My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 78: Li Rui Is in a Hurry

Another day has passed. At midnight, Li Rui lay in bed, feeling he’s gained a lot these past couple of days.

From these seasoned veterans, he learned a lot about organizational systems and loopholes to exploit them. He may not need to use them, but he has to know them.

His next shift is at four in the morning, so he can sleep for now.

From this point on, no one was killing time with various entertainments anymore, because once midnight passed, it entered the time frame the Prophet had given.

The weather was great, the moon was quite round.

Moonlight spilled down, making the villa complex less dark.

At three forty-five in the morning, Zhou Xiong woke from his sleep. He was already sleeping with his clothes on, so he stood up, put on his shoes, and went to the villa’s yard.

Normally, Zheng Xiaoyue and the other two on the previous shift should have been back waiting to switch shifts, yet the yard was empty.

Zhou Xiong frowned and walked out of the yard. Across the road from the gate is a small platform from which most of the villa complex can be seen; he decided to take a look, maybe they’re on their way back.

Tap tap tap.

The combat boots made clattering sounds on the road surface as he walked to the platform and looked down, seeing what seemed to be a hazy ripple in the air, as if looking at the bottom of a river through clear water.

"Is it about to begin?"

Zhou Xiong planned to turn around and wake everyone up to prepare for battle.

However, as soon as he turned around, he was shocked.

Where’s my villa?

The yard gate he walked out of and the small building inside had disappeared without a trace, replaced by a wall of mist. On the wall, like a projection, some fragmented images from various corners of the entire villa complex floated.

Turning back, the situation was the same in all other directions, and the space he was in was no longer in front of the villa he had originally lived in.

The space here had completely distorted.

Zhou Xiong was a bit worried, not for himself, as he was after all a level 25 Secret Realm agent, above level 20 of the current reality, but mostly for Li Rui.

"If he too is teleported to another place alone, that would be terrible."

.....

Li Rui also slept with his clothes on, but his alarm was set for three fifty.

After waking up, he first drank a glass of water, then went downstairs to the yard, finding that Zhou Xiong wasn’t waiting for him.

"Better go check the platform."

He too walked out of the yard, making plopping sounds, and saw the rippling space.

"What’s this? Am I still not fully awake?"

Li Rui rubbed his eyes, wondering if it was due to just waking up.

The good news was, the scene in front of him indeed changed.

The bad news was, it changed too much.

"....."

Even if he didn’t have much experience in the overlapping of current realities, he understood what was happening now.

Spatial Maze refers to the phenomenon of spatial chaos when a Secret Realm descends upon reality. It’s a type of special Secret Realm that splits the original space and shuffles it like a mahjong game.

This situation not only requires using combat power to eliminate the Secret Realm creatures entrenched in the fragmented space but, more importantly, remembering the sequence of movements between different spaces, without aimlessly wandering around.

According to the emergency situation handbook, the optimal solution is for all those trapped to first return to the anchor point. After gathering manpower, explore systematically and eliminate all Secret Realm creatures to resolve the current reality overlap.

Such an anchor point needs to be pre-decided by the team, whether it’s the villa’s main gate, parking lot, or even under a certain large tree.

However, no matter what, Li Rui wasn’t aware of such a place; perhaps this team hadn’t considered this situation at all, or simply forgot to tell him.

"So it’s not like I’m deliberately disobeying guidance and insisting on going solo to fight monsters; can’t blame me, no choice, hahaha."

Boastfully to himself, he casually walked through a wall of spatial barrier.

Buzz.

Li Rui opened his eyes again.

Surrounding him was a vast grassy field; if he remembered correctly, this was the planned mountain golfing area.

However, not to mention it was planned but never completed, even if it were built, it was now in ruins from wild plants.

Beyond the knee-high weeds, dozens of meters away stood several people cloaked in tattered robes, about two meters tall, with a Longsword on their left waist, their right hand resting on the sword hilt.

These swordsmen were clearly not alive; from beneath their cloaks came a zombie-like murky growl.

Faced with such a situation, Li Rui was not worried, but rather pleased.

"One, two, three, four, five."

He confirmed the number of enemies, activated the Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture, calculated his route, and then turned into a golden flash, charging forward.

Being a 20-level reality overlap, the five swordsmen were all around levels 18 or 19, and their skills were also quite good. The moment Li Rui made his move, their figures vanished from their original spots.

Clang!

Both sides reappeared in the middle of the grassland. The five swords like blooming petals formed a Sword Array and stabbed toward him, but Li Rui opened the Vajra Umbrella and resisted their attack using his physical strength.

"Roar!!!"

The swordsmen seemed to have a shared mind; seeing their attack fail, they immediately scattered in different directions.

However, one of them, flipping three zhang away, suddenly realized that the human had already been waiting at this position. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The speed of the Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture reached its limit, allowing Li Rui to arrive at the predetermined location before the swordsmen.

Slash!

The retracted Vajra Umbrella made a horizontal sweep, forcibly splitting the swordsman in half.

The other four swordsmen were unfazed, quickly following up, wanting to launch an offensive while he hadn’t yet pulled back.

But, of course, Li Rui wasn’t worried. The Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture was a Legendary Level skill, and he’s leveled it up to lv3. Even Zuo Qiutian’s puppets couldn’t match his speed, let alone these ordinary monsters under level 20.

He flickered through the air, evading the falling sword strikes, arriving behind the swordsmen.

Sweep the Army!

It was the simplest and most straightforward sweep-the-army that fit the imagination.

Yet a strike from an Extraordinary is decidedly not simple. With his own physique and the attributes provided by newly acquired rare equipment, he critically damaged two swordsmen with just one strike, while the remaining two were also slightly injured.

Li Rui didn’t plan to give them a chance to catch their breath, following up with two slams with the umbrella to end the battle.

Carrying the Vajra Umbrella, he walked to the corpses of the swordsmen. Secret Realm creatures appearing in reality mostly vanished after death, leaving only a few scraps of cloth on the ground.

Upon contact, the data frame popped up, showing five pieces of tattered fabric, four of common quality, one excellent.

These things were too low in rarity for Li Rui to care about, so he tucked them into his pocket.

Materials from the current reality can’t be stored in the inventory, as storing them binds them; he still has to submit them for compensation.

Storing them away, he immediately rushed towards the edge, without a moment of pause.

"Gotta move fast, or I’ll miss out on gathering more resources."

Li Rui was in a hurry.