Facing a Nuclear Blast

"Mercenary Tao, I… what the hell is going on?!"

The numerous Qingyuns looked at one another, their pupils trembling uncontrollably. His mind had suffered an enormous shock, and he could not understand what had happened to him.

"Did you use some kind of ability on me?!"

One of the Qingyuns looked at Bai Cangshu, confusion and fear written all over his face. Yet before long, the other Qingyuns turned to look at Bai Cangshu as well.

Bai Cangshu watched the scene unfold. The technology of the Multi-Faced Star People had reached an inconceivable level. Every one of these copies possessed complete memories and a clear sense of self.

Thus, every one of them believed that he was the "original."

According to the theories of the Multi-Faced Star People, all things in the world were merely information. Even the soul, humanity’s greatest source of pride, was nothing more than a special kind of information weighing twenty-one grams.

Human emotions—love, hatred, grudges, pain, and parting—were all merely special signals. Humans possessed no unique component whatsoever.

Not only humans; in their theory, there had never been anything special in this world to begin with.

Life possessed no noble attributes.

Life was information. It could be copied, deleted, modified, and created.

All nobility, uniqueness, and self-importance were merely false legends fabricated by living beings when they could not comprehend the true nature of the world.

Just as, before humanity acquired scientific knowledge, weather phenomena such as lightning and rain were generally believed to be connected to supernatural entities, giving rise to the worship of gods.

But once humanity understood the principles behind them, it could generate electricity artificially and create rainfall artificially.

Mystery faded away, leaving behind only science.

At that moment, the survival mission on the Space Panel flickered brightly. This was likely the Space’s way of warning Bai Cangshu that some terrifying truth lay behind this place.

Yet he needed no such warning. Bai Cangshu had long known that the ones confronting him at this moment were definitely not the human tycoons and corporate magnates of this world who had acquired Gantz technology from the Multi-Faced Star People.

Human tycoons and corporate magnates did not possess such vision. They would have directly chosen Reincarnators to copy.

From the perspective of the humans controlling the black balls, the strongest Black Ball Team members in their eyes would undoubtedly be professional military squads like Team America, or gifted players like Oka Hachiro of the Osaka Team, who had earned one hundred points multiple times.

The Reincarnators had been in this world for no more than thirty days. At most, they had completed several missions. There was no way that would make those people realize how special and powerful Reincarnators were.

Moreover, Bai Cangshu guessed that no matter how unreliable the Infinite Dimensional Space was, it should not allow Reincarnators to have all their information copied immediately after entering a Black Ball Team.

If that were the case, then in theory, the Gantz world should have been classified as a world forbidden from entry. Sending in Reincarnators just once would create vast numbers of copies with Reincarnator abilities and information. That did not serve the Space’s interests.

Therefore, the ones targeting him and the other Reincarnators from behind the scenes, as well as the ones who had triggered this Purge Mission, were definitely the true higher-dimensional life forms—the Multi-Faced Star People.

"Think carefully. You should understand what your current situation is, right?"

The copy Bai Cangshu had just killed had not produced a Scarlet Drop Card for him. In other words, a copy was ultimately just a copy. Even the Multi-Faced Star People had failed to replicate the information of the Infinite Dimensional Space.

This copy could only be considered a clone with the Reincarnator’s memories, physical capabilities, and perhaps its original strength. It was not a Reincarnator.

Dozens of Qingyuns fell into thought at once. Soon, they realized that they had been resurrected by the black ball. Since the black ball could resurrect someone repeatedly, that was why so many of them had appeared.

Qingyun tried to open the Space Panel, but there was no response. At that moment, his mentality completely collapsed. It meant that he was not a Reincarnator at all and could not leave this world.

He was no longer a Reincarnator capable of traveling through the Myriad Worlds. He was merely an… NPC…

More than a dozen Qingyuns raised their heads to look at Bai Cangshu simultaneously. The despair in their eyes condensed into rage, and a powerful urge for self-destruction surged within them.

They immediately pulled out the X-Guns strapped to their legs, aimed at Bai Cangshu, and pulled the lock-on and firing triggers at the same time.

Bzz!

Bai Cangshu’s figure blurred in an instant. The next moment, Qingyun discovered that the lock-on box on the X-Gun had turned red, indicating that the target was beyond firing range.

