"..."
David's eyes narrowed slightly, his hand closed a bit, pulling back.
The Judgent Spear responded to the summoning, generating gravity out of thin air, flying towards David.
The Chaleon quickly gripped the edge of the armor on the Black Bear's back, its tongue firmly clutching the Golden Spear, not letting it fly away.
In the stalemate,
The Judgent Spear began to tremble wildly, emitting a brilliant light, generating high temperatures, scorching the tongue wrapped around it and causing smoke to rise.
Snap.
The Chaleon was forced to retract its long tongue, rolling it at the edge of its mouth to remove the charred material from the surface.
"They are players."
Ares stepped forward and said in a low voice, "The Black Bear is called 'Shortface', the Chaleon is 'Cham'."
Knowing that Ares had so kind of detection skill, David nodded silently, catching the rapidly flying Golden Spear—the sli on the spear had already evaporated completely.
"Among the top three hundred, they're definitely not there."
Cain murmured, "Interlopers from an Otherworldly place, different type players...are they foes or allies?"
"Those who appear around other Transcendents without prior notice are more likely to be enemies than friends."
David said calmly, tilting a water bottle to wash the spear again,
Jumped off the Rock Platform and walked towards the two different players.
Before he could speak, the Armored Black Bear stood upright, pulled out an instrunt shaped like a thermoter from the void, placed it against its throat, cleared its throat, and opened its bear mouth.
"If Plato had four pencils and I had seven apples, how many pizzas could fit on the roof? The answer is purple because aliens never wear hats..."
The foreign language spoken by the Black Bear sounded like Earth language to David and the others, influenced by the instrunt, yet the aning of the entire sentence...
Was it nonsense?
Noticing the expressions on David and the others' faces, the Black Bear awkwardly waved its paw, clumsily pressed the instrunt a few tis with its finger, then put it back on its neck, and the next words were finally coherent.
"Ahem, greetings, players from Earth."
The Armored Black Bear nad 'Shortface' spoke gently, "My companion told
your strengths are not bad.
In your world, you should be in the top twenty or thirty, right?
It took so much effort to reach this stage, would it not be a pity to die in an Otherworldly place today?
I have a proposal: if you tell
the locations of the other players in your world, I will spare your lives and send you directly to the door competition stage. How about that?"
David, hearing this, wasn't angered or frustrated. He exchanged glances with his three companions, shook off the residual water droplets from the spear, and said calmly, "I have a better proposal: you cut off your own hands and feet, discard everything in your backpack, then tell us all the information you know,
I will spare your lives,
How about that?"
"Heh heh."
The Black Bear chuckled, "If that's the case, we can only beat you into submission..."
It retracted the translation instrunt, its two pudgy paws touching each other in front.
Clatter—
Countless gravel and tal debris rose from the soil, quietly floating around Shortface.
"Gravity Field."
With Shortface's mild words, the nurous fragnts hurled towards David and the others.
————
Lost World, 41st floor, in the basent of a collapsed building.
"Tsk, are these ch beasts and security guards all mad?"
A woman with light blue long hair and clad in a luxurious kimono lit a pale candle, illuminating the dark room.
Listening to the dense footsteps like raindrops outside the building,
She gritted her teeth and cursed between them, "Chasing people like mad dogs..."
Her player ID was 'Blue Lantern', ranked 39th in individual combat power, belonging to the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau.
In the room with her was a tall figure wearing a heavy black robe, night-shade mask, and a Japan Islands high school girl in a sailor suit with a katana at her waist.
They were also mbers of the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau, 'Umibouzu' (ranked 55th), and 'Yuyi Xinzhong' (ranked 80th).
"This candle can briefly weaken the presence of things within the range of its light, making ch beasts and security guards unable to find us. There's about thirty minutes left to restore."
Blue Lantern took a sip from a Magic Potion from her backpack, nodding towards Umibouzu, and casually asked, "How is your condition?"
Umibouzu slowly raised a hand to press his chest, looking at the bloodstains in his palm, and said in a deep voice, "The injuries are not too severe, eating more flesh can recover."
Blue Lantern turned her gaze to Yuyi Xinzhong, who closed her eyes, exhaled a slow breath, and said softly, "Prajna Transformation level, 31%, can fight two or three more tis in 12 hours."
Blue Lantern frowned, "Anti-demon Potion?"
Yuyi Xinzhong calmly said, "Two bottles left."
