Buddhist player

When Bai Chen entered the living room, the piles of takeout boxes had already been cleared away and stacked into a small mountain in the corner.

Not only that, Yin Hongxiao also changed out of her nightgown. However, the aesthetics of the ancients were truly worrisome. The outfit of a bright red sweatshirt and gray cargo pants looked bizarre no matter how you looked at it.

"Speak, what is it?"

Bai Chen sat down on the sofa. SpongeBob SquarePants was still playing on the TV, and the background noise was quite catchy.

"If it's about curing the poison in your body, it will take me at least another week, and there's no point in rushing you."

"...I wanted to ask about this thing."

Taking a deep breath, Yin Hongxiao pointed towards the television.

"TV set?"

Turning his head to look at the television, Bai Chen raised an eyebrow.

"It's a gadget that modern people use to lighten the mood when they're on their phones. What, are you planning to bring a few back to your world? But you don't have a signal there."

"No, I mean, I want to know more about the three great catastrophes shown on the television."

Looking directly into his eyes, Yin Hongxiao's expression was serious.

"The three major catastrophes...you mean SpongeBob SquarePants?"

After a moment of stunned silence, Bai Chen quickly came to his senses.

"SpongeBob? But in my world, it's called a 'living pustule,' a terrifying entity that once infected everyone in an entire city. Even now, that city remains a no-go zone for the living."

As if recalling some unpleasant memory, Yin Hongxiao's face appeared somewhat pale.

"Rotten, pus-filled, morbid, riddled with holes... that thing was a pure nightmare."

"[Live abscess]...Are you sure you haven't made a mistake?"

Bai Chen glanced at SpongeBob SquarePants playing music with his nose on the TV screen and looked thoughtful.

Since Plants vs. Zombies could become an unsolvable disaster in this world, it was only natural that a similar situation would occur. However, he did not expect that such a situation would occur in another world.

"It's possible to mistake one, but with all three of these extremely distinctive features appearing together, it's impossible for me to mistake them."

Looking back at the television, Yin Hongxiao's face was full of solemnity.

"A giant red starfish that devours everything and frantically reproduces its offspring in the world; a terrifying octopus that uses its demonic voice to turn the area it walks into a living doll wasteland; and that rotten yellow cube known as the walking source of pollution... Even on the list of the top 100 calamities in the martial arts world, these three are among the best."

Turning her head, Yin Hongxiao looked at him.

"The rotting yellow cubes, the proliferating red starfish, the wailing gray octopus—every detail and feature perfectly matches the images inside this box. There's no way I could mistake them."

"...Your world is truly full of disasters."

After briefly imagining the scenario the other party described, Bai Chen's lips twitched slightly.

Since the three generals of the Deathly Silent Sea, one of the four forbidden zones of childhood, have all appeared, does that mean that in the other's world there are also Demon Bear Ridge and Crimson Grassland?

...That kind of world was truly a chaotic mess of demons.

He initially thought his world, rife with disasters, was chaotic enough, but little did he know there were always stronger forces out there, and one mountain was always higher than another…

"Yes, so our living space has actually been shrinking all along."

With her eyes lowered, Yin Hongxiao's mood clearly sombered.

"Even with the protection of the twenty-one world-protecting sects of our time, the situation has been getting worse. If it weren't for the fact that we, the chosen ones, can obtain supplies from other worlds from time to time, it would probably have turned into a cannibalistic tragedy long ago."

"So after seeing SpongeBob SquarePants, you thought there were clues in our world about the catastrophe that happened in your world?"

Bai Chen glanced back at the television and immediately understood.

He had previously wondered why the ingredients for the strange poisons that had been inflicted on the other party included something as odd as "octopus tentacle piccolo" in the pharmacopoeia. But now, he realized that this ingredient was probably related to the corrupted octopus in the other party's world.

"Um, can you help me?"

Looking up at him, Yin Hongxiao's face showed obvious expectation.

As a core disciple of the Red Dust Sword Sect, one of the twenty-one world-protecting sects of the time, she had come into direct contact with those calamities more than once, and had personally witnessed the tragic state of those affected by them.

Death is not the end; what is truly terrifying is a life worse than death.

To this day, in that city contaminated by that yellow, rotten block, the hundreds of thousands of infected people are not only still alive, but will continue to live on.

—In that terrifying and miserable manner.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to help, it's that I can't."

Bai Chen shook his head decisively.

"Although the catastrophe that befell your world is strongly related to the animation in our world, that's all. Even if you know the source, what use is it? Don't forget, the world I'm in right now is also plagued by disasters. Your world survived the most difficult phase, but for our world, the disasters have only just begun."

All things considered, the disasters in their world will not last more than a year, after all, it has only been a little over half a year since the earliest players.

As for the "Cataclysmic Martial Arts" world in Yin Hongxiao's world, nearly a hundred years have passed since the collapse of the heavens, and the foundation between the two worlds is simply incomparable.

Compared to Yin Hongxiao's world, their world is basically just starting out... Wait, if that's the case, does that mean that their world will also encounter a world-ending disaster similar to the "Heavenly Collapse" disaster in her world?

Suddenly realizing this, Bai Chen frowned.

Although the world is currently experiencing frequent disasters, the fact that these disasters can be contained and kept from the general public means that the problems are not yet too serious and can still be forcibly covered up.

...But what happens after that?

The frequency of disasters is increasing these days. Could it be that at some point, a natural disaster of a magnitude will suddenly strike the world?

"...I'm sorry, I was being presumptuous."

After a long silence, Yin Hongxiao forced a smile onto her face.

"Don't be too discouraged. You'll be staying here for at least another week. During that time, you can watch the whole SpongeBob series and maybe find some ways to control those things."

Coming to his senses, Bai Chen glanced at the other person.

"I'll speed things up on my end to help you..."

Before Bai Chen could finish his sentence, his phone screen suddenly rang. After glancing at the caller ID and seeing that it was Su Qun calling, he casually answered the call.

The next second, Su Qun's wailing and howling came from the other end of the phone.

"Brother Bai, help me!!!"

Bai Chen: "..."