Task 7

More and more people woke up and gathered to discuss the voice, which had come from nowhere. "Is that the voice of Yolin Feller?" "I've been on several missions with him, I'm sure it's him." "What is he saying? Do you understand?" "It seems to be talking about how to destroy the continents outside?"

The noise of the discussion became louder and louder. When everyone in the underground factory could vaguely feel it, Yue Ling's voice finally stopped. After two minutes of silence, another voice said cautiously: "What's going on? I feel like the situation on the top has changed." It seemed that the person next to Yue Ling was speaking.

"Go ahead." Shi Youchen nodded to Lin Zhouze, his eyes calm. Lin Zhouze, on the other hand, looked less composed than usual. He looked at the ruins beneath his feet, walked in a certain direction with a clear purpose, and then stopped at a certain spot.

The ground beneath the rubble suddenly cracked, and broken pieces of earth fell down with a clatter. "What's going on? An earthquake?" A slightly panicked voice reached the ears of every sober person on the ground, mixed with a few cries of pain as if they had been hit by something.

Within minutes, all the noise faded. A large hole, about ten meters in diameter, appeared directly in front of where Lin Zhouze stood. Shi Youchen casually brushed away the dust that was blowing in his face. He walked to the edge of the hole and called out, "Yueling, don't hide. The air down there is terrible. Hurry and bring everyone up."

The hole, dug about five or six meters down, was now crammed with people—those who had been punished in the underground factory. Yue Ling, surrounded by the crowd, stared blankly upward. "Ying Yungui, it's you!" he gritted his teeth.

Shi Youchen raised an eyebrow and said, "It's me. What's wrong? What are you doing? Are you trying to escape the Holy Land?" He deliberately lowered the tone of "escape." Yue Ling reacted and cursed, "You and Nuoer colluded to bring our Feller family to this point, you hypocrites!"

The person next to him quickly pulled his tattered sleeve and advised, "Mr. Filler, now is not the time to talk about this! We have to escape first!"

Shi Youchen chuckled softly, "Escape? How are you planning on escaping? Since you can't leave the surface openly, you're planning on digging an underground tunnel to get out of the sea, right?" He gestured behind him, "That really can't go as you wish. I've sealed the Holy Land Continent's underside."

As if to prove his words, the ground beneath Yue Ling's feet completely shattered in the blink of an eye, but he did not continue to fall. In a trance, the group of people looked down and found that there was a layer of golden solidified crystals under the ground.

"Does it look familiar?" Shi Youchen shouted, "So hurry up and come up. I won't hold you accountable for trying to escape."

How could they not be familiar with it?! That was clearly the molten crystal used by the association to make suppressors! Their plan to escape the Holy Land from underground was completely hopeless. They couldn't even use their superpowers, so digging through it with human power alone was simply a pipe dream.

Yue Ling's fingers began to tremble. Trembling, he turned to look at the "comrade" who had first proposed the escape plan, only to find him completely calm. "You! You! You promised me there would be no problems down there, so what's going on?"

Unexpectedly, the other party threw up his hands and said, "I didn't lie to you. There was indeed no problem before. It's just that when we started to attack, they also attacked." Yue Ling's eyes went dark and he almost fainted: "Then why didn't you stop?!"

The man scratched his head. "I can't stop you. How can I ask you to express your thoughts in person if I stop you?" He said, and then he appeared behind Shi Youchen in an instant. "President, I have fulfilled your mission."

Shi Youchen hummed a light, uncritical nod and waved him off. "Yoling Feller, I can overlook your escape. Pursuing freedom is human nature," he said, changing the subject. "But you attempted to harm the original continents and seek revenge against the world. This is a serious violation of the association's regulations. As its president, I must take action."

Yue Ling's face turned pale, and he still tried to excuse himself. He stiffened his neck and said, "What do you mean by revenge on the world? I never said that. I think you deliberately wanted to put this blame on me so that you can punish me! You simply want to kill me!"

Shi Youchen stared at him silently for two seconds, then pointed upward. The massive light and the twelve surrounding light screens were still there. "Have you seen that? The mind simulator. All your 'plans and deployments' have been automatically mapped and transmitted to the various district offices, which then transmit them directly to the local police stations."

"That means everyone in the world now knows what you're up to. Yoling Feller, you still won't plead guilty?" Shi Youchen raised his hand, and the crystal layer dragged the people in the cave upward, finally returning to the surface. "I've noticed that even your IQ has dropped significantly since you lost your powers."

"Ying! Yun! Gui! I will kill you!" Yue Ling was completely irritated by these words and lost his mind. He rushed forward and wanted to strangle Shi Youchen's throat, but was kicked back before he got close.

Ying Yungui, wearing the mask, stood in front of Shi Youchen with a murderous look on his face, staring at Yue Ling, who was lying on the ground like a stray dog, without saying a word.

"Alright, I'll take care of it." Shi Youchen patted his shoulder, signaling Lin Zhouze to keep an eye on him and prevent him from doing anything rash. With a flick of his finger, a miniature birdcage enveloped the man. He whispered, "How can someone like you deserve to go to the New World?" as he approached the cage, until their eyes met through the cage.

"Shh, don't move, otherwise it won't be complete when burned."

