Chapter 662: Leakage
New York City lies by the Pacific Ocean, so worrying about a tsunami wasn't exactly groundless paranoia.
For some inexplicable reason, Lun Qin had a feeling that the earthquake in the Pacific Ocean was very likely connected to the system she had received.
This feeling was utterly baseless, yet it persisted stubbornly.
"I heard satellites are closely monitoring the seismic zone in the ocean. They say there are already signs of a tsunami forming. Should we hide somewhere first?"
Though Lun Heping had, unwittingly, accumulated more than a dozen or twenty lives on his hands, at his core, he was still a young man who feared death. Hearing the word ‘tsunami’ made his heart flutter with panic.
"Idiot, we’re on the forty-second floor... over a hundred meters above ground. Unless a planet drops into the ocean someday, no wave will reach us."
No sooner had Lun Qin finished speaking than she recalled the scene of heaven and earth collapsing in her memories. She promptly clamped her mouth shut, lest her cursed constitution turn her into a jinx.
...
"That earthquake just now was unusual." The Hell Squad’s captain, relying on his transplanted special bloodline, sensed that something was amiss.
"It didn’t feel like a tremor from deep within the earth’s crust; it felt more like..."
"Captain, stop keeping us in suspense."
"Even I find my conclusion hard to believe."
"Is there anything that could stump our all-powerful Captain?"
"I felt that tremor was more like a punch to the earth’s crust."
"..."
"..."
The others wore expressions of disbelief, but out of respect for their captain’s long-standing authority, they dared not voice their doubts. However, their rich facial expressions undoubtedly betrayed their inner thoughts.
Nothing else; the power of the earthquake was simply too astonishing.
If it had occurred on land, an eight-magnitude earthquake would be enough to turn a city of a million people into a living hell within minutes.
Even their sixth-tier captain, attempting to utterly destroy a city with brute force, would require several days, exerting his full strength, emptying himself in a no-holds-barred output.
"Enough of this. Has the Heaven Squad arrived?" To prevent further doubts from festering, the captain decided to change the subject, even if the transition seemed a bit abrupt.
"Attention: Heaven Squad will arrive in this plane in three minutes."
Before his teammates could even speak, the Main God answered the Hell Squad captain’s question first.
"..."
"One hour and forty-eight minutes. The time difference compared to our last fight between the two squads has shrunk by ten minutes. It seems, in the Main God’s eyes, our Hell Squad’s relative strength has increased."
"..."
A profound silence descended.
...
"Still a bit strained." Within the Void Realm, Bai Mo withdrew his power.
Just a moment ago, the instant he handed the system to Lun Qin, the power that leaked onto Water Blue Star caused a catastrophic eight-magnitude earthquake on this fragile planet.
Had he not reacted in time, instantly flinging all the residual power into the deep sea, New York City would likely have suffered an unwarranted calamity.
Lun Heping and his sister wouldn’t die, but tens of thousands of New York City residents would likely perish without cause.
Normally, with the minute control a regular True Immortal possesses over their own power, such a leakage would be utterly impossible.
But Bai Mo, affected by Daoization, was different. Over the decades on Water Blue Star, the growth rate of his power far outstripped the growth rate of his control, leading to a terrifying scope of side effects whenever he exerted even a sliver of his strength.
Forget the world-shattering destruction that would ensue if his main body descended upon the mortal realm; this time, merely sending a system remotely was accompanied by a massive earthquake.
"Once they arrive, things will be much simpler."
Bai Mo had already set his sights on this dimension-traversing anomaly that called itself the Main God, but the other party had remained well-hidden, leaving behind few clues.
Whether the Main God belonged to the Spirit of Creation faction or the Soulless faction was something he didn’t know, nor did he care.
He had roughly estimated that the other party’s level was likely comparable to his own, making it possible to hunt.
Moreover, this dimension-traversing anomaly must have mastered a vast number of spatial layer coordinates with civilizations. To Bai Mo, these coordinates were the most precious wealth.
...
"Brat, come here, sis has a secret to tell you."
Three days later, a weary-faced Lun Qin, with two prominent dark circles under her eyes, pulled Lun Heping onto a chair in her room. She then sat on the edge of her bed and began what she called their “Life Talk.”
"What are you doing?! I already have someone I like! We’re impossible!"
"Where did your mind go?" Lun Qin delivered a kick to her brother’s face, instantly shattering his mundane fantasies.
"Let me tell you, an alien has just given me a very important mission..."
Upon hearing this, Lun Heping reached out to check, confirming his sister wasn’t running a fever.
"Is your old illness flaring up again?"
"You’re the one who’s crazy! Your whole family is crazy!" Lun Qin instinctively shot back, but immediately realized her mistake, having dragged herself into it.
"It really is your old illness flaring up again."
"..."
"This is the Inter-world Gate Formation Diagram it gave me, see for yourself." The mortified and exasperated girl pulled a stack of handwritten documents from a drawer and slapped them onto Lun Heping’s face.
"Otherworld Summoning? Do Origin Stones have such high-end uses?"
Lun Heping looked at the more than ten pages of purely handwritten documents and couldn’t help but grow a little more serious. He finally understood what his sister had been busy with these past few days.
"I tried several times, always just a bit short of success, but I just don’t know what I’m missing..."
Initially, she intended to complete it independently, but reality cruelly slapped her in the face.
Every single time, she was just a hair’s breadth away, as if Heaven itself was trying to thwart her.
In her helplessness, Lun Qin consulted the system, and it prompted her with the three characters: “Lun Heping.”
"Let me take a look." Lun Heping took her “masterpiece” from the haggard Lun Qin and examined it carefully.
For the first time, he realized that his sister, who had always held a dominant position at home, could actually show such an expression.
...
Lun Qin was obsessed with eternal youth.
From the moment she first saw the Vermilion Bird Bloodstone, she secretly resolved to obtain it.
However, if she knew that such things were exported by the crate from Earth, she’d probably bash her head against a wall.
As early as the Hua-Ya Federation era, decades ago, humanity had already progressed far in the development of spirit materials, and the Vermilion Bird Bloodstone was a product of that time.
Apart from its name, this thing actually had no relation to Zhuque whatsoever; it was a typical case of clickbait.
There was, in fact, a true “Zhuque” Phoenix on Earth, but its blood contained terrifying fire spirit energy. Any stone that touched it would likely melt into lava, so naturally, there was no talk of any Vermilion Bird Bloodstone.
PS: This isn’t a promo this time, just a recommendation for two books I’ve been reading recently: “Ballad of the Assassin Bard” and “I Lived for Thirty Years in Another World.” Experienced readers might find them interesting...
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