The World Gone Wild

From the same place? Could he also be a Reincarnator!

Saeko Busujima automatically filled in the blanks regarding the meaning behind Zhu Shen's words.

So he was a veteran! This information flashed through her mind in an instant, and her expression became even more respectful. Just as she was preparing to thank Zhu Shen for his assistance, he suddenly frowned slightly and muttered to himself, "Again?"

The luck of the Parasyte world had already been mostly absorbed by the Main God Space, and now even the former Child of Luck had become a person of the Main God Space. This had left the world's consciousness—or rather, the Gaia Consciousness—somewhat confused.

The Gaia Consciousness can be described as a super-consciousness composed of all things within a world; it is the will of the planet. In a sense, Zhu Shen was also the Gaia Consciousness of the Ninja World.

When the Gaia Consciousness of the Parasyte world perceived the decline in its world's luck, it naturally took action.

Perhaps it did not possess the concept of "luck," but it would instinctively perceive the weakening of the world's origin! This might not manifest in any one person or event, but it would show across an entire era of the world!

If the world's origin weakened, then for a long time to come, a technological world would see technological stagnation, a gap in research talent, or even a major regression; if it were a cultivation world, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth might gradually become scarce, eventually evolving into a so-called Age of Dharma Decline, where Taoist arts ceased to exist and immortals and gods vanished!

Therefore, the Gaia Consciousness of the Parasyte world had sensed a crisis; it had sensed the existence of another threatening peer: Zhu Shen! It instinctively wanted to destroy Zhu Shen's existence.

Meanwhile, in a military base on an island in the Parasyte world, a subconscious force influenced a number of people.

At the port where the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force was stationed, two Atago-class destroyers, four Kongo-class destroyers, and several other secondary destroyers, frigates, and the like, all set sail under the orders of the base's highest commander, Ryomiya Sakai.

Inside the command ship, Ryomiya Sakai's eyes were bloodshot as he chanted, "Destroy, destroy it!"

Dozens of steel giants sailed away from the base, heading straight for the city port where Zhu Shen was located...

At this moment, Zhu Shen was watching with interest as Saeko Busujima comforted the awakened Shinichi Izumi.

Shinichi Izumi's face was full of grief. He gave the cold shoulder to Saeko Busujima, the woman who had hardened her heart to kill his girlfriend, yet he completely ignored Zhu Shen, the man who had turned his girlfriend's body into dust!

In reality, he was caught in a conflict: on one hand, Saeko Busujima had saved him and killed the final monster; on the other, Satomi Murano had indeed died at Saeko Busujima's hands! Even though it was Gotou's fault, it couldn't be blamed on Saeko Busujima.

However, the moment he thought of how Satomi Murano was left without even a corpse, Shinichi Izumi could only cast extremely subtle and mournful glances toward Zhu Shen.

Zhu Shen, however, did not care; he was simply waiting intently for the Gaia Consciousness to react.

"Are you all these so-called Reincarnators?"

Shinichi Izumi suddenly asked Saeko Busujima.

Saeko Busujima's expression became troubled. The Main God Space forbade revealing information to outsiders. Although she didn't know how Shinichi Izumi knew about it, she dared not violate the rules of the Main God Space.

After all, when they had just entered this world—during the first escape mission at the municipal building—a newcomer had ignored the Main God Space's mission regulations and left the mission area, only to be directly erased by the Main God Space!

The scene of that person being wiped away by a mysterious force and turning into void particles was still deeply etched in the minds of everyone present!

"A voice in my head told me that I have also become a novice Reincarnator."

Shinichi Izumi, understanding Saeko Busujima's concerns, spoke up on his own initiative.

Saeko Busujima's pupils dilated instantly.

"You also received an invitation from the Main God? What is your novice mission? Sorry, I was just asking."

Rashly inquiring about someone else's reincarnation mission was a major taboo in the Main God Space! After all, you never knew if your mission conflicted with the other party's; once they clashed, one side was bound to die!

Yet Shinichi Izumi stated his novice reincarnation mission quite calmly.

"In the next 48 hours, do everything possible to survive!"

"A survival mission?"

Saeko Busujima's brows knitted into a knot instantly. Survival missions were the most troublesome type, as they meant there were too many possible dangers.

After all, if even the Main God Space judged it a danger requiring effort to survive, it wasn't something that could be safely passed by finding a so-called safe house to hide in without contacting anyone.

Such missions often represented unexpected dangers!

Just then, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of destroyer-launched missiles streaked across the sky, directly blanketing the forest!

Zhu Shen stood up, flickered, and vanished, reappearing in the sky above the house where they were sheltering.

Looking at the rain of missiles approaching with their exhaust trails, he did not change his expression. Without making a single physical movement, he relied solely on his telekinesis, and all the missiles were controlled by an invisible hand, flying straight up into the sky in unison.

"Boom!"

The sound of explosions was incessant, and the massive barrage formed a spectacular display of fireworks in the air.

After this round of missiles, in the naval fleet dozens of kilometers away, the now-deranged Commander Sakai watched the fire disappear from his radar, completely ignoring the phone beside him.

"Sakai! You bastard! What do you think you're doing!"

