Chapter 782: This Is a New Era. The Future Is Destined to Belong to the Players!

The more Xu Lang thought about it, the deeper he delved, and the more chilled he became!

He had thought more than once about going on a rampage in Exploration Mode himself.

The players were making great strides in conquering the exploration world. Wasn’t Mad King Building the one pushing them forward from behind the scenes?

What looked like everyone joining hands before a catastrophic disaster was actually an attempt to lure in a big fish like him!

Xu Lang knew full well just how overpowered the Nightmare Lord sequence was.

If Mad King Building swallowed up the Nightmare Lord, it might really be able to weather this advancement crisis without a single loss.

National Treasure Giant Pandas: 2,708!

Xu Lang: One!

He was the most precious treasure of all!

At that thought, Xu Lang burrowed deeper under the covers.

Chi Qingman was at her wits’ end. “Lang Ge, is your SAN value okay?”

“Fine.” Xu Lang opened his character information and saw that his SAN value was full and his mental state was good.

“That’s good.” Chi Qingman had the distinct feeling of wearing a bunny-girl outfit to surprise her boyfriend, only to find that all he wanted was braised rabbit head.

Xu Lang had completely killed the mood. Should she keep going?

Just as she was wondering that, Xu Lang’s voice came from beneath the covers.

“Keep the music going! Keep dancing!”

……

After a flurry of wild imaginings, Xu Lang’s sense of crisis soared.

A crafty rabbit has three burrows.

You shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket.

He had to build an escape tunnel as soon as possible.

Getting out of Mad King Building would be a very good option. He just didn’t know which dormitory building would be willing to take him in.

Hopefully, there was no extradition system between dormitory buildings!

The dream shifted, and Xu Lang arrived at the deepest part of the Demon Box World.

Building a scene in a dream and making it affect reality was basic practice for Xu Lang. For now, though, he could only affect himself. He had no way to extend that influence outward.

It looked as though Xu Lang was still lying on the Nightmare Bed, but his consciousness had already reached the deepest part of the Demon Box World. Separated by a layer of “dream,” he was even safer and freer.

In fact, Xu Lang had always worried that the dormitory buildings were monitoring him.

The dream was his own private server.

After Xu Lang appeared here, vortex gates began appearing one after another.

Behind every Teleportation Gate was a player serving as an anchor.

So far, Grandmaster Building and Celestial Demon Building had the most anchors. Heaven’s Judgment Building, Evil King Building, Amusement Park Building, and Sealing Building also had plenty.

But the same problem remained.

The Taleblade Demon Box had too little influence. It couldn’t breach the firewall unless an insider like Lone Wanderer cooperated of his own accord.

Unfortunately, Lone Wanderer was still in the game and couldn’t help from the inside.

“So much time has passed, but there hasn’t been a peep from Evil Dragon.” Xu Lang frowned.

Logically, Evil King Building had suffered such heavy losses that Evil Dragon should have had no confidence in surviving the next round of the game. He should have come to cooperate with Xu Lang on his own.

Back then, Xu Lang had told Evil Dragon to go to the Blood Mist World, where the dormitory building’s Interference Power would be suppressed to a minimum.

Then the two of them could rule Evil King Building together. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

“Could Evil Dragon have been punished by Evil King Building?”

To make absolutely sure, Xu Lang had sent a large number of control-type Tales into Evil Dragon’s body. He had also used Eye Technique: Grand Dream Samsara to plant a psychological suggestion. If Evil Dragon could still withstand all that, then Xu Lang really had no other ideas.

……

Beyond the Titan Ruins, Evil King Building stood proudly, its Safe Zone dominating a ten-kilometer territory.

Evil King Building’s players loved Pioneering, so its Safe Zone was exceptionally large.

At that moment, however, only one player stood alone in the vast Safe Zone, on the plaza in front of Evil King Building.

Evil Dragon had been standing there for a very, very long time.

After the Building War ended, Evil King Building underwent a terrifying Mutation.

