The vehicle maintained its previous speed, moving along the rural path.

Inside the SUV, apart from Li Xing himself, there was no one else.

His throat moved up and down as he swallowed.

Gulp...

"This must be the work of an alien entity!"

Li Xing glanced around, noticing that the window he had rolled down was now rolled up again without him knowing when it happened.

Jump out!

He had to jump out immediately!

Despite the extensive publicity done about alien entities in cooperation with the Super Bureau, there was no standard answer or guide on what to do in such situations.

Sitting and waiting to die was not in Li Xing's nature!

He couldn't just sit in the car and wait for death!

Li Xing had no particular talent in brain power, although he was a bit braver than the average person and had fast reflexes, he hadn't thought much about what he would encounter after escaping.

"I hope Brother Ran and Brother Qi are okay..."

Li Xing's face showed a bitter expression: "With the car moving at this speed, falling out shouldn't be fatal, at most severely injurious."

After falling from the fourth floor before, his injuries hadn't healed completely, and now he was about to injure himself further.

However...

Since he had already made up his mind, there was no reason to regret!

He abruptly lifted his knee and kicked out.

Bang!

A dull thud.

The window remained utterly motionless.

At this moment, the SUV seemed to have become a moving cage.

The car was filled with the smell of a long-unattended, decaying wooden house. The deathly silence made Li Xing feel as if an icy hand was caressing his spine.

"Young man, I have a question for you."

A hoarse, aged voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.

Li Xing's arms and neck immediately erupted into goosebumps.

He snapped his head around, finding an old man in a black down jacket sitting in the spot where Ma Ran originally sat!

The man's complexion was sallow, his face full of age spots, yellowing teeth, and cloudy eyes, but he wore a bizarre smile.

"If you can answer my question, I will let you go."

The old man said with a weird laugh: "If you can't, I will take your soul."

Li Xing, terrified, burst out with expletives: "Answer your damn question!"

"Die!"

Saying this, he mercilessly threw a punch.

The opponent's appearance resembled an Earthling, but what lay in their bones was uncertain.

From the manner and style this guy made his entrance, there was a ninety-nine percent chance it was an alien life form!

And furthermore, a hostile one!

No matter how much he fantasized, this guy, disguised as an Earthly elder, had a nature of evil order, completely different from interstellar friends like Sword Master and Demon Spawn!

However, after punching, the opponent was unaffected, and even still wore the same smile.

Li Xing lamentably realized that with just one punch, all his strength was utterly drained, and he slumped limply onto the car seat like a noodle.

"Listen up, young one."

The alien entity disguised as a human elder stared intently at Li Xing, speaking in a hoarse voice: "A madman ties five innocent people to a railway track."

"A runaway train is barreling towards them, quickly about to run them over."

"Fortunately, you can pull a lever to switch the train to another track."

"The problem is, the madman has also tied one innocent person to the other track."

"Considering the above scenario, what would you do?"

Li Xing wanted to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, but regrettably, he lacked the strength to do so and could only let out a cold laugh: "I thought you had some profound question, but it's just this old common debate!"

"The classic trolley problem."

"The intelligence level of aliens truly disappoints me!"

The elder maintained his eerie smile, staring at Li Xing: "You still have ten seconds to think."

"If you exceed the time limit, it will be considered an incorrect answer, and I will take your soul."

"Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

This aged voice, like a death knell, with each word, slammed into Li Xing like a heavy blow: "Shut up! Don't disturb my thoughts!"

The opponent paid no heed to Li Xing's reaction, still grinning bizarrely, enticing one to smash that old face.

Unfortunately, Li Xing felt as if the opponent were an unsolvable riddle, rendering all his resistance meaningless.

He proceeded according to the opponent's game rules...

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

Li Xing glared wide-eyed, roaring: "Pull the lever! I choose to pull the lever!"

Although it's very unfair to that innocent person, if faced with such a vile choice, he might also choose to sacrifice the few to save the many?

Even if after doing this, he might end up in prison charged with manslaughter, paying the price...

At least he made his own choice.

"Incorrect answer."

The alien entity disguised as an Earthly elder extended a hand, placing it on Li Xing's head.

He wanted to resist, but found that every cell in his body was negligently idle, utterly unable to move!

The next moment!

A crimson long blade suddenly appeared before Li Xing's eyes!

Strangely.

The vehicle, previously driving at high speed, suddenly stopped.

According to common sense, Li Xing and the alien creature disguised as an old man should have been thrown out by inertia.

But they were fixed in their original position by an invisible force.

Although it was a critical moment between life and death, Li Xing still had the mind to observe the shape of the knife.

The blade was straight, the edge sharp, at least two meters long, and it was thrust directly in from outside the car window.

