Chapter 458: 209: Grand Convergence_2
Watching a massive number of red dots on the mini-map approaching him at the speed of free fall, he was thrilled.
"All survivors on the entire island will converge in one place. It has been a long time since I last activated that huge-capacity game filled with players."
Located at the very bottom and center of "Scroll," Karlando, who was already at the pole position, wasn't affected by it.
It was like the eye of the storm, where it was calm instead.
Karlando mobilized the power within his body, watching the continuously falling rocks, his figure gradually merged with this living giant island.
A super game domain that could accommodate everyone was unfolding.
The entire bottom of the island started to blur, and all the colors on the island were slowly enveloping the world.
Some creatures that originally did not belong to the island were also being continuously created.
Karlando, like the Guardian of the pole position, was setting up the final arena.
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On the other end.
People like Zhou Baiyu, located in the southern star position, were also affected, as they were closer to the edge.
However, compared to the awkward plummeting of Ke Zhongye's team, Zhou Baiyu's group was much more stable.
Together with Guang Tongchen and Zhou Baiyu, also Midel, they were responsible for striking away all the falling rocks from the sky.
They didn't need to worry about their footing, as they were flying on clouds.
"This swarm... Haoyun, you really are a physics cheat. I hadn't thought of this kind of insect-driven aircraft before."
Insect power, a fitting word, Zhang Haoyun covered her mouth and chuckled.
Zhou Baiyu and others did not fall because, with Zhang Haoyun's powerful swarm, the countless insects formed clouds that stopped everyone's descent.
Although summoning a huge swarm, much like a cloud covering the sun, would rapidly drain Zhang Haoyun's energy,
this smaller-scale swarm, which merely supported everyone, did not bother Zhang Haoyun.
They seemed to ride the clouds, quickly escaping the sudden massive crisis.
This also proved one point: Corruption Tentacles, weapons, swarms, these things do not qualify as direct contact.
"Next, as long as we avoid getting smashed by things falling from above, we can smoothly proceed downward and... if we encounter any pioneers falling, try your best to catch them with the insect cloud, Haoyun. Can you do it?"
Zhang Haoyun nodded. She made a provoking gesture, aiming it at Midel.
Although Zhang Haoyun was a "cloth," she was Zhou Baiyu's teammate, so there was no restraining relationship between them; therefore, Zhang Haoyun held Zhou Baiyu's hand.
She didn't deliberately look at Midel, but the glance she gave was very telling.
Asserting dominance.
Even though Zhou Baiyu kept getting fed information along the way and there were constant changes—first, the heavenly calamity was coming, then it was stopped, but the giant island came to life—everyone had no time to get acquainted...
But Midel and Zhang Haoyun, through mutual observation, realized something.
In this process where everyone's fate was converging in a collective fall, Zhou Baiyu felt something more dangerous than a summons.
But he didn't know yet, the island, turned into an abyss... at its bottom, an even bigger catalyst was waiting for him.
Midel smiled seductively:
"Xianwu, you need to survive, haha. After all this is over, I have so many things I want to talk to you about."
"Got it, got it!"
Zhou Baiyu broke out in cold sweat.
The island was rolled up, forming an abyss-like shape, reducing the contact with sunlight for those inside the island.
In the somewhat dim skies, it was hard to make out the expressions on faces without looking closely.
Zhang Haoyun clutched his hand even tighter.
"We need to save others too, right? I will expand the range of the insect cloud next."
"Thank you for your efforts."
"No problem, doing this for you is not hard. You've protected me, after all."
"Haha, hahaha..."
This time, it wasn't just Wu Xin; even Guang Tongchen, who thought the opposite sex only affected his speed in drawing his sword, felt something was off.
Recalling Wu Xin's earlier hesitation...
Suddenly, Guang Tongchen had a feeling that he might have screwed over Xianwu.
After all, bringing Midel along was a gamble he had made.
It seemed he had gambled right, bringing a teammate to Zhou Baiyu, but he might have also gambled wrong.
However, Guang Tongchen's straightforward male thinking was—Is this a problem?
