Chapter 1574 Strange Dog

"I'll need a little more time here." Although the commotion in the distance sounded like a monster attacking the city, Sidell, who had his hand on Brother Jue's forehead, seemed very calm. He transmitted power while casually saying to the others.

"Tch..." Simon clicked his tongue and muttered, "What a pain..."

Even so, he strode off toward the rift from which the roar had come.

On the other side, Vincent walked to Gu Chen and put his arm around his shoulder. "Let's go, too. The situation elsewhere might not be better than here. If we're late, there might be no survivors."

"Okay," Gu Chen replied calmly.

It seemed... they weren't worried about Simon's safety at all.

Amidst a series of "hehehe" laughs, Gu Chen followed Vincent and Woody as they teleported away. Just as they disappeared, the monster beneath the rift... crawled out.

From its head to its spine to its tail, the monster had reptilian features... a long neck, spiky vertebrae, and a massive tail that was more than half its body length made it look like some kind of lizard. But apart from that "back line," its torso and limbs were more like a dog's... of course, a dog that was broad and muscular, over a hundred meters long, and capable of swallowing a dinosaur in one bite.

In addition to its massive size, fangs, and claws—common biological weapons—the monster had nearly black, rock-like skin (extremely tough). Lava-like light shone through its mouth, eyes, and the texture of its skin (extremely heat-resistant)...

From the perspective of an ordinary person, taking down such a creature would require at least an MOAB (massive ordnance air burst, also known as the mother of all bombs)-level weapon. Sending fighter jets to fight it would likely end up like the human forces in the Ultraman series, just scratching the monster's itch. As for sending soldiers... that was even more of a fantasy, unless the soldiers had been exposed to gamma radiation or were disguised warriors from Planet M78...

But from Simon's perspective, this battle wasn't that big of a deal.

He ran towards the monster with light steps. When they were two hundred meters apart, the monster noticed him and immediately let out an extremely high-pitched, threatening roar.

Although the monster was many times larger than Simon, its state at that moment... was like a chihuahua seeing a lion running towards it.

"Awoo—" Before it could finish its roar, the monster realized that Simon wasn't an enemy who could be scared off by intimidation. It suddenly swung its massive tail, arching it over its head and aiming the tip at Simon, firing a beam of purple light.

"Yggdrasil energy pulse, huh..." Facing the beam that was thicker than a subway car, Simon glared and raised his hand, releasing a red energy orb from his fingertip, hurling it towards the purple light's trajectory.

When it left his hand, the energy orb was only the size of a basketball, but the farther it flew, the larger it became. Soon, its diameter exceeded five meters...

The moment it touched the Yggdrasil energy pulse, Simon's attack easily devoured the opponent's purple energy and rolled right over it.

Even though the monster was scared and quickly "ducked and retracted its tail," the tip of its tail was still "grazed" by the passing energy orb. Hot magma flowed from the monster's severed tail like blood, dissolving the ground and causing the heat to rise sharply.

Simon's energy orb continued to fly into the sky, disappearing beyond the clouds.

"Senior," Sidell, who saw this scene, revealed a helpless expression and reminded him, "Um... spacetime is distorted right now, and curved connections have appeared in various regions of the universe... the distances have been shortened a lot. If you just casually throw a 'supernova' out there, what if there's a planet in its path..."

"Enough nonsense. The will of the universe is half-paralyzed anyway," Simon interrupted before he could finish. "If you keep blathering, I'll throw one at you too."

Hearing this, Sidell could only purse his lips and say nothing.

A few seconds later, Simon finally ran up to the monster unhurriedly. Without hesitation, he leapt off the ground and flew towards the monster's fiery mouth.

Seeing this, the monster roared again and swung its massive claw at Simon... Despite its huge size, the monster wasn't slow at all. The power of its claws was unmatched; the wind pressure generated by the attack alone could uproot forests and break tides.

Bang—

The moment the claw strike arrived, Simon straightened his left arm and threw a punch... After a loud bang, the entire arm that the monster used to attack shattered.

That wasn't the end of it. After destroying the giant claw, Simon's upward momentum didn't falter or deviate in the slightest. A second later, he rose to the front of the monster's head.

Knowing that it had reached a moment of life or death, the giant monster immediately spewed a mouthful of magma from its throat, accompanied by surging flames, attempting to force Simon back with this high-temperature attack.

But Simon scoffed at this, and facing the twin streams of magma and flames, he swept out a punch.

The tyrannical demonic energy shattered the sky and severed the universe, causing the lava to flow backward and the extreme flames to extinguish instantly... Simon's fist didn't even touch his opponent; the force of his fist had already blasted the monster's head apart.

After the strike, the monster's head was reduced to rocks of varying sizes, stained with magma, ignited and glowing in mid-air... blooming and falling like scattered fireworks.

This gorgeous moment seemed to freeze time, and after a pause like slow motion... the monster's remaining body crashed down, falling back into the rift in the ground, creating another earthquake-like tremor.

