I'm bombarding the Supernatural World with my firearms

"I..."

Just as Hungry Monkey was about to speak with an anxious expression, he suddenly saw three bullets shoot out from where Miao was standing, streaking across the sky with flames before exploding with a boom.

Three miniature mushroom clouds rose in the midair.

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The words Hungry Monkey had intended to say were interrupted by the three explosions, leaving him dazed for a long while before he rubbed his eyes in disbelief and said, "Miao, what's going on? Why did three bullets just shoot out all of a sudden?"

"Were those the three shots you just fired?"

"Is there a delay?"

"Damn it, I knew this world had bugs. Did you see that just now? Those bullets were freaking delayed! Someone from that civilization outside better update our universe's graphics card soon; it's obviously struggling to keep up!"

After a moment of contemplation, Zhou Shen tentatively said, "Miao, can you control when the bullets are fired?"

"Hmm."

Chen Miao chuckled lightly before he shared his Exclusive Skill panel: "It's a pretty interesting skill. It can delay bullets. At certain times, it can launch surprise attacks."

"And also leave some surprises for the future."

"Like..."

He suddenly pulled out the Hell Gatling from his chest, walked to the edge of the roof, aimed at the city below, and held the trigger without moving it for almost ten minutes. Yet, there was no sign of activity around, not even a spark from the gun muzzle—it was like watching a silent film by Charlie Chaplin, oozing a kind of inexplicable oddness.

But by this point, Hungry Monkey and the others already knew what had happened.

"That... Miao, I have to remind you, your Gatling could destroy this city with a single clip, let alone you pulling the trigger for a whole ten minutes!"

"Each bullet is a mini nuclear bomb."

"It won't be funny if a minute from now, those bullets, shoot out from midair and obliterate this city that's already in ruins, leaving nothing but ashes."

"It won't happen."

Chen Miao's mouth curved with a smile: "My bullets can shoot into the future, and how far into the future they go is for me to decide. I set the time for a hundred million years from now."

"Who knows if the universe will even exist by then."

"Or this planet."

"Or the Blue Star Civilization."

"I'd really like to see it—on some day a hundred million years from now, countless mini-nukes suddenly appear in the sky and bomb the ground. That would be quite a sight to behold, just thinking about it is pretty amusing."

"A hundred million years."

After crunching some numbers with his fingers for a while, Hungry Monkey finally relaxed: "Then it's all good. By that time, Blue Star is bound to be uninhabited, given the pace at which those other civilizations are progressing, they plan to engage in a final battle in a hundred years."

"If we succeed, we'll run off to the outside world."

"If we fail, it'll be a total wipeout."

"So we really don't need to worry about that clip of bullets. But it suddenly reminds me of a saying, think I heard it from some author, it goes something like, 'When you look back in middle age, you hear gunshots behind you.

'You turn around in shock and find that the bullet was fired by you as a child.'

"I don't remember it very clearly, but I think that was the gist of it. What do you think, is there a possibility that we could live for a hundred million years, and by then Blue Star has become a tourist destination, preserved like a museum?"

"And then one day we all bring our friends and relatives to visit this planet, reminisce about the times we've spent together, and just when we happen to be right above this city, those numerous mini nukes explode in the air above us?"

"And wipe us all out?"

"If we were characters in a book, could this be our ending? A hip-hop style ending?"

"..."

Zhou Shen rolled his eyes at Hungry Monkey without any expression, "What kind of hip-hop ending is that? It's all over the place. You actually brought in an allusion. I get the feeling from you that you're uneducated but trying to sound cultured."

"That's called an O. Henry ending!"

"It refers to authors often suddenly reversing the fate of the protagonist at the end of the story, leading to an unexpected outcome that's surprising yet logical."

"If it's really like you said, that we are characters in a book, then our ending definitely wouldn't be like this."

"Miao would definitely be the protagonist, and we would be important supporting characters. How could we possibly die so abruptly?"

"And such a lousy ending at that."

"Unless the author of this book wants to abandon it halfway and force a death on us, or he's looking to be cursed out."

As they were arguing—

A notice suddenly echoed in everyone's ears.

'Ding, a global random event, post-disaster reconstruction!'

'Event Name': Post-Disaster Reconstruction.

'Trigger Condition': Activates when, after experiencing a global random event like a flood apocalypse, there are still over ten million players alive.

'Event Content': You will compete with another civilization, a completely unknown civilization, with an overall strength roughly equal to yours, and this civilization has also just experienced a flood apocalypse.

You will take part in a civilizational arena battle.

Numerous portals will appear on the surface of Blue Star, and you can use these portals to go to a vast and flat battlefield. The other civilization can do the same.

The war will start through these portals.

When the population of a civilization drops below 1%, the war ends.

The losing side doesn't need to pay any price.

The winning side will receive the rewards for post-disaster reconstruction, and the winning side's planet will automatically be restored to its state before the onset of the flood.

-

A notice resounded in the ears of all Blue Star players.

"How interesting."

Hungry Monkey looked at the announcement board, his mouth twitching slightly, then whispered, "The losing side doesn't need to pay any price. What's left to pay? The surviving population has already been reduced to 1%. What other price could there possibly be?"

"It's just, isn't this all happening too fast?"

"Not so long ago, we only read about aliens in books, yesterday we encountered aliens in the secret realms, and today we have begun the final battle with them."

"..."

Chen Miao squinted slightly as he looked at some detailed rules on the notice in front of him, and he found a few rules particularly interesting.

The civilizational arena battle would officially start in 72 hours—that is, in three days.

Only then would countless portals descend on Blue Star, serving as the pathways to this arena for both sides.

But—

There was also something newly listed.

'Ticket for Early Placement of Sneaky Traps.'

It cost 10,000 Star Coins each.

Its effect was simple: it could instantly activate a portal lasting thirty seconds, allowing one to arrive early at the opposing side's arena before the official start of the civilizational battle and secretly set up traps.