It's time to become an evil god.

Bai Zhengyu shouted, "There's only one way!"

"Quickly, go and fetch Isaac, the universe's most powerful engineer!"

Chapter 593 Chernobyl

"Where am I supposed to find you the most powerful engineer in the universe?!"

Bai Ge clung tightly to the edge of the wall, fearing he would be swept into the blood moon. At this moment, the lights of the entire city continued to fall into darkness, and a part of the ground, due to the awakening of memes, could no longer maintain its previous state and began to collapse rapidly.

Just when the Blood Moon created by the Divine Seal thought it had victory in its grasp, a new change suddenly occurred.

However, the appearance of the blood moon seemed to trigger a series of chain reactions. A pair of huge and terrifying eyes began to appear in the blood-red sky, staring straight at the jellyfish-like monster in front of them.

The enormous blood moon looked like a tiny ant in front of these eyes.

"shit."

"This is... a projection of the Outer God..."

The once composed father instantly panicked upon seeing the projection of the Outer God. Even more terrifying, the entire city began to revolve around a strange, monotonous flute melody. This melody caused the blood moon floating in the sky to begin a strange transformation. Countless cracks appeared on the moon's once smooth surface. As the cracks widened, a blood-like substance began to spray from its body. Lacking gravity, the crimson liquid swirled around the blood moon like planetary rings. The nauseating, monotonous melody intensified, filling the entire area, making it increasingly difficult for the blood moon to maintain its current shape.

The shattered fragments of the star transformed into fireballs that plummeted toward the ground.

One of the fireballs, about half the size of Xu City, slowly fell towards Bai Ge, and the increasingly intense heat turned the entire city into a raging furnace.

"I didn't expect even the Outer Gods to make a move. It seems they are also wary of the changes that will occur after the game absorbs the power of all the players."

The old man grabbed Bai Ge's arm and whispered, "This dream is about to end, and we will all wake up. Before that, I have one more important thing to tell you: once you leave the instance and return to reality, you must help me complete this task."

Seeing her father's solemn expression, Bai Ge couldn't help but composed herself and asked softly, "What is it?"

Bai Zhengyu raised his head and said quietly, "If I unfortunately die, remember to delete all the history in my browser and everything in a folder called 'Study Materials' on my hard drive."

"..."

After saying this, the father snapped his fingers, and his body gradually dissipated, disappearing in a burst of light.

Bai Ge suddenly opened his eyes; at this moment, he had left the world of the instance and entered the real world.

It was pitch black before his eyes. His hands and feet were tightly bound to his sides, and a tight belt was tied around his waist. A respirator-like device was half-covered his mouth—but it wasn't fastened properly. Judging from the feedback of his breathing and the gravity sensing of his body's organs, Bai Ge seemed to be lying flat at a 90-degree angle inside a narrow, coffin-shaped container.

The metal interior was icy cold, and Bai Ge's first thought was that it was an abandoned space hibernation pod with a cryogenic life support system.

Bai Ge opened the player panel and found that neither the quest item bar nor the skill bar was blocked; everything was normal.

If that's the case...

With just a little effort, Bai Ge's arm easily broke free from the container slot, reached forward to explore, and touched a cold, heavy metal plate.

Click.

Using the power of the Lord of Imagination, he transformed his five fingers into black, writhing tentacles, easily prying open a crack in the thick metal plate. A blast of icy wind instantly rushed in from the outside, and as the black, writhing tentacles intensified their force, they forcibly pushed the hydraulic rod upwards, slowly lifting it up.

A faint light seeped in through the crack, eventually flipping over the entire metal plate, allowing Bai Ge to finally see where he was.

This was a strange, beehive-like structure. The outer walls were covered with metal pipes of varying sizes, densely packed and stacked like a swarm of snakes. The cells on either side contained identical metal chambers, though they were now empty. All the cells clung to a massive beam, with numerous flexible metal tubes hanging down, connecting the back and sides of the cells to provide electricity and fuel.

Bai Ge looked down. The ground was hundreds of meters above the ground, and a fierce wind howled past, making the abandoned hibernation pods sway precariously.

Where exactly is this place?

Bai Ge noticed small black dots in the distance, which seemed to be the remnants of buildings. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and lightning flashed and thunder roared, creating a desolate scene reminiscent of the apocalypse.

pat.

A drop of rain fell from the sky and landed on the skin on the back of my hand, instantly causing it to turn red and swollen.

"Is this corrosive acid rain?"

Bai Ge had never seen such a vast desolation. The sun in the sky seemed to have been extinguished, and the atmosphere was filled with black dust. From the ground, the view to the sky appeared an eerie, dark yellowish-brown.

