LWGP - Chapter 223
Chapter 223: The Fourth Spacetime
Whether her own house was flooding or on fire, Wang Jiu never cared, let alone someone else's.
Besides, she had her own hands full now.
The spacetime tunnel was a passage, but it was the most dangerous passage in the world—unpredictable and extremely aggressive. The moment Wang Jiu entered, the spatial compression, tearing, internal pressure, and the temporal devouring and vertigo caused her barrier to develop cracks in the first second and begin to collapse by the fifth. Within those few seconds, Wang Jiu had already used an item to pinpoint the location of the old lady's soul.
Normally, it shouldn't be used inside a spacetime tunnel, but it didn't react when used in the original spacetime. The System's explanation was that the Bloodthirsty Beast that had devoured the old lady was in an alternate dimension like a dungeon, which also had a spacetime distance. It was best to activate the search within the spacetime tunnel.
And usually, the spacetime tunnels for traversing dungeons weren't very long, ten-odd seconds at most.
The timing was still manageable.
But to Wang Jiu's astonishment, the pinpoint search result was a bit chaotic, and after several seconds, there was still no result.
"What's going on?" Wang Jiu asked the System. Before the System could answer, a possibility popped into her head.
"It's currently the dungeon closure period, so all dungeon entrances are sealed. But I'm forcing my way in through a spacetime tunnel, so that shouldn't be an issue. And based on the dungeon's spacetime distance, the search speed should be very fast. If there's no result, it can only mean it's not in a dungeon. Could it have materialized?"
Her mind was terrifyingly agile, her reactions swift. If it had materialized, it would have appeared in the real spacetime. But she couldn't find it outside before, which led to another possibility.
A different spacetime!
Just as Wang Jiu arrived at this conclusion, bang! The barrier shattered. Wang Jiu directly withstood the terrifying spacetime damage. Her physique had previously been comparable to a Purple Gold BOSS, with astonishing defense, but taking such damage directly still caused fine cuts to appear on her skin within a second.
System: "You could turn back now. There's still time."
It didn't care about the life or death of ordinary people, only the absolute top-tier players.
Once one died, they were gone for good.
Wang Jiu didn't respond. She was still watching the pinpointing result, stoically enduring the horrific damage every second.
A result would definitely come. It was just a matter of whether she could withstand it.
The System also didn't let her use resources inside the spacetime tunnel.
Suddenly increasing her strength would be like telling the spacetime tunnel that her threat level was rising. The tunnel's attacks would only escalate, doing more harm than good.
So it didn't mention it.
Fortunately, at the 16-second mark, the pointer finally locked onto a result.
The spacetime coordinate was identified. She could now choose to make a spacetime jump.
System: "If it's another spacetime, after this jump, the attack intensity in the high-latitude tunnel will be several times, or even ten times, stronger than it is now. You won't be able to take it. There's a ninety percent chance you'll die in the tunnel. No one will even be able to find your body to bury you."
Wang Jiu: "I have no family left. Who cares about giving me a burial."
Her tone was casual. The System fell silent at once, and Wang Jiu had already chosen to jump through space.
Where would she go next?
The first spacetime, the already destroyed second spacetime, or the fourth spacetime?
Twelve seconds later, in the final section of a spacetime tunnel within a wormhole connected to some multidimensional space, the System couldn't help but blather, "Hurry, hurry, you only have 200 HP left! Ah, I don't want to find another primary service target!! Wang Jiu!!"
The System howled like a pig being slaughtered, but Wang Jiu maintained a cruel sort of calm.
In just a few seconds, her HP had dropped to 200. In terms of the magnitude of damage Wang Jiu had suffered to date, this was undoubtedly her most terrifying encounter.
But as mentioned before, the drawbacks of consuming resources to increase survivability were also obvious. She wouldn't choose that path unless it was the absolute last moment.
Of course, such a strategy required absolute calm and restraint.
One could not panic.
System: "We're almost there."
