Chapter 019: The Collapse of the Strange Realm
"Kids, listen to my instructions from now on." Lin Chengjie carried a machete and rushed towards the monster.
Zhu Changan clasped his fists together, and a yellowish-brown light appeared on his hands: "Uncle, we are all adults, not children anymore."
"Anyone who hasn't graduated is just a kid here," Lin Chengjie laughed. "Hey, you and the girl in black, go to the yellow-haired guy and follow him. The guy in yellow and the hat, follow me."
"Okay!"
Mo Xuanji landed next to Shen Liuxue and pinched his fingers with one hand to summon a wind blade. He glanced at Shen Liuxue and asked, "What's the situation?"
Shen Liuxue smiled, "I'm fine now." She had just tasted some milk. As expected of a regular psychic team nurse, except for the expended psychic powers that hadn't recovered yet, her condition was essentially refreshed.
It floated strangely in the air, staring coldly at the ground below, with purple energy tentacles waving behind it.
"Don't use up too much of your superpowers at once. Our goal is just to delay time! Your students' mission is to protect yourselves!"
"Time? Hehehe, it's useless to delay any longer. You might as well surrender and become my food." Weirdly, like a human girl, held her cheeks with both hands, complaining and threatening: "Really? I've been playing with you for so long, and you're still not satisfied. Let's get serious from now on."
With that, the tentacles swung. One team member, caught between two summons and struck by them, had no time to dodge. Translucent tentacles swept through his body, and the protective device on his helmet emitted a piercing alarm, followed by a puff of smoke. The man lost consciousness on the spot. His teammates hurriedly pulled him up, but no matter how hard they shook him, they couldn't wake him up. Instead, inexplicable wounds appeared on his body.
As more and more people fell victim, Wilde once again erected his barrier. However, this time the energy wasn't sufficient, and it only lasted a short while before collapsing.
Being forced into a nightmare in this situation is a fatal blow.
"Looks like we're going to die here today." Lin Chengjie let out a bitter smile. The team's nurse had lost consciousness and could no longer provide treatment. Lin Chengjie didn't care much about his wild fighting style, and even though he had tried to control it, he still suffered injuries from the strange and fierce attack. "You four, run back. I've calculated that the entrance is at 8 o'clock in the back. Once we're dead and there are not enough people in the strange domain, it will automatically open. You can rush out from there when the time is right."
"No! How can we survive by stepping on the corpses of our companions!" Zhu Changan spoke hurriedly.
Lin Chengjie smiled. "You're students. We can't let these immature seedlings die here. You have a bright future ahead of you... and we didn't even know each other before, so how can we be called companions?"
Yes, even though they didn’t know each other before, they were willing to risk their lives to give a stranger a chance to survive.
"We are the same. Don't underestimate us." Mo Xuanji looked him in the eyes: "Instead of sacrificing our companions, we should give it a try."
It's human instinct to risk everything to survive in a life-or-death situation, and no one would blame them even if they did. But like Zhu Chang'an, Mo Xuanji wouldn't even think about or want to do such a thing. For him, it would be more painful than death.
Shen Liuxue gritted her teeth, tore a piece of cloth from her clothes, and tied the hilt of the sword to her hand. She came to Zhu Changan, her eyes fixed on the strange crystal in his abdomen: "Changan, you are strong, can you throw me up?"
The strange thing was floating in the sky. The only ones that still had the ability to attack, except Mo Xuanji, were almost all melee fighters. Conventional attacks could not hit it at all.
Zhu Changan reacted quickly and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
"Xuan Ji!"
It floated strangely in mid-air, its tentacles waving as it attacked the "snacks" below. It was already growing annoyed, thinking: "Let's just end this quickly and drag everyone into this nightmare and eat them." The master would be inspecting soon, and it absolutely couldn't give him the impression that it wasn't doing its job well.
Just as it was about to unleash its next skill, a sudden gust of wind blew up from the strange domain, sweeping a cloud of sand and dust all over its face, momentarily blinding it. The wind blades attacking from all directions gave it a headache, but it wasn't a big deal. With a wave of its tentacles, they were swept away cleanly.
"That's it?" Guiyi said with some disdain.
However, the next second, Shen Liuxue’s voice appeared behind it, with a biting chill: “That’s it!”
With the help of Zhu Changan, Shen Liuxue jumped high, injected all her supernatural powers into the spiritual sword in her hand, aimed at the strange crystal and launched her strongest attack.
Weird reacted quickly, dodging swiftly. Even so, a small corner of the crystal, along with one of its legs, was cut off. The pain and chill of the damaged origin caused it to freeze for a few seconds. After launching this attack, Shen Liuxue fell like a kite with a broken string.
"Good boy, catch the little girl! I'll finish her off!" Lin Chengjie imitated Shen Liuxue's previous move and jumped onto Zhu Changan's hand. He felt a huge force coming from under his feet, and the next second he shot up like a rocket. When he reached that height, he decisively turned around and swung his sword.
