Chapter 700: World Bat Appears, the Entire Audience Falls Silent!

"The sixth round's game content has completely changed!"

"It's not pioneering warfare, it's pure brute-force output!"

"Why does this feel like an entire server ganging up on a world boss?"

On the Nightmare Bed, a holographic image flickered in Xu Lang's mind, the view from the Eye of Providence.

Only minutes remained before the game started. The special facilities of the four major dormitory buildings were rapidly manifesting. Over at Mad King Building, aside from the major factories, all special buildings had materialized, including the three Forbidden Lands: Twilight Curtain, Astrological Platform, and Embroidery Lake.

"Currently, Evil King Building's points far exceed Mad King Building's. The odds of Mad King Building releasing Agatha early are slim, but I can't rule out that one-in-a-million chance."

"For the simulation's starting point, it's best to lock it to the sixth round. That way, I can guarantee the plan goes off without a hitch."

How to run the simulation was an incredibly complex matter, especially choosing the initial starting point.

Equally important was steering the events toward the desired outcome.

The best-case scenario was that Mad King Building fails to release Agatha, gets cornered into a death trap, and is then forced to drop the Airdrop.

He needed Mad King Building to understand, deep down, that if it wanted to win Building Wars, it had to cooperate with him!

Otherwise, it was pure trash, useless for everything!

"Temporal Phase Shift, activate!"

To refine his plan, Xu Lang even activated Temporal Phase Shift to sharpen his mental faculties.

A dark, murky light flickered wildly in his eyes, occasional flashes of ruthlessness and murderous intent bleeding through.

"Even without Mad King Building's support, I can secure first place in the True King Duel with an overwhelming lead!"

"Building, oh Building, why do you always insist on working against me?"

"This counterattack will force Mad King Building to cough up all the supplies it embezzled, and make it taste the consequences of opposing me!"

"Land one punch, and you spare yourself a hundred!"

"Better yet, I'll beat it until it's completely submissive!"

"Otherwise, even if Mad King Building fails to release Agatha and this doesn't directly affect it, we've only delayed its plan to eliminate me!"

"By the time Mad King Building advances, it might have even more ways to deal with me. That is definitely not a scenario I want to see."

"Also, I need to find out exactly how much authority Mad King Building has over releasing Agatha. If it can release her unconditionally, then in the sixth round, I must force it to use its Interference Power!"

"Even if that means slaughtering the entire building and self-destructing, I won't hesitate!"

Xu Lang wasn't joking.

He genuinely could become the boss himself and wipe out his own dormitory building.

Then they could all be brothers inside the Taleblade Demon Box together. That was fine too.

Losing a Building War was essentially taking a hostage, and he wouldn't let go of that hostage easily before the ransom was paid.

At the same time, he was afraid of actually losing the game.

He knew Mad King Building well and could occasionally exploit loopholes, but the Dorm Survival Game, that vast collective consciousness, was something he'd never dealt with. Betting the Epitaph against the Dorm Survival Game's punishment was too steep a price. Xu Lang wouldn't sit at that table.

So, he needed to create a dead-end scenario of "killing the hostage" without actually doing it. Weighing the pros and cons was absolutely critical, requiring multiple simulations and scenario rehearsals.

Having high Spiritual Energy just meant faster mental processing, not higher intelligence, and certainly not wisdom.

To set a trap, you needed cognition, experience, and brainpower in equal measure.

And Xu Lang happened to possess all of the above.

The Herd Spirits offered more than just flesh and blood; they offered knowledge and wisdom. If he felt his plan wasn't airtight enough, he could open the floor to discussion within his dreams, consulting with wise figures like Saladin.

There was no shortage of strategists among the Herd Spirits. Saladin was just the most well-rounded, and being among the first batch, that's what made him special.

"Building, oh Building, other players only have to think about winning the game, but I also have to scheme against you. Do you have any idea how frustrated I am?"

Xu Lang closed his eyes completely, collapsing onto his pillow, his resentment reaching astronomical levels.

As the game began, he entered the Simulation Dream.

This time, he wouldn't hold back. He'd go all out in the Simulation Dream and claim victory in the sixth round.

Because the Dorm Survival Game had stated that Sequence rewards might appear this round, and he wanted to maximize his gains.

At the same time, after finishing the simulation, he would follow its blueprint to the letter, utterly crushing Mad King Building into the ground.

He wasn't someone who enjoyed blindly following the rules anyway; Mad King Building had really pushed him into a corner.

Mad King Building was just too damn wicked!

...

Outside.

As the three-minute countdown hit zero, the entire sky above the void battlefield began to tremble!

A massive purple manta ray descended from the clouds. Its body was as vast as a mountain range, a watery sheen rippling across its surface. Its very aura caused the void to crack and burst, sending fine, dense arcs of electricity sparking outward.

[Void·World Bat]

[Type: Monster]

[Level: ???]

[Race Tier: Overlord]

[Skills: ???]

[Description: This monster IS the entire world. Challenge the world, and you shall reap rewards beyond imagination!]

BOOM!

The World Bat descended, landing upon the earth, and the heavens and land trembled.

The monster's height was on par with the four major dormitory buildings! Even if Ultraman Tiga showed up, he'd look like a child next to it!

The electronic drones hovering in the air crashed to the ground, as if struck by interference. The players standing in corridors and outside their dormitory buildings all wore twisted, ferocious expressions, various abnormalities manifesting across their bodies!

Without a doubt, the World Bat possessed some kind of passive aura-type ability.

Its very existence was a persecution of lower life forms!

Staring at the monster on the surveillance screen, Kui Zi's breath hitched. It felt like facing the Machine King all over again.

"It's actually an Overlord-level creature?!" Zhen Lu's lips trembled. "I heard Overlord-level creatures can alter the laws of physics. They can survive in any domain because the Overlord itself IS a world!"

Those two words, Overlord, carried immense weight: power, dominion, unbridled force. An Overlord-level creature was the pinnacle of the supernatural realm, a god walking among mortals, a king who warped the very rules of the world.

"Challenging an Overlord is challenging the world itself. So this is what this round means?" Cao Yaxuan swallowed hard.

At this moment, even the women inside Demon King Castle were dead silent.

And that was just their reaction from inside the dormitory.

What kind of psychological terror were the players outside their buildings facing right now? It didn't bear thinking about!

The World Bat's mere presence caused ripples to surge through the air, laced with interweaving thunder and bizarre phenomena.

It was waiting. Waiting for someone to attack it.

Yet, three minutes passed, and not a single person dared to fire a shot. It was as if the entire world had been muted!