{Good job!}
Amidst Team Leader Fu’s praise, the passageway that had expanded in an instant enveloped Joan, only to be torn apart immediately.
–Joan got out safely. Lucky her this time.-
–You’re next, Wang Dingshan. Come over.-
–What about you?-
–I’ll get out the same way in a bit.-
But the flashing cubes were gradually dwindling, exploding at an even faster pace. Even with the acceleration from the –Scheduling- ability, they couldn’t keep up with the speed at which the cubes were being shredded.
–Team Leader, does this count as a special situation we can report?-
{Shut your mouth! But this time, it’s definitely someone above a top-level executor messing with me!}
Team Leader Fu, somewhere far away, was burning with anxiety.
There were clearly no powerful monsters in the area—even this earthbound spirit, brought in to broaden the team’s horizons, was one he had captured himself. Someone was definitely interfering. What was their goal?
This was deep in the Dead Mist—why were there other people here?
The pool atop the slope exploded. Filthy water splattered everywhere, and the slime monsters that came into contact with it rapidly expanded, even undergoing a qualitative change. They charged forward like mad.
The Paleshade Wyrm shot out instantly.
But these monsters’ psychic bodies didn’t seem dense enough, so psychic attacks were far less effective against them.
–Hurry up!-
Yang Zicang grabbed Wang Dingshan as he ran over, and threw him forward and to the side, just like he had thrown Joan earlier. A black cubic phantom quickly appeared, but flickered several times without fully unfolding, as if someone was holding it back.
Wang Dingshan, eyes closed, fell to the ground and face-planted.
–Run!- He scrambled up and said to Yang Zicang without hesitation: –Let’s get off this mountain first.-
He charged down the mountain.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The tumbling rocks, under sharp and dull grinding sounds, rapidly assembled into a colossal figure over twenty meters tall.
The giant figure swung its fists, each as large as a dump truck bucket, smashing down.
Bang! Silver Lance thrust his spear into it, blasting a chunk of rock apart, but to this building-sized monster, it was like a mere ant bite.
–Ah!-
Wang Dingshan stared in shock at the giant arm crashing down toward him, as a red phantom rapidly emerged on his body.
Suddenly, several black cubes flickered inside the giant rock monster.
A hand emerged from one of the black cubes that was struggling open, and slapped the monster—like a piece of paper landing on a giant mountain. But with just that slap…
Boom!
As if splitting mountains and splitting the earth, the giant rock monster instantly burst into countless rubble.
Group Leader Fu Qiyong’s clear voice came from the other end of the passage: –Don’t take these monsters’ attacks head-on! Someone is controlling them!-
But the black cube was instantly shoved back by an immense invisible force, and that hand was nearly severed by the warping, intersecting space that threatened to collapse.
In that very instant, Yang Zicang turned and spotted a watery, sludge-like figure pressed right against his back, its form rapidly solidifying into something as tough as tire rubber.
He bolted.
[Dispatch.]
[Position suppression, dispatch failed.]
The rubbery monster’s hand burst forth in a twisting, gushing motion, and Yang Zicang failed to dodge the slithering sewage arm as it coiled around him.
As he tilted his head, the rubbery skull turned to face him, and within its eyes, concentric rings began to glow.
{What lies within your postal emblem world?}
–What?-
Yang Zicang’s face twitched.
Gritting his teeth, he channeled all of his Chronos—including the remaining fifty thousand Virtual Zero Chronos—in a surge, the dark red void flame around him erupting with faint streaks of orange lightning!
Ka-boom!
The monstrous figure clutching Yang Zicang also blazed with dark red void flames, the two fires touching and vanishing in an instant.
[I have countered 85,900N! 50,000N have been annihilated.]
A wave of sheer terror flooded Yang Zicang’s mind and body. Failure again… was he about to die once more…!!!
Silver threads flickered in the void, sliding rapidly. Just as they were about to touch Yang Zicang’s Moxel for investment, a dark stream of light swirled before him.
[I’m shocked they can even block Syn-Link.]
–Is your target me?- Yang Zicang’s voice twisted in a ferocious tone.
The rubbery monster tightly bound Yang Zicang, then leaped far backward toward the pool.
With a whoosh, the Paleshade Wyrm rushed over, but it couldn’t locate the rubber monster’s psychic body. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t inflict any damage on the monster that was dragging Yang Zicang backward.
The monster, with four faint rings glowing in its eyes, said indifferently:
{Don’t panic. Cooperate with us and enter the Postal Emblem World. We won’t hurt you.}
Wang Dingshan, turning around from afar, glared at the pool and shouted urgently: –Yang Zicang!-
Suddenly, a sharp line swiftly touched Wang Dingshan’s chest.
[Star Illusion Red Chief Officer Huan Bao’er wants to invest in me.]
Wang Dingshan sensed a surging energy within it, causing even the red ring of his Moxel to tremble faintly.
[Huan Bao’er invests Void Zero Chronos200000N in me!]
[I was an elite team member last year.]
[Huan Bao’er appoints me as temporary squad leader!]
[Huan Bao’er appoints me as temporary section chief!]
[Huan Bao’er appointed me as a temporary officer, granting me the authority to allocate psychic fields.]
[Huan Bao’er began selecting –True Descent- for me.]
[–Crimson Sage- has been chosen. I, the mysterious triangle, am the radiant Crimson Sage.]
