Chapter 416: Chapter 361: Like Seeing a Ghost

With endless questions, Lu Li split a second “Sun God” from the “True Self” to explore the cosmic space and seek the source of the gamma-ray burst.

Having done this, he headed straight for Vox.

Before leaving Earth, he had made a promise with Liu Kexin to create a life.

Unfortunately, at that time Lu Li suddenly neared the fifth deep evolution and had to interrupt that promise to gather energy in the cosmos.

Now that he was back on Earth, he naturally wanted to fulfill the previous promise and successfully devour Liu Kexin.

However, this time Lu Li, who was hovering a thousand meters above the North American sky, did not fly back to Su City as “streaming light” but chose “instantaneous travel”.

Although transforming into “streaming light” would take less than a second, Lu Li’s completion of the fifth deep evolution had greatly enhanced all his abilities.

Naturally, he wanted to try how much “instantaneous travel” had improved.

Instantly, his figure vanished above the North American sky.

At the same time, Lu Li’s figure appeared at the entrance of Vox Company.

He had clearly crossed over twelve thousand kilometers, yet in fact, no time had passed during the crossing.

Lu Li previously didn’t understand why, but after completing the fifth deep evolution, he comprehended it.

Instantaneous travel is like creating two points at different places in space.

Lu Li utilized his significantly strong power to cause spatial distortion, merging the two points.

Thus, he crossed from one of the nearly overlapping points directly to the other, bypassing the three-dimensional space between them, and appeared at the other point at the same time.

“Previously, my instantaneous travel could only occur within the biological force field or domain range.”

Lu Li pondered slightly at the doorway, “Now that the biological force field and domain have completely merged into my body, there is no such restriction anymore. As long as I have enough energy, I can create another point billions of light-years away to suddenly coincide and traverse. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have such strong power.”

He had just experimented and roughly concluded.

The maximum distance he could currently cover with instantaneous travel was equivalent to the diameter of his perception without energy augmentation, which is over six hundred fifty thousand kilometers.

Doing so would exhaust all his energy at once.

“So, this is a strategic measure, like if I encounter great trouble in cosmic space in the future, and flying isn’t fast enough to escape, then I can use instantaneous travel to traverse super-long distances away.”

Lu Li knew that instantaneous travel is not a conventional means and should not be used for traveling.

It’s more like a life-saving stunt.

Thinking of this, Lu Li walked slowly towards Vox’s entrance.

Upon reaching the door, the guard immediately stood up and inquired, “What do you ha…”

Before he finished speaking, the pudgy guard, who was over fifty, leaped back as if he had seen a ghost.

The guard stammered, “Mr. Lu… Lu, I… I didn’t notice… notice it was you, don’t… don’t take it… take it to heart.”

Lu Li replied irritably to the guard, “Old Xu, although I only worked here for a month or two, I’m quite familiar with you, so why are you so afraid of me?”

Old Xu squeezed out a faint smile, nodding and bowing, “Yes, yes, yes, you’re right.”

At the same time, his inner voice resonated, “I have to be afraid, if I accidentally offend this God of Slaughter, I’m afraid my entire family would perish.”

Having completed the fifth deep evolution, even if he didn’t actively engage mind telepathy like before, he could still sense others’ inner thoughts.

Lu Li was long aware of this.

He also knew he could block this sense.

He simply hadn’t managed to block it as he had just returned to Earth.

Truthfully, being able to discern others’ inner thoughts is quite a nuisance.

All creatures within his perception area, whatever they think, he can pick up on.

That feeling is like being in the hustle and bustle of a morning market, amplified a billion times.

If an ordinary person faced this, they’d likely be driven mad.

Lu Li is different.

He is immensely strong.

He can handle this information effortlessly.

No worries of being driven mad by it.

Not being driven mad is one thing.

Annoyance is another matter.

Lu Li unhesitatingly blocked his ability to sense others’ minds; otherwise, he really couldn’t stand it.

He glanced at Old Xu, revealing the truth with a non-genuine smile, “Rest assured, I’m not the Murderous Demon King and won’t take your family’s lives.”

Old Xu never thought that his inner thoughts would be discovered by Lu Li.

Instantly, his entire face showed more fear, nearly bursting into tears.

Lu Li, unwilling to toy with Old Xu further, pointed inside and said, “I’m going in to see President Liu. You just write down a record for me.”

Old Xu quickly replied, “Sure, plea… Please, please.”

Lu Li shook his head and continued walking inside.

Though he had long sensed the global fear towards him, it never occurred to him that even familiar faces like Old Xu would be so terrified of him.

It speaks volumes about the level of fear in those unfamiliar with him.

Lu Li didn’t care in the slightest about this.

What he needed to contemplate now wasn’t whether Earth’s people liked him.

After all, he’s not akin to those hypersensitive members of his homeland.

Lu Li needs to consider how to resolve the gamma-ray burst crisis in thirty-four days.

“Currently, my strength is definitely not enough, unless I can become stronger.”

