Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards-Chapter 572 - 385: Nuclear Strike, Allied Forces

Under the blazing sun, in the Shadow Desert, outside the Black Tower.

When Zhong Wei, covered in blood and with his superpowers almost completely depleted, walked out of the Black Tower, he saw five of his subordinates standing guard outside the bronze door, in the shade cast by the tower.

Their faces were tired, with dust and blood on their bodies, clearly just like him, they had come out from inside the Black Tower.

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

"Boss, how did you get injured?"

"Boss, I have some hemostatic pills here!"

...

The five were actually the defeated team that had just emerged from the Black Tower: the short stout middle-aged man, the young man with glasses, the long-haired woman, the red-haired woman, and the muscular teenager. They were originally worried that outsiders might chase out from the tower. But seeing Zhong Wei’s appearance, their spirits were immediately lifted, and they greeted him one by one. However, Zhong Wei’s condition looked a bit dreadful, which truly surprised them.

"Are you from... the Hornets’ team? Where is Hornet?"

Zhong Wei paid no mind to his subordinates’ astonishment and waved off their offered pills, while casually asking why a notable figure was missing from this team he recognized.

Their faces darkened involuntarily upon hearing this, and after half a second of silence, the leader, the short stout middle-aged man, explained the situation to Zhong Wei:

"Boss, Hornet... died inside the tower."

Zhong Wei’s eyebrows shot up immediately upon hearing this, and he replied in a completely disbelieving tone:

"Are you kidding me? Hornet couldn’t possibly be killed! Did you lose each other?"

However, the short stout middle-aged man shook his head right away and pointed to the strong young man with glasses beside him and said:

"Boss, Hornet is most likely really dead. Glasses here is our team’s B-level Spirit perceiver. Before we retreated, he personally confirmed Hornet had been beheaded and turned into a cold corpse. We waited for a considerable time, but there was no sign of him coming back to life..."

As soon as he finished, the strong young man with glasses quickly nodded to Zhong Wei, indicating that what the captain said was true.

"You say Hornet was beheaded... was it done by a man wearing a conical hood over his head, his face hidden?"

Zhong Wei pondered this detail, beginning to suspect that this undermanned team had encountered an enemy far beyond their capability to handle.

However, upon hearing Zhong Wei’s description, the five shook their heads in confusion, indicating that they hadn’t seen anyone with a peculiar hood at any point.

"Boss, we couldn’t spot who attacked Hornet, but Hornet was beheaded by a very sharp ray of light."

"Yes! I remember that ray of light being crescent-shaped! It appeared out of nowhere in front of Hornet’s neck, and then he was beheaded and instantly killed!"

...

With the members providing more detailed descriptions, Zhong Wei quickly recalled the terrifying ray of light that inflicted his body with scars. He became increasingly certain about who had confronted Hornet.

But even so, while acknowledging Hornet’s justified defeat, he was still confounded as to how someone with Hornet’s unique superpowers was actually killed and couldn’t resurrect.

"Could that individual be even stronger than I imagined, capable of nullifying Hornet’s immortality?"

This forced explanation began to form in Zhong Wei’s mind.

But before he could ponder further, a feeling of instability crept up on him due to the pain and frailty spreading throughout his body. As an S-level superpower user, he was experiencing unprecedented weakness and fatigue!

"What’s going on... it’s already been a few minutes, why are my wounds still bleeding? Can’t metalization even suppress regular injuries like these?"

Realizing something was wrong with his body, Zhong Wei raised his hand to steady his forehead, trying to calm his thoughts and figure out what was happening. Suddenly, he and the Spirit perceiver among the five, the strong young man with glasses, abruptly looked up into the high sky!

In a position several tens of thousands of meters high, they simultaneously sensed a presence containing massive explosive energy, rapidly approaching at Mach ten-plus speed! It carried an immense, undisguised threat!

"B-Boss! S-something is approaching from the sky!" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The young man with glasses was so startled by this sudden turn of events that he stuttered slightly, because with his perceptive abilities, he determined that it was definitely not an ordinary entity, but a powerful missile! A supersonic missile capable of turning everything for a kilometer around into ashes!

"Damn it... those two old bastards!!! They really know how to pick their timing!!!"

Zhong Wei didn’t need the reminder from the young man with glasses; he had already realized a super missile locked onto this location, and it most likely targeted him personally. He was almost certain of who was behind it, causing his face to turn livid with fury, nearly cursing aloud.

The reason for his anger was that he was in really poor condition. Ordinarily, even if ten or a hundred missiles attacked him, he wouldn’t care, having absolute confidence to repel them using the Gravity Superpower.

But now it was different; he felt managing even one missile would be a challenge. The problem was, would those two cunning individuals only fire one missile at him? They knew his abilities well! Once seizing the chance to act, they would certainly leave no room for survival!

"Quick! Get into the tower!"

Determining instantly that the situation was dire and couldn’t be resisted head-on, Zhong Wei decisively commanded everyone to enter the tower for shelter, based on his absolute certainty from the previous battle that this tower could withstand missile attacks, be it one or a hundred!