Yue Ling didn't understand the meaning of this at all, nor did he intend to think about it. He just wanted to kill the person in front of him, and kill him with the most brutal means. "Ying Yungui, you dare?" Before he could even utter the word "dare", the steam rising from the birdcage shut his mouth forever.

Shi Youchen's eyes were red and burning in the firelight. He twitched his lips and said contemptuously, "I dare not?"

The flame in the birdcage gradually weakened and finally disappeared completely. Only a black crystal remained inside, and Yue Ling was nowhere to be seen.

There was a dead silence all around, and then someone fell to the ground, saying tremblingly: "He...he really killed Yue Ling!" Screams, panic and fear quickly spread among the crowd. They couldn't believe that the president of the association took a life in front of everyone with just a gesture.

How could he have killed Yue Ling Feiler so casually? Shouldn't they have held a public meeting, held a public hearing, and then decided by a vote? Even if the Feiler family's status in the supernatural world was no longer as high as before, this couldn't be done. It couldn't be done like this.

They couldn't believe it.

Shi Youchen looked indifferently at the screaming and scattered crowd: "Do you think a life can't be taken away so easily?" Someone lost his strength for a moment because of these words, tripped and fell to the ground, recalling in a daze.

Yes, it seems wrong to take a life so easily. But what about the past? Did they deserve to treat the lives of ordinary people, whom they disregarded for their own selfish desires, as trash?

Ultimately, they were simply relying on their status as psychics, believing that as long as they didn't defect, the association wouldn't be able to easily judge or punish them, so they felt safe. But, didn't the association itself do the same thing?

Some woke up in terror, others collapsed in fear. But it was all too late. Shi Youchen closed his eyes and thought sadly, "It's too late." No one can escape from here, no one can escape the punishment of fate.

The heavens and earth hung upside down, the galaxies sank. The Holy Land continent instantly flipped over, sinking into the sea. In its place, a brilliant blue expanse emerged from the surface.

The lower half of the space is composed of a series of reefs, among which birds and fish swim freely. Between the reefs stand buildings of various shapes, some resembling elongated jellyfish, others like open umbrellas, and many more like upright "masts." These buildings are connected by parallel corridors.

Besides a faint moonlight, the only light source here came from the fluorite embedded in the buildings. Besides birds and fish, the sky also held a number of spherical "eyes" floating in the air. If you got close, you could see the shimmering patterns on their surfaces.

On the back of the Holy Land Continent is the Mirage Abyss.

Shi Youchen sealed and reversed the holy space, then took Lin Zhouze and Ying Yun back to a familiar place—the altar. Several people were already gathered there waiting for them.

Xiaoyue, Labriel, Mollier, Pei Chanbai, Hexian, Kulin, Maya, all the bearers of totemic power stood in front of the long pillar, and their eyes turned to the three people who came here.

On the way over, Shi Youchen took off the mask on Ying Yungui's face and put it back on his own face, but he did not change his voice, but returned to his original cold voice.

"Zhou Ze, thank you," he said. Lin Zhou Ze looked at him for a long moment, then stepped forward and gave him a hug. Then he waved, "I'll be leaving now." His figure quickly disappeared not far away. He went to find Yan Zhiyuan.

Shi Youchen cleared his throat and turned to face the people at the altar. Some of them were fully aware of the plan, some understood only a portion but not the full picture, and some had no idea what was about to happen next.

He looked at them and said, "Good evening, everyone. Thank you for trusting me and coming as promised. Actually, I need your help with something tonight." He pointed to the long pillars and said, "I'd like to borrow some of your energy. Just place your hands on the pillars nearby."

The first to react were Xiaoyue and Maya, followed by Hexian and Pei Chanbai, then the drowsy-looking Morrill, and finally Kulin and the somewhat confused Labriel.

From behind the altar, a resounding bell rang seven times, waking Mollier and leaving Labriel stunned. "Alright, thank you all, you can let go now."

The originally pitch-black pillar suddenly lit up, and the dark patterns engraved on the surface peeled off and floated around like a net to catch the air. Finally, they slowly gathered together and formed a miniature Milky Way in the center of the altar.

Shi Youchen turned to Yun Gui and said, "Let's begin, the deep sea procedure."

All over the world, in every corner, warnings sounded simultaneously - "Super Level One Alert! Abnormal rise in sea level!" However, it was dusk and most people were asleep. Even those who were awake were busy with their own nighttime entertainment.

Before the alarms in various places had time to be repeated three times, the surging sea water swallowed up the land, houses, and even the sky they could see.

The land did not become wet, the houses were not shattered, and even people did not feel suffocated by the water.

Everything is normal, including the air.

Only the people in Mirage Abyss know that all places except here are surrounded by the ocean, and they think this is the clarion call of "Sasa", the leader of Mirage Abyss, to conquer the world.

On the huge grandfather clock, the only pointer began to move slowly, making a sound every time it turned a circle.

In a place they couldn't see, on the holy land that had turned over and sunk into the sea, people kept shouting in fear, "Why can't I see with my eyes!" "My wings are gone too!" "What's going on? Why can't I feel the water element!"

The supernatural powers in them are disappearing.

The superpowers are disappearing.