Zhu Changan caught the falling Shen Liuxue. He stumbled forward a few steps, but managed to hold on and not fall. Shen Liuxue panted and wanted to give him a thumbs up, but at this moment, she couldn't even move a finger, so she could only force a smile: "Well done."
Lin Chengjie's knife struck the center of the strange Origin Crystal, and several cracks appeared on the purple crystal. The cracks spread throughout the crystal, and it seemed that it would shatter in the next second.
But, there were only a few cracks.
Lin Chengjie's expression froze. A tentacle accurately swept across him.
“Uncle!”
"Well, I really underestimated you." The strange creature was still floating in the air. Its face was gloomy, and its tentacles behind it were waving wildly. "It's just a bunch of ants!"
The strange crystal suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and the ground began to shake violently.
"What, what's going on!" Zhu Changan felt himself being lifted up like a spoon, and then fell heavily to the ground, unable to get up for several seconds.
"Give it to me, all of you! Die here!" This move almost hurt the enemy a thousand times while hurting yourself eight hundred times. The strange domain was greatly damaged, and the strangeness that was integrated with it was not feeling well at this time.
As the strange sound fell, the ground instantly cracked. A scorching breath surged up from the cracks. The gaps between the blocks of land became larger and larger. Zhu Changan finally saw what was hidden under the ground. He quickly carried Shen Liuxue and rushed to the relatively intact platform.
Beneath the crack is boiling magma.
Another strong tremor struck, and Zhu Changan was sent flying as soon as he stepped onto the platform. The perspective shifted, and Zhu Changan froze for a moment before realizing he was already in mid-air, with a crack beneath his feet. A second before falling, he flung Shen Liuxue onto the platform with all his might.
Mo Xuanji's vision went dark. The large-scale manipulation of his supernatural powers had already exhausted him. He looked up and saw Zhu Changan falling into the crack in the ground.
Deep in his mind, there seemed to be a figure that overlapped with Zhu Changan in front of him.
Without time to think, his body instinctively rushed forward. The black figure chased the yellow light and fell rapidly downward. At the critical moment, Mo Xuanji finally grabbed Zhu Changan's arm. He pulled out the knife he carried with him and stuck it in the crevice of the rock to slow the momentum of his fall.
When the two finally stopped, the boiling lava almost collapsed on them.
Zhu Changan was completely terrified, trembling and unable to utter a single word. Mo Xuanji felt as if both of her arms were about to break.
"Changan, are you still conscious?"
"Yes," Zhu Chang'an feigned composure. He looked around, trying to find a foothold to relieve Mo Xuanji's pressure. However, there was nowhere to land. The surface of the broken piece was almost flat, and he couldn't even get a firm grip.
"I'll throw you up." Mo Xuanji said.
"What are you going to do?"
Mo Xuanji paused for a moment and said, "It's okay, I can still control the wind."
Without waiting for Zhu Changan to reply, Mo Xuanji used all her strength to throw Zhu Changan upwards. However, this did not allow Zhu Changan to reach the ground. When Zhu Changan felt the wind beneath him supporting him, he finally collapsed and shouted loudly: "Xuanji?!"
This is clearly Yufeng! Xuanji's Yufeng has a cooldown time!
Seeing Zhu Chang'an safely reach the surface, Mo Xuanji smiled heartily. Well, at least someone had been saved. The only problem was... the system might have to find its next host.
My grandmother always said that if you live a lifetime, you must die meaningfully and gloriously.
Mo Xuanji is actually not afraid of death. In his opinion, this is the end that all living beings will face.
"But after I die, will grandma be sad..."
His physical strength had reached its limit, Mo Xuanji let go of his hands and let his body fall downwards.
"Xuan Ji!" someone shouted.
The next second before losing consciousness, Mo Xuanji sensed the presence of the vest.
Yuheng opened his eyes, and his empty eyes gradually regained their spirit.
"I've caught up! Hurry up! Mobilize the energy in your body and recite the mantra with me!" It's the system.
Zhu Changan slapped the ground anxiously. His companion was about to die! And he was powerless to do anything!
"Hurry up! Why can't my superpowers be used at this time? Please! Please! Help me!"
What should I do! What should I do! Is there really no other solution?
Outside, everyone was sweating coldly.
"It's been five hours." Director Liu paced back and forth.
The entrance was only barely opened to a gap the size of a palm, and it was simply a pipe dream to try to squeeze someone in.
"Can it get any bigger?"
"It'll take some time! We're already rushing!" Not to mention the research team, even the combatants have gone over to help. But the efficiency is still low.
SS-level weirdness was rare. They often cracked S-level weirdness, but with this high-risk weirdness, even one level difference was a world of difference. The S-level experience could only be used as a reference. Their current technology was not able to quickly crack SS-level weirdness.
"It will take some time, but can the people inside hold out for that long?"
Just when everyone was at a loss, a stream of fiery red light flew from a distance and without hesitation penetrated into the strange domain through the gap.
"Did something just flash by?"
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