234: Chapter 234 Don't answer! Don't answer! You uncultured idiot!

"Descend!"

"Supreme God...!"

Zhou Kui pressed both hands into his chest and roared at the sky.

A dark golden beam of light erupted from his chest, piercing directly through the top of the sinkhole.

The rock layers along its path did not shatter, but instead seemed to have been erased, forming a straight tunnel.

The beam of light ignored matter, pierced through the spatial barrier, and vanished into the darkness above in the blink of an eye.

Marshal Huo Tianxing looked up, and the color drained from his face instantly.

He took a step forward and reached out with his right hand toward the beam, folding the spatial layers between his fingers in an attempt to sever the tunnel.

But the moment his palm touched the edge of the beam, the sensation against his palm made him catch his breath.

He had grabbed nothing!

There was light before his eyes, but his spatial perception registered absolutely nothing.

"It's not a teleportation."

Marshal Huo Tianxing whipped his head around and lowered his voice to Su Ming.

"This is... cross-dimensional coordinate anchoring?! It's not in the spatial layer we can reach; it's crossed at least two dimensions. The Federation's existing hyper-space folding gravity bridges can't even analyze the tunnel it left behind!"

Now it was over!

Su Ming looked up at the direction where the light had vanished; his gravity perception lost the signal after chasing it for only a few hundred meters.

It felt like someone had drilled a hole in his brain.

As a modern Transmigration subject who had read all kinds of sci-fi novels in his past life, he knew exactly what this move meant.

A broadcast?

Coordinates?

Sending the location of Earth Online to the entire Universe cluster?!

Damn it!

Isn't this just like sending a delivery driver a precise location pin saying, "No one's home, come and rob us"?!

"Damn it! You idiot!!"

Su Ming stomped on Zhou Kui!

Zhou Kui lay in the pit, his Silver Blood splattered everywhere.

Yet, a twisted and manic smile remained on his face.

"Haha, it's too late..."

"It's been sent... the signal has been sent!"

He looked at Su Ming, his eyes full of malicious delight.

"Kid, no matter how strong you are in this low-dimensional quagmire, what does it matter?! The gods of the higher dimensions have already received the coordinates! You, and this planet..."

Zhou Kui coughed twice, and the Ferryman Seal on his chest dimmed.

But he laughed even louder.

"All of you will be buried with me!"

Su Ming's gravity perception could no longer track that light at all.

Inside the sinkhole, the wind stopped.

Everyone subconsciously looked up, their hearts in their throats.

One second...

Three seconds...

Five seconds...

The Mountain Demon lay among the rubble, staring fixedly at the sky, its ears pressed back uncontrollably.

Tiger Fiend dug its front claws into the rock crevices, its remaining beastly pupils shrinking to thin lines.

Ye Xiao crawled out from Marshal Huo Tianxing's Eternal Night Void Realm, his lips pale. This guy's heart had really been put to the test today.

Ten seconds...

Young Master Gu Lingfeng leaned against a rock, his lips moving.

"Uncle Ye... how long does it usually take for a high-dimensional god to arrive?"

Ye Canglan was speechless; where would he have ever encountered such Advanced things?

"I don't know."

"Then we're done for."

Ye Xiao wiped the dust off his face. "There's not even a customer service number."

Night Crow shot him a glare, envying the guy's mental fortitude.

Fifteen seconds passed.

Deep in the vast Universe, there was still no echo.

The traces of the tunnel left by the light above were healing on their own, and the last wisps of light dissipated into the gaps of the rock walls.

There was no world-destroying pressure.

No holy and vast divine descent.

There wasn't even a single shred of energy feedback.

The signal sent through the sacrifice was like a drop of water merging into the boundless sea; it didn't even cause a ripple.

"..."

"Why..."

The fanatical smile on Zhou Kui's face froze.

"No..."

"The coordinates have been anchored."

"The Shepherd can see... he must be able to see."

He looked blankly at the empty sky, his expression shifting from madness to confusion, and then to disbelief.

"Why?"

"Why won't you answer me..."

He had burned away his last bit of Origin.

He could barely even maintain his Ninth-Rank body, all just to send this planet's coordinates to that existence.

And the result?

Not even a 'read' receipt!

Zhou Kui's fingers began to tremble.

Not because of fear, and not because of pain.

It was because the string he had held onto for twenty years had snapped.

And at the very moment his gaze lost focus...