"I still have four bottles, let
give you one,"
Umibouzu took a dark blue potion from his backpack and handed it to Yuyi Xinzhong, who nodded and accepted it.
"Sigh..."
Blue Lantern rubbed her brow wearily, as the three of them had just reunited and were attacked by a large group of ch beasts.
Those low-level chanical creatures without self-awareness, driven to madness, poured out to attack every flesh-and-blood being they encountered.
While fighting and retreating, Blue Lantern and the others withdrew from the 43rd to the 41st floor, repelling wave after wave of ch beast tides, almost exhausting their Magic Potions.
Worse yet, the security guards who usually didn't attack players carrying the belt inexplicably attacked the three of them.
Contrary to their previous imagination, security guards ca in multiple models, the most basic had no weapons, relying on physical strength to fight,
So advanced ones wielded lee weapons with exaggerated attack power like High-Frequency Cutting Blades, injuring at a touch, deadly on a slash.
With her 39th rank strength, Blue Lantern could defeat ten or even twenty security guards, but they appeared in groups, cooperating seamlessly, so advanced security guards even employing complex tactics like "driving large waves of ch beasts to exhaust players."
No matter how skilled a player was, their stamina, spiritual power, and sanity had limits, resources weren't endless, skills and equipnt Special Effects had cooldown tis,
Facing waves and waves of countless ch beasts,
Blue Lantern and the others were forced to flee, hiding in a secluded corner, waiting for the ch beast horde above to pass by.
Listening to the footsteps above like raindrops, Blue Lantern sighed, a figure in a nun's dress appeared in her mind.
Life-Killing Hospital...I wonder how she is doing...
It's laughable to say, in previous tis, Blue Lantern would definitely avoid that fearful woman,
Rather fall into a solo puzzle-solving script where all power was stripped away than et her.
But now, surrounded and almost out of ammunition, Blue Lantern missed the sound of her voice...
Crap, am I also under her spell?
Just when Blue Lantern felt a chill in her heart and suspected she was cursed by Life-Killing Hospital,
From the basent ceiling ca a strange yet slightly familiar voice, "Quick, quick, quick, let's hide here."
Don't co down!
This spot is taken!
Blue Lantern almost shouted this, hurriedly exchanged glances with Umibouzu and Yuyi Xinzhong, who imdiately understood.
Umibouzu took out a long-handled Wolf Fang Club, the staff entwined with green and purple seaweed and moss.
Yuyi Xinzhong placed a hand on her sword hilt, stepped forward slightly, and bowed slightly, preparing for the iaido slash.
Swish—
The tal hatch on the basent ceiling was pulled up from above, and the flashlight beam shone in.
Whoosh!
Umibouzu swung the Wolf Fang Club fiercely, sweeping upwards, stirring up a vicious gale, smashing towards the source of the light,
Before it reached the ceiling, it was blocked by a spherical golden light — the opponent clearly had a defensive artifact, which stopped the blow.
The collision between the Wolf Fang Club and the golden shield generated a shockwave,
the white candle placed by the Blue Lantern in the corner was blown by the gale,
the candle fla flickered violently, looking as if it might extinguish at any mont.
"Don't make a move!"
Blue Lantern's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly raised her hand to stop her companions,
At the sa ti, the footsteps of the ch beast approached again, and several figures surrounding the hatch, seeing the urgency of the situation, jumped into the underground basent without saying a word, closing the hatch behind them.
The flickering candlelight revealed their identities to each other.
"Is it you?"
"Is it you?!"
Blue Lantern and Eva pointed at each other, eyes filled with surprise.
Umibouzu, holding a Wolf Fang Club, cast his gaze between the two of them, speaking in unison with Qin: "You know each other."
Eva responded blandly, "Barely."
Blue Lantern snorted coldly, "Not well."
It was the four dusty girls from the seventh group of the "Wind Chaser" show who descended into the basent.
"Hey, aren't these the ones from the Japan Islands?"
Pei Youzhen raised an eyebrow, vaguely recalling the connection between the seventh group and the Blue Lantern.
When the "Wind Chaser" show had just started, and the participants were not fully decided yet, the seventh group's ntor Arlina took Eva and Ju Tianfu to the Japan Islands,
to cooperate with the personnel of the Japan Islands Supernatural Affairs Investigation Bureau to solve an unusual incident.
The incident itself was resolved perfectly, but it seed Arlina had a conflict with the local players, causing a lot of unpleasantness,
and that episode never aired, being sealed in the show's archive.
