Apocalypse Online For All Worlds - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Monster (Part 1)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The lady thought for a while before saying, “Set up a surveillance robot at your position.”

The man wearing sunglasses hesitated. “This sort of robot is quite costly, and we don’t have many left.”

The lady insisted. “Put one there. He’s worth it.”

“As you wish, Your Highness.”

The man shook his head as he carefully took a little silver-colored box out and gently placed it on a hidden part of the rooftop.

The moment he put the box down, it became invisible.

The man shrugged and pulled out his mini optical computer. “Let me take a look at Changning Steel Mecha Tech’s staff records.”

Countless profiles scrolled past on his optical computer. Then, the man suddenly clicked on one of the profile pictures.

This was a young and handsome face that exuded youthful and promising energy.

“Yup, that’s our boy.”

The man flew over the keyboard until a progress bar finally appeared on the screen.

The mini optical computer began to transfer Gu Qingshan’s records out.

The man wearing sunglasses looked at his watch and scoffed, “It actually takes 15 seconds for the system to track me down. This security system is really trashy. The Su family of Changning doesn’t love their staff enough, huh?”

After just 7 seconds, the man had already taken the information he needed and shut down the infiltration program.

He clicked through Gu Qingshan’s profile several times and quickly understood his biological makeup and characteristics.

“Gu Qingshan, you’re not getting away from us.”

The man smiled faintly and transferred Gu Qingshan’s information into the surveillance robot.

In the evening, Gu Qingshan finished an entire day of research. After dinner, he went for a stroll in the company’s soccer field.

He looked up and saw that the moon was high in the low, night sky, and every star was shining like diamonds.

The gentle wind was very soothing, and the night was very pleasant.

Gu Qingshan quietly narrowed his eyes and moved the Spirit Power in his Dantian. It instantly covered his eyes.

The scene in front of his eyes suddenly changed. There were wisps of grey smoke floating in the air, swirling quietly like silk strands.

Gu Qingshan frowned.

This dull grey air was Qi of the Netherworld. So there were already signs that the apocalypse was coming.

“There’s less than a year left,” murmured Gu Qingshan.

He quickened his steps and went back to the room that the company had arranged for him to stay in.

It had been almost a full day since he’d returned to the real world the night before, so it was time to enter the other world again.

Gu Qingshan made the game interface pop up and glanced at the time left in the hourglass.

Just in time—the last grain of sand fell to the bottom.

There was a great flash, and Gu Qingshan completely disappeared from the room.

It was early in the morning.

Gu Qingshan was standing under the roof as if he had only left for one moment before returning to the other world once more.

The demon’s corpse was still lying outside the camp, and its wounds, full of arrows, were still bleeding.

Gu Qingshan realized that he was still holding the bow while kneeling on one knee and looked like he was about to shoot toward the entrance of the camp.

Everything was as if he had never left.

Gu Qingshan stood up and yelled, “Zhao Liu!”

There was no movement, and nobody responded to him either.

Gu Qingshan yelled in frustration, “Zhao Liu, it’s over. You can come out now!”

After a long while, Zhao Liu finally scuttled over and stood behind Gu Qingshan.

He poked a head out from above Gu Qingshan’s shoulder and looked out.

“D-d-dead?”

“Dead. Come on. Let’s go drag it in.”

Zhao Liu looked at that demon, then looked again at Gu Qingshan before he bit his tongue and said, “Bro, I didn’t think you were this amazing.”

Gu Qingshan replied, “Stop saying useless things now. Go get some tools. We have to get this demon back into the camp.”

Zhao Liu gathered up his courage and took a look at the demon as he happily exclaimed, “My goodness, such a large one would be enough to feed us for another month!”

Gu Qingshan nodded and felt a little more settled in his heart.

Demon meat was filled with plenty of health benefits for cultivators, and even if an ordinary person ate it, it was helpful in strengthening the body and increasing vitality and blood flow.

He had used two healing pills to heal the wounds on his body, but after he’d returned to the real world, he’d gone through two battles. The second battle even involved a Martial Arts Master, so it had consumed all of his focus and strength.

