15: Chapter 15 Great Horror? How dare you disturb my peaceful sleep!

"It's coming..."

002 spoke in a faint tone, even though it had guessed the subsequent possible developments from Su Xiu's notification.

But when this scene truly arrived,

it still couldn't help feeling somewhat emotionally complicated, anxious and uneasy.

This had nothing to do with intelligence.

Dread was a living being's instinct!

"Coming?"

"What is coming?"

Zhao Jinlong blankly raised his head, somewhat failing to keep up with 002's reaction.

He just wanted to open his mouth and ask for more details.

But when he looked in the direction pointed out by 002,

the scene before his eyes caused Zhao Jinlong to be struck speechless on the spot.

Ice crystals!

Vast expanses of white ice crystals dyed the heaven and earth into a bleak white, as if plunging into the dead of winter in an instant.

Swept by the chill, the virus-like spreading ice crystals had already infected quite a few skeletons.

The grim white bones were forcibly covered with transparent ice crystals, and the ice layers refracted various radiances under the sunlight.

And this was merely an insignificant beginning.

Creak——

Creak——

Right amidst the shocked and terrified gazes of Zhao Jinlong and the melon-eating Netizens,

infected by the bizarre power of the Crystal Disaster,

cracks of various sizes began to emerge on the thick ice layers of the crystallized ice sculptures.

The traces of the ice sculptures chapping, or rather the ice layers shattering, began to spread toward their crystallized bodies.

The next moment!

The ice sculptures shattered with a crash,

transforming into countless ice crystal fragments that splashed all around.

Zhao Jinlong's pupils suddenly contracted.

He finally remembered the most terrifying point introduced about the "Crystal Disaster" in Gear Live.

It wasn't its bizarre contagiousness.

Rather, it was the final explosion!

Being affected by the Crystal Disaster, leading to crystallization and being frozen into ice sculptures, was not the final destination of the infected; rather, the ice sculptures shattering into countless splashing fragments and leaving no bones left was their ultimate result.

And the most terrifying thing

was only just beginning now.

These splashed fragments all possessed strong infectivity!!

"Cou..."

"Could it really be true?"

Zhao Jinlong clenched his fists tightly, his apprehensive mood making him uneasy.

However, the scene of reality dealt him a heavy blow.

His worried guesses had come true!

The ice sculptures shattered, and the thousands of fragments splashing outward scattered mid-air.

Refracting a brilliant radiance under the sunlight.

But beneath the dreamy picture, the hidden crisis made people's hearts chill with fear.

The fragments drifted and fell in droves.

Either touching upon the dense masses of white bones,

or scattering onto the branches of big trees,

or falling among the flowers and plants.

However, even more of them sank into the earth.

But no matter where they went, their endings were all the same—transforming into ice crystals!

Crack——

Crack——

The sound of ice crystals spreading was endless.

Without needing the chill as a medium,

the objects touched by these fragments, whether inanimate or living, were all instantly stained with ice crystals, transforming toward crystallization at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The entire world seemed to be eroded by ice crystals, turning entirely into translucent ice layers.

The earth!

Flowers and plants!

White bones!

...

All without exception.

Even the lush, leafy big trees were forcibly forced into crystallization; their brownish-black bark turned into azure-blue ice crystals, and the trees constructed from vegetation forcefully transformed into ice crystals.

As if carved from ice blocks, the crystal-like texture exuded colorful brilliance under the sunlight.

While magnificent, it also had an unspeakable bizarreness and... terror!

Moreover, the terrifying Crystal Disaster was still spreading outward.

"Th—This—"

Looking at the scene before him that resembled a glacial world,

Zhao Jinlong stared dumbfounded.

——

"Holy crap, it r-really changed? Plants couldn't be spared either and also fell into crystallization, turning into ice sculptures!!"

"More than just plants, didn't you see the ground beneath our feet has also crystallized and become transparent? I even saw the soil beneath the earth turn into ice crystals. This posture looks like it's going to pierce through the Earth's core!"

"Good grief, won't this crystallize the mantle as well? And in the end, it will go 'creak' and shatter once?"

"Hiss~"

"..."

Bullet comments flashed across the live broadcast room like shooting stars.

However, the words within them were deeply branded into the minds of the Netizens.

Certain terrifying possibilities upon deeper thought made their scalps tingle. Just thinking about it slightly made them involuntarily gasp a breath of cold air, making a huge contribution to global warming.

"No, impossible. It shouldn't be that exaggerated. When all is said and done, this thing's main body is just a one-meter-tall block of ice. It shouldn't be this terrifying, right?"

The sharp, questioning tone made the Netizens even more nervous inside.

Even by strongly suppressing it, trying to keep themselves from groundless worries, thoughts were something that could never be confined after all.

The more they forced themselves not to think about it, the more it only made them unable to help associating it with other things.

Panic and unease spread among the Netizens like a virus.

Following the words in the bullet comments, it continuously fermented within their hearts.

Their already restless hearts churned with monstrous waves at this moment, and these sway-minded leeks made the greatest contribution to Su Xiu in history.

[Ding——]

[Crystal Disaster 004 triggered a massive wave of emotional fluctuations, Emotion Points +13902]

[Emotion Points +38041]

[Emotion Points +20193]

[...]

The crazily rising numbers grew at an explosive rate as if they had taken steroids.

The rocket-like ascending speed

caused even Su Xiu's calm heart to inevitably ripple with waves.

He slightly nodded, expressing satisfaction with this result.

Compared to individual bizarreness, it seemed that this large-scale distortion phenomenon could similarly bring massive yields.

Fear truly was the nuclear power of emotions.

However...

"Finally unable to keep up the act?"

The corners of Su Xiu's mouth curved slightly.

His eyes carried a trace of imperceptible sarcasm.

He chose to drop Crystal Disaster 004 here and also have 002 personally present to hold the fort, not just for a bunch of skeletons.

Mere skeleton bones didn't have such qualifications, no matter how great the quantity was.

They weren't worthy! Nor were they worth it!

His true target had only just appeared now.

In the previous life,

it triggered the Bone Calamity in the cemetery, even shaping the Undead Sky Curtain, forcibly converting a realm of death, occupying the strategic advantage, and then strongly rising to forge a state within a state of its own.

In the end, on the path of demigods, it fell short of success, fell into weakness, and was seized the opportunity by the military, finally being annihilated after paying countless costs.

This time! It wouldn't be so breezy anymore.

The cold light in Su Xiu's eyes had already sealed her fate.

——

"Who!"

"Dares to disturb my peaceful slumber!"

Just when Zhao Jinlong was shocked into speechlessness by the glacial world,

Boom!

Amidst the thousands of shattered skeletons,

a figure with pale skin, a six-cornered death crown on her head, suffused with frost, and wearing a skeletal robe walked out from the skeletons.

A piercing voice subsequently rang out from her.

Extremely grating, making people instinctively want to reach out and cover their ears.

The impact was like demonic sounds piercing the ears.

It was like two tattered pieces of gongs constantly rubbing and irritating right beside the ears.

"It's you!"

The cold, low voice caused one's heartbeat to abruptly stop.

The soul flames leaping within her eye sockets,

unlike the soulless and dazed appearance of other skeletons, seemed to contain powerful intelligence.

Behind the towering skeletal body,

a trace of boundless white fog also formed along with the chill.