This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 119 [+Chaos: Golden Echoes+]
At this moment, Dukongmo's surveillance still lingered, even closer.

The Reversion Cult's connection with the Sky Crossing Demons takes many forms, but primarily relies on Spirit Messengers. This is because information transmission across time and space is subject to significant loss, especially in a New World, a place inherently shielded by barriers. The Spirit Messengers' natural sensory abilities can significantly reduce this information loss, which is why Nie Weiyang prioritizes the links between Spirit Messengers: information is combat power, and if they can disrupt the enemy's information transmission pathways, their potential harm can be reduced by half.

However, even if the information from Dukongmo needs to be delivered by the spirit messenger, there is an inevitable time difference in between, and Nie Weiyang cannot be careless.

He couldn't wander around the old city for too long under the watchful eye of the Sky-Driving Demon, as that would expose his intelligence to the enemy, but he also couldn't stay in the enemy's lair for too long, as that would be courting death.

In the pile of rocks, the man in black robe rushed in one direction quickly. His speed was so fast that he disappeared in the rocks in the blink of an eye.

A wide, circular river, about a hundred meters wide, separated Xunshan's outer ring from its central peak. On the other side of the river rose the tall, white, bone-clad spiral staircase that encircled the Zhongzhou Bone Temple. In the center, a steep, wide staircase, made of rugged, non-slip white bone, ascended to the temple's main gate, nearly a hundred meters above the ground. The staircase then extended downwards to form a bridge across the river.

On this side of the river were the residences of ordinary believers, embedded in the mountain walls, nestled among boulders, or even hollowed out from the rocks themselves. There was a clear hierarchy among them—the closer the residence was to the river or the central peak, the higher its status.

As for the shelter, it is located right near the river.

This is a circular spiral gate embedded in the ground. The spiral arc looks like the steps of the Bone Temple, which reminds Nie Weiyang of the token of the Return Sect and the door of Shelter 4701 leading to the interior of the mountain.

In fact, all the shelter gates in the New World are spiral-shaped, but there is usually another outer door outside this door. Now, when Nie Weiyang suddenly saw a door exposed like this, although it was not his first time here, he was still a little uncomfortable.

This is the '0632' shelter, one of the 49 chaos-attribute shelters in the Huaxia region.

There are only 550 Chaos Sanctuaries on the planet. They are the most realistic, dangerous, and rewarding sanctuaries. All of them are numbered within 999.

The danger of this type of shelter dungeon is that players cannot bring powers and props outside of the dungeon into the dungeon story, and can only have relatively average physical fitness. The dungeon story has nothing to do with "someone's memory", it is just a piece of "something that seems to have happened". There are too many variables and too many restrictions, which leads to its high mortality rate.

The best part about the reward is that it's a wishing machine of sorts.

Experience? Skills? Equipment? Artifacts? Secret knowledge of a particular area? A clue or truth about something?

Come, step into Chaos Sanctuary and into stories of the past.

As long as you come out alive, you will get all the rewards you want!

After a familiar trance, Nie Weiyang arrived at a familiar hall, exactly the same as the hall in Shelter 4701. The difference was that the ring light here was not turned on, and the entire silver hall was plunged into darkness. Only the [Artificial Destiny 0632] in the center floated and rotated, emitting a noticeable soft glow.

Nie Weiyang walked closer to it and took out a stone.

Yes, another stone.

He had been picking up some pretty stones these days and engraved the badge of Administrator No. 2 on them. There was a sword and shield on the front and a dagger and sharp blade on the back. If some literary and artistic prisoners were to describe it, it would probably be something like "Sword and Shield of Protection" and "Blade of the Secret Front"... But Nie Weiyang didn't have so many ideas. He just openly put his two sides on it. If anyone could understand this stone, they would be able to understand Nie Weiyang as a person.

"Let me try..." Nie Weiyang raised his hand.

He held the stone and gently touched [Artificial Destiny 0632].

The sword and shield emblem on the stone emitted a bright white light, knocking the coin away and floating in the groove with it.

"Huh?" Nie Weiyang made an unexpected sound.

He really didn't expect that this groove could hold two tokens at the same time... But it was normal to think about it. After all, "Artificial Destiny" was the token of the shelter itself, and Nie Weiyang's stone was the token of the leader-level guardian. The two did not conflict with each other.

It seems that it is fortunate that the other BOSSes are not intelligent, otherwise many of these shelters would have been occupied by BOSSes.

Nie Weiyang threw the suicide note he had written earlier on the ground, then reached out and touched the coin.

This time, he deliberately didn't catch it, but just let it teleport him into the instance—he was curious whether the sanctuary with the two tokens would be any different when he came out.

……

……

"...The solar system, our home."

“On that blue planet, we were born, grew, collided with each other, and formed connections.”

"In the 20th century, we held curiosity, goodwill, and trust in things beyond the stars... For this reason, we engraved the light of our civilization at that time on a token and sent it to the stars."

"But when we first came into contact with aliens, the sudden outbreak of war made us...

“…Falling into the abyss.”

Nie Weiyang felt his heart aching. Dizzy in the darkness, he bent forward, gasping for air. Cold sweat trickled down his hairline, dripping onto the ground, reminding him of the sea and lakes.

The hazy sound of the broadcast echoed in his ears, and an illusory circular sign appeared in his mind. Its details were unclear. Nie Weiyang only knew that its center was pitch black, and some words were floating on the upper layer, but before he could see clearly what was written on it, the sign disappeared.

He gasped, as if life returned to his body with this breath.

Darkness fades away.

The young man opened his eyes on the floor, and the dirty ceiling fell into his sight. Mold spread in one corner, as if a lot of rain had leaked in.

"Why is it so dirty..."

He carefully examined the dirt on the ceiling.

As the marks between the stains deepened, he outlined... a human figure.

——Those were intertwined human figures.

Those were the last traces of corpses stacked on top of each other, passed down from upstairs.

Nie Weiyang exhaled. A heaviness spread through his heart.

Fortunately, this is just a copy story...

[0632 Shelter spawn instance: [+Chaos: Golden Echo+] Welcome.]

[You have intervened in the war record. Please complete the goal: kill [Golden Lord] and destroy [Spiritual Light Command Tower]. ]

[Current target completion progress: 0/2]

　Cut off some unnecessary branches and go straight to the main line!

　　There are two cool things coming out soon, and I really like their designs (start bragging)

　　Actually, I saw that there seemed to be an Easter egg chapter event (I don’t know if it has happened yet... I was so busy that I didn’t know what the world was doing), so I made a design draft to mix in the Easter egg chapter... and also supplemented the image settings.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)