Me? I was transported into a book? And I became a vicious villain?

The afterglow of the setting sun covered the town with a layer of golden gauze. The breeze blew, and the leaves rustled, as if they were whispering a cheerful ballad. Chu Mengmeng and Xiao Yichen held the hands of the twins and strolled in the park of the town, enjoying this rare tranquility and warmth.

"Dad, look, that butterfly is so beautiful!" Xiao Xiao pointed at the butterfly dancing among the flowers not far away and shouted excitedly.

"Yeah, it's really beautiful." Xiao Yichen looked at his son tenderly, his eyes full of doting, "If you like it, Dad will help you catch it, okay?"

"Okay, okay!" Xiao Xiao clapped her hands and jumped up happily.

"No, butterflies are our friends, we can't hurt them." Chu Mengmeng squatted down and patiently explained to her son, "We can just observe it quietly and appreciate its beauty, so that it will always be with us."

Xiao Xiao nodded, not quite understanding, staring at the butterfly with curiosity, with an innocent smile on her face. Xiao Yao, on the other hand, quietly leaned against Chu Mengmeng, looking around with curiosity, and occasionally attracted by the flowers blooming on the roadside, showing a sweet smile.

"Mengmeng, thank you, thank you for everything you have done for our family." Xiao Yichen looked at the scene in front of him, his heart filled with emotion and happiness.

"Silly boy, what are you talking about? We are a family." Chu Mengmeng raised her head and looked at Xiao Yichen, her eyes full of tenderness and affection.

The sunset dyed half the sky red, and the family bathed in the warm light, creating a warm and beautiful picture.

A few days later, the Xiao family was very lively, and the family gathered together for dinner. The table was filled with sumptuous dishes and laughter continued.

"Mengmeng, Yichen, thanks to you this time, the town can return to peace." Xiao Yichen's father raised his glass and said gratefully, "The child's mother and I are old, and we will rely on you young people in the future."

"Dad, what are you talking about? This is what we should do." Xiao Yichen said quickly.

"Yes, uncle and aunt, don't worry. Yi Chen and I will definitely protect the town and won't let those bad guys have the chance to harm it again." Chu Mengmeng also said firmly.

"Okay, okay, I believe you." Xiao Yichen's mother showed a relieved smile on her face, "However, you also have to be careful. Although those people have been defeated, no one knows whether they will come back again."

"Mom, don't worry, we will pay attention." Xiao Yichen nodded, a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

After dinner, Xiao Yichen saw his parents off and returned to the room, only to find Chu Mengmeng standing by the window, looking at the deep night sky outside, wondering what she was thinking.

"What's wrong? Are you still worried about those people?" Xiao Yichen walked to Chu Mengmeng and gently put his arm around her shoulders.

"I just feel..." Chu Mengmeng turned around and looked at Xiao Yichen, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

"What do you think?"

"This victory seems to have come too easily..." A hint of uneasiness flashed across Chu Mengmeng's eyes.

At the same time, on the other side of town, Li Yunfei was attending a business meeting. He stood on the podium with a smile on his face, announcing the company's new plan to the participants...

Li Yunfei, wearing a well-tailored suit, stood on the podium in high spirits. Under the spotlight, his confident smile was very contagious, and he talked about the company's new plans for future development: "We will increase investment in the research and development of new materials, and these new materials will be used first..." He paused, his eyes swept across the expectant faces in the audience, "Prioritized for the construction projects of the town! We will bring more advanced infrastructure, better public services, and a more comfortable living environment to the town!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the audience burst into applause. The participants expressed their high recognition and support for Li Yunfei's plan and were full of confidence in the future development of the company. Li Yunfei smiled and greeted them, but he had other thoughts in his mind. He knew that only by firmly controlling the town in his own hands could he truly realize his ambition.

Meanwhile, Chu Mengmeng was looking for books in a used bookstore in the town. She liked the smell of old books, and liked flipping through the yellowed pages to feel the traces of time. Suddenly, a book with an ancient cover caught her attention. The book had no title, and the cover had a strange pattern: a circle surrounded by thorns, with something carved in the center of the circle, but it was blurred because of the age.

Chu Mengmeng bought the book for some unknown reason. After returning home, she couldn't wait to open the pages, but found that the content of the book was not written in ordinary words, but in a strange symbol she had never seen before. Just when she was confused, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind, and those symbols seemed to come alive, jumping and combining in front of her eyes, and finally formed clear paragraphs of text.

This turned out to be an ancient magic book!

The book records that the place where the town is located was once a powerful source of magical energy, but because of a catastrophic magic war, the energy source was sealed and the town declined. However, the seal is not unbreakable. Every once in a while, the seal will weaken. If someone can find the key to the energy source, they can reopen it and gain powerful magical power...

"The key to the energy source..." Chu Mengmeng murmured to herself, and the feeling of uneasiness in her heart became stronger. She felt that the recent calmness of the town was just the calm before the storm, and a greater crisis might be yet to come.

