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Chapter 286 The Oppressive Force of the Doomsday Card

Li Guanqi once read a passage in a book: "There is no trouble that humans cannot clear away by looking directly at the earth."

"No matter how high your power or status, no matter what worries or illnesses you have, the moment you see the earth with your own eyes, your mind will be instantly cleared."

"You can't teach someone by teaching them."

"Some people feel they are in a high position of power, while others are born with disabilities and lament the injustice of the world. But no matter who they are, as long as they look at Earth from outer space, their minds will go blank for a moment."

"So, it turns out that the Earth really will keep spinning no matter who leaves."

"It's nothing more than a drop in the ocean."

When Li Guanqi first saw this passage, he didn't take it seriously. He could understand it, and it roughly meant that human troubles are nothing compared to the Earth and the universe. Humans will clearly feel their own insignificance the moment they look directly at the Earth, and be so shocked that their minds go blank.

He believed the statement literally, but not entirely, because it lacked statistical support.

After all, how many people can truly travel through space and witness that blue wonder firsthand? And how many people living in hardship have the opportunity to experience such awe?
Now, he believes it.

Through this unknown high technology, he is truly "floating" in the universe, even though it is only a connection at the level of consciousness.

It turns out that when you look directly at a planet, there really is a moment when your mind goes blank, your language center stops working, you completely forget yourself, and you can't even shout "Holy crap!"

Wow...it's huge!

"Wow!" Several suppressed screams rang out not far from Li Guanqi's "side," one after another.

Those were the other interns. In the first few seconds after receiving the video, they obviously experienced the same brain freeze as Li Guanqi. However, they were slightly less resilient and made up for their belated fear with screams after regaining their senses.

When a person is in a state of panic, the amygdala in the brain will quickly respond to threat signals. Once the amygdala is activated, it will activate the sympathetic nervous system through the hypothalamus, which will lead to a series of physiological reactions, including increased heart rate and increased blood pressure. These reactions help the body quickly enter "fight or flight" mode.

This process also stimulates the vocal cords and respiratory muscles, increasing vocal cord tension and making it easier to scream and release emotions.

Screaming is essentially a human body's instinct for self-preservation.

Only a few people like Li Guanqi, with sufficiently resilient nerves, indifferent to life and death, or perhaps somewhat numb from the various strange events that had occurred before, could barely control their primal urge to scream.

Even so, when they snapped out of that momentary daze, they couldn't help but mutter to themselves, "Holy crap..."

Beyond the sheer awe of seeing the planet directly, the greater terror came from the two black halos enveloping it, and the two magic cards floating at their intersection.

【The Demonic Eye That Tears Through Time】—World-Destroying Level.

【Outer God Azathoth】—World-destroying level.

The scarlet words are like a brand, deeply engraved in everyone's consciousness.

[The Demon Eye That Tears Through Time], everyone present recognized it. It was a rare card, and it wasn't expensive to buy, only around 100,000.

But—what does "world-destroying level" mean?!

What is that black halo? And why is it so big?

Could it be that.
The interns felt a chill run up their spines and their breathing became rapid again. They vaguely thought of a terrible possibility, but dared not think about it too deeply.

"The effect of [The Demonic Eye That Tears Through Time] is..." Li Guanqi tried his best to calm his racing heart and spoke softly, his voice a little dry.

Xia Sheng, standing to the side, narrowed his pupils slightly and calmly said, "In this duel, the following effects will apply."

●You cannot activate the effects of monsters in your hand.

●The normal draw during your own draw phase becomes 2 cards.

●You can perform a Normal Summon up to 2 times per turn.

Li Guanqi frowned: "The 'double' in 'Double Shadow Man,' could it refer to this 'double'?"

Draw two cards, and you can usually summon two monsters... In a duel, this is an extremely strong advantage. But what if this were reality, and what if this card's effect manifested on a planet in a "world-destroying" way... The "Double Shadow" phenomenon, where everyone gains an extra Symbiotic Card and a shadow.

Could it be that the extra card draw and summon translates into an additional "shadow" for each creature in reality? An extra "resource" that can be "used"?
The ordinary [Time-Tearing Demon Eye] only affects the rules of duels, but the "world-destroying" [Time-Tearing Demon Eye] can actually distort reality, causing billions of life forms on a planet to undergo such bizarre changes?
This is... the Doomsday Card?

Li Guanqi felt his perception was being overturned. He forced himself to turn his "perspective" to the other end of the planet, to the card floating at the intersection of another black halo—[Outer God Azathoth].

His mind raced through the card's attributes and effects.

The Outer God Azathoth

Class: 5
Attribute: Dark

Race: Demon
Attack power: 2400 Defense power: 0
3 five-star monsters
This card can also be Xyz Summoned by overlaying it onto an "Outer God" Xyz Monster on your field. This card cannot be used as Xyz Material.