Lu Li walked to the administrative building, heading toward the elevator, “Maybe if I complete the sixth deep evolution, I’ll be able to resist the gamma-ray burst.”

He arrived near the elevator.

Three or four people were standing there waiting.

When Lu Li saw Brother Cheng was also there, he went up to greet him: “Brother Cheng, long time no see.”

At the sound, everyone turned their heads to look.

And then…

Hmm, except for Brother Cheng, everyone else was so scared that they were trembling!

Even if Brother Cheng wasn’t as bad as the others, a slight fear still flickered in his eyes.

He tried to smile and said, “Mr. Lu, it’s indeed been a long time. How have you been lately?”

Ding dong.

The elevator arrived.

As Lu Li walked inside, he responded, “Not bad, but don’t keep calling me Mr. Lu; given our relationship, just call me Xiaolu like before.”

With that, he pressed the elevator button, but no one else stepped inside.

Lu Li, half amused and half annoyed, said, “Aren’t you waiting for the elevator? Why not get on when it’s here?”

“No, no.”

“Mr. Lu, after you, please, after you.”

“We won’t disturb your peace.”

The three people hurriedly responded, not daring to enter the elevator at all.

Only Brother Cheng gathered his courage, slowly stepped into the elevator, and said, “If they don’t want to come up, just ignore them. Let’s go up.”

Lu Li couldn’t be bothered to care about these people and went up with Brother Cheng.

He knew those people were afraid of him, which was why they didn’t dare to take the elevator with him.

Not long after, the elevator reached the floor.

Lu Li bid farewell to Brother Cheng.

He walked towards Liu Kexin’s office.

Originally, there were seven or eight people in the corridor.

But as soon as they saw him coming, they all darted back into their offices.

Lu Li felt increasingly speechless, thinking to himself, do you really have to be so scared, like you’ve seen a ghost? I’m not going to kill anyone for no reason, so you don’t have to be afraid, alright?

Feeling speechless, Liu Kexin happened to come out of her office.

When she saw Lu Li, she got a bit excited and jogged over, then very proactively gave him a hug, softly saying, “You’ve been gone silently for so many days, I kind of missed you.”

Lu Li wrapped one hand around her waist and ran the other through her hair, comforting her, “I’m back now, aren’t I?”

While speaking, he quietly blocked his super-sensory perception.

The reason for doing this was that earlier, when he saw Brother Cheng and his former colleagues, including Liu Kexin, they all seemed like streams of data, such as body structure ratios, or pores on their faces that were invisible to the naked eye, which appeared as craters to him.

In short, if Lu Li didn’t block this super-sensory perception, he probably wouldn’t be able to face anyone.

Liu Kexin held him tightly, “This time, you can’t just leave so quickly; you have to stay with me for a while.”

Lu Li, having blocked his super-sensory perception, gently pushed Liu Kexin slightly away and looked deeply at her delicate face, “Hmm, I’ll definitely spend more time with you. How about you take the day off today and we go home and do something?”

Upon hearing this, Liu Kexin blushed slightly, clearly knowing what Lu Li was implying.

She lowered her voice and said, “I haven’t forgotten my promise to you, but I have an important client to meet this afternoon. The company’s performance hasn’t been great lately, and I can’t let this major client turn to our competitors. How about you wait at home, and I’ll come back after I’m done?”

Lu Li was startled and asked, “Hasn’t Vox’s performance always been good? How did it suddenly go bad?”

Liu Kexin didn’t want Lu Li to worry, so she vaguely replied, “Maybe I’m not managing well. Anyway, you go home and wait for me; I promise I’ll come back as soon as I finish.”

Lu Li didn’t say anything, lifted the block, and sensed the situation.

The next second, he roughly understood why Vox’s performance was not good.

It turned out that because people on Earth were now very scared of him, and because of his close relationship with Vox.

This led many major clients to fear inadvertently offending Vox and inviting catastrophe, so they didn’t renew their contracts when they expired.

Major clients were like this, not to mention ordinary people, who hadn’t dared to buy any of Vox’s products since they found out he was an ancestor of humanity.

Before he wiped out the Morgan Clan, Lu Li had planned to intimidate the countries of the world.

But he really didn’t expect the intimidation to go a bit too far this time, causing such a massive wave of fear globally, leading to Vox’s struggles.

Under normal circumstances, he would definitely try to solve the problem for Vox.

After all, with his girlfriend running the company and the situation caused by himself, how could he not take care of it?

However, now he had to consider how to deal with the gamma-ray burst and naturally didn’t have time to handle such matters.

Blocking his super-sensory perception again, Lu Li sighed softly, “Kexin, I’ve burdened you.”

Liu Kexin rolled her eyes and said, “What are you talking about, burdened or not? You go home first; I’ll be home by around six in the evening, then we can talk slowly.”

Lu Li agreed, “Alright.”

He gave Liu Kexin a kiss, then turned and walked outside.

As Lu Li walked, he thought to himself, it’s still morning, and there are seven or eight hours until six in the evening. Should I go home first and let my parents “educate” me?

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