At night, Xiao Yichen meditated in his study as usual. He closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and tried to relax his body and mind completely. However, just as he was about to enter a meditative state, he suddenly felt a faint magical fluctuation. This fluctuation was extremely strange and seemed to come from... the depths of the town.

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the dark night sky outside the window. An inexplicable uneasiness surged into his heart... The night was as cool as water, and the moonlight outside the window poured into the study, covering the floor with a layer of silver light. Xiao Yichen slowly opened his eyes, and a trace of uneasiness flashed across his deep eyes. He had just felt a weak magical fluctuation in meditation. This fluctuation was extremely strange, and it seemed to come from... the depths of the town.

He stood up and walked to the window, looking at the sleeping town in the distance. The peaceful and tranquil scene of the past was now overshadowed in his eyes. Since defeating the leader of the new force, the town has returned to its former tranquility, but Xiao Yichen's uneasiness in his heart has never gone away. He always felt that something was going to happen, and this sudden magical fluctuation further confirmed his premonition.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, twins Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yao were playing hide-and-seek at school. The lively Xiao Xiao hid in a corner, covering his mouth and laughing, waiting for his sister Xiao Yao to catch him. Suddenly, he felt that the floor under his feet seemed to be loose, and curiosity drove him to move the floor, and a dark hole appeared in front of him.

"Brother, where are you?" Xiao Yao's clear voice came from a distance. Xiao Xiao quickly got up, covered the floor, ran to his sister, and said mysteriously: "Yaoyao, I found a secret!"

"What secret?" Xiao Yao widened her eyes with curiosity.

Xiao Xiao pulled his sister back to the corner, pointed at the floor and said, "There's a basement here!"

The two of them worked together to move the floor. With the weak light, they could vaguely see some sundries and an old wooden box in the basement. Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yao looked at each other, and they saw curiosity and excitement in each other's eyes. They carefully climbed down the stairs, came to the basement, and curiously opened the wooden box.

The box contained a diary and some strange rune stones. Xiao Xiao picked up the diary and opened it. The paper of the diary had turned yellow and the handwriting on it was a little sloppy, but vaguely recognizable.

"On July 15, the experiment achieved a breakthrough. We successfully extracted the energy source..."

The diary stopped here, and the rest was torn off. Xiao Xiao was shocked. The contents of this diary seemed to be related to the new forces. Could it be...

"Brother, look!" Xiao Yao pointed to a black stone at the bottom of the box. There were some strange symbols engraved on the stone, which were exactly the runes they saw in the diary.

Xiao Xiao picked up the stone, and a cold feeling instantly spread throughout his body. At this moment, he felt a strong force surging from the stone, and everything in front of him began to become blurred...

"Xiao Xiao! Xiao Yao!"

In the dim light, he seemed to hear someone calling their names. When Xiao Yichen arrived, he saw this scene: Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yao fainted at the entrance of the basement, their faces pale, and the diary and black stone in their hands fell to the side. His heart tightened, and he hurried forward to check on the children. Chu Mengmeng followed closely behind, and seeing this scene, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in worry.

"Don't worry, they just fainted." Xiao Yichen checked the children's breathing, breathed a sigh of relief, and carried them back to the room.

When the twins woke up, it was already evening. They told them intermittently about the discovery in the basement and the strange black stone. After Xiao Yichen and Chu Mengmeng heard it, their faces became solemn.

"It seems that the secrets of the new force are far more than we know." Xiao Yichen said in a deep voice.

At night, Xiao Yichen called Li Yunfei and his parents home and held an emergency meeting. Under the dim light, everyone's face was full of worry.

"I suspect that there may be a secret base or important clues of the remnants of the new forces hidden in the basement." Xiao Yichen told everyone about the discovery of the twins and his own speculation.

"If this is true, we must act as soon as possible to find out the truth and prevent future troubles." Li Yunfei said seriously.

Everyone unanimously decided that Xiao Yichen would lead everyone to explore the basement early tomorrow morning. However, just as they were about to adjourn, a rapid knock on the door suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the room.

Xiao Yichen opened the door and saw a strange figure standing outside. With the dim light, he saw that the other person was holding a black envelope. There was no signature on it, only a bright red mark, like dripping blood.

"Mr. Xiao, this is a letter for you." The stranger said in a low voice, handed the envelope to Xiao Yichen, then turned and disappeared into the night.

Xiao Yichen returned to the room and opened the envelope. Under the light, lines of beautiful handwriting came into view:

"Curiosity kills the cat. Some secrets are better left unknown. If you insist on exploring them, you will bear the consequences at your own risk."

In the corner of the letter, there was also a blood-red mark, as if warning someone of something. In the room, everyone's eyes were focused on the anonymous letter. The air seemed to freeze, and an inexplicable sense of fear spread in everyone's heart.

"It seems that we have been targeted..." Li Yunfei broke the silence and said in a low voice.

Xiao Yichen held the letter tightly in his hand, his eyes firm: "No matter who is behind all this, we will never back down."