Without a second thought, Bai Ge took a step forward. The feeling of weightlessness instantly spread throughout his body. It only took four seconds for him to fall from a hundred meters above the ground to the soft earth.

All around were huge, rusty steel frame ruins, with dusty glass embedded in them, and black, foamy water churning in the puddles on the ground.

Where am I?

Bai Ge couldn't find any evidence of life here, nor any other useful clues, so he decided to go to the remaining buildings in the distance to investigate.

Almost instantly, he left the honeycomb-shaped building behind. The half-collapsed building was like the last evidence of the remnants of an old civilization, but he was eager to understand what had happened in this world.

Along the way, one could see the last remnants of human civilization: rusted vehicles abandoned in piles of withered weeds, concrete roads covered in grass and mud, and even a small town that looked like it had been trampled by some enormous life form, with most of the buildings razed to the ground.

What's astonishing is that Bai Ge didn't see a single human corpse along the way; it seemed that these advanced life forms had simply vanished without a trace.

Finally, Bai Ge arrived in front of the huge abandoned building. The barbed wire fence that had allowed outsiders to enter was crooked and leaning. Bai Ge even saw a radiation warning sign covered in filth and mud hanging on it.

The moment Bai Ge picked up the sign, he froze. "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?"

"Wait, am I in Pripyat now? What on earth is going on in this world?"

Before he could finish speaking, a series of rustling footsteps suddenly came from the desolate wasteland behind him.

Chapter 594 Void Explosion

"who is it?"

Bai Ge suddenly turned around and looked behind him, but he couldn't see a single ghost. However, he knew very well that someone had indeed appeared behind him without him noticing, and even with the perception of a god, he would not have been able to detect their presence.

Why can't we find the other person?

Bai Ge felt somewhat puzzled. He had clearly sensed something approaching from the surroundings, but it seemed to vanish without a trace in an instant, as if it had never existed. Bai Ge turned his head and surveyed the dimly lit, complex, and enormous silent building filled with crisscrossing pipes.

Not far away appeared to be a vast, abandoned, enclosed landfill, piled high with the wreckage of crushed engineering equipment. These were all radioactive wastes discarded during the Chernobyl crisis.

Since the other party did not appear, Bai Ge did not think much about it and walked straight into the depths of the building. He had only taken a few steps when he came across a sewage pit. To his surprise, Bai Ge found several corpses wearing hazmat suits lying inside.

A black tentacle coiled around one of the corpses, suspending it in mid-air. The sealed orange protective suit's glass visor had been shattered, revealing a skeletonized body underneath. Bai Ge noticed a pistol tucked into the waistband of one of the group, suggesting they weren't ordinary explorers.

"Survivors exploring the ruins after the apocalypse—what caused the apocalypse? I hope they hold the answers I seek."

Another tentacle searched the corpse for something, trying to find clues about the group. Finally, Bai Ge found a notebook in a tattered canvas bag, with some fragments written in messy Slavic script.

"...We dared not sleep on this dangerous night. Mikhail had accidentally dozed off while on guard duty, and when we found him at dawn, he was nothing but half a mangled, gnawed corpse. So we could only pass the time by writing. The task force leader still refuses to tell us what the mission is, only vaguely saying that we are going to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to find something."

“We lost another member today. The tracker had been following us around the group the whole time, and we didn’t even notice. We only realized what was happening after that transparent monster bit off the head of the unfortunate Ivanovich right in front of everyone by the campfire. It took all the bullets from the captain’s rifle to kill it. Indeed, even in the apocalypse, you can always trust the Kalashnikov rifle.”

"The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is less than ten kilometers away. Everyone's mood is very heavy. The team leader also revealed the plan to us. They are looking for something called an oasis inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. No one knows exactly what it is. It is the spark of human civilization. Three advance teams have been sent into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant before, but all of them have lost contact."

The notes were gone, and the task force perished there. Looking at the bodies in the puddle, Bai Ge muttered to himself, "It seems that humans have built a refuge nearby. Once we find the refuge, we'll know why the world has become such a horrible place."

Continuing to search through his backpack, but finding no map of the shelter's coordinates, Bai Ge was preparing to venture deep into the meltdown core of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in search of the so-called "oasis."

Just as Bai Ge was about to continue forward, the sound of a bolt being pulled back broke the silence. Then came a piercing gunshot. Bai Ge slowly turned around and saw another team wearing white protective suits and sealed gas masks appear behind him. They were looking at the man in front of them through the fly-eye glass holes, and the Geiger counters in their hands were making a dangerous clicking sound.

