Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Chapter 397 Full Alert, Preparing for Public Beta!
Qinglong spoke in a low voice, as if he were talking to someone face to face.

But he knew the other person could hear him.

Because this is not just a greeting, but a warning with a threatening element.

After all, to be precise, the [public beta] hasn't started yet. Even if it's only a day's difference, the wall between the myriad world instances in the Spirit Disaster and reality should still be an insurmountable chasm.

Even someone of the Venerable One, Chaos, shouldn't have broken through it.

It seems the other party paid a tremendous price to achieve this.

But why?

Clearly, if we wait another day, that insurmountable barrier will become at its weakest, almost non-existent for the Venerable One. Why must we make it a reality at this time at such a high cost?
Even if He were to come, He would be severely restricted in reality, as if He were stuck in a quagmire and unable to move. Why bother?

Yes, don't be fooled by the fact that the current chaos has caused global anomalies. In reality, it has not yet truly arrived in reality. It is still in the stage of crossing that insurmountable barrier and is being restricted to an exaggerated degree.

"..."

But they faced the Azure Dragon's warning.

But there was no response.

He couldn't help but frown.

He then glanced at the broken lines in the sky, which had expanded outwards to the horizon.

Qinglong stood at the edge of the building and took a step forward.

hum-

He stood before nothing in front of him.

He seemed to be standing on a plain with an invisible stairway to godhood beneath his feet, allowing the Azure Dragon to easily approach the shattered sky.

Each step he took propelled his figure a great distance, seemingly like Wu Wang's [Seven Star Steps of Heaven] shrinking the earth to an inch, but more like traversing countless spaces and arriving at the edge of the false sky in the blink of an eye.

Such a miraculous phenomenon.

Furthermore, since Qinglong did not deliberately conceal his whereabouts, it naturally attracted the attention of many people in the capital to this powerful figure who stood at the pinnacle of the Spirit Disaster players.

"Mom...I think I saw a fairy."

"God! Help me get to shore!"

"The world is about to end and you're still going to the market?! Are you really here to take the postgraduate entrance exam, civil service exam, and exam for the last job in the universe?"

"Is this the legendary immortal in the mortal world...?"

"It's a pity that such a powerful person was born in China!"

"You're not even going to pretend anymore, President? Are you really sure that our Tarot Association, along with the Tower of Order next door and the Bureau of Extraordinary Events, are considered the three giants of spiritual disasters?"

"That bastard! He didn't even let me know he was coming back to reality?! I was worried about whether the open beta would affect the Abyss! And here he is, having fun?!"

"..."

Many people recorded the scene of the Azure Dragon ascending and approaching the curtain of the sky and posted it online. Coupled with the astonishing moment when the sword light shattered the sky, people all over the world started discussing it.

There was the worship of ordinary people, the shock of domestic players of the Necromancer's Retribution, the envy of foreign players of the Necromancer's Retribution, and the anger of a certain witch.

In an instant, at the top of another extraordinary building in the capital, also obscured by cognitive impairment.

A dazzling beam of light, carrying countless stars, soared into the sky, its exact form impossible to capture even with the most professional cameras.

Only a faint silhouette of a beautiful woman wearing a wizard's hat remained, as she sat gracefully on a magic broom reminiscent of an anime scene and disappeared into the horizon.

Wherever she passed, the false twilight was replaced by the stars of the polar night.

The light had clearly become darker.

However, people's anxiety and fear of impending chaos gradually subsided.

Order has once again taken the lead over reason.

When the beautiful woman appeared beside that mortal immortal, she glared at him fiercely.

He muttered, "I'll settle the score with you after this is all over... Where's that money-grubbing fake scholar?"

Azure Dragon's gaze never left the Outer Heavens. He said calmly, "You shouldn't have come. Something's not right with the Chaos. It's dangerous for you to come here rashly as the representative of Order."

Will you protect me?

It's likely that none of the members of the Tarot Club have ever heard their president say such a thing in their lives.

The witch who usually seemed invincible and looked down on everyone was now just a woman named Ye Shihui.

Qinglong remained silent for half a second.

Even if he knew that the witch's true power would be more than enough to protect herself in the face of this greatly restricted Venerable in reality.

But he still nodded seriously and said:

"as always."

At this moment, Qin Shusheng, who was inside the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs below, calculated the time with his fingers.

He figured the young couple upstairs must have met by now, so he took out a jade-carved calligraphy brush from his backpack.

Raising an eyebrow, he asked Wu Wang, "How close do you think the Azure Dragon is to the level of a god?"

[Chaos] The Venerable One is about to arrive.

However, the Azure Dragon was able to issue a warning to the other party.

