Game Universe: Awakening and Enhancing Everything at the Start

Chapter 26 The Time-Condensing Main Quest

Huang Hong fell from the sky. He first looked around cautiously, and only relaxed after confirming that he was temporarily safe.

The events that had just occurred were so terrifying that even Huang Hong, with his composure, needed to calm down a bit.

Huang Hong didn't know the upper limit of the arrogant man's strength, but he truly understood that the latter could kill him with just a glance, even if he was wearing Iron Man armor.

Under those circumstances, Huang Hong naturally dared not be the first to stand out, and instead carefully hid himself, afraid of being noticed.

Fortunately, we managed to get through that hurdle without any major incident.

Next, let's see what this spacetime echo is all about.

After calming down, Huang Hongcai carefully looked around. He was currently on the roof of a residential building, which was probably only six or seven stories high.

Reaching the edge of the rooftop and looking into the distance, Huang Hong noticed that the entire city exuded an eerie sense of silence. The houses were dilapidated, and there were some wrecked vehicles and skeletons on the ground, as if it had experienced some kind of disaster.

So far, Huang Hong has not seen a single living person, including the humans who entered the spacetime echo with him. Clearly, everyone is being very cautious and intentionally hiding themselves.

The sun in the sky was not the kind of red sun that was common in Anyue City, but rather a sun more like the normal sun before the disaster.

Just then, an invisible stream of information poured directly into Huang Hong's mind...

[Time-space echo...entering...*&%￥#...overlapping@#%*...distorting￥#@#...collapse&*%￥...]

[The Time-Space Mission has been forcibly locked. Main Mission: Defeat the final target. Only by completing this mission can you escape the Time-Space Echo. Mission duration: 24 hours. After the time limit expires, the Time-Space Echo will be forcibly closed.]

[Side quests have been unlocked...]

[Plunder: Unbridled killing and destruction to seize more spacetime energy.]

[Note: The lack of spacetime energy will make spacetime echoes more unstable, shortening the main quest time.]

[Note: After the mission concludes, the person with the most spacetime energy will receive a 'special' reward.]

After receiving this information, Huang Hong's expression turned serious. He reached out and placed his hand on the railing in front of him, then suddenly squeezed and crushed a corner of it. He immediately felt an extremely weak but exceptionally clear force surge into his body.

Huang Hong instinctively understood that this was the spacetime energy mentioned in the prompt. Although he did not yet know the specific uses of this spacetime energy, nor could he directly mobilize it, Huang Hong understood that this should be a very precious resource.

But the scene before him made Huang Hong's face turn ugly. Killing and destruction can obtain spacetime energy, but plundering spacetime energy will destroy the spacetime echo itself, resulting in a reduction of the main mission time.

The key issue now is that Huang Hong doesn't even know what the so-called "ultimate goal" is.

This spacetime echo is a huge zero-sum game. Once others can't resist their greed and start to destroy and seize spacetime energy, it will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the main quest time.

It's not that humans are incapable of rational thinking, but rather that the world has never lacked "intelligent people"!

They are adept at sacrificing the interests of the collective to satisfy their own selfish desires; as long as they survive in the end, they are the winners.

There's a simple saying that perfectly describes their mentality: "The bold get rich, the timid starve!"

Even if they know that doing so will drastically reduce the chances of survival for everyone, including themselves!

Huang Hong had no intention of testing whether he could be teleported out unharmed after the spacetime echo was forcibly shut down.

He has always believed that as long as he doesn't gamble, he will never lose!

Thinking of this, Huang Hong turned and walked towards the stairs. He needed to act quickly; he didn't want to entrust his life to others.

Just then, a series of loud explosions suddenly came from afar.

Huang Hong looked in the direction of the sound and saw two tall buildings tilting and collapsing as if they had been precisely blown up.

Huang Hong's gaze darkened, and he quickened his pace.

As he entered the staircase, his animal instincts suddenly detected something amiss, as if some being had abruptly appeared very close to him.

After seeing the unknown entity clearly through the corridor, Huang Hong was relieved. It turned out to be a zombie, a frequent character in horror games and movies.

When the zombie was not moving, it was no different from a dead person. It only woke up after sensing Huang Hong's movements.

Considering the troublesome nature of zombies, which are highly contagious, Huang Hong didn't intend to let the other party get close to him. He drew his Tang sword and beheaded it directly.

Instantly, more than ten times the amount of spacetime energy that had destroyed the stone before surged into Huang Hong's body, though it was still only a very weak trace.

Huang Hong hadn't expected that this was a city overrun by zombies. Based on his previous observations, there were probably no living people left in this city.

Huang Hong did not try to hide when he went downstairs, and this commotion attracted more and more zombies to attack him.

These zombies are strange. Some are like old people in their twilight years, not only swaying but also walking very awkwardly. However, a small number of them are completely different. They are not only agile and swift, but their strength and the toughness of their skin and bones far exceed those of ordinary humans. They even seem to have some kind of method in their every move.

However, these were all minor issues for Huang Hong, who was already a veteran of countless battles. He broke through the residential building in just a few minutes.

Huang Hong gently shook the sword, which had become spotless again, and sheathed it.

In just this short time, the entire city became lively again, which was a long time ago. It was clear that the humans who had entered had begun to take action.

Huang Hong's gaze shifted to the collapsed building, and he rushed towards it without hesitation.

Regardless of who is demolishing the building, he needs to stop them in order to allow enough time to complete the main quest.

In the western district, two figures carrying large packages cautiously peeked out from a dark alleyway.

The burly man behind hesitated for a moment, then said, "Brother Niu, is what we're doing a bad idea? I feel like after we blew up that building, the main quest time seems to have shortened a lot. What if..."

Walking ahead, Niu Ge, a head shorter than the burly man and looking somewhat thin, turned around and glared at him, cursing, "Er Gou, don't you dare mess with me! That so-called main quest sounds incredibly dangerous. Let's not get involved. Before that, let's blow up a few more buildings. This spacetime energy is definitely a good thing. Once we've accumulated enough, we'll stop!"

Er Gou still looked somewhat worried.

Brother Niu snorted and said, "Don't worry, with the time limit reduced, the big shots will be the first to panic. They'll definitely try every means to complete the main quest. Even if we don't harvest the spacetime energy now, they will. Do you want to just watch others eat the meat while we don't even get a sip of soup?!"