I Secretly Develop Myself In The Demon World

Chapter 773: 405

“The Night Patrol appeared three months ago, a bit earlier than the Demon Game, and along with them, the Destiny Society emerged.”

“When they first appeared, those people were just like ordinary persons and didn’t possess any superhuman strength. Although we, the officials, noticed them, we didn’t pay too much attention and just kept a close watch.”

“It was not until the internal test of the Demon World began that they slowly started to show some extraordinary abilities. The Night Patrol took the initiative to contact us, wanting to cooperate and provide us with strength in reality.”

“The condition for the cooperation was that we, the officials, had to find something for them in the game, a key, a key called the Heavenly Gate Key,”

Su Nan looked at the thick stack of files in his hand as Zhao Qifeng slowly relayed what he knew.

Hearing this, Su Nan’s expression remained unchanged, but his heart was stirring with waves.

The Night Patrol was actually searching for the Heavenly Gate Key!

“The Heavenly Gate Key? What is that?” he asked, feigning curiosity.

Zhao Qifeng shook his head: “At first, we didn’t know what the Heavenly Gate Key was either, until during a task, our people accidentally came across one.”

“It was a key made of white jade, and the game’s description said that collecting nine such keys would open the Gate of Heaven.”

“What exactly the Gate of Heaven is, we too were curious, so at that time we didn’t hand over the key to the Night Patrol.”

“But later on, when the game world descended into reality and the spatial channel opened up, to preserve reality, we had no choice but to produce the Heavenly Gate Key, allowing those people to take action.”

“It was also through that opportunity that we learned some information about the Gate of Heaven from their mouths.”

“According to them, the Gate of Heaven could very well be a mysterious place created out of all the remaining celestial fortune by an extremely powerful force from countless millennia ago, to ensure their descendants could survive the impending cataclysm.”

“Behind that gate lies a transcendent opportunity, which only appears at specific times.”

Not the gateway to the world where the Heavenly Race resides?

Hearing this, Su Nan’s thoughts raced.

As for the function of the Heavenly Gate Key, the game’s description had always been just one sentence: gather nine Heavenly Gate Keys to open the Gate of Heaven.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

At first, he thought the Heavenly Gate Key was just a game prop, something unique to the game, until later, when he obtained one from the Storage Ring Han Fu gave him, he realized he was wrong.

Afterward, he learned that the reason the Ancient Heavenly Clan appeared was that someone had opened the gateway to the world of the Heavenly Clan, which made him suspect that the Gate of Heaven opened by the Heavenly Gate Key was very likely that very gateway.

At present, Zhao Qifeng’s words overturned his guess once more.

At the same time, he was puzzled; if a force was destroyed, why would it spend all it had to create an opportunity for their descendants to survive the disaster? It all sounded contradictory.

Could it be that the force wanted to rise again from the ashes?

But that wasn’t right either – since it was prepared for surviving a disaster, it meant that the disaster would come again and would be difficult to overcome.

What kind of disaster could recur?

A thought flashed through his mind, and suddenly he considered a possibility.

Noticing his change, Zhao Qifeng continued, “You must have thought of it, right?”

“Actually, at that time we were also puzzled, but with the public beta test of the game and the appearance of the Luck Child’s task, we guessed that the Gate of Heaven is very likely a legacy left from the time before the last depletion of celestial fortune.”

“And the timing of the Heavenly Gate Key’s appearance is very likely when the celestial fortune is once again on the brink of depletion!”

The Gate of Heaven turned out to be a legacy from the last time celestial fortune was exhausted!

Su Nan was taken aback; this outcome was something he had never considered.

It wasn’t his fault, though. The depletion of heaven and earth’s qi luck was not something recorded in the ancient books of the Human race; nobody knew about it since the rise and fall of qi luck tides span too vast a time.

Perhaps there were records in Ancient Times, but they had been lost over the ebbing flow of time.

Zhao Qifeng went on: “The Destiny Society and the Night Patrol come from the same world, and they clearly knew long ago that the celestial fortune would be depleted. To survive this disaster, both parties came to our world, searching for ways to overcome it.”

“However, the two chose different methods. The Destiny Society put all their hopes in the treasure that created the game, which I think you understand.”

With that, Zhao Qifeng cast a deep glance at Su Nan.

Su Nan’s expression remained unchanged; the fact that he got that special Game Bracelet was not a secret. Ordinary players might not know it, but the Chinese government, which had collaborated with the Night Patrol, must be aware.

Fortunately, no one knew what abilities that tiny fragment of the supreme treasure had granted him.

Seeing Su Nan’s expressionless face, Zhao Qifeng continued, “While the Night Patrol set their sights on the Gate of Heaven, believing that finding the nine Heavenly Gate Keys and obtaining what lies beyond the Gate of Heaven could potentially allow them to survive the disaster.”

Having finished, Zhao Qifeng sighed deeply, his expression filled with helplessness. The Destiny Society and the Night Patrol were both preparing for the impending disaster due to the depletion of celestial fortune, while they couldn’t even ensure their own temporary safety.

“How many keys have the Night Patrol collected now?”

Su Nan asked the question he was most concerned about.

Zhao Qifeng shook his head again: “We don’t know. We only found one key, but those people are also searching on their own.”

After a moment of thought, he added with some uncertainty: “It seems they have some method, some way to use the key we found before, to locate the other keys.”