943 Death crisis! (1/2)
”What happened?”
A dazed voice sounded. Those few men were obviously clueless regarding what was actually happening. Looking at everyone's expression, they shifted their gaze to their feet.
There the sand suddenly became soft, and their feet unknowingly sank into it. What was even more unbelievable was the speed was still increasing.
”Sand?”
”Stuck?”
A man sneered, ”Oh, I was wondering what you guys were afraid of. It turned out to be quicksand. Ridiculous! As a world esper, you guys are actually afraid of mere quicksand!”
”Rise!”
The Rule Force of that man appeared. Just as he was ready to get his body out, who would have known that the moment the Rule Force emerged, the originally calm sand became berserk.
His Rule Force got absorbed!
”Retreat!” Su Hao shouted.
The crowd fled in a hurry. The moment when they left the danger zone, the quicksand whirled wildly, escaping towards the surroundings. In an instant, those few men were drowned as if they had fallen into a horrifying swamp. The Rule Force, which had been rendered ineffective, couldn't contribute anything to their resistance.
The quicksand spread.
Even several people, who were slow in escaping, were caught at the edge of the quicksand. As those few men struggled, they activated their Rule Force, causing the speed of the expanding quicksand to increase dramatically. They did this even though they knew that such effort would be in vain, that doing so would only stimulate the quicksand even more, but that was the only thing they could do to escape.
”Help me!”
”Help me... Aahhhh!”
Those few people who ridiculed everyone in the beginning, after seeing that everyone didn't have any desire to save them at all, they grew madder, urging all their Rule Force in their body.
”Since I am going to die, don't think that you all will have a good life!”
Boom!
The quicksand rioted more.
”This lunatic.” Liu Ping's complexion changed, ”Quickly flee!”
”Run!”
”Run!”
Without having any thought of provoking nature, everyone was running wildly.
However, the slowest ones would always be affected. Each time when the quicksand was about to stop, those dying world espers would struggle and ended up stimulating the quicksand.
The only source of this quicksand...
It was Rule Force!
Two minutes later.
When the quicksand finally stopped, everyone had goosebumps all over their body. No matter who saw this scene, their faces didn't look good.
This exploration team of forty-eight people, only thirty remained.
In other words, the quicksand that appeared randomly actually managed to kill eighteen men!
This was simply hard to believe!
Everyone stared at the scene in disbelief. Even Liu Ping's heart was beating rapidly.
Quicksand...
In the past, for a world esper, let alone quicksand, with just one step, calming down an entire desert wasn't an issue, but in front of this quicksand, they all vanished.
It was such a sad and pitiful incident.
Everyone was awakened.
One drop of water could kill a world esper.
One grain of sand could destroy a world esper.
The first and second stages were all terrifying.
It was just that it was their first time that they were in high spirits. Thus, even though the first hurdle was difficult, with unity and prudence, they persisted to the end. Then during the second stage, due to Kintaro's comical character and also the reward from the first stage, everyone had forgotten how fearsome this place is.
They had forgotten the fear they had of this Great Despair.
Here...
Was still a Great Despair.
Nine Great Despairs, how could any of them be an easy place?
The sad thing was this quicksand could only destroy a few world espers originally, but due to those victims' suicidal attempts and jealousy of the others, more than a dozen others were eventually dragged along. Especially the resentment of that prideful guy at the beginning, his act caught many people off guard.
Even if he died, he would pull others along.
This guy...
Looking at the endless desert, Liu Ping suddenly felt that this problem needed to be solved first. That man might be the first, but definitely wouldn't be the last.
What if there was such a person again when the quicksand appears again?
Very likely, the entire team would be wiped out!
After all, this sand absorbed Rule Force for its fuel.
”Remember two points.” Liu Ping's eyes suddenly became terrifying. Looking at the remaining thirty people, ”First, never ever use Rule Force again. At least, not while we're still in the desert.”
Everyone nodded.
This wasn't a joke.
Having experienced the scene earlier, who would have the guts to use Rule Force?
”Second...” Liu Ping's gaze was full of murderous intent, ”If one has bad luck and quicksand happens to appear under their feet, then stop moving and let the desert devour. Using Rule Force to struggle will only affect the others instead.”
Everyone went silent.
Logically it was so, but who could do it?
When one was about to die, why would they care about this?
To struggle during the final moment of death, with different kinds of Rule Force, what if there was a chance to break free? Why not give it a try?
As for affecting others...
Is this some joke? I'm about to die, what's there to be afraid of?
Indeed!
Not using Rule Force and letting the desert devour them without a struggle was the best move for the team, but it would be a dead end for that individual. Right now, everyone didn't dare to voice out.
”You all can't do it?” Liu Ping calmly asked.
After entering the Great Despair, he had been maintaining his demeanor of a leader because he believed that those problems would not make his life hard, but now... He wasn't sure whether the World Force would be absorbed or not. After all, World Force is just a stronger version of Rule Force.
Since Rule Force was able to trigger the desert...