Chapter 7 The Seventh Day

The Sky Arena was still bustling with noise, with players and spectators from different continents wearing bizarre costumes and discussing things loudly.

It was the seventh day of the rematch stage. The first six days of matches had come to an end. After these matches, people had a basic understanding of the strength levels of the top players in the current killing game.

The strongest were still the Calamity-level existences such as Michael, Hohenheim, and Li Ang.

The specific rankings of the first and second tiers below them had undergone some changes—there were always players who gained serendipitous encounters in abnormal events and made long-term progress in their strength, such as Fuxiao, who had obtained an A.T. Field.

However, there was no super dark horse with a sudden surge of dozens or hundreds of places in the rankings, which many people liked to see—any serendipitous encounter required time to accumulate before it could be transformed into actual combat power.

"The Vatican Tribunal's people are starting to appear in the top 300 of the leaderboard."

Li Ang casually flipped through the dynamic newspaper he bought with a few game coins from a newsstand in the corner of the audience.

This newspaper was also a publication of the Watcher Guild's newspaper, and the pictures inside the paper could be played like videos. By pressing the button in the corner of the newspaper, it could also be switched to voice reading mode.

Li Ang found a seat in the audience, casually put down the newspaper, and didn't pay attention to the exaggerated articles in the newspaper.

The Vatican's Roman Catholic Church had also become active recently. As the leader of the Catholic Church with 1.313 billion believers in the old era, the Roman Catholic Church had massive resources and a huge influence in Europe and the Americas.

In the early stages of the Killing Game, the Vatican's development was slow, far less rapid than the expansion of organizations such as European Heavy Industries.

However, recently they seemed to have started to dig up a large number of legacies from the old era, giving rise to a group of extraordinary people with considerable strength.

"Logically speaking, Michael's image and form of power are in line with the descriptions in the Christian Bible, but I don't seem to have heard of any connection between him and the Vatican..."

Li Ang was thinking absentmindedly when he suddenly heard a somewhat familiar voice from the back of the audience, "Brother Li?"

"Hmm?"

Li Ang turned his head and saw the "Jin Ge Tie Ma" (Golden Spears Iron Horses) four-person team from the Whale Song organization, as well as a European medieval plague doctor wearing a bird-beak mask, carrying a lantern, wearing a black linen shirt, and a cross on his chest.

It was the teammate he had been matched with in the Longheng Shopping Mall and Ibaraki Middle School script missions, Plague Doctor.

Of course, according to the Special Affairs Bureau's information, this Plague Doctor was also Cang Xiu, the school doctor in Li Ang's experimental middle school.

"You guys are here too?"

Li Ang nodded and grinned. The Jin Ge Tie Ma four smiled obsequiously, but the Plague Doctor next to them stood in place, looking a little awkward.

Well... After the Ibaraki Middle School mission was completed, Li Ang vaguely felt that Teacher Cang Xiu was not quite right. After Teacher Cang Xiu took leave to travel to Japan,

he anonymously reported it to the Special Affairs Bureau. As a result, Teacher Cang Xiu was indeed the Plague Doctor. Later, he also joined the League of Evil Scientists and met Li Ang again in the Dolphin Hotel.

Cang Xiu and Black Steed met in the Ibaraki Middle School script mission. After that, the two of them probably had been in contact all along. Perhaps the Whale Song organization secretly helped Teacher Cang Xiu escape the Special Affairs Bureau's secret search.

However, those were all things from a long time ago, and the two of them tacitly didn't mention it again—the experimental middle school was gone, so there was no point in talking about the past.

"Are you also participating in the Sima Battle?"

Li Ang asked casually. The Jin Ge Tie Ma four still had some strength. Last time, they were the first to discover the traces of the Wasteland Lion and other otherworldly transcendents and successfully informed them.

"No, just me."

Black Steed shook his head, wanting to explain something, but held back.

The Whale Song organization was not good at direct violence. Like Aim, they were both majoring in electronic information and intelligent machinery technology.

The last door scramble war had taught them a deep lesson.

Therefore, this time, the other three members of the Jin Ge Tie Ma four had given all their detachable equipment and props to Black Steed,

and through the unique technology within the Whale Song organization, they had integrated Black Steed with intelligent machinery components to strengthen his personal strength,

reaching the end of the first tier in the short term.

