Chapter 13

[Skill Scroll Name: Deteriorated Metamorphic Fusion]

[Attribute: Consumable, disappears after one use]

[Type: Psionic]

[Rank: Perfect]

[Effect: Fusion. Two individual lifeforms, under absolutely voluntary conditions, fuse together to become a new individual lifeform. The new lifeform's soul, consciousness, memory, existence, personality, appearance, psionic value, sanity value, and other data are influenced by both. The new lifeform is considered a player, possessing all the skills, equipment, and items of both players (each inventory slot capacity is doubled). The fusion lasts for 20 minutes. After the fusion disappears, both players will fall into prolonged weakness]

[Consumption: 50% of the total psionic and sanity values of both fusing players]

[Cooldown time: 24 hours]

[Note: Experimental Analysis Report 1, the closer the life essence of the two individual lifeforms, the higher the adaptability of the fusion product. Although two individuals with vastly different life essences can still fuse, there are times when they spontaneously collapse midway and re-split into two individuals]

[Note: Experimental Analysis Report 2, during the experiment, there were instances of memory and personality disorders occurring after the fusion of two individual lifeforms. The weaker individual is likely to be influenced by the consciousness, memory, personality, and even appearance of the stronger one. Therefore, it is not recommended that the application department apply this skill to actual combat before obtaining more detailed experimental analysis results]

[Note: Experimental Analysis Report 3, the experimental project regarding 'whether two fusion products can be fused again' has currently stalled due to the lack of a second skill scroll]

The [Deteriorated Metamorphic Fusion] is the Wraith Demon's greatest trump card in this routine mission.

This skill is not just as simple as allowing him to merge with Gululu Gu. The current "him" has attributes that are about 70% higher than before, can use all the skills, equipment, and items of two players,

and can rely on a more exaggerated psionic value cap and recovery speed than before to raise the power of various skills to a new level.

If the previous Wraith Demon and Gululu Gu each had certain flaws,

then their current fusion product has completely reached the point of mutually compensating for those flaws to the point of having no weaknesses.

Due to the great increase in various attributes, the mental skills that Gululu Gu originally couldn't effectively use against strong players can now briefly control all players, causing them to become stiff and unable to move.

The green flame whip swept swiftly, and all the pillars inside the subway station along the way were instantly cut and severed like butter cut by a hot knife.

Some of the rubble that was hit and flew out even started to melt in the air just by being slightly grazed by the green flame whip.

Seeing that everyone was about to lose their lives under this sweeping whip, Qing'e Armor suddenly kicked the ground with her heel, kicking up a pile of rubble,

and hitting the stiff, immobile Ash Wumu and others in the back, causing them to fall backward.

At the same time, she grabbed Li Ang and jumped high, sticking to the ceiling of the subway station like a spider, narrowly avoiding the sweep of the green flame whip.

"Mm?"

The Wraith Demon was slightly surprised. He didn't know that the essence of Qing'e Armor's ability to move wasn't "soul-driven machinery" but "soul issuing instructions, machinery executing automatically."

Even if she was attacked by mental skills and couldn't move, Miss Chai could still use Qing'e Armor to perform various actions.

In the gray-white world, as most of the pillars were cut and the indoor space was melted by the Wraith Demon's green fire pillars, weakening the load-bearing structure,

the ceiling of the subway station rumbled, and ten thousand tons of rock collapsed.

But just as it was about to bury all the players, it quickly recovered and healed, as good as new.

The long whip swept empty, and the Wraith Demon didn't care. With a flick of his wrist, he manipulated the green flame whip to draw a z-shaped trajectory in the air, turning back.

"Die."

The Wraith Demon blandly uttered a word, and the middle of the green flame whip suddenly tightened like a bowstring, then burst out, shooting towards the fallen Ash Chuyin,

its tip slightly curved with the rebound, determined to disembowel Wumu, who was slightly further away.

Wumu was relatively weak among all the players, and Chuyin Ash was a member of the Special Affairs Bureau, so he probably had some trump cards. It was best to get rid of them as soon as possible—the dark clouds above the Wraith Demon's head were gone, and the surrounding black mud was burned away by the flames.

But whether it was an illusion or not, the faint stench in the air seemed to linger, burning and stinging Gululu Gu's respiratory system like a maggot clinging to the bone.

Seeing that the long whip was about to hit the enemy, the Wraith Demon's wrist suddenly trembled, and a clear sound of vomiting came from above his head—Gululu Gu, under the influence of Li Ang's Drowning Assassination, was frantically spewing spring water, and the mental control skill was directly interrupted.

This whip swept off course again, and Ash and the others, who had regained control of their bodies, immediately bounced up from the ground like carps, using various means to avoid the green flame whip.

Before Ash and the others could launch a counterattack, suddenly, an unexpected change occurred!

The ground beneath everyone's feet trembled and shook violently, and the sound of "crack crack crack" of rock layers breaking was endless, with dense spiderweb cracks covering the ground.

Li Ang could see clearly that the vibration of the subway station in the gray-white world did not originate from a certain player, but the subway station itself in the real world was shaking!

Rumble rumble—

Countless pillars broke and cracked, and large sections of the subway station's dome collapsed from a distance, completely burying half of the abandoned subway station's space.

All the players stopped attacking, stood firm with difficulty in this violently shaking space, and ran towards the entrance of the subway station.

If they were to be buried alive in this space, even if the players were not crushed to death by ten thousand tons of rock, they would have to spend a lot of effort to barely crawl out.

Collapse!

The glass and steel artificial dome at the entrance of the subway station collapsed and fell, blocking the entrance.

At the same time, countless thin mists gushed out from the cracks in the ground of the subway station.

These gray mists spread rapidly in all directions, but soon stopped expanding—what prevented the mist from spreading was an ancient wooden hand-held lantern hanging in the air.

In the chaos, all the players' wristwatches vibrated simultaneously.

[The fifth barrier contraction has been completed, and the sixth barrier contraction will be activated in 10 minutes]

[A special item has appeared, and all players can confirm it in their wristwatches]

[Item Name: Ba Fang Ming Yue Gong Deng (Lantern of Bright Moon in All Directions)]

[Type: Tool]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Wan Jia Deng Huo (Ten Thousand Homes of Lights). Dispels monsters and ghosts, and sinister mist]

[Consumption: None]

[Note: The Ba Fang Ming Yue Gong Deng cannot be put into the backpack. It will not disappear after this routine mission and can be put into the backpack slot as ordinary equipment]

[Note: Take the lantern, bring the people you value, and escape from this city that is about to be swallowed by the mist realm]