An City, hotel rooftop.
The two looked towards the park.
There, the towering red light had just dissipated...
"Oh God..."
Mo Wan couldn't help but swear, "Isn't this trial a bit too intense?!"
"Are those damn planners at Sky Curtain trying to nip us in the bud?"
Lin Zhu stroked her chin. "I also feel that something is really wrong with Blue Star right now."
"Just now at the shopping mall, that trial participant named Jiahao was clearly quite strong."
"And so it was devoured alive by a group of Ghost Infant that appeared out of nowhere."
"Not to mention that plane just now, which airdropped a huge, fleshy monster down..."
"Should we... find some partners first?"
Lin Zhu suggested.
Although she has a big appetite, she's afraid she'll be stuffed to death before she even opens her mouth, given how often the opposing team floods the battlefield with units and unleashes area-of-effect attacks.
Mo Wan spun around in the air on her Wind Fire Wheels, then looked down at the hotel entrance.
"Let's give it a try. I saw the people who lured the monster here were wearing..."
"It looks like our China military uniform!"
Lin Zhu followed her gaze and said, "It really is! Let's go down and find them; many hands make light work."
"Okay! Hold on tight!"
Upon hearing this, Mo Wan's Wind and Wind Fire Wheels spewed flames, carrying Lin Zhu as they swooped down toward the hotel entrance.
At this moment, beside the ruins at the hotel entrance.
Xing Wu had just woken up from a deep coma.
He gritted his teeth, not uttering a single groan, and reached into his vest to pull out a specially made adrenaline syringe.
Then he plunged it into his thigh and pushed it all the way down.
Only after the medicine was injected did Xing Wu's complexion barely recover.
He pulled out the syringe while panting, turned to look at Novsky, who was equally disheveled, and waved the empty syringe in his hand.
"Want a shot? This stuff will make you temporarily forget you're about to die."
Novsky shook his head with a wry smile.
"Let's just forget about the punishment."
"This thing will only make me die faster now."
"That's true."
Xing Wu looked up at the night sky obscured by the red mist and sighed.
Their advance team appears to be powerful, but both of the veterans are mortgaging their future.
One battle requires sacrificing one's lifespan; the other requires overdrawing one's organs.
"What a powerful yet pathetic Supernatural Ability..."
Xing Wu gave a bitter laugh, his voice filled with endless vicissitudes, "If one day..."
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if humanity could solve these bizarre problems without resorting to such self-harm?"
Novsky narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at Xing Wu, and hesitated before speaking, "Xing... you really are..."
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Xiaoyu suddenly exclaimed in surprise from the side.
"Two elders! Holy crap! Look up at the sky!!!"
Xing Wu and Novsky felt a chill run down their spines, thinking that another monster had descended from the sky. They instinctively grabbed their weapons and looked up.
However, what came into view was neither a flesh-and-blood monster nor Soul-Devouring Monster.
Instead, it was a figure with a bun hairstyle, riding two fiery spinning wheels, looking down at them from a high vantage point...
Girl?
The entire room fell silent.
The advance team members all stared wide-eyed.
"This... this outfit..."
Li Tie rubbed his eyes hard and pointed at Mo Wan in the sky.
"Wind Fire Wheels? Short Hair?"
"Holy crap?! Nezha! Is this the resurrection of the gods?!"
Li Tie's mind was filled with the online novels he had read. "Could it be after we left Blue Star?!"
"In a certain mental hospital, are there people practicing medicine for God?"
Chen Xiaoyu's eyes lit up.
"Then... now that Nezha has appeared, does that mean Sun Wukong is also here?!"
"He's been my favorite person since I was little!"
Astronaut Li Yang nodded in agreement.
"Me too! Me too!"
Novsky was completely bewildered by the excited and incoherent expressions of the China players.
He scratched his bald head and looked at Xing Wu with a puzzled expression.
"Xing... what exactly is going on?"
"Is that little girl standing on a fireball in the sky your China secret weapon?"
Xing Wu suppressed the urge to complain and began explaining China mythology to Novsky.
"Oh~ Nezha, the Third Prince..."
Novsky nodded in sudden realization, indicating that he seemed to have heard of it in some ancient book before.
Sergei, however, was in the corner and, because he didn't understand China, couldn't understand what the crowd was shouting at all.
He looked up at the sky, then at Novsky was chatting, and felt completely isolated.
He could only silently squat in the ruins in the corner, drawing dark Circle on the ground with his finger.
In mid-air.
Mo Wan, standing high above, heard the reactions of everyone below clearly.
"Huh? These guys don't actually think I'm Nezha, do they?"
Mo Wan's inherent tendency to thrive on chaos was immediately unleashed.
She chuckled inwardly, "Who would have thought that I, this lady-in-law, would one day be pretending to be a deity!"
"These people down here are clearly not ordinary; it'll be a good opportunity for them to show off in front of everyone!"
Thinking of this, Mo Wan immediately adjusted her expression, putting on the air of a god who looked down upon all living beings.
"Ahem! You mortals have quite the discerning eye!"
"That's right, I am none other than Nezha, the Third Prince, son of Li Jing of Chentang Pass!"
Mo Wan began to fabricate a story while standing in mid-air. "Now that I witness the great calamity of Blue Star, I have been specially ordered by the Jade Emperor to bring the Cosmic Ring!"
"The Heaven-Sealing Ribbon descends to earth to slay demons and monsters!"
"If you obediently offer me good food and drink, I, the Crown Prince, will guarantee you can walk sideways in this apocalyptic world!"
Li Tie and the others below were stunned, though they found it somewhat outrageous...
But the other person's flippant tone and the Wind Fire Wheels on her feet...
It's so similar, I didn't dare to argue at all.
