Then let them offer their loyalty!

"I ate all the antidotes I had hidden at home, until my whole face turned green before I finally recovered..."

Qiu Tu:? ? ?

He felt three dark lines drooping down his forehead.

What kind of monster is this girl in front of me?

Was she joking or serious?

If she's serious... would she dare to take the cataclysmic potion she made herself?

At this moment, perhaps because Qiu Tu's expression was too unpleasant, Shen Ling Shuang tilted her head, looked up at Qiu Tu, and asked curiously, "Why aren't you smiling? Are you just naturally averse to smiling?"

As she spoke, a mischievous glint flashed in her eyes.

Qiu Tu:? ? !

In that instant, Qiu Tu was certain of one thing: this girl was faking it! From the moment he saw the photo, she had been acting, and the stories that followed were all made up to amuse herself!

This is absolutely outrageous!

Thinking this, Qiu Tu could no longer control his temper. He pulled the girl up and pressed her into a chair.

Then he pulled out the dagger from his waist, wanting to do something ruthless to Shen Lingshuang and intimidate her!

Whether it's a fraud ring from a past life or the political department of this world, both have many cruel and painful punishments that don't cause permanent disability!

But as his hand gripped the hilt of the dagger, he suddenly remembered the girl's shrouded identity. In that instant, he calmed down.

He stared intently at Shen Lingshuang, unsure whether to release her or punish her. Caught between a rock and a hard place, his gaze fell upon the girl's slender waist and pert buttocks as she leaned over the table.

The next second, he slammed his hand down hard!

"Pop!" "Pap!" "Pap!"

Chapter 21, second treasure chest opened.

Qiu Tu used considerable force, so after only two blows, the girl was screaming in pain.

She was probably genuinely angry. She turned around and looked at Qiu Tu with a mixture of embarrassment and anger, tears welling in her eyes. She bit her lip tightly with her little tiger teeth and shouted in a cute but fierce voice, "You're finished! You're really finished!"

"I'm going to have my dad kill your whole family! Kill them all!"

"I'll scatter your ashes!"

Qiu Tu laughed in anger upon hearing this. He slapped the girl's pert bottom hard again and retorted sharply, "What a coincidence, I'm a person with no ties. My parents and relatives are all dead!"

"So don't mess with me. If you really piss me off, I'll rape you, then kill you, and then run away!"

"I don't care who your father is. Even if he's the King of Heaven, can he bring you back to life?"

Shen Lingshuang was stunned when she heard Qiu Tu's words.

She found herself completely helpless against the tall agent in front of her. Neither gentle persuasion nor force worked.

In the past, whenever I mentioned my father's name, everyone would treat me with utmost respect, but he didn't care at all.

He seemed to be from another world, completely unable to comprehend what it meant to be the vice-chairman of the Sanctuary's highest council...

Am I really going to fail here today?

Shen Lingshuang was lost in thought, and Qiu Tu remained silent, making the room quiet for a moment.

After a while, Qiu Tu saw that Shen Ling Shuang had really quieted down. He quietly clenched his reddened hands and said, "What? Got scared? Let's go again!"

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Shen Ling Shuang came back to her senses.

Her eyes welled up with tears, and she looked at Qiu Tu with a tearful expression. "Detective brother, I was wrong~ Please don't be angry, and please don't hit me or scold me. Whatever you ask, I promise I'll tell you the truth..."

After saying that, she pouted pitifully and blinked her big eyes at Qiu Tu, trying to charm him.

Qiu Tu was not fooled by Shen Lingshuang's submission.

He kept Shen Lingshuang firmly pressed into the chair, then placed the paper and pen on her back and said coldly, "Fine, I'll ask, you answer."

“If I weren’t satisfied, the punishment wouldn’t have been so simple.”

Being forced to ask questions by Qiu Tu in such an embarrassing pose, Shen Ling Shuang felt both ashamed and angry, but the situation was beyond her control, and she could only comply.

So, Qiu Tu quickly obtained a lot of valuable information from her, such as...

After the Cataclysmic Awakening, will everyone embark on a different path of catastrophe?

'There are six paths in total? They are: Destruction, Life, Mysticism, Immortality, Order, and Chaos?'

'Does each person's abilities or traits after Cataclysmic Awakening align with their own Cataclysmic Path?'

