The hot water from the shower drenched his head, and the comforting warm stream quickly flowed throughout his body. Gu Mo closed his eyes for a moment, quietly savoring the sensation.

The bloody scent on his cheeks gradually faded, and the real tactile sense of "reality" slowly covered everything. Though he couldn't say it felt like a lifetime ago, everything that happened earlier indeed felt like a long dream... He had been in another world not long before, placed in the starkly different Warring States Era over five hundred years ago.

And now—

He was in his familiar home, taking a hot shower in the bathroom.

Reopening his eyes, he reached out for some shampoo beside him and quickly got into his groove... While there was some emotion, there was no need for sorrow. His journey had just begun, and he was bound to return in the future. So, he just had to wait and keep hope alive.

He had been disconnected from the real world for more than a month now, yet he hadn't been reported missing, and his house hadn't been sealed off with notices, which was unexpected. However, there were probably still quite a few issues to handle, so he needed to act quickly.

After finishing up quickly, Gu Mo changed into a set of clothes, then frowned as he looked at the discarded light armor outfit... This thing definitely couldn't be tossed into the washing machine, but figuring out how to deal with it was also a problem.

Hmm, directly throwing it away wasn't the best choice. It would be better to find a time to completely dismantle it, burn the cloth material directly, hammer the metal pieces until they no longer looked like their original shape, and then sell them to a scrap dealer... That way, there wouldn't be any issues.

Although he needed to handle the issues of his recent return soon, it was better to be cautious with this as well.

Thinking of Old Ding in the security room at the residential area entrance, Gu Mo couldn't help but make a subtle expression. He had timed his return perfectly, well past midnight. Normally, there wouldn't be anyone on duty in the residential area at this time. The security personnel would have gone to sleep or something.

After all, it's just an ordinary residential area, not a key unit. The security guards weren't specially hired professionals. They were just people from the area earning some extra money. Naturally, one couldn't expect them to give a lot of effort or exhibit high professional standards...

But unexpectedly, Old Ding seemed to act out of character today, staying outside in the security room in the cold wind so late, and Gu Mo happened to encounter him on his return...

At that time, Gu Mo had just experienced the excitement of slicing through foes with the Ninety-nine Weapons, slicing that Snake Woman into pieces quickly and efficiently.

However, because the position was really delicate and happened to align with the dungeon exit, it was difficult to discern with the naked eye—

Although it appeared to be a mountain path ahead, with a winding trail along the riverbank seemingly continuing downwards. In reality, crossing a certain boundary there would instantly exit the dungeon world and return to reality.

For this reason, his final slash was quite handsome but overshot the mark. As he sliced off the Snake Woman's head, the scene before him suddenly transformed entirely. Accompanied by a piercing noise in his mind, he realized he'd appeared at the entrance gate of his residential area in the real world.

Luckily, Gu Mo reacted quickly, as he'd considered beforehand what to do if there were people at the residential entrance upon his return. So, he decisively used the Calming Incense he always relied on, forcing Old Ding into a swift, deep sleep, slumping over the table into slumber.

Because of this, Old Ding didn't call out in panic, so no one was disturbed, and nothing caused a commotion...

Shaking his head slightly, Gu Mo tossed the blood-stained light armor outfit onto the bathroom floor, turned on the faucet, and began washing off the bloodstains.

After a brief cleanup, he packed up the outfit and hid it away, quickly blow-dried his hair back in his bedroom, changed shoes, and rummaged a bit at his computer desk to grab his external hard drive before heading out once more.

Taking advantage of the deep night with the moon high and the wind howling, Gu Mo cautiously avoided the sparse cameras within the residential area under the cover of darkness, heading straight towards the residential monitoring room with clear intent—

As mentioned just before, it's just an ordinary residential area, not a key location, and nothing had ever happened there, so there was no precautionary awareness. The monitoring room, at this time, was unattended, with only the door locked.

But understandably, for the current Gu Mo, resolving this wasn't a difficult problem.

The monitoring room's door and lock were the common type. Besides using a key to open it from outside, someone inside could directly twist the handle to open it... Gu Mo hadn't yet mastered the Wall-penetrating Technique, but his Guardian Spirit did.

Normally, they were just shadows projected onto the material world, unable to influence physical phenomena directly, which also meant that physical phenomena couldn't affect their actions.

He first had the White Viper pass through the door into the monitoring room, summoned it from shadow into a tangible, physical presence, then had it deftly turn the handle from within. Naturally, this allowed him, a living person, to easily enter.

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