The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 157 - 116 Shadow Eater_2

Chapter 157: Chapter 116 Shadow Eater_2

——[Dark Plane]

This skill was the easiest to understand, it created a whole new plane within one’s shadow, making them the master of that world.

All sorts of fancy skills made Zhou Yuan’s heart race with excitement, but the exorbitant prices gave him a massive headache.

Legendary and mythic quality at every turn, he didn’t know how long it would take to save up enough to buy them...

·

Upon reaching the port, in the dead of night, Zhou Yuan heard Jiang Wuming’s heart-wrenching screams from a distance.

"Kill me! Just give me a quick death! I want to die!" Jiang Wuming wailed miserably.

Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi rushed over to find Jiang Wuming lying on a stretcher, his hair disheveled, parts of his body electrocuted, other parts swollen red. His entire face was puffed up like a pig’s head, and he had an IV drip keeping him alive.

"Hang in there, Li is still trying to save you. You’re in a tug-of-war with death!" Bai Xiao quickly comforted him. "You can’t die, Jiang. If you die, Li might not make it either."

"Damn it, hurry up and call someone! I’m in so much pain, I could die!" Jiang Wuming howled.

Because of the curse, as long as he stayed alive, no one nearby would die. But if he died, death would come for those it was meant for. So, when someone in the team got injured, even if Jiang Wuming was gravely wounded, the task force couldn’t let him die. They had to keep him alive by any means necessary.

What was terrifying wasn’t death, but the pain, and what was even more terrifying was wanting to die from the pain but being unable to.

"Guangxi, you’re just in time. Save him quickly," Bai Xiao called out.

Chen Guangxi moved swiftly to the injured man’s side. The wounds on one of the task force members, named Li, were much more severe—his chin and left hand were gone, his chest was split open, with his heart and lungs severely injured.

His entire body was covered in countless small and large wounds.

The healing extraordinary persons in the team were doing their utmost to save him, but the injuries were too severe, beyond their abilities.

Chen Guangxi frowned and hurriedly used her healing skill. A pure white magic circle appeared on the ground, and a warm glow began to heal the wounds swiftly. New flesh grew and closed up the injuries in no time, leaving Li’s wounds mostly healed.

However, his chin and hand didn’t regrow, but that was not an issue; the medical department had ways to restore them.

"What’s this..."

Zhou Yuan picked up a piece of transparent scale from the side, stained with blood, hard as iron and sharp as a knife, emitting a fishy smell.

Was this fish scale?

[The wave of transcendence was intensifying. Not only humans were gaining extraordinary abilities; creatures from the deep sea were mutating too. This scale came from a mutated flying fish.]

Did the task force battle with a school of deep-sea fish?

Zhou Yuan reasonably speculated.

"Alright, Li has been saved." Bai Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just kill me!" Jiang Wuming screamed, tears streaming down his face from the pain.

Bang!

Bai Xiao pulled out a gun and unhesitatingly squeezed the trigger, blowing Jiang Wuming’s head apart, blood and flesh flying everywhere.

The task force members were completely unperturbed, as if they were used to it.

"Damn, that was excruciating."

A few seconds later, Jiang Wuming’s complaining voice came from an unseen corner. Then he walked out, completely unharmed, even his clothes intact.

"Did you revive that quickly this time?" Zhou Yuan was stunned.

"Had some luck this time." Jiang Wuming shrugged.

The revival match was just a running joke. He didn’t need to compete in any match to revive, he would just come back to life randomly sometime within 24 hours after dying. The location had to be a blind spot where no living creatures could see him.

If he was lucky, he could revive in a second. If not, it might take up to 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds.

His longest time to revive had once been 23 hours and 47 minutes.

And that condition of a blind spot could really be a pain, sometimes putting him in extremely dangerous places where he would die again immediately—like a volcano crater or a sulfuric acid pool.

Once, on a mission in Antarctica, he revived in an ice layer several meters below, suffocating to death in less than ten minutes.

Soon, personnel from the Control Bureau arrived, transporting the wounded for treatment. The remaining exhausted team members followed the Bureau’s vehicles back to rest.

Only the freshly revived Jiang Wuming and a few others were still full of energy, having a meal with Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi.

Zhou Yuan didn’t ask much about the specific details of the task force’s mission. Since Chen Guangxi had said it was confidential, pressing further would be impolite.

Besides, from the fish scale and the Eye of Identification’s hint, it wasn’t hard to guess their mission: clearing out the mutated marine creatures in the sea.

The tide of transcendence was rising, and who knew how many similar anomalies were happening out of the public eye.

The world was quietly undergoing a dramatic change.

·

After eating, Zhou Yuan returned to his hotel room.

It was over ten minutes before he let Fang Qing out, allowing her to pull him into the sea of blood.

"You bastard! You should die!"

The moment he entered, Zhou Yuan heard curses filled with hatred. Du Kanghui’s eyes were bloodshot, glaring at him. "You tricked me so badly. I curse your parents to die horribly!"

"Thanks, but they’re already dead, so I’m invincible."

Zhou Yuan waved his hand. "Gag him, would you? He’s annoying."

Fang Qing moved her mind, and the blood covered everyone’s mouths and noses, leaving them only able to make muffled sounds.

Zhou Yuan then looked towards Paru and the others who were training in the distance.

At the auction, he had bought training resources suitable for Electric Mouse and Snow Demon. Later, Fang Qing also bought resources for Weaver and Minotaur from the market. Now, the four of them were training hard.

Electric Mouse and Minotaur had significantly improved compared to before. Already at the late stage of rank 1, they were now close to breaking through into rank 2. They would likely breakthrough given half a month to a month.

Weaver’s strength had also improved, but not by much. After all, it was rank 2, and its progress wasn’t as apparent.

Snow Demon, born in the icy fields and a child of ice and snow, absorbed the Elemental Matter: Pan Ice within hours, successfully advancing to rank 2 and continuously practicing new abilities.

Succubus wasn’t training with the group—she was filming in a little studio Fang Qing had set up for her.

Recently, the Succubus’s training speed had outpaced the others, relying on posting pictures and videos online to absorb energy from afar. Not only was she full all the time, but she also had plenty of surplus to use for training, almost ready to break into rank 2 herself.

Moreover, she had earned more than 200,000 federal coins from the business, becoming a rising star in the industry.

Succubus plus the internet plus absorbing energy from afar—a truly unbeatable combo.

Zhou Yuan was even considering finding her a partner and making films with plots to increase viewership and popularity.

Hmm... establish... a media company!

"How’s your training going?" Zhou Yuan asked Fang Qing, who was the heavyweight and the strongest force.

"Barely making progress. After all, I’m rank 5. It’s really hard to advance, it would take years," Fang Qing said.

"Years? That’s too long. Time waits for no one." Zhou Yuan shook his head.

"Easy for you to say. Not everyone has cheats like you. Even Chen Guangxi needs years, if not decades, to advance," Fang Qing rolled her eyes.

Advancing life levels was no easy task.