120: Chapter 112 Inviting a Wolf into the House! Horror Descends on Jiangcheng, I Use the Imperial Seal to Guard the Nation's Gate

A blood-colored eyeball hung fixedly in the night sky over Jiang City.

Dense clusters of system garbled code wriggled frantically around the eyeball like maggots. A crimson light pillar crudely tore through the clouds, heading straight for the glass window of the Pei family's living room.

The air temperature plummeted off a cliff, and a thick layer of white frost instantly crawled across the glass.

Meng Tian rubbed his hands together and gripped the shaft of his black iron spear tightly.

His heavy black armor pressed against itself, making a tooth-aching sound of metal friction. The fierce Great Qin general strode to the window and looked up directly at the blood eye in the sky.

The bone-deep scar on his left eye twisted hideously as his facial muscles contracted.

"Mere barbarian evil spirits dare to look directly upon the imperial majesty of Great Qin?" Meng Tian sneered, his voice as thick as thunder.

Without even a moment of extra preparation, the muscles in his right arm suddenly bulged, making his arm guards creak. The black iron spear turned into an afterimage and thrust straight forward!

The tip of the spear precisely penetrated the glass. Curiously, not a single crack appeared on the entire pane.

A dense surge of black-gold baleful aura erupted from the spear tip like a volcano! This current of air spiraled upward, arrogantly smashing through the clouds in the night sky and slamming hard into that giant blood-colored eyeball.

The system garbled code inside the blood eye began to flicker frantically, desperately trying to reorganize the rule barrier.

But the black-gold baleful aura was completely unreasonable.

It contained the mountain of corpses and sea of blood from thirty million Great Qin soldiers crushing the six kingdoms! The moment the two forces collided, the garbled code barrier was torn apart on the spot like it was made of paper.

Countless terrifying cracks burst open on the surface of the eyeball, and foul-smelling red juice mixed with broken data streams crashed down from mid-air like a heavy rainstorm.

Accompanied by a burst of piercing, lagging electronic static, the blood-colored eyeball exploded completely in mid-air, turning into a pool of black smoke that dissipated with the wind.

Starlight shone once more in the night sky of Jiang City, as if the apocalypse that had just descended was merely an illusion.

Meng Tian withdrew his spear expressionlessly and turned to stand behind Pei Duo.

The spear thudded heavily onto the floor. He lowered his head and eyes, and that heaven-shaking murderous intent that could drive a person mad was instantly retracted completely.

Xu Mo pushed the glasses up the bridge of his nose and leaned toward the window to look outside.

"The system chickened out," Xu Mo sneered. "It didn't dare to descend its main body, so it sent an eyeball over as an anchor, purely to frantically test the defensive baseline of our Jiang City."

Pei Duo stepped forward and pulled the curtains shut with a 'swish', completely blocking out the night outside.

"The system lost its core in the Chang'an dungeon, so it's severely weakened right now." Pei Duo's tone was calm. "It can't mobilize large-scale erasure programs, so it can only resort to these petty, underhanded tricks to annoy us."

Lin Sa slid her dagger back into the sheath on the outside of her thigh.

"We are in the light, and the system is in the dark." Lin Sa frowned. "Jiang City has a population of millions. If the system truly goes insane and drops a reality dungeon in the downtown area, it would be an absolute massacre."

Pei Duo walked to the coffee table and sat down, taking a sip of the cold tea.

"It's going to great lengths to kill me and steal the imperial seal of china; the anchor will definitely be set in the place closest to me." Pei Duo put down the teacup, her thoughts extremely clear.

"Xu Mo, use the underworld emissary token to investigate any abnormal energy fluctuations in Jiang City over the last two days. Lin Sa, keep a close eye on the news for missing persons. If the system wants to open a reality dungeon, it will definitely drain the souls of ordinary people first to use as startup capital."

The two immediately nodded. Xu Mo pulled out the underworld emissary token and began rapidly cross-referencing data, while Lin Sa pulled open the living room door and slipped into the hallway like a nocturnal cat to handle the outer perimeter security.

The wall clock ticked, pointing exactly to three in the morning.

In the master bedroom, Father Pei and Mother Pei were sleeping soundly. Pei Duo leaned against the back of the sofa, her fingers unconsciously stroking the black jade pendant on her chest. Meng Tian stood quietly behind her like a breathless black iron tower.

