273: Chapter 273 Give Me the Time It Takes an Incense Stick to Burn

Chen You looked at the one-eyed giant kneeling and "weeping" before him, and his eyelid couldn't help but twitch.

His surname is really Meng?

The odds of this were like being hit by a meteorite the moment you stepped out the door, with the words "Congratulations, You Won" carved onto the rock.

He took a deep breath, maintaining his expert air, and said indifferently:

"Rise. You share a fate with the Meng Family, and today, this merit shall be completed by you."

"Yes! God You!"

The cyclops player named Blazing Fire looked up sharply, his fan-like hands slapping his breastplate with a heavy "thud-thud" to show his determination.

He stood up, his burly frame like a small mountain, making the nearby Meng De look somewhat petite.

Meng De also recovered from his shock at this moment, looking at Blazing Fire with a complex expression.

Brother Chen truly is a sage!

With a casual point, he could find someone from a sea of people who has inextricable ties to my Meng Family bloodline!

Although this appearance... is a bit too unrestrained.

"May I ask your esteemed name, brave warrior?"

Meng De still couldn't restrain himself; he stepped forward and asked politely.

Blazing Fire grinned widely, his single eye filled with a proud light.

He puffed out his chest and spoke in a voice as loud as a bell: "My full name is Beyond-Guns-Dealer·Blazing Fire!"

Chen You: "..."

Meng De: "..."

The players around them, who were pricking up their ears to eavesdrop: "..."

The air on the scene seemed to freeze for half a second.

Chen You felt his temples start to throb again.

Good grief, I thought he was a local, but he's an imported one?

Forget it, whatever.

He was already too lazy to maintain that mysterious script; his heart was tired.

He just wanted to finish this vital ritual quickly, then find a comfortable spot to sit and wait for the monster siege to farm experience.

Chen You expressionlessly tilted his chin toward Meng De, signaling with his eyes: Start already, stop dawdling.

As a top-tier intelligent NPC, Meng De instantly understood the "sage's" impatience.

He no longer dwelled on that tongue-twister of a name and immediately turned around, giving a deep bow to Beyond-Guns-Dealer·Blazing Fire with an incomparably solemn and grave posture.

"I trouble... the fated one!"

He took a specially made torch with a golden flame burning at its tip from a guard and offered it with both hands.

Blazing Fire was trembling all over with excitement; he carefully took the torch as if it were a family heirloom.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, he walked with heavy steps toward the "Heaven-Reaching Jade Gold Incense," which was ten meters high and resembled a pillar holding up the sky.

A tall ladder had already been set up beside it.

He held the torch high and climbed the ladder, even pausing piously for a moment just before touching the tip of the incense.

He nodded forcefully in Chen You's direction.

In the next second, the golden flame touched the tip of the incense.

Buzz—

There was no raging fire; at the top of the Heaven-Reaching Jade Gold Incense, only a needle-sized red dot lit up.

Immediately after, a wisp of blue smoke, thin as a thread yet concentrated, rose straight up, seemingly ignoring the obstruction of the wind.

Almost at the same moment the blue smoke rose, the sky changed!

The originally cloudless clear sky darkened without any warning.

Massive patches of dark clouds surged in from all directions like boiling ink, churning wildly in the sky and blotting out the sun in an instant.

The gale howled, kicking up sand, stones, and spirit money from the ground, making a wailing, eerie sound.

The entire Tomb of Thousand Lights was like a ghostly realm with howling winds.

"Holy crap! Who turned off the lights?!"

"What's the situation? Ancestor worship can actually change the weather? The special effects are maxed out!"

"This is definitely a world-class quest! I knew following God You would lead to rewards!"

Instead of fear, the players erupted in even more fanatical and excited shouts.

However, Meng De and the guards from the Meng De's Manor were all pale-faced, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

They could clearly perceive a chill and pressure spreading through the air, originating from the depths of their souls.

Right then, an old, furious voice that seemed to come from the deepest part of the Nine Nether Hell echoed in everyone's mind.

"Meng De——!"

That voice didn't sound like mortal speech; it carried a hint of raspy, endless venom.

Just two words were enough to make the weaker guards collapse on the spot.

Meng De was even more like he'd been struck by lightning, falling to his knees with a thud, his face as white as paper and his lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.

"Useless!"

The dark clouds in the sky gathered into a giant, blurred outline of a human face, and the voice seemed to come from that face.

"My Meng Clan used blood as an alliance and souls as a contract to gain the authority to rule a city and continue a thousand years of glory! This is a blessing exchanged for an ultimate price by our ancestors!"

"You unfilial descendant, you dare to lead in an outsider's power, destroy our ancestral tomb's stone tablet, and sever our bloodline contract!"

"Blessing? You call that curse which makes clansmen kill each other a blessing?" Meng De, kneeling on the ground, seemed to have been drained of all strength, yet he still roared unwillingly.

"Silence!"

The aged voice grew even more furious.

"Ignorant child! Without this contract, how could my Meng Family stand at the peak of Thousand Light City! Power! That is the root of everything!"

"Womanly compassion will only turn my Meng lineage into dust!"

The face in the sky looked down, filled with disdain and contempt.

"You, Meng De, have abandoned the glory of your ancestors and indulged in mundane love; you are no longer worthy of being a descendant of my Meng Clan, and even less worthy of serving as the lord of this Thousand Light City!"

"From this day forth, in the name of the Ancestor of the Meng Clans, I strip you of your position as Meng De!"

"Thousand Light City will welcome its true master!"

The aged voice echoed between heaven and earth, filled with unquestionable authority.

Meanwhile, Chen You stood in place from start to finish, his face as calm as a still pond.

It seemed this furious ancestor didn't care at all who had actually lit the incense.

In any case, the goal should have been achieved.

Chen You thought to himself.

Just as the Ancestor of the Meng Clan's voice began to fade, a series of dense system notification sounds rang out precisely in his ear.

[Ding! Congratulations on successfully triggering the Thousand Light City Hidden World Event: Ancestor's Wrath!]

[System Notification: Due to your actions, the seal on the 'Undead Realm' connected to the Tomb of Thousand Lights has been greatly weakened.]

[System Notification: An ultra-large-scale monster siege will begin to refresh in 10 minutes!]

At the same time, a blood-red World Announcement covering the entire Thousand Light City area exploded over the heads of all players with a piercing alarm!

[World Announcement (Thousand Light City Area): Warning! Ancestor's Wrath has been ignited! A spatial rift connecting to the Undead Realm is unfolding at the Tomb of Thousand Lights!]

[World Announcement (Thousand Light City Area): An endless undead army is about to sweep through Thousand Light City! Spatial rift duration: the time of an incense stick!]

Boom—!

As if to verify this announcement, a terrifying roar loud enough to tear eardrums suddenly came from deep within the Tomb of Thousand Lights.

Immediately after, a visible black airwave shot up from the tomb's entrance, straight into the clouds!

The entire world went completely mad at this moment!

Chen You's expression remained unchanged as he looked at "the time of an incense stick" in the announcement, then looked at the 10-meter-high Jade Gold Incense beside him.

So that's how it's played?!