Chapter 445: The Sovereign of Time and Space · Emperor Zhou Tian

"Group owner, the system has already eliminated over 99% of candidates to meet your set criteria; the final decision on the remaining candidates is now directly yours."

"Weighing and deciding whether to approve their inclusion is both your right and your duty as group owner."

Faced with the group owner’s question, the chat group system reminded her thusly.

If the group owner, Luo Qianqiu, hadn’t originally set and rigidly enforced the selection rules, how could the current chat group have only this few members?

Not to mention hundreds or thousands—even if Itachi added everyone together, Itachi couldn’t even form two soccer teams for a match…

"Uh… fine!"

Luo Qianqiu was left speechless by the chat group’s calm reply; life must go on—what could she do?

Hermes’ words did have some merit.

The chat group’s membership was indeed too small.

Especially recently, many members had become busy with their own affairs and spent less time logging in.

If no new members were added, the group would sit silent for hours—wouldn’t that be embarrassing?

What kind of chat group would that be?

Keep going!

After eliminating this batch of new candidates one by one, Luo Qianqiu did not give up but intensified her search further.

After successfully ascending, her authority seemed to have increased significantly.

At the very least, she could now use her own power to complement the chat group’s functions, rapidly refreshing the add-member feature in short bursts.

As long as she didn’t refresh too frequently and overload the system, it was generally fine.

The tyrannical CEO in "The Boss Is in Love with Me"? Old Chen in "Burn the Husband’s Funeral Pyre"? The biological daughter mistreated in "Fake and Real Daughters"?

…

"After the Emperor Channel, there’s now a short drama channel too?"

As if accustomed to it, Luo Qianqiu calmly continued refreshing.

After continuing to refresh for over a dozen rounds…

"These two… are interesting!"

Finally, Luo Qianqiu had preliminarily screened two tentative candidates.

Hermes: "…Your two candidates feel oddly subtle."

Hermes: "Gōhara Ai from the Detective Conan world… seems ordinary enough, but the description adds a suffix: [Awakened]?"

Hermes: "When I glanced at it earlier, I didn’t even notice?"

Hermes: "Interesting, truly interesting—this Detective Conan world has produced an Awakened?"

Hermes: "If one exists, there must be more—and yet these people are calmly continuing their performances on this grand Detective Conan stage without revealing a single flaw?"

Detective Conan world?

Hermes was far from unfamiliar with it.

Right now, the Stellar Train crew and the little rich girl, Estelle from Black Tower’s household, are precisely exploring the true essence of the Detective Conan world…

The Detective Conan world is deep—Hermes had known this from the start—

If the water weren’t deep, Nyaa-ko would never have deliberately guided the train crew there.

On the surface, it’s a world of detectives and criminals, but ultimately, it’s still the Detective Conan world.

And what exactly is Detective Conan?

Perhaps some would instinctively think: isn’t Detective Conan just an abbreviation of Conan’s world?

Yet…

"Hehehe, of course not!"

Hermes smiled faintly: "The Detective Conan world is the world as seen by the [audience], conforming to [science]!"

The term [audience] here is itself oddly ambiguous.

The Detective Conan world is deep.

Had Hermes not been certain that her backup measures on the train crew would protect them under any circumstance…

She would never have allowed them to enter this world.

Chen Nan: "If the anime Detective Conan became reality, its depths would certainly be profound."

Chen Nan: "For example, the climate where today is a blazing summer and tomorrow becomes a snowstorm—unscientific, yet very Detective Conan. Even stranger is the bizarre worldview where nearly everyone in the world is immortal, the endless cases, and the bosses who never seem to die…"

Chen Nan: "Already, the Detective Conan world is bizarre enough—but now even Hermes finds it deep…"

Chen Nan: "It seems this world’s depths are even greater than I imagined!"

Chen Nan: "Of course, what surprises me even more is the second candidate the group owner posted…"

The Sovereign of Time and Space · Emperor Zhou Tian!

To be honest, when Chen Nan first saw this, she instinctively assumed it was the group owner’s joke about some Sovereign of Time and Space, Destiny Beacon, or Lord of the Spirit Realm…

That guy is clearly an infinite-potential demonic god, the founder of the infamous double-crossing organization—when did he become Emperor?

Emperor Zhou Tian?

Why not say Emperor Ye Tian? That sounds more like a protagonist.

But after Chen Nan carefully studied the description, she realized this Sovereign of Time and Space · Emperor Zhou Tian had nothing to do with the Lord of the Toilet.

He Xi: "These two worlds… I feel I can’t grasp them at all!"

He Xi: "I was planning to study new worldviews to spark fresh inspiration… but now, I think I’ll hold off."

He Xi: "My technical reserves haven’t reached that level yet~"

In her world’s Earth, there already exists this manga, Detective Conan.

If it were just an anime, viewers would find it entertaining—the detectives’ and criminals’ wildly imaginative methods, and the detective’s superhuman deduction skills, make it a truly brilliant anime!

But to make the anime real?

He Xi felt only terror and dread rising in her chest—how could such a horrifying world exist?

Before she had any certainty, He Xi had already added this world to her forbidden list.

Her curiosity was indeed strong, but to step into such a terrifying world just to satisfy her meager curiosity?

She wasn’t that reckless.

Then there was the Sovereign of Time and Space · Emperor Zhou Tian?

There was no related work on Earth, but from the chat group’s brief description, He Xi immediately grouped him with the Detective Conan world—a sense of terror as if facing a bottomless abyss.

Luo Qianqiu: "Actually, when I first saw this candidate, I also thought it was the Lord of the Toilet; then on a second look, I thought he resembled Erlang Shen…"

Luo Qianqiu: "After studying it carefully, I realized this is the Sovereign of Time and Space · Emperor Zhou Tian—essentially a fusion of the Lord of the Toilet and Erlang Shen."