Yama Reborn-Chapter 432 - 429 [Group Launch! Go Live!]

Chapter Four Hundred and Twenty-Nine [Group Formed! Online!]

BOOM!

An explosion rumbled from the southwest, intensifying the fiery glow that already painted the southern sky of Jinling City, as if half the heavens had turned red.

Niveer, standing by the window, Li Yingwan, frowning and pondering over her phone, and Xicheng Xun, kneeling with her tachi in hand, all shuddered at the sound!

All three raised their heads simultaneously, scrutinizing each other. The expressions on their faces grew incredibly complex.

Then, just as all three seemed about to speak, Xicheng Xun, quicker by half a beat, tentatively began.

"Um..."

Both Niveer and Li Yingwan raised an eyebrow, squinting at Xicheng Xun.

And just then, before Xicheng Xun could continue, the complexions of all three girls changed simultaneously!

A voice resounded in their minds all at once.

Chen Nuo! Without me, you cannot leave this place. Hiding is pointless... you...

After their complexions changed in unison, they all looked up sharply!

Xicheng Xun immediately closed her mouth, leaped up from the ground, and rushed to the window in two strides!

SWISH!

Tachi unsheathed!

A brilliant flash of the blade!

With a sharp CRACK, the room’s specially made high-altitude, multi-layered glass floor-to-ceiling windows were sliced open!

Xicheng Xun lowered her brow and let out a soft cry, "Yah!"

Her small body sprang up. She tapped the cut window with the back of her tachi’s hilt, causing it to shatter immediately!

Immediately after, Xicheng Xun, like a gust of wind, leaped straight out of the hole in the window!

Under the cover of night, from a high-rise building over twenty stories tall, Xicheng Xun’s tiny figure leaped into the air. She did a somersault mid-flight, then rapidly descended along the building’s facade!

Meanwhile, back in the room, Niveer and Li Yingwan exchanged glances. Their expressions changed, and they ran off in different directions.

Li Yingwan turned her head. With her long legs, she reached the room door in a few strides and dashed out...

Niveer also seemed to want to run to the door, but after seeing Li Yingwan’s move, she stopped. Instead, she turned and darted into the bedroom.

Her eyes swiftly swept across the room, landing on a large suitcase in the corner. She raised her eyebrows, went over, opened the suitcase, and rapidly pulled out a large coil of climbing rope.

Descending along the building’s facade at great speed, Xicheng Xun forcefully swung her tachi, intermittently stabbing the wall violently several times. Sparks flew as the blade scraped against it, gradually slowing her fall.

When she was less than ten meters from the ground, Xicheng Xun let out a loud shout, using all her strength to thrust the tachi downwards!

With a CRACK, her falling body suddenly paused. The immense inertial force brought a flicker of pain to her face, but she used the momentum to flip in the air, landing on the ground in a one-knee kneeling position!

At that moment, SWISH!

One end of a climbing rope also fell to the ground near her. Xicheng Xun looked up and saw Niveer’s figure descending rapidly from the facade above.

She was using the standard fast rope descent technique!

A gleam flashed in Xicheng Xun’s eyes. She snorted but reached out. The tachi, embedded in the wall, suddenly dislodged itself and flew rapidly into her hand.

Xicheng Xun sheathed her tachi, turned her head to identify the direction, and immediately ran towards the southwest—the direction of the explosion. Her tiny figure leaped and bounded across the streets, flitting over the tops of cars along the roadside, before vanishing into the shadowy end of the street...

Niveer finally landed and quickly undid the figure-eight descender from the rope. Scanning the dark streets with narrowed eyes, she let out a cold snort. "Runs fast, doesn’t she!"

Her thoughts swiftly shifted. Instead of immediately running southwest like Xicheng Xun, she quickly looked around, surveying the nearby buildings. Her gaze fixed on a tall building across the street—specifically, its rooftop...

Taking a deep breath, Niveer rushed out...