Pei Duo pulled a square-folded piece of yellow paper from her pocket.

This was the Underworld Message Talisman Sun Ce had stuffed into her hand before leaving. She threw the yellow paper into the ashtray on the coffee table and pressed the lighter next to it.

The yellow paper began to burn, but no flame was visible; instead, it sizzled and emitted pale green smoke.

The smoke did not dissipate but gathered strangely above the coffee table, quickly condensing into a blurry smoke-water mirror. The image flickered twice, and Sun Ce's resolute face appeared in the center.

He had already changed into the purple-gold python robe unique to the Hall Master of The Seventh Hall and wore a Ping Tian Crown. Not only had his previous heavy injuries healed, but his entire aura as a Ghost Immortal had ascended a major level.

Upon seeing Pei Duo, Sun Ce immediately cupped his hands through the water mirror and bowed deeply.

"Your subordinate, Sun Ce, greets the Eldest Princess!"

Pei Duo sat up straight, her gaze piercing through the water mirror. "My brother just went back; is the situation down there stable?"

Sun Ce stood straight, his expression visibly darkening.

"His Majesty the Underworld Son of Heaven is currently in seclusion in the deepest part of Fengdu, forcibly digesting the original power of the Takamagahara pantheon," Sun Ce reported in a low voice. "After taking over The Seventh Hall, I investigated the records from the past three months. Those Western pantheons have been as restless as mad dogs lately."

"The remnants of Mount Olympus and Norse mythology are frantically massing troops on the border, clearly testing the baseline of our Huaxia Underworld."

Pei Duo let out a cold laugh: "They have quite the nerve. My brother just finished rubbing Izanami into the dirt, and they're already rushing to deliver their heads?"

Sun Ce lowered his voice, leaning almost to the edge of the water mirror.

"The Eldest Princess is wise; they indeed do not dare to face us head-on." Sun Ce said through gritted teeth, "I interrogated several Western spirits who crossed the border and dug out a top-secret piece of intelligence. The high-level officials of the Western pantheons have secretly hooked up with the Thriller Game system!"

Xu Mo's fingers tapping on the screen suddenly stopped, and he looked up to stare fixedly at the water mirror.

Sun Ce continued: "In order to erase you, the system has completely abandoned its humanity! It actively opened a backdoor in the barriers of the mortal world. The Western pantheons are using this backdoor to continuously shove their high-level god projections into the real world!"

"Their goal is only one—the imperial seal of china in your hands! Once the seal is taken, a gap will be torn in Huaxia's dragon vein providence, and they will be able to drive straight in!"

After hearing this, Pei Duo's eyes instantly became so cold they could drop ice shards.

"They can't win so they call for backup; the system really can't afford to play fair." Pei Duo's fingers tapped on the table. "Where did they choose for the drop point?"

Sun Ce immediately opened a pitch-black dossier.

"The system quietly dropped a large-scale reality dungeon in Jiang City to act as a cover." Sun Ce spoke rapidly. "According to the abnormal fluctuations in The Seventh Hall's book of life and death, a private hospital in the South District of Jiang City has seen an extremely eerie spike in its mortality rate over the past twenty-four hours."

"That place was originally for patients with minor illnesses, yet a large number of them died suddenly and bizarrely within a single day. The most suspicious part is that the book of life and death cannot find their cause of death at all; not a single one of their souls has reported to the Underworld!"

Xu Mo's fingers slid frantically across his phone screen, pulling up an electronic map of Jiang City and zooming directly into the South District.

"South District, Deji Private Hospital." Xu Mo pushed his glasses, his expression grim. "This hospital was fully acquired by a foreign company half a month ago. It's surrounded by dense residential areas and commercial streets. If this dungeon completely explodes, at least fifty thousand people will be dragged in to fill it with their lives!"

Sun Ce slapped his thigh anxiously in the mirror: "Eldest Princess! Those souls are all being intercepted in the mortal world to serve as nourishment for the Western god projections! Once they've absorbed enough vitality, the projections will solidify completely in the mortal world. At that time, what descends will be Western false gods possessing divine sparks!"

"I implore the Eldest Princess to immediately give the order; The Seventh Hall's underworld soldiers are ready to cross the boundary to provide support at any time!"

