I'm bombarding the Supernatural World with my firearms

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But Chen Miao suddenly froze on the spot, seemingly struck by a thought, hastily grabbed the diary from the cabinet, and once again flipped it open, though he had already read through it twice.

He had checked it once during his first entrance into the secret realm with Hungry Monkey.

And the second time was just before, when he entered the secret realm again.

But in his memory of those two times.

The notes inside were exactly the same as the diary he held now, even the handwriting was identical. What did this mean? Did it mean that the diary was never there to begin with? That the diary was something he had left for himself?

But just at that moment—

Voices came from outside, as if someone had returned.

Chen Miao did not have time to dwell on it further, he quickly put the diary back in the cabinet and climbed over the back wall to escape, and by the time he returned to the streets of the village, the old man, who was fond of smoking his pipe, had begun to doze off in front of his own tiled house.

That old man was inhabited by his earlier self.

"Smack smack smack!!!"

Chen Miao struck the old man three times on the face, and as expected, there was not the slightest sign of him waking up. It was as if half-dead, and in his memory of just a moment ago, he did indeed fall into a deep sleep for nearly ten hours with no recollection of anything that happened in between.

"Not bad."

With a sense of responsibility, he hoisted his earlier self onto his shoulder and stealthily jogged towards the field to one side. If things went as expected, it likely wouldn't be long before his earlier self would start massacring the village.

He had to protect this old man, who was also his earlier self, from dying here.

At least not until the survival time was over.

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Ten hours later.

Chen Miao checked the time, smelling the blood in the air, he struggled to put the old man back in his original place. At this point, his earlier self was enjoying a barbecue with Hungry Monkey and others.

After making some noise, he managed to draw the attention of Hungry Monkey and the others to him, and quickly hid to the side.

As expected.

The old man soon woke up, and at the same time, his earlier self also came over with a gun. In the ensuing chase, the old man was killed by Hungry Monkey. Chen Miao, hidden in the shadows, was also discovered.

Hungry Monkey walked towards him with a ferocious smile.

Chen Miao looked at the timer on the mission panel, he had to survive for another 10 seconds.

That's right.

All three of his selves had the task of surviving for 12 hours, but the first one had an additional task: to kill everyone in the village. The tasks of these three selves were in conflict. To complete the tasks for all three under such conditions,

He needed to find the right timing.

All he had to do was to survive these next 10 seconds before dying.

Seeing Hungry Monkey approaching, he did not hesitate for even a moment and turned to run, even as the sound of gunfire rang incessantly beside his ear.

"Bang!"

A bullet plunged straight into his abdomen, the intense pain brought him crashing to the ground. With difficulty, he turned to look at the two figures closing in on him.

One had a revolver, the corner of his mouth twitching into a sinister smile.

The other carried a large hammer, a savage grin spread across his face.

The two steadily advanced on him, and as he watched his final seconds tick down on the mission panel, part of him couldn't help but curse under his breath—these two looked just like villains. Was he really that frightening when he entered this secret realm with Hungry Monkey?

They didn't look like the good guys at all.

The next second—

His mission was complete. The system notified him that he had successfully survived for 12 hours and was now leaving the secret realm. As his consciousness began to drift away from this corpse, he saw Hungry Monkey raise his hammer again.

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"Phew!"

Regaining consciousness, Chen Miao instinctively jumped up from where he was. Only after seeing that he was on a stretch of road and that the surrounding environment was cold with numerous secret realm entrances did he relax.

He had finally returned.

Damn it, if he had found himself possessing another person at the bridgehead, he would have been on the verge of a breakdown.

At that moment, the settlement panel also popped up.

"Ding, secret realm settlement announcement."

"Congratulations to the Supernatural Occupation player Chen Miao for successfully completing the E-rank solo map 'Blood Night Cannibal Village' with a 100% perfect progress, achieving a perfect clearance evaluation, and receiving the following rewards."

"Player Level Experience +2000."

"E-Level Material 'Particle Rock'*10, F-Level Material 'Fox-Tail Grass'*20, …"

"Star Coins *1000."

"Clearance conditions: Survive for 12 hours."

"Perfect clearance evaluation: Getting all three persons to successfully complete the mission."

"Congratulations on finding the only way for all three selves to successfully complete the mission within the time loop. This is a trial-version secret realm; we are testing whether players can accept such a realm."

"Initially, we wondered if the difficulty of this secret realm might be too high."

"It turns out that a player successfully achieved a perfect clearance on the first distribution. It seems the difficulty of this secret realm may not be as high as we imagined. After this, we will deploy this type of time loop secret realm on a large scale."