In the hotel, the doors to an elevator shaft on the ground floor were pried open.

Li Yingwan’s long legs emerged. She landed gracefully on the floor outside and, with a swift tug, retrieved the belt she had used as a makeshift descent line from the elevator shaft’s steel cables.

As the girl dashed toward the exit, her gaze swiftly scanned the hotel lobby while she efficiently reattached the belt around her waist.

Upon running out the door, she unexpectedly took a detour to the empty reception desk and quickly grabbed something.

The street was deserted. Li Yingwan leaped down the hotel steps. Her cold eyes seemed to blaze with fire as she glanced over the hotel parking lot before swiftly selecting her target: an SUV.

With an elbow strike, she smashed the window, opened the door, and jumped into the driver’s seat...

In less than twenty seconds, the car was started. It then roared like a beast as it charged out, breaking through the hotel’s parking lot barrier and plunging onto the night streets of Jinling City.

Inside the car, Li Yingwan steered with one hand while her other hand quickly sifted through the item she had just taken from the hotel reception desk: a local map!

This was something found at the reception desks of high-end hotels in every city—a local map!

Li Yingwan scanned the map quickly, occasionally glancing at the road conditions, steering with one hand.

After driving two blocks, Li Yingwan suddenly braked hard. The car made a sharp U-turn at the intersection and headed in another direction...

As she drove, Li Yingwan’s expression was icy. Her eyes frequently flicked to the map, constantly adjusting her route based on the roads it displayed.

Chen Nuo stood at the base of the TV station.

Due to the explosion, Jinling City’s electrical circuits had been damaged, causing a widespread power outage.

The TV tower’s elevators had come to a complete halt. The tower was hundreds of meters tall, but Chen Nuo scaled the exterior, ascending rapidly with a few leaps and bounds.

Meanwhile, in the distance, more and more dark clouds seemed to gather in the sky. It was unclear whether they were the thick smoke from the explosion or actual clouds.

Half an hour earlier, Chen Nuo had split off another clone, which had headed towards the southwest of the city. Only after creating enough distance did it deliberately reveal its tracks.

As expected, The Fourth Seed immediately gave pursuit. The subsequent explosion and firelight in the southwest allowed Chen Nuo to breathe a sigh of relief.

At the top floor of the TV Tower Signal Transmission Center, Chen Nuo broke in through the doors...

Places like this always have backup power generation and storage equipment for emergencies. While it couldn’t power all the tower’s equipment, it should be sufficient to operate a specific part of it.

In the southwest, amid the ruins and explosion craters in the southwestern outskirts of Jinling City, The Fourth Seed stood with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he raised an eyebrow.

"Hm?"

The Fourth Seed squinted, his consciousness rapidly spreading to scan the surroundings. Then, he exhaled. "What a cunning fellow..."

If his range of consciousness were a radar, it could lock onto the traces of Chen Nuo’s spiritual power in operation.

Tonight, before this moment, as Chen Nuo had been running and hiding, the radar had been blank.

But at this instant, the radar...

Filled up!

It was as if spiritual power fluctuations were coming from everywhere, quickly covering a large portion of Jinling City’s urban area!

The faint spiritual power fluctuations, almost imperceptible, had spread everywhere.

This prevented The Fourth Seed from accurately pinpointing the location of Chen Nuo’s active spiritual consciousness.

Because... it seemed as though half the city was emitting signals of Chen Nuo’s spiritual power fluctuations!

Chen Nuo, however, had already landed swiftly on the ground. He jumped off the TV tower and headed towards the riverbank, sprinting along the riverside path.

Simultaneously, he rapidly expanded his spiritual power and began to use his perception ability to analyze this world’s Space Power!

At this moment, due to the continuous explosions, Jinling City was experiencing a citywide blackout! Apart from the southern area, still illuminated by the fires from the explosions, all other districts were plunged into darkness.

Chen Nuo leaped into a riverside forest and quickly ran into a desolate area...