Gu Qingshan could feel a dull ache throughout his entire body right now.

The wounds that had just closed up started to split a little again.

Under such circumstances, if he could keep eating demon meat and resting for a while, it would be extremely beneficial to his body.

Zhao Liu ran into the kitchen to grab a large net, long rope, and carving knife.

The two of them got themselves ready and started making their way out of the camp.

Gu Qingshan asked as they were walking, “Why didn’t anyone cover up the mass grave outside? They’re all your fellow soldiers, after all.”

Zhao Liu started to complain, “The Squad Leader didn’t care about it at all, so what was an army cook like me going to do? If I left the camp area to bury them properly and ended up meeting some strange creature out there, I’d definitely be dead meat.”

Gu Qingshan patted his shoulder and said, “After we get the demon in, let’s go and bury the dead bodies.”

Zhao Liu hesitated and didn’t say anything.

Gu Qingshan added on, “The smell of blood from the mass grave is too strong. If it attracts some powerful demon that breaks through the Concealment Magic Formation around the camp, then both of us will be dead for sure.”

“Er, okay then!”

After Zhao Liu imagined that scene in his mind, he clenched his teeth and finally agreed.

The two of them walked to the entrance of the camp, and Zhao Liu was just about to take one step outside of the camp when Gu Qingshan pulled his collar and held him back. He nearly fell backward on his butt.

Zhao Liu asked in annoyance, “Bro, what are you doing?”

Gu Qingshan raised a hand and motioned for him to stop talking.

Zhao Liu wanted to continue arguing, but when he saw how Gu Qingshan looked very solemn, he felt his heart drop and he didn’t manage to utter all the grievances he had just moments before.

He got to his feet and whispered, “What’s wrong?”

Gu Qingshan pointed at a pool of water outside the camp.

It had poured heavily for several days in a row now, so water had accumulated in a depression in the ground about the size of a grindstone.

The rain had already stopped, but the surface of the water kept rippling as if there was something shaking beneath it.

Gu Qingshan dragged Zhao Liu seven or eight steps back.

It was completely silent outside the camp.

After several seconds, the surface of the pool of water had also become calm again.

Zhao Liu had been holding his breath for so long, but nothing happened in the end. He exhaled and smiled as he was about to speak.

But he still couldn’t get a single word out.

Gu Qingshan used a hand to cover his mouth, then ran 30 meters back into the camp, stopping only when they had reached the other end of the camp.

Gu Qingshan then pressed Zhao Liu into the mud before getting into the mud too and kept rubbing mud all over himself.

The many days of rain had made the mud very soft, so he could get quite a lot of it in his hand. Gu Qingshan continued to rub the mud on himself while motioning to Zhao Liu to do the same thing as him.

Zhao Liu was an army cook who had to do all sorts of things, but he had never had to go through so much filth. He tried to stand up because he couldn’t stand being in the mud.

But just as he bent forward, he suddenly lost his balance and fell back into the mud. This time, he was all covered with mud and didn’t have to rub any on himself anymore.

Zhao Liu pushed both his palms against the ground, but he felt that the entire ground was shaking and he simply didn’t have enough strength to push himself back up.

The entire ground was shaking violently.

Zhao Liu opened his mouth wide in fright and fell back into the mud again.

Could it be an earthquake?

Zhao Liu looked at Gu Qingshan questioningly, only to find that Gu Qingshan was staring in the direction of the mass grave, and his expression was very grim.

Zhao Liu followed Gu Qingshan’s gaze and saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.

He saw a foot.

That was a foot that was so large, it filled his entire field of view. It was larger than the entire army barrack by several times.

This one foot stepped on the forest outside the camp and completely flattened all the trees.

As he looked upwards from the foot, the thick and strong legs extended into the dark clouds above, and he couldn’t see the other end of it.

Zhao Liu gaped at this sight. Now, he suddenly realized that the shaking earlier was no earthquake. The shaking was from this foot landing on the ground, and the impact it created caused the earth to vibrate like that.

Then, an even crazier thing happened.