187: Chapter 187 Global Mysterious Resurgence

The next day.

Lin Ye opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

The breath lingered in the air without dissipating, faintly shimmering with a pale golden luster.

His vitality was currently like an active volcano on the verge of erupting, ready to shatter the void with a single punch at any moment.

Lin Ye turned his head. On the large, dark-red bed, Leng Yue and Frost Star were fast asleep from exhaustion.

...

He arrived in the main hall on the first floor.

The morning air was filled with the aroma of freshly ground coffee, mixed with the tantalizing scent of buttered toast.

As soon as Lin Ye reached the corner of the stairs, his eyes were involuntarily drawn to the figure in the open kitchen.

Helena.

Today, she dutifully wore the custom-made Sacred Fallen Nun outfit that Lin Ye had "bestowed" upon her.

The ultra-short pleated skirt on her lower body barely covered her perky rear.

The black thigh-high stockings and leather garter straps on her legs shimmered tantalizingly in the morning light.

Her back was to Lin Ye as she focused intently on frying eggs.

With her movements, her perfect waist-to-hip ratio formed a breathtaking curve.

"Ahem."

Lin Ye cleared his throat and walked over to sit at the tea table at a leisurely pace.

Helena trembled, turning around like a startled fawn.

Upon seeing Lin Ye, a soft, moist glow instantly welled up in her ice-blue eyes.

She quickly turned off the stove, picked up a tray laden with a sumptuous breakfast, and glided over gracefully in her high heels.

"Boss, you're awake. Helena has prepared breakfast for you."

Her voice was soft and sweet, laced with slightly stiff Great Xia language, exuding a surprisingly obedient charm.

Kneeling on one knee beside Lin Ye, she set the tray on the table.

Lin Ye didn't keep a stern face as he usually did.

Reaching out, he naturally pinched Helena's smooth, fair chin, enjoying the silky touch against his fingertips.

"Your culinary skills are getting better and better. You even learned to adapt to local customs instead of making me those cold raw vegetable salads first thing in the morning?"

A playful smirk tugged at the corner of Lin Ye's lips.

Flustered by the intimate gesture, Helena's cheeks flushed red, a rosy blush spreading across her snow-white neck.

"Boss is right to scold me... Helena spent all night researching Great Xia recipes. As long as Boss likes it, Helena will make it for you every day from now on."

She bowed her head, her hands awkwardly wringing together.

As her emotions fluctuated wildly, a subtle layer of holy white light shimmered on the surface of this "more embarrassing, higher defense" nun habit.

Seeing the strange light, Lin Ye couldn't help but give the system a praise in his heart once again.

"Alright, stop kneeling. Sit down and eat with me."

Lin Ye picked up a piece of golden-brown toast and said casually.

"May I?"

Helena was overwhelmed by the unexpected favor.

"I don't have so many damn rules here. When I tell you to sit, you sit." Lin Ye pointed to the chair beside him.

Only then did Helena sit down cautiously, perching on just the edge of the chair with her long legs pressed tightly together.

Just then,

"Clack clack clack!"

A discordant clatter of keyboard typing echoed from a corner on the other side of the hall.

Ayugu, wearing loose Miao Territory pajamas and sporting a messy bird's nest of hair, sat cross-legged on the sofa, her hands working furiously on a laptop.

"Holy crap! These idiots! Completely shameless! Boss, are you going to do something about this?!"

Ayugu slammed her mouse down in frustration, her face full of indignant fury.

Lin Ye took a sip of coffee and gave her an annoyed glare.

"You're supposed to be the Miao Territory Saintess, yet you spend every day addicted to online games. If your mother knew you were in Jiangzhou playing on foreign servers every day, she'd come charging out of the Ten Thousand Mountains to string you up on a tree and beat you."

"When you can't beat someone, you report them. What are you looking to me for? It's not like I can crawl through the network cable to slash them for you."

Ayugu hopped off the sofa huffing and puffing, ran barefoot to the tea table, and unceremoniously grabbed a fried egg from the plate to stuff into her mouth.

"It's not a game! Boss! Something big actually happened!"

Chewing on the fried egg, Ayugu spun the laptop around and pushed it in front of Lin Ye.

"Look at this. This is intel intercepted on the dark web last night by the Mud and Water Travelers' scouts. The entire global extraordinary world has completely exploded!"

Lin Ye raised an eyebrow slightly, his gaze falling onto the computer screen.

The background color of the screen was a depressing dark purple.

A spinning skull logo in the top-left corner signified the highest-level encrypted channel.

At this moment, the real-time chat box on the side was scrolling furiously like a waterfall.

"God has gone mad! Germany's Berlin Wall sprouted flesh and blood last night, and it's devouring nearby residents!"

"Help! St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican has been sealed off by a gray mist, and all the priests have turned into stone statues!"

"Buying refuge coordinates at a high price! Offering 30 million USD bounty—who has city entry permits?"

Countless pieces of information censored by various national militaries had their hypocritical shells stripped away here, exposed bloodily before the world.

Immediately after, Ayugu clicked on several pinned trending videos.

The first video was set at the foot of Mount Fuji in Sakura Country.

The originally peaceful crater suddenly spewed out thick, pitch-black demonic qi.

Tens of thousands of grotesquely shaped demonic creatures, as if tearing through hell's seal, formed a massive black torrent that surged down the winding mountain road.

"Hundred Ghosts Night Parade?" Lin Ye narrowed his eyes.

"Exactly. And it's not just Sakura Country."

Ayugu scrolled the mouse to bring up a second video.

This one was set in a tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia.

Several Head-lowering Masters covered in eerie tattoos were gathered around a massive pool of blood.

The blood pool was densely crawling with human-faced bloody gu insects, and a spine-chilling scream resonated through the video.

Then came the third segment.

A glacial canyon in Northern Europe suddenly collapsed.

The corpse of an ancient Frost Giant over a hundred meters tall crawled out from the ice layer and roared toward the sky.

The fourth video had the clearest picture quality.

It was clearly a high-altitude aerial view shot by some country's military drone.

It took place at the core holy ground of the Western Holy See—St. Peter's Square.

The towering white jade cross that had stood for centuries as a symbol of holiness and light was now wrapped in a layer of sticky, squirming, dark-red flesh.

Accompanied by sickening tearing sounds, the flesh at the top of the cross actually hatched Fallen Angels covered with bat-like leathery wings and dripping with black mud.

Letting out ear-splitting shrieks, they circled above the solemn cathedral, ruthlessly snatching the clergy praying on the square into midair and tearing them to shreds.

Severed limbs and blood rained down from the sky, instantly staining the white doves across the entire square red, creating a living hell on earth.

"Global revival of the uncanny... Has it hit an explosive blowout?"

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair, his fingers lightly tapping on the table.

He knew the eruption of the spiritual energy tide would cause a chain reaction, but he hadn't expected it to come so quickly and fiercely.

"It might be because your moves two nights ago were too ruthless."

Sitting nearby as she watched the video, Helena's ice-blue eyes flashed with deep trepidation...