Livestreaming Forbidden Zone: Starting with a Qilin Tattoo Terrifies the Entire Internet

boom!

A dark shadow fell from a height of 10,000 meters.

There was no deceleration parachute.

Like a human-shaped meteorite, it smashed through the modern glass dome of the Sanxingdui Museum.

The tempered glass shattered into countless ice crystals.

"Thump—"

A muffled thud shook the entire exhibition hall floor.

Smoke and dust rose everywhere.

The alarm wailed shrilly, and the red warning lights made the place look like a disco.

The smoke and dust cleared.

Jiang Han knelt on one knee, supporting himself with one hand on the ground.

The hard marble floor, centered on his palm, cracked with a spiderweb-like pattern.

He slowly stood up and patted the shards of glass off his shoulder.

"Everyone, we've arrived at our destination."

He spoke to the "Sky Eye" drone hovering in mid-air, his tone as indifferent as if he were saying "I'm off work."

The chat room was buzzing with excitement.

"Holy crap! Are you made of iron, streamer?"

"This is Sanxingdui! Jiang Shen, you're trespassing!"

"Hey upstairs, didn't you see the news? This place was sealed off half an hour ago because of a 'biohazard'."

"What the hell is this biological leak? I think it's some kind of artifact that's come to life?"

"Little sister, what do you think about using one of these to hold milk? No, no, I'm sorry, my thigh muscles!! Drinking more won't help! It'll still be stuck at the airport!!!"

"Upstairs, you seem to have said something incredible!"

Jiang Han ignored the comments.

He looked up and glanced around.

This is the new museum of Sanxingdui, which should have been a popular spot for tourists to take photos.

but now!

It was so quiet it made your eardrums ache.

Instead of the airy smell of a museum with its constant temperature and air conditioning, there was a pervasive... bloody smell.

It's very strong.

It's like the smell of throwing a ton of rusty scrap iron and a ton of rotten pork into a blender and grinding them up.

Jiang Han frowned. "This taste is not right."

He strode forward, his military boots crunching on the shards of glass.

The artifacts in the display case are still there.

The bronze masks flickered in and out under the red alarm lights.

Their eyes, with their exaggeratedly wide gazes, seemed to be fixed on this uninvited guest.

Jiang Han walked up to a huge bronze standing statue. The statue was 2.6 meters tall, with its hands clenched as if holding something.

But now, its hands are empty.

"Empty?" Jiang Han narrowed his eyes.

He remembered clearly that the information said this thing might have originally been holding ivory or a scepter.

But now, something is dripping from that loosely clenched palm.

Tick.

Tick.

The black, viscous liquid was disgusting! It fell to the ground and emitted a wisp of blue smoke.

Jiang Han leaned closer for a look.

That's not oil! That's blood! It's blackened, spoiled blood mixed with a lot of rust.

"This thing... is it alive?" Jiang Han's fingers pressed on the hilt of the knife.

Just then.

"Crunch—"

A metallic scraping sound came from behind him.

Jiang Han turned around abruptly.

In a corner of the once empty exhibition hall, several figures suddenly appeared.

They were wearing security guard uniforms, but their postures were extremely strange.

Some had their arms twisted in reverse, while others had their heads tilted to the side.

They were holding batons, but the batons had become fused to their hands.

The rust from the metal spread down the baton to the arm, turning the skin a bluish-gray.

It's just like......

A living person was cast into bronze.

"roar--"

The lead security guard let out a hissing sound, like metal scraping.

Its face is gone. Now it's a bronze mask.

The mask was embedded directly in the flesh, and the edges still showed rolled-up flesh and dried blood.

[Ding! System notification.]

[Biomutant detected: Bronze Corpse Puppet.]

[Danger Level: A]

[Weakness: Cervical vertebrae.]

"So this is what a 'biological leak' is." Jiang Han sneered.

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes."

"Since you're dead, don't come out and scare people."

Before the words were even finished, the bronze corpse puppets had already rushed over. They were incredibly fast!

Although their joints are stiff, each push they make shatter the marble floor. They're like out-of-control tanks.

"Clang!" Jiang Han did not back down.

The black gold ancient sword was drawn, its blade flashing like a black lightning bolt, tracing an arc in the dimly lit exhibition hall.

The corpse puppet at the very front suddenly froze.

A thin line appeared on its neck.

next second.

The head wearing the bronze mask rolled off with a gurgling sound.

There was no blood spurting from the cut.

Only clumps of mercury-like liquid slowly flowed out.

"Clang—"

His head slammed into the ground, making a metallic clanging sound.

The remaining corpse puppets showed no fear.

They have no sense of pain, no reason, only the instinct to kill.

They brandished batons that were attached to their arms and slammed them down on Jiang Han.

