Chapter 47

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Chapter 47: Star Death Reality Show (XXX)

“It’s coming!” Qi Leren heard the distant movement earlier than Du Yue and Dr Lu.

Leviathan finally broke through the iron door’s blockade and once again resumed its identity of a hunter in a more crazy form. Qi Leren made up his mind to get rid of this thing this time!

“You two run that way, and I’ll lead it to the underground glacier to take care of it!” Once again, Qi Leren pulled out his gun and fired a shot at Leviathan, who had already appeared at the end of the corridor, to attract its attention.

Although the current Leviathan had become more aggressive after being injured, it couldn’t think without a brain, making it much easier to lead it to the underground glacier than they had originally thought. So, it was not a bad thing that he’d lost one hand… It’s just that the recoil from shooting with one hand was too big, and his firing was a bit bad.

The privacy time was running out, and when the three people’s invisible cameras turned back on, the present situation would surprise any audience!

Up until now, almost half of the contestants’ tracking cameras had stopped moving because of the contestants’ death. Not long ago, several tracking cameras declared “end of transmission”, and with the remaining tracking cameras in private time, there were no cameras to choose from.

But no one would have thought that there would be such a fierce scene at present!

Qi Leren, who was covered in blood and had a missing hand but miraculously healed wound, took a gun and shot at the huge monster rushing from a distance, while shooting and retreating until he ran out of bullets. He turned and ran, and while running, bit the magazine with his teeth to reload the gun.

The monster was completely out of control, chasing after Qi Leren, while the other two prey escaping in the other direction were completely forgotten by it. It devotedly pursued the prey that had constantly provoked it, and couldn’t wait to swallow him into its belly!

Qi Leren was exhausted from running the whole way. At this time, he has led Leviathan to the deepest part of the underground research institute. This once-visited metal corridor was as cold as the icy bottom of hell, and as he ran deeper and deeper, the surrounding area was getting colder and colder, just like a huge freezer!

At present, a half-open door appeared. Dark and cold air seeped from behind the door, making Qi Leren shiver in his temperature regulating clothes.

This was it! He Yi had released Leviathan from here!

Qi Leren guessed that he should have been chased by Mark at that time, and fled to the deepest part of the institute to throw off Mark, but mistakenly opened this huge heavy iron door and went in… The frozen Leviathan sensed the breath of the living, recovered from hibernation, and parasitized his body.

Behind him came the sound of Leviathan moving. Qi Leren turned on the flashlight and rushed through the iron door.

He thought he would see an ice storehouse—this was indeed an ice storehouse, but…

Qi Leren opened his eyes wide and stared at it in astonishment. It seemed to be a huge underground space that was like a planet of ice and snow. It turned out to be an underground glacier covered with thick ice! Human power had cut a channel in this huge underground glacier, and used it as a natural storage room. Along the artificial tunnel dug through the glacier, there were heavy metal containers on both sides along the way. He didn’t know what was stored in them.

Leviathan had caught up, and Qi Leren had to run again. This time, he obviously felt the cold. Even with Maria’s blessing, the terrible low temperature here had exceeded his tolerance. Every breath was a torture to the heart and lungs. The biting cold air poured into his lungs along his esophagus and cut on his chest like a blade.

Qi Leren had a bad feeling. The temperature here exceeded his expectations. He couldn’t delay too long. He had to quickly find the right place to blow up the glacial tunnel and let Leviathan be buried alive in this cold hell. All the skills he had used were cooling down, and he didn’t know if his invisible camera had frozen. He had no better way than to use the scientific weapon.

Ahead was a 90-degree turn, and the flashlight shone on the frozen alien words hanging on the corner, which seemed to be a warning symbol. Qi Leren rushed past before he could dwell on it, but ahead of him turned out to be an ice tunnel that had not been completed yet.

Qi Leren slipped and fell down, and his body slid forward uncontrollably for a while, and under the great impact, he knocked down the fragile guardrail. If it wasn’t for his quick reaction to grab onto a bulge in the inner wall, he would have slid even further.

