The situation in the monitoring room wasn’t much better.
Let’s not forget—they were also trapped within the Source Realm.
The only saving grace was their location, which made them the least affected area.
"BOOM—!!!"
A violent tremor shook the entire monitoring room. Equipment sparked, and several screens went black in an instant.
Chen Yuan gripped the edge of the control panel, veins bulging on the back of his hand, as he roared into the comms: "Engineering team! Repair the equipment! Get over here NOW!"
"All units, report your status! All units, report!"
But all that answered him was static and fragmented shouts of alarm.
On the main screen before him, the 3D electronic map of the Source Realm now showed half its regions stained a glaring crimson—and the red was spreading at a terrifying speed.
"Ch-Chen Yuan…" A young monitor stammered, voice trembling with panic. "The northwest sector… all signals lost! Teams One and Three, even Lady Su… we can’t reach any of them!"
Chen Yuan’s heart clenched.
"What about the southeast sector?" he rasped.
"Report! Southeast comms are heavily jammed… Zones A-7 to A-12… energy readings spiking uncontrollably! Multiple high-energy signatures detected! Far exceeding Tier Seven levels—possibly Tier Eight, and at least five Tier Nine entities!"
Another monitor delivered the update with a face as pale as paper.
"And two… Tier Tens…"
Chen Yuan’s gaze locked onto the blackened zone marking the fallen city. Three massive black dots pulsed ominously on the map. A chill shot up his spine.
"This is absolute bullshit…" he muttered under his breath.
Even if Guardian Jiang were here, could he really take on two Tier Tens at once?
And he wasn’t here.
Their own forces?
Just one Tier Nine. That was it.
What was there left to command?
Let’s be real—anyone with eyes could see it.
They might as well sit back and wait for death.
But those words?
Anyone else could say them.
Not him.
With Su Muxue missing, he was now the "strongest official" left in the Source Realm.
"All combat personnel still operational, listen up!"
Chen Yuan’s voice boomed through the barely functional broadcast system: "Priority is protecting the examinees—I repeat, PROTECT THE EXAMINEES!"
"Those with means to breach the Ash, abandon your shelters immediately and escort examinees to HQ!"
"Share my coordinates in real-time with all teams!"
"Medical teams! Prepare for mass casualties!"
Orders flew out one after another, but the entire command structure was on the verge of collapse. Communications were failing, intel was blocked, and countless teams had already gone dark.
"Chen Yuan… we… we don’t have enough people…" A subordinate beside him whispered in despair.
"Two Tier Tens… There’s no winning this."
Chen Yuan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, his expression was eerily calm.
"Don’t say that to me. Say it louder—to everyone here."
"Behind us are our families. Our homes."
"There’s no retreat!"
"Guardian Jiang must already be working on a solution outside."
"The Source Realm’s lockdown won’t last forever."
"When it breaks, two Tier Tens won’t even be a ripple in the storm."
"We can gamble—bet that Guardian Jiang arrives with reinforcements before those things wipe us all out."
Then, as if struck by a sudden thought, Chen Yuan frowned.
"Where’s the Strategist? Strategist, we need a miracle here!"
The weight on his shoulders was crushing. He needed someone to share the burden.
Someone like Su Qi.
His earlier solution to the "emotional corruption" had been nothing short of genius.
Of course, two Tier Tens couldn’t be outsmarted with mere tactics.
Still, no harm in brainstorming.
"What do you think we should—"
His words died abruptly.
Because when he scanned the room, Su Qi was nowhere to be found.
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
