Chapter 794: Mad King Building Connects with Earth, the First Hometown Visitor to Mad King Building

“Hm? Not only is he not afraid, he’s actually coming closer?”

Inside the study of Demon King Castle, Xu Lang suddenly sensed something. He raised a hand and summoned a rippling vortex gate, his eyes filled with surprise.

He stared at the vortex gate, his gaze piercing through it. He could just make out the shadow of someone approaching.

As the figure drew closer, the image he could see grew clearer and clearer.

It was a young man with a face full of misery!

“Whimper~”

Evil Furry Grain lifted its head. Its master looked very much like a greedy demon god peering into another world.

Although it was useless in battle, Evil Furry Grain was highly intelligent. After its level broke through twenty, it had gradually begun learning everything about human society.

Its tail swaying, Evil Furry Grain also turned its eyes toward the Black Vortex, wearing the same expectant look as Xu Lang.

“Did the connection break?”

The young man’s figure drew closer, then suddenly vanished. Xu Lang raised an eyebrow, feeling a faint trace of disappointment.

……

A sudden wave of bone-chilling cold swept through him, and Zhang Liang jolted awake from his dream. He saw a guard holding a bucket of water.

“Sorry, Doctor Zhang. We couldn’t wake you no matter how much we called just now,” the guard apologized.

Zhang Liang’s eyelid twitched. He raised a hand to cover his face. “Did you hit me?”

“Ahem!” Liu Zhen coughed and said, “I told them to do it. Your condition was too abnormal just now. It looked like you were having a fit.”

Only then did Zhang Liang notice Liu Zhen. He asked in surprise, “Commander Liu, what are you doing here?”

“There’s something I’d like to ask you to help with.” Liu Zhen got straight to the point.

He then explained the whole situation. In the end, he didn’t try to pressure Zhang Liang with appeals to duty; he simply asked whether Zhang Liang was willing.

There was undoubtedly a risk involved. If Zhang Liang died because of this, the authorities would provide compensation.

Zhang Liang laughed helplessly. “I’m the only person left in this world. If I die, who are you going to give the compensation to? Besides, I was already planning to do this in my dream just now!”

Liu Zhen and the others exchanged glances, all of them rather surprised.

This young man was really going all out, wasn’t he?

……

In a room packed with all kinds of monitoring equipment, Zhang Liang lay flat, his expression calm.

The staff silently carried away the heap of leftover food. This was Zhang Liang’s “last meal.”

Outside the room stood armed guards. If Zhang Liang underwent Mutation, they would rush in and suppress him by force.

According to Zhang Liang, after waking from his dream, he had formed a deep connection with the black box. As long as he “focused” on it, it would appear in his field of vision.

At that very moment, the black box was in the corner of the room.

Zhang Liang stood up and walked toward the Taleblade Demon Box.

In the eyes of the Surveillance Camera and everyone else, there was nothing there. None of the instruments detected anything unusual, as if the black box existed beyond the physical realm and produced not even the slightest fluctuation in the magnetic field.

Or perhaps the thing was simply a figment of Zhang Liang’s imagination, appearing only in his consciousness.

……

“Again?”

In the Training Room, Xu Lang opened his eyes.

What the young man had done before was tantamount to suicide. Was he planning to kill himself twice now?

If this could speed up the establishment of a transmission channel to Earth, Xu Lang didn’t mind. He immediately summoned the Black Vortex and fully activated the Authority of the Box Master, strengthening their connection.

……

“It moved! I’m done with this!”

Zhang Liang edged toward the Taleblade Demon Box. Suddenly, he saw it move. Its lid flew wide open, and it began moving toward him. Terrified, he stumbled backward.

This time, the connection broke again.

The Taleblade Demon Box vanished from his field of vision.

The door flew open, and Professor Shen and the others rushed in.

“Zhang Liang, what’s wrong?”

“That black box is coming toward me!”

