Chapter 615: Aberrant Species Descending from the Heavens

The end of the world......

What is it like?

This question once hung at the end of countless twilights, written by philosophers on parchment, etched by poets into sonnets.

They imagined fire rain, imagined seawater flowing backward, imagined the sun suddenly extinguishing, imagined the earth splitting open a giant maw to swallow everything.

Among those in the capital, some, upon noticing the rain had lessened, moved their umbrellas aside.

They saw it.

Floating City hovered above the capital, far enough to be untouchable, close enough to press on the chest; while it was 'invading' this world, the world was also rejecting it.

Floating City's outline constantly trembled; its spire sometimes clear enough to see cracks on the windows, sometimes blurring into a gray phantom, as if it existed in two places at once yet refused to fully belong to either.

【Ying Duo: @Customer Service 501, what are you doing!】

【System Prompt: The other party is out of range, unable to receive messages】

Yang Yixie had already started frantically questioning the cause of all this, but the system gave him a result that could not be contacted.

Clearly, just now a notification popped up that the other party had come online.

【System Prompt: Customer Service 501 is online!】

【System Prompt: Customer Service 501 is online!】

【System Prompt: Customer Service 501 is online!】

Again, three consecutive alerts; even if Yang Yixie were stupid, he realized something was wrong.

Floating City was invading this world but had not succeeded; it hovered at the threshold, able to set foot yet unable to fully step in.

Thus the system prompts came intermittently; each prompt was proof that Floating City attempted to invade this world but was rejected.

But, how could this be?

Yang Yixie made a deal with himself: the other party would use every means to sever the connection between the two worlds, and the effect of doing so was obviously significant.

This world no longer showed projections of the game world, and the number of chosen players was decreasing......

No matter how you look at it, although Yang Yixie's life had become dull again, it was indeed effective.

In any case, nothing from the game world should have come into reality.

"Lao Yang, quick look at this!"

Yang Yixie had just begun to mobilize the small robots he had hidden in various corners of the capital when he heard Sun Yu let out another exclamation.

That was likely footage taken from a higher floor, appearing to be from the outermost region of Floating City, where several black dots fell down.

The online world could now be called a chaotic scene, for the sudden appearance of Tianmian City undoubtedly ignited the entire internet.

Some claimed it was a harbinger of the apocalypse, some said it was the same game-world projection as before, and others said it was divine punishment sent down by the gods.

Some were faster; after seeing a video of someone capturing a high-altitude falling object, they rushed to the impact site and found only a huge crater, as if something had smashed into the ground, yet inside it was empty.

But that photo did not circulate online for long before being deleted, probably because official personnel arrived and took control of the scene.

Yang Yixie quickly gathered online information while heading toward the door, simultaneously activating the small robots he had hidden throughout the capital.

Sun Yu had already paid; seeing Yang Yixie run out, he immediately followed.

Although the mall's skylight was transparent enough, seeing this scene in person outside caused a shock that could not be compared.

Many people were blocked near the mall entrance; upon closer look, the Security Team had been mobilized, ordering all civilians to stay inside the mall as shelter to prevent dangerous situations.

And that so-called danger......

Could only be the massive object hanging above their heads.

"What is that? A meteor?"

Originally, under the Security Team's obstruction, many had already gone inside, but more curious people still lingered near the gate.

A male student curiously gazed at a black dot in the distance; that dot seemed to come from the huge dark shadow above, plummeting at a terrifying speed.

And the target seemed to be near them......

"Everyone run inside!"

The Security Team Captain, after confirming that the thing was indeed heading straight for them, immediately shouted loudly, leading everyone away from the entrance and running inward.

During the retreat, the ground beneath their feet shook violently; the massive impact caused the lights overhead to flicker.

Yang Yixie was shoved back a few steps by the crowd, found a spot hard to be hit, and hid there; Sun Yu staggered beside him, his phone almost slipping from his hand.

"That thing really fell, landing right in the square in front of the mall!" he said, his face pale, voice low and quick.

The Security Team members were still desperately maintaining order, shouting "Go inside" and "Don't approach the entrance," but their voices were drowned out by the noisy crowd.

Yang Yixie weaved through the crowded throng, moving upstream, step by step along the wall toward the door; Sun Yu gritted his teeth and followed behind.

A thick cloud of dust rose from the square outside the glass doors; Yang Yixie looked out through the mall's glass doors, and in the haze he could faintly see a huge, distorted silhouette.

The square's center had been blasted into a large pit; at the bottom lay a curled mass of something huge, its limbs bent inward at unnatural angles, as if it had thrashed wildly while falling from the sky, trying to grab something to save itself.

Its body was covered in dark gray carapace, the surface covered with dark purple lines resembling veins or cracks; its head faced upward, and its fangs were still smeared with a sticky, translucent liquid.

Aberrant Species.

Sun Yu's breathing grew rapid: "...... Could this be the monsters the officials mentioned from the game?"

Yang Yixie did not answer, merely staring fixedly at the corpse.

That thing must have died from the fall.

Having fallen from Floating City through several kilometers of air to strike the ground, its chest cavity was completely collapsed, its carapace shattered into several large pieces, exposing the still-twitching organs inside.

Around, people had already begun holding up their phones to film; through the blast-resistant glass doors, camera flashes blinked on and off.

After realizing the monster appeared to be dead, the Security Team Captain shouted into the walkie-talkie, his voice hoarse and urgent, likely informing the officials of the situation here.

Wait, not right.........

Yang Yixie's pupils contracted sharply; after his vision fully merged with Ying Duo, he gained a terrifying enhancement.

Thus he could clearly see that, inside the monster's sunken body, a pale hand reached out from within and rested on the edge of the corpse.

Something, using that monster's corpse as a buffer, arrived in this world.