I'm doing a crossover anime/manga project, and I'm creating a new kind of "Moonlight&

In an ordinary apartment, a man with jet-black hair suddenly stood up, took off his VR glasses, looked around blankly, and then his eyes gradually regained their sparkle.

"I...I'm not dead?"

However, a hoarse female voice came out.

Vermouth stared intently at her surroundings, then picked up the cup to feel its texture. After a moment's hesitation, she took a sip of water.

Gollum~

The icy water rushed into her stomach, giving her a jolt, and gradually a vibrant sense of life returned.

She has faced life-or-death situations many times, and even had several near-death experiences.

It was during one of her near-death experiences that Conan and Ran saved her, and from then on, she regarded them as her dearest friends and family.

The real kind.

But this was the first time I had actually died.

Yes.

She was certain that she was dead at that moment.

game?

Don't assume she'll believe you just because you're back.

She gulped down another bellyful of cold water, then suddenly stood up, just about to get something to eat.

Clang.

Something suddenly fell off her.

Without paying any attention, she turned around and was about to pick it up when she saw the familiar ancient Greek text.

Half of an ancient book, seemingly torn apart by a ferocious beast, lay quietly on the floor...

Volume 1: Chapter 64 Shuichi Akai: Some scoundrel is plotting against me!

federal.

California underground military base.

"Out again!"

The young researcher exclaimed.

Inside the glass wall.

Inside the life support pods arranged in five rows, the pod door sensed something and slowly stopped. A muscular, lean man sat up, looking around blankly: "I...I'm not dead?"

As if remembering something, his face turned deathly pale.

I don't know which bastard planted the bomb, but it scared him so much that he fell off a tall building.

Or perhaps they fell directly into a horde of monsters, experiencing that despair, that suffocating feeling of helplessly watching the surging monsters, as if an insurmountable wall of heaven were pressing down on them.

After being dismembered and killed, their bodies were hacked to pieces, and they waited for death to come before the terror of having their heads crushed by a single foot.

In just a few seconds, it felt like ten years had passed for him.

so.....

But the next moment.

The laboratory's metal door opened automatically, and a team of staff members wearing full protective gear came out.

The soldier immediately rolled over in terror and hid behind the life support pod, screaming desperately, "Don't come any closer! I'm not afraid of you!!"

It was as if the people in front of me weren't staff members, but some terrifying monster.

The staff members exchanged a glance.

Another one who's been scared into hallucinations.

The three in front stepped aside, revealing the two people behind them holding tranquilizer guns. With a slight tearing sound, the tranquilizer darts shot out.

With a dose of medicine sufficient to anesthetize a water buffalo, the soldier fell back peacefully without uttering a sound.

The two men then came over, lifted him onto the metal bed, and pushed him away.

During his sleep, his entire body, including his anus, would be thoroughly examined and recorded.

Behind the one-way glass.

A doctor in a white coat came in and shook his head at the bald professor: "He didn't bring anything out, but we can confirm that our ten control group teams have been assigned to different levels."

"It's alright, we can still get results with this many samples..."

The professor nodded, his expression grave: "That is probably indeed the real world!"

"But it's still a game!"

Another professor uttered the second half of the sentence.

The laboratory then fell into an eerie silence, and everyone felt a sense of dread in the face of an unknown, powerful force.

Create one or even more than ten worlds as a game arena?

What level of technology is this?

It doesn't matter if it's a great civilization or a real god, it makes no difference.

For them, it was an absolutely irresistible force.

Faced with such immense power, everything they could do seemed so insignificant.

That feeling of powerlessness was clearer than ever before.

"Is this a joke by the gods?"

The balding old professor's voice was dry.

They are not the kind of mad scientists depicted in literary works.

They are human beings too; they love women, money, material things, and their country.

He tried everything when he was young; even Stephen Hawking went to Alcatraz!

They were well aware of both the danger and the opportunity this presented.

At this moment, a sense of powerlessness, worry, and excitement wells up within me: powerlessness in the face of greatness, worry about the future of the nation, and excitement about potential opportunities.

......

"We can draw a conclusion now."

Germany.

Inside a hidden fortress.

Smoke filled the air.

