Chapter 838 - 709: Ai Kun

"The Cold God is dead?" Merlin asked in a deep voice, leaning on his magic wand.

"Completely dead." Li Cheng flung aside a section of completely transparent spine, then put it back into his Backpack and sneezed forcefully.

The Cold God was stronger than the Flame Demon God Amy and the Teleportation Demon God Bachin, with a Level around 37-38,

His self-destruction was comparable to an anti-entropy version atomic explosion, and Li Cheng only narrowly escaped disaster by using Light Speed Elbow Strike to flee a hundred kilometers at the moment of the explosion.

As for the spoils—the Cold God’s spine—Li Cheng hadn’t yet checked the Note in detail, but its Mysteriousness wouldn’t be lower than Hephaestus Tree-man’s Tree Heart.

Li Cheng was covered in frost, icicles hanging from his hair, eyelashes, and leg hair, as he breathed out mist while sticking dozens of smartphones to himself, each logged into X, Tieba, Instagram, Zhihu, and other platforms.

Maxwell, who mastered the electric flow superpower, noticed these phones weren’t killing field tools, opened his mouth slightly, and murmured in confusion, "What’s going on?"

Looking at the posts tagged with things like "Love and Deep Space," "Penghu Naval Battle," "Messi Ronaldo," "South Korea Stock Market,"

Su Jie twitched at the corner of his eye, "Taking the rhythm on different platforms, artificially creating a space elevator comment section, making the phone a warming device for himself, probably."

At this moment, Divine Era Rain Prayer, with her arm twisted, couldn’t support herself and passed out on the stone slab, and the God Trapping and Spirit Stealing effect was naturally interrupted,

Su Jie quickly rushed forward and carefully lifted Divine Era Rain Prayer away from the Rusted Sword, placing her on a sterile cloth alongside Claudia, Gouchen, and others.

"Good news, they’re not dead.

Bad news, Sanity Value is burned out, more painful than death."

As a medical professional, Su Jie skillfully took out IV bottles from the Backpack, administering them to the three, and placed sleep aids consisting of integrated eye masks, headphones, and electrode patches on them, easing their pained expressions.

Spiritual Power below the safe limit at most causes dizziness, emptiness, fatigue. Physical strength below the safe limit may cause shock, convulsions, a couple of days’ rest can slowly recover.

But once Sanity drops below the safe line, it’s dangerous, from minor chaos and madness to seeing indescribable terrifying illusions, causing organic brain damage and permanent deduction of Sanity Value maximum.

The sleep aids Su Jie took out were labeled with the "Magic Deer" trademark and can’t restore Sanity Value, but instead use headphones to play music and electrode patches to guide the brain to produce brain waves,

inducing wearers to enter REM sleep, using artificial dreams to cover the terrifying illusions, thereby preventing waking up with a deduction of Sanity Value maximum.

As for the effects... they seem quite good.

Gouchen, seemingly dreaming of childhood, showed a nostalgic smile on his face under the eye mask, "Brother, riding the horse..."

Claudia also smiled, revealing the Bloodline’s fangs, murmuring, "Pig blood cake, duck blood vermicelli soup, blood sausage..."

As for Divine Era Rain Prayer, with a thread-like voice, "Hunter, Bio-Booster Armor, Swordwind Chronicles ended, Ice Cream released the second season, yen exchange rate increased, rice price decreased..."

Well, the previous illusions seemed fine,

Compared to South Korean Transcendents mass aligning with conglomerates and multinational corporations, the Sun Island Transcendents, rooted locally, can’t move, investing a significant amount into the Japan stock market and real estate.

When stocks or exchange rates rise, everything goes well. Once the market crashes, hard-earned Game Coins from Script Tasks are all lost.

Don’t count on the Sun Island government to stabilize the market, they actually hope these billionaires and advanced Transcendents generously help bail out the market, easing Japan’s stock-bond-currency triple kill.

"Uh... by the way, isn’t the yen exchange now 23.7 yen to 1 RMB? So calculating this way, booking Mizuhara Chizuru from Rent-a-Girlfriend for a month costs only 700 yuan, cheaper than karaoke..."

Su Jie muttered, suddenly noticing that Maxwell, Merlin, and Pifu were all staring at him, quickly waved his hand explaining, "I never go to massage or karaoke."

This is the truth,

No one cares where heroes come from, the Mobile Task Force agents were just ordinary people from different walks of life before training, but certainly they have been mindful of not exposing Su Jie to bad information regarding minors.

Su Jie learned to master firearm shooting, explosive making, assassination, lurking destruction, interrogation, but still can’t drink alcohol or smoke, and can only play online games on Friday to Sunday and statutory holidays‌ between 20:00-21:00‌.

Merlin didn’t care about these details, downed two bottles of Spiritual Power recovery magic potions, then took out several Space Bombs, summoning the surviving Steel Giants to help disassemble.

Without outside interference, bomb disarming was relatively quick,

Merlin concentrated totally, deploying multiple arcane arms from his back to remove all the crystals from the bomb’s circuitry, breathing a long sigh of relief.

Every player needs 21 crystals to ascend a layer on Four Realms Mountain, plus what was searched earlier, the amount was ample, enough for even the comatose Gouchen and others to ascend.

"Yours, yours, and yours."

Merlin evenly distributed the crystals to everyone, pausing before speaking, "Before the Black Trojan Horse and Hassan disappeared, I only managed to put a layer of Intermediate Shield on them,

Uncertain if they exited in time, returning to Earth, or died then, and their bodies were teleported back.

Based on Player Behavior Rules, I suggest temporarily storing their share of crystals with me, transferring them to the guild members of Whale Song or Saladin’s Eagle when encountered."

This proposal was quite fair and surprising. Maxwell was stunned, "You’re not leaving? Staying in Broken Land?"

"My level here is the highest, I must be responsible for them."

Merlin pointed at Gouchen and the others with burned-out Sanity Value, "Moreover, snippets of information passed down from the top layer of Four Realms Mountain indicate the higher you go, the slower time flows compared to the lower layers.

Temporarily staying for a few hours in Broken Land down below has minimal impact.

I plan to take Gouchen and them to the nearest Execution Committee base, wait for their Sanity Value to recover, and gather more intelligence along the way."

While speaking, Merlin started up the Mage Tower to float again, drifting toward the Space Anchor to prevent sensing of the self-destruct signal by Demon God forces behind the scenes, who might come to reinforce.

"Gather intelligence? You can ask directly now."

Li Cheng, hearing this, pointed to the Sun-absorbing Chicken in the forest in the distance.

The latter, with few feathers left, having avenged its great enemy, recognized the situation, silently approached, jumped onto the Mage Tower, cleared its throat, and solemnly called out, "Cluck cluck."

"Sorry, please wait a moment. The killing field sometimes deliberately doesn’t translate."

Merlin rummaged out several Master Language scrolls, threw them to Su Jie and others to tear open, now they could understand the Sun-absorbing Chicken’s call.

"I am Ai Kun, thank you all for disregarding past grievances, helping me to kill this villain, concluding the great hatred of my race’s extinction."

Ai...kun?

Wow, it’s really you.