I'm bombarding the Supernatural World with my firearms

After completing all of that, he slowly bent down again and returned to the front of his own room where he sat on a stool, lit his dry pipe, and began to wait patiently. If the timeline hadn't gone awry, his past self would still be doing a sweep of the village at this time.

He would have to wait a few more hours before venturing inside the house to check for any special circumstances.

But with this unexpected twist of his own making, the course of events was bound to change; he had destroyed all traces that could arouse suspicion. Now there should be no more problems.

He mused to himself.

The clean hoe.

The human flesh in the big pot.

The eerie memorial photos in the house.

And that diary with the recorded information.

These should be all the crucial clues. Next, if all went well and his past self didn't come across these clues, he would start to doubt the Secret Realm's introduction as trying to mislead him, thus choosing to hold his ground until 12 hours had passed.

If so,

he should be able to successfully complete this Secret Realm.

Although the realm was a bit complicated, it was still within his capability to clear it smoothly. The only mystery was why he encountered his past self. In a daze, Chen Miao fell into a restless contemplation and dozed off on the stool.

Perhaps it was because this body was already old and tired more easily, or maybe it was for some other reason.

When he awoke again,

it was already dark.

The entire village was shrouded in night, and the panel showed that he had been surviving in this realm for eleven hours and fifty-five minutes. Just five more minutes and he would have completed the mission successfully.

But what he woke up to see next left him dumbfounded.

There was a pungent smell of blood in the village, with bodies and blood everywhere. Clearly, the village had just experienced a massacre, and his past self was sitting by the well, enjoying barbecue with Hungry Monkey.

It was exactly as he remembered.

In his memories, they had slaughtered the entire village in the last half-hour before leaving the Secret Realm, then sat by the well, eating barbecue and waiting for the realm to end before returning.

The only difference from his memory was,

he remembered having killed everyone in the village. Yet now, his past self was sitting by the well, munching on the barbecue, occasionally glancing in his direction as if waiting for something.

"..."

Chen Miao's expression darkened as he scanned his surroundings. He didn't understand what had happened; somehow, he had fallen into a deep sleep for nearly ten hours, and that too in a level E Secret Realm. It was preposterous; he even felt as though he had been hypnotized.

How could any normal person sleep in such a dangerous place, out in the open, and for so very long?

He had already figured out all the eerie parts of this village. Logically speaking, his past self wouldn't have chosen to massacre the village. So why, when he woke up, had the village still been slaughtered?

But in the next second, his pupils contracted violently.

The hoe that had been placed outside the neighbor's house was now pristine clean, as if it had been deliberately washed. But he clearly remembered making that hoe look old on purpose—how had it been cleaned again?

Before he could ponder further,

he saw his past self already drawing a revolver, gradually approaching step by step.

"Damn it!"

Chen Miao cursed inwardly and, after glancing at the mission panel which showed he only needed to survive one more minute to leave the secret realm successfully, didn't hesitate for a second; he turned around and started to run for his life with all his might. With the combat power of his current body, how could he possibly defeat his past self?

In the past, he would often hold a revolver and approach the enemy step by step. The reason was simple: his marksmanship was inaccurate, and if he wasn't close enough, he couldn't hit anyone. But he never considered how such a simple action could exert such immense oppressive power on others.

Just like now.

It was the first time he felt such overwhelming pressure, and it was coming from himself.

For a moment, he suddenly felt a bit sorry for the people he had killed in the past. Perhaps, in the moments before their deaths, they had faced their end amidst this intense fear and helpless despair. He decided that in the future, he would make his kills more efficiently, so as not to scare them too much.

Was it his overly active mind? While fleeing for his life, his brain couldn't help but wander uncontrollably. This might have been a unique power of his own.

But someone was faster than him.

The next second—

he saw Hungry Monkey holding a hammer, looking fierce as he blocked Chen Miao's path. Honestly, he had seen Hungry Monkey's expression countless times before, but none felt as oppressive as it did now.

"Boom!"

In the last second of the countdown, he successfully completed the mission and left the secret realm smoothly.

Before leaving the secret realm, he vaguely saw Hungry Monkey's hammer swinging up in mid-air, smashing down toward his crown.

...

"Huff!"

Chen Miao woke up abruptly, instinctively sitting down on the stone steps nearby, wiping the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead. This secret realm felt too strange, like experiencing a nightmare.

Guess he wasn't going to get a perfect clear this time.

This was the first secret realm he had failed to clear perfectly; he had always achieved a perfect clear in every other realm before.

After all, he hadn't even understood the meaning of this realm, let alone the conditions for a perfect pass. A perfect clear would have been surprising. Sitting on the stone steps, he took several deep breaths and didn't even hear the secret realm settlement panel pop up.

He felt a bit puzzled and subconsciously looked at the system notifications on his personal panel to see if he had accidentally muted the alert sound. But as he looked up, he saw the same eerily familiar surroundings.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

A village with only about twenty or thirty tile-roofed houses.

Underneath him was not a stone step, but the side of a bridge. He had returned to the beginning of the village bridge, but this time he wasn't the old man sitting inside the village smoking; he was an old man chatting at the head of the village bridge.

"..."

Chen Miao expressionlessly looked down at the clothes he was wearing, then turned around to make sure of his new face in the water under the bridge. Another new body, not bad. That was when he also saw his secret realm panel.

'Secret Realm Name': Blood Night Cannibal Village.

'Secret Realm Level': E level.

'Secret Realm Introduction': ...

'Secret Realm Mission': Survive for 12 hours.

'Secret Realm Progress': The highest instance clearance progress is 0%, not perfectly cleared.

'Secret Realm Introduction': When night envelopes the village, it reveals its mysterious side to outsiders.

Nothing had changed, it was exactly the same as when he had first entered, and this feeling made him extremely uncomfortable, as if he was having an illusion.