Chapter 362 Early Stage Brain Cancer Can Be Saved

While the firework show in the fields continued, the rooftop over here was anything but calm.

The first to notice the problem was from the back.

“Wait! Zhang Ge and the others are missing!” Suddenly, someone shouted, causing Xia Xinyan and the fatty to turn around. They saw that of the four members from the Chicks team who were originally here, only two remained, both looking around in sheer horror.

The fatty instantly got goosebumps: “What’s going on? Weren’t they just here?!”

“Yeah!” The person who shouted also looked terrified, “They were just standing behind us! Now I want to say something to Zhang Ge, and when I turn around, they’re gone!”

Another person nodded, nervously saying, “I didn’t hear a single sound! How were they taken?!”

Just as Xia Xinyan was about to say something, her peripheral vision caught sight of a shadow suddenly appearing behind Bai Yu. Her expression changed, and she sprinted toward that side to take the initiative. However, just as she moved, the shadow flickered, leaving only Bai Yu standing there… no, it wasn’t Bai Yu.

Xia Xinyan’s actions shifted; she kicked Bai Yu directly, sending him flying several meters away. The fatty yelled, “What are you doing?!”

“He isn’t Bai Yu,” Xia Xinyan frowned slightly and said coldly, “He’s been replaced.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the figure on the ground slowly stood up, looking expressionless at them: “Do you… see… me as a person?”

The fatty was shocked, then his anger flared up. Clenching his fist, he charged over: “I see you as a piece of snake skin! Take my grandpa’s lightning punch!”

Almost simultaneously, his fist suddenly crackled with explosive arcs of electricity, smashing into the impostor, causing it to explode and reveal its true form—a mere tree branch.

Xia Xinyan paused for a moment, sensing something. Looking back, she noticed that the two Chicks members who were standing here had also vanished.

The fatty realized this too and his scalp tingled. He yelled a couple of times to boost his courage: “Come on, you bastard! Show yourself! Let’s go head-on!”

Xia Xinyan took a deep breath and leaned closer to the fatty: “They’re cooperating.”

A monster or a magical beast couldn’t reach this level; multiple entities must be working together, which was what worried her the most.

That shadow behind Bai Yu… if she wasn’t mistaken, it should be a new monster… or rather, a new person.

The fatty gritted his teeth, kicked away a branch at his feet, and tried to contact the others through the intercom: “Hello?! Bai Yu?! Are you there?! Speak up!! Damn it, you’re still alive, right?!”

While speaking, he attempted to track the coordinates of others’ devices, but within the entire village range, only their three signals remained.

“Damn… didn’t they say this penetrator guarantees 100% signal transmission? Why can’t we track anyone else?” The fatty tore off the tracker on his neck, his emotions already unstable.

Seeing this, Xia Xinyan said softly, “Calm down. The fact that we can still track our signal means the penetrator is still working. The reason we can’t track the others must be that their intercoms malfunctioned; they could either be destroyed or thrown into spatial watches, which can block the signal.”

After pausing for a moment, she continued, “I think they were probably destroyed. The channel had no limits, and all our previous conversations could be heard by others, so if anyone got captured, the entity behind it could also hear us. Maybe it was to prevent location leakage? So those guys destroyed the intercoms…”

Of course, this was just her guess.

The fatty had calmed down a bit: “We still need to hurry and save them. Bai Yu doesn’t have strong self-protection abilities; if we wait too long, he might get hurt—didn’t Lao Ling figure out where they were earlier? Let’s rush…”

Before he could finish, he suddenly looked behind Xia Xinyan with a changed expression: “What the hell, behind you!”

Xia Xinyan whipped around—nothing was there.

Turning back again, the fatty had also vanished.

She couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

From a power standpoint, they were indeed quite strong.

From beginning to end, aside from the shadowy figure behind Bai Yu, she hadn’t sensed anyone’s presence, appearing and acting without a trace, just like those imposters.

A bit tricky.

Next, they should be preparing to act against her, right?

“Hmm… I sense it… you’re strong.”

A rather sultry and enchanting voice, which could give someone goosebumps or even a bit of discomfort, came from behind. Xia Xinyan turned to look and found an… extremely flamboyant man.

Just like the shadow she saw behind Bai Yu earlier, he was dressed in over twenty different colors, like some punk pop star from years ago, a peacock among humans, flamboyant to the extreme.

Including his voice, he was simply a man who thrived in flamboyance.

Xia Xinyan squinted slightly, not focusing on his many flaws: “Where did you take them?”

“They… have gone where they should go; don’t worry, you’ll be going there soon,” the man grinned, even more flamboyant, “We don’t want to hurt you; we want to help you.”

“Help us?” Xia Xinyan raised an eyebrow.

“Right,” the man nodded, “You are Xia Xinyan, the young lady, right? Ranked third. I know you, and the mecha over there, the person inside is Ling Mo, right? You’ve been playing this game together until now. Haven’t you realized the true purpose of ‘Realm of Divine Presence’ appearing in this world?”

Xia Xinyan remained silent, waiting for him to continue.

The man seemed to be sharing his grand ideals, slowly raising his hands: “This is a precious opportunity given to us by the divine to evolve… to make us stronger. Only by becoming strong enough do we have the right to continue living. Those dungeons, those pains, even the monsters appearing in reality now are all tests for us!”

Xia Xinyan: “…”

She had a premonition.

“The great leader first comprehended all this and led us to commence this great mission—we’re here to help humanity… achieve ultimate evolution. We are the guides to the new world, we are… Eden.” The man finished his grand speech, lowered his hands, and looked at Xia Xinyan, “Do you understand?”

Xia Xinyan still didn’t reply.

The man chuckled again: “Since you’re the only girl here, I’ll give you a chance: choose to submit and follow the great leader to guide humanity toward evolution; witness the arrival of the new world together.”

Xia Xinyan fell silent for a moment before responding: “I suggest you see a doctor and get a tumor check.”

The man: “?”

“Early stage brain cancer can still be saved.”

“……”