Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 331 Mission Incomplete
A magnificent energy shockwave erupted from the muzzle of the Romantic Fortress.

The beam of light grew larger and larger, like a cone-shaped hammer, starting from the giant python's neck and sweeping across its ten-thousand-meter-long body. The extraordinary body composed of underworld water was instantly shattered into powder by the mental shockwave, and then burned to ashes in the next instant.

The aftershocks swept across this hellish realm once more.

A bottomless pit was carved out in the middle of the nine rivers of the underworld.

"So this is what gods are like."

Xiangzi stood leaning on his rifle.

His eyes and ears were covered in blood, and steam was rising from his head.

Her mental energy was exhausted when she was controlling a massive amount of energy. If it weren't for her abundant true essence and the extraordinary potential of this new body, she would have died from mental exhaustion long ago.

After the blood cloud became water without a source, it was quickly shattered by Mei, who then flew to Shoko's side.

"Don't push yourself, take a good rest."

"No, I can't faint now." Xiangzi said, forcing himself to stay awake. "A huge change has occurred in this world... The upheaval began at the lowest level. We need to find the characters in the story as soon as possible and go as far up as possible so that the captain has more time to rescue us."

She had given the True Knowledge Crystal to two aspiring veterans when she parted ways with the newcomers to prevent this from happening.

Using the connection between the two True Knowledge Crystals, she can use her mental power to contact others and pinpoint the location of the newcomers in the fog of hell.

"Because of that attack just now? But an attack of that magnitude shouldn't be enough to shatter this space, right?" Mei asked, somewhat surprised.

Xiangzi's lips twitched slightly: "We're not the only ones fighting!"

Mei immediately understood: "Did the captain defeat Quetzalcoatl?"

"In this light, it is no coincidence that Quetzalcoatl intercepted us in this level of hell... its attack on us was its death throes."

She dared not waste a single second any longer and quickly flew downwards with Xiangzi, whose mental energy was exhausted.

As for Tifa, whose flight speed was slightly slower, he led Bing'er upwards.

They are now racing against death.

Even lower.

A group of newcomers trembled and drifted along, unable to interfere in the battles of the veterans, just as the veterans could not interfere in the battles of their captain.

If they stayed there, even the aftershocks would kill them.

I do not know how long it has been.

Chaos suddenly broke out outside the ferry as countless ferocious beasts with immense power swept past it.

Every now and then, flying snakes would leap onto the boat.

Fortunately, the two near-senior level cultivators were not weak. After transforming into dragon-human bodies, the Gondorian weapons in their hands, infused with battle aura, were very powerful, easily slaying these flying serpent souls.

When newcomers or characters in the story encounter danger, they will spread their dragon wings and use them as weapons.

Faced with the endless stream of raging souls, the two relatively inexperienced near-veteran players were somewhat flustered and unsure of what to do.

There were too many undead creatures around the ferry, so they dared not use powerful weapons. If countless undead creatures attacked, everyone would die quickly.

In this situation, the two could only carefully maneuver the ferry to avoid the monsters; at the same time, they transformed into dragon-human forms and used their fighting spirit to engage in close combat.

The lifespan of their fighting spirit is very poor. The powerful vitality granted by their dragon-human bodies only allows them to fight for a few hours while in a state of bursting fighting spirit, and even then, it cannot be a high-intensity battle.

Once their fighting spirit was almost completely depleted, the two of them could only hide inside the mechs to protect themselves, and could no longer protect the others on the ship.

After half an hour.

The two near-senior level cultivators, whose battle qi had been nearly half depleted, exchanged a glance.

They all stood beside the characters in the story, focusing most of their energy on protecting the male and female leads of this horror film.

—The characters in the story are crucial to whether the mission can be completed and whether all members of the East Sea Team can return to the Main God Space. As for the newcomers, if one batch dies, there will be another.

Their remaining strength was only enough for each of them to protect one more person.

As for the newcomers and other characters in the story besides the male and female leads... if there's time, we'll take care of them a little; if not, then we can only let them fend for themselves.

Not long after.

Taking advantage of the moment when the two were protecting the male and female protagonists, a small snake more than two meters long flew over the defense line and silently slithered into the cabin where the newlyweds were hiding.

It only took a small sip.

One of the newlyweds, who was leaning against the wall, immediately turned blue and collapsed, completely powerless.

It was as if all his energy and spirit had been absorbed by that little python.

