Those who reincarnate must die.

"Huh?"

The twelve altars inside the pawnshop looked at each other in bewilderment: "Where did the hunter go?"

Just now, they followed Zhang Lang into the pawnshop, but in a flash, Zhang Lang, who was walking in front, disappeared.

Lok Sum-yee took out her badge and tried to contact Cheung Long, but it showed that he was out of range.

"What happened?"

The crowd was confused, but the pawnshop owner was getting impatient: "What do you want? Do you want to pawn something or redeem it?"

Le Xinyi stepped forward: "Excuse me... are there any portals or something similar nearby that allow entry into other worlds?"

"A teleportation portal? Isn't that in Stargate New City?" The pawnshop owner looked completely bewildered. "Are you from out of town?"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Yue Xinyi nodded repeatedly. The pawnshop owner muttered, "Go to the station to buy a ticket. There's a direct train there, less than a hundred kilometers from here... Honestly, why come to a pawnshop for directions?"

"Buy tickets..." After a brief analysis, Le Xinyi understood why Zhang Lang had brought them here. She immediately found some valuable but not very important items to pawn, exchanged them for cash, and led everyone to the station.

Old Mo asked curiously, "Are we going straight to Stargate New City without waiting for the hunters?"

"Don't worry about him!" Le Xinyi had complete confidence in Zhang Lang. "His sudden disappearance must have a reason. What we need to do is follow the mission's instructions, find the star gate, and stop the demons' invasion!"

"Perhaps he's already waiting at the Star Gate!"

The group arrived at the station, bought tickets, boarded the train, and soon arrived at Xingmen New City.

They didn't have Zhang Lang's abnormal hearing, but they had other ways to gather information and quickly found the group's building.

"The star gate is underground, and the higher-ups' offices are upstairs. To catch the thief, catch the king first!"

The group immediately set off, still using brute force to break through to the rooftop and force their way into the office of the person in charge, Simon.

To their surprise, someone had already beaten them to it.

The office's exterior glass was shattered, and the curtains and plants inside swayed violently in the wind. Behind the desk sat Ximen, while a tall man sat outside the desk.

"A hunter?"

Everyone was surprised to see Zhang Lang in the office.

"You came here by yourself without even telling us?"

"There's a bit of a situation, I'll tell you next time." Zhang Lang didn't even turn around, he just stared at Ximen in front of him.

"Next time?" Yue Xinyi stepped forward. "What next time?"

"Don't move!"

Zhang Lang's sudden shout startled Le Xinyi, who froze on the spot: "What's wrong?"

"I wasn't talking about you." Zhang Lang turned slightly away, then continued looking at Ximen: "You're already under my influence; don't even think about making any trouble."

Simon? Everyone looked curiously at the head of the Stargate Group. Could this guy have something special that made powerful hunters wary?

Ximen looked at Zhang Lang. This time, he was no longer as furious and panicked as he had been in the previous cycles. Instead, he calmly shrugged his shoulders and said, "You misunderstood. I never intended to do anything. From beginning to end, I was just an observer."

"Incredible..." Zhang Lang exclaimed, "Both your acting skills and your ability to conceal your presence are flawless... Always playing the role of an observer, is this your method for understanding the past and the future?"

"Vasak!"

That's right, the head of this research institute, Mr. Simon, who acted no different from an ordinary human in the previous reincarnations, is actually the third demon god of hell, the god of knowledge, Vasak!

"I haven't heard this name in a long time..." Simon, or rather Vasak, chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"You don't seem surprised that I came to your door?" Zhang Lang raised an eyebrow. "You looked quite calm when I broke in through the window..."

"I am a demon god who can see the past and the future, so naturally I can guess that someone is coming to find me..." Vasak laughed, "I mean, me as 'Vasak,' not 'Simon.'"

"You weren't like this the last few times," Zhang Lang raised an eyebrow.

"How many times?" Vasak asked with a curious expression.

"This isn't our first meeting." Zhang Lang shook his head, then briefly explained the rollback.

Vasak shook his head: "If what you're saying is true, then it only means that the information I received the previous times was different, so I have to play Simon's role well."

"Information?" Zhang Lang tilted his head slightly. "Did someone inform you that I was coming?"

"To understand the world, you naturally need to gather information... but not just superficial intelligence," Vasak explained. "I can see hidden connections behind seemingly unrelated things."

"For example, I can deduce financial fluctuations across the ocean from the amount of foam in my first cup of coffee in the morning; I can predict the score of a football match three days from the shape of the clouds in the sky; I can even tell the price of meat at the market next door tomorrow from the shape of the lawn downstairs..."

Zhang Lang frowned.

"Incredible, isn't it?" Vasak shrugged. "According to your logic, this makes absolutely no sense... but I just know it. Perhaps you can consider it my divine power."

"So how did you know I was coming to see you?"

Vasak turned the monitor on the table, which was showing the midday news, with the image paused on an on-location reporter's interview.

"The reporter's shirt has three folds on the chest, which means someone will rudely barge into my office, and the way her hair is blown by the wind suggests that the visitor knows my true identity."

"I think that in the other reincarnations you've experienced, the shape of her hair must have been slightly different."

Zhang Lang still found it somewhat absurd, but even if he remembered the reporter's hair shape now, he couldn't verify it. Because he already knew Simon's true identity, and according to Vasak, once he knew it, the hair would appear in that shape.

"An inconceivable ability..."

“It’s not omnipotent.” Vasak shook his head with a smile. “At least, I still don’t know how you found me. I must have missed some information about that… I thought I hid well enough to even fool God…”

"I asked Baal," Zhang Lang replied. "It took a lot of effort to get him to talk."

Vasak paused for a moment upon hearing this, then shook his head with a self-deprecating laugh: "I never imagined there was someone capable of defeating Baal... I call myself an all-knowing demon god. After living in the mortal realm for so long, it seems there are still many things in this world I cannot predict..."

---Aside---

Thank you, Shengmin, for the 100 Qidian Coins!

Thank you so much, I just can't stand seeing this 100 Qidian coins as a reward!

Thank you, Yinglong, for the 100 Qidian Coins!

Thank you to the man with the proof of the hegemon for the 100 Qidian coins!