Chapter 844: Experimental Ground

He even wanted to rush forward and grab Zhou Huai by the collar.

But before he could get close, an invisible repulsive force erupted!

"Bang!"

Zhou Feng was hit hard in the chest by the repulsive force, flying backward five or six meters before crashing heavily onto the ground, wincing in pain.

In his mind, Chun's conscious voice sounded once again: "Zhou Huai, your power has returned, and the underlying logic of this space is being reconstructed. Destroy this place directly; these are nothing more than NPCs fabricated by Mr. Duan using High-Dimensional Laws."

"No."

Zhou Huai replied in his consciousness.

"Although they were created by Mr. Duan, this illusion is too Advanced. They are flesh and blood, and even… have their own Souls."

In this parallel world, they possessed complete memory logic, experienced joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and had real heartbeats.

Furthermore, during the brief time in this illusion, these three people had filled a void deep within his heart.

Zhou Huai reined in the violent Killing Intent around his body.

He took strides forward and walked up to Zhou Feng, his mother, and Ye Xi.

The storm gradually subsided, but a heavy sense of oppression still permeated the air.

Zhou Huai ignored Zhou Feng's guard and resistance, looking down at the three of them. There was no Killing Intent in the depths of his eyes, and his face remained gentle.

"I am Zhou Huai."

Zhou Huai's voice reached the ears of every single one of them.

"However, I am not the Zhou Huai you know."

To an NPC, these words were tantamount to a dimensional-reduction strike. Zhou Feng clutched his chest, staring blankly at Zhou Huai as if he had just heard the most absurd joke in the world.

Zhou Huai couldn't bear to hurt them. His gaze swept over his mother's tear-stained face and Ye Xi's heaving shoulders one by one.

"Thank you."

"Although all of this is an open scheme by Mr. Duan, I still want to thank you for giving me a good dream."

Zhou Huai lowered his head and could only softly say, "I'm sorry, I have to leave."

Ye Xi's body trembled.

Her tears had already ruined her delicate face, and she desperately rushed forward two steps.

"Brother Zhou Huai!"

Ye Xi mustered her courage to speak, stretching out her hands to touch Zhou Huai's arm. She raised her head, looking at him through tear-filled eyes, her voice full of grievance and reluctance: "You… where are you going?"

"Are you still angry with me? Is it because I changed to an A-rank class that you think I would look down on you like Liu Yuru did?"

Ye Xi cried out, "Can you please not leave? Whether you are E-rank or SS-rank, you are still my Brother Zhou Huai! Didn't we promise to always be together?"

Faced with this sincere and desperate plea to stay, Zhou Huai fell silent.

He did not dodge Ye Xi's hand.

He let that pair of soft little hands grab his arm, which was already beginning to gleam with a dark golden light.

"Xier."

Zhou Huai softly called out this name and extended his other hand to gently wipe away the tears on Ye Xi's cheeks.

"I am not angry with you. On the contrary, I am very glad to be able to see you as you are now in this dream."

Looking at the girl in front of him who had cried into a tearful mess, Battle Intent capable of burning down the heavens and earth burned within his chest: "However, in the outside world, tens of millions of people are being slaughtered. There are no blue skies there, only doomsday."

"If I stay here, this dream will sooner or later turn into a true Hell."

Zhou Huai resolutely turned around.

"To do what I ought to do."

"To kill the people I ought to kill."

As soon as those words fell.

Zhou Huai's gaze turned sharp.

He didn't spare another glance at this fake world, nor did he pay attention to the so-called classmates and teachers trembling in fear around him.

"Arthur, abyssal blood battle armor!"

"Hum—!"

Accompanied by Zhou Huai's low shout.

In the firmament, the phantom of the Abyssal Magic Dragon roared outward! The violent Quasi-God Level Dragon might pressed everyone on the entire playground flat onto the ground, unable to move at all!

Afterwards, the dragon phantom transformed into countless dark dragon scale armors, attaching to Zhou Huai's body at an extremely fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Huai, clad in the abyssal blood battle armor and holding the abyssal blood dragon spear, stood tall between heaven and earth!