The next moment, a ghostly spirit emerged from the woman's body. The little snake gently sucked the spirit into its belly, and its body rapidly grew, almost doubling in length.

At the same time, it gazed greedily at the other newcomers.

The gaze carried an intense mental pressure, filling the few surviving newcomers with immense fear. However, they dared not run away, nor did they dare to ask the veterans for help. They could only tremble and hide in the corner of the cabin.

"Are these undead creatures... really that strong?"

The newcomer, Matsuoka Jinxiao, was trembling.

During this time, he roughly learned that there are three levels among the seniors. The two seniors currently on the ship are the weakest among the seniors. According to them, they have hardly been strengthened and are no match for the three real seniors.

But those two self-proclaimed weak seniors slicing through countless undead creatures with ease, including giant pythons hundreds of meters long, eels that unleash hidden lightning, ferocious-looking crocodiles, and jaguars that move like the wind... all were killed with a single sword strike by those two seniors.

Matsuoka Jintaka initially thought that the undead creatures were too weak.

But now, a fish that slipped through the net made him feel crushed on a spiritual level...

He gripped the dagger the captain had given him tightly.

A thin, shimmering line extended from the dagger to his body, and a slight electric current stimulated the area covered by the line, which greatly invigorated Matsuoka Jintaka.

"Move... I can kill this python..." Matsuoka Jintaka roared inwardly, but his steps became extremely heavy under the python's mental pressure, and he couldn't take a step.

The little python surveyed the cabin.

His pupils contracted slightly as his gaze swept over Matsuoka Hitotaka, before he finally crawled toward the police rookie furthest from Matsuoka Hitotaka.

The snake coiled around the grown man, and soon his entire body turned purplish-blue.

"Ah~"

Matsuoka Jintaka roared furiously, as if in a madman, and slammed into the wall... He underestimated his strength at that moment.

This clumsy movement caused Matsuoka Jintaka to land right on top of the python and the newlyweds. The energy layer surrounding him crackled like an electric mosquito swatter after his soul came into contact with the python's.

The python's soul struggled desperately.

That energy layer caused it great pain and was constantly draining its soul power.

Matsuoka Jinxiao had no other thoughts but to kill the evil creature in front of him that was killing people and devouring souls.

One hand held the python's body, their bodies intertwined; the other held a dagger, frantically stabbing it into the python's soul.

After a while.

The python that was devouring life turned into a cloud of black smoke.

The young newcomer was panting heavily until he heard the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind, at which point he finally came to his senses.

He crouched down and found that the police rookie's body temperature had turned ice-cold. Although his 'comrade's' soul had not been sucked away by the giant python, the loss of his life force had also caused his death.

Matsuoka Jintaka pursed his lips.

The boy felt a pang of guilt; if he had rushed out sooner, perhaps his companion wouldn't have been killed by the python.

His shouts and the sounds of battle alerted two near-veteran players not far away.

Nan Yelin unleashed her fighting spirit once more, sweeping away the three giant pythons that were about to fly into the ferry. Recalling her experience of fighting alone in the Underworld, she took advantage of a few seconds of free time to shout loudly to the newcomers: "Don't be afraid! The more afraid you are, the more obvious we will be in the spiritual vision of these beasts, and the stronger they will be when they attack us!"

Matsuoka Jintaka knew that this senior was passing on his experience to him.

After taking a deep breath, he gritted his teeth and stood guard at the cabin door.

"While the seniors are protecting the entire ship, I'll guard the small cabin for the other, weaker companions... These are just a few monsters that the two seniors let slip through, I think I can handle them!"

After a while.

Matsuoka Jintaka noticed that the two seniors had stopped moving.

The number of monsters attacking the ferry has also decreased significantly.

—The two veterans have figured out why the spirits of those beasts are rampaging…

The world is collapsing!
The hazy fog, the spirits of wild beasts, the mountains and rivers of the underworld... everything is being swallowed by the void of nothingness, turning into nothingness.

That nothingness was still spreading rapidly.

It won't be long before we arrive at this area.

At this distance, the ferry has begun to experience an attractive force and is accelerating its descent into nothingness.

"run!"

Yoichi Sato reacted the fastest, shouting a warning: "Get off the ship and run back the way we came!"

He quickly activated the mecha's flight mode, grabbed a character in each hand, and flew at full speed into the sky, disappearing from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.

Minamino Rin slowed down a bit.

After a moment's hesitation, she grabbed the cameraman from the storyline with one hand, then swept across the cabin where the newlyweds were, and snatched Matsuoka Hitotaka who was guarding the door.