Wang Jiu could also sense that the spacetime tunnel was nearing its end, and its aggressiveness was beginning to diminish. Had she made it through?
There was light at the exit ahead.
Just as Wang Jiu thought she could relax—though she was still on guard—boom!! A terrifying impact came from nowhere, and the spacetime tunnel suddenly trembled violently.
Wang Jiu was startled. An attack from the Eternal Night Race? Or something else?
The spacetime tunnel's first reaction to being attacked was—to retaliate!!
Voom!!
With only 200 HP left, Wang Jiu was instantly enveloped by the most powerful spatial piercing attack yet.
In an instant, it was all over in an instant.
She was sure to die.
An instant later, a flash of light shot out of the wormhole.
The light's radiance was instantly devoured by space, as if a person had been stripped of their clothes, directly revealing their physical form.
It was a bloody, mangled mess, covered in wounds. In some places on her limbs, one could even see her stark white bones. Her abdomen was pierced by a terrifying spatial spike, leaving her grievously wounded and on the verge of death. Who could this be but Wang Jiu?
But this was not the worst possible outcome.
At least she had survived.
At this moment, even someone as extremely calm as Wang Jiu felt a lingering fear. The spacetime tunnel's attack just now had been too terrifying. Its aggression far exceeded the "even ten times" the System had mentioned; it had reached nearly twenty times the intensity, forcing Wang Jiu to use the Azure Dragon Phantom once and still nearly die again.
Now, Wang Jiu glanced at her HP. 8 points. Her original HP was nearly 2000, now only a pitiful 4 points remained. One could only imagine how perilous this journey through spacetime had been.
That last hit, 200 HP was nowhere near enough to withstand it. Fortunately, she had remained vigilant and used the new, complete Order Book at the first possible moment.
Although the spacetime tunnel had locked onto her in that instant, wanting to increase its attack power, it was too late. She had already charged out of the tunnel.
She had survived the disaster.
Wang Jiu didn't indulge in this optimistic mood. Just as she was about to find a place to recover her strength, she realized her current location was… a bit frightening.
Outer space?
The wormhole was right above her. There was oxygen. Below was a vast, barren planet, devoid of any vegetation. There was flying sand and rolling stones everywhere, making the surface almost impossible to see. Above were various celestial bodies, their light profound and endlessly mysterious.
A guess flashed through Wang Jiu's mind, but her body was already plummeting due to her weakness and inability to withstand the high gravity below.
What was described as flying sand and rolling stones was actually a barrier of sandy mist. As Wang Jiu's body fell into it, the sand inevitably scraped against the dense wounds covering her, and particles of grit stuck to her flesh, causing immense pain.
But Wang Jiu had no mind to observe this. What she cared about was the commotion below. What was that?
D-08 Wormhole Planet, Eastern Thorn Sand Worm Zone. On the desert-like ground, a brutal battle was raging on the yellow sands. It was a column of soldiers wearing special armor and wielding light swords or light guns/cannons. There were already several thousand of them, but the number of their opponents far exceeded their own.
Massive, three-to-four-meter-long arthropods continuously burrowed out from beneath the sand. They were fierce and cruel, their carapaces uneven like grains of sand. Their eight thick limbs had bristly tips that emitted a dim yellow glow, allowing them to move freely through the sand as they constantly charged or tore at the group of soldiers.
Their carapaces were tough; a few slashes from a light sword could only leave a few dents. The light bullets and beams from the light guns seemed more damaging, but they could only knock a Thorn Sand Worm back. Its carapace would crack and ooze a foul yellow liquid, but the wound wasn't fatal. The worm would just bury itself in the ground, and the sand would merge with its wound. After a faint glow, the sand would fill the injury, even repairing the carapace.
"Damn Thorn Sand Worms!"
"So disgusting!"
"It's over, we can't escape."
"There's no respawn point on D-08! Hold your ground, hold your ground!!"