①: The turn this card is Xyz Summoned, your opponent cannot activate monster effects.

②: If this card contains all of a Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz Monster as Xyz Material, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card to activate this effect. Destroy all cards on your opponent's field.

Heavyweight among heavyweights.

How heavyweight is it? It's like an unrestricted competition. What you imagine is a T0 interaction with Tear of the Gods, but the actual scene is that whether it's Tear of the Gods or Thunderfire, the first mover is [Ptolemy] accelerating [Outer God Azathoth]. If a dimensional war breaks out in Biantana, with this card, even Xyz Dimensional Wars wouldn't know how to lose.

And now, this card, bearing the prefix "world-ending level," hovers over a planet like divine punishment.

"This damn thing is world-destroying." Li Guanqi muttered to himself, the chill in his heart growing even stronger.

He began to understand why the world was so oppressive, painful, and gloomy.

Tang Xin, who was standing to the side, had recovered slightly from her initial shock, but her face was still pale. She pursed her lips tightly and looked at the two world-destroying cards, a slight tremor coming from her arm.

“My...my brother,” her voice trembled, “this...this is the ‘risk warning’?”

"It should be," Li Guanqi replied softly, silently gazing at the blue planet shrouded in two black halos, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

Qi Mengsi's cool "voice" echoed in space: "This is footage taken sixteen years ago. Let's look at it in chronological order."

As soon as the words were spoken, a vertical timeline appeared on the left side of everyone's field of vision, clearly marked "August of the New Spiritual Calendar 1051".

The timeline pointer began to move rapidly downwards.

As time rapidly progresses, the image zooms in from a grand cosmic perspective, focusing on the azure star Biantana, then zooms in further, piercing through the clouds, finally revealing a brightly lit, bustling metropolis on the ground.

Skyscrapers stand tall, streets are bustling with traffic, and crowds sing and laugh as they watch a street duel.

When the black halo first appeared, it did not cause any substantial physical disaster to the planet. There were no earthquakes or tsunamis as expected, and not even the slightest meteorological anomaly occurred.

At first, the people on the ground were completely unaware of the black halo.

"Have you heard? That new holographic theater that opened in the east of the city is amazing!"

"Tch, what's the point of that stuff? We'd be better off watching the 'Flying Sharks' game next week; they supposedly have new tactics!"

"Have you heard of the new Card Loan? Let me tell you, with the new Card Loan, [Swift Robot] is guaranteed to be a hit!"

On a street corner, a couple cuddled together. The girl complained about her work troubles, while the boy absentmindedly echoed her, his eyes drawn to a new card advertised on a roadside billboard.

No one noticed the ominous sign hanging in the sky. The hands of the timeline, unnoticed by anyone, quietly jumped down a small space.

"August 15th, 1051 of the New Spiritual Calendar, 3:27 PM." A cold, electronic voice announced.

The scene abruptly shifts to an open-air café on a commercial street, where the sun shines brightly and people leisurely enjoy their drinks.

A well-dressed middle-aged man, who looked like a company executive, was on the phone when he suddenly stood up and angrily berated the person on the other end of the line. His coffee cup was knocked over, and the brown liquid spilled onto the white tablecloth.

The warm sunshine shone down.

Beneath the man's feet, a pitch-black shadow identical to his was clearly imprinted on the ground. Then, a second shadow, with a strange twist, separated from the first shadow, like ripples spreading across the surface of water.

"Ugh—" The middle-aged man's body began to tremble uncontrollably. He clutched his chest tightly, the muscles on his face contorted, and his eyes quickly became bloodshot. His originally gentle and refined expression vanished, leaving only a ferocious, beast-like ferocity.

He made a series of incomprehensible hoarse sounds, and the veins on his neck bulged.

"Bang!" He overturned the alloy table in front of him, and the collision of the table and chairs made a loud, ear-piercing noise.

"Ah—!" A woman sitting next to me screamed in terror and instinctively backed away.

"Old Zhang? What's wrong?" A man who looked like a colleague stood up in surprise and tried to comfort him.

But the man called "Old Zhang" ignored him. He suddenly turned his head and stared at a mother holding a child on the side of the street. He grinned and revealed a chilling smile. He bent his knees slightly and seemed to want to pounce on her!
The surrounding crowd finally reacted, and panic spread instantly. Screams, cries, and the sound of tables and chairs falling over created chaos.

"Quick! Call the police!"

"Stop him! He's insane!"

Several bold young men tried to stop him, but the man easily shook them off. His strength had become extraordinary, and he was full of primal, undisguised violent tendencies.

Seeing this scene, Li Guanqi felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart.

Is this... the initial onset scene of "double shadow disease"?
Before long, the berserk middle-aged man was suppressed by a passing duelist who summoned a high-spiritual card.