Clearly, he was confident that he could stand up to the Venerable One without being at a disadvantage.

Upon hearing this question, Wu Wang shrugged and said, "I don't know how close he is to a god, but he seems to be quite far from being human."

Qin Shusheng did not offer any further opinions, but simply picked up his brush and painted a traditional Chinese ink painting in front of him, which appeared on the corridor floor.

The painting depicts a shattered sky and two blurry human figures.

He lifted his leg and stepped toward the ink painting.

He asked, "Together?"

Wu Wang immediately shook his head in refusal.

Are you kidding me, buddy?!

Is that a place I can go now?
When the time comes, the Chaos will be on high alert at the sight of the Azure Dragon; they will regard the Ash Witch as a formidable enemy; and they will be on par with you, the scholar.

When I got to this place, I looked closely—

【The only designated soft persimmon】

Wouldn't I have given it away for nothing?
Seeing Yan Shuangying's decisive refusal, Qin Shusheng didn't say much and walked into the ink painting on his own, becoming the third blurry figure.

The ink painting quietly disappeared into the corridor.

The three exchanged a glance before the sky shattered.

Together we stepped into that outer heaven.

No one knows what the three of them will face, and no one knows if the sun will ever rise again.

In this state of anxiety and unease.

Fortunately, the witch planted the seeds of order before she left, which prevented society from falling into panic and chaos.

Her "order" not only affects the capital, but also quickly calms people across the country through human-to-human transmission.

Wu Wang and Wu Xiaoyou naturally lost interest in continuing their tour of the Bureau of Strange Events.

But there's nothing they can do now.

They could only return to the villa with Xiaoxiao and wait for the three people who had gone to confront the chaotic phenomena to bring back good news.

It's unclear whether there are any other players facing the Calamity alongside those three.

At least in Wu Wang's mind, both the fortune teller and the madwoman from the Pluto Research Institute should have the ability to get involved in that battlefield.

It's just that it's definitely not as exaggerated as the Azure Dragon's ability to directly warn the Venerable One.

There is also the tower master of another large organization, the Tower of Order, who should logically appear after the Outer Heavens.

After all, both the Azure Dragon and the Witch went.

If he doesn't show up and go.

Isn't it obvious that it's inferior to the Bureau of Extraordinary Events and the Tarot Society? I'm afraid the prestige of the Tower of Order will be greatly affected.

"Alright, anyway, it's not a situation we can control. Let's just eat and drink as usual and not take it to heart."

Wu Wang looked at Xiao Xiao, who was pacing back and forth with a worried expression, in the living room of the villa and tried to comfort her.

I grabbed a bottle of Coke from the fridge.

However, this is not something that can be calmed down with just a few words.

Xiao Xiao couldn't help but sigh, "Sigh... It was already nerve-wracking with only one day left until the public beta, and now this has happened. The future looks bleak no matter how you look at it." *Pfft*

The Coke can made a pleasant sound when it was opened.

Wu Wang gulped down two large mouthfuls.

He shook his head and said, "Internal strife is truly a heinous crime! Let me teach you a formula to avoid internal strife—"

"Is what you encountered considered a problem?"

"If it doesn't count, then what are you worried about?"

"If it's a question, can you handle it? If you can, then what are you worried about?"

"If it can't be solved, well, it's definitely going to be solved anyway, so just wait to die. What's there to worry about? Let's fast forward to—so what are you worried about?"

"In short, there's nothing to worry about when problems arise!"

After hearing this, Xiaoxiao seemed to have a mental breakdown.

I feel like something's not right.

But she couldn't explain it.

He could only look helplessly at Wu Xiaoyou, who was also eating potato chips next to him, and asked with a twitching mouth, "Did you teach him this kind of abstract logic?"

Wu Xiaoyou shook her head in denial.

He smacked his lips into two potato chips and said earnestly, "He taught me this logic too."

"I think that makes a lot of sense!"

They truly are siblings, aren't they?

Xiao Xiao went upstairs with a dark face, intending to call her father and talk about her visit to the Bureau of Extraordinary Events today.

But after the two siblings interrupted her, her anxiety was inexplicably relieved.

They began to wait silently for news.

Like everyone else in the world.

Everyone could only wait helplessly.

Every now and then, I would gaze at the sky frozen in the twilight, where countless stars intertwined.

Hopefully, it will bring about new changes.

But there's also the fear that its changes will be devastating and apocalyptic, turning this anxiety into despair.

In this contradictory state of mind.

The sky gradually darkened.

Several hours after Qinglong and his group went to the Outer Heavens, the edge of the sky above the capital city, shattered by their attack, was finally revealed under the watchful eyes of the world.