He hung up on the questioning call from the Cabinet. His mind was currently filled only with eliminating the target!

However, when he ordered all shells to be fired for a saturation strike, the target vanished from the screen.

A moment later, a subordinate's urgent voice came through his headset.

"Commander, target detected 50 meters above the coastline in front of the fleet!"

Sakai acted as if possessed, roaring hysterically:

"Fire!"

On the coastline ahead of the fleet, Zhu Shen stood silently in the air, gazing at the frenzied armada, and sighed softly.

"Although I seem to be the villain here, your actions make you look much more like one than I do!"

Suddenly, the distant fleet erupted in a thunderous barrage. Countless destroyer missiles were launched in rapid succession, a terrifying curtain of fire obscuring Zhu Shen's vision.

There was no telling how many shells there were—perhaps thousands or tens of thousands—but the number had become meaningless, for as far as the eye could see, everything was within the range of the bombardment!

Faced with this apocalyptic scene, the busy people in the bustling city behind him had yet to react.

Perhaps some workers at the port saw the fleet from afar, but they could never have imagined that the fleet flying their own nation's flag would attack them.

So, when the barrage of fire blanketed the sky, everyone who realized what was happening suffered a mental crash, losing all capacity to react, and could only stare blankly as it all unfolded.

Facing the fire that blotted out the sun, Zhu Shen merely extended his right hand slightly. His fair, slender arm showed no visible surge of energy or matter, a sight that might bring the idiom "a mantis trying to stop a chariot" to mind—but was that truly the case?

The next moment, all the gunfire seemed to hit a pause button, forming a static image!

The various rockets and missiles that had been screaming toward him a moment ago ceased all motion, transitioning from extreme kinetic energy to absolute stillness in an instant!

This scene, as if time and space had frozen, left everyone unable to even think.

Inside the emergency cabinet meeting hall of the island nation.

The high-ranking officials in attendance watched the incredible scene on the satellite broadcast, and the entire hall fell into an eerie, deathly silence.

Why, why did that madman Sakai have to provoke such an existence?

What on earth was this? Superpowers, time manipulation, or a god?

Was this still the world they knew? This sense of unreality left everyone present feeling as if they were trapped in a dream.

Then, the image on the screen changed.

The mysterious figure in the broadcast extended his right hand and snapped his fingers.

All the metal creations that had been forcibly stopped—shells, helicopters, bullets, and more—began to disintegrate like ash, dissolving into their most basic particles and drifting away with the wind until they vanished entirely.

"Cough, this is no longer a normal human, is it? Perhaps He is a god of our island nation? After all, He did technically protect the citizens?"

After a long silence, one official braced himself and broke the quiet.

No one answered him; after all, no one knew if that entity would view Sakai's actions as the collective intent of the entire nation!

No one wanted to test the consequences of that!

But they could not do nothing, so the state machinery instantly whirred into motion. Commander Sakai Izumiya was quickly designated a prime suspect for espionage, treason, and multiple other charges. The evidence was ironclad—the kind that would lead to an immediate conviction in a military court!

At the same time, the entire fleet led by Sakai had lost its authority to fire—and, of course, it no longer had the capability to do so. All mid-to-high-ranking officers involved were neutralized by various override commands.

Two helicopters carrying negotiation orders departed from a military base, preparing to parley with the mysterious figure.

But how could the Gaia Consciousness simply give up on saving itself?

Just after Zhu Shen destroyed the fleet's firepower, the Gaia Consciousness seized control of the commander of the U.S. military base stationed in the island nation. Several aircraft carriers quietly slipped out of the harbor, each carrying dozens of small fighter jets, sailing majestically toward the target port.

Because the U.S. military base happened to be in the nearby waters, Zhu Shen soon saw the silhouette of this carrier fleet.

Several massive steel carriers, accompanied by dozens of frigates, revealed their fangs as the vast torrent of steel opened fire with thousands of guns at once!

Zhu Shen watched this scene, which appeared terrifying to ordinary eyes, with genuine interest.

He allowed the shells to fall within the range of his expanded particle-manipulation field. As all the fire and matter entered the field centered on him, they lost all kinetic energy, remaining stagnant like prey with wings stuck in a spider's web.

Zhu Shen had no intention of venting his anger on the soldiers; after all, they were merely caught in the crossfire between him and the Gaia Consciousness.

Therefore, after neutralizing the attack, he did not counterattack the fleet. Instead, he expanded a psionic shield to protect the brains of the fleet's high-ranking officers, severing the control of the Gaia Consciousness.

The moment the officers broke free from the control, most of them were so terrified they nearly fainted!

Fortunately, most possessed excellent military discipline and managed to forcibly regain control of the situation, shutting down and locking the weapon systems in time to prevent further attacks.

Yet, at the same time Zhu Shen broke the Gaia Consciousness's control, the two nations with the world's largest nuclear arsenals—the Soviet Union and the United States—had already begun the ignition sequence for nuclear missiles in multiple secret bases!

The world had descended into chaos!

An emergency UN meeting was hastily convened, with permanent member states accusing one another of why they had secretly initiated nuclear strikes!

