116: Chapter 116 Cherry Blossoms, This Forbidden Land is Just as You Wish!

Tan Wei and Hou Kun cursed as they began to fight once again.

Boom!!!

The massive Flood Dragon Python's mouthparts descended, swallowing a row of houses in an instant before lunging fiercely at Tan Wei!!

"Song Yiqing, I will definitely make you pay!"

Tan Wei roared in anger, swinging his sword in a violent slash.

However, Hou Kun said with a slightly solemn expression,

"This place gives me a very strange feeling."

"What kind of strange feeling?"

Failing to kill the Flood Dragon Python with one strike, Tan Wei quickly retreated.

Hou Kun rubbed his chin, thinking carefully before offering a thought.

"I feel like this place is a bit like Penglai!"

"Penglai?"

Tan Wei was stunned. He wanted to retort, but looking at the architectural style of the surrounding houses, they were filled with a certain sense of familiarity.

A strange thought began to surface in his mind.

"It really is a bit like... Penglai."

...

After Song Yiqing shifted the trouble onto others to escape the Ink Jade Specter, Hou Kun, and Tan Wei, and slipped into the corridor,

the bullet chat in the livestream had already completely exploded.

[Amazing! Truly amazing! I thought his lightning technique was for a counterattack, but it was actually to let the Pseudo-humans imitate it!]

[This is ridiculous! He's completely exploiting the monsters' mechanics to use their own strength against them!]

[This is what you call transcendent intelligence. This must be a real "strongest brain," to come up with such a devious idea.]

[That's why he's Song Yiqing!]

[The key isn't just the Pseudo-humans, but also that Flood Dragon Python.

This Song Yiqing actually knows Snake Language; he actually used it to lure the Flood Dragon Python down!]

[A ruthless man, a truly ruthless man!! The Pseudo-humans weren't enough to handle those two martial arts experts, so he just flat-out released the Flood Dragon Python.

Tsk tsk tsk!! So insidious, truly insidious!]

The viewers marveled incessantly.

In the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone Exploration Official command room,

Zhu Yongfeng, who was dealing with Qian Pingning's death,

couldn't help but breathe a secret sigh of relief as he watched the situation on the livestream.

"Shifting the trouble... Song Yiqing is quite decisive. Choosing to leave first when facing insurmountable enemies is a rather good choice."

Just as he was expressing his thoughts, a staff member ran over anxiously and said,

"General! General! News from headquarters—the Mongoose Gates in the other three forbidden zones have all opened on their own!!"

"What?"

For a moment, Zhu Yongfeng felt as if he hadn't understood.

"All the Mongoose Gates opened on their own? Why?"

"I don't know,"

the staff member shook his head.

"The information from headquarters only says that the opening of the Mongoose Gates in the other three forbidden zones is likely related to the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone."

...

Zhu Yongfeng fell into thought.

If there had to be a connection, it was that Song Yiqing and the others had shattered a Mongoose Gate to force open a path deeper inside.

But the information revealed here

was that these forbidden zones might be interconnected?

When this thought occurred, Zhu Yongfeng felt a chill run down his spine.

There had been theories before that the forbidden zones were alive.

If the forbidden zones could now communicate with each other, then that speculation might actually be true.

If so, the danger would increase significantly.

Mankind's survival was about to enter a countdown!

While he was dazed, the staff member beside him cried out again,

"My God!! A Mongoose Gate has appeared in the Fifth Forbidden Zone!! And it's not underground. How can it be so massive?

It actually appeared right on the surface, plain as day!!

Is this a castle?"

"What castle?"

Zhu Yongfeng frowned deeply, feeling more and more like the world was turning upside down.

...

The news of the Mongoose Gate appearing in the Fifth Forbidden Zone spread across the internet like a flood through a breached dam.

#Mongoose Gate Appears, Little Sakura is Blessed!#

#You clamored when there were no forbidden zones, so why are you crying now that you have one?#

#Sakura, This Forbidden Zone is Exactly What You Wished For!#

At this moment, Huancheng had already fallen into being the most miserable city in the world.

Monsters were everywhere, and the Sakura officials were trying to use heavy firepower to blast them away.

But the results were negligible.

Unlike forbidden zones elsewhere in the world, once the Fifth Forbidden Zone in Asia appeared, the monsters began to expand outward uncontrollably, with no concept of a boundary.

Finally, their local Onmyoji took action, followed by ninjas and swordsmen, forming exploration teams to begin the subjugation.

Only then did they barely suppress the strange monsters that were constantly moving outward.

And the Mongoose Gate that had now appeared gave everyone a feeling akin to a heart attack.

Sakura netizens also began to lash out online.

[Damn Daxia people, it must be because of you that the forbidden zone appeared here!]

[You must take responsibility for the appearance of the forbidden zone. Pay up!]

[Hurry up and send your Song Yiqing over; let him come and suppress our Sakura forbidden zone first!]

Faced with these baseless accusations, the Daxia keyboard warriors were no pushovers, unleashing a frenzy of insults on the international web.

Their main goal was to mentally and spiritually break their opponents.

...

Meanwhile, inside the Xue Group Research Institute,

Wen Xiuya watched the data points jumping across the screen, her brow gradually furrowing.

"The particle activity data of the five forbidden zones has actually started to synchronize? Why is this?"

In previous research, nothing like this had ever happened.

But now, ever since the Mongoose Gate in the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone was shattered,

the activity levels of these particles began to skyrocket. Now that they were stabilizing, they were gradually becoming similar.

"The forbidden zones are alive..."

The thought surfaced in Wen Xiuya's mind again. Meanwhile, the sentence she had previously decrypted using binary was still vivid: 'Humans are ants.'

If the forbidden zones are alive, can we assume that they are actually a single entity??

Or perhaps it exists underground, and every part that surfaces forms a forbidden zone on the ground,

eventually... completely turning the Blue Planet into a forbidden zone?

"Interesting! Truly interesting!!"

A manic smile began to appear on Wen Xiuya's face, and her hands worked even harder recording the data.

...

Meanwhile,

on the livestream screen,

Song Yiqing and the others were moving quite fast. After passing through the long, narrow corridor, they arrived at a relatively wide passageway.

Judging by the structure of the floor rocks, this area was clearly crafted with more detail.

But once they entered, Song Yiqing felt a strange sensation. The Qiankun Technique, which normally required active cultivation, began to circulate on its own.

Moreover, the amount of spiritual energy surging in from all directions was immense,

far exceeding any previous time!

At the same time, the fat man beside him cried out,

"This is Qi!! Lord Pang has made it!"

...