'For example, what if there was a catastrophe survivor who followed a life path, and all she possessed was the ability to reproduce? So she had 10 babies in one pregnancy, giving birth to 107 children in 5 years?'

'For example, what if there was a Cataclysmic Being who followed a path of destruction? After awakening his Cataclysmic Awakening, his ability would be to devour everything? Soil, rubble, buildings—he could eat them all raw?'

To be honest, listening to Shen Lingshuang's fantastical information, Qiu Tu felt like he had become Yan Chen from last night.

I feel like the other person is lying, but everything is logically consistent.

What the other person said seems true, but it also sounds too fantastical...

Qiu Tu finally realized how despicable the "liar" was.

He glanced suspiciously at Shen Lingshuang, who was slumped over the chair, but ultimately decided to trust her this once and for all.

So Qiu Tu first helped her up from the chair, then dragged the table that had been moved away back over, and finally handed Shen Lingshuang a new pair of chopsticks, saying, "Eat."

Shen Lingshuang didn't take the chopsticks. She rubbed her arm, which had just been pulled sore, and her bottom, which had been swollen from being hit, while her eyes reddened and she pouted, saying aggrievedly, "I'm not eating, it's all cold~"

Qiu Tu: .....

This girl has so many demands!

Taking a deep breath to suppress the nameless anger in his heart, Qiu Tu got up and went outside to call a servant from the Qin family to heat up the dishes. As for himself, he lit a cigarette and frowned as he smoked it alone in the courtyard.

The moonlight was obscured by sparse dark clouds, leaving only a dim glimmer in the courtyard, draping the tranquil space in a cold blue veil.

The cigarette butt in his hand glowed and dimmed, like a lonely firefly, but Qiu Tu's thoughts were still on the method of making the cataclysmic potion that he had just obtained from Shen Lingshuang.

According to Shen Lingshuang, the recipe for the Cataclysmic Potion is actually not complicated. It only requires following the mixing ratio of [Star Moon King Minister] to make the potion.

"Star Moon King Minister" is an alternative name for the different medicinal ingredients in a secret medicine formula, referring to their respective effects.

Moon medicine and star medicine refer to two main medicinal materials in secret medicine.

In the "Cataclysmic Elixir" system, Lunar Elixir refers to the primary Cataclysmic Material, such as Aurora Stone; Star Elixir is a concoction that activates the effects of the primary Cataclysmic Material, and is generally made from common medicinal herbs.

The "royal medicine" and "ministerial medicine" refer to two auxiliary medicines in secret medicine.

Assistant herbs are used to balance the effects of the main medicine. They are usually common medicinal materials, and the assistant herbs required vary depending on the effects of the main medicine. There may be one or more.

As for the royal medicine, it is the catalyst that condenses the entire secret medicine together to ensure its stable effect, so it requires a neutral and balanced liquid catastrophe material.

Regarding neutral and peaceful liquid cataclysmic materials, Shen Lingshuang gave several examples. Commonly used ones include the blood of ghostly insects, tears of moonlight, and sap of ancient trees, etc.

"Tears of the Moonlight..."

Muttering the name of the material, Qiu Tu looked at the treasure chest in the upper left corner of his head, which he had obtained after surviving the last crisis.

Inside the treasure chest was a bottle of sapphire blue liquid, the Tears of Moonlight...

"Moonlight Tears: One of the commonly used Cataclysm materials. Once you have all the other Cataclysm materials, you can craft Cataclysm items such as "Cataclysm Potion", "Otherworld Key", and "Nat's Codex".

Qiu Tu wasn't surprised that the treasure chest had given him Moonlight Tear. After all, the description of [Crisis Sense] already stated that "the reward is related to crisis".

These two treasure chests were obtained by overcoming the connected crisis, so the rewards are quite reasonable.

However, Qiu Tu is now struggling with... he only has one set of materials for making the Cataclysmic Potion, should he give it to Shen Lingshuang, who seems unreliable, to make?

Besides, given their current relationship, would she really put her heart into making it for him?

After staring blankly at the sky for a while, Qiu Tu suddenly threw his cigarette on the ground and stomped it out. "Damn! There's no one else here, I have to give it a try!"

At the same time, just as Qiu Tu made up his mind, something suddenly flashed before his eyes.

The next second, lines of notifications appeared in his field of vision.

"Under your forceful suppression, Shen Lingshuang developed a strange feeling towards you."