This was the western riverbank of the city, a place well-known to Jinling residents... the shipyard where a famous grand eunuch from a past dynasty had built ships for voyages to the Western Seas.

In 2002, this area had not yet been developed into the large park it would become in later years; it was still a rarely frequented place.

Chen Nuo hid on the edge of the forest, using the canopy’s shadow to conceal himself in the darkness.

He continued to use his spiritual power to its utmost to analyze the space.

Soon, Chen Nuo discovered the issue.

The structure of this space...

If space were likened to a house...

Then, in the real world, every time Chen Nuo used his Teleportation Ability to break open spatial rifts, he needed to use his Spatial Ability.

The ’space’ in the real world felt very solid to Chen Nuo. Its framework was sturdy, and its Space Power was condensed. Finding a rift and completing a teleportation within it was quite difficult and consumed considerable energy.

But now, as Chen Nuo sensed it, he immediately noticed the difference in this ’replicated space’ created by The Fourth Seed.

The spatial structure here, when compared to the real Jinling City...

All the necessary frameworks and spatial rules were present, nothing lacking.

However, upon sensing it, it gave Chen Nuo a feeling of being much more fragile.

As if, to draw a parallel, if the real world’s spatial structure were made of reinforced concrete,

Then the framework and Space Power here were as if the steel reinforcement was replaced by wooden sticks, and the concrete by earthen walls.

It’s like... the difference between steel and fiber-reinforced plastic.

Both might contain the word ’steel’ in their description, but their hardness and density are worlds apart.

Chen Nuo frowned and exhaled.

No wonder...

No wonder, when he first encountered The Fourth Seed and made a hasty escape using his Teleportation Ability, it was very rushed. Afterwards, Chen Nuo, fearing pursuit by The Fourth Seed, didn’t dare to use his spiritual power again.

Reflecting on it now, the energy consumed by that teleportation was much less than the energy he had expended using the same skill in the real world.

The teleportation distance also felt greater, and at the same time... completing it seemed much easier.

"So... is it because the spatial structure here is weaker? Is that why this space is more fragile?"

Chen Nuo frowned.

And moreover...

"Eh? What place is this?"

Suddenly, Chen Nuo opened his eyes, his expression filled with surprise and suspicion.

Fearing his perception had been mistaken, he quickly closed his eyes again, concentrating his spiritual power to analyze the space once more.

Then, a shocking discovery imprinted itself onto his mind!

He sensed that within this "replicated" space of Jinling City...

There was a hole!!

That place seemed like a funnel-shaped void within the replicated space of Jinling City, which was already much more fragile than the real world.

No, upon sensing more carefully, it wasn’t actually a funnel-like void.

Instead, the space at that location was even more fragile than this replicated space!

If the difference between this replicated space and the real world is like that between fiberglass and steel,

Then the "hole" Chen Nuo perceived was as fragile as if it were wrapped in styrofoam.

The rules of space were complete, but its condensation was exceptionally "thin," appearing as if it could be pierced through with just a gentle poke.

That’s why Chen Nuo, upon that sudden initial perception, had thought it was a void.

But, after Chen Nuo sensed it carefully and pinpointed the location of that ’void’ in the space...

Chen Nuo opened his eyes again.

This time, his expression turned exceedingly grave and incredibly complex!

Because the location of that void...

He knew it all too well!

That place was...

Chen Nuo’s home in Jinling from his past life!

Not the Chen Nuo from No. 8 Middle School!

But the Chen Nuo from a past life, who was born in Jinling City, later left that place, traveled the world, lived a momentous and turbulent life, and was revered in the Underground World as "Yama"...

Lord Yanluo’s birthplace in Jinling City... that home!

After completing his assessment, Chen Nuo quickly retracted all his spiritual power!

The TV tower’s broadcasting capabilities were not omnipotent. Using his spiritual power fluctuations broadcast via the TV tower’s signals could confuse The Fourth Seed for a while, but against an opponent of this level, it would only buy Chen Nuo a brief moment.