Pandora's box had been opened. Some nations launched nuclear strikes because they were controlled by the Gaia Consciousness, while other smaller nations inexplicably launched nuclear strikes as well, with the United States as their target!

But once the commands were issued, all nuclear strike targets were eerily redirected toward the island nation!

When the Prime Minister of the island nation received the report that dozens of intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads were flying toward his country, he simply fainted in despair.

When did humanity first launch nuclear weapons? Oh right, it was during the last world war. And unfortunately, the one that suffered the nuclear strikes was also the island nation.

Now, humanity had activated this ultimate weapon once more, but in a tragic situation where it was no longer controlled by human will.

If we were to zoom out to the entire Parasyte Planet at this moment, we would see dozens of brilliant, fiery missiles on the surface of the planet, one after another, flying toward the island nation in the center.

The trails of fire behind them seemed to sound the horn of destruction!

Zhu Shen looked down at the civilians beneath his feet, feeling a slight headache.

He had only wanted to simply obtain a world origin; why was the Gaia Consciousness of this world reacting so violently?

Did it really have to clash with him to the bitter end, even at the cost of sacrificing the humans on this planet?

With a soft sigh, Zhu Shen, unwilling to see the world he had worked so hard to conquer turn into a wasteland, let out a long breath.

Zhu Shen's body began to grow larger and larger. In the blink of an eye, he had reverted to his true Ten-Tails Body, standing over 70 meters tall, yet he did not stop there; his form continued to expand as if inflated like a balloon.

Within a few short minutes, Zhu Shen had transformed into a humanoid energy entity nearly a hundred thousand meters tall. His entire being appeared to be composed of glowing virtual particles, his facial features blurring until he seemed godlike and sacred...

At this moment, the size of his physical form was no longer a constraint on Zhu Shen's power, for the will of the Main God had descended, channeled through the Ten-Tails Body!

He was now equivalent to a planetary consciousness forcibly descending upon this realm, and the Gaia Consciousness in the void seemed to be profoundly provoked. Over a hundred nuclear missiles soared into the sky, flying from all corners of the globe toward the giant figure of light appearing above the island nation.

Zhu Shen's god-like, demonic silhouette was visible to all. At this moment, people across the world stared in disbelief at the majestic existence in the sky.

"Oh my god!"

Every media outlet and television station across the globe was frantically broadcasting footage of this sudden figure of light and the rioting nuclear arsenal!

Doomsday theories, biblical apocalypses, messengers of the Lord, the descent of Satan—all sorts of speculations and rumors ran rampant.

Only the group of Reincarnators, who were waiting in the deep mountains and forests for their return time, understood that this terrifying existence was not some devil, Satan, or apocalyptic horseman, but a Reincarnator from the same place as them!

Sweat poured incessantly down Shinichi Izumi's forehead as he stiffly turned his head to look at Saeko Busujima.

"Saeko, are these veteran Reincarnators all... all this exaggerated?"

Shinichi Izumi wore an extremely stiff smile, as if that could make the topic feel lighter.

Saeko Busujima also swallowed hard with great difficulty.

"I haven't seen many veterans, but I imagine that reaching this level... shouldn't be too common."

Although she, like the others, felt a sense of dread at such immense power and the uncertainty of life and death, was she not also profoundly inspired?

Perhaps, one day, she too could possess such power! Then she could change the apocalypse of her own world! She could completely transform that world where no one could see a future, that man-eating hell filled with despair!

Such power could definitely achieve that! A burning heat rose in Saeko Busujima's heart; her heart beat powerfully, her blood began to boil, and she craved strength, she craved battle!

At this moment, an incomparably powerful conviction and desire surged from her boiling blood into her mind.

Saeko Busujima's entire body felt as hot as fire, as if some shackle existing within her mind had shattered under the impact of this massive surge of emotion and conviction...

Sensing this minor interlude, Zhu Shen diverted a sliver of his consciousness to pay slight attention to the group of Reincarnators, reinforced their protective barrier, and set it to return them automatically in 24 hours, before ceasing to focus on this batch of spectators.

What was it like to be surrounded by hundreds of nuclear missiles simultaneously? Zhu Shen thought that no one could understand it better than he did.

The hundreds of nuclear missiles landed one after another upon his energy-infused body, and in that instant, the entire planet went blind!

The light of the sun seemed to illuminate the entire world! Every corner of the planet seemed to be lit up by a burst of radiance.

Yet, eerily, there was no lethality. An invisible energy wave rippled outward, and the massive energy released by the chain reactions within the nuclear weapons was entirely contained within Zhu Shen's hundreds-of-thousands-of-meters-tall body.

The explosion, which theoretically could have destroyed the entire island nation, was like a dud firecracker muffled in a bottle; it was all thunder and no rain, with its destructive power failing to manifest at all.

Zhu Shen, in his form of light, gently waved an arm that could blot out the sun, and countless missiles and artillery fire instantly erupted from within his body.

As if time were flowing backward, all the intercontinental missiles and hydrogen bombs flew straight back toward where they had come from.

They returned to the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, France, and all the other places they had originated, as if nothing had ever happened.

At this moment, the entire world fell silent!