice. He stood at the intersection, fifty or sixty meters away from the alley entrance, his eyes wide open, his face still showing shock.

Zhou Ran looked at Dao Ge, and a new destiny attribute appeared above his head: [Extreme Terror]

"This is Brother Dao's current state." Zhou Ran thought to himself, "The Book of Fate allows me to see other people's names, cultivation levels, personalities, states, and even strange abilities. It's practically cheating."

Seeing that Zhou Ran was the only one unharmed, Brother Dao felt both angry and terrified. In his opinion, if Zhou Ran hadn't run into the alley, none of this would have happened, and his underlings wouldn't have died.

But he refused to take a single step forward, even though he knew it was safe.

The eerie atmosphere had left him with a deep psychological scar, especially with his underling's corpse lying at the alley entrance. He had only been dead for a dozen seconds, yet his skin was deathly gray and even had lividity, making it look as if he had been dead for several days.

The more terrified he was, the more shocked he became when he saw Zhou Ran run out unharmed.

How did this kid manage to survive something so terrifying and bizarre?

"I was just lucky."

Zhou Ran made up an excuse to brush it off, while secretly calculating, "If I run away now, I wonder if Brother Dao will chase after me..."

Just then, a deep engine roar came from afar.

Looking up, a completely black hovercar was slowly descending, with a prominent department logo printed on its body.

"This is a department specifically established by the Tianhuan Federation to deal with strange occurrences; it's called the Response Bureau." Zhou Ran recalled the relevant memories.

This world is in a period of bipolar rivalry, with the Celestial Ring Federation and the Immortal Martial Empire each occupying half of the world. In order to deal with the increasingly frequent bizarre disasters, the two superpowers have each established relevant departments—the Celestial Ring Federation's Response Bureau and the Immortal Martial Empire's Demon Suppression Guard.

The hovercar landed, the door opened, and two men in suits jumped out, scanning their surroundings: "Who called the police?"

"It's me! It's me!"

Dao Ge practically pounced on him, his finger trembling as he pointed into the alley: "There's a monster in there!"

"Hasn't the strangeness of this place been dealt with?"

One of the response team members immediately frowned. "Explain clearly, what does that monster look like?"

Brother Dao opened his mouth, but after stammering for a long time, he couldn't utter a few words. He was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. How could he have seen clearly?

Seeing the other person's increasingly impatient expression, Brother Dao suddenly pointed at Zhou Ran: "This kid knows! He was just in the alley!"

Zhou Ran had no choice but to step forward and describe the appearance of the tall male corpse.

The two members of the response team exchanged a glance after hearing this, their expressions changing slightly.

"It's not the same strange thing as before."

It is extremely rare for two different strange occurrences to appear in the same place in a short period of time.

"Get in the car, we're going back to the station to write our statements."

……

Two hours later.

Zhou Ran, who was the first to finish writing his statement, walked out of the office and quickly ran away while Dao Ge was away.

"I can't go home for the time being, I'll just spend the night in the park."

There were few people patrolling and managing the park near the residential area. Zhou Ran often saw people sleeping on the benches when he went for a night run. He never expected that he would become one of them.

The park is quite far from here; even a cultivator at the fourth level of the Enlightenment stage would need to walk for an hour.

It was nearly midnight, but the streets were still bustling with traffic.

A torrent of steel hovercars roared past above the main road, their taillights trailing red and blue streaks of light.

Skyscrapers soar into the sky, neon lights flashing on their glass curtain walls. Cultivation techniques, elixirs, magical artifacts... densely packed, like countless dazzling fluorescent discs spinning above the city, colorful and dazzling.

A giant virtual image of a popular idol expanded in the night sky. It was an exquisite face that could overlook the entire street. She opened her mouth, but there was no sound. Only lines of subtitles flowed from between her lips and teeth, suspended in mid-air, like a galaxy stretching across the sky.

Walking down the street, brushing past all sorts of passersby, Zhou Ran felt a little dazed. Before transmigrating, he had read so many novels, but he never imagined that one day he would actually be standing in such a world.

"Now that I'm here, I should live well and experience the life of a cultivator, so that this extraordinary adventure won't be in vain," he secretly resolved.

After walking for more than half an hour.

Zhou Ran finally arrived at the park near the residential area and found a bench in a secluded area to sit down.

—It's time to extract the entries.

He closed his eyes, and deep within his mind, the Book of Fate slowly opened.

"I hope my luck will be better."

Zhou Ran took a deep breath and lightly touched the four large characters 【Extract Entry】 with his mind.

The next moment, the pages of the Book of Fate flipped wildly like a whirlwind, and countless points of light burst forth from between the pages, emitting dazzling brilliance.

Immediately afterwards, the stream of light began to converge, gathering towards the center, and finally condensing into a thumb-sized point of light, which slowly fell into the Book of Fate.

New text appeared on the page, and Zhou Ran couldn't wait to look at it.

[Exquisite Heart: Possesses exceptional comprehension, can master techniques upon first glance, has a photographic memory, and can apply knowledge to other situations. However, the heart will gradually transform into the rare treasure "Exquisite Heart," easily attracting the covetous eyes of unsavory individuals.]

"The heart will gradually transform into a rare and precious object, easily attracting strange occurrences..."

Zhou Ran paused for a moment.

"Something's not right with this entry!"