The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

Xue Lu felt that the kids these days seemed to be able to change their expressions without needing chakra. Just now, they were shouting and killing as if they were just breathing out in response to stress, and then they unleashed a powerful basic attack. Unexpectedly, they turned around and became even more obsequious than a Shiba Inu.

"Why don't you just change your face back? I think it'll look more normal then," Xue Dinglu complained.

"Uh..." The witch's toes curled up in embarrassment for a moment, but she still took a step forward slowly. Finding nothing unusual, she realized that the dimensional demon opposite her, despite the frightening numbers above his head, seemed quite easy to talk to on the surface.

"Slap!" The witch slapped herself hard. Su Su, Su Su, how could you be fooled by the appearance of the Dimensional Demon God! Don't be fooled by a handsome demon god. His billions of sins clearly show that he is no good person. Be careful, be careful!

But in Xue's eyes, she seemed to be a lunatic who suddenly slapped her pretty face, her expression changed several times, and then she showed a strange smile again and said, "Sir, I was mistaken just now. Shall we be friends?"

Xue's Law: "..."

He had heard that some people could change their expressions three times in a second, but he didn't believe it. Now he truly believes it.

"Whatever you want. By the way, what's your world like?" Xue Dinglu asked casually.

According to his guess, none of the people who could enter his body were good people; they were always the ones with the most troublesome problems. Xue Law once thought that Old Green, who lived in a fairy tale world, might be a person with a happy life.

At most, it was just a matter of separation from his wife due to his views on lifespan.

However, discovering the real Old Grimm and the Evil Eye on that spaceship almost drove him to his wits' end. Later on, whether it was the old mystic, the old Demon King, or the angels, each one was a heavyweight.

He didn't know what type of shrine maiden this underage girl, who still looked a bit chubby, was, but judging from her innocent and naive appearance, she didn't seem to have any deep-seated grievances.

People who are truly filled with bitterness and resentment don't have this kind of foolishness... right?

Xue Dinglu was a little puzzled. He had actually met people who were clearly full of bitterness and resentment but pretended to be more indifferent than anyone else.

To everyone's surprise, when Xue Luding asked about her home planet, the girl, who had just been smiling like a Shiba Inu and was practically wagging her tail, suddenly stared at Xue Luding with a look of wariness and fear, and immediately started to pant back to her usual sullen state.

Alarm bells rang in her mind: "Why did this dimensional demon ask about my hometown the moment we met? Is he going to destroy my hometown? Is he after the humans from my hometown?"

She immediately shook her head vigorously, as the sight of the billions of people above Xue Dinglu's head was truly terrifying.

Anyone who could see the number of heads above other people's heads would be terrified upon seeing billions of heads.

But she didn't dare to directly defy Xue's Law, so she just went along with it and continued, "My hometown... is very good, very good. People live very happily. Although there are often evil spirits and demons from hell that appear, and strange things that harm people, it's actually okay... people live very happily..."

Xue's Law: "?"

Wait a minute... the translator shouldn't be broken, right?

Xue's first thought was that the translator left by the old man might be broken, but then he realized that this witch was connected to him by soul, and they did not need a translator. They could directly understand each other's language using the words they were most familiar with.

Just now, she started talking about evil spirits, demons, and the supernatural...

Young lady, are you sure there's really nothing wrong with your world?

These words sent a chill down Xue Dinglu's spine, and the witch opposite him actually said that these things were very common in her world.

Do you live in hell?

Asking her directly about her world wouldn't work; she seemed very wary. So Xue Dinglu tried to probe indirectly, asking, "What...what are all these things?"

"Hmm, you don't have any here?" the girl asked, puzzled.

Xue Dinglu wasn't annoyed. He pulled open the curtains, letting the person opposite see the bright sunshine and perfect weather outside the window.

From his house, he can see the vegetable market across the street. Many elderly men and women pick vegetables from their own gardens and set up stalls on the curb. The vegetables are still covered in soil, looking green and healthy.

Although it's almost lunchtime, the entrance to the market is still bustling with people.

This scene stunned the little witch. She was wearing wooden slippers and could see the large number of people in the market across the street, and outside the house, there wasn't a single evil spirit!

Even with such a large population gathered together, not a single evil spirit appeared!

Then she turned her head and saw the billions above Xue Dinglu's head, and her expression fell again.

Is it because evil spirits are afraid of the demons of this dimension?

She thought this to herself, but seeing the lively scene outside, she felt a little disappointed for some reason, and then said, "Let me give you a brief overview."