The captain's call to hold their ground was cut short as a level 60 Purple Gold Thorn Sand Worm King appeared among the horde of golden-grade sand worms. Its long antennae twitched, and the eight eyes on its forehead released a halo of light…
Bloodthirst, group kill!
In an instant, more than half of the soldiers fell silently and permanently. The remaining people were on the verge of despair. Only a few managed to shout, "Inform the main fleet!", "Message sent!", "It's too late!"
Suddenly, the Thorn Sand Worm King abruptly shifted the direction of its antennae. Its massive head looked up, and it saw a black dot falling from the sky.
It emitted a strange sound. Many of the sand worms on the ground spread their wings and flew up with a buzz, swarming madly towards the unknown object falling from the sky. On the ground, the Thorn Sand Worm King seized the opportunity to unleash a second wave of its innate Bloodthirst attack on the soldiers.
Kill!
In their final moments of death, these people could vaguely see that the black shadow surrounded by the flying sand worms looked like a person.
This person, falling headfirst… opened her eyes in mid-air.
Myriad strands of black silk danced in the air.
By the time Wang Jiu landed, there were no living people or sand worms left in this desert area. But she herself slammed into the sand, kicking up a cloud of dust. Her entire body felt like its flesh and bones were about to fall apart, and her eyelids were stuck together with blood.
She was on her last breath, without even the strength to move a finger. However, just as Wang Jiu was about to activate her resources to recover, she suddenly felt something squirming beneath her back.
Then… swoosh! The sand melted away, swallowing Wang Jiu whole.
Next, she fell into a hollow space beneath the desert. She didn't fall far before hitting the ground, but her landing startled many into piercing screams.
Where was this?
It looked like a prison. It was filthy, stank, and filled with women.
In the dampness, she could hear that the underground space had many tunnels, from which came the dense sounds of frantic escape. It seemed some sand worms were fleeing, and they were heading this way.
Although her fall had alarmed many of the imprisoned women, Wang Jiu, in her weakened state, was able to assess the situation.
There were over a thousand women imprisoned here, dressed in rags or even completely naked. Some didn't seem to be purely human, but they were indeed "female." Some were even heavily pregnant. Overall, it was a horrifyingly tragic sight.
The other sand worms were probably on their way, including several Purple Gold ones.
The level 60 Thorn Sand Worm King had stats in the fifty to sixty thousands.
She had just used her last bit of spirit power to take one out, and now she was completely spent.
She had to recover, or she would surely die.
Wang Jiu's fingers twitched. Suddenly, her blood-caked brow moved slightly, and she gave up on using her resources.
Something was wrong up above.
What Wang Jiu didn't know was that just a few seconds after she fell, a fleet of flying ships appeared in the sky above this desert region.
Before a massive mothership could even get close, hundreds of smaller ships had already zipped over. Before the sand worms below could reach the cage holding the women, they fired terrifying beams of light that instantly pierced the ground… reaching deep underground, killing them with overwhelming power!
Except for the Purple Gold Thorn Sand Worm King, all the other sand worms were annihilated in the blink of an eye.
This Thorn Sand Worm King seemed terrified and turned to burrow even deeper into the ground.
But the main ship was already overhead. A hatch opened in its underbelly, and a man in metal armor, carrying a long spear, descended on a flying device in a straight line. As he neared the ground, his armor activated some kind of power, allowing him to phase directly through the layers of sand and instantly arrive where the Thorn Sand Worm King was.
He drew his spear, leaped, and thrust.
It was through this bizarre perspective that Wang Jiu witnessed the sand worm king being killed in an instant.
She was somewhat shocked and confirmed her earlier suspicion—she had indeed arrived in a different spacetime.
The Fourth Spacetime. In terms of the timeline, it should be an interstellar era.
Interstellar, huh? Mecha?
This region was likely teeming with powerful experts, far more dangerous than the second spacetime.
Wang Jiu's gaze swept subtly over the armored expert. In that instant, the expert, standing on the sand worm king's corpse, had his gaze suddenly pierce through space, looking directly towards the prison.
Had he discovered her?
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