Player Reload-Chapter 600 - 522: Title Page
Inside the Edge Fighter, Wanli Sealed Blade and the others were initially worried that the battlefield would be too vast and open, making it impossible to find the "safe zone" mentioned by the Skull Knight.
When they got closer, they realized their concerns were unfounded.
Across the undulating wasteland, a colorful mist spread, reaching about a kilometer high and stretching side to side for unknown distances, blocking the way like a city wall.
As they gazed upon the colorful mist, a piece of information suddenly appeared in everyone’s mind.
This place was named the "Land of Beautiful Dreams," a special area of the battlefield, where mutual harm in any form was prohibited. It would put all visitors to sleep and weave a wonderful dream for them tailored to their desires.
High-level Transcendents would usually carry items and skills to resist illusions, brainwashing, and spiritual control, so it’s certain this information came directly from the battlefield.
Mushroom King and his group jumped down from the submarine without hesitation, heading toward the mist—they had received a task to survive for 48 hours and protect the Ice Axe from destruction, so sleeping to pass the time was not a big deal.
However...
Clang!
The seemingly delicate smoke presented a solid, tangible barrier, blocking the progress of the Otherworld players.
A foreboding feeling settled in all their hearts; the Land of Beautiful Dreams required the original intelligent species of the battlefield to open it.
"Let me."
Li Cheng descended from the sky, holding a Gray Rain brand Pulse Shock Mini Plane, performing a forward roll on the ground to shed inertia, and deftly swiping a metal NFC card with a cloud pattern on his watch.
Whether it was the Holographic Bone Corridor before evolution, or the Heat Death Corridor after evolution, both could change their forms according to the user’s will.
Previous it was a protective arm, now it’s in the form of a watch.
As for the NFC card... well, it had no practical use; it was just a thing to swipe leisurely when situations weren’t urgent, to produce a "clicky" sound effect, making it seem fashionable.
The watch glowed faintly as a chaotic cloud emerged from it.
The cloud-shaped Entropy Devouring Cloud was a third-level dangerous species in the battlefield, its passive skill was absorbing all forms of information entropy from the surrounding environment.
On a macro level, this manifests as book texts fading rapidly, hard disk stored information being erased automatically, and human memory deteriorating to the point of dementia and death.
Unfortunately, the absorption of information entropy by the Entropy Devouring Cloud is a passive ability that cannot be precisely controlled,
otherwise Gray Rain would have long used it to erase the wrong answers on her exam papers in batches (like main=6), achieving a customized perfect score.
"Whoa, the Entropy Devouring Cloud!"
White Horse Tombstone, being well-informed, recognized the type of cloud and suddenly thought of something. Quickly, he took out a stack of brand-new books from his backpack and placed them in front of his head to counter the entropy devouring effect and reduce damage to his brain.
Wanli Sealed Blade’s expression changed several times as he silently took out the solid-state drive he had cherished for years and put it in front of his forehead.
Reyes, undisturbed, took out the Jalisco Group’s quarterly financial report from his backpack, a thick pile, and shielded himself.
Claudia was out of luck; the items she carried that contained high information entropy were just a few magic books compiled by veteran members of the Witch Alliance. But these books were expensive, each costing thousands of Game Coins. Damaging them would be really distressing.
Seeing her in such a dilemma, Tombstone Sister generously handed her a book.
"Thank you!"
Claudia sighed in relief and glanced at it, discovering it was "Death and Life of American Cities," a book on urban planning.
Looking up again, White Horse Tombstone had books like "Wealth of Nations," "Urban Science," and "New Urban Crisis," all somewhat political and economic texts, atop his head.
This...
The player backpack slots are limited. Unless someone had a warehouse-like space device like Pifu, no one would stockpile so many idle books, right?
And based on their appearance, the books looked especially new.
As if reading Claudia’s confused mind, White Horse Tombstone, slightly embarrassed, said: "Uh... quite a few Romanian compatriots have been trying to push me into politics, helping to shoot a campaign promotional video to become a hometown councilor, so I bought these books to pretend to read on camera, appearing knowledgeable and profound.
Actually, I’ve only seen the cover page."
...You are indeed honest.
Faking literacy while binging on knowledge.
Seeing this, the Mushroom King and his group on the opposite side, blocked by the mist, also took out newspapers to wrap around their heads.
Before the newspaper text was rapidly devoured by the Entropy Devouring Cloud, Li Cheng took a quick glance, noting headlines like "Bo Lan City Curfew Lifted, Summoner in Serial Murder Case Executed,"
"Defense of Cold Wind City Continues; Our Forces Repelled the Twentieth Wave of Purgatory Army Siege."
It seemed the world from which Mushroom King and the others came wasn’t in a good situation.
The thought flashed through his mind, then Li Cheng used his will to control the Entropy Devouring Cloud, guiding it into the colorful mist.
Whoosh—
The mist parted, opening a narrow path for passage, and a kind of non-verbal information directly appeared in everyone’s minds.
The Entropy Devouring Cloud’s life force was slightly low; opening the Land of Beautiful Dreams allowed only three non-battlefield-origin species to follow it in at once.
All players’ expressions changed; three spots, not enough even for all the human players, let alone the Otherworld players like Mushroom King.
"The five-minute limit is up."
Wanli Sealed Blade took a deep breath; once the Skull Knight stopped intervening, it meant...
Boom!!!
Without even seeing the Mechanical Python appear, a blinding beam of light with a 30-meter diameter swept in from afar. Everyone present performed tactical avoidance maneuvers, diving below the hillside slope.
The hilltop, made of piled rocks and weathered millions of years of wind and sand erosion, was hit by the plasma beam, instantly melting and collapsing. Numerous semi-glass shards, wrapped in searing heat waves, cascaded down.
Without the Eternal Life Field, getting hit by the beam didn’t just mean rushing to the hospital; arranging for funeral flowers would be quicker.
Once the beam entered the mist, it vanished as if into the ocean without a trace.
Reyes shouted urgently: "We have to decide now! We need to choose three people to enter the mist."
Three tasks, three teams, three spots.
The simplest solution was for Mushroom King’s side to send one person, Li Cheng’s side to send one, and then Wanli Sealed Blade, each carrying their task items into the Land of Beautiful Dreams.
The other players would abandon the task and return to the real world.
Whether the three stayed inside until the Alpha Python left on its own or they exited from the other side of the mist to continue their mission, they could proceed accordingly.
Or... dispense with chivalry, rush in now, and seize the three spots for themselves.
The players’ thoughts were chaotic, and in a flash of lightning judgment, the Astronaut, who had been in a vegetative state throughout the game, slowly stood up.
Under the bewildered gazes of Reyes and the others, the Astronaut staggered forward, placing his hand on the mist’s surface.
The next instant, a sudden change occurred; the colorful mist roiled and surged, engulfing everyone present.