At this moment, Lin Zhu, who was lying on Mo Wan's back, couldn't stand it anymore and quietly pinched Mo Wan's soft flesh.
"Mo Wan, that's enough! If you keep making things up, you'll be exposed!"
But Mo Wan's Magic Core powers had completely taken over her, and she wouldn't listen to anything else.
She kept making things up, and her stories got more and more outrageous. She even started to reveal plots about herself battling Pangu and kicking the Buddha.
Below, Li Yang and the others, who were initially extremely excited, gradually turned their eyes to suspicion.
The way this "deity" speaks sounds exactly like a "god-like being"!
Just as Mo Wan was making up her story about how she captured ten catties of dragon scales from the Third Prince of the Dragon King in the Eastern Sea and sold them as scrap, she got stuck...
While racking my brains to come up with ideas for what to do next in the story.
Li Tie suddenly frowned and shouted, "Wait!"
"Third Prince, I remember in mythology, didn't you have a brother named Lingzhu?"
"Ah?"
Mo Wan was taken aback, then nodded, "Yes, yes, yes! This Crown Prince does indeed have a brother named Lingzhu!"
Then, without hesitation, she pointed to Lin Zhu, who had been hiding behind her, and said shamelessly.
"Yes! It's her!"
"But don't let her current appearance fool you, she was actually seriously injured during the defense of Heaven!"
"To save my life, I was forced to undergo sex reassignment surgery after descending to Earth, and now I'm a woman!"
Before anyone could even react to the sheer volume of information...
Mo Wan, in a moment of foolishness, reached out and slapped Lin Zhu's large hand on the ground, proudly showing it off to those below.
"See this?! This is top-grade silicone that my brother had implanted after he descended to earth, costing a whopping 1 million!"
"The feel is absolutely amazing! Isn't it incredible?"
Lin Zhu's veins bulged on her forehead, and her eyes blazed with fury.
"I'm a transgender person, you son of a bitch! You're the one with silicone fillers! I'm all natural!!!"
The next second!
Lin Zhu kicked Mo Wan in the back.
"Ah!"
With a scream, Mo Wan was embedded in the road, creating a crater.
Lin Zhu landed right after her, straddled Mo Wan, and began punching and kicking her mercilessly.
"Ouch! Stop hitting me! I was wrong!"
Mo Wan screamed like a pig being slaughtered from inside the pit.
"You're spouting nonsense! You're ruining my reputation! I'll sew your mouth shut today!"
Lin Zhu punched and cursed at the same time.
Li Tie, Chen Xiaoyu, and the others were stunned, remaining speechless for several seconds before they reacted and rushed forward to desperately break up the fight.
It took quite a while for this farce to finally come to an end.
With two dark circles under her eyes, Mo Wan climbed out of the pit looking aggrieved.
After all this commotion, and under Xing Wu's scrutiny and questioning, the truth finally came to light.
What kind of Nezha is this?
What kind of divine resurrection is this?
It turns out that these two eccentric girls in front of us are not novice trainees from the Sky Curtain System at all!
"You mean, you're the ones on the Novice Rankings with the IDs '[Eat Now or Get Old]' and 'Needs More Roasting]'?"
Chen Xiaoyu's eyelids twitched as she compared the two people's information; she hadn't expected to run into them here.
Lin Zhu (Eat Now or Get Old) and Mo Wan (Needs More Roasting) nodded at the same time.
Upon learning that Xing Wu and his team were actually the China Vanguard...
After learning that they were officials specifically investigating the situation on Blue Star, the two girls immediately felt they had found their organization.
"That bastard Sky Curtain!"
Upon hearing that the waters of Blue Star were so deep, Mo Wan immediately burst into curses, "Are they deliberately trying to kill us?!"
"Even a fool could see that An City is now a high-level game; they've thrown us newbies, who haven't even left the beginner's area, into here to find teammates!"
Looking for someone?
Xing Wu frowned. "Sky Curtain sent you to Blue Star. What is your mission? Who are you looking for?"
Lin Zhu took a deep breath and told Xing Wu about the trial's mission.
"[We must save the only one left on Blue Star who is 'him'!]"
""He"?"
The advance team members looked at each other in bewilderment.
Chen Xiaoyu subconsciously turned her head to look at astronaut Li Yang beside her, her eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.
"Besides Brother Li Yang, who was stranded due to a space mission, are there any other living people left on the entire Blue Star?"
"That [him], you don't mean Li Yang, do you?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yang immediately shook his head and analyzed with great certainty, "I don't think it's me."
"If the Mission Target was me, they would have found me by now and should have declared the mission complete long ago."
"But their mission is clearly still ongoing."
"If there really is another [him] on Blue Star..."
"I think the key point is still that alien spaceship that crash-landed at the military base!"
"There's definitely a huge secret hidden there!"
Xing Wu's eyes flashed, and he immediately made a decision. "Agreed."
"Since we share the same goal, let's act without delay and head to the military base immediately!"
Lin Zhu and Mo Wan exchanged a glance and decisively chose to join as well.
There's no way around it; in this treacherous monster's lair, the sense of security provided by the People's Liberation Army soldiers is irreplaceable by any other tool.
The new team then marched on foot toward the military base on the outskirts of the city.
On the way, the group kept a close watch on their surroundings while exchanging information.
"By the way, Captain Xing, do you know what happened with that towering red light that just shot into the sky over the city center park?"
Lin Zhu asked curiously.
Xing Wu glanced back at the park, his eyes filled with apprehension.
That's most likely some kind of field.
"The one who could cause such a commotion in a place like this must be another trial participant."
"And you should all know this person's name..."
Upon hearing this...
Apart from Li Yang, an astronaut who spends most of his time in space and is unaware of the inside story.
Others even included Lin Zhu and Mo Wan.
A name flashed through everyone's mind simultaneously.
No need to say more...