Boom!

The exploding flames burst on his wife, but the flames seemed to hit cold water and instantly extinguished. His wife was unscathed.

"What?!" Shen Lingxue widened her eyes in disbelief. "She's completely unharmed? Quick, run!"

She realized that the situation in front of her was something she couldn't handle. She turned to run, but at that moment...

His wife waved her cold white hand lightly in the air.

The air seemed to be stirred by something. Shen Lingxue's head slid off her neck smoothly like a mirror from the moment she was about to escape, with a look of shock frozen on her face.

Whoosh!

Without hesitation, Fang Hou pounced on the bodies of Shen Lingxue and her companion, and began to search frantically for any useful information.

"Wife, what are you looking for?"

His wife's gentle voice rang in Fang Hou's ear.

Ignoring her, Fang Hou continued to search for any useful information.

The next moment, a sharp pain hit him. His vision went dark, and his consciousness began to fade.

The night was dark, with stars twinkling.

Fang Hou stood at his doorstep, having just escaped from Qing Shan Mental Hospital and returned home.

"Oh? The death reset point hasn't changed? It seems that escaping from Qing Shan Mental Hospital is one event point, and using a surgical knife to test my wife's death counts as entering the next point. Unless a new bizarre event occurs, the point should not change.

"So, the investigation bureau will come to my door at 8:40 a.m. tomorrow. It's time to make my precognitive abilities known to the world."

Fang Hou decided to begin his plan. Since he knew about the existence of the investigation bureau, it wouldn't make sense not to take advantage of it.

After all, it was almost impossible for him to make the entire world feel the pain of the bizarre by himself. He needed outside help.

He opened the door and went back to his home, ignoring his wife. He went to the bedroom and opened his computer to check the global bizarre forum.

This was given to him by Shen Lingxue and Li Wen Hao, even though they had not yet appeared. Fang Hou had already memorized the URL.

Upon opening the website, a skull that almost occupied the entire screen appeared. As the skull slowly disappeared, a dark red interface was revealed.

The text is divided into many sections, including the European and American region, the Asian region, the Japanese and Korean region, and the domestic region.

Each section has many categories, including the weird, the spiritual master, the strange device, and the bounty.

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As Fang Xiu quickly skimmed through the titles of various posts, he suddenly became very interested because they likely contained the truth of this world, strange truths.

Although he may not be able to fully explore them, it would be faster than exploring on his own.

However, when he randomly clicked on a post about the origin of weirdness, a prompt popped up stating that he had insufficient funds and needed to recharge.

Fang Xiu's gaze moved to the bottom of the post, where a series of zeroes caught his eye.

He roughly calculated that it would cost him one million to view this post.

This left him silent, as he only had a few hundred yuan in his bank account.

He then looked at other posts, but without exception, the cheap ones were only one or two thousand, and those that involved secrets cost hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions.

"Is this the world of spiritual masters (the wealthy)?" Fang Xiu muttered in a low voice.

Feeling his own poverty, Fang Xiu became more determined to pretend to be able to predict the future. He would use this ability to gain the greatest benefit, or he wouldn't even be able to afford to browse a forum.

Helplessly, Fang Xiu had to open the basic section of the domestic region, where the posts were mostly common sense, many unverifiable small rumors, and even people bragging in their posts.

He looked at the top-ranking post, titled "I have awakened the ability to manipulate time."

"Manipulating time?" Fang Xiu's heart sank slightly at the sight of this post. If even time abilities appeared, then the value of his future-predicting ability would be greatly reduced.

He clicked on it and saw that the post read: "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning and thunder, the wind howled, and the blood moon rose in the east."

After reading a thousand words of adjectives, the post ended with, "And so, I awakened the ability to control time, different from the time stop and time reversal in movies and TV shows. I named my ability - Wasting Time! For example, after you finish reading this post, I will have successfully wasted five minutes of your time."

There were countless comments below the post.

"Damn!"

"You liar!"

"I can't be the only one who was tricked. This post must be bumped up!"

Clap!

Fang Xiuxiu silently closed the post.

He looked at the poster, a universe-defying beautiful warrior.

Hmm, he silently noted down the name.

"So, this is what you can see without spending money?"

After calming down for a while, he continued browsing and finally found some posts officially released by the Investigation Bureau, which contained mostly valuable information due to their official authentication.

There were posts discussing the origins of anomalies, basic knowledge about spirit agents, and introductions to anomalies.

Fang Xiuxiu randomly clicked on one and immersed himself in it.

In this way, he stayed up all night.

He gained a preliminary understanding of anomalies and some basic knowledge about spirit agents.

It was not that there was a lot of knowledge, but rather that there were too many garbage posts and some misleading clickbaits, which wasted a lot of Fang Xiuxiu's time.

After a night passed, he shut down his computer, and he had a basic idea in his mind.

The levels of anomalies were divided based on their level of harm, from high to low, into five levels: S, A, B, C, and D.

Some anomalies had low individual strength but had a significant impact, which could cause their ratings to increase.

For example, a foreign anomaly called Plague had weak strength and could be killed by even a first-class spirit agent as long as proper antivirus measures were taken. However, this anomaly could spread plagues on a large scale, resulting in the deaths of millions of people, so it was rated as A-level.

If left unchecked, an A-level anomaly had the ability to wipe out the population of a large city in a short time.

S-level anomalies were country-level annihilators, possessing the ability to destroy a country's population in a short time.

Usually, the higher the level of harm caused by an anomaly, the stronger its strength, and anomalies like Plague were the exception.

The origins of anomalies were impossible to verify. It seemed that there were legends of some imaginary figures since ancient times, and some people speculated that these figures could have been spirit agents.

Later, for some unknown reason, these legends and anomaly stories disappeared for a period, until they resurfaced in modern times. There was a blank period of nearly a hundred years, and no one knew the reason.

At least the free section had no answer.

Most anomalies appeared out of nowhere, without any warning or pattern.

At the beginning, there were very few anomalies, and they were not widespread globally. But as time passed, the frequency of anomalies appearing became higher and higher.