Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 856 - 855: Awakening

"Just received a message, Tai Hao is bringing people over, they're already at the 15th floor."

The abrupt voice suddenly sounded in his mind, causing Hoenhem's neck to stiffen. He quickly realized it was the voice of Side Truth.

He silently took out a red crystal given to him by Side Truth, squeezed it, and a message sounded in his mind, "Who's there?"

Side Truth said calmly, "Tai Hao, Raging Fire, Amber, Wang Hu, Zhan Lu, Chi Xiao, Ding Zhensi, and Zhi Ming."

"Not enough."

Hoenhem said, "Far from enough.

What about the others?"

"My subordinates, Tian Jinghutu and Sleep Demon, received my message, searching for active players on each floor."

Side Truth's voice was exceptionally calm, "The former has already contacted David, Abel, and others, on their way here.

By then, I will have them lurking near the passages on the eleventh to thirteenth floors, waiting for our signal."

"Alright."

Hoenhem nodded slightly.

This time, they were so treacherously attacked, they must find a way to retaliate severely, even if not for the rewards of the gate rivalry,

especially when members of major guilds remain in captivity.

"Lose control has appeared."

Once again, Side Truth's voice resounded, and Hoenhem looked ahead, only to see a group of Gray Robed People chanting incantations, causing the floating Lose Control within the static field clock shadow to drift over and be placed beside several other clock shadows.

Subsequently, this group of Gray Robed People approached the four Otherworldly Monks, taking away comics and gathering together as if discussing the content of the comics in a foreign language.

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Known as Liwei Mountain Taoist, Dann Chenzi looked at the gray robed figures gathered ahead, discussing the comics,

listening to their obscure, dark, and evil language, smelling the foul stench of their damp and filthy bodies, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Suppressing the disgust in his heart, he turned around, glanced at those Earth players sitting on the ground in bewilderment, a hint of pity hidden deep in his eyes—

This pity was less for the Earth players themselves, more for the Heaven-binding Rope used for binding.

Every Heaven-binding Rope was made from the back tendons of ten or even twenty innately rooted mortal children,

Whenever Dann Chenzi closed his eyes, it seemed as though he could hear the rising and falling wails resounding from the secret dungeon of the Discipline Hall.

Many years ago, before he was called Daochang Dann Chenzi, his brother and himself were taken from the county town to the Liwei Mountain Gate by the "Immortal Master,"

He, owing to his mediocre talent, was registered as an outer disciple, while his brother, due to exceptional spiritual roots, was accepted by the mountain gate elder as a disciple, entering the inner mountain for cultivation.

At that time, he especially envied his brother, often imagining while working as a helper in the copper house that one day his brother would succeed in learning and take him away from the sea of suffering.

Many years later, when he became the master of the Discipline Hall, he learned the truth—that his brother had long become one among the countless back tendons hanging on the dungeon walls.

Perhaps out of shame, perhaps out of indifference,

the Discipline Hall never labeled the tendons by name, so he didn't even know which tendon belonged to his brother.

Dann Chenzi's fist instinctively clenched.

"Three hundred years ago, the Outer Realm Sky Demon invaded on a large scale, iron-clad warships covering the sky, the mountains on fire, oceans steam-boiled wherever they passed, life extinct, fertile land turned entirely white ground,

leaving only the Magic Sunflower cast down by the Sky Demon—a half-plant, half-animal creature capable of devouring spiritual energy and reproducing continuously."

Standing beside Dann Chenzi, the scholar sighed deeply, and Youyou said, "The earthly dynasties collapsed, two hundred Immortal Doors mobilized to counterattack the Sky Demon, but only the Academy, Liwei Mountain, and Jingnian Sect barely escaped back.

The three sect leaders reached an agreement with the Magic Gate, Monster Beast, and Seafolk, using billions of lives as sacrifice, simultaneously initiating the Heavenly Sealing Array across the five continents, thereby closing the gates, temporarily repelling the Sky Demon.

In the ensuing decades, various factions gathered the populace and established settlements,

and invoked the eternal night through the Heavenly Sealing Array.

Except for settlements with the Gandhari Lamp, the rest of the lands fell into darkness and cold,

the Sky Demon's rampant Magic Sunflower, planted in the soil and growing unchecked, was finally curbed."

The young scholar paused, continued, "The eternal night lasted two hundred years,

the suffering of mortals and the war between cultivators and the Magic Sunflower also lasted two hundred years."

He glanced at the Earth players sitting on the ground, sighed heavily, muttering, "The Outer Realm Sky Demon that created the Magic Sunflower could return at any time,

only by surviving first can the survivors have the right to ponder righteousness and morality..."

"It will end soon."

Dann Chenzi's voice was exceptionally calm, "Once the upper layers of the Lost World collapse, crushing the surviving Otherworldly Monks,

these people we captured will automatically receive rewards—as long as we control them to retrieve the rewards, we can gain their portion of the gates.

Thus ending all this."

The people who died of hunger and cold in the eternal night, the brother who nurtured dreams but was skinned and extracted in the dungeon, the comrades devoured alive by Magic Sunflower, the previous Liwei Mountain Discipline Hall master who chose exile to the frontlines out of conscience...

Countless faces, familiar or strange, surged forth from the depths of memory.

Dann Chenzi slowly unclenched his tightened fist, his heartbeat gradually calmed.

They merely wanted to survive, regardless of righteousness and morality.

Bang!

The sound of air bursting came from not far off, Dann Chenzi turned to see the fox named "Qingqiu" leap out from the void, holding in its hand a giant key nearly as tall as it was.

The third, and also the last key to open the safety door.

The Desolated Lion stood up from the ground, nodded solemnly at Qingqiu, and said in a deep voice, "Let's begin."

The little fox handed the key to a gray robed figure from the Seafolk Sect, who solemnly raised the key, slowly inserting it into the last keyhole on the safety door.

Click.

As soon as the key was placed, it made a crisp sound,

A ring of light shone from the edge of the circular safety door,

The long-dead silent door gradually divided into six petals, sliding open without making even a creak from rust.

Below the safety door lay an utterly dark space, as if capable of devouring light, faintly exuding a strange and ominous aura.

Cultivators and Monster Beasts exchanged glances, hesitating whether to venture down.

Suddenly, from within the darkness under the door, a shadow shot out with extreme speed,

biting one of the front-standing gray-robed figures, silently dragging the figure into the darkness.

The Otherworldly Players surrounding the safety door broke into a cold sweat, collectively retreating backward,

before they had time to discuss what just happened, the entire space drastically trembled.

A deep, prolonged sound, unlike any animal, resonated through every floor of the Lost World,

something had awakened.