"Am... am I still alive?"

"It’s the Guardian God!"

"Great, the Guardian God is finally here."

"We’re safe now, right?"

The crowd present, after a brief shock, gradually erupted into excitement.

After all, with such heavy promotion by the authorities, it’s safe to say few people are unaware of Lv Bai, the "Guardian God".

Moreover, in the prior pitch-black environment, the people had already fallen into despair, thinking the supernatural menace would get them.

Now, not only are they alive, but the "Guardian God" is right beside them; with such emotional highs and lows, nobody quite caught what Lv Bai said.

Of course, as people excitedly approached Lv Bai, under the influence of his titles, they felt a suffocating pressure, though the excitement made them temporarily overlook it.

Seeing the fervent crowd before him, Lv Bai had to lower his hands to signal for quiet.

Once a semblance of reason returned to the crowd, he said with a smile, "Everyone, don’t be afraid, the nearby supernatural threats have been dealt with by me."

After all, there’s no need to destroy his image when the Energy Bullet can still be used with them.

Before he finished speaking, the crowd cheered again.

However, the good times did not last.

Amidst their excitement, it was hard for the crowd not to notice the pressure from those titles.

Might be intangible, but the aura is undeniably present.

Since Lv Bai didn’t change or hide the titles he’s wearing, the crowd even sensed a strong smell of blood.

His originally harmless smile started to look more and more sinister.

If one didn’t know Lv Bai was officially endorsed as the human Guardian God, the oppression he exuded almost seemed more supernatural than the supernatural menace itself.

Unknowingly, the crowd present began to tense up, with their smiles visibly freezing.

Some people even leaned back cautiously, taking a few steps backward.

Lv Bai quickly became aware of this, but he was too lazy to hide his titles again.

So he borrowed a phone from an office worker in front of him and turned to leave. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Watching Lv Bai leave, the crowd finally dared to breathe deeply, feeling a lingering fear—though they didn’t even know what they were afraid of.

...

After some time, the high-level officials and staff who were asleep at the temporary command center gradually woke up.

Lv Bai used the borrowed phone to inquire about the current situation of the containment center and then sped up heading toward the next location with supernatural activity, solving Death Fighters along the way.

But a sudden change disrupted his plans completely.

While using Strike in the Dark to rush, he unintentionally looked up and noticed a crack in the night sky that was trembling slightly.

"Is this also a supernatural phenomenon?"

Lv Bai looked up at the sky, muttering to himself.

Due to the distance, it was hard to accurately judge the crack’s length, but it seemed alive.

After a moment’s hesitation, Lv Bai conjured an Energy Bullet the size of a car and threw it toward the crack.

Unexpectedly, as the Energy Bullet got closer to the crack, almost hitting it, it couldn’t.

It wasn’t stopping or being redirected by some force.

The Energy Bullet continued flying toward its target under Lv Bai’s control, without slowing down, yet it just couldn’t hit.

This phenomenon gave Lv Bai an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Aware that something was amiss yet unable to pinpoint why, such cognitive dissonance was maddening.

Lv Bai furrowed his brows, slowly raised his right hand, and a bluish-white glow emanated from his palm.

He was ready to throw another Energy Bullet to test.

But he wasn’t given the chance.

Because the crack in the sky suddenly opened wider.

No, to be precise, it didn’t just crack open...

It opened!

A giant eye embedded in the sky was glaring down.

This eye wasn’t exactly pleasant to look at, slightly menacing, like the eye of a middle-aged man who hasn’t slept for two days, its whites streaked with blood vessels.

Furthermore, when the eye opened, the sky brightened.

The world seemed to shift instantly from midnight to dusk, and Lv Bai could even see a series of fiery clouds on the horizon.

Not only that, but even the area he had previously darkened with All Ink was dispelled and returned to light when the eye opened.

Notably, the darkness wasn’t erased directly but faded gradually.

...

A few fully armed soldiers stood on the temporary command center’s rooftop, looking at the eye in the sky, their mouths agape in disbelief.

"What’s going on?"

"What is that thing?!"

"Quick, notify the captain."

In reality, the phenomenon was so massive that there was no need for notification; the higher-ups were already aware.

The high-level officials who hadn’t been awake for long leaned against the windows, staring at the sky’s spectacle, equally overwhelmed with shock.

They had dealt with the supernatural for so long yet never encountered something that could reverse celestial phenomena.

"What kind of sequence should be assigned to this supernatural phenomenon?"

Perhaps numbed by the night’s string of incidents, Captain Mao considered the issue, even amid his shock.

But no one answered him.

"What should we do now?"

Someone, almost as if speaking in a dream, posed the question.

Unanimously, everyone present turned their gaze to Minister Zhang.

In the past, regardless of any troublesome situation, Minister Zhang could always come up with an effective strategy.

Whether it was attacking, analyzing, or even sacrificing some people if necessary.

As long as a decision was made, they knew what to do.

But now, Minister Zhang was equally bewildered.

He was unsure what meaning lay in humanity’s struggle anymore.

Facing a supernatural phenomenon that could control day and night made hiding futile.

Minister Zhang turned to meet everyone’s gaze, shaking his head with difficulty: "... Let’s contact Master Lv first."

...

"Waking is day, sleeping is night."

Lv Bai, not holding high hopes, casually threw the half-conjured Energy Bullet in his palm towards the eye in the sky, "Candle Dragon’s eye, huh?"

At this, he couldn’t help but smile.

"No wonder it felt somewhat familiar to me."

It was a power to manipulate time, like Flash Time.

But compared to Flash Time, which could only pause time for 0.5 seconds, the power of the Candle Dragon’s eye, in a sense, was time itself.

Lv Bai pondered for a while but truly couldn’t think of any way to influence time.

"As it stands, let’s deal with the Death Fighters first..."