Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

"proceed if you can!"

Tan Li, who came out with the water-absorbing knife, was sent back to the resurrection point in just two seconds by tons of paint. Xiao Tao mocked him mercilessly: "Hahahaha! Aren't you the same!"

"Nonsense! I haven't even used my real skills yet!"

Just as Danrito rolled up his sleeves for another round, the timer above him ended the round, and the result was, of course, a resounding victory for the Abydos team. Just as Momo was about to challenge for another round, Ayane's phone rang in her pocket.

"Ayane-chan, we've discovered some energy fluctuations. I'll send you the location right away. Xiao Qinxiang and I will be circling around here for now."

After hanging up the phone, Ayane pushed up her glasses and said to the crowd in front of her, "Everyone, Hoshino-senpai and Serika-san in the desert have sent back news that they've discovered a special energy fluctuation."

Xiaolu held up her cartridge and pressed the button to close the game. The surroundings gradually returned to normal as the game's field cleared. However, unlike the previous games, since this was a battle game involving a large map, when the field cleared, Shirako and Nomiya, who were standing farther away, ran to the next room, while Yumi ran outside the classroom.

"Even so, I still can't explain the principles of the gaming field." Kayoko thought for a moment, and finally decided to ignore this incomprehensible thing. "Let's take a look at the message sent by Hoshino-san and the others."

"Actually, it wasn't the energy detected by our helicopter, but rather a search drone. We had an extra notebook on board the helicopter that could receive the results, so we received the information in advance."

Hoshino continued to observe the ground from the cabin, where energy fluctuations had been detected, while Serika reported a more detailed situation to Abydos via phone. Hinami, on the line, looked serious, as did the miniature Hinami she was controlling. It was just that the three-headed wheelchair figure couldn't seem to hold a serious expression. "Have you observed anything unusual?"

"Hmm... the ground seems to be shaking..." Qin Xiang narrowed her eyes and looked at the desert below. "A lot of sand has been blown up, and the air in this area is very turbid. It seems that it is because of the shaking of the desert. The dust is all around..."

"The special energy source is moving, and the signal is weakening!" Hoshino, holding a laptop, looked serious. The drones scattered around were heading towards the location where Hoshino and her friends' helicopter was hovering at the fastest speed, trying to scan more data. But unfortunately, no matter how fast the drones were, they could not move to a location a thousand meters away in just a few seconds.

"An individual moving underground..." Himari pondered for a moment, tapped the keyboard twice, and pulled up a document from the database: "Has anyone seen the individual's appearance?"

"I can't see it, it's all sand and dust!" Qin Xiang shouted, "That thing didn't come out of the ground!"

"Hmm... we only have energy readings here, so we can't see anything more detailed." Hoshino looked at the notebook in his hand, then glanced out the window. The trembling desert surface was gradually returning to calm, and the signal from the special energy readings was also weakening, meaning that the individual beneath the desert was moving away from the range that could be scanned by the drone's detection program. "The signal continues to weaken, and the target is leaving the detection range - can't this program scan deeper?"

"Even if the software allows it, the hardware doesn't." Himari shook her head regretfully. "Right now, Kivotos drones don't have deep scanning capabilities. Aside from those hot spring guys, who would actually use this feature? It's only natural that they don't have it."

"So, are we just going to leave it like this?" Qin Xiang was disappointed. Their helicopter had circled the scouted location for several minutes, but unfortunately, they couldn't do anything about the object buried in the desert. The missiles and machine guns of the attack helicopter couldn't penetrate the desert ground, so the bombing would be useless. But seeing them find what they were looking for, only to have to watch it slip away, was a bit disappointing.

"Serika-san, your own safety is your priority!" Ayane shouted, "Be careful in this situation—Huh? Where's Mr. Danrito?"

"Well...it was quite sudden."

On the other end of the phone, Serika was stunned for a moment and said awkwardly, "Well, Mr. Danrito, how did you get here?"

"Flying here!"

Danrito, who crawled over along the network cable, came down from Hoshino's arms. After all, Hoshino was holding a computer just now. When Danrito, who flew over through the network cable, came out, he fell into Hoshino's arms.

Standing up straight, Danrito put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "Just tell me whether I'm here or not! I'm the Running Man of Kivotos!"

174. Lure Fishing

"Even though I was mentally prepared, it was still quite scary to be teleported here so suddenly."

Hoshino touched his ears, and his expression gradually returned to calm. Being frightened is a fleeting thing. After all, if a living person suddenly appeared on him, he would definitely be frightened, right?

"Woo wow wow! Uncle? Why are you here?"

Novel Group 8⑨

Hoshino was mentally prepared, but Serika beside him wasn't so calm. She watched helplessly as Danrito emerged from the sealed helicopter cabin, nearly jumping up and down at the strange properties of the Collapse Body. Even the student piloting the helicopter felt the same way; his hands were shaking, and the entire helicopter was shaking, nearly tipping over.

