{Well done!}
Amid Group Leader Fu’s words of praise, the rapidly expanding channel swallowed Qiong An in an instant, then was immediately torn apart.
“Qiong An made it out; she got lucky this time.”
“You’re next, Wang Dingshan. Get over here.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll get out the same way shortly.”
But these flickering cubes were gradually dwindling, and they were exploding faster. Even with the “Dispatch” ability to accelerate, he couldn’t keep up with the speed at which they were being torn apart.
“Leader, does this count as a special situation worth reporting?”
{You’d better shut up! But this time, there’s definitely someone at the level of a top executive or above interfering with me!}
Group Leader Fu, somewhere unknown, was burning with anxiety.
There were clearly no powerful monsters in the area, and even the Bound Spirit, brought in to give the team members some exposure, had been caught by him personally. Someone was definitely interfering—what was their goal?
This was deep within the Death Mist; why were there other people here!
The pool water at the top of the slope burst open. The filthy water splattered outward, and the mud monsters that came into contact with it rapidly swelled in size, even undergoing a qualitative transformation, charging in like madmen.
White Shadow Nian Dragon shot out instantly.
However, the Psychic Bodies of these monsters didn’t seem solid, so psychic attacks had a significantly reduced effect on them.
“Come over here!”
Yang Zicang grabbed Wang Dingshan by the arm as he ran toward him and, just as he had with Qiong An, tossed him diagonally forward. A faint black cube phantom manifested swiftly, but after flickering several times, it didn’t actually unfold, as if someone was pressing it firmly.
Wang Dingshan closed his eyes and landed face-first in the dirt for a clumsy fall.
“Run!” he got up, not hesitating to say to Yang Zicang, “Let’s get off this mountain first.”
He dashed downhill.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The tumbling rocks, amid sharp and muffled grating sounds, rapidly assembled into a colossal figure over twenty meters tall.
The giant figure swung its iron-fist-sized fists down toward them.
Bang! The silver spear stabbed into it, blasting a rock apart, but to this building-sized monster, it was just an ant’s bite.
“Ah!”
Wang Dingshan stared blankly at the massive arm crashing down toward him, as a red phantom rapidly materialized over his body.
Suddenly, several black cubes flashed within the enormous rock monster’s body.
A hand emerged from one of the black cubes struggling open, pressing against the monster like a piece of paper settling on a great mountain. But that single strike…
Boom!
As if a cataclysm had struck, the rock monster instantly shattered into countless rubble.
Group Leader Fu Qiyong’s clear voice came from the other end of the passage: “Don’t tank these monsters’ attacks head-on—someone’s controlling them!”
Yet the black cube was immediately shoved back by an immense invisible force, and the hand was nearly severed by the ruptured Cruxspace.
In that very instant, Yang Zicang turned to see a soft mud-like figure pressed close to his back, its body rapidly solidifying like tough tire rubber.
He bolted.
[Dispatching.]
[Glib position suppressed. Dispatch failed.]
The rubbery figure’s arm twisted and shot out in an instant. Yang Zicang failed to dodge the embracing, wriggling sludge—it coiled around him quickly.
As he turned his head, within the rubbery head’s eyes, which also tilted to look at him, rings of halos lit up.
{What lies within your post-mark world?}
“What?”
Yang Zicang’s face twitched once.
Gritting his teeth, he amplified all his sequences—even the remaining fifty thousand Virtual Zero Sequences—and from his body burst a dark-red virtual flame, now laced with faint streaks of orange lightning sparks!
Blam!
The monster-like figure embracing Yang Zicang was instantly shrouded in the same dark-red virtual flame; the two glares touched and vanished in a flash.
[I offset 85900N! 50000N is annihilated.]
A wave of immense terror violently surged through Yang Zicang’s mind and body. Failure—was I going to die again…!!!
In the void, silver threads slid swiftly toward his model ready to invest, when suddenly a dark stream of light spun before Yang Zicang’s body.
[I am shocked they can even block mental links.]
“Your target is me?” Yang Zicang roared with a distorted, almost deformingly fierce tone.
The rubbery strange figure bound Yang Zicang tightly, leaped far backward in an instant, and landed toward the pool.
With a whoosh, the White Shadow Thought-Dragon charged, but failed to locate the Psychic Body of this rubbery monster at all; no matter how hard it tried, it could not inflict any damage on this asset dragging him rearwards.
A figure with dim, faint rings of light glowing in his eyes spoke calmly:
{Don’t panic. Cooperate with us to enter the Yuehui World, and we won’t hurt you.}
Wang Dingshan twisted himself around in the distance, glaring at the pool and urgently shouting, “Yang Zicang!”
Suddenly, a quick, jagged line drew forth and touched against Wang Dingshan’s chest.
[Huan Bao’er, Red Chief Executive of Starlight Illusion, wants to make an investment in me.]
Wang Dingshan felt a surging energy within him, causing the red ring of his model to tremble slightly.
[Huan Bao’er invests 200,000N of Virtual Zero Sequence in me!]
[Last year I was an elite member.]
[Huan Bao’er appoints me as interim Group Leader!]
[Huan Bao’er appoints me as interim Section Chief!]
[Huan Bao’er appoints me as interim Executive. I gain the authority to allocate psychic fields.]
[Huan Bao’er begins selecting ‘True Descent’ for me.]
[The ‘Crimson Sage’ has been selected. I, the Mysterious Triangle, am the blazing Crimson Sage.]
