The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

"Don't act rashly, and remember what I told you, although they are all ordinary people, they have the ability to kill anyone. Stay safely inside, and I'll resolve the situation as quickly as possible, then come to rescue you..."

The young man quietly conveyed this information as Su Qi left.

Even though he had been unable to understand the messages from the pocket watch before, leaving him clueless about the real identity of this guy,

the higher-ups at the Security Bureau had just detected that the other party was in possession of a World Tree Withered Leaf, one of the Heavenly Destiny People, so naturally, he had to protect him.

The status of Heavenly Destiny People was by no means simply a symbol of identity.

Each of the Heavenly Destiny People was, as the name implies, chosen by destiny, handpicked by fate... to bear this mission.

According to strategies deployed by the World Tree project in past eras.

Their requirements for Heavenly Destiny People were very strict... In addition to strength, every Heavenly Destiny Person possessed excellent moral qualities such as integrity, kindness, and courage.

Thus, once the young man confirmed Su Qi's status as a Heavenly Destiny Person, he immediately began... to instruct him seriously.

Su Qi gave an OK sign, revealing an innocuous smile as if to say, Don't worry, I definitely won't make a mess of things.

The robbers then selected more than thirty people one after another and led them towards the passageway into the underground vault.

Some people's legs were trembling so much that they couldn't walk, and the group of robbers simply shot them in the thigh; hostages screamed in pain and were then dragged inside.

The young man watched this unfold, and sure enough, it was just as that guy had analyzed, they had come to create chaos; this was no ordinary crime... they had the support of those demons behind them.

To be accurate, nearly 90% of the city's crimes were related to them.

However,

since there was crime, there was also the City Security Bureau, the organization the young man belonged to.

The young man slowly swung his pocket watch, its black and white parts changing once more because the target was no longer Su Qi, but... the entire city.

Black and white appeared to be at war, struggling against each other as if trying to determine a victor.

...

"Come here and move the items from within the vault," a robber commanded with the dark barrel of a gun, threatening the thirty-some hostages.

After all, this was the largest bank in the entire city, its scale and Level evident from the splendid lobby outside as well as the identities of countless wealthy patrons.

There even were private security forces, but they were promptly dealt with by the well-trained, ruthless robbers.

As Su Qi looked at the vast vault, its immense space was visible to the naked eye, filled with large amounts of gold, cash, and various protected areas housing antiques of inestimable value, the high-valued possessions stored by the rich in the bank.

There was a large quantity.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have called in over thirty hostages just to move things.

Indeed, the robbers had come for the money, but at the same time, they also harbored other motives, which appeared to be the destruction of everything here.

"Do you want to live?" one of the robbers sneered, "Then move quickly, the fastest will survive, anyone who dawdles... will only face death."

That was a lie.

From the [?] above their heads, Su Qi glimpsed their internal, true thoughts.

The bomb had been set up already, and its yield was terrifying. It was because of hatred for the rich as much as their own brutal mentality, and also... there was someone behind them, guiding them to do this.

"Tsk."

While moving, Su Qi muttered softly, "Mr. Luo, what do you think is going on here?"

Luo Shenfu: "... I'm not sure. Robbers, the Security Bureau, police, and so many ordinary people... how could they possibly exist in a place like the Ancient Gate, which forever revolves around two themes?"

"That is, the Present World and the Abyss..."

After all, the Ancient Gate is the convergence of the Ancient Battlefield, the place where the gods of the Present World, the extraordinary, and the Abyss clashed and perished together in the last battle.

According to Luo Shenfu's recollection, the final battle centered around that cluster of star systems had left millions of worlds in the vicinity barren and lifeless.

It was impossible for these ordinary people to exist.

"Moreover, these robbers are not at all like the demons of the Abyss."

"But if the demons of the Abyss are supporting them from behind, then it becomes clear," Su Qi said softly.

"The Security Bureau controls the Present World; the sprawling web of criminal activity in the city is the Abyss."

"Of course, this is just my speculation," Su Qi said, picking up a piece of gold, "I'm thinking about what the young man told me... why... it cannot result in massive damage or a high number of deaths."

"What about the chaos tonight?"

"And... they seem to be bound by some rule."

Listening to Su Qi's analysis, when Luo Shenfu heard the word "rules," he couldn't help but recall the last Gate World.

"You mean the Black and White Bear..."

Su Qi said softly, "Who knows, we can only understand what's going on here until we have solved this current event."

At that very moment,

the dark muzzle with a dangerous air pointed directly at Su Qi: "What are you doing?"

"Put down the gold and properly move it outside; otherwise, I don't mind finishing you off right here."

The robber's ghost mask held a certain sharpness and brutality, eyes filled with coldness and murderous intent.

Holding a piece of gold in his hand, Su Qi spoke lightly:

"Gold is a very scarce mineral; its birth... occurs under extreme conditions in space, gold is formed from hydrogen elements inside stars through nuclear fusion reactions, eventually synthesized during a supernova explosion..."