A female voice, smooth as rolling jade beads, echoed within my mind.
{Hold it back.}
In less than a second.
Wang Dingshan felt an ancient aura rapidly awakening within him. Red armor densely covered his body, but from the gaps of the armor, threadlike unknown substances quickly grew.
Those threads entangled and stitched together, forming a mysterious ancient cloak.
Countless streams of information surged into his mind. Wang Dingshan felt all his panic and bewilderment vanish.
Though he still didn’t know exactly what to do next, a powerful confidence arose—that he could handle any change with calm, and that nothing about to happen could escape his grasp.
All of this was completed in an instant.
[True Descent: Crimson Sage!]
Wang Dingshan’s now calm gaze swiftly swept over everything around him.
[Summit, water surface, stone, element, bloodline, earth-bound spirit.]
[Earth-bound spirit.]
Light flashed on his chest, and a broken line touched the water surface even before the rubbery, twisted monster could.
[I convinced the confused will.]
[I invested 130,000N Null Zero Chronos into it.]
Boom!
A colossal energy figure shot up from the ground, its palm rapidly expanding as it swept toward the rubber monster plummeting into the water.
{Because I am… the mysterious… triangle…}
A fractured halo materialized on the chest of the earth-bound spirit, and it let out a roar in human tongue.
Light traced its way to its hand, swiftly sketching a simple rune resembling an archaic whirlpool, which then swept toward the rubber figure about to make contact.
The rubber monster whipped its head around to stare into the pool.
In that instant, a black hole materialized and the Silver Lance shot forth with a whoosh, only to be blocked by a barrier that twisted into existence, preventing it from hitting the distracted monster’s head.
Meanwhile, Wang Dingshan, having made his decision, ceased to follow the battle—after all, an arrow already loosed is beyond concern.
Draped in his red armor, he calmly pressed on, considering the possibilities for his next move.
[I, Lele, Xuling Chronos, monster: escape direction is directly toward Yu Yusheng.]
[Yu Yusheng!]
Within the arc on his chest, the energy of his identity card rapidly materialized.
A jagged line shot out, connecting via it to Yu Yusheng, a fellow employee of the Lost Illusion Company, who was hurrying over from afar.
……
{Good, you haven’t left yet.}
Yu Yusheng gazed in astonishment at the dramatically transformed Wang Dingshan.
–What happened?-
He looked every bit a general clad in a mysterious energy embodiment, exuding an aura that could sway the fate of the world.
{Immediately apply to the company for Void Zero Chronos, no, they have already noticed you, and will come from your side immediately to intercept the escape target ahead of me.}
Yu Yusheng’s gaze dropped, looking at the figure in the dim light that was holding Yang Zicang and leaving from the other end of the mountaintop, seemingly in his own direction.
……
The rubber man lightly tapped on the giant energy figure and leaped out with a swoosh. Although the Earthbound Spirit had not succeeded in catching it, it prevented that thing from entering the pool. This already counts as a phased success.
Wang Dingshan firmly believed that if it had entered the pool, its power would have quickly increased several times. Luckily, it was prevented.
But the pool began to rotate rapidly, and another slime monster’s body quickly turned into rubber, developing toward the toughness of tire rubber.
Wang Dingshan’s eyes suddenly sank.
The other end of the dark land.
As soon as Yu Yusheng disconnected the Syn-Link, a folded line nimbly shot out from the void and connected to his chest.
[Director Yao Shuling of White of Starlight Illusion wants to invest in me.]
[Yao Shuling invested Void Zero Chronos 200000N for me.]
[Because I was only hired earlier this year, I have never become an elite employee.]
–What exactly happened?-
[Yao Shuling announced the formation of a special event transcription group.]
[Yao Shuling granted me the status of a temporary document transcriber.]
[Yao Shuling temporarily appointed me as a member of the special event transcription group.]
[Yao Shu Ling temporarily promoted me to the leader of the Special Incident Transcription Team.]
[I am witnessing the special. The leader of the Special Incident Transcription Team is appointed as the Supreme Observer of the Lost Frequency Land.]
[Yao Shu Ling activated the –Real Descent- authority for the Supreme Observer.]
–？？？–
Yu Yusheng, who was walking on the plain, was suddenly granted a bunch of official titles.
He was feeling bewildered when suddenly a thick aura surged from behind.
An imposing aura spread outward.
[I witnessed the descent of the –White Light-.]
He turned his head to look.
A slowly rotating starlight hovered behind him, its four corners adorned with resplendent patterns, like totems devoutly carved by ancient ancestors.
Faint whispers seemed to murmur in his ears.
[Real Descent: Cross White Light.]
The cross starlight traced a graceful arc from behind to the front, aligning one of its corners parallel to the forward direction. A calm yet irrefutable voice rang out.
{I declare, this is the East.}
Yu Yusheng instantly could see the dilapidated city in the distance, with a low hill vaguely rising at this end of the city.
[I consumed Virtual Zero Chronos 10000N, temporarily distorting the world’s orientation.]
It rotated steadily by ninety degrees like a scale, pointing another corner toward that direction.
{I have witnessed the life of –Light Chaser Zhuo Duo-.}
[I consumed 1N.]
The world rapidly rewound.
Without having done anything, Yu Yusheng was astonished to find himself ten li away.
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