"The black orb you found—"

Huang Changyu said weakly, "It's a portable miniature antimatter bomb manufactured by human civilization from the twenty-fifth century in a certain space-time."

"Antimatter bomb?!"

Li Hai chuckled, "No wonder it gave me such a strong sense of threat. So that's what it is."

Then he asked, "So, what's the explosive yield of this antimatter bomb?"

After hearing the question, Huang Changyu took a while to recover before answering haltingly:

"This antimatter bomb... its explosive yield... is fifty thousand tons of TNT. That's equivalent to more than three 'Little Boy' atomic bombs."

"Oh~ I see."

Li Hai stroked his chin, his eyes flickering repeatedly, and an idea immediately formed in his mind.

"Hmm~ How about we use this bomb to blow up the entire Chunmu Town? That way, Freddy will be completely dead. But before that, all the townspeople here must be evacuated."

Then Li Hai looked at Huang Changyu, and seeing his miserable state, he sighed with pity:

"I'll give you a chance. Tell me everything you know about the Collapse Emperor Domain, and you can die without pain, instead of being tortured by me. How about it?"

"You mean—" Huang Changyu said with difficulty, "You want me to use up all my points and then be erased by the Main God?!"

"Yes." Li Hai nodded, "You'll be gone in the blink of an eye, comparable to euthanasia. Isn't that good?"

"Impossible!"

Huang Changyu roared savagely, "I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Torture me all you want, let's see if I'll yield!"

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk~"

Li Hai shook his head and smiled, "It seems you completely misunderstand my abilities.

Do you know that in this dream world, my power as the Lord of the Realm is limitless."

After saying that, he thought and increased Huang Changyu's emotional pain by a hundredfold.

So from this moment on, every time a knife cut Huang Changyu, the pain caused by it would be amplified a hundredfold.

Subsequently, the executioners, conjured by Li Hai, once again began to intensely dismember Huang Changyu with a thousand cuts.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

"I give up! I give up! Please spare me! I can't take it anymore! Ah ah ah ah!!!"

For a moment, screams much, much more intense than before echoed across the bloody grassland.

However, to Li Hai's surprise, after only a hundred or so cuts, Huang Changyu's Soul shattered, annihilated, and vanished.

Yes, this Huang Changyu was literally tortured to Soul annihilation.

"Useless."

Li Hai sighed faintly, then looked at the remaining dozen or so new Reincarnation practitioners, and gently raised a finger.

Whoosh! In an instant, a dozen iron rods covered in barbs burst out of the ground, cruelly piercing these people from below, causing them to die in extreme pain.

In the real world, Li Hai slowly opened his eyes, looking at the tattered corpse of Huang Changyu on the guest room bed, and murmured to himself:

"Although the person is dead, this corpse is also a treasure."

Not to mention the Wolverine bloodline and Laser Eye bloodline this body possessed, just the Adamantium alloy skeleton deep within its flesh and blood

was priceless.

It was just that Li Hai didn't have the strong technological capabilities to support him in launching an X-gene research project.

So now he could only choose to remove the flesh and blood from the surface of the body and keep the skeleton.

The next morning, at the Thompson family home.

Nancy looked at the shimmering silver skeleton, completely devoid of flesh and blood, in front of her, and gasped in astonishment:

"So this is a demon's skeleton. It's really different from a human's."

The Thompson couple beside her also looked surprised, even a little frightened.

Frightened that within the arm bones of this metal skeleton, there were actually six long, sharp blades.

"Looking at your expressions, do you find it strange? Haha, actually, it's not strange at all."

Li Hai, standing beside them, casually lied, "Blades growing on the arms are a typical feature of a Blade Demon. This kind of demon lives on the fifth layer of Hell, representing angry and violent sinful Souls."

After hearing this, the Nancy family quickly made the sign of the cross on their chests and repeatedly exclaimed "Amen."

"OK."

Charlie, who was holding a camera nearby, gestured to Li Hai, "It's all been perfectly recorded."

"Very good."

Li Hai nodded, raised his hand, and put Huang Changyu's metal skeleton into his storage ring.

This sight once again caused the Thompson family to exclaim repeatedly.

However, Li Hai was too lazy to explain anymore.

This was because the Thompson family had now been so thoroughly manipulated by him that their IQ was in the negative. Even if he asked this family to give up all their property, they probably wouldn't hesitate much.

So no matter what Li Hai did in front of the Thompson family, they would rationalize all his actions in their own minds.

Such minor matters need not be discussed further.