Chen Nuo was unsure how long it would take The Fourth Seed to see through this deception. Perhaps ten minutes, perhaps five, or perhaps...

In fact, The Fourth Seed might have already discovered him and was currently tracking him!

Without any delay, Chen Nuo immediately left his hiding place. Still refraining from using his spiritual power, he ran along the road, quickly heading in a specific direction!

His home from his past life!

No matter what was there, that was the weakest place he had sensed in this replicated space. Perhaps from there, he could tear open space and return to the real world!

Chen Nuo was very familiar with the roads. Supported by his formidable physical prowess, his speed wasn’t slow at all, even without using spiritual power. He calculated it would take him fifteen minutes at most to reach the location.

But just when he was less than halfway to his destination...

Suddenly, Chen Nuo came to an abrupt stop, turning back in disbelief!

In the darkness-shrouded Jinling City, from the direction of the city center...

A red signal flare shot into the sky!!

There were actually people in this space?!

Chen Nuo naturally understood that The Fourth Seed would definitely not be firing any signal flares.

But just after Chen Nuo had this thought...

WHOOSH!!

A second signal flare soared into the air!

It was still red!!!

And then, immediately after, came the third one!

The third signal flare burst with an orange glow!

Chen Nuo stood rooted to the spot, utterly dumbfounded, his eyes wide with disbelief!!!

In the southwest of the city, Xicheng Xun also stopped in her tracks, turning to look at the three signal flares illuminating the sky above the city.

Red, red, orange!

Two reds with a long interval, then one orange with a short interval!

A strange glint appeared in Xicheng Xun’s eyes...

Suddenly, she muttered under her breath, "This is... could it be... I thought... I almost misjudged!"

Without any hesitation, Xicheng Xun turned on her heel and sprinted back the way she had come.

Then, she burst into an outdoor equipment store by the roadside.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Moments later, four signal flares shot up into the sky!

Two white ones! One orange!

Two whites with a long interval, then one orange with a short interval!!

Chen Nuo looked as if he’d been struck dumb, frozen like a statue. He just stood there, staring blankly at the two sets of signal flares in the sky...

Then, he began to shake uncontrollably!

"Impossible... How could this... How could this happen..."

"Hey, choose a color for yourself. There are only three colors. Pick one for yourselves."

"I want green... two greens."

"Hey, there are so many of us, if we pick two of the same color, there’ll be repeats."

"That’s fine. If it doesn’t come to two of the same color, the rest can use mixed colors."

"Alright, Bull Head chose two greens... you know, the colors you picked really suit you."

"What about you?"

"I... I’ll take two reds, after all... it’s just like my sister and me, when we’re together, we’re the exact same color."

"Fine, Hummingbird chose two reds, hey, what about you? Neon Iceberg."

"I... white. I like... places with light."

Yama’s group of eccentric young subordinates actually each had designated signal flare codes to indicate their presence.

Among them, two reds represented Hummingbird.

Two whites stood for Lan Mei!

And a single orange, in Yama’s organization, represented a special communication code.

This communication code was:

"Online!"

Two reds and an orange:

Hummingbird, Online!

Two whites and an orange:

Lan Mei, Online!

"Tsk! Damn it!"

Li Yingwan, jumping back into the SUV, stared at the signal flares in the distant sky. A cold, mocking smile touched her lips. "...I thought... Ha! I almost misjudged. So, it really is you all..."

With that, she slammed the gas pedal down, and the car roared off like a beast, headed towards the center of the city!!

Actually, earlier in the military district’s armory, Li Yingwan had found signal flares but hadn’t taken any. Instead, she had chosen a long rifle, which now lay on the back seat.

Flooring the accelerator, the South Korean girl wore a cold smirk, her eyes blazing.

She gripped the steering wheel with one hand while the other swiftly brushed across her eyebrow, delivering a strange military salute.

In a low voice, she muttered to herself:

"Firefly, Online!"