26: Upgrade to level 3!

Lin Chuan's face showed no panic; instead, he asked a question that Aiya considered irrelevant: "What time is it now?"

"Ah???" Aiya was stunned, subconsciously glancing at her watch, "Ten... ten forty-eight..."

"Still over an hour left..." Lin Chuan looked at the sky.

This strange heavy rain had been falling since eight o'clock and showed no signs of stopping.

Aiya didn't understand why. Just as she was about to say something else, she suddenly sensed a disturbance in the nearby Dimensional Rift!

Before, when Takasaki and others occupied it, forty to fifty Dimensional Bugs would emerge from that Dimensional Rift every minute.

But ever since Lin Chuan threw seven bottles of Blood Gu insects into the Dimensional Rift, for over half an hour, not a single Dimensional Bug had crawled out!

It wasn't until now that the Dimensional Rift erupted with another anomaly!

The mass of red became increasingly deep and profound, seemingly accompanied by faint tremors and flickering.

This scene was truly somewhat eerie.

However, Lin Chuan looked at this scene and started to laugh.

As he walked forward, he said to Aiya, "You should hide behind the water tank first. The battle should end quickly."

"Battle?" Aiya's heart grew wary, and she immediately hid behind the water tank obediently.

She already knew very well that Lin Chuan's battles were not something a small fry like her could participate in.

So, hiding obediently and not causing him trouble was the only thing she could do.

Soon after Aiya hid behind the water tank, she heard sounds of tremors and roars!

From her angle, she only saw a strange red light!

Then, the previously somewhat ethereal roars suddenly grew louder, piercing the sky!

Aiya felt the ground beneath her feet shaking!

She was so scared that she hugged her head, not daring to look again!

As for Lin Chuan, looking at the blood-red behemoth, he felt an overwhelming sense of crisis.

Of course, being experienced, he knew that such a feeling actually stemmed from a level suppression!

His current attributes, abilities, and combat power were all enough to crush a 3-grade Dimensional Bug!

However, his level was only 0!

Facing a Level 3 Dimensional Bug, while level suppression wouldn't reduce his attributes, it would affect his mind!

Most people, under the influence of this level suppression, might be scared out of their wits or simply flee.

But Lin Chuan was well-traveled and knowledgeable; he could easily resolve this level of deterrence and pressure!

Once the psychological pressure was resolved, fighting this Level 3 Dimensional Bug became much simpler!

Lin Chuan used his right hand to control the wire, wrapping it around the Dimensional Bug's tentacles, while his left hand unleashed the Space-splitting Blade!

A Level 3 Dimensional Bug, compared to a Level 0, not only increased in size and turned red, but it also gained three additional abilities!

These were Blood Sucking, Parasitism, and Self-Healing!

The first two abilities, like the Level 0 Dimensional Bug's most innate skill, strangulation, were both exerted through its tentacles!

Lin Chuan's use of wire to restrain its tentacles was equivalent to cutting off the Dimensional Bug's attack!

However, the Self-Healing ability was a bit troublesome!

A Level 0 Dimensional Bug would die if its head was attacked by a sharp blade!

As for a Level 3 Dimensional Bug, if Takasaki were to launch a Space-splitting Blade at it, it would probably take at least a dozen hits to exhaust the Dimensional Bug's self-healing energy!

However, Lin Chuan's four-dimensional attribute values all reached one hundred!

If the Level 3 Dimensional Bug crushed him in terms of level.

Then, in terms of attributes, this Level 3 Dimensional Bug was simply no match for Lin Chuan!

With a "bang," this Level 3 Dimensional Bug directly exploded, scattering blood everywhere!

Lin Chuan wiped the foul-smelling blood from his face, feeling no regret about not being able to Incinerate it.

Anyway, all his attributes had already reached their maximum.

He walked to the center of the explosion and picked up a crystal blue Crystal Nucleus.

This was a Level 3 Crystal Nucleus; he didn't absorb it immediately.

Instead, he looked at the Dimensional Rift, waiting for the next insect to emerge!

In this way, Lin Chuan successively killed seven 3-grade Dimensional Bugs before the Dimensional Rift finally stopped vibrating!

He picked up a Level 3 Crystal Nucleus and silently recited "absorb."