Leviathan was catching up! Qi Leren did not dare to delay any more. He took the flashlight in his mouth and pulled out his gun with his right hand to shoot. But he never expected that this horrible low temperature environment overwhelmed the already cold pressure barrel, and it exploded on the spot! The barrel burst open, and a piece of iron on the gun barrel flew out. Qi Leren felt a slight itch on his right hand, and the webbing of his thumb was bloody, but he couldn’t feel the pain at this ultra-low temperature, and the blood froze in a very short time.

It was coming!

Qi Leren ducked and rolled on the ground, avoiding Leviathan’s crazy attack. Their positions were reversed. This time, it was deeper in the ice tunnel!

A good opportunity! Qi Leren took out his last hand grenade, biting the pin and throwing it at Leviathan!

There was a violent explosion in the ice tunnel, and Qi Leren was shaken to the ground while running back. His palm stuck on the ice, and when he pulled it up again, he had torn off a layer of skin, but this was not the worst! Worse, with this explosion, not only the ice tunnel above Leviathan began to collapse, but also terrible cracks appeared in this ice tunnel under Qi Leren’s feet!

Terrified, Qi Leren got up and wanted to escape. He couldn’t imagine how deep the underground space was beneath his feet. But the ice cracked too fast, making this section of the ice tunnel break in an instant! Qi Leren, who was about to lose support at his feet, only had time to leap to the ground without cracks in front of him with all his strength, and grabbed a support with his remaining right hand. At this time, beneath his feet was a horrible scene of ice and snow collapsing!

He lowered his head and looked at the flashlight spinning and falling in the air. The bright light couldn’t illuminate this icy hellish space. He couldn’t imagine how huge it was here, and even more couldn’t imagine if he fell… His S/L solution hadn’t cooled down yet!

Covered in ice, Leviathan couldn’t escape the pull of gravity. It roared in despair and fell into the endless dark abyss with the falling ice!

So the alien sign that he couldn’t understand just now was telling him that the ice here was fragile? Qi Leren’s mind had just flashed this idea, and even had no time to think about how he would climb up when he had lost one hand, when there was a crisp crack above his head.

At this moment, his heartbeat and breathing stagnated because of the fear of death. In the darkness, Qi Leren raised his head in disbelief. This life saving straw he had pulled finally cracked under the overwhelming weight.

The next second, under the pull of gravity, Qi Leren, like the falling Leviathan, would fell into the endless abyss of ice and snow beneath his feet…

At this moment, his mind suddenly recalled a fall—he had fallen into the sea from the blasted bulkhead of an airship along with a player parasitized by Slaughter.

But even the wind at that time was not as cold as it was now.

He couldn’t see anything, it was dark, he couldn’t even open his eyes, he could only let the horrible death approach him more and more in the rapid fall.

Death’s cloak has covered his eyes, but it happened that he saw a starry sea.

Endless darkness, like an open Pandora’s Box, precipitated frightening darkness and despair, while the stars that were scattered in every corner of the universe, their little rays reaching far into the edges of the universe, were hope.

Seemingly cold, seemingly weak, seemingly distant, but every spot of light was a huge star that exploded and burned continuously, and terrible energy was brewing in their bodies, illuminating the planets sheltered by them. But even such a great star can’t escape the same ending as everything—destruction.

At the end of the long and suffocating river of time, they would eventually extinguish and die in the boundless universe.

Whether it was human beings, stars, or even the whole universe, this day would come.

But… But…

If this world was a destroyed world, then it should have been buried in the coldness of death, without the slightest trace of vitality. Where could countless creatures absorb the light provided by the stars, be born, multiply, and be destroyed on this small planet?

Everything would be destroyed, but after destruction, everything would be reborn in another form.

Particles of destroyed stars formed a new planet, and even all life born on this planet were once the remains of dead stars, just like reincarnation. After destruction, there is rebirth.

Once again, Qi Leren saw himself.

