Waiting always felt slow.

In the morning, Li Tianran harvested a wave of fish from the fishpond. After keeping a few boneless bass, he exchanged most of the rest for points and stored them away.

"Current points: 7,530,000!"

After nearly a month of diligent planting and breeding, Li Tianran had accumulated about seven and a half million points. He was only a few hundred thousand points away from upgrading to a fortress-level shelter.

He roughly calculated that, at this rate, if he worked hard, he could completely upgrade the farm by the time the second Cataclysm arrived.

The level 2 fortress-level shelter would not only increase the interdimensional area by nearly tenfold, but also greatly enhance its defensive capabilities.

More importantly, it would unlock some new items in the store and some operational permissions for Li Tianran himself!

For example, the level 1 homestay level allowed Li Tianran to remotely control the farm system outside the farm; while the level 2 fortress level allowed the farm to add a "camouflage" feature.

After activating the "camouflage" feature, the farm's appearance could be changed at will in the eyes of outsiders.

In other words, even if Li Tianran built the farm into a prosperous city, it could still appear to be a dilapidated manor to outsiders.

Moreover, the "camouflage" feature could be selectively and regionally activated.

It could be used to camouflage the entire farm, or just a specific area within the farm.

The green, vibrant planting area could be camouflaged as a barren wasteland.

The fishpond could also be camouflaged as flat ground.

However, "camouflage" could only deceive the eyes of living things and the sound waves of radar detectors; it could not confuse the sense of touch.

"Camouflage" could only make things invisible, not intangible!

The ability to freely change the structure of the farm, turning walls into fences in an instant, fortresses into wooden houses, and then restoring them again—this kind of function that changes the law of conservation of matter—was a feature of the level 6 spatial sanctuary-level shelter!

Shelter levels ranged from level 1 to level 6, namely: homestay level, fortress level, castle level, kingdom level, starfield level, and spatial sanctuary level!

Each level increase represented a qualitative leap.

Leaving aside the first four levels, the last two, starfield and spatial sanctuary, had almost reached the level of space fantasy. That was definitely a power that three-dimensional life and the world could not bear.

Li Tianran estimated that the last two levels of shelters corresponded to the last two terrifying Cataclysms!

"Planet-level disasters..." Li Tianran was silent.

He was still too far from that stage. The crisis he faced now was still the collapse of morality in the apocalypse and the social system.

"It's too early to think about that now..." Li Tianran said mockingly. "Even a small city's power structure within a kingdom has the power to judge me. I'm still too weak, far from being able to consider these things."

Li Tianran threw all the messy thoughts out of his mind.

Only by overcoming the immediate obstacles could he have the right to worry about the future!

...

The temperature dropped again.

Time: 18:30!

In front of the farm gate, a very oppressive atmosphere loomed.

A car from the Fa Fu (Law Enforcement Agency) was parked at the end of the road, with two police cars escorting it in front and behind.

Li Tianran slowly walked out of the farm gate.

The crowd guarding the gate made way for him.

Countless eyes were focused on him.

Yuan Zhenghong stood in front of the Fa Fu car, his gaze deep and silent.

In the place where hundreds of people were gathered, it was eerily quiet at this moment. There was no noise, and even breathing was lowered.

Only the sound of Li Tianran's footsteps moving forward could be heard softly.

"We will be here waiting for you to come home!"

Suddenly, someone shouted.

"Yes! No matter how long it takes, we will wait!"

"If you don't come back, we'll come and get you!"

The crowd boiled again, and the high-pitched shouts pierced the clouds.

Yuan Zhenghong's expression was somewhat complicated as he watched this scene.

Li Tianran's reputation among the people had almost reached its peak.

Especially the sentence "If you don't come back, we'll come and get you" reminded Yuan Zhenghong of many bad things.

As a military police officer, he naturally did not want to see someone in the civilian population with such great prestige.

Just like the emperors of the past did not want to see certain famous warlords!

This meant that the other party had the ability to create chaos at any time.

Li Tianran stretched out his right hand and calmly pressed down, looked around, and asked very seriously: "Is it worth doing this for me?"

The crowd was silent, and then erupted into an even more fanatical response.

Li Tianran laughed loudly and walked towards the Fa Fu car without hesitation.

Yuan Zhenghong looked at Li Tianran walking towards him from the crowd and suddenly had an illusion.

Li Tianran did not look like a prisoner about to face trial, but like a king surrounded by the crowd, holding a sword and wearing armor, marching towards the dragon throne.

As a military police officer, his momentum was suppressed by the other party!

...

Nan City Fa Fu, solemn and majestic.

When two bailiffs pushed open the door of the Fa Fu's public trial hall, Li Tianran saw several grand justices sitting on the trial platform.

They were wearing the Fa Fu's black uniforms, their expressions were serious, and they held gavels in their hands that could determine a person's fate.

But today, they were not the ones in control. They were just observers.

Under the guidance of the two bailiffs, Li Tianran walked to the defendant's stand and sat down calmly.

At this moment, his heart was as still as water.

The conversation he had with the people at the farm gate earlier floated in his mind.

He did not need so many people to pick him up. All he wanted was the 24 hours that the people had fought for him before. If he really could not walk out of this public trial hall today, someone would cut through thorns and break through all obstacles to take him away from here.

Li Tianran's eyes swept over the eleven empty seats in front of the grand justices.

Those were the main characters of today's eleven-person trial, and as Yuan Zhenghong said, the eleven people who controlled Li Tianran's fate could even be called eleven "gods".

"Control my fate? No, I control your fate..." A trace of indifferent coldness appeared in Li Tianran's eyes as he murmured to himself: "My fate can only be decided by me."

Outside the high walls of the Fa Fu, four adult-level combat mechs were hidden in the darkness, their eyes flashing with mechanical cold light.

The outcome of tonight's trial seemed to be that the eleven people would decide Li Tianran's fate.

But in reality, countless undercurrents were surging.

Li Tianran had already laid down countless plans.

If Li Tianran's previous efforts were in vain and the outcome of tonight's trial was still to convict Li Tianran, then the entire Fa Fu would be attacked by adult-level combat mechs, and many people would lose their lives, possibly including the eleven "gods" in charge of the trial.

When Li Tianran was willing to accept the outcome of the trial, those eleven people were gods! But when Li Tianran did not accept the outcome and wanted to turn against them, what were those eleven people in the trial? What were these people in the entire Fa Fu?

Insects.

Small insects that could be crushed to death with one hand...