"Ding! Congratulations to the player for absorbing a Level 3 Crystal Nucleus, experience +1000!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the player for leveling up! Gained +1 free attribute point!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the player for leveling up! Gained +1 free attribute point!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the player for leveling up! Gained +1 free attribute point!"

A full one thousand experience points allowed Lin Chuan to level up to 3 in one go!

At the same time, the system prompt sounded again—

"Ding! Congratulations to player Lin Chuan for becoming the first player globally to reach Level 3! Reward: All attributes +3!"

"Initiate global announcement? Yes/No"

Yes!

Lin Chuan had no intention of hiding.

Or rather, he couldn't hide it at all.

Once he reached Level 3, he would become first on the level ranking!

And level ranking rankings could not be hidden!

In an instant, three consecutive global announcements once again rang in the minds of everyone worldwide!

Aiya, hiding behind the water tank, suddenly froze.

Qi Feng, hiding in the foul-smelling sewer, also froze.

Lei Ming, evading the pursuit of special police, also froze.

Luan Yuling and others, who had returned to the Luan Family, were equally stunned!

Lin Chuan? Level 3? How did he do it?!

No, no, no! Was this global number one Lin Chuan really the Lin Chuan they knew? Could it be someone else with the same name?

Everyone who had interacted with Lin Chuan had their thoughts racing!

And the regional chat channel, which had been frantically denouncing Lin Chuan earlier, suddenly fell into an eerie silence!

Before, they had elevated Yuan Feng, the former number one, into a hero who brought glory to the country!

And Lin Chuan, by killing a hero, was deemed unforgivable, deserving of death!

But now, Lin Chuan had become number one?

So what should they do now?

Continue to denounce Lin Chuan?

But this would mean denying the high-sounding reasons they had set up before, essentially slapping themselves in the face!

Stop denouncing Lin Chuan?

But the heaven-defying tools in his possession were truly coveted!

For a time, those who had previously denounced him didn't know how to react.

Until a message suddenly appeared—

"I just confirmed on the world channel, it seems to be true... killing strong players on the level ranking and slaughter chart really drops treasure chests! And it's said that the higher the level ranking, the more precious and rare the treasure chests that drop..."

After this message was sent, there was still a sudden silence.

Until another message suddenly appeared:

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter! Before, when they wanted Great Lin's tools, they'd make up some excuse about avenging Yuan Feng! Now that Great Lin is number one, they're making up that killing the number one drops treasure chests! You guys are really making me laugh!"

These words instantly angered many people, and a new war of words reignited—

"The person above must be Lin Chuan's dog, right? Just because he became first on the level ranking? Now you're calling him 'Great One'? I say you're truly without principles, aren't you?"

"Exactly! How can a murderer like Lin Chuan deserve the title 'Great One'?!"

"As far as I know, Yuan Feng never killed anyone before! What if a despicable person like Lin Chuan becomes first on the level ranking? Does he deserve to be compared to Great Yuan Feng?"

Ye Haiming looked at the messages in the chat channel, trembling with Life Energy!

He had previously posted messages in the chat channel about how Takasaki treated human lives like dirt, but all of them were dismissed as malicious rumors spread by Lin Chuan's dog!

Now that Great Lin had become first on the level ranking, that group of people still didn't know how to restrain themselves!

Truly! A bunch of rabble!

Ye Haiming recalled what was said in "The Crowd"—

"They are immersed in their own world all day long, never allowing anyone to have any opposing opinions. No matter what dirty things they do, they are always right, because there is strength in numbers."

He had been hesitant about whether to post the reminder Lin Chuan gave him in the chat channel as well, to alert others.

But now, it seemed completely unnecessary!

Liu Bohao followed behind Ye Haiming and whispered, "Brother Ye, you don't need to be too angry. Anonymous chats are always like this; people don't have to take responsibility for what they say! They'll get their comeuppance sooner or later!"

Ye Haiming shook his head slightly, no longer paying attention to the chat channel.

He glanced at the time; it was less than an hour until midnight!

"Let's hurry!"

"Alright." Liu Bohao was very glad that he had been extra careful after rolling off the rooftop!

He wasn't sure if what Lin Chuan said was true before.

But now, with Lin Chuan leveling up to 3 and becoming first on the world level ranking.

He trusted Lin Chuan even more!

Ye Haiming had received information from Lin Chuan, and by following Ye Haiming, he might also escape a deadly calamity!