The captain asked, enunciating each word clearly, "Who exactly are you?"

One of the team members raised his gun, pointed it at the man in front of him, and said in a low voice, "Captain, this guy is definitely not human. There is no way anyone could be exposed to Chernobyl's radiation levels without taking any protective measures and still be unharmed."

"Shut up."

The leader barked, and his teammates immediately fell silent. The man sized up Bai Ge, pulled out his pistol, pointed it at him, and asked, word by word, "Who exactly are you?"

Bai Ge stared at the other person and said calmly, "I am just an old anime fan passing by."

"You dare to play me?"

The other party immediately pulled the trigger, but the instant the bullet was fired, a huge black tentacle emerged from the ground, its suction cup at the end covering the captain's gas mask and lifting him high into the air.

Upon seeing this, the other survivors immediately pointed their guns at Bai Ge and roared, "Sukabul, release our captain right now!"

What if I don't let go?

Bai Ge walked towards the other side step by step. These Russians were intimidated by Bai Ge's powerful aura and were too scared to fire their guns. They even took several steps back.

The tentacles pressed the captain to the ground, and Bai Ge stepped on the captain's chest, asking, "Now answer a few questions honestly. If I'm in a good mood, I might let you go. But if I'm not satisfied with the answers, you'll know what will happen to you."

What exactly is inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant?

"oasis……"

For some reason, the man dared not conceal anything and said, word by word, "It is said that this is a divine artifact that can allow human civilization to continue. We, the stalkers, paid a heavy price to reach this place."

What exactly is happening in this world?

"Don't you know?"

A hint of suspicion crossed the captain's face as he whispered, "Thirty years ago, an unknown entity projected itself onto Earth, nearly destroying all human civilization, leaving only a small remnant that continues to this day. Humanity has no way to resist those entities and has been forced to establish survivor civilizations in remote, frigid lands. We were forced to come out to find an oasis because of a lack of resources."

Bai Ge frowned. The Evolution Game's instance had indeed taken him to a future world, but he didn't understand the significance of this instance.

"Drip drip drip."

Suddenly, another counter on the man's body emitted a piercing warning sound. Upon hearing this, everyone turned pale with fright and ran in terror toward the depths of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's sarcophagus, shouting as they ran, "Run! Run! The void explosion is coming!"

Chapter 595 Chernobyl Giant Rats

What is a void explosion?

Bai Ge looked up and saw giant humanoid black shadows appearing in the yellowish-brown sky. These black monsters, formed from aggregates of particles and without any physical form, floated in the sky, connected by a black line at their navels. All the giant black monsters were linked together, like kites floating in the sky, giving people a strange yet indescribable feeling.

"Is this what you call a void explosion?"

Bai Ge stared intently at the enormous black shadow before him, and asked in a low voice, "What's so scary about this thing?"

"Well, a void explosion is actually a random supernatural phenomenon. The most terrifying aspect of a void explosion is the explosion that annihilates matter. The energy generated within the explosion's radius can rapidly deplete all matter, leaving everything around it in a singularity of absolute vacuum. All other matter in the vicinity will be absorbed into that absolute void created by the energy explosion, until the matter fills that empty point."

"We believe that Void Explosions are like insecticides casually sprinkled by monsters from the stars. They only appear in certain wastelands inhabited by humans, but never in underground fortresses. Perhaps their limitation is that they can only appear in the vast sky."

Bai Ge looked around at the sky and saw that there were nearly five or six giants formed from black particles, each of which looked like a towering mountain peak.

If they exploded at the same time, it would probably turn the entire Pripyat into ruins, or rather, not even leave behind any ruins, but only a huge crater like that of a meteorite impact.

"Do we have a way to get rid of them?"

Upon hearing Bai Ge's answer, the leader of the stealth team shook his head with a wry smile, as if he had heard a not-so-funny joke, and said, "Deal with the Void Explosion? You're really overthinking it. Our only way is to learn how to avoid the Void Explosion. There's only one way: we have to go inside the sarcophagus. Besides, after so many years, the radiation inside should have weakened considerably."

Bai Ge grabbed the other person by the collar and rushed towards the inside of the stone coffin. The enormous black shadow in the sky was also shrinking continuously, desperately compressing its density to form a high-density spherical particle. If it exploded, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At the last moment, everyone rushed into the stone coffin. The phantom in the sky seemed to have lost its target instantly; instead of exploding, it slowly disappeared.

Those hiding inside the stone coffin breathed a sigh of relief. The leader of the stealth squad turned to look at the mysterious young Asian man in front of him and asked, "May I ask who you are?"