Buddhist player

Chapter 140 Devouring Bubble

Seeing the rain of giant rocks falling from the sky above, everyone's expression changed slightly.

Although they had imagined the specific manifestations of the calamity in their minds, they did not expect it to give them such a shock right from the start.

"Don't hesitate, save them!!"

With a low growl, the middle-aged man in armor took the lead in making his move.

With a single stomp of his foot, he soared into the air and punched a house-sized boulder falling straight toward them.

With a deafening roar, the boulder was blasted into dust by the punch, sending clouds of dust billowing down.

The merchant's words did make sense, but that was based on the premise that the calamity that descended on the first day was not too dangerous. Now that the city is covered in falling rocks, no one can guarantee that the target that determines their fate will escape unscathed.

"The west side of the city is mine; the rest you can divide among yourselves."

After glancing at everyone, the young man in the Taoist robe casually uttered these words, then made a hand seal with one hand. With a "clang," the long sword on his back was drawn from its sheath, drawing an arc in the air before coming to a steady stop in front of him.

Holding the little girl's hand beside him, he lightly landed on the sword with a light touch of his toes. As the sword light surged, it lifted the two of them into the sky.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the two of them transformed into streaks of light and shot off toward the west of the city.

The longsword was incredibly fast, disappearing into the hazy horizon in an instant, blasting several boulders along the way.

"Amitabha."

After chanting a Buddhist prayer, the young monk first bowed to them, then leaped into the air and ran towards the south of the city, with the other two following closely behind.

In the blink of an eye, only Bai Chen and his two companions and the merchant's group of three remained on the street.

Seemingly having no intention of communicating with them, the merchant glanced in their direction, then smiled and pulled a copper coin from his sleeve, tossing it away.

The small copper coin swelled in the wind and instantly transformed into a colossal object several meters in diameter. The three people did not delay and stepped onto the copper coin, which then flew straight towards the east of the city.

Among them, apart from the middle-aged scholar who nodded slightly to Bai Zhi, the woman in red didn't even glance in their direction.

"—We feel like we're being looked down upon."

After a brief silence, Ye Qingheng turned to look at Bai Chen.

Although the actions of the three groups that left earlier had cleared away most of the boulders in their area, the sounds of nearby boulders falling still lingered, and the whole earth trembled slightly, interspersed with the fear and screams of people running for their lives.

"It's not just a feeling, it's that I was looked down upon."

Rolling his eyes, Bai Chen flicked his sleeve, and a dark blue revolver silently landed in his hand.

"I'm heading to the north of the city for rescue operations. You two, make sure to keep up with me on the ground."

After saying this, Bai Chen stepped on the nearby wall with one foot and then leaped onto the roof.

Although he hadn't learned any light-body skills, he still possessed internal strength, and the most basic light-body lifting technique was easy for him to master. Coupled with the significant increase in his attribute values, his speed wasn't much slower than that of the monks.

Although he wasn't as ethereal, he had always been a pragmatist and didn't care about such things.

However, as soon as he jumped onto the roof, Bai Chen couldn't help but frown.

The city's current state was far more dire than he had imagined, to the point of utter devastation.

Like a shattered plate, with the outer edge of the plate completely crushed, the entire city, from Tianyuan Mountain to the city center, presents a huge collapse zone from the outside in.

The outermost ring, which used to be the city wall, no longer exists. Everything there has been wiped away by falling rocks from the sky, leaving only a gray and white gravel beach.

Three hundred paces inward from the city wall is the hardest-hit area, where falling rocks are the primary focus.

Although the houses here have not completely disappeared, none of them are intact anymore. Some have collapsed halfway, revealing dark, gaping roof beams, while others have completely collapsed, with tiles and wood piled up in heaps, and ruins everywhere.

Some people were still in that area and had not evacuated. The faint sound of crying could be heard carried by the wind, along with the lingering, thick smell of blood in the air.

Further in is the inner city.

The inner city walls are still there, but they have cracked in several places. The buildings behind the walls are in better condition than those in the outer city, but their roofs are full of holes.

The place they were just standing on was a street near the inner city wall. The reason there was no one there was probably because they had all rushed into the inner city.

After casually glancing at the inner city walls, Bai Chen headed north towards the city, his gaze fixed on the distant Tianheng Mountain. Because the outer perimeter had been leveled, Tianheng Mountain was much clearer from a higher vantage point than from a lower one.

From above, the mountain appears much larger than it does from the ground. It doesn't seem to grow on the earth; rather, it looks as if it crashed down from the sky, creating a depression in the ground. The city is located in the center of this depression, with the mountain walls sloping inwards like an overturned pot, covering the entire city beneath.

The crimson light on the mountain wall was still shining, like a heartbeat. With each pulse of the mountain, crimson patterns would light up on the mountain wall, and then new boulders would fall from the mountain wall and crash down.

From a distance, they look like sesame seeds falling from the wall, but the moment they land, they explode into gray mushroom clouds on the ground.

"What the hell is this?! Is the mountain alive?"

Without even looking up, Bai Chen raised his hand and fired a shot at the boulder that was crashing down on him from above. While guessing what was going on in his mind, Bai Chen quickened his pace.

Behind him, boulders about to crash into the city hovered silently in the air. They fell from hundreds of meters above with destructive force, but just before hitting the ground, they were pinned to the ground one by one by some invisible force, forming a strange, still scene.