Bai Cangshu stood in the air as golden light gathered once more at his fingertips. He intended to test something again: if the copies before him only counted as ordinary Plot Characters, would killing them yield ordinary Drop Cards?

Pfft!

Pfft!

The Dodon Rays instantly pierced through two men’s foreheads, but no Drop Cards appeared.

Bai Cangshu remained unmoved, still standing in the air. The mobility of the Sky Dancing Technique and the flexibility of the Dodon Ray had turned these First Tier Reincarnators into nothing more than slaughter targets.

Pfft!

You killed Qingyun and obtained 400 Dimensional Points

At last, a Drop Card wreathed in faint green light appeared above a corpse.

Bai Cangshu picked it up and opened it directly.

You opened a Drop Card (Green)

You obtained 1,500 Dimensional Points

You obtained Scroll: Basic Combat Mastery (Green)

Not only could he obtain Drop Cards normally, he could even receive mastery scrolls from them.

Bai Cangshu turned around, and the look in his eyes as he watched the crowd of copies changed…

Qingyun clearly sensed Mercenary Tao’s malice as well. Because every copy possessed complete thoughts and a distinct personality, each of them believed himself to be the true "me." The rage born of self-destruction was now scattered by fear.

They began trying to flee again. Suddenly, one Qingyun, who had been staring up at Mercenary Tao’s movements, froze as though he had seen something unbelievable.

"What is that…?"

Bai Cangshu frowned as well and turned to look at the sky. A gigantic missile more than thirty meters long tore across the heavens from the open sea, rapidly flying toward his location.

Even with his defensive capabilities, he could genuinely sense a warning of danger.

This was… a nuclear missile?!

Someone was going to nuke Osaka?!

And not just that. Bai Cangshu could clearly see two missiles passing through the atmosphere. One was descending toward his location, while the other was likely aimed at Tokyo.

The terrifying roar of Mach twenty had already exploded like thunder. A sea of burning clouds stretched from the open sea across the city’s sky, stabbing toward them like a sword.

Qingyun and Oka Hachiro fully realized what was happening, but they could only watch in despair as that immense blaze descended.

Bai Cangshu stood where he was, his hair whipping wildly as his eyes turned blue-white. He neither activated Instant to try to hide in an air-raid shelter nor intended to flee with the Sky Dancing Technique.

He merely stood there, his gaze growing ever more fervent.

Crackle!

Electric current surged through his body. Some frenzied emotion drove the power of his Current Propulsion to an even more intense level. The lightning acupoint in his lower dantian had fully condensed, while another acupoint emerged in his upper abdomen.

At the same time, jet-black Armament Haki condensed over Bai Cangshu’s body inch by inch. The black-red lightning unique to Conqueror’s Haki infusion also began to crawl across his body, spilling out into the space hundreds of meters around him.

From the first day he became a Reincarnator, Bai Cangshu had harbored a mad thought. He wanted to completely surpass every limitation and Binding Vow. Naturally, that included the final trump card of real-world order—nuclear explosions.

As the Heavenfall Flame descended from the sky, Bai Cangshu suddenly sensed a new fluctuation among Qingyun’s copies.

He turned and saw another face beginning to emerge from one copy’s chest.

It was a Multi-Faced Star Person!

Boom!

Blinding light and heat erupted from the outer river beside Osaka’s commercial district, then instantly swept through the surroundings and devoured everything.

Bai Cangshu stood in place. The air was completely incinerated at the first instant, and he could no longer draw in oxygen.

Then came the terrifying impact force and searing heat, crashing violently toward him, only to be blocked before him by the power of the Limitless Cursed Technique.

"Ha… hahaha, hello… nuclear blast!"

Amid the horrifying light and heat, a figure slowly came up behind Bai Cangshu. It extended a hand as though to touch him, but stopped within the Limitless Cursed Technique before him.

"Recording new information. Information suspected to be paradoxical has been applied in the field of energy manipulation…"

Bai Cangshu turned around. Qingyun’s face was incomparably stiff, but the face on his chest was looking at Bai Cangshu.

"In order to allow you to meet with me more safely, I arranged this nuclear blast. I hope you can understand…"