Several figures reappeared.

They're back!
And not a single one was missing!

Even though no news has been released yet, it still brings hope to people all over the world.

After all, the fact that all members can return already signifies a lot.

Moments later, the Bureau of Extraordinary Events, in conjunction with the Tarot Society, issued a joint announcement to the world—

The public beta test will proceed as scheduled! The exact time is confirmed to be noon!

The unusual phenomena in the sky today are merely a sign of the upcoming public beta test and will not cause any real harm to humans.

It's like telling everyone—just treat this eerie sunset as God changing the wallpaper.

People all over the world can calm down and prepare for the public beta test.

After all, very few people knew that this change came from the [Chaos] Venerable. For most humans, it was simply a matter of fear of this unknown anomaly.

Now that they have the endorsement of the Bureau of Extraordinary Events and the Tarot Society, they feel at ease.

However, those who know the truth are very clear—

Things are definitely not that simple!
Wu Wang sent a message to Qinglong almost immediately after he returned to the Bureau of Strange Affairs, hoping to get the final answer.

But no reply was received despite waiting for a long time.

In the end, they received new information from Qin Shusheng instead.

"[Chaos] has gone wrong."

"He lost something and became more primitive and disordered, even though His very existence is difficult to explain by common sense."

"But now He is no longer like a Venerable One; rather, He seems to represent only the law of [chaos], indulging in instinct and polluting everything."

"Because the real world is about to usher in the [public beta], as the first and most appropriate law for humanity, [chaos] is attracted and is willing to crash into the insurmountable barrier and get bloodied in order to taste a bit of honey."

"If we allow Him to continue destroying Himself like this, it may even lead to His demise shortly after the [Public Beta] begins."

Upon hearing this, Wu Wang subconsciously asked:

"Isn't this a good thing?"

The absence of one more Venerable One means one less threat to humanity!

If [Lord of the Desire Sea] were to die now, Wu Wang would definitely be the first to jump up and applaud, and might even set off fireworks to celebrate.

Of course, he only rambled on about this idea in the real world.

Cursing after entering the instance world.

He can hear.

But Qin Shusheng denied it in an extremely serious tone: "You are wrong. The fall of a Venerable One will mean that humanity will face an even more difficult situation."

"Because other venerable beings will be eager to devour the laws and authority He lost after His fall."

"You can probably imagine that once they reach the Venerable level, they can hardly go any further, but once they do, it will be a qualitative change."

"Even the Azure Dragon wouldn't dare guarantee that he could fight against a Venerable who has undergone a qualitative change, let alone that there are four such beings."

"Therefore, we absolutely cannot afford any unexpected events during [Chaos]!"

This explanation left Wu Wang somewhat taken aback.

But he also has a quick comprehension ability.

He immediately understood the logical relationship between them, and based on the reason why Qinglong had not replied, he vaguely guessed what the other party was busy with.

Azure Dragon now—

Protecting [Chaos]!
This sounds absolutely unbelievable.

Even Wu Wang felt that this world was too magical.

"By the way, I sold this information to the Tower of Order at a high price. Considering our friendship, I'll sell it to you at half price, how about 200,000 Calamity Coins?"

Let's see what Qin Shusheng sends next.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Wang closed the chat window in his friends list, completely ignoring Qin Shusheng's incessant messages demanding repayment and his insults about his freeloading behavior.

What do you mean by "sell to me"?
Isn't this information that I obtained by chance?

Just then, Xiaoxiao came downstairs looking relaxed, waving a glass of red wine in her hand to celebrate that she could live another day. She even asked Wu Wang if he wanted a drink.

She opened a very expensive bottle of wine.

Unexpectedly, Wu Wang's eyes darted around, and then he said mysteriously, "Xiao Xiao, do you know the Venerable One?"

“I have very important information here, concerning His Holiness and today’s vision.”

How about I sell it to you at a low price?

While having fun, Wu Wang was also pondering another issue revealed by Qin Shusheng.

The information about the Tower of Order was actually bought!?
In other words, their tower master really did not appear in the previous study of the strange phenomena?

That's strange, it shouldn't be like this!

Thinking of this, another familiar face suddenly came to Wu Wang's mind.

So he popped up a message in his friends list and asked, "Know-it-all, I have some information that I think is quite valuable. I'd like to exchange it with you for some information about the Tower of Order. How about it?"

Of course, Wu Wang was only somewhat curious about the Tower of Order.

In any case, today's strange phenomenon did not cause any further chaos.

People are still anticipating, fearing, hoping, and yearning for tomorrow's public beta test.

This moment is also approaching...

(End of this chapter)