Chapter 305: Not a Player (1/2)

”So, all of you were divided into a team of five for the fifth portal?” Kang Jiayi asked Tang Shaoyang to confirm it. He asked this not just for him but for other people to listen.

”Yes,” Cao Yuntai nodded his head, ”As for how the team is divided, it's random. I guess the system makes the call for that.”

”You guys have returned, why haven't the others returned yet?” A woman in her late thirties raised her hand.

”Our objective ended prematurely because of a special circumstance in which I can't tell you the details,” It was too complicated even for Cao Yuntai. Gods, war, the game, and more things that he could not even understand until now.

”However, you should not have worried for the time being. We are given seven days to survive on the other side…” Cao Yuntai started to explain the time difference and conversion between the two worlds.

”So we will wait until the seventh day. If they don't come back in seven days, then…” the middle-aged man lowered his head. He could not bear to say it bluntly that your husbands were dead.

Even though he did not say it loudly, the crowd got the message behind his words. Silence ensued for a moment until another woman in her mid-twenties raised her hand, ”So we have to wait for three more days? If my husband survives, he will come back and if he doesn't come back that means my husband is dead?”

”Yeah,” Cao Yuntai nodded with a heavy expression, ”We can't do anything to help them. Even if you enter the portal now, you would be transported to a different world or maybe a different place even if it's the same world,” he pointed at the portal, ”Can you imagine how hard it is to find your family in a world that may be larger than Earth?”

Kairu was standing in front of the portal, observing the portal closely with curiosity. He could get to know that Tang Shaoyang entered this portal to come to his world. The theory piqued the Flaming Lion's interest. He wondered what would happen if he entered the portal, would he return to Arkania Continent? It was a mystery that could only be solved if he entered the portal.

The crowd looked toward the portal. The fear of zombies was still haunting them, now they heard that various kinds of monsters existed on the other side. No one dared to enter the portal.

Of course, people believed the monster's existence was because of Mu Liqiu and Kang Jiayi's testimony. As someone who had entered and seen the monster with their eyes, they confirmed it so the people believed them.

Just like Cai Yuntai told them, they could not do anything but waited for them to return and pray. Mu Liqiu comforted his daughter-in-law, Huo Hongmei who was on the verge of tearing up. She was caressing her slightly bulging belly.

Kang Jiayi got emotional as he looked at his wife and daughter-in-law. He felt useless that he could not do anything in this situation. He also started to regret not joining the battle to level up. If he leveled up and got stronger, he could enter the portal with the big group, and even protect his son if they were in the same group.

But just an old saying, there was no medicine for regret. What he could do now was to change his view about this disaster. He had to do something so his family could live happily in this apocalypse world.

'I have to join the battle and get stronger,' the old man then glanced at Tang Shaoyang who was sitting next to the unconscious beastmen. He had thought to ask the man's advice but then his pride did not allow him to do so. He wanted to do this with his way to prove to the man that he could survive well even without that man's help.

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”You human is quite troublesome,” Kairu went back to Tang Shaoyang's side while looking at the crowd, ”If it's me, I will just roar at my people, they would instantly understand and not bother me anymore.”

”You are not worried about your people?” Instead of responding to the Lion Beastmen's remark of how humans settled their problem, Tang Shaoyang responded with a question.