The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 159 - 117: Distress Signal_2

Chapter 159: Chapter 117: Distress Signal_2

At this moment, Zhou Yuan suddenly felt a heat on the back of his left hand.

His expression changed slightly.

This was... a distress signal from the Holy Crow Church members?

[Event detected, generating task...]

[Task Name: "Swift Rescue"]

[Task Objective: Save all Holy Crow Church members, the death of one counts as mission failure]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*1000]

[Task Reward 2: Star Coins*5000]

[Accept?]

[Yes/No]

"..."

Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment and then stood up: "I suddenly have something to do. I’ll leave first."

"Eh?" Chen Guangxi was stunned, "We just started eating; the main dishes haven’t even arrived yet."

"No, you all eat. I’ll go." Zhou Yuan hurried away without looking back.

·

Somewhere in the inner world.

On the street, a modified off-road vehicle was speeding wildly. There were three people on the vehicle, two men and one woman.

A machine gun was installed on the roof of the off-road vehicle. One of the men was operating the machine gun, madly shooting at the horde of rats chasing behind.

Each of these rats was a meter long, covered in festering sores, with decaying flesh and exposed bones, giving them the appearance of zombie rats infected by a zombie virus.

Their eyes were blood-red, emitting hungry screams, and they ran madly towards the off-road vehicle like a tide. The machine gun’s barrage only slightly slowed their pace.

A high school girl with a ponytail pulled out a rocket launcher, stuck half her body out of the car, and pulled the trigger towards the back.

Boom! The rocket exploded among the rats, flames erupting and the shockwave flipping the foremost rats into the air. The rats behind crashed into them, creating a chain collision and quickly descending into chaos.

The progress of the rat tide was delayed, but when they reached an intersection, another tide of rats surged from the left road, densely covering the street.

"Damn, how do these creatures keep finding us?" the high school girl cursed.

"We’ve already reached East Continent, and these people still pursue us relentlessly. That thing really attracts them," gritted the man driving, "Don’t worry, I’ve sent out a distress signal. Someone will come to save us soon."

"If I remember correctly, the bishop in the Xinyue region is... Zhen Wuliang?" The high school girl loaded another rocket, aiming towards the back, "That bastard scammed me for 8000 during an online romance."

"Is this really the time to talk about that?" the man operating the machine gun shouted, "Hurry up and deal with these rats!"

"I’m working on it, man!"

The high school girl pulled out a round metal disk from her Storage Ring, quickly manipulating it before throwing it towards the rear.

"Turn quickly!" she shouted, directing the driver to move the car behind a building.

After the metal disk hit the ground, it deployed a cylindrical device. With a buzz, a dangerous red laser swept out in a 360-degree arc.

Shhh!

Trees, grass, and buildings were cut cleanly, the cut surfaces glowing red hot and igniting combustible materials, starting a fire.

The heat ray swept through, annihilating the pursuing rat horde in an instant, leaving a field of stinking innards and blood, with a burnt smell in the air.

However, more squeaking sounds came, and another wave of rats charged from the front of the vehicle.

"Damn it, endless!" the driver roared, "Hold on tight!"

He intended to plow through them directly!

With a thought, the off-road vehicle was instantly covered with a layer of watery blue shell, the liquid flowing smoothly. But at this moment, swoosh!

A sharp poisoned needle shot from the shadows, piercing through the watery blue shell and the glass of the off-road vehicle, aiming straight for the driver’s brow.

The driver’s reflexes were quick, jerking his head to the side and narrowly avoiding the poisoned needle, which then embedded itself in the backseat.

Fortunately, no one was sitting in the back.

"They’re here." The faces of the three tensed up.

The rat horde was just to wear them down, the real enemies were only now showing up.

Squelch, squelch, squelch...

The off-road vehicle crushed its way into the rat horde like an unstoppable force, smashing countless rats, with foul-smelling blood and innards splattering on the windshield.

Soon, the windshield was piled up with the bloody corpses of rats, obscuring the view. The off-road vehicle soon crashed into a roadside building with a bang, the front badly damaged and smoking.

Several figures appeared around the vehicle in the blink of an eye, but upon closer inspection, the three occupants were nowhere to be seen.

The leader of the pursuers was a lean young man with sinister eyes, his pupils gleaming with a light that suggested he had activated Spirit Vision, which allowed him to see the dark residue in the air.

He saw three clear dark traces extending into the building, indicating that the three had used Shadow Escape.

But they wouldn’t get far.

"Young master, another person has entered the inner world, very close to us." A middle-aged man in a white robe reported from behind.

"Trying to interfere? Hmph, kill them." The young master’s tone was cold, no one was going to stop him!

Whether it was Spark Technology, Ancient Gene, or even the Control Bureau, no one could stand in his way!

But then, a sudden change occurred.

Among the six on-site, four were second-level, two were third-level extraordinary persons, yet none of them could react in time—instantly, hard shadow spikes burst from their own shadows, viciously piercing their bodies.

"Who?!" The young master winced in pain and alarm. Because they were chasing the Holy Crow Church members, they had always been vigilant about their shadows, but clearly seeing their targets escape, they had temporarily let their guard down.

In this unnoticed moment, someone seized the opportunity to launch a precise and deadly attack!

In the distant shadows, cloaked in the Shadow Assassin’s Mantle with the title changed to "Avenger," Zhou Yuan’s eyes were calm as still water.

The special effect of the Shadow Assassin’s Mantle guaranteed a critical hit when attacking while hidden, and the Avenger title doubled the critical damage, creating a powerful combination.

If they survived this, they deserved it.

The young master felt his life force rapidly fading, his limbs growing cold, his internal organs searing with pain as if being gnawed by ants, and worst of all, he felt powerless, his will to survive ebbing away, unable to muster any resistance.

Am I really going to die like this? The young master stared in disbelief, looking down at his pierced heart, and in the next moment, countless sharp shadow spikes exploded from his body.

Poof, poof, poof, poof, poof!

Six clouds of blood burst forth, the six men instantly turned into bloody, mangled flesh.

"This was just a small part of the pursuers..."

Zhou Yuan sensed many extraordinary persons in the inner world, feeling a headache. What exactly had those three done to draw so many forces on them?

As he had stealthily approached, he had seen many factions.

Spark Technology, Ancient Gene, Mechanical Church, Omega, Sanctuary, Sea God Church, Witches Association... There were over twenty organizations, large and small.

There were even organizations like the Land of Truth and other heretical cults—the six men just now were members of the Land of Truth.

Besides these six, the Land of Truth had sent several small teams, indicating how seriously they took this operation.

Beneath the corpses, shadows wriggled, consuming them bit by bit, not even leaving behind blood. Moments later, the area was empty as if nothing had happened.

Shadow Devour was very suitable for disposing bodies.

In the darkness, six Storage Rings appeared in Zhou Yuan’s hands.

"Murder and arson bring golden belts... This time I might make a huge profit."

Zhou Yuan wasn’t a bloodthirsty person, but if the enemies were heretics from the Land of Truth or other cults, he had no qualms about killing them.