Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Boom!"

The occasional thunder and lightning briefly illuminated the surrounding environment. The extremely desolate terrain carried an oddly humid air. The originally cool air suddenly became stuffy, as if heralding an impending rainstorm.

The air here is very strange. There is rarely any flowing wind, and even if there is wind, the amount of wind is not enough to blow up even an ant. But at the same time, the surrounding air is as sticky as a quagmire, which slows down any movement a lot.

"Boom boom boom!"

For example, Han Zu, who was running wildly on the ground, could reach a speed of 300 kilometers per hour after several enhancements from the Gift of Death. If he used the secondary enhancement from the Gift of Death during this period, he could reach a speed of one-third of Mach in a short period of time, which is about 408 kilometers per hour. He could even outrun more than % of ground vehicles. This was also the reason why he spent three days running back to City C across multiple cities in a row. This was because he needed to avoid the crowds and occasionally stopped to wait for dark.

However, in this unknown area, Han Zu's speed was limited. The swamp-like muddy and sticky air greatly slowed his speed. In addition, Han Zu's speed came from his powerful strength, but the greater the strength he used, the greater the resistance he encountered. This forced Han Zu to slow down and keep running in a steady manner. But even so, Han Zu's speed was not too slow, it just temporarily dropped to more than 280 kilometers per hour.

"boom!"

According to the coordinates obtained previously, if Han Zu ran at full speed, it would only take about two hours for him to reach the coordinates. However, at the current speed, even if there were no obstacles on the road, it would be dozens of minutes slower than expected.

Due to the sticky resistance in the air, Han Zu was unable to control turns well while running at high speed, so whenever he encountered rocks on the road, Han Zu would just crash into them as long as he could destroy them. Although doing so would temporarily reduce his speed, it was still faster than the time it would take to go around them.

Suddenly, Han Zu's powerful perception ability detected that there were suddenly some objects around him that were also moving at high speed. Judging from the intensity of the perception, these things should be some kind of creatures, most likely the native creatures of this mysterious and unknown area.

The speed of these creatures was comparable to Han Zu at this time. They followed closely behind him and slowly moved towards Han Zu. Han Zu mobilized the power of the Gift of Death, and flames began to gather momentum from the lines in his muscles, ready for the possible battle.

However, at this moment, there was a loud noise in the sky, and a dazzling flash of lightning streaked across the sky. Then, heavy rain poured down, and the sticky resistance in the air suddenly disappeared. The gift of death that was originally prepared to be used for the outbreak of the battle became Han Zu's super fuel during his high-speed running, suddenly increasing his speed instantly to the highest value. The strange creatures around him were immediately left far behind, and within a few seconds, they were out of Han Zu's perception range.

"Boom!"

Along with thunder, the dense rain made Han Zu's vision even more blurred, but it did not affect Han Zu too much. He slowed down, used his perception ability to explore the surrounding terrain, and continued running.

“Zizi...Dingdi!”

In his inner pocket, the communication device that the person in charge had given him rang. Tentacles immediately grew out of Han Zu's chest, tightly grasped the communication device, and lifted it in front of Han Zu. Han Zu glanced down and saw that the display screen of the device was pointing to the northwest direction 100 kilometers away.

Turning around and running over, Han Zu found a cave not far away, and ran towards it without hesitation. After entering the cave, Han Zu used his enhanced visual ability to carefully observe the interior of the cave.

Inside the cave, there were some empty cans, an extinguished fire, some bloody corpses of creatures, and some torn clothes and equipment. This should be the temporary camp that was once used by the team that Han Zu came to seek rescue.

"Drip!"

Deep in the cave, the communication device rang again. According to the strength of the signal, Han Zu found a slightly damaged signal amplifier. The style was exactly the standard of Infinite Company, but its model looked much older and did not look like the one carried by the group of people Han Zu wanted to rescue.

The energy furnace of this signal amplifier was damaged, but the other parts were relatively intact. Han Zu connected it to the communication device, and soon the power of the signal amplifier was restored and it began to work normally.

"Oi! I'm Han Zu, can you hear me?"

The communication loop with the person in charge was being connected and it would take a few minutes to wait. After Han Zu sent the information to establish the loop, his arm cracked and a cigarette box was sent out by the tentacles.

"Fortunately, I had foresight. This amount of clothing wouldn't have been enough to protect me from such heavy rain."

Lighting a cigarette, Han Zu waited patiently for the communication circuit to be established. At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly rang in Han Zu's mind.

"Data update has been completed and correction is in progress..."

"Error, target data exceeds limit, reloading data..."

"Error, target data cannot be corrected."

"The system cannot be activated and is shutting down..."

This is the voice of the Infinite City's game system. Although Han Zu already knows that the Infinite City's game cabin is essentially a teleportation device, and those copies are also the products of the Infinite Company's transformation, the system will only appear in the transformed world. According to common sense, it should never appear in this place.

"Hey! Zizi... Han Zu? Can you hear me?!"

"Yes, very clearly."

Han Zu felt that the emergence of the system was not accidental. He told the person in charge of the communication side about it, but the person in charge's answer made Han Zu fall into thought.

"System? That's impossible! According to our data, I can be 100% sure that before the team we sent out, no one from Infinite Company had ever been to the place where you are now. Neither we, nor the people on the board of directors, nor the former chairman's subordinates, had ever been there!"

The communication device is capable of real-time video communication, so whether it is the tone of the person in charge, his facial expressions, or even his body movements, it can be proved that the person in charge did not lie. But if this is the case, then how did this obviously old-fashioned signal amplifier and the system that suddenly appeared come to this place where no one has ever been?

"We can discuss this later. The most important thing now is to contact the missing team. Please try to use my current signal amplifier as a base point to contact them. I am not far from their last coordinates."

"Okay, I'll try to establish a two-way channel now!"

Using Han Zu's position as a transit point, the person in charge began to build a communication loop. Half an hour later, they finally succeeded in contacting the lost team. However, the interference on their side was still very serious. Without saying any information, they lost communication with the person in charge again.

"Han Zu, I'll send the latest signal enhancement device to your location. Take this to find the missing team. Combined with the signal enhancer here, we should be able to communicate normally."

"No problem, but the energy reactor of this old signal amplifier is broken. You'd better send another one over."

"no problem!"

“Sizzle… crackle!”

With a flash of lightning, the latest signal amplifier and the energy furnace compatible with the old signal amplifier were transmitted to the ground in front of Han Zu. Han Zu assembled the energy furnace, inserted the old signal amplifier into the rock wall in the cave, temporarily put the latest signal amplifier into his body, wrapped it with tentacles for protection, said something to the person in charge, disconnected the communication, put the communication device back into his body, left the cave, and walked into the heavy rain again.

“Shhhh!”

As soon as Han Zu stretched his hand into the heavy rain, densely packed small corroded holes instantly appeared on his skin. It seemed that the rain was very corrosive.

Han Zu kept his hands in the rain. Before long, the effects of corrosion became smaller and smaller, and he eventually adapted to the corrosion. Han Zu's hands recovered completely, and the highly corrosive rainstorm was now the same as ordinary water and posed no threat to Han Zu.

After confirming the direction, Han Zu left the cave and ran into the pouring rain.