“Although I don’t know their origins, as a member of the clergy, I know a lot about them,” she said, seemingly glancing inside the consciousness space, preparing to find a place to sit down.

Xue's law directly controls the growth of a wooden bench from the insect-eating tree.

Without hesitation, she plopped down on the bench, crossing her legs beneath her wide priestess robes as if she were sitting with her legs crossed.

“Evil spirits have no physical form, but they are absolutely immortal and indestructible. So far, we can only seal them or use them to fight them, causing them to fall into a logical conflict. They are often monsters with extremely distorted appearances…” she explained. “Evil spirits like places where living people gather. If more than ten people gather, it is very easy to attract an attack from an evil spirit.”

"Therefore, in our world, gatherings of people are not allowed. If you encounter an evil spirit, you must run away immediately and then find the Department of the Unusual or a clergy member to ask for their help..."

"As for demons, they are a group of monsters with physical bodies that can be killed, but it is difficult. It seems that the mission of demons is to abduct humans. If they cannot abduct them, they will kill them and take the bodies back, often causing horrific killings. However, it seems that those demons sometimes clash with evil spirits."

"Finally, the strangest thing is that most of them aren't living beings. They could be a small alley, a train station, an abandoned cabin, or even a bathroom. They're usually small, dark places where special, human-devouring rules appear, like a living monster. But in essence, they're still attached to the terrain of real objects..."

"Similarly, the supernatural cannot be killed. Even if we demolish all the corresponding alleys, stations or abandoned huts, similar killing rules may appear in other similar areas, and even all the people involved in the demolition may mysteriously disappear. Therefore, the best way to deal with the supernatural is to seal off that area."

“As long as they are not demolished, the supernatural will not move around randomly. They will remain fixed in place forever. Just completely seal off that area. Caves, underwater pits, and even abandoned cabins and campsites in the wild are the most likely places for the supernatural to be born.”

The shrine maiden explained all these terms to Xue Dinglu in one breath, then seemed a little thirsty, swallowed hard, and looked at Xue Dinglu with an expectant expression.

Xue Dinglu handed over a bottle of iced cola.

Upon seeing the cola, she excitedly started chugging it down, and then a satisfied expression spread across her face.

Although the girl's words were concise, Xue Dinglu suddenly felt like complaining: Does your world really have no problems? Murderous demons, monsters that abduct humans, and ruthless, cannibalistic creatures...

Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your world?

It feels like in your area, you could easily be swallowed whole, bones and all, by some strange creature without even knowing what it was.

Is this the kind of world where people can survive?

As for that last strange thing... another piece of bad news came from the cave diving community. No, there shouldn't be a cave diving community in her world. It's estimated that all cave divers have been wiped out.

"This world of yours doesn't seem like a place where you can live a normal life, does it?" Xue Daoli complained, then casually tossed a basket of fruit to the girl.

These fruits, a specialty of the fairy tale world, were just gathering dust in the magic academy in his consciousness space anyway, so he might as well bring them out to entertain guests.

The shrine maiden didn't seem to mind the dusty fruits. She picked them up, wiped them clean with her pristine white shrine maiden robes, and ate them with a cat-like expression.

"Actually, it's not a big problem. As long as the population doesn't gather, evil spirits aren't a major issue. Even if you're unlucky enough to encounter one, as long as you run to the anomaly bureau immediately, there's a good chance you can escape. Demons usually trigger a siege as soon as they appear, so they generally don't pose a significant threat. As for the eerie aspects..."

"There's really no other way. We can only seal off and contain the area, turning it into a no-man's land that no one will ever approach."

As the witch munched on the fruits from the fairy tale world, her eyes seemed to sparkle, clearly showing how much she enjoyed them. So Xue Dinglu continued to take out more fruits, as well as some magical fruits given by the Silver Princess and Old Watson.

She had a general understanding of Xue's Law of the World: a world filled with the bizarre and the strange.

I don't know how she can sleep so soundly at her age, and eat so well. Xue Lude frowned as he listened to this bizarre world. It was full of unsolvable beings, and the only thing that could be killed was a demon.

However, the demon did not seem to be a local species, but rather a powerful magical creature from another world or outer space.

As for the evil spirits and the supernatural, they seem more like an out-of-control authority.

Xue Lu thought to himself that a normal world consciousness should not allow such a thing to be born. Such a distorted creation that brings no benefit to the world but only harm must be either a loss of control or the entire world being invaded by something even more bizarre.

