Chapter Eighty-Five: The Realm Boundary and the Siren Girl (Second Update, Subscription Request)

Time ticked by one second after another.

Ji Yu had been controlling the young deer after its return from the Violet Moon world for more than an hour.

During that hour and more, humanity made no move, and the mushroom-headed creatures Ji Yu had brought out were not expelled back into the Violet Moon world either.

Everything seemed to match Ji Yu’s expectations.

Yet the calmer things appeared, the more perilous the hidden danger beneath them.

The Violet Moon hung high overhead. It had already been present in Leon’s night for more than four hours, and it was now eleven o’clock deep into the night.

By this point, Ji Yu had only a little over half an hour left in today’s game world.

That was because he had already spent nearly seven hours in meditation atop the oak during the day.

Ji Yu had originally intended to rest quietly like this and then log out.

But a sudden scene changed his expression drastically.

For at that moment, the Violet Moon in the sky suddenly cast down a beam of intense light, striking directly toward the forest corridor where the young deer stood.

It all came too abruptly, so abruptly that Ji Yu had not foreseen it at all.

He sprang to his feet. Instantly, he controlled the young deer back to the previous cliff.

Then Ji Yu saw that the Violet Moon’s fierce radiance had covered nearly a ten-kilometer radius around the forest corridor where he stood.

Like a colossal shaft of light, the intense violet beam kept gnawing at the forest corridor.

And then, visible to the eye, the region swallowed by the beam began to turn illusory in an instant.

Then Ji Yu saw phantasmal forms emerging within the moonlight high in the sky.

The first to appear was a massive lifeform he knew well, a flesh mountain-like monstrosity.

Above that illusory ruined city, the flesh mountain phantom seemed to have seen the young deer, that hateful creature that had toyed with it for so long, and it roared furiously.

All over its body, those tentacles, those frenzied human heads, all shrieked toward the ground at Ji Yu as though struggling to come into this world.

But in the end, that phantom of the ruined flesh mountain shattered abruptly.

Then, within the violet beam, a new and unfamiliar illusory scene appeared.

It showed a barren wasteland, yet from that wasteland there suddenly emerged countless dense giant brambles bristling with exposed thorns.

These brambles took root in black soil and slowly writhed and shifted.

Like living things, they rose and gathered together, forming the shape of a vast thorn-covered flower.

At the center of that giant flower appeared a seductive woman with wings on her back and blood-red eyes, shaped much like a human being.

She stood over three meters tall, yet her figure was of the golden proportions envied by almost every woman.

She had a face of breathtaking beauty and waist-length crimson hair.

Her entire body was bared, with only the most sensitive areas concealed by black leaves of thorn and vine.

Her eyes carried a greedy gleam as she stared calmly at the young deer, and she licked her lips.

Then this phantom scene began to solidify, slowly descending from the heights within the violet beam and overlapping with the forest corridor.

And at that very instant,

the young deer suddenly let out a cry that only the deer herd within the forest corridor could understand.

And it was precisely that cry which made the deer that had been hiding throughout the forest flee the pollution of the Violet Moon and race outward beyond the strong beam of violet light.

A thousand deer fled in panic, their mournful cries constant, and naturally this drew the attention of the Leon military camp just beyond the forest corridor, outside the range of the violet beam.

"What is happening? What is going on out there?"

Inside a somewhat larger tent, an officer suddenly changed color and exclaimed.

Zheng Xiaowu had no time to think further. After speaking, he immediately issued combat orders to all the battalion officers in the discussion.

"Put on your protective suits. Everyone prepare for battle!"

The moment the order was given, a piercing battle alarm rang out across the military camp.

The soldiers who had been taking shifts to rest, as well as those on duty inside their tents sheltering from the Violet Moon, all reacted at once.

The on-duty soldiers put on their eye coverings, then lifted the hoods of the protective suits behind them and sealed them around their heads before rushing out of the tents.

The soldiers who had been resting scrambled up at once, pulling on the protective suits prepared by their bunks, taking up weapons, and filing out of the tents one after another.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the camp’s communications personnel promptly contacted the main base of the Southwest Military District in Nanze City.

In an instant, under this night sky, all of Leon’s official leadership was awakened by notices from every department.

Nanze City, command room of military headquarters.

"Commander, I’m afraid we’ve got trouble this time."

"No, it’s the little fellow in the forest who may have gotten into trouble."

At this moment, the command room was packed with people.

On the huge screen ahead, footage was being played from a military hovering reconnaissance drone stationed twenty thousand meters in the air and continuously monitoring the young deer.

In the enlarged image, the forest corridor where the young deer stood was repeatedly breaking up into mosaic-like static.

Yet within the static, clear images could occasionally be seen.

Thus, amid the intermittent flicker, the screen displayed the real-time process of the forest corridor turning into a new domain.

During that process, the screen naturally showed the succubus from time to time, along with the countless enormous, spiked, mobile bramble clusters beneath her.

Within those bramble clusters, one could even see giant, oversized mosquitoes flying about.

Their bodies were mottled black and red, and each one was as thick as an adult human thigh.

Their long proboscises were like sharp venomous stingers; merely looking at them was enough to make one’s hair stand on end.

Though there did not seem to be many of these giant mosquitoes, there were still more than three hundred of them. As the brambles shifted, they rose from the ground and kept circling around the succubus, their wings buzzing like thunder.

The image of the young deer had been separately processed and showed only a dazed figure standing on the cliff, staring fixedly upward at the sky.

It looked as though the young deer had been frightened stupid by the suddenly appearing scene.

Of course, it also looked like the childlike deer was simply gazing curiously at the sky.

Looking at the image on the big screen, Xue Zhengde merely furrowed his brow slightly before turning to Professor Qin, who looked full of concern, and said,

"When did this happen? The emergence of this domain should have been under our complete surveillance, shouldn’t it? Did you discover anything?"

Professor Qin let out a faint sigh.

"The domain appeared suddenly, about five minutes ago."

"As for its emergence, yes, it was indeed under our full surveillance. After all, we have been watching this little fellow around the clock."

"As for what we discovered, there is one thing. This little fellow suddenly disappeared for two and a half hours about an hour and a half before this domain anomaly appeared."

"Suddenly disappeared?" Xue Zhengde’s brow tightened again.

"Yes. Less than ten minutes after the Violet Moon appeared, this little fellow took the initiative to run to the cliff where it is standing now. Then it stood there quietly for seven minutes, and after that it suddenly disappeared."