Pei Duo raised her hand, decisively cutting Sun Ce off.

"The laws of the mortal world are too fragile to withstand a large-scale crossing of underworld soldiers. Forcibly breaking the barrier would turn Jiang City into a wasteland at the intersection of Yin and Yang in an instant." Pei Duo stood up, her gaze cold. "My territory, I will clear it myself."

"You hold The Seventh Hall and keep a close eye on the Western pantheons' movements in the Underworld. Report any signs of trouble immediately."

Sun Ce did not dare to disobey and immediately lowered his head to take the order: "Your subordinate obeys! Please be careful, Eldest Princess. The authorities held by Western false gods are extremely sinister; do not underestimate the enemy!"

The green smoke dispersed, and the water mirror vanished. The yellow paper turned completely into a pile of ash that fell into the ashtray.

Pei Duo walked to Xu Mo's side and looked down at the phone screen. The Deji Hospital buildings appeared on the map as an irregular cross, like a poisonous fang nailed into Jiang City's main thoroughfare.

Xu Mo pressed the underworld emissary token against the screen. An extremely faint red light flashed across the token's surface, pointing fixedly toward the South District.

"Sun Ce's intelligence is correct." Xu Mo gritted his teeth. "The system covered up the energy fluctuations over there so tightly that if it weren't for the book of life and death being extremely sensitive to soul numbers, we wouldn't have noticed at all. This 'crossing the sea under camouflage' trick is truly dirty."

The door was pushed open, and Lin Sa flashed inside.

"No movement on the outer perimeter of the community downstairs." Lin Sa spoke very fast. "But I just saw from the roof that several ambulances with no sirens are racing like mad toward the South District."

Pei Duo grabbed her coat from the sofa and put it on. The black jade pendant against her skin transmitted a steady, powerful thumping—it was the instinctive fighting spirit of the Great Qin dragon vein when facing a provocation.

"The system let the Western false gods in because it wants to use the rules of other pantheons to counter the imperial laws of Great Qin." Pei Duo sneered. "Deji Hospital is now a breeding ground for monsters."

She turned her head to look at Meng Tian, who stood behind her like a mountain.

"Meng Tian," Pei Duo called out.

"The general is here!" Meng Tian stepped forward, his combat boots making a dull thud on the floor.

Pei Duo pointed at Deji Hospital on the map and said word by word: "Two thousand years ago, you led an army of three hundred thousand to strike the Xiongnu in the north, driving the barbarian tribes out of the Hetao Plain. Today, a group of blonde-haired, blue-eyed Western false gods wants to snatch the providence on our Huaxia's territory."

Meng Tian's fingers tightened around his spear, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged like coiled dragons. The murderous intent in his single eye almost condensed into substance.

"Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the rivers reach, all is the land of Huaxia!" Meng Tian's voice carried the bloody scent of iron and steel. "No matter how many of those barbarian tribes dare to step into the Nine Provinces, this general will kill them all!"

Pei Duo withdrew her gaze with satisfaction and turned to Xu Mo.

"Xu Mo, you stay behind." Pei Duo issued her instructions. "Use the underworld emissary token to set up a monitoring array on this floor to protect my parents. At the same time, cut off all network signals around Deji Hospital; we cannot let news of the dungeon's descent cause social panic. Lin Sa, bring your gear and follow me."

Xu Mo shoved his phone into Pei Duo's hand: "I've sent the hospital's renovation blueprints to your phone. After the foreign company took over, they completely hollowed out the third basement level. I suspect the core altar of the dungeon is hidden underground. You must be careful inside; the authorities of Western gods are corrosive. Don't easily trigger large-scale destruction of rules."

Lin Sa didn't waste a single word; she pulled out her dagger to check the edge and sheathed it again.

"Ready to depart."

Pei Duo grabbed the doorknob and pushed the door open, walking directly into the heavy darkness of the hallway.

Meng Tian's tall figure instantly turned into a thick mass of black mist, silently merging into Pei Duo's shadow.

At this moment, above Deji Hospital.

Black clouds as thick as ink were gathering frantically at an extremely abnormal speed, smothering the dawn light that was about to break over Jiang City into a dead silence. A real-world battle between a legendary Huaxia general and Western false gods officially began in the early morning of this city!