The side Li Xing could see had the words "Mountains and Rivers" written on it.

On the blade, a golden-eyed red dragon was moving freely, emitting bursts of dragon roars.

The hand holding the hilt was pale, slender, and absolutely clean.

"Saved!"

If those pristine hands didn't belong to Ma Ran, Li Xing would have dared to eat his phone on the spot!

Swish!

A crimson blade flash cut through the air.

In an instant, the alien creature disguised as an Earth elder was sliced into over twenty pieces.

Orange mucus appeared on the cut surfaces, trying to piece and glue these fragments back together.

But with a light hum from the golden-eyed red dragon on the Tang blade, the fragments turned to ashes on the spot, scattering into nothing...

Li Xing just felt a sudden whirlwind before his eyes, and the scene changed dramatically!

The off-road vehicle was parked beside a frost-covered field ridge, and he was lying on the path.

Ma Ran, Qi An, and the driver were all standing nearby.

Especially Ma Ran.

He held a crimson Tang blade wrapped with the red dragon, wearing a black coat with silver edges and military boots.

The look was extremely eye-catching, with a strong aura that was hard to ignore.

"Just now in the car, you suddenly stopped talking."

Qi An scratched his head and explained, "Brother Ran asked to stop the car, so we carried you out."

"In those few minutes, all your muscles were stiff, I even thought you died from excitement."

Li Xing got up and moved his body, feeling nothing serious.

"What you encountered just now was likely a test subject from some outer space civilization."

Ma Ran rubbed his temples, "Such incidents don't exceed one per year globally."

With his knowledge, he naturally identified what Li Xing had encountered right away.

The thing disguised as an Earth elder, according to past think tank analysis, was likely an experimental creation from an alien civilization—the "Shadow of Hafra."

In Greek mythology, Hera placed a Sphinx on a cliff near Thebes, stopping passersby with riddles transmitted by the Muse, and devouring those who couldn't solve them.

The Pharaoh "Hafra" of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty built a statue in the image of the Sphinx, known as the Sphinx in later generations.

The "Shadow of Hafra" was thus named.

This thing is very disgusting; without means of spiritual power attack, it can only be exploited, manipulated, and killed.

It always presents questions recognized by Earth civilization as having "no correct answers."

Simply put...

No matter the answer, in the end, the soul is taken.

According to the planetary database of the Human Destiny Community, the Shadow of Hafra has descended on Earth eight times; out of twenty-nine people who experienced the events, only one survived.

That person, relying on determined will and faith, battled the Shadow of Hafra for thirty-five minutes, managing to endure just long enough for the rescue by Spiritual Superpower Users.

That person fought to the last moment of Earth's destruction.

Reborn and regarded as a National Guardian level Ability User, they improved the Inner Qi Cultivation System and, through prophecy, saved hundreds of thousands of Earthlings who would have perished in disasters.

"Let's continue on the road; we shouldn't encounter more incidents next."

Saying this, Ma Ran opened the car door.

The off-road vehicle continued forward.

Overall, cutting down something that once bullied him in one stroke...

Felt really satisfying.

Ma Ran felt that this moment was like drinking ice-cold cola in the dog days of summer.

Completely refreshed!

Thoughts unimpeded!

"Brother Ran, you're familiar with the Trolley Problem, right?"

After a long pause, Li Xing couldn't restrain his curiosity and asked, "What would you do?"

The nauseating human nature dilemma's greatest feature is that those who refuse to choose are fine, while those with a conscience find themselves tormented in a short time after making a choice, even self-doubting.

A breeze passed by, and a lock of white hair on Ma Ran's forehead swayed.

He replied calmly, "Many ostensibly unsolvable problems in the world can be perfectly solved as long as the person involved is capable enough."

"If it were the 'Martial God'..."

"She would use [Domain Summoning] to save everyone, then beat the culprit soundly and throw them in jail."

"As for me..."

"I would 'deal with' the lunatic creating the problem before anything happens."

No problem at all!

Just resolve the troublemaker, preventing them from creating the incident, and then the incident itself does not exist.

Li Xing could only say...

True to being the "Prophet"!

It was indeed an answer with a very strong personal style...

For some reason, Li Xing always felt that at this moment, Ma Ran seemed even more terrifying than the alien disguised as an Earth elder, attempting to steal his soul.

The "deal with" Ma Ran casually mentioned...

These three words seemed to hide a dense, bloody aura of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

"An illusion... definitely an illusion!"

Li Xing said to himself.

He, the Child of Natural Disasters, didn't notice Ma Ran's meaningful gaze pausing on him for a moment.

"The Trolley Problem, in your past life, you've already handed in an excellent answer..."

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