Su Ming's figure, like a silver-blue bolt of lightning, crossed dozens of meters in an instant!

He grabbed Zhou Kui by his tattered collar and delivered a slap filled with the shock of physics!

[Slap!]

This slap carried a slight kinetic resonance; it was crisp and loud, sending Zhou Kui's broken teeth mixed with blood flying out of his mouth, leaving him stunned on the spot.

"Do not answer!!"

[Slap...!]

The second slap followed immediately, striking the other side of his face and shattering the sliver of ferocity Zhou Kui had just managed to gather!

"Do not answer!!"

[Slap...!]

The third slap was heavy and powerful. Zhou Kui's head buzzed, his eyes rolled back, and his fragile neck bones made an unbearable "crack" sound, nearly breaking on the spot!

"Do not answer!! You uncultured idiot!"

"Do you have any idea what the Dark Forest Law is?!"

"Why the hell would you answer an unknown signal?!"

After three consecutive slaps, Zhou Kui spat out bloody foam and collapsed in the pit like a pile of mud, his eyes filled with nothing but pure confusion and existential doubt.

He had burned his life, sacrificed his Soul, and risked his life to send the Universe coordinates...

Only for this monster to rush over, ask no questions, shout some incomprehensible "four-word mantra," and slap him three times?!

Who exactly is the crazy one here?!

...

Not just him, but Ye Xiao, Young Master Gu Lingfeng, Ye Canglan and his son... everyone was stunned.

What... what kind of move was that?

From the side came Marshal Huo Tianxing's deep voice.

"You also know that one shouldn't respond to unknown signals?"

Su Ming paused.

Marshal Huo Tianxing walked up close, his tone filled with lingering fear and confusion.

"Then why didn't you stop him earlier?"

"He was shouting so loudly, didn't you hear him?"

Su Ming looked down at Zhou Kui's chest.

"I thought you were summoning some powerful character? What normal person doesn't call the locals first when they can't win a fight? Who just calls up aliens directly?"

This statement choked Marshal Huo Tianxing up as well.

It was indeed abnormal...

But would a normal person slap a Ninth-Rank Marshal into a wall?

Marshal Huo Tianxing refrained from bringing that up.

He looked up at the now-closed space, his throat feeling a bit dry.

The Federation had been exploring interstellar ruins for years.

Extraterrestrial mineral deposits, broken warships, unknown Source Beasts, and even Star Beasts—they had seen them all.

But the Federation had never even caught a glimpse of a civilization that actually possessed a complete social structure and the ability to travel across star systems.

And today, a hostile believer had broadcast their home address right to them!

If they really attracted some Advanced civilization, he, Marshal Huo Tianxing, would be a sinner against the Federation, and perhaps the entire planet!

Marshal Huo Tianxing felt a tightness in his chest.

"Hey! I should have just killed him earlier!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He took a step forward, raised his foot, and kicked Zhou Kui on the ground!

"Using the entire planet as a burial sacrifice?!"

"You've got some nerve!"

Zhou Kui's broken body had just caught a breath, and half a sound was just emerging from his mouth, when Marshal Huo Tianxing stomped on him again.

Seeing that something was wrong, Su Ming hurriedly stopped him, acting as if he were breaking up a fight.

"Hey, stop hitting him, stop hitting him!"

"Uncle, calm down."

"If you keep hitting him, you'll actually kill him!"

"???"

"..."

Everyone was dumbfounded!

Marshal Huo Tianxing turned his face.

"You're telling me to stop? Didn't you just..."

Su Ming righteously dragged Zhou Kui back to his feet.

"My hitting him was education..."

"Your hitting him is destruction of private property."

"How can the nature of these things be the same?"

A vein on Marshal Huo Tianxing's forehead twitched twice, but since no crisis had descended for the moment, his anger subsided quite a bit.

Zhou Kui, lying on the ground with more air going out than coming in, felt ten thousand alpacas stampeding through his heart.

Pretending to be a saint, my ass!

Who was the one who beat me into this state just now?!

And who slapped me three times, nearly taking my head off?

Now you're acting like a good guy?

He really wanted to just die right now; at least he'd have some peace.

But damn it, why?

Why didn't that great Shepherd come?!

Your servant is being bullied and humiliated in a mud pit, can't you see?

High-dimensional guidance, immortal grace...?

You talked such a big game before!

Where are you now?

Did the wolves eat you or something?!