"Oh, that was a close call..."

Fortunately, the student who was flying the plane also realized that if he continued like this, the plane would be left behind in the desert, so he quickly turned his attention back to flying the helicopter, pulled the joystick and corrected the helicopter's attitude.

"Huh... Don't be so scary, uncle! It's easy to get scared!" Serika breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then she couldn't help but stomped her feet in anger, venting her anger on the helicopter because she was scared by Danrito but couldn't vent it on him.

"Hmm...but, are you the only one here?" Hoshino was very curious about how Danrito got here, but she also knew that now was not the time to pursue that. "But even if you did follow us, it seems like you wouldn't be able to do anything about this thing hiding underground, right?"

Hoshino raised the computer in his hand and said, "The energy readings are decreasing, which means it must have gone deeper underground. As long as that unknown thing hides deep down, our drones will have no chance of finding it."

"Machine guns and missiles are useless." Qin Xiang had regained her composure, but still had a scowl on her face. "The ground is the best shelter, unless we have earth-penetrating missiles—most school districts don't have those, let alone us..."

"Don't worry, I must have thought it through!" Tan Lidou smiled proudly: "Although I don't know why this thing appeared, it's just like fishing. As long as there is bait that makes it feel it has to take the bait, there is no need to worry about it running away!"

"Bait?" Qinxiang couldn't help but think of real fishing: "Then what are you going to use to bait the nest?"

"It doesn't have to be that complicated, just this—"

A pulsing electric current surged through Danrito's hand, and a thick, purple cassette materialized. Hoshino's expression grew serious as the cassette appeared. Her brow furrowed slightly as she gazed at the cassette in Danrito's hand. Danrito, however, simply toyed with the divine cassette, which he could already feel, a smile of mastery on his face.

"The fruit of my divine talent, the 'God Maximum X' cartridge. If that thing truly is similar to my energy fluctuations, it's impossible to ignore it."

Compared to the first one he could summon, the God Maximum X cartridge was now completely different. Danrito could already grasp it. However, if we were to use the same layer metaphor, the original 10% transparency would have become 60%.

Though he'd become considerably more substantial, he could still see through the cassette's physical form. Perhaps the bonds he'd built with his students over the past few days hadn't been in vain. As he gradually integrated into Kivotos, Danrito had grown accustomed to his role in this world, and his own analysis of it was also progressing simultaneously—

As Kivotos's rejection of Danrito gradually decreases, this cartridge carrying the power of God will probably be completely unsealed soon.

"But I can't use it now, what a pity." Tan Lidou sighed pretentiously, then raised his voice again: "But it doesn't matter! Even if I don't use my divine power, I can easily destroy everything!"

"Okay, okay, so do you have a battle plan?" Qin Xiang squinted at him and asked, "What's the use of this thing?"

"Right now, it only has one use." Danrito opened the helicopter's hatch and held the "God Maximum X" cartridge out of the cabin: "Use it for lure fishing!"

The scent of a billion powers emanated from the carrier in Danrito's hand. The billion powers that had previously swirled within him now had room to flow—the reappearance of the God's Cassette, whether it could be used or not, would not diminish its power in the slightest.

"Although it's only a little, it should be enough."

More than ten seconds had passed since Danrito extended the cassette out of the cabin, but there was no movement below. Even the energy readings were still slowly but steadily decreasing. Serika glanced worriedly at the desert outside. "Is everything okay? It doesn't seem to be having any effect?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Tan Lidou said confidently, "Unless it has nothing to do with me! Otherwise, I will definitely not sit idly by and watch this aura!"

"But now there's no movement at all..." Before Qinxiang could finish her words, Hoshino beside her suddenly said, "The energy reaction has become stronger!"

"what?"

Serika stared out the porthole with wide eyes. The ground was shaking even more violently than before, sending dust billowing up with the tremors. The yellow sand was surging restlessly like waves. The desert beneath Serika and the others' feet was like the surface of the sea, ripples rising and falling at the instigation of some entity!

"It's coming!—whatever it is, it's coming!"

Danrito spoke hurriedly, but his voice revealed a hint of surprise: "Haha! I told you my intuition is never wrong!"

"So that was all your intuition!" Qin Xiang's ears perked up like a real cat. "Don't rely on intuition to deal with things like this!"

"Relax, relax! God's intuition is incredibly accurate!" Danrito looked down at the ground. Beneath the swirling yellow sand, like boiling water, something massive was breaking through the surface. If it weren't massive enough, its mere movement wouldn't have caused such a resounding noise. While it wouldn't cause the entire desert to churn, the tremors were palpable and unmistakable for dozens of miles around.