"As the first player to test this new type of secret realm and complete it flawlessly, you will receive the following special rewards."

"A special and unique E-Level Skill: Time Rift."

"And a special honor: Pioneer."

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"..."

Chen Miao looked at the settlement panel in front of him with a mixture of shock. There were several staggering pieces of information.

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He saw a strong anthropomorphic taste on this settlement panel, which is to say, previous settlement panels were cold and impersonal, like machines mechanically working to settle accounts for players.

But today, he felt like someone was using the settlement panel to talk to him.

This person gave him the impression of being the controller behind the supernatural power.

It was like a conversation with a high-dimensional civilization.

"I..."

Chen Miao's mouth opened and closed a few times, he actually wanted to say, the data you have collected might not be accurate, this kind of time loop secret realm is really nauseating, and this is just an E-class one, he could not imagine, would an A-class time loop secret realm directly play someone to death in there?

If such secret realms were widely released.

They would definitely nauseate a good number of supernaturals.

Not only just in the literal sense of making them feel sick, but it could also be life-threateningly nauseating.

If it weren't for his good luck, he wouldn't have made it out either, and most importantly, he didn't know if it was because it was a test version, but there were too few hints in the secret realm, and too little information as well.

But he just opened and closed his mouth a few times and didn't say it, because he knew that even if he put it forward, the other side wouldn't hear him.

It would be a futile gesture.

However, as annoying as this secret realm was, the rewards it gave were still pretty good.

He looked at the two rewards.

First was a skill.

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「Skill Name」: Time Rift.

「Skill Level」: E-class.

「Skill Restriction」: No occupation restrictions for using this skill, and it is a unique skill that cannot be dropped.

「Skill Effect」: After midnight each day, you will have an additional hour, which is a time rift that only you can use; no one else will be able to use this hour.

This skill is passive and activates automatically after midnight every day, and cannot be activated at will at other times.

「Skill Introduction」: "Long, long ago, there was a brazen thief who set his sights on the God of Time. This thief inadvertently received a legacy from the Thief God and stole an hour from the God of Time's lair."

"Ever since then, each day there is one hour in this world that is not under the control of the God of Time."

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"..."

Chen Miao narrowed his eyes at the skill panel in front of him. To be honest, he didn't quite understand the meaning of this skill effect, which was somewhat vague, nor did he understand the skill introduction.

This was the first time he had seen such a lengthy skill introduction.

Even taking up two lines.

And it seemed very highbrow, even the God of Time was mentioned, but considering that the introduction had such highbrow pretension, it seemed odd that it was only an E-class item.

But it was fine not to understand.

It was now night.

He had been in the secret realm for a long time, and there were only five minutes until midnight, so he would soon personally experience what this skill was about.

He looked at his other reward.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

It was an honor.

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「Honor Name」: Pioneer.

「Honor Effect」: Perfectly clearing any secret realm will grant you an unexpected surprise, and at certain moments you will achieve effects beyond your imagination.

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He understood this one, in simple terms, it meant that whenever he perfectly cleared a secret realm, he would receive more rewards.

It was like a buff-type reward.

As for the other materials, Star Coins, experience, etc., those were all minor gains, but he had to admit that the experience gained from clearing secret realms was way too little; he would have to find a way to level up faster.

The level-up speed was too slow, just relying on secret realms, he reckoned it would take over a decade to reach level 60, and that's if he went into secret realms every day and never died.

But Lord Miao was only in his twenties and already level 69.

Damn it.

Before parting, he should have asked Lord Miao how he leveled up, he had been too preoccupied with love and completely forgot to ask Lord Miao to share some leveling experience with him.

Just at that moment—

Midnight arrived.

Before Chen Miao could react, the world around him suddenly turned black and white, then everything froze in place, and at the same time, a stream of black and white countdown numbers floated in front of him.

「00:59:59」

A one-hour countdown.

Chen Miao quickly realized it was the passive skill "Time Rift" he had just received that was automatically activated, not only did the world turn black and white, but his figure did as well. Tentatively, he walked over to a nearby Tomb Guardian member.

He swung his hand and slapped the member a few times.

There was no reaction from the other party, and... even though he could definitely feel the physical contact, the other party's cheek showed no sign of redness or swelling.

"Time stop...?"

Chen Miao looked around in a daze, murmuring to himself, as he suddenly understood what the effect of the skill was—he had a completely free hour every day.

During this hour...

He could do a lot of things.

If he were a novelist, while other authors could only write for 24 hours a day, with this skill, he could write for 25 hours every single day!