Free Web NovelChapter 81: Chapter 81: Where Did You Take Me? What’s With This Blazing Sun?
"Is... something wrong here?"
Qi Suian climbed to his feet. A scorching sun hung in the sky, and the outdoor temperature had already reached fifty degrees.
And it was still rising.
’According to the reborn person’s memories, the second Doomsday World was supposed to be a radiation apocalypse—a nuclear winter following a nuclear war, complete with irradiated monsters.’
’It should be perpetually overcast, with clouds so thick the sun can’t get through. Where did this massive sun come from???’ Qi Suian felt it wasn’t just not dark, it was blindingly bright.
’This couldn’t be my fault, could it? Making the Doomsday Game leave the Profound World ahead of schedule must have created a butterfly effect.’
In the reborn person’s memories, the series of events Qi Suian had caused never happened. So, under normal circumstances, there should have been another year before the game left.
But things were different now. It had been forced to leave midway, so there was no way it would continue on its original path.
’In that case, doesn’t that mean I’m the only one left... Holy shit, where did it pull all these new survivors from?’
Qi Suian had assumed that after he dealt with all the other survivors, he would be the star of the Doomsday Game. He never expected that after arriving in a new Doomsday World, the game would just pull in a fresh batch of people.
’I have a bad feeling about this...’ Qi Suian felt it was unlikely the Doomsday Game would bring in another group just to die. They were probably a much stronger bunch.
He knew from the reborn person’s memories that people from different worlds had different initial stats.
In the final world, for instance, even ordinary civilians had at least 5 points in both stats. Correspondingly, that world was also much more durable.
That’s why you wouldn’t see ordinary people casually shattering the void.
For the survivors, this was a nightmare. The natives of those powerful worlds, even the children, possessed higher stats than they did.
It was like a rich person from a small, third-tier mountain town moving to Shanghai or the Imperial Capital, only to find that even the old man collecting scrap on the street was wealthier than them.
A bad world determined your fate from birth.
And it was precisely because the Doomsday Game incrementally increased the difficulty of its worlds that the survivors, despite their progress, could only ever struggle to survive. There was never an opportunity to go on an unstoppable rampage.
"AI, what’s your take on this?" Qi Suian asked.
[The temperature is rising, and the rate of increase is accelerating. It is recommended that you find a shaded area for shelter.]
[The Profound Virus’s current survival temperature is your maximum body temperature. The Tai Sui God is not equipped with the corresponding high-temperature resistance module. The artificial crystal-vein alloy’s effectiveness is limited.]
Qi Suian’s eye twitched. He hadn’t even noticed. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
’No wonder it’s been so hot and painful. I just thought I was delirious with a fever.’
’So it was just the temperature rising.’
Qi Suian possessed a Viral Bloodline Augmentation Module, which meant a part of his flesh and blood was separated and fused with the Tai Sui God, connected by blood vessels and nerves.
So he could feel things through it; he was just so used to the pain that he’d stopped noticing.
"How fast is it rising?"
[Preliminary estimate is one degree per minute. Upper limit is unknown.]
That was indeed fast. But as Qi Suian looked around, he had to wonder where he was supposed to find a "shaded area."
He was in the middle of a Gobi Desert, with nothing but coarse sand and gravel in sight.
’Something’s wrong. The Profound Virus’s activity is dropping; it seems to have gone listless.’ Upon further inspection, Qi Suian found the Profound Virus in his body was sluggish.
It was as if it had been weakened.
"Is it an environmental issue? Did something go wrong with the expedition-grade ecological circulation unit?" Qi Suian identified the root cause before the AI could answer, then asked.
[The expedition-grade ecological circulation unit is operating normally. The high temperature is affecting the Profound Virus through the Tai Sui God.]
[You are currently fused with the Tai Sui God via the Viral Bloodline Augmentation Module.]
[The Profound Virus within your body has not undergone mutations for higher temperatures, so it is naturally being affected.]
The maximum temperature the Profound Virus could withstand was directly tied to Qi Suian’s own body temperature.
He had been maintaining a high fever of fifty degrees—well, calling it a high fever wasn’t entirely accurate. At most, you could say his body temperature was abnormal.
When he first arrived, the outside temperature was fifty degrees, which the Profound Virus could just barely handle. But now, a few minutes had passed, and the temperature had definitely changed. freēwēbnovel.com
This caused the Profound Virus to be unable to bear it.
"So if I deactivate the fusion mode, the Profound Virus should return to normal, right?"
[That is not recommended. You possess a super-adaptive ability, which can be used to grant the Profound Virus greater high-temperature resistance.]
[You will simultaneously gain a corresponding high-temperature resistance.]
In other words, he just had to tough it out.
Hearing this, Qi Suian thought that while it would be painful, it did seem to make sense.
"Fine, we’ll do it your way." Pain was the one thing Qi Suian didn’t fear.
Besides, this was a way to get stronger just by being idle. The price he had to pay was minimal.
[One more reminder: the process may require drawing large amounts of your skin, flesh, and bone as a supply.]
"Not a problem. Take what you need." Qi Suian was unconcerned; he could grow it all back anyway. "But you’ll need to increase nutrient intake. Otherwise, the Profound Virus might not make it."
