Who Am I? Standing Before You Is...
Xi'er looked at the creature that had appeared out of nowhere, possessing divinity yet Unspeakable description.
A crimson madness immediately filled his eyes.
"You are not human! You are not human! You are... you are... I don't know, you... which god are you!"
Xi'er teetered on the brink of madness; his limbs and the wings on his back were twisted and contorted, as if something was about to burst out of his body.
Before connecting to Shen Hui's world, I saw that he was still human.
But the way the other party is now appearing is beyond Xi'er's comprehension and understanding.
At least, the other party is no longer human.
"Me? Heh."
"Standing before you is Shen Hui, the Lord of the Death World, the Creator of the Eldritch Beings, the Unspeakable Source, the Foundation's Containment Officer, the Provisional Thirteenth Death God, and the Backrooms Bug Developer!"
"At the same time, I am now also a human being, and also your terminator!"
As Shen Hui finished speaking, Xi'er's body shattered.
His body rapidly shrank, and blood-stained crimson tentacles stretched out from within him.
He did not die, but was transformed into another kind of being through extreme distortion.
At the same time, his consciousness and reason died within his original body.
However, in his final moments of "death," a faint voice cried out from him.
"Lord Amon knows the past and the future; you can't escape..."
With the lingering echo in his ears, Shen Hui looked at the monstrous Crow Werewolves leader before him.
It was as if he were talking to himself, or perhaps to the monster before him:
"I never intended to run away, so come on then."
With Xi'er's death, the World Expansion its final counterattack.
And they began invading the world the other side was in.
Mist of Lost Direction descends, accompanied by Eldritch Beings creatures.
All life, whether vegetation or animal, decays and withers, turning into death.
The remaining Crow Werewolves gradually despaired in their resistance.
In the Sunset Desert, a spatial fluctuation flickered, and a person from the Starry Sky Leaderboard used the World Power to perform a short-range teleportation here.
And now, it's not just this one person who has arrived.
More than twenty people have already arrived here, all after receiving the message from their devices that the mission to eliminate the Crow Werewolves had been changed and upgraded.
People who rushed over from the nearby battlefield area.
They range from the first to the fifth class.
People of higher social class naturally come here to earn points.
After all, the task change removed the restrictions on accepting tasks, and the points earned also increased.
Given their capabilities, completing this task would be relatively simple, so naturally they would want to come and try to secure it.
Those from lower classes came simply to join the fun and see what was going on.
However, they did not know who was caught in the crisis caused by the sudden escalation of the mission; they only knew that such a thing had happened.
Ye Long wasn't far from Sunset Desert, and he happened to arrive at this time to see what was going on.
He looked among the arriving people, searching for a familiar figure.
"Brother Shen didn't come, and neither did Xiao Xiangyan. Aren't they going to come and join the fun? Or are they both too far away?"
"Wang Jie was among them too. No wonder he's the worst student; he always likes to come and watch the fun."
"We need to find someone to ask what's going on here, otherwise we won't understand anything."
"But I don't recognize any of them. Hey, that person... doesn't he look like the one Brother Shen chatted with when he first went to the Starry Sky Leaderboard base?"
"What was her name again... I think it was... Zhiyue, yes, that's Zhiyue, the one in the top fifty, it's her."
Ye Long finally spotted someone he recognized in the crowd.
Of course, this was just his own opinion, since Ye Long had no idea what relationship the other party had with Shen Hui.
Naturally, he had no connection with the other party.
But this didn't stop Ye Long from shamelessly asking what was going on here.
Ye Long walked over to Zhiyue: "Um... Zhiyue, right? I'm Shen Hui's friend, my name is Ye Long. We met before. I wanted to ask you, what's going on here?"
Zhiyue noticed the person in front of her, her brows furrowed slightly, her face indifferent, and she completely ignored Ye Long.
This was completely different from her previous attitude towards Shen Hui, which was like that of a friendly older sister next door.
Ye Long was completely ignored, and he never expected that the situation would be so different from the last time when Shen Hui was present.
Feeling a little embarrassed, I touched my nose.
He wanted to ask more questions, but Zhiyue directly dismissed Ye Long:
"The situation is exactly as indicated on the instrument."
After saying that, Zhiyue changed her seat.
Ye Long looked even more embarrassed; what he had said was essentially meaningless.
However, someone nearby immediately chuckled, clearly having anticipated this situation.
"Brother, don't ask. You newcomers don't know. This girl is called Zhiyue. She doesn't like to deal with people weaker than her."
"Either you become as strong as her, or she'll become interested in you and take the initiative to contact you."
"But she has the confidence to back it up. I'm in the same year as her, and I'm only in the 200s, while she's already in the 50s."
Hearing her words, Ye Long couldn't help but mutter, "So she's interested in Brother Shen? Could it be that she likes Brother Shen?"
"But their last meeting was their first time together. Is this what they call love at first sight?"
Shen Hui's strength was definitely not as strong as Zhiyue's, so Ye Long couldn't help but start to imagine things.
However, Ye Long wasn't one for gossip, so after thinking for a moment, he focused his attention on the matter at hand.
"Brother, what's going on here? This is my first time here, and I've never encountered anything like this before."
The man answered Ye Long.
"The mission has been upgraded, which means that the strength of the alien race here far exceeds the normal assessment. They are not people of your fifth rank who can deal with them. That's why the mission restrictions have been lifted, allowing us to quickly clear them out."
"But... I didn't see any alien world areas here."
Ye Long looked around; all he saw was endless yellow sand.
Before he came to the Sunset Desert, he had already fought against an alien race and knew that the alien race had altered the existence of an area there.
"That means the mission is more difficult and more challenging."
"Feel it carefully, the fluctuations hidden in space."
"This isn't a regional battle within Starry Sky Battlefield; we've been dragged into a full-scale war between worlds."
"Now we are all searching for the place where that alien race and those who were pulled into the world war disappeared."
Without bothering to explain further to Ye Long, the man began searching.
However, Ye Long roughly understood, and couldn't help but mutter to himself again.
"What an unlucky guy! This is too tragic. He's probably in grave danger."
Ye Long also began to carefully sense the fluctuations hidden in the space to determine his location.
More people arrived at Sunset Desert along the way, expanding the search area.
Not long after, a voice came from one direction. "Found them! We've found their vanished spatial stronghold!"