13: Chapter 13 This is a materialist's only instance of idealism!

[Crystal Disaster]

[Category: Anomalous Phenomenon]

[The core is a regular hexagonal three-dimensional ice crystal, about 1 meter high. Any object that comes into contact with the ice crystal will crystallize in a very short time. This effect will occur on any material or creature except █ █ █...]

[The crystallization effect will spread at a speed of █ █ █ █ per minute, and this effect is not only on the surface; the interior cannot be exempted either. Moreover, this infectivity is accompanied by the cold air emitted by the ice crystal, spreading through the cold currents in the air...]

[After the crystallization is completely finished, the ice sculpture will crack and make a shattering sound within the next █ █ minutes, and then shatter into countless ice crystal fragments splashing outward. Objects that come into contact with the fragments will also be quickly infected...]

[Weakness: Unable to infect █ █ █]

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"What the fuck? Movie promotion is here again? Crystal Disaster? Isn't it Gu Martial Arts that plays with bugs? Why did the content change?"

Electronic devices infected with the live broadcast meme by 001 were forced to turn on again.

A massive crowd was forced to flood into the live stream room.

Looking at the content of the live stream, a bullet comment just expressed confusion.

It was soon rebutted by an expert.

"Expansion pack promotion? Experts have long appraised it. The screen details have exceeded the limit of technical rendering. Most importantly, someone has already found the corresponding unit designation in the active-duty military through detail markers for the troops that suffered over half combat losses in the previous round. Can your expansion pack promotion rope in the military to help put on a show? That's bullshit!"

"Hiss, are these things real?"

"If the live stream content is real, what about this popular science? Crystal Disaster transmitted through cold currents in the air? This is too fantasy, right?"

"Lifeforms and non-lifeforms can both be infected? According to what it says, once it spreads out, wouldn't it turn the entire world into shattered ice sculptures? This is too exaggerated!!"

"..."

Even with tech experts standing by to explain.

The content of Gear Live still made them unable to accept it.

Today's world is long different from the past.

Various anomalies come in an endless stream, which greatly enhanced their mental resilience, true.

But still no one could easily accept that there exist bizarre entities in the world that can infect all objects.

Even with infectivity, infecting plants or animals would be something, but dead things like stones and soil—what the hell would those get infected for?!

This is simply too counter-intuitive.

And the thing that did all this is actually just a half-person-high ice sculpture?

Except for the slightly strange regular hexagonal three-dimensional shape, there really is nothing special about it to be seen.

"Given enough time, my family's refrigerator can replicate one relying on its ice-making function."

A bullet comment swept across the live stream room, voicing the inner thoughts of quite a few viewers.

However, whether they believed it or not, or were skeptical.

Suddenly facing such unexpected imagery, their calm hearts still couldn't help but ripple.

At the same time, this provided Su Xiu with an opportunity to harvest leeks.

[Ding——]

[004 Crystal Disaster triggered massive emotional fluctuations, Emotion Points +3920]

[Emotion Points +4920]

[Emotion Points +6183]

[...]

The jumping numbers on the editor completely couldn't compare to the previous harvest.

But Su Xiu was not disappointed at all.

Because he knew that the real climax was yet to come.

When 004 truly makes its debut will be the season for his massive harvest.

Patience, he had plenty of it!

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"Crystal Disaster?"

Zhao Jinlong's pupils constricted.

Unlike the viewers in the live stream who mainly watched the bustle.

After learning that 002 stayed here not to explain things to him alone, but to deal with an anomalous event, coupled with the fact that her gaze was looking beneath the earth.

He was almost ninety percent sure that the content of Gear Live was very likely true!

Even if the details were wrong, it was still definitely an anomalous event!

So?

The crisis came from underground?!

Noticing this, Zhao Jinlong's expression tightened, before he could imagine more content.

Boom!

Rumble!

The earth-shaking sound suddenly rang out.

The earth beneath his feet suddenly began to shake violently. Amidst earthquake-like scenes, cracks began to appear on the ground.

It was as if something unknown was about to crawl out from underground.

"Crystal Disaster?"

"Could it be that the Crystal Disaster has broken out?!"

Zhao Jinlong's pupils earthquaked. Thinking of the content described in Gear Live, a chill ran down the back of his spine.

However, in his terrified gaze.

The things that struggled out of the earth's cracks and crawled from underground.

Were not the transparent ice crystals he expected, but solemn white skeletons.

The white bones were like jade, unlike the white skeleton models usually hung in anatomy rooms.

It was not a pale color, but carried a certain warm jade-like luster, as if it possessed life.

White bones?

Crawled out from underground?!

But right in the incredulous gaze of the crowd.

Rustle——

Rustle——

The sound of soil turning over became dense.

More and more white bones crawled out from underground.

"Ah——"

Sharp shrieks rang out.

The surroundings fell into chaos.

Only a few people maintained their remaining decency, calmed their emotions, and did not lose their composure directly.

Even if they instinctively showed fear towards the white skeletons, they could still maintain decency on their faces, not collapsing on the spot, losing their minds, or getting scared to the point of pissing their pants.

However, it wasn't that they were so calm that their faces wouldn't change even if Mount Tai collapsed before them.

It's just that fear alone does nothing!

The monsters had already rushed before their eyes; what else could they do? Yelling wildly was completely useless; it was just a waste of effort, making them look even more pathetic and disgraceful.

The white bones had already rushed out; could they choose to let them go just because of yelling wildly?

At a moment of crisis, the louder the commotion, the easier it was to attract attention, and they might just be targeted by the white bones. No one knew what method these skeletons used to distinguish enemies.

Don't talk about how there are only bones left and no ears to hear sounds. In this day and age, white bones have turned into undead raids; what hammer science are you still counting on?

While most people were yelling wildly.

There were still smart people who quickly realized the crisis, suppressed their fear to shut their mouths, and dared not make random noises.

Although there was discomfort in facing the white bones, basically they could maintain surface calmness.

Some bold ones started searching for reliable weapons.

Trying to stage a counterattack.

After all, in legends and stereotypes, white skeletons—except for a certain demon that takes three times to kill—are all trash mobs.

All others are mere weaklings and cannon fodder.

Perhaps.

They could pull off a counter-kill?

The three major illusions of life are starting again.

However, right at this moment, Zhao Jinlong frowned and noticed something unusual.

"That's not right——"

"The origins of those guys are not right!"

His tiger eyes widened round.

The surviving knowledge of human skeletal science in his mind made him quickly spot something amiss.

These skeletons are not right, very wrong.

On the feet, the phalanges of the fifth toe are wrong!

For a normal Daxia person, the phalanges of the fifth toe should be two sections, not the three sections on these skeletons.

Even if buried underground for a long time, with flesh and blood dissipating leaving only chilling white bones, the number of bones shouldn't change!

Seeing that a guy bold enough to offer Erguotou was about to come into contact with the suspiciously sourced white bone.

Zhao Jinlong's heart tightened.

Without a second thought, his entire body rushed forward.

The boiling blood and Qi in his body provided terrifying energy, turning him into an afterimage and instantly crossing over a hundred meters.

The swinging fist even produced a sonic boom.

Snap——

Bones shattered, and as the white bone was smashed to pieces by his punch.

The content projected by the Gear also surfaced with new content at this moment.

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