Lying in the tree tomb full of petals. This big tree that was felled by lightning was once lush, but now like him, it had become lifeless and forgotten in this quiet garden until…

Until one day, a fresh bud pushed out from the root of this dead old tree. In just seven days and nights, it was inspired by some mysterious force and grew to half a meter high. And he who slept in the tree tomb, because of the law of power above material, returned to the world from the abyss of death.

He was destroyed and reborn.

That unknown power had been buried deep in his body, and gradually awakened from the torment of death time and time again. It was destroying his spirit, but it was also pushing him to a higher and further new world.

The cruelest test had come before him. This time, there was no skill card to resurrect him from the dead, and there were no items to resurrect him from the dead. Only the grim reaper holding a sickle was quietly waiting for him in the deepest part of the glacier.

Was it destruction or rebirth?

There was a loud bang, followed by a barrage of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Snowstorm-like pieces of ice fell from the sky and fell on this land. The screaming Leviathan fell heavily to the ground, and its body burst into a slurry of snow! The cold froze its time at this moment, and let this horrible monster once again sleep in its frozen hell.

But for a moment, there was a loud noise again between heaven and earth, another snowstorm-like ice collapse, and the deafening sound echoed in this underground space for a long time.

A slender figure fell down from the sky. He came down too fast and too heavy. He fell on the broken ice, like a doll thrown away on a whim. Compared with the vigorous sounds of the crushed ice falling, he was so quiet it was almost silent.

Dark red blood flowed out of his body and condensed into a dark red frost of death.

Leviathan, who still had a breath, finally gave up after sensing that there were no living creatures nearby, letting the ice and snow freeze its body, and went into hibernation with the dead.

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Qi Leren had another dream.

He dreamed that he had set aside the fog of time and saw the future.

It was the deepest part of a churning red abyss, as if a deep scar had been dug in the heart of the earth. It seemed to be the boiling blood of demons, and the magma flowed in this black canyon, rushing to the lake of lava deep in the canyon.

In the burning lake of lava, there were terribly high temperatures and magma everywhere, and only a few black rocks were dotted on this hellish red hot land, as if they would be boiled together.

Qi Leren felt that this should be Hell that he was seeing, for only Hell would have such a horrible appearance.

And what about himself?

He seems to be a bird flying through Hell, hovering over this terrible hot land. He felt that the person he was dreaming of was here, so he ignored the danger and slowly fell in the intense heat.

He saw a huge shadow, half of which was sunk in the lake of lava. Black, huge, majestic, like a huge black dragon… No, that was a huge black dragon!

The black dragon sank in the magma, and the hot flaming liquid gently wrapped around the dark scales on its skin like waves, gradually engulfing its sinking body, but its eyes were closed and it was unconscious.

Because it was dead.

Rotten demons were stirring on the cliffs beside the lake, waiting to devour the elusive prey, but they were dispelled by a pressure gradually descending from the sky above and unwillingly sank into the crevices.

Qi Leren landed. He had no body, just a consciousness, and landed lightly on the magma.

His noncorporeal body stroked the black dragon’s cold skin. A great sadness filled his heart, which made him unable to think, and he let the pain which was 1000 times and 10000 times more severe than the pain of losing his arm bore into his heart. An iron seed full of spikes would grow out of the hard soil, it was so tenacious and persistent; even if it had to pierce his heart, it would grow out in desperation!

The dragon sank slowly, and he followed it, slowly sinking into the magma.

Pain and sadness hung over the dream, and he thought they would fall to the end of hell together and be imprisoned forever in death.

But suddenly, there was now a brightness in front of him.

It was dawn.

He returned to the Garden of the Holy Tomb. Grass, green trees, bushes, and the white roses blooming in the corners were all familiar to him. There was no darkness, no heat, no cold, and even the breeze gently blowing over his cheeks was edified with a touch of tenderness, and the fragrance of grass and petals.

But he was still too sad to help himself.

He sat on the soft grass with a young but scarred black dragon in his arms, and silently, silently shed tears.

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Editor’s Notes: Next chapter is the arc’s conclusion.

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