A smooth, jade-like female voice sounded in her mind.
{Hold it off.}
In less than a second.
Wang Dingshan felt an ancient aura within him quickly awakening. A red armor densely clad himself, but quickly, wispy, unknown substances sprouted from the armor’s seams.
The wisp-like material twisted and wove together, forming something resembling an ancient, mysterious cloak.
Countless pieces of information appeared in his mind, and Wang Dingshan felt all his panic and bewilderment disappear.
Though he didn’t know what to do next, he felt a powerful confidence that he could handle any change with calmness and that nothing about to happen could escape his grasp.
All this was completed in an instant.
[True Manifestation: Crimson Sage!]
Wang Dingshan’s now calm gaze quickly swept across everything around him.
[Mountain peak, water surface, rocks, elements, bloodline, bound spirit.]
[Bound spirit.]
Light flashed on his chest, and a line of zigszag touched the water surface before the rubbery twisted monster.
[I have persuaded the wandering will.]
[I have invested 130,000 Virtual Zero Sequence for it.]
Boom!
A giant energy figure immediately rose from the ground. Its palm spread quickly and rolled toward the rubbery monster figure falling onto the water’s surface.
{Because I am… a mysterious… triangle…}
The shattered light wheel on the Bound Spirit’s chest appeared, and it actually roared out human language.
Rays of light traced to its hand, quickly sketching a simple rune like an archaic whirlpool, sweeping toward the rubbery figure it was about to touch.
The rubbery monster suddenly turned its head to look into the pond.
At that very moment, a black hole appeared and a silver spear shot out with a *whoosh*, but it was blocked by a twisted barrier that materialized, failing to successfully strike the head of the distracted monster.
Meanwhile, Wang Dingshan, on the other side, had already ceased paying attention to the ongoing battle the moment he made his decision. Because an arrow that has been shot is no longer of concern.
Clad in crimson armor, he calmly continued to ponder the next course of action.
[I am Lele, Virtual Zero Sequence, monster, direction of escape is forward, Yu Yusheng.]
[Yu Yusheng!]
The energy of the identity card in the arc on his chest rapidly manifested.
A broken line shot out, linking him to Yu Yusheng, also an employee of Lost Illusion Company, who was rushing from afar.
……
{Good, you haven’t left yet.}
Yu Yusheng stared in surprise at the drastically transformed Wang Dingshan.
“What happened?”
That guy looked like a general conjured with a mysterious exterior of energy, radiating an aura of overwhelming command.
{Apply to the company for Virtual Zero Sequence immediately. No, they’ve already noticed you. Hurry from your side and intercept the target escaping ahead of me.}
Yu Yusheng cast his gaze downward, looking through the dim light at the figure cradling Yang Zicang and fleeing from the mountaintop, which seemed to be heading in his direction.
……
That rubbery man had already gently tapped the giant energy figure and leaped off with a whoosh. Although the Bound Spirit failed to catch it, it had at least prevented that thing from entering the pool. This could be considered a temporary success.
Wang Dingshan was firmly convinced that once it entered the pool, its would power rapidly increase severalfold. Thankfully, that was prevented.
But the pool rotated rapidly, as another blob monster’s body quickly turned into rubber, developing towards the strength of tire rubber.
Wang Dingshan’s eyes sank sharply.
At the other end of the dark land.
As soon as Yu Yusheng broke the mental link, a zigzag line dexterously shot out of the void and connected to his chest.
[Radiant Order, the White Chief Executive of Starlight Illusion, wants to invest in me.]
[Radiant Order has invested 200,000 Virtual Zero Sequences in me.]
[Because I was only hired early this year, I have never become an elite employee.]
“What exactly happened?”
[Radiant Order announces the formation of a Special Incident Transcription Team.]
[Radiant Order appoints me as a temporary document transcriber.]
[Radiant Order temporarily assigns me as a member of the Special Incident Transcription Team.]
[Radiant Order temporarily promotes me to team leader of the Special Incident Transcription Team.]
[I am witnessing a special event. The leader of the Special Incident Transcription Team is appointed as the Highest Observer of the Distortion Zone.]
[Radiant Order unlocks the “True Arrival” authority for the Highest Observer.]
“？？？”
On the wilderness, Yu Yusheng, who had been walking, was suddenly granted a bunch of official positions.
Just as he was puzzled, a profound presence surfaced from behind him.
An immense aura spread out.
[I witness the descent of the “White Light.”]
He turned his head to look.
A slowly rotating star of light hovered behind him, with magnificent patterns at its four corners, resembling totems devoutly carved by ancient ancestors.
As if faint whispers echoed in his ears.
[True Descent: Cross White Light.]
The cross-shaped starlight traced an elegant arc from behind to in front of him, with one of its corners leveled to point ahead. A serene yet unquestionable voice resounded.
{I declare, this is the East.}
In an instant, Yu Yusheng could clearly see the dilapidated city in the distance, with a faint, low hill looming on this side of the city.
[I have consumed 10,000 N of Virtual Zero Sequence, temporarily distorting the orientation of the world.]
It steadily rotated by ninety degrees like a scale, pointing another of its corners in that direction.
{I have witnessed the life of “Zhuluo the Lightchaser.”}
[I have consumed 1 N.]
The world rapidly rewound.
Yu Yusheng, who had done nothing, was astonished to find himself appearing ten miles away.
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