Life Dungeon Game

In the nearby settlement, more and more people were drawn to look up at the oppressive planet overhead.

A silent, oppressive atmosphere and a sob of fear echoed in the pitch-black night.

Chen Lin was also watching the massive planet, but his gaze wasn't completely drawn to it. He could vaguely sense that although the planet was dangerous, it was still quite far away from them.

His intuition told him that something far more terrifying seemed to have appeared in the city.

The instant this thought crossed his mind, directly beneath that massive planet, at the edge of the city, a colossal phantom, seemingly composed of countless distorted fragments of space and mist, appeared directly above the city.

Sparkling eyes emerged from the fragmented pieces of space, seemingly scanning the entire city.

"That is?"

At this moment, the young man next to Chen Lin also noticed the illusory figure and subconsciously turned his head away.

"Don't look!"

Chen Lin suddenly pressed down on his head and lowered his own head at the same time.

Almost the instant they lowered their heads, among the countless eyes hidden in the countless spatial fragments of that enormous phantom, one swept towards the direction where Chen Lin and the others were now standing.

Several monsters nearby, who had instinctively glanced at the phantom, met the sweeping gaze for a fleeting moment. Their bodies suddenly swelled up, then, like inflated balloons, *bang*...

— It exploded with a loud bang.

Scattered blood and flesh fell on the monsters beside them, causing the monsters' bodies to twist and swell even more, growing writhing eyes.

Seeing this scene, Chen Lin suddenly pulled the young man next to him, lowered his head, and directly cleaved several writhing monsters that were coming towards him, then rushed towards the settlement next to him.

"Don't look up over there!"

he yelled.

-

outside Newland

Night had fallen again. He Ao's clone stood on a ship, his gaze passing over the spherical building silhouette that was gradually emerging from the thick fog, and looking up at the sky.

"what is that?"

Standing beside him, Li Cheng followed his gaze and looked into the distance.

More than a day had passed since the city-state of Newland was blockaded. Due to the disruption of nearby air routes, Li Cheng had to make several transfers before finally arriving here from the Central Plains, where he encountered He Ao's clone, who had just dealt with the shadowy figure.

At this moment, on this ship are not only Li Cheng, but also Rudel of the World Tree, and the only remaining B-rank member of Moonlight.

The strongest combatants from the main world all followed He Ao's gaze and looked toward the end of the spherical mist.

At the edge of the vast, boundless sea, behind the hemispherical machine shrouded in thick fog, the phantom of a colossal planet slowly emerges from where the sea meets the sky.

It seems to rise slowly from the edge of the sea.

"remains."

He Ao calmly replied with a single sentence.

Upon hearing this answer, everyone was stunned, their expressions filled with surprise and shock.

Although long ago, explorers in the main world used scientific methods to determine that the ruins were a dwarf planet with a diameter of about 1,000 kilometers.

But this was the first time they had seen the planet from such a close distance.

This dwarf planet is only a fraction of the size of a planet in the main world and a third the size of the moon.

Even so, it is still a planet with a diameter measured in thousands of kilometers, a terrifying behemoth compared to the human body.

However, He Ao did not pay attention to this phantom for long.

Although the remnant planet is large, it is ultimately just a phantom without a physical form formed due to the dissipation of power. The real participants in the 'exchange' are the Newland city-state and the underground palace.

He Ao's gaze shifted to the corner of the thick fog.

A 'phantom' composed of mist and fragments of broken space is slowly forming from the void.

"That is?"

Li Cheng's gaze followed He Ao to the illusory figure.

"The culprit in this case."

He Ao said it directly.

"what can we do?"

Li Cheng frowned and asked in a low voice.

They had tried before, but were completely unable to break through the barrier of the mist.

This event has exceeded all the experience of the main world, so Hao Yi, who has rich knowledge of occultism and a mysterious origin, has become the core of everyone.

He Ao glanced at him and shook his head.

What appears outside the city of Newland now are all illusions. You might see some real sights inside the city, but the real entities are in the ruins world across the gate.

Moreover, those are angels. Even in this world, aside from Li Cheng, who can briefly wield angel-level weapons, anyone else standing here would likely be sent to their doom.

The head.

The worst-case scenario is when the exchange is fully completed and an angel descends.