"If you commission her to make a catastrophe potion, she may make sarcastic remarks, but she won't do anything malicious—at most, she'll spit into the potion after it's made."

"But the preparation of the Cataclysmic Elixir does not only require following the four elements of the secret elixir, but also the most crucial fifth and sixth elements: timing and terrain."

"Following the four essential elements of the secret potion only results in the successful creation of the Cataclysmic Potion, but the fifth and sixth elements are the key to determining the potion's effectiveness..."

"You wouldn't want to know what the effects of drinking the catastrophe potion that was recently prepared near the New Territories are..."

As the prompt ended, a three-day countdown hourglass slowly jumped next to the first hourglass.

At this moment, looking at the new countdown hourglass in the upper left corner of his vision, Qiu Tu couldn't help but blink.

Wait a minute, isn't this crisis awareness revealing a bit too much information?

Let me sort this out...

Chapter 22 Emotional Handbook

Looking at the few lines of prompts in front of him, Qiu Tu's mind raced as he began to analyze the newly acquired information bit by bit.

First of all, it turns out... [Crisis Sense] isn't limited to one activation at a time, is it? Multiple activations can be triggered!

This discovery greatly improved Qiu Tu's situation. After all, even if many crises occurred at the same time, he would be aware of them all.

Secondly, this "crisis sense" isn't only triggered when others are trying to harm you; it can also trigger a warning if you "courte yourself."

In this way, the usability of this cheat code is greatly enhanced. It can even assist Qiu Tu in making some crucial decisions.

Furthermore, the preparation of the [Catastrophe Potion] actually has "hidden elements"? Are they related to time and location?

No wonder the probability of obtaining extraordinary power in this world is so low; it turns out this crucial element has been overlooked.

Or rather... from a scientific perspective, no one could have imagined that time and place would become key factors affecting drug efficacy.

More importantly... even if others knew this information, it would be difficult to verify: after all, each experiment could potentially cost a precious catastrophic potion and a human life.

Qiu Tu is different. With his "crisis sense," he receives a warning whenever he faces a fatal threat.

So... as long as he follows the prompts from [Crisis Sense] to prepare the Cataclysm Potion, wouldn't he be able to achieve 100% Cataclysm Awakening?

Thinking of this, Qiu Tu suddenly felt all his worries of the past two days vanish!

Besides the three key pieces of information mentioned above, Qiu Tu also gleaned a rather absurd detail from these clues: ...

I was so rough with her, yet she actually felt something strange about me?

Thinking this, Qiu Tu turned around and looked into the room. 'Could it be... that I'll have to resort to spanking to get to know this girl better?'

Qiu Tu was a little confused. After all, he was a respectable person...

Thinking this, the maid brought over the heated food.

Seeing this, Qiu Tu took it from him and carried it inside.

Once inside, Shen Lingshuang, wearing silver handcuffs, rested her chin on her left hand, gazing out the window, seemingly lost in thought.

Qiu Tu looked her over and found that the girl was quite pretty when she was quiet: a small oval face, a delicate mouth, and a slightly upturned nose combined to create a youthful and innocent look.

She may not have fully matured yet, so she lacks a touch of gentleness and charm, but possesses a youthful vitality.

Perhaps Qiu Tu's gaze was too direct, because Shen Ling Shuang frowned and turned her head away. She pouted and asked in a cute but fierce tone, "What are you looking at! Look again and I'll poke your eyes out!"

Perhaps having learned about Shen Lingshuang's personality from the crisis warning, Qiu Tu's temper improved considerably.

As he calmly placed the food on the table, he said to Shen Lingshuang, "Lingshuang, I'm very happy that you cooperated with the interrogation and told me everything you knew."

"But I don't like your attitude, which is always so bad."

Shen Lingshuang bared her fangs, wanting to retort, but perhaps remembering that she was still in Qiu Tu's hands, she could only snort and then eat in silence.

Qiu Tu didn't continue to suppress her. Although he knew the girl had certain interests, he thought that relationships between men and women required a balance of giving and receiving, like fishing and casting a line.

We shouldn't just suppress things; we should also offer some small acts of warmth.

And so, Qiu Tu silently ate his meal with Shen Lingshuang while looking at the interrogation records in his hand.

As Shen Lingshuang put down her chopsticks, Qiu Tu also closed the interrogation record in his hand and stood up.

Shen Lingshuang gave him a strange look, tilted her head and asked curiously, "Were you having dinner with me just now?"