"It's starting! It's starting!" Li Qianxia got excited as if she were watching a movie.
She cocked her head and explained to Yang Qinglan, "There'll be a display soon. Whoever progresses faster will appear on the big screen. These Divine Will Crystals are—"
Roars destroying heaven and earth erupted from the audience seats. Those who were present had come prepared, or they were already experts in their own right. If it were ordinary people here, they would be literally shaken to death by the volume.
Amid the roaring of hundreds of billions of people, Li Qianxia and the others felt like they had become mortals again. Normal conversation was impossible, as they couldn't hear each other's voices.
Boom!
The main screen lit up with an image.
"Here it comes! It's here!" Li Qianxia gave up on explaining to Yang Qinglan and clutched her hand tightly.
Lightning raced, and the world turned a blazing white, shining on the corpse, making it appear as pale as a Japanese doll. Combined with its fully drenched body, it looked even more sinister and terrifying.
"Bang!" The lightning vanished, and the thunder roared like an explosion.
Amidst the thunder, the corpse shot out at high speed.
"Who?" A dock worker just turned around, the light in his hand only catching a glimpse of a shadow.
The worker's mouth was torn open, and the corpse burrowed in as if getting under a blanket.
"Ugh!!!!"
The worker's terrified whimpers sent chills down the audience's spines, and many shuddered.
But some in the audience fell into a frenzy.
"Yak! Yak! Yak!"
"Spirit Clan is number one! Long live the Spirit Clan!"
With frenzied cries accompanying the faint yet clear whimpers of despair from the worker on the screen, the second stage of the ranking tournament was underway.
"Ssssh—" The sound of paper being torn.
Bloodstains appeared on the worker's skin, blooming one after another, looking just like a doll's seam bursting, and competitor Yak had not yet fully stuffed his body inside.
Yak casually tore at the worker, completely ripping him apart, shedding this layer of "clothing," and the corpse leaped upwards, disappearing from the big screen.
The view switched to another patrolling worker who saw a shadow Jumping on the containers.
The worker wiped the rain off his face only to find that the shadow had vanished. Turning to leave, swoosh! The shadow pounced on his face.
The screen showed the worker's viewpoint, and the cries of the audience, especially those who had entered the virtual environment, resounded one after another, almost as if the shadow had pounced on them.
The camera rose above the second worker's whimpering, and with another lightning bolt, the brief flash of light revealed countless hands reaching onto the shore in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Li Qianxia watched with great excitement and whispered to Yang Qinglan, "It looks like this is a Dead Water Corpse coming ashore in the Heavy Rain, reliving the experience of 'Divine Will - Reanimating Corpse.' The players, no, the competitors will insert themselves into the corpse, reenacting this scene, but whether they can comprehend it is still up to the competitors themselves!"
As she spoke, several lamp posts fell onto the dock like straight swords, and the sound of sirens blared in all directions.
Gunshots rang out, striking the containers and sparking sharp showers of fiery splinters.
Soon, the cloud cover was forcibly dispersed, and an artificial sun turned the dark rainy night at the dock into a sunny clear day.
"According to the intelligence I've gathered, everyone failed to comprehend it this time," Li Qianxia started looking forward to the next scene.
Just as she said, the screen image disappeared, and the competitors on stage who were trying to comprehend this Divine Will suddenly woke up.
A faint smell of rainwater and decay spread from Yak.
"Ah!!"
"Yak! Yak! Yak!"
Yak's fans once again fell into madness. The rainwater Qi and the stench of decay implied that Yak had touched the threshold of the 'Divine Will - Dead Corpse Reincarnation.'
"This member of the Spirit Clan is also a super hot favorite. They're even better at understanding Divine Will than the people from Divine Will Star," said Sisi, her exquisite beauty tinged with seriousness.
She wasn't worried about Li Changzhou's advancement but rather whether he could be the first to advance.
All their Money was bet on this, although the Money from Earth would all be theirs regardless of the outcome (the amount of Earth's Money brought in would be the same amount taken back), their own Money was significant, and losing it would be painful.
Moreover, the odds for betting on the first place were astronomically high, reaching 23!
"Where's my brother? Where's my brother?" Li Qianxia didn't have time to watch the screen and started looking for Li Changzhou.
"Over there," Yang Qinglan pointed out. She and Li Changzhou had a bond of "life-and-death companionship," which allowed them to sense each other's location, far better than any mysterious twin sense.
Because there were too many competitors on the main stage, Li Changzhou and Si were seated in front of a violet Crystal on a sub-stage.
"Why is that guy sitting with Sisi?!"
"Die!"
"What Race is he from? Destroy his planet!"
"Sisi! Sisi!"
Various missiles and objects were thrown onto the stage, only to be blocked by a layer of violet light.
Li Changzhou waved to the frenzied audience, expressing his thanks and indicating that they didn't need to send flowers or gifts; they were being too polite.
"From today on, Earthlings will also have a presence in the universe," he said with satisfaction.
Si glanced at him, "I think you've misunderstood their intentions."
To prevent interference and avoid cheating, the competitors couldn't hear the audience, and all their communicative devices and Skills were put aside.
"Is that so?" Li Changzhou smiled.
Dozens of phantoms (possibilities) rushed out from Si, and in a moment, she left the stage.
Li Changzhou watched her go, preparing to start his comprehension, when a young Demon Star child squeezed through the crowd and patted his shoulder.