"You don't seem surprised at all." At the same time, Sidell, who was giving Feng Bujue power, spoke to Brother Jue, "Generally speaking, humans would be a little surprised or excited when they see this kind of scene, right?"

"What's there to be excited about? It's just like a fully-powered Superman fighting a Warrior (referring to the final boss in Borderlands 2), the power gap is too huge to be interesting," Feng Bujue replied. "But... since I saw it, let me ask... compared to the combat power displayed by your senior Simon right now, how much of his power would I have after receiving your power?"

"Hmm..." Sidell thought for a moment. "If the performance of that punch was a ten, then after accepting the power of the Holy and Demonic forces... you should have about a three."

"Oh..." Feng Bujue responded, "So basically, I'll be unstoppable?"

"Don't get me wrong," Sidell said. "You said it yourself, you asked me to evaluate according to 'performance'..." He paused for half a second and explained, "He's a 'ten' because he can only show a 'ten' when fighting this opponent, but in reality, the power of his full-force punch might be a 'hundred' or even a 'thousand'. And you're a 'three' because... you only have three."

"So... you can't give me more power?" Feng Bujue immediately asked.

"Even the power I've given you now far exceeds what a normal human can withstand. If it weren't for the dimensional overlap that made your physical fitness close to that of a game character, you wouldn't even be able to bear this 'three'," Sidell replied.

"Tch..." Feng Bujue realized that he couldn't squeeze any extra benefits from the other party, so he clicked his tongue and then said, "So, how strong am I at this level, roughly?"

"In terms of physical skills and energy intensity alone... you're weaker than the form in the game world where you borrowed Chuck Norris's power," Sidell replied.

"What about skills? Items and equipment?" Feng Bujue asked again.

"Items and equipment are naturally non-existent, and in terms of skills... only what you have 'mastered' yourself can be used," Sidell said as he thought. "Hmm... there are also many things that you could do in the data world that you can't do now... or it will be difficult to do them. But where the specific degree lies, you have to test it yourself... After all, this is the first time I've encountered dimensional erosion, and what I'm telling you now is what I can 'observe' from you. I can't help you with what I can't observe."

As he said this, Sidell's hand slowly lifted and left Brother Jue's forehead.

"Alright, I've given you enough power, I have to go too." While speaking, Sidell had already turned his head and shouted to Simon, who was walking away, "Senior! Wait for me!"

"Hey, you haven't told me where to find Destiny yet," Feng Bujue quickly said.

"Just pick a direction and go," Sidell replied, although he turned back to look at Brother Jue, his footsteps away from Brother Jue didn't stop... He walked backward towards Simon while saying, "Now the real world and the game world are intertwined like countless jigsaw puzzle pieces. Any door or corner may be a spacetime rift. Without directional coordinates, no one can be sure where they will arrive after passing through the rift... But you and 'Destiny' have a special connection. Every time you cross an area, you will shorten the distance between you and 'Destiny'... I'm not saying anymore, I really have to go." As he said this, he hurriedly turned around and trotted towards Simon's back. "Senior! Wait for me! I just gave out a lot of power, it's not safe to act alone!"

Looking at his departing back, Feng Bujue didn't ask any more questions, because before Sidell finished speaking, Feng Bujue had already tried to activate the "Data Vision", and... succeeded.

At this moment, what he saw in his eyes that flickered with light was a world woven from 'data' and 'reality', two elements of different natures. Brother Jue also realized until this moment that 'reality' could also be regarded as a kind of 'code', but its rules and the codes that make up the game world were completely different.

Through observation and thought of this bizarre and disordered semi-data world, Feng Bujue quickly confirmed some of the mutual translation rules between the two codes. Two minutes later, he locked onto a path that seemed to lead to other spacetime and ran along this road to a ruin.

After single-handedly solving an unknown humanoid creature with spider sacs growing on its back that rushed out from the corner of the wall, Feng Bujue successfully found a "spacetime rift".

It was a square cellar entrance slightly above the ground. In the dim light, it looked more like a piece of black metal, but with Data Vision, it was dazzlingly bright.

Feng Bujue used his arm strength to forcibly lift the metal cover that could no longer be opened normally due to corrosion. The cover looked like a hole when viewed from below, so dark that no light could be seen, but Brother Jue jumped down without hesitation.

Then, he felt a sense of "weightlessness", and he couldn't see anything in front of him either; this was a unique physical sensation during "transmission" that all Thriller Paradise players were familiar with...

He didn't know how long it took, but when Feng Bujue came back to his senses, he was standing in a mountain forest. The air here was much more humid than the previous environment, and the light shining through the forest canopy showed that the space was in the daytime.

Feng Bujue didn't want to delay anywhere. As soon as he stood still, he silently activated the Data Vision, preparing to look for the next spacetime rift.

Unexpectedly, just as he turned his head to look around, two figures suddenly broke into his sight at an extremely fast speed.