"Bang!"

Zhou Huai slammed his legs fiercely against the ground.

The entire class-transfer platform instantly shattered under his feet, turning into countless flying gravel fragments!

Zhou Huai soared straight into the sky!

He transformed into a streak of dark golden lightning tearing through space, pushing against the high-dimensional Death Qi pouring down from the hole in the firmament, surging upward against the current!

"Boom—!!!"

A sonic boom cloud exploded mid-air!

He pierced through that layer of shattered blue canopy, flew directly out through the large hole in the firmament, and completely disappeared at the edge of this parallel world!

On the playground.

The silence lasted for a full few minutes.

That huge hole in the sky was still there, with creepy black fog churning outside.

What on earth was going on?

How did Zhou Huai just fly away? Outside that hole… what kind of place was it?!

For a moment, countless people came to their senses and began to discuss animatedly. The entire Donghai City completely fell into wild speculation and panic.

Zhou Feng slumped to the ground, staring blankly at the hole in the sky, his eyes dull as all his strength was drained.

As for his mother, she held Ye Xi tightly in her arms, the two of them hugging each other and weeping. They didn't know where Zhou Huai had gone; they only understood that the Zhou Huai belonging to them would never come back.

At this very moment.

Passing through the dimensional barrier constructed by the mental Law.

Zhou Huai's vision darkened before his eyes.

By his ears, there was no longer the sound of the wind, nor Ye Xi's calls.

Rushing toward him was an extremely pungent smell of blood and a nauseating stench of rotting flesh.

Zhou Huai hovered mid-air and looked back.

The flawless world he had just left, viewed from the outside, turned out to be nothing more than a massive sphere that was pitch-black on the outside and covered in obscure data streams.

This black sphere floated quietly in nothingness, and the only glowing location was the breach in the firmament that Zhou Huai had forcefully smashed open with the abyssal nether chain. Blue fragments of the mental Law were escaping outward from the breach, shriveling up.

"To knead the underlying logic and mental Law so seamlessly, and even perfectly simulate the emotional feedback mechanism of NPCs…" Zhou Huai closed his eyes and carefully perceived the remaining magical power fluctuations inside.

The world created by Mr. Duan was not large; at most, it was the size of Donghai City, and even the map of the suburbs hadn't been loaded.

But wanting to create such a realistic and rich world out of thin air using High-Dimensional power without the assistance of any Heavenly Dao System was by no means an easy feat. Every minor heartbeat check and physical simulation of every breeze required consuming massive computing power and Origin energy.

It was evident that in order to trap Zhou Huai's consciousness inside forever, Mr. Duan had spared no expense and gone through painstaking efforts.

"Unfortunately, you still underestimated the armor-breaking check of the abyssal nether chain." Zhou Huai sneered.

He paid no more attention to the gradually collapsing Donghai City black sphere. In this perilous abyss, he had to figure out the surrounding terrain and rules.

"Void Omniscience, open."

Zhou Huai mobilized the Law of Space of Void Lawkeeper Victor within his body.

Hum——

A ring of transparent ripples, invisible to the naked eye, centered on Zhou Huai and swept outward in an explosive manner toward the depths of this endless darkness.

However, as Victor's perception network, which ignored all obstacles, rapidly expanded, Zhou Huai couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation of surprise.

"Interesting."

In the dark dimension, there wasn't just the illusion black sphere from earlier.

On the radar panel of Void perception, the red dots representing independent worlds surged exponentially.

Ten.

A hundred.

Dense and packed, hundreds and thousands of them!

These pitch-black spheres came in various sizes; the small ones had a diameter of no more than several hundred meters, while the large ones were even equivalent to a province of Great Xia Country. They floated quietly in the silent darkness, completely integrated into the surrounding environment. The naked eye was completely unable to capture their outlines, but under Victor's perceptual feedback, they presented clear outlines like stars in the night sky.

On the surface of every sphere circulated distinct Law codes and Restriction runes, making them look like massive culture dishes suspended in the Void Realm.