The middle-aged man with the mustache tossed away his cigarette and said with a solemn expression, "This kind of monster is most likely a human from that world!"

hiss--!

Many people below gasped in shock.

They had already heard the report: that monster could travel at a speed of over twenty meters per second, could tear steel apart with a single sword strike, could withstand small-caliber rifles, felt no pain, and was filled with murderous intent—it was a super soldier.

Of course, a single one is nothing; in the face of thermal weapons, even the strongest carbon-based life form is just so-so.

Is low power not enough?

They're the military, okay? Military rifles, grenades, landmines, drones, robot dogs... and so on.

There's no need to use heavy weapons.

Otherwise, how would the warriors they entered the game fight their way out of the city... well, how would they escape the city?

But the thing is…

They looked at a soldier with a resolute expression who was sitting in the third row.

According to intelligence obtained by one of the squad leaders, they were on the outskirts of the city and managed to escape Fuyuki City after losing four men.

Because the highway is clogged with car wreckage, there is a high probability that monsters are gathering there.

So they left via a side road, losing two-thirds of their strength before arriving in another city.

Verified as Ashiya City, Japan.

Clearly, this city called Fuyuki is actually Kobe, the Japanese city of another world.

But what's truly disheartening is that even in Ashiya City, there isn't a single living person, only countless monsters.

The drones they launched also showed that even on ships at sea, only traces of monsters remained.

Of course, each squad has more than just combat roles.

According to their research team, these cities have been in a state of doomsday for at least six years, which is roughly eight years into the future.

The fact that the city has remained unchanged for such a long time speaks volumes.

It's highly likely that all humans in that world have become the monsters they named "Black Death".

Over eight billion super-soldiers—what if they were to emerge and enter the real world one day...?

Just imagining it makes them shudder.

What's even more terrifying is that there is clearly more than one such world. The fourteen teams of thirty people each were sent to different but destroyed worlds.

Other worlds do not have this kind of monster, but some are filled with black ash, and some have hardened land that makes a metallic clanging sound when tapped.

Other worlds have become primeval jungles, where dragons and beasts form ecosystems, ranging in size from small rhinoceroses to large mountains; some can breathe fire, and some can generate electricity.

They even witnessed a colossal dragon beast that killed everyone who saw it; its mere existence altered the celestial phenomena.

They named it the Ancient Dragon World.

In short, every world is a post-apocalyptic world, and every world contains deadly crises.

Among them, the crisis contained in this world with more than eight billion Black Deaths may be the lowest level.

But some people disagree.

"I don't think so at all!"

A major with black hair, black glasses, and a deep-set face, clearly of noble lineage, stood up and solemnly said, "Gentlemen, what is terrifying is not the Black Death Demon, but the power that turns all humans into the Black Death Demon."

The others frowned and lit a cigarette: "Major, I admit you're right, but we're talking about the risk of the calamities in those worlds appearing in reality."

We have already verified that that power is not contagious.

That's not what I meant...

The major shook his head: "Please take a look at this intelligence report."

As the screens on everyone's desks lit up, the conference room was filled with hurried breathing, and someone even asked anxiously, "Major, is the intelligence accurate?"

The major in charge of intelligence nodded and said solemnly, "Gentlemen, this is the greatest opportunity for Germany to rise again and move towards revival."

He said, word by word: "All these worlds were destroyed because of the struggle for an all-powerful wish-granting machine called the Holy Grail."

What transformed the humans of that world into Black Death demons was likely the divine power known as the Holy Grail!

The power of God!

The phrase "omnipotent wish-granting machine" is incredibly provocative.

Two simple words, yet they are comparable to Hitler's speech back in the day.

Many of the esteemed figures, with their white hair and unwavering shrewdness, breathed heavily and their faces flushed: "Indeed, this is the greatest opportunity Germany has had in half a century!"

This is a miracle!

"This is destiny!"

Of the fourteen teams, at least five conducted investigations from various perspectives, including humanities, geography, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology, and each of these perspectives proved that it was a real world.

The intelligence coming back from Slavic, British, French, or Confederate states was completely consistent.

What if the world was destroyed not by a virus or an alien invasion, but by an omnipotent divine power?