The people on the street below, who were scrambling to escape, froze in their tracks when they saw the boulder hovering above them.

They didn't come to their senses until the first boulder that had been stopped fell from the sky. However, having lost the gravitational potential energy accumulated during the fall from hundreds of meters in the air, the damage they caused was extremely limited as they fell only a few meters from the ground.

The anchoring time of anchored projectiles ranges from 3 to 60 seconds; for these ordinary boulders, the anchoring time is naturally the longest.

One minute.

At the same time, because they were anchored there, even if boulders fell and hit them, they would not be driven into the ground. Instead, they would explode as fireworks above the boulders, creating an almost natural barrier for the disaster victims below.

—The only downside is that it only lasts for one minute.

However, compared to the others, Bai Chen's situation was much simpler. He only needed to aim and fire. With the "causal bullet" whose meter was running backward, he had no shortage of spiritual energy and even had the leisure to observe the movements in other places.

Of the other three directions, the most powerful was undoubtedly the west of the city. Sharp sword light rained down, weaving a dense sword net in the sky above the west of the city. Before boulders could even fall, they would be pulverized by the flying sword light.

But in terms of commotion, the south side of the city was the most affected.

No one knows what the little monk did, but golden Buddhist light rose up from the ground, and even though he was the farthest away from there in the north of the city, he could still see it clearly.

As for the eastern part of the city, that was the most outrageous.

A giant copper coin hovered above the east of the city, cutting off all the falling boulders. He had originally thought that the copper coin thrown by the merchant could only be used as a means of transportation, but he never expected it to evolve into such an exaggerated size.

"As expected, none of those who were able to participate in this mission were weak."

Looking at the performance of those teams of players, Bai Chen couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

Compared to those teams, their side was much weaker. Qing Shiyi didn't know the specifics, but he and Ye Qingheng had only participated in one mandatory mission, and in terms of skills and equipment, they couldn't compare to those players who had participated in several mandatory missions.

The three teams had basically intercepted all the boulders falling towards their area, but on his side, because he was alone, he couldn't stop many of the boulders, and they could only let them fall. Fortunately, they were hitting places where there were no people.

Although this doesn't affect anything in itself, it will inevitably give the other teams some ideas. After all, this is only the first day, and who knows what kind of calamity will manifest in the following days.

Just as Bai Chen was pondering whether to unleash a couple of heavyweight supernatural tales to flex his muscles, a semi-transparent blue bubble suddenly floated up slowly amidst the ruins in the north of the city.

At first, Bai Chen didn't notice this thing, but by the time he discovered the blue bubble, it had already expanded to hundreds of times its original size, like a blue jellyfish, slowly drifting towards the sky.

During this process, the blue bubble grew larger and larger. Although many boulders hit the bubble, they did not break it apart, but were instead swallowed whole.

The swallowed boulder sank into the bubble as if sinking into water, slowly descending along with part of the blue bubble, stretching it downwards until it reached the bottom.

"This thing—is it her summoned creature?"

After a moment of stunned silence, as if he had thought of something, Bai Chen looked down at the street below and, sure enough, found Ye Qingheng at the end of the street. However, Qingyi was not there and no one knew where she had gone.

Noticing his gaze, Ye Qingheng turned to look at him and slightly raised her chin.

"It really is! When did she make this?"

With a slightly puzzled look, Bai Chen raised his head and gazed at the blue bubble that had risen high into the sky.

In just a few minutes, the blue bubble had expanded to cover the entire northern part of the city, so much so that everyone was faintly covered with a slightly rippling, azure blue.

Now, he no longer needed to intervene. All the huge rocks falling from the sky would fall into the body of the blue bubble, and then slowly sink to the bottom of the bubble as if sinking into water—the blue bubble even used these falling rocks to build a wall at the edge.

"Is this your summoned creature?"

Even after arriving at Ye Qingheng's side, Bai Chen still felt somewhat incredulous.

Although he knew the other person was a summoner, the very nature of their strategy indicated an instability in their skill level. Frankly, his impression of the other person was still limited to the fact that they had summoned a defensive turret.

"What, it's not working?"

Ye Qingheng glanced at him and let out a soft snort.

"I told you not to underestimate me. I didn't come here to hold you back."

"Really? But if I'm not mistaken, this thing was made for you by that madman Li Hui, right?"

Putting away the revolver, Bai Chen rolled his eyes, slightly speechless.

"Although I don't know the nature of your summoned creature, I'm certain it's infused with ghost stories. You really think that guy is kindly helping you? She's purely using you as a guinea pig to test her findings. Even Kalime wouldn't dare use what she researched, and you actually dared to offer yourself up—"

How did you know?

Frowning slightly, Ye Qingheng asked.

"It's obvious, see for yourself."

With a slight pursing of his lips, Bai Chen pointed upwards.

"This thing is out of control."

In the half-minute he was chatting with the other person, the blue bubble expanded several times in size. If it had only covered the area in the north of the city before, it was now beginning to spread towards covering the entire city.

The group of merchants in the east of the city were the first to be affected. When the blue bubble covered that area, it was as if they were affected by some invisible force. The huge copper coin that was originally floating above the east of the city sank into the bubble in an instant, its size rapidly shrank, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After swallowing the copper coin, the bubble was still not satisfied and began to spread towards the west and south of the city.

At this rate, the entire city will be covered by this bubble in five minutes at most.