The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

The Pear Garden Demoness rushed to the edge of the vine net and crashed into it. The moment they made contact, the vines coiled around her limbs, neck, and the few remaining threads like giant living snakes.

The barbed branches pierced its body, and dark purple liquid gushed from the numerous wounds, dripping onto the vines and making a sizzling, corrosive sound.

The vines are drawing its blood.

The Pear Garden Demon Princess let out a shriek even sharper than before, her silken threads churning wildly among the vines, trying to cut off the branches that were wrapped around her. But there were too many vines, too dense; for every one she cut off, three more would coil up, and for every three she cut off, ten more would come rolling in from a new angle.

It is trapped.

Su Mu gave it no chance to catch its breath. He opened his backpack and took out the tactical missile.

The blueprints were of blue quality, the materials cost over 50,000 World Coins, and the production took six hours. It had just been assembled a few hours ago and now lay quietly in his backpack, like a heavy hammer stored in a box.

He pressed the launch button.

The launch pad at the bottom of the cable car automatically deployed, and the dark gray missile was pushed into the launch rail, its tail gleaming with a crimson light.

It paused for less than half a second, then shot down into the vine netting below, trailing a long, fiery tail like a comet that had been ignited.

The trajectory was almost vertical; the missile drew a straight, dark red line in the air and struck precisely in the center of the vine net—the spot where the Pear Garden Demon Princess was entangled.

The flames engulfed everything in that instant.

A mushroom cloud rose from the center of the vine network, and white shockwaves exploded in all directions, tearing the surrounding mist to shreds.

The shockwave spread outward at the speed of sound, blasting, crushing, and vaporizing the lower-level monsters that hadn't had time to escape. Even the large monsters hovering nearby were pushed back dozens of meters, their bodies shaking violently in the impact.

The cable car carrying Su Mu was propelled backward several meters by the violent shockwave. The steel cables creaked under the strain, and the entire car shook violently. He steadied himself by holding onto the wall, feeling the shockwaves pounding against the outer wall of the cable car in waves, like being repeatedly struck by a giant hand.

The flames lingered in the night sky for nearly ten seconds before slowly dying out.

The vine netting had been blown to pieces, and the deep red branches were scattered in the night sky like torn silk.

In the very center of the ruins, the figure who once wore a magnificent costume had completely vanished, leaving no trace... Only a small piece of dark purple fabric, still burning, was slowly curling, carbonizing, and turning to ashes in the night wind.

[Defeat Lv20 Yellow Pear Garden Demon Princess (Demon General Level)... Experience +32000.]

Su Mu stood there, watching the words linger on the panel for two seconds, then slowly, as if finally letting out a long sigh of relief.

He didn't have time to look at the experience bar or the level-up notifications; he simply stared at the burning remnants of the cloth in the night wind until it was completely reduced to ashes.

Then the sky cracked open.

A giant, dark purple flower slowly bloomed at the spot where the Pear Garden Demon Princess had died. From its stamen emerged countless translucent specks of light, like fragments of a soul, which spread in all directions.

The points of light floated, swirled, and vanished in the night sky, as if someone had shattered an entire starry sky and then scattered it back into the sky.

Strange phenomenon.

Su Mu saw the direction in which those points of light were scattering... They were spreading towards the group of strange creatures further away, like some kind of signal, some kind of announcement.

Those colossal creatures that had been slumbering in the mist were now slowly, extremely slowly, turning around to look in this direction. Their gazes were cold, scrutinizing, and assessing, followed by a silence that he could hardly define.

He didn't move.

He knew he had just stirred up a hornet's nest.

......

At that moment, the channel exploded.

The messages were flooding in so fast that the content was impossible to read; all I could see were exclamation marks and question marks rolling by like a waterfall. A mix of emotions—fear, shock, disbelief, awe—was swirling together like a pot of porridge that had been completely stirred up.

"Did you see that?! That purple flower in the sky!"

"That's a special effect for the death of a monster... I heard those soldiers from Da Feng bragging about it, and only super powerful monsters have it!"

"Who did this? Where did that red light come from?"

"No, didn't you see those vines? Vines covering a kilometer radius! Could a human possibly release something like that?"

"I guess those big things outside the city are fighting each other, and we just got caught in the crossfire."

"Affected? You call that an affected area? If it weren't for that shield, our entire cable would have been ripped apart!"

Someone dug up the previous battle logs and posted a screenshot of the dark red beam of light. The message went silent for about two seconds... then it exploded.

"Guild weapons. Only guild weapons have this coverage area, and they don't damage the cable car. This is system-certified."

"What level guild weapon would that be? Our 'United We Stand' guild is only at 3% progress..."

"So you mean, someone on our cableway has already maxed out the 'United We Stand' skill? And they've already used it?"

"So he was the one who instantly killed those low-level monsters? He released those bats too?"

"What kind of monster is this person...?"

The debate grew louder and louder.

Some people firmly believe that this could not have been done by the people on the cable, arguing that such intensity of firepower should not have occurred at this stage;

Some people countered that besides max-level guild weapons, what else could cause such an indiscriminate clearing effect? ​​Others dug up some screenshots from when the guild system was first opened, trying to prove that the beam of light and the "United We Stand" special effect were completely consistent.

But in the end, the debate gradually subsided.

It wasn't because there was a conclusion, but because no one dared to ask any further questions... Whatever the answer was, the person capable of unleashing that level of firepower was someone they couldn't afford to provoke.

Those who actually knew the answer did not participate in the discussion from beginning to end.

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