383: Chapter 382 Tides Gathering at Sea

"Wait!"

Just as Chu Xuan was about to step inside, Su Qiaoqiao suddenly spoke up in pleasant surprise, "Boss Chu, the heavy hitter is here!"

"Oh?" Chu Xuan's expression shifted, and he couldn't help but pull his foot back.

Su Qiaoqiao held up her phone and giggled. "My big brother just sent me a message. The transport team just left the Dark Place and has arrived in the capital. My brother is personally bringing it over."

As she spoke, Su Qiaoqiao handed the phone to Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan took it and looked. He immediately saw the message from Su Qiaoqiao's brother: [My little ancestor, the transport team has returned and reached the capital. In ten minutes at most, I will personally escort it over.]

Below this message was a forwarded link to a report regarding a Specter incident.

Codename: [Death Drag Racing]

Clicking into it, the report detailed how that team had unexpectedly encountered a special Dark Rift during transport, which transformed a stretch of highway into a Forbidden Land.

In this Dark Place, there was only a single C-rank Ghost.

However, the rules were extremely perverted.

It directly suppressed everyone to below Level 1, prohibited all Transcendent Skills, and health points were squeezed down to only 100 points.

Then, a total of over a hundred vehicles engaged in a fifty-kilometer high-speed race on a road that had twisted into a winding mountain pass. Only the single vehicle that reached the finish line first would be qualified to survive and face the Specter in the final round.

The transport team had a total of over fifty people across ten vehicles. In the end, only the five people in the same vehicle managed to survive by luck, because one of them was a former military driver whose skills were considered top-tier even in the army.

As for the rest, including the unfortunate civilians caught up in the incident, they were all wiped out.

Finally, as the final round was about to begin, the Specter appeared.

That Strange Creatures was incredibly arrogant, stating that its former self before parasitism was a destitute professional racer who wanted to use these rules to make up for past regrets.

However, just as the final race was about to start, that C-rank Ghost was directly shot to death by the five remaining members of the transport team using their submachine guns and grenade launchers.

The final round never even started before the primary Specter died, and the Dark Place vanished as a result.

And those five final survivors all became Transcendents during this incident; one of them even directly underwent a Talent Awakening.

This Talent combined and mutated with the Specter's ability, allowing him to transform into a racing car with a top speed of over 300 kilometers per hour.

While Chu Xuan was reviewing the report, the others all walked over. With their vision, even from a distance and despite the glare on the phone screen, they could see everything clearly.

"How lucky! Just a C-rank incident, and they actually awakened a Talent?"

"That's because the impact was contained in time. Otherwise, in this Dark incident, even a Level 10 Transcendent would likely have died with regrets if they didn't have special means or good driving skills."

While the others were discussing it, Chu Xuan gained a deeper understanding of the current situation through this report.

"The current changes in rules mean Specters are becoming more and more bizarre. Even if it's just a C-rank Ghost, if it forms a Dark Place with certain special rules, it will become extremely terrifying."

"And all of this is related to the Dark Rifts!"

Chu Xuan looked thoughtful. "The rules of a special place formed by a Dark Rift are equivalent to giving that C-rank Ghost a cheat code."

"If the transport team hadn't happened to be caught in it and possessed enough firepower, with so many people dying on the scene, that C-rank Ghost would have likely become a B-rank Ghost immediately after gaining spirituality."

"If it wasn't handled in time and more and more humans were drawn in, it might even become an A-rank in a short period..."

Chu Xuan took a deep breath and murmured softly, "But correspondingly, humans aren't at a total disadvantage when trying to solve Specters in a Dark Place. That is, follow the rules, find a way to meet the Specter, and then use every possible means to kill it..."

Before long, a roar came from outside.

Hearing the sound, everyone leaped onto the wall to look.

They saw several gunships leading the way, flying in at low altitude.

As the roaring continued, a convoy of armed military vehicles thundered down the open road, escorted by several Night Watchers.

"They're here!"

Su Qiaoqiao's eyes lit up, and she was the first to jump down from the wall to meet them.

After some negotiation, Su Qiaoqiao drove a military truck into the courtyard, accompanied by a young military officer who shared a sixty percent resemblance to her.

"Boss Chu, this is the heavy hitter I specially prepared for you..."

Su Qiaoqiao grinned. "Of course, I can't take all the credit; this is also the official recognition of you."

Lifting the tarp, there was only a massive black metal box inside. Once it was opened, everyone's eyes instantly bugged out.

Inside was a rocket launcher as thick as an adult man's waist, along with a crimson warhead.

"Greetings, Chief. This is a Miniature Nuclear Missile Launcher still in development. It has a maximum range of 10 kilometers and precision can be controlled within a 300-meter radius..."

The young officer gave Chu Xuan a military salute and introduced the weapon.

Chu Xuan nodded slightly. The combined volume of this thing wasn't small; it didn't quite reach one cubic meter, but it was close.

After a brief overview, Chu Xuan cleared out a Spatial Ring. Once it was set up and in a ready-to-fire state, he placed it into the Spatial Ring.

The other Spatial Ring was given to Su Qiaoqiao, who had the highest Mental Energy strength.

With everything ready, Chu Xuan stepped inside.

As he took this step into the spatial tunnel,

Chu Xuan's body felt slightly weightless, a sense of floating. A roar sounded in his ears as many strange images flashed past him in all directions.

In an instant, his body felt a slight weight again, and he was standing on solid ground.

Chu Xuan focused his gaze.

Just as Pang Hu had said, the place they entered this time had a slight deviation from where they had left, but it wasn't too far.

All around were rows of wooden stockades, and directly ahead, a towering mountain pierced the sky.

Whoosh!

The sound of rising and falling tides reached his ears.

Chu Xuan snapped his head back, and his eyes instantly froze.

At the same time, Tan Ziming, Pang Hu, and the others also appeared near Chu Xuan. They saw the same sight as he did, and all of them couldn't help but look shocked.

"Good heavens! This place... has actually turned into a vast ocean!"