Tang Xin breathed a slight sigh of relief, as double angiography usually doesn't cause too much damage.

However, Li Guanqi's expression did not relax at all.

As a medical student, he was well aware of one thing: the key to all diseases is not how much pain the patient suffers during the onset of the disease, or the mortality rate.

What needs more attention is its transmissibility.

Soon, the images, as if they could hear the inner anxieties, brutally displayed the world-destroying contagiousness of double shadow disease.

The scene shifts, no longer to a bustling street, but to a brightly lit, oppressive biological laboratory.

Several researchers, dressed in white lab coats, with disheveled hair and sunken eyes, surrounded a huge, sophisticated instrument. On the screen, perplexing data and images of human anatomy were projected.

“Abnormal energy aggregates were detected in the heart region of all adult samples, and their morphology… highly matches that of known magic cards.” A young researcher adjusted his thick glasses, his voice dry.

He pointed to a clear scan on the screen, on which, next to the heart of an adult male, was the outline of a card emitting a faint glow.

"What about infants? What about samples of infants under two years old?" an elderly scholar with gray hair asked in a deep voice.

"...No abnormalities were found," the young researcher replied, a hint of relief in his voice. "Perhaps...this kind of 'implantation' only occurs after a certain stage of growth."

"Billions of people! All at the same time 'growing' a magic card near their hearts? What kind of joke is this!" Another hot-tempered researcher slammed his fist on the table, making the test tube rack rattle. "This is completely beyond the scope of biological explanation! Is this... is this some kind of... curse?"

"Divine punishment?!"

The end of science is theology; when science cannot explain something, humanity tends to attribute it to 'God'.

Looking at the researchers on the screen, each with an expression as if they had seen a ghost, Li Guanqi felt a growing chill in his heart.

Qi Mengsi didn't give them much time to process the shock. She pressed the remote control, and the video continued.

The scene shifts to an isolation observation room, where a haggard-looking man sits in a chair with a vacant stare. He is an experimental subject with certain symptoms of illness.

Various instruments are monitoring the condition of his internal organs and hormones.

Researchers tried various methods to find out the triggering mechanism of "double shadow disease," including virus detection, bacterial culture, and radiation analysis, but all known factors that could lead to large-scale outbreaks were ruled out.

"His emotions remained stable and he was not affected by any external stimuli," the recorder reported softly.

"Strange"

"What exactly is the cause of this illness?"

Just then, the screen on the wall of the observation room suddenly lit up and began playing a news report. The report showed scenes of chaos in a city due to a "double shadow" outbreak, including crying, screaming, flames, thick smoke, and piles of corpses...

The man, who had been in a daze, suddenly had his pupils contract the moment he saw these images.

His body began to tremble slightly, and his breathing became heavy. A few seconds later, he suddenly raised his head, and two shadows appeared at his feet. His face showed the same ferocity and madness as the "Old Zhang" on the street.

"Oh no! Quick! Sedatives!" The observation room was in complete chaos.

Even after being given a sedative, the test subject remained violent, leaving the researchers with no choice but to use electric shocks and anesthetics to completely calm him down.

"How did the illness suddenly flare up?"

"He just saw the news about the riots. Could it be... that it was triggered by emotional fluctuations?"

"Emotional triggers, but what is the transmission route?"

Several researchers stared wide-eyed, their expressions one of utter disbelief: "No contact required, spread via the internet?!"

A disease that can be induced through the internet.

What a joke!
"How can we isolate ourselves? How can we prevent this?" A female researcher's voice became shrill with shock. "Does this mean we'll be banned from the internet from now on? That people won't be allowed to have emotions?!"

Before she could finish speaking, she froze. Next to the shadow at her feet, a second, pitch-black shadow rapidly seeped out and separated like ink, carrying a chillingly twisted feeling.

“Nicole…” The male researcher closest to her stammered, instinctively taking a step back, and the recorder in his hand fell to the ground with a “thud.”

The female researcher's pupils dilated suddenly, and all color drained from her face. She gripped her chest tightly with both hands, her nails digging deep into her flesh, and she gasped for breath. She tried to speak, but only broken gasps escaped her throat, and her body trembled violently.

"not good!"

"She's had a relapse!"

In the laboratory, the already tense nerves snapped completely.

The female researcher suddenly raised her head, her once intellectual eyes now clouded and violent. She let out a shrill scream and lunged at the nearest instrument, tearing at the circuits and control panels with her bare hands.

"Stop her!"

Panic exploded in the confined space like a plague. Before the female researcher's screams had subsided, another young male researcher suddenly let out a muffled groan. He staggered a few steps, and a second shadow appeared beneath his feet. His eyes quickly lost their rationality, and he lunged at the researcher next to him.

(End of this chapter)