"Too slow."

Jiang Han flashed away.

He weaved through these bulky metal monsters as if dancing a death tango.

The blade flashed.

Each swing of the knife was accompanied by a sickening metallic cutting sound.

A severed arm.

Broken leg.

Cut in half at the waist.

In just over ten seconds.

There was a pile of scrap metal on the ground.

Even after the corpse puppets were chopped up, they continued to writhe on the ground.

Within the severed limbs, those metal wires, resembling blood vessels, are still trying to find a connection.

Jiang Han stomped on and crushed the head of a person who was trying to crawl over.

"Snap!"

The mask shattered, revealing a long-decayed human face.

The live stream was completely silent; even that brother who was obsessed with his sister didn't have time to complain.

Several seconds later, the comments erupted like a volcanic eruption.

"I'm going to throw up! What the hell is this monster?"

"Has the security guard mutated? Or is that mask a parasite?"

"Jiang Shen's swordsmanship...it's so damn relaxing! I just wonder if I can learn it and use it to teach my little sister a lesson!"

"Am I the only one who noticed that fracture? It's solid metal! Is this even human?"

Jiang Han flicked the black blood off his knife. "This is just an appetizer."

He looked into the depths of the exhibition hall, where the passageway led to the underground sacrificial pit. That metallic smell was coming from there.

Moreover, the Qilin bloodline within him was stirring restlessly. There was a feeling of extreme disgust, yet one that he had no choice but to confront.

That is... the mutual restraint of the five elements.

Fire overcomes metal! But if metal is too strong, fire will also be countered.

"Let's go." Jiang Han waved to the drone.

He stepped over the scattered limbs and walked into the depths of darkness. The deeper he went, the more humid the air became.

Large patches of moss began to appear on the walls.

No! That can't be moss! That's rust!

Green rust, like mold, covered the entire passageway.

The science exhibits that used to hang on the walls on both sides are now illegible.

All that remained were deep scratch marks.

Those were human fingers, clawed out in extreme pain! The fingernails were embedded in the wall.

Jiang Han stopped in his tracks; there was no road ahead.

At the end of the passage was a huge pit. This was originally the site of the No. 1 sacrificial pit, which was protected by a glass cover.

But now the glass dome is shattered. A huge crack has appeared in the ground, like a giant mouth that devours everything.

Bottomless.

A cold wind blew up from below, carrying a strong metallic smell.

[Beep! High concentration of "Geng Metal Qi" detected.]

[The entrance to the S-level folding space is ahead.]

[WARNING: Internal physics rules may change.]

Jiang Han stood at the edge and glanced down.

It was pitch black!

I can't see anything.

But he could feel something below calling to him.

Or perhaps, it's a provocation.

"Jiang Shen, if he jumps down, will he be able to come back up?" someone asked in the live chat.

Jiang Han raised the corner of his mouth.

"Come up?"

"I'm going to conquer it."

With that, he leaped into the air. Like a black eagle, he disappeared into the endless darkness.

The wind whistled past my ears! A feeling of weightlessness washed over me.

The pit was much deeper than I had imagined; I fell for a good ten seconds.

Jiang Han then saw a glimmer of light, a green light. It was eerie, like a will-o'-the-wisp.

"Bang!" He landed on the ground. Was he alright?

He definitely didn't die from the fall! But the feeling under his feet was strange. It was soft and spongy, like stepping on rotting flesh. Yet it also had a cold, metallic feel to it.

Jiang Han turned on his tactical flashlight, the beam of light slicing straight through the darkness.

The sight before him made even the well-informed Jiang Han's pupils shrink.

This is a massive underground cavity, ridiculously large. It must have hollowed out the entire Chengdu Plain.

Above, stalactites hung upside down. Each stalactite was adorned with a bronze mask. Thousands upon thousands of them, densely packed together.

Directly in front of him was a sea! A silvery-white sea, a sea without wind—could it even be called a sea? Moreover, the surface of the sea was as flat as a mirror.

"water?"

Jiang Han squatted down, picked up a stone, and threw it in.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

As soon as the stone touched the sea surface, a plume of white smoke rose up.

In the blink of an eye, the stone melted and vanished without a trace.

"It's not water." Jiang Han stood up, his expression grave.

"It looks like mercury."

"Or it could be some kind of liquid metal mixture."

This entire sea is filled with deadly poison.

And across that deadly silver sea! In the far distance, in the darkness! stands a colossal black shadow.

It soars into the clouds, connecting heaven and earth, like a tree. But its branches and leaves are in motion.

Each swing produces a clanging metallic sound.

At the top of that tree, a green light was pulsating rhythmically.

thump.

thump.

thump.

That was... the sound of a heartbeat.