this infinite world

"Fuck, it hurts so much..."

——Zheng Zha woke up from the pain.

His whole body felt like it was being pricked by needles, and the severe pain from every cell attacked Zheng Zha's nerves, making his body twitch involuntarily because of the pain like a cooked shrimp... Of course, this was not a bad thing for Zheng Zha.

Pain is proof of being alive. The more pain one feels during the Lord God's teleportation, the closer Zheng Zha is to the advanced fourth stage. If he can stay fully conscious during the Lord God's teleportation, then Zheng Zha will naturally overcome this difficulty.

Unfortunately, Zheng Zha was still a little far from being able to maintain his will during the transmission. When the severe pain that went straight to his soul reached its peak, he was forced to faint for a few seconds... and these few short seconds were the gap between him and the advanced level of the fourth stage.

"Huh... damn Lord God."

Zheng Zha slowly exhaled a breath of foul air, forced himself to stand up, and felt the pain in his body gradually subside. The man turned his head and looked at the other members of the Zhongzhou team who were lying on the ground in a twisted state and had not yet awakened from the Lord God's transmission: "Sure enough, I am the first one to wake up..."

……?

A slight sense of disharmony rose in Zheng Zha's mind, but he put it behind him in an instant, because he had counted the current number of people in the Zhongzhou team in just one glance.

Including Zheng Zha himself, there were eleven people in total, and as expected, there were no new people entering.

To be fair, for the current Zhongzhou team, the lack of new players is not actually a bad thing. After all, the last game was a world of "Level 3 is everywhere, Level 4 is worse than dogs, and only Level 4 intermediates can shake up", where there are many strong people in the Legend of Sword and Fairy. Picking an ordinary disciple from the Qionghua Sect at random, they have already cultivated their true energy and reached the level of a foundation-building cultivator. If their strength is converted to the framework of the reincarnation world, it is at least equivalent to the strength level of Level 2 to Level 3.

There were gods watching from the front, and traitors from heaven infiltrated the team from behind. Chu Xuan was the mastermind, taking advantage of the situation to win over Qionghua to fight against Shushan. Only then did he go to the Yandi Shennong Cave when Zheng Zha was fighting against the three masters of the gods alone, and successfully completed the main task. In the end, Chu Xuan played a trick of "killing three warriors with two peaches", leveraging Reinhardt to pry open the overall situation, so that the Zhongzhou team survived this difficult world without losing a single person.

After the Legend of Sword and Fairy ended, the Zhongzhou team faced an unimaginable battlefield. The massive invasion from the prehistoric heaven and the personal intervention of the immortals made Zheng Zha experience the feeling of "living and dying".

...Well, literally dying and coming back to life, a total of 2,877 deaths.

Even though Zheng Zha finally broke out in desperation and started the "Honghuang-Creation of the World" to achieve the final victory, in order to avoid being tracked by the Honghuang Heaven, he pushed the Earth on the Pacific Rim plane into the void, creating a "Wandering Earth"... but the lost partners could never come back.

(Overlord...)
Thinking of his companions who sacrificed themselves in the last battle and could not be resurrected by the resurrection stone, Zheng Zha unconsciously clenched his fists and felt heavy in his heart.

The Lord God's mission will only become more and more difficult. According to Chu Xuan's analysis, this time the Zhongzhou team will have to face Dr. Manhattan directly. The opponent's abilities shown in the movie can be said to be ever-changing, without any blind spots or weaknesses. At least he is at the level of a primary saint...

"… Let's first take a look at what this mission is."

Zheng Zha shook his head. He didn't know if it was because of the excessive pressure, but he always felt that he couldn't calm down after waking up, as if he had forgotten something. He just looked at the people of the Zhongzhou team who woke up one after another, and he still gathered his mind and looked at the main god watch on his right hand.

This time, there was only a simple sentence on the Lord's watch.

"Find Dr. Manhattan." There was no reward, no punishment, and no other hints. Just a single sentence, that was all.

"…What kind of mission is this?"

Seeing this requirement was very different from any previous mission, the battle-hardened Zheng Zha couldn't help but be stunned. The man muttered first, then subconsciously looked at Chu Xuan and said the words he had said countless times before.

"Chu Xuan, let's analyze the current situation."

“It means the plot has changed.”

Chu Xuan's expression was as calm as ever, like a bottomless pool: "Perhaps we are experiencing the timeline after the end of the Watchers plot. Perhaps the Lord God changed the plot development of this world, causing Dr. Manhattan to disappear from people's sight."

"Therefore, finding Dr. Manhattan is the only mission given by the Lord."

"……Gone?"

Just when Zheng Zha thought that Chu Xuan would make a series of detailed analyses as usual and analyze the situation clearly, the wise man of the Zhongzhou team was unexpectedly silent.

"That's all?" Zheng Zha's voice was filled with surprise. He was used to Chu Xuan providing in-depth insights and strategies in every discussion. His question was both an expression of his doubts about Chu Xuan's sudden cessation of speech and his anticipation for the next move.

"Well, for now, we only have these analyses." Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and replied, "As for other aspects, we cannot make inferences for now due to insufficient intelligence. We need further contact."

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it... By the way, where is Yang Yunren? Could it be that he has already gone to explore this world?"

Zheng Zha sighed and muttered subconsciously: "I am almost reaching the advanced level of the fourth stage, but I didn't expect that I didn't even see his shadow. It seems that the gap is quite big..."

As Zheng Zha was muttering to himself, he suddenly realized that the other members of the Zhongzhou team were looking at him with strange eyes, as if they had seen some rare and exotic beast.

The unexpected look made Zheng Zha's heart tighten. He subconsciously felt a little uneasy and quickly touched his face with his hand: "What's wrong? Is there something on my face? It's impossible. I clearly cleaned up all the traces last night..."

"No, that's not what we're talking about."

After hearing this sudden confusing speech, the others were fine, but Zhan Lan blushed. Chu Xuan, who was standing next to him, glanced at Zhan Lan's reaction before pushing his glasses up and asking a serious question that stunned Zheng Zha: "The Yang Yun you mentioned just now..."

"Who is it?" (End of chapter)