On the streets of the Abydos school district, the Shiba Inu owner of the Shiba-kan Ramen restaurant, smoking a pipe, squinted his eyes as he gazed at the gradually changing clouds on the horizon. His expression grew solemn. "Is the wrath of the yellow sand about to descend again?... Life has just gotten a little better for the little girls of Abydos. How could they have to face something like this again?"

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175. Caught it!

Free Skirt 9○09

Inside Abydos Academy, students who had felt the tremors rushed from their classrooms. Among them were former Abydos students who had experienced the sandstorm. Suddenly, long-forgotten memories flooded back. Watching the wall of dust rising toward the horizon, painful memories were once again recalled.

"This, this is... a sandstorm?!"

"Why would this happen again?!"

Unable to bear the pain of the memories, some students' legs gave way and they collapsed to the ground. Some shouted, others ran. In the face of the might of nature, a halo is but a fragile insurance policy. Trembling and panicking, they thought of the current administrators of Abydos.

Ba Yisi stable Ling Jian Qi riba

They rushed to the Countermeasures Committee meeting room, only to find everyone already prepared. A tactical map, generated by a holographic image, lay on the table, its readings and wavelengths somewhat comprehensible, others incomprehensible. Besides the familiar leader, Yumei, and more than half the Countermeasures Committee members, there were also a few students from other schools whom they had only met briefly.

"Something bad is happening! A sandstorm!!"

The students who had rushed in rashly were in a panic, their words barely uttering the word "sandstorm" coming out of their mouths for a long time, but this was enough to convey the seriousness of the situation. To awaken the fear in the hearts of the people of Abydos, all it took was a "sandstorm" exactly like the one that year.

Because of the sandstorm, Abydos had become what it is today. The population had plummeted by 90%, and the school was completely ruined. Calling it a painful experience for the people of Abydos wouldn't be an exaggeration. But at this moment, the people standing in the conference room were no longer panicking. Their eyes were filled with determination, and they were already prepared.

"Although there are some deviations from the plan, the target should be Mr. President... From now on, I will simply refer to him as the President."

Kayoko coughed lightly and said seriously, "The target has been successfully lured away by the president's special means, and everyone has heard the news from the front. The helicopter with Hoshino-san and Serika-san will lure the target to an area where a stable operation can be carried out, namely—the Caesar Group's excavation site."

"The excavation site has been abandoned since the previous battle between the president and the Caesar Group. While the surrounding terrain contains soft sand, it has been reinforced by the Caesar Group construction team. Furthermore, the underground cavities are mostly rock, so there's no need to worry about sinking into the sand during operations."

"The excavation site is quite a distance from the main campus of Abydos. If the battle fails, we still have a backup plan."

Kayoko methodically reviewed her previous discussion. Meanwhile, Himari no longer concealed the information in her possession. At this point, the being lured by Danrito and possessing similar energy fluctuations to Danrito was most likely this being!

"Guys, this is going to be a tough battle."

As everyone began to move, Hikari's voice reached everyone through the team chat: "Although we haven't seen the target's appearance yet, there's a 90% chance that she's the third prophet of the Cross Name, 'Vina,' who was once seen in the Abydos Desert."

"I've seen this name before in the Abydos database."

Hoshino's voice came from the channel: "However, I just happened to see it when I was checking other information. I don't remember the specific content."

"This prophet, 'Vina,' had a long history of sightings in the Abydos Desert. At that time, the local Abydos company, 'SAINT NEPTHYS,' was building a railway project that would run through the Abydos Desert."

Himari's voice came, "Yes, it's Izayoi Nomiya's family business. Nomiya-san, so your family has a great connection with this prophet."

"Ah... I once heard my father say..." Nomiya jumped into the helicopter, settled into his seat, and pressed his earpiece. "Back when we were building the desert railway, a giant white snake would always emerge from the ground and attack the construction team... So this 'Vina' has been around for that long?"

"No wonder Nomiya is so rich, it turns out her ancestors were wealthy!" Tan Lidou's voice came from the headset: "I knew that a young lady who could casually spend 10 million credit points must be no ordinary young lady - now I completely understand! Miss Nomiya, would you like to support the development of Huanmeng Group?"

"Haha~ I've always been optimistic about your dreams~"

Listening to the voice coming from the headset, Nomiya's initially flustered heart gradually calmed. Danrito had brought a miracle to Nomiya, turning the tide and rescuing a crumbling empire. With such a great man, why should there be any need to doubt him? As long as he followed him, it seemed no matter what enemy he faced, there was no need to worry.

"Nomiya-san, you seem very confident."

