novelsite Chapter 141 The story is a long one.
Chapter 141 The story is a long one.
"What's going on? This shouldn't be happening..." Yang Mo's expression gradually turned grim.
He had anticipated that his sudden disappearance would have some impact on the situation, but now it seems the impact has been far too great.
Li Can retrieved a searchlight from the spatial gashapon, then took it out of his pocket. With a powerful beam, it instantly illuminated most of the sky in front of him.
In fact, he doesn't need lights to see the outside situation clearly.
But it was precisely because of this that he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Shen Yuan stared in disbelief at Li Can's pockets, which were like a treasure chest, containing all sorts of things.
Before she could say anything, everyone's attention was drawn to the barrier in the sky, which was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
Dark particles rained down on the ground from above.
Apart from the area around the City Lord's Mansion, where the cracks overhead appear to be slightly minor and no particles have fallen yet.
The tall buildings and various structures that once stood in the distance have long since melted and collapsed under erosion, turning into a low black sand dune.
Half of the asphalt on the street had melted away, leaving almost nowhere for people to put their feet.
Looking around, the old buildings of the city lord's mansion that "survived" in their original locations resembled a lonely island floating in the sea.
Looking out from where Li Can and the others were standing, they saw dark particles gathering on the ground and dissolving everything.
In just one day, this place is completely different from what it used to be in the upper town.
It was so dilapidated that it seemed no human had ever lived there...
Deathly silence. For miles around, there was utter silence. Apart from the continuous collapse of buildings and the sound of raindrops falling, there was no other sound.
"Waaah, the barrier in the upper city is broken. Isn't this the black curtain particles we saw in Act III? They're developing so rapidly now..." Shen Yuan said pessimistically.
"Boom! Thud..." Another building nearby collapsed.
The surrounding view was now completely unobstructed, and everything was crystal clear.
Li Can held a powerful searchlight and looked down at the area below where the barrier still appeared relatively intact.
"There seem to be people moving around there." He pointed with his searchlight, and from a great distance, only a faint, ethereal shadow could be seen.
The few upper-town residents gathered there sensed the light sweeping across them and looked over.
However, upon discovering that it was the location of the city lord's mansion, he instantly lost his temper and began to curse loudly.
Yang Mo and the others probably couldn't see or hear anything clearly.
However, it was very clear to Li Can's ears.
"I'll f*** you, your whole family, you bunch of bastards, you're all **..."
Li Can: "..."
After hearing this, he had only one reaction.
That means something must have happened here after Yang Mo and the others left, causing the survivors of Upper City to harbor such resentment.
He was just about to discuss this with everyone, since it concerned the progress of the dungeon afterward.
The upper city cannot be saved; it will restrict many of his plans as it will not be able to provide free movement for humans.
But the next second, particles started falling from the barrier above their heads.
Those tiny cracks eventually gave way and grew larger and spread.
The moment the roof of the main hall came into contact with the dark particles, it was like a flame igniting a piece of paper; they spread, they burned and consumed, and the roof's skeleton was exposed...
"Run, run!" Li Can knew that this place was not a safe place to stay.
The upper town is no longer suitable for exploring routes out of the city.
They decided to relocate first and then make further plans.
He kept moving, using his searchlight to point out the location of the former study in the city lord's mansion, which was the teleportation point where they had arrived from the lower city.
"Come this way, quick!"
The top of the study was no longer safe, so the first thing Li Can did upon entering the room was to activate the [Coordinates Point].
He swiftly activated the teleportation portal, and a shimmering gate, large enough for one person to pass through, automatically appeared in the void.
Without hesitation, Li Can pulled Li Lan along and was the first to push it in.
No one held anyone back, and everyone quickly moved to the new location.
Of the four people present, only Yang Mo was seeing the use of this [coordinate point] for the first time, and a look of amazement and shock flashed in his eyes.
The next second, the figures disappeared, and the portal opened in the underground casino space of the lower city.
After Li Can led the three of them out quickly, he immediately controlled the [coordinate point] to completely reclaim it, no longer stationed in the study of the city lord's mansion in the upper city.
He worried that even special tools wouldn't be able to withstand the intensity of the dark particles.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief once he was certain that it was truly safe for the group to move into the lower town.
Fortunately, the third act of "The Mirror of Past Lives" ended just in time; if it had been any later, they would have been able to start eating right after they came out of the mirror.
At that time, there were absolutely no protective measures; if you just went in with your bare hands, no one could withstand it.
After all, they don't have the kind of terrifying physical abilities that little monsters possess, such as the ability to convert energy.
"I think I can get in touch with them..." Yang Mo's communication device on his mecha arm had been unresponsive, but the signal was finally restored after he arrived in the lower city.
This was the first time he had entered this place in his own physical form; before, he had always used strange, ethereal forms.
Having experienced such a huge change all at once, my nerves were on edge.
"Where are you? What happened? Why did the barrier in the upper city suddenly collapse?" Yang Mo's hands were shaking. After trying to type several times without success, he pressed the voice input button and started sending a voice message.
Li Can watched as his communication screen lit up briefly, then instantly turned into several small red dots representing unread messages.
Feng Tian's voice came through:
"It's a long story. We've all moved to the lower city for refuge now. By the way, we completely closed the city gates 10 hours ago. How did you get in?"
"Did all of you come out of that mirror?"
"It's a long story for you too, let's talk when we meet. We're at the Baijie Hotel."
Li Can: "..." They've all started using Xing Dazhuang's house as a contact point. Why do they all run there for everything?
In the voice message, Feng Tian's voice was not clear, there were voices around, it was noisy, and the ambient noise was very loud.
It's like she's buying groceries at a farmers' market.
It wasn't just her side that was noisy; even the ground above their own heads was a bit noisy.
Li Can's ears were filled with the hushed voices of various people talking in hushed tones, a chaotic and overwhelming sound that gave him a headache.
"Boom..."
"Bang!"
"boom!"
As Yang Mo and Li Lan took turns punching the construction debris blocking the basement entrance, they finally opened a hole in the exit.
The group nimbly climbed down to the ground and looked around to find the upper-town residents sitting on the ground, beginning to settle down.
In other words, the original location of the [coordinates] was on the site of the recently demolished casino building. Now, the area is filled with steel bars and rubble, and it has not yet been occupied.
Otherwise, when they were burrowing out of the ground, they might have randomly injured a few lucky citizens.
Clutching all their hastily prepared belongings, they looked disheveled and stared at Li Can and his companions, who had suddenly emerged from the ground.