That's why it's so eerie, the whole world is like a ghost story.

"How many people have died or gone missing because of these monsters over there?" Xue Dinglu asked.

"It's alright. According to the World Government's statistics, about 80 people go missing worldwide each year due to demons and other evil spirits," the shrine maiden said, taking a bite of apple and a sip of cola, feeling as if she were living in paradise.

"80 missing people? Well, that's not a lot." Xue Luding thought to himself. After all, according to Earth's data, the number of missing people worldwide is around several million every year. Usually, these missing people are concentrated in small countries in chaos and war, as well as in a certain country with the world's largest population and a caste system.

In their world, only a few hundred thousand people disappear each year due to evil spirits, which is indeed not many. It is estimated that fewer people die than those who engage in extreme sports on Earth.

After all, another piece of bad news came from the cave diving circle.

"By the way, how many people are in your world?" Xue asked.

"The last time the world government did a survey, there were over 200 million people. Now this is the most prosperous period in terms of population," she said, continuing to eat her fruit.

"How much?" Xue Dinglu was stunned for a moment. The sudden surprise even made him, who was usually calm, a little excited.

Two hundred million people, and more than eight hundred thousand go missing every year because of evil spirits?

He believes that 800,000 people is not a big problem when compared to the world's population of over 8 billion. However, when the total population drops to only 200 million, it becomes a very serious issue.

"Is the birth rate high in your world?" Xue Dinglu suddenly asked.

The shrine maiden paused for a moment, then said rather embarrassedly, "It's alright. I remember the average marriage age where I'm from is quite young. Basically... people seven or eight years younger than me start getting married... the birth rate should be okay..."

Xue's Law: "..."

"What is your normal lifespan? If you don't get caught by those evil spirits or anything like that?" he continued to press.

"More than a hundred years, I think, but I've only ever heard of it. In reality, it's rare to even see someone who's 60 years old," the girl continued in response.

Xue's Law: Tactical Lean Back.

He already understood the situation in that world. He could learn a lot by observing the reproductive age. The normal lifespan was over a hundred years, which meant that people in her world had to start raising the next generation as soon as they were able to reproduce.

This situation is such that without childbirth, the population cannot be maintained and people cannot survive. It is already extremely dire, and she does not understand the horror that this data represents.

According to Xue's Law, this data already indicates that the entire race is in a situation where it could collapse at any time.

It's even possible that 800,000 people die from evil spirits or monsters every year, which is a conservative estimate. The truth is probably more than a million, or even several million, but they are just being hidden. Otherwise, it's impossible to explain the exaggerated concept of having to bear the burden of the birth rate as soon as someone has the ability to reproduce.

This stage is precisely the age when boys and girls are most vulnerable to falling in love, and it is also the age when they most want and need love. In ancient times, people usually got married at this age, but in ancient times, half a hundred years old was considered half dead.

Furthermore, this is also the most impulsive age, and with the vigorous promotion, those ignorant teenagers might accidentally cause someone's death, which is why the high birth rate can level the gap between the number of deaths and missing persons.

At this very age of childbearing, Xue Dinglu saw a microcosm of a terrifying, cannibalistic world.

To give an example, even in the world of angels, which was originally based on birth under the control of the God-King, girls who became "pigs" probably wouldn't have such a young age to give birth.

After all, children who are too young are more prone to problems, and it can also cause the next generation to degenerate.

And this world, which doesn't seem so distorted...

Perhaps their world is already dead, but it's still clinging on, just not yet buried...

So, could it be an apostle?

It doesn't seem like it. Although it's a world where people eat each other, this one is full of evil spirits, weird things, and demons. It doesn't seem like the kind of things the apostles would like to do.

The apostles preferred farming to all this miscellaneous stuff, and it seemed that several of the things were even conflicting with each other.

Xue's Law even suggested that they should just send their world coordinates to any apostle, as long as it wasn't the Sixth Apostle. At least, after Xue's speech called "Project Xinghai," the apostles were preparing to vigorously develop the population.

This is probably better than your world's environment. At least the apostles understand that these monsters will definitely help clean them up, since population is their wealth, and they value population size more than anyone else.

Indeed, the world is all about comparing how bad things are.

I thought the Ninth Apostle's home planet was already a cesspool, the kind of place where the Four Evil Gods used to be treated like a nuisance. But I was proven wrong. It turned out to be an even bigger cesspool.

However, the shrine maiden seemed unaware of how terrible her world was, and continued to eat the fruit with great interest.