Because it had violated the Dorm Survival

</path> Game’s rules and forced its own advancement, Evil King Building was punished. It “wailed” for an entire day, and most of its buildings were destroyed, as though they had been blasted by a thunderstorm.

Evil Dragon had been so frightened that he didn’t dare go outside.

Then, after Evil King Building finally quieted down, he rushed outside and looted corpses like crazy.

Once he had gathered all the supplies, he quickly reviewed the situation and realized his odds of surviving the next round of the game were infinitesimally close to zero. So he prepared to follow Xu Lang’s advice, head to the Blood Mist World, and bring Xu Lang over.

His body was full of Tales, so he had a very strong connection to the Taleblade Demon Box. Establishing a link would be easy.

During the process, Evil King Building issued a quest to stop him.

But Evil Dragon had always been a contrarian. How could he possibly obey Evil King Building’s orders?

“If you were strong, I’d obey you. That would be following the strong!”

“But what gives you the right to order me around now?”

“Because you’re a loser, a dead thing under the control of the Dorm Survival Game?”

“Hmph. Even if you’re Evil King Building, a loss is still a loss!”

“This is a new era. The future is destined to belong to the players!”

“I’m going to form a player alliance with Xu Lang to resist the dormitory buildings!”

With that thought in mind, Evil Dragon ignored Evil King Building’s pleas to stay and stubbornly set out to summon Xu Lang.

Open the gates to welcome the rebel king! When the rebel king enters the city, he won’t collect grain!

Besides, I’m doing this for your own good. Without Xu Lang, how is Evil King Building going to survive the next round of the game?

But after only a few steps, Evil Dragon was forcibly immobilized.

From the Spring in Evil King Building’s plaza, a black cloud drifted out and enveloped him. The moment it did, he could no longer move.

Bound by the rules, a dormitory building absolutely couldn’t directly attack its own players. That was like a person being unable to punch cancer cells to death with their bare fists.

But temporarily restraining a player was still possible.

Evil Dragon didn’t have the strength to fight back against Evil King Building, either.

However, as time passed, the dark cloud around him began to fade, and his consciousness gradually returned.

【Special Status: “Cloud of Evil Omens” Lv. 27 (Epic): Five Turbid Evil Auras condensed from the Evil Omen Spring. Suppresses Spirit and will. Currently being weakened by “Unique·Chaos State”; its level is gradually falling.】

“Just as I thought. Evil King Building set me up!”

Evil Dragon’s consciousness returned. He remembered what had happened before he blacked out, then noticed his own status panel.

Unique·Chaos State?

What was that supposed to mean?

He shouldn’t have had any item capable of triggering an ability like that.

Unique·Chaos State was Xu Lang’s ability. In the conventional sense, Xu Lang would have to touch Evil Dragon himself to activate that effect.

But Xu Lang had another ability.

“Light of the Mind: Primordial Manifestation of the Spirit: Freely controls all released energy and souls!”

The Taleblade Demon Box and the Tales were all parts of Xu Lang, and they possessed his personal attributes.

With Primordial Manifestation of the Spirit, the concept of Xu Lang could actually be extracted on its own to become a “conceptual entity.”

If he wanted, Xu Lang could not only make a Tale manifest the effects of Unique·Chaos State, but also make Seven Killings Blood Qi flare up around it.

Although Xu Lang had entered the supernatural realm only a year ago, he had already reached a profound level. He and those carbon-based monkeys were practically different species now.

Xu Lang knew the Tales had little standing in front of the dormitory buildings, so from the very beginning he had implanted a contingency order in them: “Use Chaos State to corrupt the dormitory building’s power.”

After all, the ability Unique·Chaos State explicitly stated that it could break down, corrupt, and assimilate rules.

“Hmm? The Cloud of Evil Omens is only level twenty-six now!”

“Only level twenty-five now!”

“I can move my hand!”

Half an hour later, Evil Dragon began inching his way toward the edge of the Safe Zone!

He had figured it out. The dormitory building was setting him up!

So, Xu Lang, save me!