The League of Evil Scientists' technology mastered by Cang Xiu also played an important role in this process, so he had been appearing with the Jin Ge Tie Ma four during this period—their personal relationship was also quite good.

"Oh."

Li Ang sized up Black Steed and probably knew what was going on, not paying too much attention.

The fusion of power was just that. On the African continent, those anti-human criminals on the global wanted list did this every day. It wasn't a shocking thing.

At most, one had a high degree of fusion,

and the other had a low degree of fusion, wasting more, dying and injuring more.

The few people chatted casually for a while. As the Sky Arena's audience was gradually filled, today's events also began.

Li Ang and Black Steed left the audience to go to the arena. After teleporting away, they teleported back again not long after—Li Ang met Fuxiao, who, after hearing the Sky Arena's announcer, simply used a paper crane-shaped prop to send Li Ang an apology message,

and after obtaining Li Ang's consent, chose to surrender.

The reason for surrendering was that Fuxiao had accidentally leaked information about Li Ang's [Pale World] before, and was worried that Li Ang still held a grudge.

On the other hand, Fuxiao assessed that her chances of winning were too low. Even if she wanted to persevere for a while, she would consume a lot of precious props, so it was better to simply admit defeat.

Anyway, she had won all six of her previous rematches. If she gave up this one, she could deal with the next three casually and still qualify for the finals.

Li Ang, whose opponent surrendered, teleported back to the Sky Arena and walked back to his seat in the audience—there were quite a few cases of surrender these days.

Although the Sky Arena would try its best to create a relatively fair stage for players with a large gap in strength,

if they really encountered an opponent that they could not defeat no matter what, or an opponent that they had to pay a heavy price to defeat, there were still players who gave up and forfeited after weighing the pros and cons.

For example, Michael—almost all of her opponents surrendered, including the Side of Truth.

Only one randomly matched otherworldly transcendent in the shape of a human pineapple tree, not knowing why, stubbornly resisted and was split in half by Michael's blazing sword.

"Black Steed hasn't come back yet?"

Li Ang asked casually, searching for Black Steed's battle scene on the big screen—he seemed to have been teleported to a modern urban background stage.

Not long after teleporting, he waited for seven superheroes patrolling the city.

These seven superheroes were all wearing strange costumes, with greasy hair and powder on their faces, bright and beautiful. As soon as they opened their mouths, they identified Black Steed as a super criminal and wanted to arrest him.

Black Steed also showed his power system—he opened a special electronic form like Aim,

borrowing the city's network cables to teleport to a corner of the city suburbs thousands of miles away,

and by taking over the world's surveillance camera network, he searched for a high-dimensional transcendent who had teleported in with him—an otherworldly player who possessed mental abilities.

Black Steed's opponent seemed to have brainwashed the superheroes to make them believe that Black Steed was a super criminal who needed to be arrested immediately.

Facing the pursuit of the superheroes,

Black Steed first used the network to deeply mine the world's intelligence, successfully learning that the power of all the superheroes in this world came from a special product called "Compound Five" developed by Germany during World War II.

Including the most powerful superhero, the Homelander, who was comparable to a weakened Superman.

He published all the biochemical experimental data about "Compound Five" on the Internet, shocking, panicking, and angering the ignorant public,

while also causing the superheroes who had been exposed to their glamorous disguise to fall into panic, temporarily having no time to pursue him.

Black Steed himself took advantage of this gap to immediately teleport to the specific location of the otherworldly player and unfold his personal combat form—the power of the Jin Ge Tie Ma four were gathered on him alone,

first transforming into a Terminator-like half-intelligent machine and half-human to strengthen his own survival ability,

then spreading out a large number of attack drones that covered the sky and the sun to saturate-bomb the opponent's location,

and finally, like Aim, forcibly taking over the missile launch system and launching nuclear bombs at the location to finish it off,

winning cleanly in twenty minutes—even before teleporting away, he also packed all the data about "Compound Five" into a USB flash drive and took it away.

The Earth in the real world also had gene potions that could awaken superpowers in ordinary people, and perhaps they could learn from each other and complement each other with Compound Five—organizations such as European Heavy Industries used this method to absorb the technological essence of different worlds and constantly improve their own technical strength.

