hsntnovel Chapter 39 I just won't
Chapter 39 I just won't
The bloated body of the garbled cloud squeezed into the room, pressing the weathered furniture against the walls.
It moved its body, gradually surging towards the living room where Li Can was.
Those garbled characters and bar errors were like a sharp knife, disrupting and shattering the surrounding objects.
The entire cloud resembled a mobile blender, with cracks constantly appearing on the walls and gray-white paint peeling off inside.
Li Can stepped back.
Something's wrong. Behind the self-measuring sphere, the scrambled cloud seemed to be out of control, appearing with an extreme destructive urge.
The sharp, colorful, long rectangular blocks stretched and retracted, heading straight for the measuring ball in his hand.
A strong gust of wind swept past, leaving a bloody gash on Li Can's arm.
The ball was too round and almost fell to the ground.
"Run! I'm out of control!" The garbled cloud changed its tone, no longer an electronic mechanical voice, and regained a moment of clarity.
That was the ancient voice Li Can encountered when he first arrived, ancient and deep.
"You're back?" Li Can quickly backed away, hurriedly opened the security door, and rushed out.
I ran down the stairs.
He was filled with doubt and uncertainty, but judging from the current performance of the garbled cloud, he absolutely could not let it destroy the sphere.
The cloud in its normal state and the cloud in its garbled state are completely different attributes, or rather, they are opposing camps.
One wants to protect the blue planet, the other wants to destroy everything.
Li Can's question no longer elicited a calm and steady reply; instead, a fierce and destructive attack swept over him.
He moved nimbly and soon left the stairwell and came outside.
Meanwhile, the garbled cloud behind them continued its relentless pursuit.
The building could not withstand the energy clash of the riot, and when Li Can looked back, the three lower floors of the residential building were already showing signs of collapsing.
"Humans, don't run away! Hand over the measuring ball to me, and we'll save the world together!" The garbled cloud's sarcastic tone sent chills down Li Can's spine.
"What nonsense." The most urgent task now is to repair the vortex cracks by fixing this sphere as the cloud had instructed in its original normal state.
However, Li Can felt a pang of regret as he ran away. Not only could he not absorb and use the sphere, but the original cloud hadn't explained how to use it either…
"Bang! Bang bang!"
The building behind them seemed to finally give way, and with a few cracking sounds, the load-bearing columns broke.
The steel bars and cement walls collapsed outwards, creating several deep craters in the ground and pressing firmly onto the cement ground in the community courtyard.
Then, the road surface cracked open, revealing a jagged fissure.
The garbled cloud was still howling in the stairwell, its voice like a ghost.
"Human, are you going to devour the sphere all by yourself?"
"How can you be so selfish? All of humanity is dead, why do you still want to live?"
"Let's destroy it together, and in 18 hours, we'll commit suicide together!"
Its sound was drowned out by the noise of the collapse.
The garbled cloud was completely buried in the ruins, its echoes still lingering in the air.
It sounds utterly absurd.
"Who wants to die with you? It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death..." Li Can held the measuring ball and stood steadily on the deserted street.
Dense weeds grew in the cracks of the asphalt road, and the damaged vehicles remained in their collision positions.
Bones are piled up everywhere on the outskirts of the city.
At this moment, the sky had already darkened, and in the twilight, the setting sun was slowly fading its last rays.
The air after the rain was filled with the smell of earth and death. Li Can held his breath and stared intently at a white vortex on the street in the distance.
This was almost identical to the vortex he had first jumped into; it was both the entrance to the instance and the source of death that needed to be shut down with a sphere.
The city is dotted with vortexes created by the rifts in spacetime. Li Can didn't even dare to imagine how many there would be if this were extrapolated to the whole world.
Is this what's causing Earth's collapse? Is humanity also gradually dying out because it keeps entering dungeon games?
"This ball is definitely a good thing..."
Li Can gripped the measuring ball tightly, feeling the nourishing spiritual energy emanating from it. If he hadn't personally experienced all of this...
If this were the post-apocalyptic world of ten years ago, whether he was a superhuman, an ordinary person, or anyone else, no one would give up absorbing it for them.
The temptation is just too great.
Should he resist the temptation of greed and use it to shut down a whirlpool, or should he enhance his own strength? He thought he would lean more towards the latter.
"but……"
Li Can regained his composure, his mind gradually hardening, and he walked step by step toward the nearest vortex.
Until the measuring ball was tentatively placed on it.
"I won't."
Instantly, the blue sphere he hadn't even warmed up in his hand was absorbed.
A momentary ripple spread through the heavens and earth, like interference from mental light waves, or like radiation scanning the globe.
The air currents, invisible to the naked eye, condensed towards the sky, and the vortex in front of them stopped spinning until it shrank and shrank until it disappeared from the spot.
It's as if it never existed.
A faint but warm beam of light shone down from the dim and gloomy sky, enveloping Li Can's body and making her feel warm all over.
As if fully charged, his limbs and bones were constantly being repaired, and all his past fatigue was swept away.
Even his vision for looking into the distance was much better than before. He clenched his hands tightly, feeling his physical strength being enhanced.
"Huh, what's this?" He punched the street lamp next to him, and the iron pole dented in the ground.
"hiss……"
Although his finger joints were aching, he knew that this was a power he didn't originally possess.
"A loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise..." This phrase came to Li Can's mind.
Although the absorption orb might provide a greater boost, it seems pretty good as it is now.
Footsteps echoed around the long-silent street, their sounds punctuated by pauses and then gradually increasing in number.
The zombies, which were originally scattered in various places, were attracted by the sounds and began to gather.
[How far away is the destruction of Earth?]
【306:14:11】
【306:14:10】
【306:14:09】
……
Li Can's heart pounded as she looked at the new countdown that appeared in her mind.
An indescribable sense of accomplishment welled up inside me; I had succeeded, successfully changing my uncertain future.
"306 hours, originally 18, that's an extension of 288 hours. In other words, one sphere has bought Earth at least 12 days of breathing room..."
After calculating the time, Li Can made a rough judgment in his mind. When the zombies were about to arrive, he summoned his puppet egg.
The vulture spread its wings and soared into the sky. He stood on the back of the bird, which had transformed and grown larger, and took to the air.
"Old buddy, looks like we'll need to recruit more guys like you to our company in the future," Li Can remarked, marveling at the vulture's ingenious use.
The day it exists, I won't need to fly anymore.
The zombies can only move on the ground; their attack methods are still too primitive.
However, it also has many other uses. With more puppets and more upgrades, quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and the number of gacha coins will also increase.
After considering the remaining empty capsule shells, Li Can felt relieved.
A man and a vulture floated high in the sky, and he looked down at the ruins of the collapsed residential building below.
At this moment, the garbled cloud, squeezing its body out, was covered in gray dust and grime from the wall plaster and steel bars, looking extremely disheveled.