Chapter 319: The Devoured Tesla Coil

Three refrigerated trucks, under centrifugal force, flipped sideways one after another, the welded guardrails sparking against the asphalt, igniting the leaking liquid nitrogen and plutonium‑239 mixed vapor. When Major Yege Luo Wa kicked open the deformed doors, her pupils reflected the boiling spectacle on the asphalt—the bitumen collapsed like melted black chocolate, and a black substance somewhere between liquid and gas surged from the cracks in the ground, carrying the fetid, humus‑like odor unique to the inverse world.

"Retreat!" Her scream was drowned by the sound of the asphalt bursting.

The bullet‑proof glass of the first refrigerated truck was undergoing a bizarre phase change: the cracks first blossomed into geometric patterns like cathedral stained glass, then melted into a caramel‑colored fluid bubbling with bubbles. The surging black substance corroded anything it touched, and all the agents except Yege Luo Wa were pulled into a pitch‑black hell.

Yege Luo Wa stood dumbfounded in the distance; the three refrigerated trucks were carrying the Tesla coil cores painstakingly brought over by the Soviet Union. Without them, Comrade Ao Lie Ge's mission would have no chance of success.

What on earth is happening? Did that dragon discover their plan? Where did these bizarre black substances come from?

The pitch‑black liquid devoured everything at a terrifying speed, and the three trucks vanished in an instant. All that remained on the ground was a massive black hole, its destination unknown.

From afar, the two, Ai Lin, widened their eyes: "Look, the same substance!"

Ai Lin pointed at the black substance seeping through the truck and exclaimed, and the two hurriedly gathered their things and ran off the vehicle.

The commotion caught Yege Luo Wa's attention; she quickly steadied herself, cautiously drew her pistol, and pointed it at the two foolish Americans: "Who are you? Don't move."

Dan and Ai Lin exchanged a glance; as a veteran reporter, Dan had infiltrated numerous criminal organizations many times. He quickly sensed that something was off about Yege Luo Wa.

The tiger‑mouth cocoon, the taut body, and the eagle‑like gaze. Dan could feel the opponent's intense killing intent.

This must be a soldier with professional training.

To ensure his own safety, Dan didn't reveal the true situation of the two; instead he put on a frightened face and said, "Hey! Hey! Calm down! My wife and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary in the city, and on the way back I saw you standing alone on the road, so I came down to ask about you."

Yege Luo Wa squinted, scanning them up and down. The two bore no trace of training, which relaxed her a bit: "My business has nothing to do with you." She tightened her grip on the KGB pistol in her hand: "Are you residents of Hawkins Town?"

The two exchanged a look and nodded.

Yege Luo Wa fell silent, weighing whether to kill the two civilians. She glanced back at the black pit behind her; at some point it had already reverted to a paved road.

"You," she pointed at Dan, commanding in a cold tone: "I will ride your vehicle; take me to Hawkins Town."

Perhaps Dan's mention of a 'wedding anniversary' struck a nerve with Yege Luo Wa; the slightly softer heart compared to her comrades led her to spare the newlyweds.

Why a newlywed couple?

Look at the man's gesture of shielding the woman, and the woman's clenched fist born of worry. Yege Luo Wa knew well that such behavior only occurs between people who love each other properly.

That is also one of the reasons she trusts Dan.

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Hawkins Town, the Bai Er Si family's basement.

Mai Ke placed the *Monster Encyclopedia* on the oil‑stained workbench, flipping the yellowed pages to the Juan Ce Long chapter. Da Si Ting, excited, tipped his duckbill cap: "My god, you aren't pulling my leg, are you? The Psychic Sorcerer is actually an ancient Juan Ce Long?!"

"This is too thrilling!" Da Si Ting rubbed his hands, pressing them to his chest as if he could barely breathe: "Demon King, monsters, Psychic Sorcerer, and now even a dragon appears!"

"I told you, the content of Dungeons & Dragons must be a biography of another real world!"

"Enough!" Jim squashed a beer can, "First Soviet lunatics, now middle schoolers using board games to explain monsters that even nuclear bombs can't kill?"

Magic and the like, that's one thing. But now these kids tell him that a virtual game is actually real? That's absurd!

Da Si Ting immediately argued with Jim, vigorously defending how correct his speculation was. Beside them, Mai Ke noticed the ever‑silent Shi Yi, silently walked over, and took Shi Yi's hand. "Are you okay?" he asked, a little worried; before coming, he had heard Jim say that three Soviet agents had attacked them.

Shi Yi's voice was hoarse: "Naimi Xisi never contacted me, nor told me his purpose for coming."

She looked at Mai Ke anxiously: "I'm very worried."

Mai Ke listened, opened his mouth, organized his words carefully and asked, "So, how exactly did you meet that gentleman?"

Shi Yi sighed, then slowly recounted her relationship with the Throne.

Mai Ke was astonished: "So you and that dragon are both members of a cross‑universal organization?"

Shi Yi hesitantly nodded, glancing at Mai Ke with a guilty look; she feared being taken as a monster by others.

"That's so cool!" Shi Yi was stunned, lifted her head, and saw Mai Ke's excited expression: "My god, Shi Yi, what are you worried about? You're in the same organization. And, as you said, he came here before to help you regain that thing… um, the Throne. If that's the case, he certainly won't hurt you!"

Seeing Mai Ke's confident demeanor, Shi Yi let out a chuckle: "I'm not worried about getting hurt; I'm only worried…"

She stared at Mai Ke without speaking; she was only worried that the people she cared about would get hurt.

"Shi Yi, Shi Yi," a faint female voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.

!

Shi Yi's complexion changed, she sprang to her feet, frightening Mai Ke who stepped back, his expression oddly fixed on her.

That voice was familiar.

She remembered, in the parking lot, that monster that suddenly appeared had halted everything; it was this voice that awakened her and gave her strength.

"Shi Yi, find the dragon and tell him that the cage you seek lies within the library of the time fissure."

She heard it, found the dragon.

That voice seemed to be helping the dragon look for something?

"Shi Yi, what's wrong?" Mai Ke, seeing Shi Yi stare blankly, asked oddly.

She snapped back, shouting, "I must find Naimi Xisi immediately!"

Jim, hearing this, grew anxious: "Shi Yi! He caused such a mess in New York; we don't know his motives. What if he harms you?"

Shi Yi said firmly, "He won't," the gentle female voice still echoing in her ears, making her slightly dazed: "He won't hurt me."

"Set frequency to 152 MHz!" Da Si Ting produced his homemade signal receiver, a device cobbled from a microwave oven transformer and radio parts that suddenly sparked.

Shi Yi placed one hand on Da Si Ting's signal receiver, while the fingertip of her other hand brushed dragon scales, and the basement temperature dropped sharply.

Boundless radio waves radiated outward, accompanied by Shi Yi's psychokinesis.

"Naimi Xisi? It's Shi Yi, did you hear me?"

(End of Chapter)