In short, a few days after dealing with that Freelancer team, Li Hai, through Mr. Thompson's introduction, sought out the mayor of Chunmu Town—Hubert Clayden.

"What did you say?!"

In the mayor's office, Hubert looked at the tall, burly white man in front of him and said incredulously, "You said you want to—buy the entire Chunmu Town?!"

"Yes."

Li Hai calmly nodded, "Tell me the price. As long as it's reasonable enough, I won't haggle."

After speaking, he added a sentence:

"As long as this deal goes smoothly, I will give Mayor a very generous consultation fee separately, so generous that you, Mayor, will be immensely grateful for yourself every moment of your remaining life."

"This..."

Hubert frowned, looking troubled, "Mr. Anthony, I am very grateful for your generosity, but—Chunmu Town, though small in both land and population,

still has over ten thousand townspeople living here. So many people cannot possibly have only one opinion, and some may even resent your generosity, so—"

"I understand what you mean."

Li Hai interrupted him, "You mean that some townspeople in Chunmu Town won't agree to my acquisition plan, right? Even if I offer more money?"

"Yes, that's right."

Hubert nodded, "There are many elderly people in Chunmu Town who live alone without children, or eccentric middle-aged men and women who keep to themselves.

These people often won't be bought by money; instead, they'll be angered by it. They just want to maintain their simple, unremarkable way of life until the end of their days."

"It's alright, there's a way to solve this problem."

Li Hai said calmly, "Give me one day. By tomorrow, all these stubborn people will agree."

"Huh?" Mayor Hubert was startled, then asked doubtfully, "Mr. Anthony, what do you plan to—do?"

"Don't worry, I won't do anything drastic."

Li Hai smiled slightly, "I just want to help everyone strengthen their faith."

After visiting Mayor Hubert.

Li Hai made a call to Yuanha Town, to his 'father,' Mr. Williams.

Old Williams, upon receiving the call, asked in confusion:

"Anthony, is there something important you called about at this time?"

Li Hai said, "Mr. Williams, there's something very important I need you to do as soon as possible."

"Alright, Anthony, tell me."

"You should know that I'm currently in Chunmu Town, Ohio, helping that poor Young Miss Nancy exorcise the dream demon, right?"

"I know. How's it going? Is it smooth?"

"It's relatively smooth, but its evil root hasn't been completely eradicated yet; it will take some more time.

Let's not talk about that for now. What I want to say is that I encountered demons again in Chunmu Town, and a whole group of them."

"What?! Anthony, are you alright?"

"Of course, I'm fine. Under God's protection, I annihilated that group of demons that crawled out of Hell.

And their leader left behind a remnant—a skeleton completely different from a human's.

This skeleton is like it's cast from silver; a myriad of fires cannot harm it in the slightest, and a myriad of blades cannot damage it in the least.

Send someone to bring the skeleton back. Use it as a tool to expand the influence of the cult."

"I understand what you mean. Once the demon skeleton arrives in Yuanha Town, I will arrange the publicity work as quickly as possible.

Haha, to be honest, many ideas have already formed in my mind."

"Oh, really? Let me guess." Li Hai speculated, "Are you thinking of—sending the skeleton to a museum for a touring exhibition?"

"No, no, that would be too slow."

Old Williams on the other end of the phone laughed, "I plan to contact National Geographic Channel and BBC Earth, and give them a portion of the demon skeleton to film scientific mystery programs and related documentaries."

"I see, that's great!"

Li Hai couldn't help but praise, "That way, the audience will indeed be much larger, and it will be more authoritative."

"Yes, but it will take a bit longer. Oh, by the way, I also have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"Over this period, tens of thousands of devout believers have traveled long distances to Yuanha Town; they came because of you."

"Is it because of 'Psychic War'?"

"Yes, because you displayed a miracle on that show, which is great; it helped the cult gain many believers.

But now there's a problem: we don't have enough houses in Yuanha Town for them to live in, and even all the hotel beds combined aren't enough.

And it's foreseeable that more and more believers will arrive in Yuanha Town in the future, and this problem will become increasingly severe."

After hearing what Williams said, Li Hai frowned on the other end of the phone and asked:

"So, how are the living arrangements for these believers currently being handled?"

Old Williams on the other end of the phone sighed, "Currently, these new fellow believers are living in tents, which are set up around various residential houses. As for drinking water, food, washing, power, and going to the restroom, they can only make do."

"How can that be? We need to build some simple houses for them, at least something to shelter them from the wind and rain."

"But the cult doesn't have any established industries right now, nor does it have that much funding."