The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 128 - 100 Evil Will_2

Chapter 128: Chapter 100 Evil Will_2

He stepped forward and tore off the hood of the hazmat suit, then involuntarily gasped.

Kevin’s corpse was deathly pale, his eyes bulged to the limit, seemingly about to burst from their sockets, revealing a desperate and terrified expression.

His face was frozen in that moment, filled with panic and fear, as if he had seen something unspeakably horrifying.

For a moment, Zhou Yuan felt a chill down his spine. Could there be some kind of anomaly in this room?

"Was he... scared to death?" Hong Fangqi couldn’t help but grip her magic wand tighter, feeling a bit frightened.

This was too bizarre.

A third-tier extraordinary person from the Hacker Empire, scared to death just like that? What did he see?

West’s expression was dark and uncertain. After a brief pause, he walked straight to the control console, trying to activate the self-destruct mechanism.

But no matter how he operated it, he couldn’t rouse the extinguished screen. The central control system was completely out of order.

"Damn it!"

West slammed his fist down, leaving a dent in the console.

He then turned to the other two, speaking in a grave tone, "You two need to leave immediately. Run as far as you can. I’m going to call in a satellite orbital cannon to blow this place up."

There was no time for subtlety now. The area had to be destroyed immediately. If the mold leaked out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

West took out a walkie-talkie from his Storage Ring, "Cleaner calling headquarters."

"Sssszzz..."

His expression changed, "Repeating, Cleaner calling headquarters, please respond."

"Szzz... ssszzz... ssszzz..."

A burst of chaotic static came from the other end of the walkie-talkie.

"Communication has failed." West realized things were getting out of control. This walkie-talkie was an alchemical tool, capable of communicating even in some abnormal areas. He had specially checked it earlier to ensure it was working.

But now...

With unexpected incidents occurring one after another, West instinctively felt something was off, but he couldn’t figure out what.

[Look inside Kevin’s Storage Ring. There’s an unexpected surprise.]

Zhou Yuan remembered Kevin wore his Storage Ring on his left hand. He pulled off the hazmat glove and slipped the ring off his finger.

Upon the owner’s death, the spirituality recorded in the Storage Ring would automatically disappear, but Kevin’s ring was a special one. Even in death, the restrictions remained, too strong for any of them to open.

But if humans couldn’t, maybe a ghost could!

Zhou Yuan put the ring on his finger, shouting in his mind, "Go, Fang Qing Beast, use Unlock!"

"..."

Tiny droplets of blood oozed from his fingertips. A few seconds later, Fang Qing forcibly broke the restriction.

"Holy crap, uranium!"

As soon as Zhou Yuan’s consciousness entered the ring, he froze, understanding what the Eyes of Identification meant by unexpected surprise.

A nuclear warhead!

"Hiss... Is carrying a nuclear warhead the new travel essential these days?"

Zhou Yuan was utterly shocked, wondering where Kevin had gotten this thing.

Last time, the Alpha Mobile Task Force in Yingzhou only carried a micro-nuke for their mission, and this guy had a full-fledged nuclear warhead!

"I’ve got an idea."

Zhou Yuan directly pulled the nuclear warhead out of the Storage Ring, almost filling the empty space in the control room.

"Th-th-th-this..." Hong Fangqi was so startled by the oppressive presence of the warhead that she stuttered.

"How on earth do you have a nuclear warhead?" West was also shocked, losing his composure.

"It’s not mine, it’s Kevin’s." Zhou Yuan shrugged, "You guys shouldn’t mind if I take his Storage Ring, right?"

He planned to find another opportunity to take Kevin’s corpse as well.

West didn’t care about that. He hurried over to the warhead, noticing it had a timer for detonation:

"I’ll set the countdown to 15 minutes. That should be enough time for you to leave."

"No problem." Hong Fangqi nodded.

Zhou Yuan hesitated for a moment but then nodded as well. Preventing the mold from spreading seemed more important than completing the task of killing the fungus master.

If he actively abandoned the task, he would be directly teleported back home.

"Alright." West set the detonation timer to 15 minutes. A red countdown began coldly ticking away.

He continued, "You two, get going. I’ll stay here to ensure the nuke detonates successfully."

"Come on, you don’t have to do that." Hong Fangqi said.

"No." West shook his head, "Since earlier, I’ve had a premonition that something has been obstructing us. If we all leave, whatever it is might appear and stop the countdown."

His words left Zhou Yuan and Hong Fangqi in silence.

Indeed, Kevin’s death, the lab’s unsealing, the failure of the central control system, and even the breakdown of communication—all these incidents were too bizarre, as if an invisible force was working against them.

"Immortality! Immortality! Immortality!"

At that moment, all three of them heard a weak, raspy shout, quickly growing louder and closer.

Something was coming!

[Every distorted being in the lab, including the fungus master, is heading this way. Some bad guy must have leaked the info.]

Leaked the info...

Zhou Yuan’s heart skipped a beat. He asked in his mind, "Fang Qing, the fungus master is approaching. Is that evil presence you sensed the fungus master?"

"No." Fang Qing was very certain, "I can feel the fungus master now. It’s not it. That evil will feels like... it feels..."

She hesitated, "It feels... omnipresent."

Omnipresent? Could it be in an unobservable special state? A spiritual body? That didn’t seem right...

Zhou Yuan’s mind raced as he scanned the control room. When his eyes fell on Kevin’s corpse, his head exploded with a realization.

He activated his Protective Gang Qi. Under the puzzled eyes of West and Hong Fangqi, he went on a smashing spree in the control room, destroying all electronic devices, including the surveillance cameras on the ceiling.

"That evil presence disappeared from the room right after you smashed the cameras!" Fang Qing quickly noted, "But it’s still in the lab!"

"No wonder it could scare Kevin to death. It turns out to be something that can hide in electronic devices." Zhou Yuan realized he’d figured out part of the creature’s abilities.

[Hidden Task Uncovered]

[Hidden Task Activated]

[Task Name: "Cyber Demon"]

[Phase One Task Objective: Find more clues about the Cyber Demon.]

With the task popping up, Zhou Yuan was 100% certain. He urgently signaled West and Hong Fangqi to look at him and mouthed silently, "Do you have any electronic devices on you right now?"

They read his lips and shook their heads.

"Alright, I know what’s been messing with us." Zhou Yuan looked at West, "Set the nuke’s countdown five minutes earlier."

West didn’t understand why but did as he was told.

"You both heard it. The distorted beings in the lab are coming this way, which happened right after we activated the nuke. This means they can monitor our actions in real-time.

Combining this with Kevin’s death and the lab’s unsealing... I suspect something is hiding in the electronic devices, watching us. That’s why I smashed all the equipment here. We should be free of surveillance now.

As for the creature hiding in the electronic devices, your powers can investigate it once you’re back...

But for now, we need to fend off the distorted beings."

As soon as Zhou Yuan finished speaking, a boom echoed. The wall of the control room was blasted apart, a heavy iron plate flew in like a cannonball, embedding itself in the wall on the other side.

Dust filled the air. Outside the shattered wall, in the glow of the Purification Torch, more than twenty distorted beings roared ferociously.