Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 512 - 486: Power Projection

In the darkness, Chen Shouyi suddenly opened his eyes:

"That scared me to death."

His chest rose and fell violently, and he could still vaguely feel a stinging pain all over his body.

"Huh, something’s wrong! This isn’t an illusion; it really hurts!" He quickly realized.

He felt around his body and hurriedly got up to check.

His skin was fiery red and vaguely showed signs of some slight ulceration.

"This..."

Chen Shouyi’s eyes widened, full of disbelief: "This is impossible!"

This is in the memory world.

The injuries sustained there could actually project onto the real body.

He got up from the bed, lit an oil lamp, and the light quickly flared up. In no time, he noticed that his body was covered with various blood blisters, and his skin had become somewhat ulcerated. A slight pinch with his fingers caused pus to ooze out.

The air was filled with a foul stench.

He realized that the protective legendary energy had absolutely no resistance to this toxin. It completely collapsed at the first encounter, retreating step by step.

Chen Shouyi felt a chill down his spine, his brows slightly furrowed.

"The memory world used to be just the memory world, like playing in an exceedingly realistic virtual world, no different from the real world, yet it was false. No matter the injuries I suffered inside, even death, they would not affect me at all... but now it seems this is obviously not the case."

"Or rather, the level of damage used to be too low!" Chen Shouyi couldn’t help but feel a bit agitated: "Damn, fortunately, I didn’t mess around too much, and withdrew in time; otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable."

Luckily, this kind of injury is still within the scope of Natural Healing!

He felt the ulceration slowing down, and soon it began to stop, then slowly diminish.

A few minutes later, the skin completely healed.

He wiped his hand.

Countless scabs fell down, covering the floor in a layer.

With a thought, countless dead skin fragments floated up from the floor, flying into the trash can, and he thought silently: "Faced with such beings in the future, I mustn’t mess around again."

...

The night was deep, and for some reason, no sooner had Chen Shouyi lain down again than the sound of gunfire and cannons in the distance became dense, like a pot of boiling thick porridge.

The village was also gradually becoming noisy.

"Seems like something’s happening?" Chen Shouyi opened his eyes and quickly got dressed.

Before long, an officer came to the door.

"What, shadow creatures are attacking the front line on a large scale!"

...

Inside a car.

Zhu Xueqing, looking sleepy, covered her mouth, yawned, and asked, "Do you think it might be due to our actions yesterday?"

"It’s very possible? After all, yesterday President Chen killed one of the demigods on their side. They might be infuriated, or perhaps they sensed danger and are trying to strike first." Said Wang Lie seriously at the side.

Chen Shouyi didn’t speak, but he suspected in his heart that it was because he entered the Memory Virtual World.

The timing was just too coincidental. Hardly had he left the Memory Virtual World when the shadow creatures began a massive attack.

He remembered two years ago, when he went to Hedong to participate in a martial artist assessment, he encountered that mysterious presence on the train.

Back then, he attempted to spy on it within the memory space, but it sensed it keenly, erasing all traces of its existence in his memory with its power projection.

Now he couldn’t remember that mysterious presence’s specific appearance, nor if it was male or female, or even if it truly existed.

If not for the deep impression the event left on him back then, he might have forgotten about it entirely.

Of course, this Barbarian God was obviously much weaker than that mysterious existence. His memory of its image remained clear and without any ambiguity, though it might slightly sense his spying.

...

The car raced rapidly, reaching the front line in half an hour.

"Bang bang bang!"

Accompanied by the sound of doors closing, Chen Shouyi and others got out of the car.

Chen Shouyi felt the faint field of fear permeating the air, and his heart sank slightly: "It’s spread here already; is it because of the soldiers’ fear?"

The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder. The fire trails of tracers whipped through the air like long whips, and numerous flares hung high in the sky, emitting dazzling light, making the battlefield momentarily look like daytime.

However, the effect was not good.

...

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

A young-faced soldier operated a machine gun, firing wildly at all visible shadows in the distance, clearly having lost control of his emotions.

He completely failed to notice a shadow creature creeping silently towards him, on all fours, sticking to the shadows of a small tree. Suddenly, it leaped gracefully and swung its claw.

The young soldier felt a chill in his throat and hurriedly clutched it with his hands, but blood still gushed out from between his fingers. He turned his head with difficulty, looking at a mass of shadow rushing into the crowd and starting a massacre. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

His strength drained away as if a dam had burst. His body went limp, and he fell to the ground with a thud, looking blankly at the night sky, his eyes filled with longing for this world.

...

The war was at a stalemate.

In fact, the number of shadow creatures was not large, less than a ten-to-one ratio compared to the soldiers, but each time a shadow creature broke into the lines, it caused small-scale chaos and collapse.

In the night, these terrifying creatures looked almost indistinguishable from shadows, like natural-born assassins, making them hard to guard against. To the soldiers, they were undoubtedly more terrifying than barbarians, like a nightmare.

Even if Chen Shouyi wasn’t paying attention, he might overlook them.

The role of him and those Martial Artists was to act as firefighters, quickly killing any shadow creature that broke into the lines and caused chaos.

Until dawn, the shadow creatures retreated like a tide.

...

Many wounded lay on stretchers, carried by soldiers, passing by.

Chen Shouyi stepped over a corpse and looked up at the sky; today’s weather was gloomy again.

"Chen Shouyi?" A soldier with a face full of soot looked at Chen Shouyi in surprise, asking somewhat uncertainly.

Chen Shouyi heard someone calling him, turned around, and recognized the other person’s face, vaguely familiar.

"You are... Zhu Shaoqiang?"

"It’s really you!" Zhu Shaoqiang came over, slapping him hard on the shoulder with a look of delight: "You’ve changed so much, I almost didn’t recognize you. It’s been years since we’ve seen each other, two years, right?"

Zhu Shaoqiang was his classmate back in high school, before classes were divided in senior year, and also the sports committee member of the class.

Back then, he was the most promising one in class to become a Martial Artist Apprentice, but he joined the army before even graduating high school.

Although Chen Shouyi didn’t interact much with him before, and they were just casual acquaintances, at this moment, both felt an indescribable sense of closeness.

"Yes, nearly two years. I heard you joined the army, but I didn’t expect you to be stationed here!" Chen Shouyi said with a smile.

"Oh, my grandpa and my dad were both veterans of this unit, so I came here due to some connections." Zhu Shaoqiang said, not boasting about his lieutenant rank or martial artist prowess.

When he patted his shoulder just now, he felt like he was patting a rock, as if the other’s body hadn’t moved at all.

Besides, wearing casual clothes on the battlefield, even using his toes to think, he knew this previously inconspicuous classmate now had an extraordinary status.