That's equivalent to directly exposing the coordinates of the main world to the gods outside the main world.

Finally, he sighed softly and said slowly,

"Wait."

-

Relic World

He Ao himself gazed at everything before him, at the enormous remnant planet.

The vast illusion of the main world appears as a real entity to him here.

Similarly, the enormous 'life' composed of spatial fragments and mist is also the real 009-1, the angelic life, here.

At this moment, the angelic life's 'gaze' was not on Heo behind it, but on the side of the 'artificial sun' beneath it, facing the remnant planet.

A faint silhouette of a city emerged from the half of the 'sun' that was still burning with tiny flames.

That was the phantom of the Newland City-State. At this moment, the entire phantom of the Newland City-State was facing the ruined planet, while He Ao was standing on the back of the city's phantom.

The 'exchange' seemed to have reached its final moment, so the 'angel' was keeping a close eye on the situation in Newland.

But its keen senses remained, almost the instant Heo emerged from behind the hatch.

One eye opened from among the shattered fragments of space and looked in He Ao's direction.

The distorted pollution rushed into He Ao's mind in an instant.

The angel seemed to want to drive Heo insane directly through contamination.

Then He Ao glanced at it, turned around, and went to find the suppression field generation platform that contained the 001 fragment.

The endless universe seemed to fall into a momentary silence.

In a very short time, 009-1 seemed not to have realized what had just happened. Then, one by one, eyes opened from the spatial fragments on the angel's body and looked at He Ao.

But He Ao simply turned his back and didn't make eye contact with it at all.

The distorted pollution still affected He Ao when 009-1 looked at him, but not as much as when they looked at each other directly. Even if they had looked at each other directly, the pollution would not have had much of an impact on He Ao.

However, through 009-1's actions, he also confirmed another idea in his mind.

At this critical moment, 009-1, who was manipulating the power to 'exchange', found all the power caught in the 'exchange', even restricting its actions.

Otherwise, as soon as He Aogang appeared, it could have just zoomed in on his face directly; there would have been no need to use such an indirect method as pollution, which would have been used once and then again.

Even so, He Ao didn't have much time.

Once 009-1 realizes that the pollution is ineffective, he will definitely gradually withdraw his resources and use more methods to deal with him until he is completely killed.

His gaze swept across the spherical metal surface and also across the surrounding cosmic void.

He is currently outside the 'underground palace'.

The interior of the dungeon contains many underground-like structures, which led researchers in the main world, who had little information about the dungeon, to mistakenly identify the place as an 'underground' building.

But in fact, the 'underground palace' itself seems to be an 'artificial sun' existing in the sky.

The rear half of the planet facing away from the ruins is the underground research institute, while the front half is likely a heat-generating device.

This may explain why explorers in the main world are unable to find a way to the underground palace on the surface, no matter what.

Because the 'underground palace' is in the sky.

In fact, there are many 'artificial suns' resembling underground palaces on the outer perimeter of the remnant planet.

They burned with raging flames as they orbited the remnant planet.

As lighting devices for the remnant planet, they ensure that the entire planet can still have sufficient lighting and day-night cycle even after it has left the star system.

This is not the most efficient way to use energy, but it appears to be the way to best protect the planet's original ecosystem.

There were no large celestial bodies around; it was an empty universe filled with distant stars.

Before its destruction, this dwarf planet carried the entire remnant civilization and these artificial suns on a journey through the vast universe.

However, among these artificial suns, the underground palace is perhaps a rather special facility.

The surrounding 'artificial sun' was burning fiercely, unlike the underground palace which was 'burning' in hemispheres.

He Ao activated his super memory, his gaze quickly sweeping across the surrounding environment.

Soon, he spotted a small metal platform not far from him.

Sure enough, this suppression field generation platform is not located far from the exit.

He Ao's feet spewed flames, propelling him swiftly toward the metal platform.

It was at this moment that 009-1, which was constantly opening its 'eyes', finally realized that He Ao seemed to have some resistance to pollution.

Its eyes, hidden in the fragments of space, no longer looked at He Ao, but instead looked around at He Ao's surroundings.

In that instant, a pitch-black vortex suddenly appeared directly in front of He Ao.

He immediately raised his hands, spewing flames that propelled him away from the vortex.