(Of course, sometimes, the technological products of other worlds had no prospects for practical application in the Earth's environment—for example, that technology needed to use a special metallic element. On the planet where the technology originated, this metallic element was very common,

while on Earth, this metal isotope was extremely lacking, and even advanced laboratories could not produce it in large quantities.

As a result, the speed and efficiency of absorbing the technological essence from other worlds was greatly slowed down.)

Having won the victory, Black Steed teleported back to the Sky Arena and also walked back to his seat in the audience, handing the USB flash drive containing the data to his companions, only to find that the faces of the others were filled with solemn expressions,

and even Li Ang's eyes were slightly condensed.

Black Steed, who was still embracing his success in killing an otherworldly player and contributing to the Earth, frowned slightly. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Look at the big screen."

Plague Doctor said in a deep voice, "The FBI's David has met his opponent."

"Hmm?"

Black Steed was stunned. The rematch in the Sky Arena would try to create fair matchups as much as possible. It was very common to encounter opponents and get into a stalemate, unless something incomprehensible happened, which would make Whale Song and others look serious.

He turned his head to look at the big screen of the Sky Arena, and found the stage where David was through searching.

At this time, David was in the sky above an island with torrential rain.

The island was full of lush and tall virgin forests. The wind was blowing, and the thunder was shining, illuminating the night.

Most senior players of the Killing Game knew that David's power system was related to lightning, and such a harsh natural environment was extremely beneficial to him.

But the fact was that David was completely suppressed by his opponent.

The other party was a burly white man with red hair and a thick beard, nearly three meters tall, wearing simple clothes woven from animal skins, holding a huge pig iron hammer in his hand, and his face and limbs were engraved with tattoos that revealed a barbaric aura.

Whenever he swung the giant hammer, the lightning in the storm would focus on the hammer head,

and a random strike would release a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket, blasting David away heavily.

"That is..."

Black Steed's breath stagnated, and a large amount of data instantly appeared in the electronic database in his mind.

"That's right, the Aesir, the son of the god king Odin and the giantess Jord, the god of thunder and strength, Thor, who is in charge of storms, war, and agriculture."

The voice of Luo Ri Rong Jin (Setting Sun Molten Gold) was low and suppressed, "David's opponent is almost completely in line with the description of Thor in some Norse mythology.

Even the roars he occasionally uttered, after comparison with the database and the identification of Ji Ling (Nimble), were all in the extinct Runic language.

If he is not a very deeply hidden Earth transcendent who loves cosplay,

then he may really be the god of thunder and lightning in mythology."

"..."

Black Steed was silent for a moment after hearing this, and the corner of his eye swept across the audience, and found that many of the audience in the audience were also in shock and astonishment—from the analysis of some ordinary people's mouth shapes, they were also discussing David's game.

"Could it be a mistake? Is that not the Thor from Earth, but an otherworldly player with a high degree of similarity to Earth?"

Black Steed asked softly, "There has never been such a person in the preliminary stage of the Sima Battle, right? I haven't seen him in the rematch before."

"There is this possibility, but it's hard to say."

Luo Ri Rong Jin shook his head, the corner of his eye glanced at Li Ang who was silent, hesitating to say softly: "The door scramble war has opened countless star gates,

and after that, King Shibi also sent us Whale Song, as well as other large organizations, the news that 'ancient gods' may awaken.

Maybe, as some mythological scholars have guessed, these ancient gods have awakened in the Sima Battle, and are participating in the Sima Battle in some way.

Of course, it is also possible that we are overthinking, and the other party is just an ordinary otherworldly transcendent who has inherited Thor's power system—although his strength is stronger than the first-tier players on our Earth."

Accompanied by Luo Ri Rong Jin's words, the battle in the arena gradually came to an end.

Although David kept trying to defeat his opponent, and even tore up several perfect quality consumable scrolls,

the Norse giant on the opposite side seemed to be better at controlling lightning, wielding the giant hammer again and again, and blasting David into the island's rock layer,

making the latter choose to admit defeat and surrender extremely unwillingly.

And at the moment when David teleported back, a large group of people in the audience surrounded him, not to express their concern for David, but to find out the true situation of that Norse giant.