124: Game instance?!

The moment the fat man's body touched the black gate.

Bang!

A muffled sound, like a balloon exploding.

The fat man's body instantly burst apart.

Blood, minced flesh, and organ tissue splattered radially, staining the ground within a ten-meter radius a crimson red.

A piece of shattered bone, still clinging to fatty tissue, 'smacked' against a high school girl's face, scaring her so much she collapsed to the ground.

Ah ah ah — !!!

Screams rose and fell.

In the distance, a foreign tourist taking photos looked shocked: "Is this some kind of performance? It's too realistic! As expected of Tokyo, so advanced!!!"

The people crowded in the front row, watching the spectacle, were covered in blood. They knew this wasn't acting; it was real!

Terrified, they scrambled backward to escape.

Buzz!

Blinding black light radiated!

The black gate activated, displaying Chinese characters.

[Dungeon Basic Information]

Dungeon Rank: C-Rank

Dungeon Type: Survival Challenge

Participants: Unlimited

Dungeon Duration: 02:00:00 (Real Time)

[Challenge Mechanism]

Clearance Conditions (Choose one of two):

Defeat the final BOSS (Grants full C-Rank reward)

Survive until the countdown ends (Reward reduced by 50%)

[Failure Penalty]

If no clearance condition is met within two hours,

The black gate will open, and strange creatures will invade! Simultaneously, a source of infection will be released, polluting all areas within a 100,000-meter radius.

[Other Notes]:

Hot weapons are allowed, but cold weapon damage is increased by 1000%!

Time flow within the dungeon is 1:1 with the real world.

"Baka yarou!!!" The angry little japanese people's faces flushed red as they waved their fists. "This is clearly Chinese! How dare China so brazenly provoke our Great Sun Empire!!!"

"I can't understand it at all, I can only recognize a few simple Chinese characters..." A bespectacled office worker frowned, squinting to make out the flashing text on the black gate.

Lu Chen, observing this with his Heavenly Dao Eye, then remembered that he was using Chinese.

This directly exposed that the black gate likely came from China.

Damn it!

Exposed is exposed!

It should be displayed openly and honestly! It is to represent China and destroy you little japanese people! Let's see what you can do!

Among the crowd, a Chinese expatriate who had lived in Tokyo for many years, his face wreathed in smiles, squeezed to the front: "Everyone, I'll help you translate." He cleared his throat and explained in fluent Japanese: "It says here that this is a dungeon challenge that must be completed within two hours, otherwise a source of infection will be released, polluting the surrounding area..."

"Nonsense!" A middle-aged man in a suit sternly interrupted, "How could China possess such technology?! This must be some kind of prank!"

"Right! This is definitely a prank!" A blond young man waved a baseball bat. "Brothers, let's smash this broken gate together!"

Behind him, a dozen energetic young men immediately cheered in agreement. Some picked up bricks from the roadside, some unbuckled their belts, and some even rode their motorcycles directly towards it.

The moment this group of people approached the black gate, the black gate's vortex accelerated its rotation, and the dozen young men were sucked into the vortex like trash into a vacuum cleaner, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The onlookers fell into a deathly silence.

Suddenly, piercing siren wails cut through the air.

Hundreds of police cars roared in from all directions, and fully armed police quickly set up a cordon, sternly reprimanding citizens attempting to approach: "Step back! Everyone, step back immediately!"

Above their heads, a dozen military helicopters hovered and roared. The ground began to tremble slightly, and the rumble of heavy armored vehicle tracks crushing the road came from the distance.

Tokyo Garrison Commander Sato Ryuichi personally led over a thousand elite Self-Defense Forces soldiers to the scene.

This battle-hardened soldier, who had participated in many peacekeeping operations, had a solemn expression, his sharp gaze sweeping over the black gate.

He raised his hand in a signal, and the well-trained soldiers immediately spread out, their rifles aimed squarely at the black gate, ready to open fire at any moment.

Sato's adjutant jogged over, handing him a tactical tablet: "Commander, the radiation detector shows everything is normal. The black gate's composition is unknown."

