Chapter 491: Wasteland Calendar Day 79, [Celestial Phenomenon — Lightless Veil]

At the entrance to the stairwell on the 12th floor of Freedom Tower.

It had already turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The black-blue blood of the Infected flowed and spread throughout the entire hallway corridor.

A tall, skinny Infected that looked just like a telephone pole swept aside the ordinary Infected that were in its way.

Then it squeezed into the entrance on the 12th floor.

The moment this Infected appeared, the entire Firepower Squad shifted their attacks away from it and began picking off the ordinary Infected behind it.

"Target confirmed — Leader-tier Infected, Flesh Dancer. Its attack range is five meters." Shadow watched the Infected in the corridor, providing intel.

"Roger!"

The Flesh Dancer also sensed the living presence in the hallway.

It grew somewhat excited.

In the simple instincts of an Infected, it only wanted to devour all the living things ahead.

It stepped closer to the corridor, its elongated arms slowly rising, assuming an attacking stance.

Bullets whizzed past it, striking the Infected behind.

And just as the Flesh Dancer reached the point eight meters from the Fire Isolation Zone —

A sound completely different from the machine guns rang out.

A dart of [diluted Spirituality Inhibitor] pierced the Flesh Dancer's exposed skin, the specially designed needle penetrating directly.

Pale blue liquid was injected into the Flesh Dancer's body.

The Flesh Dancer casually swiped at it, cleaning the now-empty dart from its skin.

It didn't stop moving. Entering the five-meter attack range, it swung its arm violently toward the Fire Isolation Zone.

This was one of the Flesh Dancer's attack skills — Extended Strike.

The arm extended five meters to strike the enemy.

But this time, although its arm lashed out,

it didn't stretch forward as it normally would.

Instead, it remained extended, and the sharp claws on its hand were still visible.

The sudden change left the Flesh Dancer bewildered.

It instinctively stepped forward again, but before it could take more than a few steps, it collapsed stiffly to the ground.

The Recon Squad, already prepared, sprang into action.

The moment the Firepower Squad ceased fire, they vaulted over the sandbags, rushed to the Flesh Dancer's side, and looped two ropes around its arms.

The ropes tightened.

In the next second, Habaar and Blackfire pulled together, and the tall, skinny Flesh Dancer was dragged straight into a cage behind the Fire Isolation Zone.

The entire process was seamless.

And the moment the Flesh Dancer was hauled away,

the Firepower Squad opened fire again, clearing the Infected flooding into the corridor.

When the last Infected surging in from the 12th-floor stairwell had its cervical spine shattered by a bullet

and collapsed to the ground,

the entire corridor area was no longer fit for viewing.

Infected blood had already soaked through to the sandbags of the Fire Isolation Zone.

Shadow checked the camera feed on his tablet

and reported to the Alpha.

"Alpha, no new Infected appearing. The horde has stopped for now."

"Roger!"

—

When Yu Yuan finished another round of invasion wars and appeared at the Hunter Training Camp, looking at the World Porch,

he noticed that the sounds of battle had ceased.

"Oh~ The initial clearing is already done?"

Yu Yuan selected another player and queued up an invasion war. Just then, Carmen returned from Freedom Tower.

He spotted Yu Yuan immediately and stepped forward.

"Leader, the battle at Freedom Tower is basically over. Most of the Infected have been killed, though there might be a few stragglers. We're currently collecting the spiritual blood and organs from the bodies. Once these corpses are cleaned up, the final clearance can be completed."

Yu Yuan entered Freedom Tower through the World Porch.

The Alpha was directing the Pioneering Group to gather supplies on the 12th floor. When he saw Yu Yuan, he immediately came over to report.

"Good work!" Yu Yuan also noticed the dozen or so Leader-tier Infected locked in cages.

"Leader, after testing my earlier hypothesis, I can basically confirm that fighting Bronze-tier creatures one-on-one does have a high probability of granting higher-tier identity templates."

The Alpha pointed at Habaar, who had just arrived, and said,

"Habaar, with the boost from his Mechanical Armor and equipment, killed the Muscle Berserker and directly obtained two identity templates — [Elite Recruit] and [Veteran]. Blackfire also got the [Elite Recruit] template. The success rate so far is 100%."

Hearing the Alpha's report, Yu Yuan made a swift decision.

"Excellent. Since that's the case, this can become the standard for over-level selection of elite combat personnel. Discuss and formulate the specific system and promotion criteria with Carmen. Make sure to consider everything thoroughly, especially safety and strength assessment..."

"Yes, sir!"

—

Wasteland Calendar, Day 79.

Yu Yuan had just finished another invasion war when he went straight to the Starry Sky Observatory.

He didn't wait long.

Streaks of starlight fell from the sky, converging in front of the Starry Sky Mirror, then glowing with a golden light.

"Gold-tier."

Yu Yuan exclaimed in surprise.

He reached out and took the Gold-tier Celestial Phenomena Card. The Book of Fate appeared.

The card was collected, and then its information was displayed.

[Celestial Phenomenon — Lightless Veil]

Quality: Gold-tier

Function: Can merge with the world's starry sky, concealing and cutting off the current world's traces on the Star Tracks, resisting prying gazes.

Yu Yuan looked at the card in his hand and raised an eyebrow slightly.

This was a card similar to Zhi Zhi's stealth ability.

Except that Zhi Zhi's ability only hid information about him and the shelter.

Now, this card affected the entire world.

Yu Yuan immediately thought of the Greenfield Cruise Ship.

Back then, Moon Shadow's Breath had commissioned the Greenfield Cruise Ship to probe his situation.

When they couldn't detect his intel,

they obtained information about the Extreme Cold in his world by divining other invading players.

Now that he had this card, wouldn't it prevent a repeat of that situation?

Having figured this out,

Yu Yuan didn't hesitate. He directly chose to activate [Celestial Phenomenon — Lightless Veil].

The card on the Book of Fate vanished.

Sensing something, Yu Yuan walked to the observation deck outside the Starry Sky Observatory and looked up at the sky.

As Phase Three approached, the appearance of Super Storm Clusters had become less and less frequent.

At this moment, stars dotted the sky.

Yu Yuan noticed that a faint, translucent veil had appeared in the starry sky, spreading outward from a point.

One-fifth, one-quarter, one-third, one-half.

Finally, this translucent veil covered the entire starry sky.

It was as if a layer of translucent gauze had wrapped around this entire world.

The Virtual Light Screen automatically popped up, displaying the Civilization Overview page.

Yu Yuan saw that behind the Civilization Core world, a parenthetical note had appeared.

— (Lightless Veil effect in progress...)