I Am Your Natural Enemy

Chapter 399: Chapter 169: Spatial Fluctuations, Cyber Netherworld (Thanks to the Sect Leader I See Green Mountains Stretching Miles, 5k) - Part 3

The little zombie sniffed with its nose, came to the basement, dragged Sparrow Cat down from upstairs, and pointed at that jade pendant while whimpering.

”Alright, alright, I get it. Later, I’ll talk to Wen Yan about it, okay?”

The little zombie refused to let go, leaving Sparrow Cat helpless, forced to call Wen Yan and tell Wen Yan about the changes in the basement.

”What jade pendant?”

”That one from He Changfeng—did you forget you left him here?”

”Ah, really?” Wen Yan let out an awkward laugh; he actually had forgotten him.

”He shouldn’t cause any trouble. As long as he can’t get out, just ignore him. Just remember, don’t randomly touch or mess with anything in my basement.”

”Oh, got it. When are you coming back? The little zombie’s asking.”

”A couple days.”

...

Inside Guanzhong County, Wen Yan hung up the phone, glanced at the whole room full of ghosts, and thought there wasn’t much of a change after all.

I’ll just wait until I’m back in a few days to check things out. He Changfeng can actually start absorbing Yin Qi through the talismans now?

He never used to have that ability—it must mean something’s changed.

Wen Yan asked Lord Zhu and Old Ghost Ji; neither of them had sensed anything at all.

At the very same moment, on the Underworld Road—that endless road, with no beginning and no end—something began to change.

In the black, white, and gray space, wisps of green light began to float and twist, warping into a new road that sprouted from one side of the main road.

This road, which at first was only twenty or thirty centimeters wide, gradually expanded to become a concrete road, three or four meters wide—just enough for a vehicle to pass.

A mass of nether souls started moving towards the fork, following the road all the way into the rolling green light at the end.

As more and more nether souls merged in, the green light gradually widened and lengthened the road, ultimately forming a three-gate, four-pillar archway standing there, with more and more nether souls disappearing inside.

...

At the same time, in the special room at Scorching Sun Headquarters, that constantly buzzing Doomsday Computer suddenly shut down its never-changing trash mini-game and restarted itself.

The abrupt change automatically triggered an alarm; soon, someone came to witness the Doomsday Computer’s transformation.

After rebooting, there was suddenly a new icon on the desktop, underneath which a progress bar indicated that something was updating.

Then the mouse autonomously moved onto the new icon, popping up a prompt box beside it.

”Cyber Netherworld, now downloading and installing.”

”Countdown: 3:00:00:00.”

Below that, it even showed the total size was 2.6 terabytes, now downloading at over ninety megabytes per second.

Just seeing the name of this game, everyone’s faces grew a little uneasy.

They had just confirmed that the second stage of spiritual qi resurgence involved nether souls, and lately, all sorts of omens had been popping up everywhere, with the Scorching Sun Department deploying loads of manpower to keep an eye on any places possibly related to the nether souls.

In particular, places like Fengdu were being closely monitored as key areas.

Their projections suggested that the starting point this time would probably be at that entrance to the Nether Soul Realm between Nanwu County and Luoyue County.

No one had expected, in the end, for the Doomsday Computer itself to be where the changes broke out.

The Doomsday Computer had always previously run trash games by itself with no one in control, but now—on its own—it closed the game before and began installing a brand-new non-existent game.

The hard drive in that computer only held 500 gigabytes total.

By the next day, the computer said the hard drive was full, but the download progress didn’t stop at all, continuing steadily.

They found the Doomsday Computer somehow connected to a mysterious gigabit network, still downloading the game, even though neither a network cable nor network card was attached.

Where it was downloading from, how it was downloading—it was totally undetectable.

Meanwhile, from the outside, cross-checking all kinds of info, there still were no reports of anything out of the ordinary, anywhere.

This time, unlike before, there was no world boss arrival marked with a place or a name.

But this time, without any world boss descent, the Doomsday Computer just installed a deeply unsettling new game.

The Scorching Sun Department could only adjust their preparations slightly, based on their previous plans and speculation.

The third day.

At this moment, Wen Yan was still in Guanzhong County, and tonight was Lord Zhu’s birthday banquet.

Guided by the Grave Walkers, many big ghosts from all over had shown up; Wen Yan was one of the very few living people here.

Lord Zhu took Wen Yan around, introducing him like a junior from his family, helping him get acquainted by face with everyone.

Wine cups clinked, the rounds went back and forth, Wen Yan completely lost track of how much he’d drunk and was basically forced to drink into oblivion.

He was aided back to his guestroom to rest, and in a daze, it seemed he saw green light flickering about.

He pulled open the curtains and looked outside, only to see everything out there gradually fading away.

All objects seemed to be enveloped in a faint green glow, the corners and edges even brighter, glowing green lines tracing their outlines.

All the ghosts disappeared within the green light.

And everything around him gradually was reduced to just the green lines outlining their shapes, until finally all things vanished away.

In the blink of an eye, the outlines around him re-solidified, and as the green light dissipated, everything seemed to return to normal once again.

All the changes happened so fast that now, looking again, it was like nothing had happened. Wen Yan rubbed his head.

”Must’ve woken up too quick...”

Dazed, he got back into bed. Just as he lay down, he suddenly shot up, wide awake in an instant.

Eternal Sunrise: The sun in your heart will never set, allowing you to be immune to certain negative effects.

Sunless Travel: You can use your body of flesh to walk in some places that are normally inaccessible, and will be immune to the environmental hazards native to those locations.

The Scorching Sun’s two passive abilities had been activated.

He looked up, as if something was above his head.

He found a mirror and looked into it, noticing a few lines of text floating above his head, leaving him totally flabbergasted.

”Su Yue, hidden NPC, a living human walking the Netherworld.

Gain his favor, and you might be able to replenish Yang Energy in the Netherworld.

Traits: Greedy for money and treasure, loyal and righteous, doesn’t hold grudges.”