Chapter 448: The Reincarnators Under Attack
Everything went black before Ye Liangchen's eyes, followed by a powerful sense of weightlessness.
When he opened his eyes again, he was somewhere unfamiliar: Hell's Kitchen, in the Marvel world.
Ye Liangchen looked around. Scattered all about were many other Reincarnators in every kind of outfit, with cold expressions. Some stood still, some had their heads bowed in thought, others swept the area with sharp eyes, as if every one of them were working out a plan.
The scene made Ye Liangchen curious. By rights, the Reincarnators should be busy with their own fights and missions right now. Why were so many of them gathered here?
But Ye Liangchen didn't plan to look for answers right away.
He knew Reincarnators rarely had any real trust or closeness. Everyone was used to going it alone, keeping their mystique and their pride.
So he quietly pushed his curiosity down and prepared to move on and find his own way.
Just as he started walking, ready to leave the noisy area, a rough, confident voice suddenly sounded right beside him. "Hey, kid, you're in luck. You actually got assigned to my squad!"
Ye Liangchen stopped and turned toward the voice. A burly Reincarnator with a savage grin was striding toward him.
The man gave off an indescribable domineering presence, as if all of Hell's Kitchen trembled beneath his feet.
"I'm the hundredth-ranked Reincarnator. The name's Iron Fist Li Kuang!" the man announced, his tone smug and dismissive. "Try not to drag me down, and try not to die too fast. Otherwise I'll have to explain the rules of this world all over again!"
Ye Liangchen felt a small jolt. He hadn't expected to run into such a powerful Reincarnator.
He took a deep breath. One day, he'd be a Reincarnator like that too.
"Let me fill you in," Iron Fist Li Kuang went on. "We're in Phase Two of the main mission now. We've been transported to this new Hell's Kitchen, which is where 'Chen Ye' is.
"Chen Ye is an extremely tough opponent. He's not just powerful, he's cunning as hell. He's the key target of this mission."
"Our job is to find him and take him out!" Iron Fist Li Kuang's voice was full of unshakable resolve.
Ye Liangchen nodded, thinking it over.
He understood this mission would be anything but easy. But now that he was here, there was no turning back.
"This Hell's Kitchen might not be like the others," Iron Fist Li Kuang warned again. "It's full of unknowns and danger. Rookie, you're on your own!"
With that, Li Kuang turned to leave.
Ye Liangchen called after him. "Why are you all still waiting here? Are you gathering intel, or waiting for someone?"
Li Kuang answered impatiently. "Open your own panel. Right now we're in a frozen state. In the Marvel Universe, every time you cross between universes, you're frozen for a short while. You got lucky, kid, you happened to arrive just as we crossed into the new Hell's Kitchen."
Ye Liangchen opened his panel. Sure enough, it showed a countdown: two and a half minutes.
"If it weren't for the mission, I wouldn't have explained this much. That's it. Good luck, don't die. If you can't win a fight, lure them my way. As a perk for temporary teammates, I'll step in for you once."
With that, Li Kuang stopped paying any attention to Ye Liangchen.
Clearly, if not for the Lord God's mission, he wouldn't have given Ye Liangchen the time of day.
Ye Liangchen stood in the frozen space, his gaze slowly sweeping around him. They called it a frozen space, but it was really still inside the dangerous, challenging Hell's Kitchen.
Every inch of air seemed thick with tension and unease. He, however, was unusually calm.
He looked up at the sun hanging in the sky. Its light seemed oddly harsh in Hell's Kitchen's sky, nothing like usual.
A faint unease rose in Ye Liangchen. He kept feeling that this Hell's Kitchen was different from the others, especially that sun overhead, as though it were hinting at some secret no one knew.
But the feeling was too subtle for him to pin down. All he could do was chalk it up to inexplicable instinct.
The foreboding circled in his heart like clouds over the sun, and he couldn't shake it.
But Ye Liangchen knew that here and now, any extra thought could be fatal.
So he shook his head quickly, cast the tangled thoughts aside, and focused on the mission ahead.
The countdown ticked in his ears. Every second seemed to remind him that battle was coming.
Not just Ye Liangchen. The other Reincarnators had long since been sharpening their blades, eager for the fight ahead.
Their eyes glittered with excitement and hunger, as if they could already see the points beckoning to them.
When the countdown ended, a barrier opened in an instant, like opening Pandora's box and releasing endless chaos and strife.
In a flash, a crowd surged forward like lightning, their shouts echoing through the space, full of battle fever.
"Charge!"
"Let's rack up points!"
But just as they were about to attack, disaster struck.
Countless dazzling lights suddenly burst open in the sky. Then every kind of attack rained down on them like a storm.
The attacks came so suddenly that no one had time to react. All they could do was watch death come for them.
"Quick, quick, defend!"
"Damn it, what's going on?!"
Smoke spread fast, blocking their sight, and the air filled with the acrid smell of scorching.
In the chaos, some Reincarnators had already fallen in pools of blood, their bodies torn apart by the violent impacts.
Others had survived by sheer luck, but lay on the ground gravely injured, groaning in pain.
Ye Liangchen stood at the very back of the crowd, watching it all, and felt a wave of relief.
He was glad he'd been cautious enough to stay in the back and avoid this sudden disaster.
But he felt no joy at all. If anything, his heart grew heavier.
Because he knew they'd been ambushed. This mission wasn't what they'd been told.
While his thoughts were still churning, the enemy's second wave hit like a raging storm. Fire ran wild in the air, thunder roared in the clouds, frost spread across the ground, as if the whole space were about to be swallowed. Ye Liangchen could even clearly hear incantations echoing through the air, like the whispers of Death.
"Avocado Kedavra!" A beam of green light split the sky, carrying the threat of death.
"Incendio!" Then a raging fire burst up from the ground, burning so hot the air around it warped.
The Reincarnators quickly put up their defenses against the second wave. But the enemy's attacks kept pouring in like a tide, leaving them scrambling.
Only then did the high-ranked Reincarnators finally react. They knew that if this went on, none of them would get out alive.
"Quick! Everyone scatter!" one high-ranked Reincarnator shouted.
No one needed telling twice. Some Reincarnators had already realized how urgent the danger was and fled in every direction. Ye Liangchen was among them, running with everything he had, trying to escape death's shadow.
But even as he ran, Ye Liangchen couldn't avoid being hit. A bolt of lightning struck a big tree right beside him, and the force of it nearly knocked him off his feet. He thanked his luck that it hadn't hit him directly.
What the hell is going on?! Ye Liangchen raged inside. He couldn't understand why a mission that should have gone smoothly had turned into this. Why were they being ambushed so savagely? The mystery seemed wrapped in thick fog, and he couldn't see the truth.
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