143: Chapter 143 Pre-Live Broadcast

Unlike C City, which was cut off from the outside world by a barrier, people in other cities in the G District continued their daily lives as usual, completely unaware of any anomalies.

However, for some who were communicating by phone with netizens in C City, the signal suddenly cut out without warning.

"Xiao Mei? Why did you hang up?"

"Did you go to take a shower?"

In an apartment in another city in the G District, a male college student sat on the sofa, filled with anxiety.

He was in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend far away in C City, and every little while, he would subconsciously pick up his phone to check for messages.

"It's been over two hours... why haven't you replied to my messages?"

Feeling bored, he decided to scroll through the forum to pass the time.

Just then, a link suddenly popped up on the screen.

"Continental Carnival? Isn't that in two days?" The male college student looked confused, and out of curiosity, he clicked on it.

"A warm-up event two days early... Monster Hunting?"

At first, he read the event introduction in the link with great interest from beginning to end, but before long, his patience wore thin, and he dragged the page directly to the bottom.

"Location... C City?"

When he saw the summary information about the event at the very bottom, his eyes widened instantly, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

"Holy crap, isn't Xiao Mei in C City?!"

The male college student realized what was happening and immediately clicked on the link at the bottom of the website.

Through this link, the System would randomly assign a drone perspective to the user.

Soon, an image jumped onto his phone screen.

Rows of buildings had turned into piles of broken rubble, stacked like mountains.

Crimson blood, like a winding stream, slowly seeped out from the gaps in the rubble, a shocking sight.

Amidst this devastation, a burly man with fluffy curly hair stood like an elegant orchestra conductor in a music hall.

To him, the screams of people fleeing all around seemed like beautiful music.

He looked calm, waving his hands freely in the air as if they were nimble batons.

Every time his hands paused at a certain position, an invisible pressure, like a surging tide, poured down from the Void Realm, instantly crushing that spot into pieces.

"What... is this?" The male college student stared at his phone, trembling inside.

He had watched the livestreams of past Continental Carnivals before.

But this was the first time he had witnessed such a one-sided, ruthless massacre.

Perhaps, like before, after watching for a while and adapting, he might have been able to immerse himself in it and enjoy the pleasure brought by the extreme sensory impact.

But now, he knew clearly that his girlfriend was in this Hell-like city.

Meanwhile, a large number of users flooded into this drone's livestream room like a tide.

Countless bullet comments swarmed in.

"It's started! It's started!"

"What kind of new equipment is that guy using? It's a bit overpowered, right?"

"That's not equipment... Holy crap, isn't this the A-rank prisoner Gravity Man? Why is he here?"

"You guys clearly didn't read the rules. Several prisoners have been thrown into C City this time; they are the Monsters to be hunted."

"Hunting A-rank prisoners? How do you fight them? Just destroy them."

"I don't know about that, but the equipment that can be redeemed this time is very powerful. I saw in the introduction that you can even summon heroes to fight."

"Whatever, it's none of my business. I'm not the one fighting."

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Let the blood flow like a river, let the blood flow like a river!"

"F**k, you bunch of heartless lunatics, my girlfriend is still in this city!"

"Sigh, nothing much to say. My condolences."

"I hope your girlfriend is still warm this time tomorrow."

"The hope is quite slim. I just came from another livestream room, and the A-rank prisoner Freezing Man is there too."

Originally, Wan Chaoren activating the barrier early was only intended to trap Chen Moxuan.

But a series of coincidences led to the current situation of holding a warm-up event.

After all, the Continental Carnival was originally a grand celebration aimed at pleasing all the citizens of the Dazhou Nation, a major event that the whole nation focused on.

As its warm-up segment, if it were merely releasing prisoners and letting them slaughter at will in C City, that would obviously be unjustifiable.

Thus, the G District Hero Association opened a dedicated network and used drones to livestream it to citizens within the G District.

When every citizen entered the livestream room, they would be randomly assigned a drone's perspective.

If they wanted to switch to another drone's perspective, they had to gift a small item.

And if one could become the top contributor in the current livestream room, they would be able to obtain the authority to freely fly the drone like playing a game, thereby obtaining the perspective they wanted at will.

In addition to the most common standard models, these drones had various styles.

Some had extremely fast flight speeds, capable of traveling quickly; some had extremely wide viewing angles, capable of taking in a large range of scenery; and some were extremely stealthy, capable of approaching targets silently for close-range filming...

To unlock these specialized drones, one had to gift items of sufficient value.

Every year, for the organizers, the Continental Carnival was an excellent opportunity to make huge profits through nationwide broadcasting.

This single event alone could almost earn enough activity funds to support the local Hero Association for the next hundred years.

At this moment, a Fu Ge had already become the top contributor in over twenty livestream rooms.

He entrusted the other twenty-plus drones to others, while he focused on controlling one of them, flying towards the air-raid shelter where the teachers and students of Third Hope Middle School were located.

"Two A-rank prisoners, eight B-rank prisoners, this year's event is really interesting..."

By gifting nearly ten million, his viewer permissions had all been unlocked.

Among them was an extremely practical permission that could form a detailed mini-map based on the areas the drone had explored.

Through the mini-map, he discovered that the directions these prisoners were heading all crossed at a specific area on the map.

And this area was the destination where he was now controlling the drone.

"The event said there are eleven Monsters in total, and I've already found ten."

"I have a hunch that the last Monster is definitely here."

But just as the drone he was controlling was about to arrive at that area, the drone seemed to hit an invisible wall and could no longer fly forward at all.

"Huh? What's going on?" Fu Ge was stunned.

Looking at the livestream screen, the front was clearly empty and unobstructed.

Fu Ge wanted to control the drone to speed up, but in the next second, the screen suddenly went black, and his connection to the drone was completely severed.

And from a perspective Fu Ge could no longer see, his drone had fallen heavily to the ground, with electrical sparks crackling around it; clearly, the circuit had short-circuited.

In the center of this area, a young man with black hair was pressing one hand on the ground.

In his palm, several runes condensed from True Qi flickered with thunder, dissipating into the surroundings and merging into the Void Realm.

This was a technique Chen Moxuan had learned after analyzing the Formation that blocked others when he had just awakened his Heart-Phase Dao Seed at the Spirit Gathering Pool.

Only by stepping into the Tiangang Realm, where True Qi does not dissipate, could one perform it.

Not only did he replicate the blocking function, but he also cleverly added an automatic attack setting on this basis.

However, he was not a Great Master of Formations after all, and he did not have the various consumables needed to set up a Formation in his hands.

He was just relying on his analysis and his own Comprehension Ability to copy the Formation and temporarily construct a Formation barrier using his own True Qi.

This barrier could at most block a weaker Qi Control Realm Martial Artist, and it could be broken if the attack intensity reached the Perfection of the Qi Control Realm.

However, it was more than enough to hinder drones without weapons and ordinary people.

"Let's see... is there anyone here who matches the face of Zhang Qing that I saw in the Martial Arts World?"

Chen Moxuan stared at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, his Spiritual Sense surging in mightily.