"Hmph."
Blue Lantern snorted, glancing at the detector that had appeared in the basent — probably triggered by Umibouzu's earlier attack, the detector recognized it as a battle.
Should I kick them out of the competition now...
Thoughts flashed through her mind, Blue Lantern's eyes narrowed slightly. She wasn't worried about causing serious consequences by eliminating these "little stars" in front of the broadcast cara,
Qin, Eva, and the others might have a massive fan base in the real world, and defeating them might provoke nurous people's dislike, boycott, and dissatisfaction.
But Transcendents, especially top Transcendents, never needed to care about the opinions of ordinary people.
Eliminated ans eliminated...
"You want to fight?"
Qin seed to notice the uncertain expression on Blue Lantern's face, quickly saying, "Sure, but in your current state, can you instantly knock us out?
If not, this basent will likely be damaged,
there are countless ch beasts on the surface now.
Can you find another refuge, to recuperate?"
"..."
Blue Lantern clenched her fist, the ethereal candlelight behind her flared and then extinguished.
In the end, she still released her fist, snorted coldly, and gestured for Umibouzu and Yuyi Xinzhong to step back a bit.
If there's going to be a fight, let it be after the ch beasts have left.
"Phew..."
Nina, holding a TV remote-like object, breathed a sigh of relief as the tension eased, and stepped back half a step with her companions.
The basent, accommodating all seven players, fell into an eerie silence again, with only the candle fla gently flickering.
The four dust-covered girls tidied up their ssy appearances slightly, drank magic potions to replenish their Spiritual Power, and discussed their states in low voices.
"Hey."
Leaning against the wall, Blue Lantern tilted her chin at them and said softly, "You are called... Qin and Nina, right?
I've seen your show on TV.
Why do you both have two belts?"
"None of your business."
Qin snorted coldly, crossing her arms in front to block Blue Lantern's prying gaze.
"Heh."
Blue Lantern shook her head, sneering, "Let
guess, did you also get attacked by security guards, thinking your identity verification particle emission device was malfunctioning,
so you put on an extra belt, a trophy from other players, thinking it would prevent attacks.
Turns out, it didn't work."
"How did you..."
Qin's expression changed, blurting out a question, but realized sothing was off halfway through,
Her expression changed again, asking in a deep voice, "How did you think of this?"
"Heh heh."
Blue Lantern exchanged a glance with her companions, naturally not revealing that they had already tried it themselves; whether wearing an extra belt,
or holding the powder from the belt device in hand.
If you're ant to be attacked, you'll be attacked.
The survival rules provided by the System had begun to lose their effectiveness.
"You probably aren't anywhere near the top fifty in strength yet, are you?"
Blue Lantern flipped her palm and took out a beautifully crafted, antique-style wooden smoking pipe, took a puff, and smiled, "To last this long is sowhat surprising to ."
Qin sneered, "Aren't you alive and well yourself?"
Blue Lantern wasn't bothered by the hostility in her words, continuing unperturbed, "However, oftentis, perseverance is aningless.
True courage isn't just boldly charging through a sea of blades and blood,
but making a strategic retreat amidst enticing temptations."
"Are you advising us to voluntarily surrender from the competition and leave our belts to you?"
Eva mocked expressionlessly, "And while we're at it, to sell you the leftover magic potions, life dicine, and everything else in our backpacks, and if we can't afford it, we can write an IOU so that the Japan Islands Supernatural Affairs Investigation Bureau outside can pay you?
After all, we can't win."
Selling surplus magic potions?
That would be great; our logistics are running low.
Blue Lantern almost reflexively agreed upon hearing that, paused, then recalled her true intention,
amidst the swirling smoke, her lips curled up as she said softly, "I'm not referring to you two, but to a certain soone."
"Who?"
Qin seed to sense sothing, instinctively asked.
"Well..."
Blue Lantern leisurely tapped her smoking pipe on the wall to shake off the ash, putting on a sowhat contrived indifferent expression, replied casually, "I've watched the television interview shows, and that person is just a colleague to you, right?
Since they're just a colleague, even if they were to die in the Lost World, you wouldn't be particularly sad."
Eva blinked her light blue eyes, a faint crimson glow seed to brew deep within them, her voice eerily calm, "Who."
"I've given you so many hints, haven't you guessed by now?"
Amidst the swirling smoke, Blue Lantern curled an insidious smile at the corner of her lips, "Naturally, it's your little lover, that classmate Ju Tianfu."
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