“Wasn’t our goal to make fourth-kind contact?”

“But I’m scared!”

“Get Doctor Wang over here for psychological counseling!”

Professor Shen was exasperated with him, but could also understand.

……

“What the hell?”

Watching the ripples settle, Xu Lang’s brow darkened with a trace of fury.

Then he closed his eyes, the Purgatory’s Master resting across his knees, and continued his Meditation.

The phantom of the King of Purgatory floated behind Xu Lang, wearing an eerie smile.

The combat experience from Building Wars was well worth recalling.

Just as Xu Lang entered a meditative state and gradually settled into it, the Demon Box Curse that had caught his attention began reaching out to him on its own again.

Xu Lang took a deep breath and quietly stared at the Black Vortex. A reflection appeared on its rippling surface. It was a young man.

His features gradually came into focus. In the end, Xu Lang could even make out the terror on his face.

Xu Lang’s anger eased somewhat.

Seeing someone live, one could not bear to see him die; hearing his voice, one could not bear to eat his flesh. It was human instinct. The person on the other side was, after all, a fellow countryman.

The saying about a fellow countryman meeting another and shooting him in the back didn’t apply here, because the other party had nothing to gain.

Xu Lang was on a far higher level than Zhang Liang, so all he felt was a faint sense of familiarity.

……

Earth.

“You’re not going to hurt me, are you?”

Zhang Liang stood in front of the Taleblade Demon Box, his heart practically stopping.

“Quit whining!”

Just then, a huge hand reached out from the box and yanked him inside!

The people watching from outside the room were dumbfounded.

Right before their eyes, Zhang Liang had suddenly disappeared!

“Where is he!?” Liu Zhen’s eyes went wide.

“Where’s my student?” Professor Shen was just as bewildered.

……

Demon Box World, reception hall.

“We’ve finally met,” Xu Lang said, his tone neither warm nor cold.

Zhang Liang wondered if he was dreaming. How could there be such a handsome man in the world? Xu Lang was clad in the Eternal Night Prodigy Set, and his icy, handsome aura could outshine the pretty boys in dating sims.

Then he felt at a loss, his gaze darting around. “Are you the black box?”

“You wouldn’t be wrong to put it that way.” Xu Lang nodded.

He and the Taleblade Demon Box were two sides of the same whole.

That was the most direct sign of having perfectly mastered a Tale.

“Why did you infect the survivors in the shelter?” Zhang Liang asked urgently. “They’re already so pitiful. They can’t take any more hardship!”

At those words, Xu Lang’s faint warmth at meeting a fellow countryman vanished. He shook his head and said:

“Just so you know, the weak-victim narrative doesn’t go over well among players.”

“If you’re trying to play for sympathy, you’ve come to the wrong place.”

Displaying weakness among players was no different from asking to be killed. As the ruler of a faction, Xu Lang instinctively disliked that kind of behavior too.

Zhang Liang immediately fell silent, looking completely at a loss.

Xu Lang stood up and strolled over to the bookshelf, where he pulled out a copy of the Blood Mist World Annals. It contained brief overviews of the Blood Mist World, dormitory buildings, players, Ghostly Deities, God, Blood Mist creatures, and the civilizations of the myriad realms.

“I know you have a lot of questions.”

“But before you ask them, read this book first.”

“You have thirty minutes.”

Xu Lang handed Zhang Liang the Blood Mist World Annals.

The history book had been written by Sherry herself and was updated from time to time. Its contents were comprehensive.

“Okay…” Under the pressure of Xu Lang’s imposing presence, Zhang Liang couldn’t bring himself to say anything else.

Xu Lang sat nearby, waiting patiently.

He wondered whether this counted as the beginning of formal relations between Mad King Building and human civilization on Earth.

Zhang Liang’s arrival meant Xu Lang could finally visit that mother planet and see it for himself. He had no idea what had become of that world, which was in the midst of a catastrophe.