"Senior...aren't you going to ignore the others?" Matsuoka Jintaka asked anxiously.

After taking flight, he also noticed the huge black hole, where the ferry was spinning and falling.

Unbeknownst to him, the others had already escaped the ferry in the fog.

But without the ferry's protection, the group was soon run into by the fleeing spirits.

It was just a scratch, but it caused them to lose their energy and spirit.

In just a moment, the two newcomers also turned into cold, hard corpses.

"That's too late."

Nan Yelin was so anxious that she burst into tears. The mecha was very fast. Even with two burdens and having to take care of these two burdens, the speed was still several times the speed of sound. However, the speed at which the void spread was faster than the speed at which she was flying.

She was still accelerating.

But the rate at which the void is spreading is also increasing, and the acceleration is even faster.

"We ourselves may not even survive."

The soon-to-be senior shouted into the communication headset: "I was able to get you in time because you were standing at the cabin door, so I didn't have to waste too much time. If you were hiding inside the cabin, I wouldn't waste those precious fractions of a second."

soon.

The ferry has disappeared into the void.

Matsuoka Jintaka stared palely at the small boat, which was torn apart by the distorted spacetime force just before it entered the void. The fragments then vanished into nothingness in the void, as if erased by an eraser.

The distorted spacetime force was getting closer and closer to them.

The boy's perception was clear, and the experienced woman was still accelerating. She could no longer worry about whether the two ordinary people she was with could withstand that acceleration.

In fact, the boy wouldn't be surprised if the experienced woman gave up on these two burdens.

In such an apocalyptic world where everything seems to collapse, it is not shameful to do everything in your power to protect yourself.

Just as the void was a fraction of a second away from them, the young man whispered, "Senior, abandon me. If you continue to carry us... we'll all die."

"It's not time yet..."

"Nanye Lin said through gritted teeth."

"Almost there... We'll be at the entrance to the next level soon. If you seniors can defeat that monster, we'll soon receive your support; if you fail to defeat it, I'll be doomed if I try to escape there alone."

"Your thinking is very clear." Xiangzi's mental energy connected with Nanye Lin's consciousness.

Instantly, an energy layer appeared around the three of them, and their speed increased even more.

"My telekinetic abilities haven't fully recovered, but I can barely provide you with some support at this distance."

"Unfortunately... once the void expands to a certain extent, its expansion speed will exceed my limit. I hope Captain can rescue us as soon as possible..."

at this time.

A large golden hand swept across the area and grabbed the crowd who were expressing their feelings.

—A helping hand from the real world has finally arrived.

When the group opened their eyes, the scene had already changed.

Upon sensing the familiar presence, Xiangzi immediately closed her eyes and fainted.

She has been mentally exhausted for too long. If she doesn't rest soon, the probability of dying from mental exhaustion will increase dramatically.

"Are we back in the real world?" Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

Most of the main characters in the story died.

But the three survivors include the director, cameraman, and team leader, so overall, they can continue filming the documentary.

Only one of the newcomers survived.

None of the veterans were injured.

She and Xiangzi didn't do perfectly in the safer underworld. Although they didn't make any major mistakes in their decisions, the final result was not ideal.

Fortunately, this result is barely considered acceptable.

After looking around, she asked, "Is this planet with such a harsh environment Mercury?"

The planet's internal temperature is extremely high, roughly several hundred degrees Celsius, and lava flows beneath one's feet.

Toxic gases permeated the air.

If Xu Feng hadn't created a sanctuary, the surrounding environment alone would have killed most people.

"Did the captain fly close to the sun before defeating Quetzalcoatl?"

The little witch knew that her captain would be stronger near the sun.

Xu Feng coughed lightly: "This is Earth."

The reincarnators opened their mouths, so... this is why there are so many souls in the underworld?
The battle between the captain and Quetzalcoatl has turned Earth into this mess?!

"Actually, the problem now is... we haven't completed the mission yet, the documentary hasn't been filmed, and the main god hasn't given us any new ways to pass the level."

Xu Feng sighed.

This is troublesome; the underworld will be completely destroyed, and Earth will be like this again.

It's impossible to film a documentary like that.

Xu Feng originally planned to have the characters film their experiences in the underworld, but he won too quickly, and the nine levels of hell were not finished filming... It seems that the main god does not recognize this unfinished filming as a documentary.

"If I had known, I should have held back a little during the battle and delayed the fight a bit longer."

(End of this chapter)