103: Chapter 103 Cataclysmic Realm

Gu Han tapped on the invitation.

The software popped up a notification.

[Respected guest, you are cordially invited... Abyss Arena V2.0 is ready. Would you like to upgrade the software? This upgrade will open the full task section. Would you like to upgrade?]

Upgrade.

The progress bar flashed by, and a "Task" icon flickering with a dark red light appeared on the main interface.

Gu Han tapped into it, and a dense list of tasks refreshed instantly.

[D-rank Otherworld Battlefield Rift Exploration: Coordinates XXX, recruiting exploration squad, distributed based on labor, guaranteed 50 million credit points.]

[Bounty Assassination: Target is the family of a high-level executive of a corporation in Jiangcheng City (photo attached), requires destruction of bodies, reward 30 billion.]

[Black Market Gladiator: Ten consecutive underground wins, 30% share of the prize pool, requires bloody and brutal style.]

[Slay Cataclysm: Clear small Cataclysm Realm, settled based on kill count.]

[Targeted Cultivation of Rare divine plant: Urgently seeking an S-rank 'Blood Jade Bodhi' substitute variety. As long as the medicinal effect reaches 30% of the original, willing to pay 100 billion to buy out the patent.]

Seeing the last entry, Gu Han paused.

These people really won't give up.

Having just signed the agreement, they turned around and put such a customized task in the task list. It was clearly an attempt to probe his abilities. Even for 100 billion, Gu Han was unmoved.

Gu Han ignored this probe and moved his gaze upward.

Back when he stayed at the hotel with Teacher Qin Lin, it was because they encountered a D-rank Otherworld Battlefield Rift. He had always been extremely curious about such time-limited secret realms, but unfortunately, his strength wasn't enough back then. Now, he could actually access them.

There were also assassinations below; that was very black market.

However, another category attracted him more.

"Slay Cataclysm?"

Gu Han tapped on this category, and a brand-new interface popped up. At the very top was a bolded red warning.

[Cataclysm Realm: Extremely dangerous area.]

Gu Han opened his ultimate smart assistant to search for this new term. After the upgrade, many knowledge permissions had also been unlocked.

[After the awakening of a Divine Kingdom, not everyone can have smooth sailing. Some Divine Lords suffer mental breakdowns and go insane during the management process, choosing to destroy themselves and forcibly merge with their Divine Kingdom.]

This extreme behavior causes the world rules of the Divine Kingdom to become completely chaotic, and the creatures inside also become twisted, evolving into mindless monsters.

What's more terrifying is that coordinate confusion causes these Cataclysm Divine Kingdoms to connect directly to the real world.

Under normal circumstances, Divine Kingdom creatures would die on the spot upon entering reality due to rule repulsion. But Cataclysm monsters are an exception; they can not only survive in reality but also kill frantically.

To cope with this crisis, the authorities use some ownerless Divine Kingdoms to transform and forcibly transfer these monsters into them, forming the so-called "Cataclysm Realm".

Monsters inside will constantly Reproduction and mutate, requiring the hiring of peripheral personnel to go in and clean them up periodically. Otherwise, if the Cataclysm Realm becomes full, the consequences would be unimaginable...]

"Cataclysm monsters can actually survive in reality?" This was the first time Gu Han had learned this knowledge. He only knew that inanimate objects could enter and exit reality, while those so-called divine substances became ordinary items once they reached reality.

This was also the reason why purchasing military-grade weapons requires registration.

Some might ask, there must be black market arms dealers. Indeed there are, but black market arms dealers are even stricter about this; every bullet has a serial number.

After all, they don't want to be assassinated and die without knowing why. Furthermore, many tragedies occurred in the early days of the Divine Kingdom era, so nowadays everyone takes a unified stance on this, with the exception of terrorists, of course.

At least it is still very safe in Huaxia.

Gu Han clicked on the Cataclysm tasks and scrolled down; information on a dozen small Cataclysm Realms was listed in order.

"Poison Swamp Realm, abounds with Three-headed Acid Snakes, comes with corrosive properties..."

"Wild Sand Realm, core monster is the Crystal-armored Scorpion, shell hardness comparable to alloy..."

Looking at these dense monster descriptions, Gu Han felt his addiction acting up.

If all of these were captured and brought back to the Divine Kingdom, how many bizarre new troop types could he breed?

Gu Han shook his head. With his current military strength, trying to barge into a Cataclysm Realm to capture live specimens would likely get him torn to shreds by those mutated monsters.

Continuing to scroll down, a Cataclysm Realm at the very end caught his attention.

"Wasteland World?"

Gu Han tapped to open the details.

[Wasteland World: Small Cataclysm Realm. This area is filled with various radioactive substances and discarded metal, the environment is extremely harsh.]

[Main monsters: Aberrant fungal species.]

[Ticket: Free entry. A 10 million credit point teleportation fee must be paid upon leaving.]

Gu Han laughed.

This crappy software really knew how to play the money-making game. It doesn't charge you when you go in, but when you want to come back, it hits you with a return fee.

However, opening the monster encyclopedia, one type of fungus made his eyes light up.

Corrosive Silicon Fungus: A type of mutated fungus that survives by corroding silicon.

During this time, he had been tinkering with hybridization experiments between Mushroom Person and Diatom.

Combining the characteristics of these two creatures actually had great prospects.

The hybridization was going quite smoothly; both creatures were types that relied on absorbing environmental moisture for rapid Reproduction, so the fusion rate was very high.

But the bottleneck problem lay in "silicon".

The silicon in Diatom was originally extracted from the marine environment. The new species hybridized now could absorb silicon in the Divine Kingdom, but once a fight broke out, there simply wasn't enough silicon to continuously build an insulating shell.

Without silicon, the new species was just a semi-finished product, only able to block one wave.

"What if I add Corrosive Silicon Fungus?"

Gu Han quickly deduced in his mind.

Corrosive Silicon Fungus could devour scattered silicon elements in the environment. If its genes were added, the new species could directly extract and recycle silicon from the outside world or old corpses, completely solving the raw material problem.

Gu Han glanced at the coordinate teleportation for the Wasteland World.

He didn't intend to go in personally; he could pick an Ant-men with higher combat power to go, and he already had a candidate in mind.

It was that Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man that had swallowed four transcendent crystals in one go. After swallowing the transcendent crystals, judging purely from energy fluctuations, this guy was already comparable to a Level 4 Believer, and its lifespan had also increased significantly; it hadn't died yet.

There were many radioactive elements over there; it should be able to withstand it.

Gu Han sent down an oracle, had the smart assistant provide a picture of the Corrosive Silicon Fungus, and ordered this Shrimp-man to go and bring it back.

[Confirm accepting task: Explore Wasteland Cataclysm.]

[Please select deployment unit.]

Gu Han selected that Shrimp-man, and a dark red beam of light descended from the sky, piercing directly through the Divine Kingdom barrier and enveloping the Shrimp-man.

Gu Han immediately bought a return ticket from the software, setting it to return in one day at the latest.

The beam of light dissipated, and the Shrimp-man disappeared from where it stood.

Just before Gu Han was about to close the software, he caught a glimpse of the task posting section.

This?

On a whim, he posted the clues for tracking down Zhao Kun as a task.

Just at this moment, inside the Divine Kingdom, a sudden change occurred.