The Profound Virus wasn’t an infinite power source. It relied on Qi Suian, so its regeneration came at a cost.
Most of the time, he replenished it through Death-Reconstruction.
This time, however, he was adapting to high temperatures, so he couldn’t do that. He had to ensure a steady supply of nutrients.
Dying wouldn’t reset his progress, but it would cause it to drop due to the interruption.
[Rest assured, this has already been planned for in the protocol.]
Of course the AI knew. It didn’t need Qi Suian to remind it.
In fact, most problems were caused by Qi Suian dying, not by malnutrition.
[A high-speed flying object is approaching. Preliminary scans detect a high-temperature heat source.]
The AI hadn’t even finished speaking when Qi Suian heard a low, sharp cry.
[Flying object locked. Preliminary identification is a vulture, but its body is approximately ninety percent larger than a large vulture.]
In the sky, a black shadow flitted past.
Because it was flying so high, Qi Suian couldn’t get a good sense of its size.
He knew that a typical vulture was about 1.2 meters tall with a wingspan of around two meters.
That was the average. For some larger specimens, the wingspan could reach three meters.
After a quick calculation based on the AI’s data, a strange look appeared on Qi Suian’s face.
’A 2.4-meter body and a four-meter wingspan... how is that vulture small in any way? And how does something that big even take off?’
Not to mention this vulture was a high-temperature heat source. It was probably a species that had mutated due to the doomsday environment, just like the zombies.
As he was thinking, he saw the black shadow in the sky growing larger and larger.
Using the reconnaissance network and satellites, Qi Suian finally got a clear look at the vulture.
Its appearance wasn’t much different from an ordinary vulture, but it radiated intense heat. Its feathers were the color of magma, and the part of its head that should have been bald was covered in a substance resembling a keratinous layer.
"An Extraordinary Creature?!"
"Catch it! Burn it!" Qi Suian couldn’t help but feel a surge of delight.
This was excellent fuel.
Although the vulture was an Extraordinary Creature, it didn’t seem to be a match for the likes of Chunyu Hu whom Qi Suian had previously encountered.
[The Tai Sui God is currently unable to capture it.]
The AI dealt Qi Suian a heavy blow. Killing was possible, but capturing was not.
As soon as the reply was complete, a Floating Cannon fired a Dark Energy Beam, instantly killing the vulture that was diving toward Qi Suian.
It disintegrated into carbonized particles in mid-air.
[Commencing search for a suitable rest area.]
The temperature was getting higher and higher. He didn’t know what the peak would be; what if it just kept rising indefinitely?
Of course, that wasn’t very likely.
But one thing was certain: it would affect the Tai Sui God’s operations.
It was lucky that the fusion with Qi Suian’s flesh and bone was providing support. Otherwise, even if the Tai Sui God hadn’t failed completely, it would have already started showing operational problems.
After all, the Tai Sui God’s armor value was only 15. Without the appropriate modules, it was certainly stronger than an ordinary person, but only by a little.
To move freely, it needed a corresponding high-temperature resistance module.
The Tai Sui God’s main characteristic was infinite growth. "Infinite" wasn’t the key part; the key was the word "growth."
This meant the Tai Sui God wasn’t the type to be invincible from birth. It had to be nurtured and developed over time.
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"Law Enforcer status?" Qin Sheng looked at his unique identity, a little puzzled.
Just ten minutes ago, his entire world had been enveloped by the Doomsday Game, and he had been pulled into this high-temperature Doomsday World to survive.
But he hadn’t become a survivor. His status was Law Enforcer.
The advantage was that he could obtain more rewards and resources.
There was one downside, though: a permanent, mandatory mission to kill all rulebreakers.
Killing any rulebreaker came with a handsome reward.
’This strong?’ Qin Sheng opened the permanent event tab: Rulebreakers. It listed the rulebreakers currently in this Doomsday World.
"So many people... even a Danjin Grandmaster couldn’t handle this."
In his world, there was a secret art known as Ancient Martial Technique, with ranks ascending through six realms: Visible Force, Hidden Force, Transforming Force, Elixir Force, Astral Force, and Tribulation Force.
Reaching the Elixir Force realm made one a Grandmaster. As for the higher Astral Force and Tribulation Force realms, no modern Ancient Martial Artist had ever managed to cultivate them.
As an orphan, he had been adopted by seven mysterious masters who taught him the Eternal Undying God-Demon Scripture, an Ancient Martial Technique that could supposedly lead directly to the Tribulation Force realm.
But that was just in theory. Mastering it required constant combat and enlightenment. The problem was, his original world was a modern, civilized city. Where was he supposed to find so much life-and-death fighting?
Because of this, even the Ancient Martial Technique had fallen into decline, surviving only within special state military units, Ancient Martial Families, and a few scattered independent sects.
For most people, even achieving the Visible Force realm was considered quite an accomplishment.
To stand against firearms, one had to be a Danjin Grandmaster, who could sense danger ahead of time and just barely dodge a pistol bullet.
And he, Qin Sheng, despite possessing a powerful ancient martial heritage, had lacked opportunities for tempering. He had been training diligently in seclusion, but had only reached the Peak of Anjin.
’But with this Doomsday Game, perhaps I can reach the pinnacle of the Tribulation Force realm.’
But before that, he had to figure out a way to deal with the high temperature.