Sato looked at the black gate, emanating an ominous aura, and ordered in a deep voice: "Notify the Cabinet to hold an emergency meeting, and simultaneously activate National Alert Level One. Assemble all available scientific experts. I want to know what this thing is within half an hour!"

After a pause, Sato said, "Have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue a strong condemnation and protest to China. Such Heaven-Defying technological weapons absolutely cannot be produced by civilians. Ask China what it intends to do. Does it want war?!"

...The so-called black gate was actually spatial teleportation array data extracted by Lu Chen, which teleports people to a subspace (tearing open a small space within the Earth's plane, equivalent to a mezzanine).

Then, he puts them into a coma state, and releases the Great Soul Extraction Technique, drawing out their Souls and putting them into his Heavenly Dao Workshop.

In the workshop, Lu Chen casually designed a game-like dungeon.

It was very rudimentary.

It was a bloodthirsty corridor lined with ghouls on both sides. Passing through the corridor led to the BOSS hall, where the BOSS was the Ghoul King.

"Hey! What the hell is this place?!" Onizuka and his thirteen brothers successively got up from the ground, looking around in fear.

"Holy crap! This looks like a game dungeon!" Takashiro Ryota, who was good at games, excitedly shouted, "We must have Transmigrated! Just like in 'Sword Art Online'! Maybe we can gain superpowers!"

Roar! Roar!

Countless pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly lit up on both sides of the corridor.

A nauseating stench of decay instantly permeated the air, as a dozen ghouls with festering skin slowly emerged from the darkness.

They hunched their bodies, their sharp claws scraping against the stone walls with an ear-piercing sound, and wriggling maggots could still be seen in their decaying muscle tissue.

"What the hell are you talking about! How can this be a game? This is too damn real!" Cold sweat trickled down Onizuka's back.

Takashiro Ryota dismissed it: "What are you scared of? This is a game, you'll definitely revive if you die!"

With that, Takashiro Ryota swung his baseball bat and charged forward: "Monster, die for me..."

With one claw, the ghoul severed the baseball bat, pierced through Takashiro Ryota's body, pulled out his heart, and swallowed it with a gulp.

[Ding! Heavenly Dao Workshop world, first completion of 'Kill Human' achievement, heavenly dao energy +1]

[Detected host's additional hatred for little japanese people, reward doubled, heavenly dao energy +2]

An unexpected delight, holy crap! Capturing and killing little japanese people can actually grant heavenly dao energy??

If all one hundred million little japanese people were killed, wouldn't that increase heavenly dao energy by one hundred million points?

Lu Chen speculated that it was likely that bringing them in had subjected them to Heavenly Dao data contamination, which was why there was energy.

Onizuka and the remaining twelve were so scared they collapsed to the ground, scrambling to escape, but behind them was an invisible wall, making escape impossible.

Dozens of ghouls immediately pounced.

They devoured and killed Onizuka and the others.

[Ding! First completion of 'Ten Consecutive Kills' achievement, heavenly dao energy +1]

[Detected host's additional hatred for little japanese people, reward doubled, heavenly dao energy +2]

So that's it, rewards cannot be claimed repeatedly; different achievements must be completed... Outside the black gate, Tokyo Garrison Commander Sato Ryuichi waited for a full half hour, but he didn't see the dozen young men emerge. He checked their identities and found that none of them were from high-ranking families.

So, he gave the order.

"Just now! The evil Chinese government denied invading us. To protect Tokyo's safety and the honor of the Great Sun Empire, I order a full assault on the black gate!!!"

Instantly, twelve fighter jets with air-to-ground missiles locked onto the target. Almost simultaneously, twenty-four missiles, trailing orange-red exhaust, roared out.

On the ground, over a thousand fully armed Self-Defense Forces members chambered rounds in their assault rifles.

Bang bang bang!

5.56mm bullets covered the black gate.

The armored vehicle convoy's 35mm autocannons unleashed shells at a rate of 550 rounds per minute.

The entire Ginza district was drowned in deafening explosions.

Boom boom boom!

For a time, all firepower was directed at the black gate.