If the water between women can't be kept level, just spill it all; let both women refuse and be done with it. As a pioneer, the most important thing is to stay away from emotions.
Yes, he'll give Xianwu the same advice later.
It seemed as if Guang Tongchen was the one who had drunk the wine of deadly desire.
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On the other side.
Not far below Zhou Baiyu and the others, a huge Time-Space Domain opened up.
When the island began to roll, the team that was affected the most was the unparalleled team.
In the process of descending, the people in the team, thanks to the prior arrangements by the unparalleled team, were grouped: scissors with scissors, rocks with rocks, paper with paper.
People with different patterns were spaced apart. This also prevented a banging explosion scene when sudden intense vibrations threw everyone off.
And at the moment when the ground rolled, the unparalleled team opened the Time-Space Domain without hesitation.
Everyone's falling speed suddenly slowed down, and time in a small area showed a sluggish trend.
Even though the unparalleled was very strong, covering so many people and making them stop in mid-air was certainly no easy task.
Fortunately, Elemental Master Huan Liuyan quickly invoked ice elements, constructing stairways of condensed ice in the falling space.
Numerous ice spikes thrust horizontally from the ground, intertwining to form a stairway extending downward.
"All the summoners, those with ice, learn from Huan Liuyan, build stairways."
Time Spirits could use Space-Time Technique to delay the fall.
However strong Space-Time Technique might be, using it this way was somewhat like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
The summoners were different; they took turns constructing ice pillars for stairs, coupled with the powerful methods demonstrated by Huan Liuyan, a legendary forerunner...
Soon, the people had a place to set foot.
Beast Tamers also summoned their Illusion Beasts one after another, those that could fly or climb rocks, to detach as much as possible from the ice pillars, reducing the load on the summoners.
And using the Illusion Beasts to dive rapidly downward to scout for information.
It wasn't long before the powerful forerunner team of the unparalleled stopped descending.
Riding on an Eagle Illusion Beast that was summoned by a Beast Tamer, the unparalleled led the way, pioneering for the entire team.
Once the ice pillar stairway was constructed, allowing people a route to climb down, the unparalleled stopped the Time-Space Domain and dove at the forefront to ensure the team's safety.
But he suddenly stopped, his gaze filled with murderous intent.
Because he suddenly saw many Corruption Tentacles stretching out from the rocky walls on both sides.
Corruption Tentacles are formed either because the area's corruption level is too high,
or because a powerful corrupt species has appeared.
The number of these Corruption Tentacles was even more exaggerated than the ice stairway constructed by Huan Liuyan and the other forerunners.
These Corruption Tentacles intertwined to form a barrier. The unparalleled even saw—
Some forerunners falling from above landed on the soft Corruption Tentacles.
He had thought these Corruption Tentacles would instantly coil around, ensnare the forerunners, and strangle them.
But the unparalleled did not see this scene.
He only saw the forerunner slowly get up, emitting excited shouts from experiencing a brush with death.
Then, a girl wrapped in white bandages and a blond man holding a sickle appeared at the other end of the giant Corruption Tentacles.
The unparalleled instantly recognized the girl as a type of corruption.
As he stared at the girl, she also stared back at him.
At this moment, the blond man holding the sickle seemed rather worried, as the forerunner on the eagle gave him a sense of oppression.
He immediately shouted in fluent Chinese,
"Are you forerunners? Friends of the forerunners? Don't attack! I am a friend of Jiang Xianwu!"
This statement shocked both of them.
The unparalleled frowned,
"Jiang Xianwu... when did he make friends with these foreigners? And this corrupt kind is also his friend?"
The man with the sickle was naturally Constantin.
And the girl wrapped in white bandages was the corrupt kind known as the White Witch Bai Ling from version 2.49.
Bai Ling looked puzzled at Constantin:
"So, the person you're looking for is called Jiang Xianwu?"
"Yeah, you know Jiang too?" Constantin was taken aback.
Bai Ling's expression was somewhat complex.
Constantin suddenly realized,
"Oh my god! Your father wouldn't happen to be... Jiang, would he?"