Kayoko boarded the helicopter as the tactical commander, while Ayane stayed inside the school to take charge of the rear, and at the same time arranged for the students to guide the citizens away from the battlefield - this was indeed a sudden dispute, or it was just like the god of poverty, inducing a crisis that might break out in the future to resolve the dispute in advance.

Now, Kayoko looked at Nomiya who was sitting across from her, and found that for some reason, the corner of his mouth was raised with a confident smile, "Aren't you afraid?"

"With him around, I feel very confident~" Nomiya said with a smile.

"...Well, it's good to keep your confidence." Kayoko gripped her pistol, checking the weapon's condition one last time. The helicopter carried all the students participating in the war, except Ayane. Some Abydos students, unafraid and even courageous, had applied to join the fight, but Kayoko and Ayane dissuaded them.

"Everyone, please guide the citizens to evacuate first, and then deploy the armored forces based on the battle situation!"

The armored corps of Abydos—it sounds impressive. Besides attending classes, the undecided students were busy familiarizing themselves with these captured tanks and attack helicopters. A vehicle without a driver is just a pile of scrap metal; only when someone is behind the wheel does it become an armored corps!

An attack helicopter roared past at low altitude, stirring up the dust and sand around it as it rapidly approached the epicenter. Himari's voice quickly shared the key information with everyone:

"The third prophet of the Cross God Name, 'Vina,' is an AI construct that is a hybrid of a giant snake and a whale. Due to data loss, we are unable to determine its weapons and abilities. Please proceed with caution!"

"Hoo...Himari, this is what you're talking about, right?"

Danrito's voice came from the headset. The next second, accompanied by Serika's scream, the helicopter he was riding in suddenly rose high, and the desert below bulged like a fountain. With a thunderous sound, a huge white snake head opened its mouth from the ground and rushed into the air with a loud bang -!

176. Tatakai, keep touching Tatakai

"Caught it!"

As Danrito cheered with satisfaction, and the helicopter soared at breakneck speed, the massive machine lured below roared like a whale breaking the surface. Like a deep cry echoing from the ocean, the whale-like roar echoed through the waterless Abydos Desert.

"Wu ...

Danrito was still fearlessly stretching the cassette outside the cabin. As the helicopter maneuvered, Serika felt like she was in a washing machine that was starting to shake. Coupled with the wide-open cabin door, she felt like she would fly out of the door if she didn't grab the ring in her hand the next moment.

"Huh~ I'm glad the lure worked." Hoshino closed her laptop. Although she also held on to the rings tightly, she was more steady than Serika. Steadying her center of gravity, Hoshino leaned her head over the window and looked down at the target, whose true appearance had finally been revealed.

"Hmm... Is this a combination of a snake and a whale?... I don't think the whale's cuteness is there at all..."

"Are you still thinking about cuteness at this hour?" Serika's cat ears slowly dropped as she got used to this kind of scene, recovering from her ruffled state. Hoshino smiled and freed up a hand to touch Serika's little head: "The more this happens, the more you need to calm down. Distracting yourself is also a good way to relieve tension~"

With a beep, Kayoko's voice rang in Danrito's ears: "President, please guide the target towards the excavation site. That's the only place suitable for engaging the target."

The helicopter carrying Danrito was like a fish bait with the best bait, emitting an enticing smell, luring the huge prophet below to follow closely under the helicopter like a shark chasing after the smell of blood. From the helicopter, one could also see the white 'dorsal fin' exposed in the sand sea, chasing closely.

"Hahahahaha! See?! This is the fruit of my talent. If I even hint at even a tiny bit of it, anyone who can recognize its value will unhesitatingly abandon all rationality to pursue it!"

Looking down at the Cross God Name Prophet Vina, who was being pursued relentlessly by the billions of auras, Danrito couldn't help but smile happily.

But don't get me wrong, Danrito didn't have any thoughts about this giant white snake fish. He was just once again satisfied that his talent was being chased so madly. That was just the feeling.

"Seeing it with my own eyes is even more shocking... Can an AI construct actually reach such a size?"

Although Hoshino had seen the records of the prophet in the school database before, it was just an unintentional glimpse. Now when he saw the real thing appear before his eyes, he was amazed at such a huge existence that had been lurking under the Abydos Desert for such a long time.

"According to calculations based on the data integration, the sandstorm that engulfed Abydos was caused by this gigantic machine stirring up the yellow sand," Hikari said calmly into the headset. "However, this conclusion is ultimately based on inferences from numerous sources. Without factual evidence, I cannot guarantee its accuracy."

"...No, anyone would believe it after seeing this scene."

Sitting in another helicopter heading towards the designated battlefield, Nomiya's expression was serious. She looked at the flying dust and the deep, far-reaching roar she could hear as she approached.

"Just by moving forward, it could trigger natural phenomena like a natural disaster. If it uses 100% of its power, it might create another sandstorm exactly like the one that year."