Sunday's expression stagnated for a moment. It was true that he hadn't given these people a choice. Even if he felt that these people were trapped by the constraints of reality and unable to make choices true to their hearts, that didn't change the fact that he hadn't given them the opportunity to choose.
"What? Can't refute that?"
Fu Zhu looked at Sunday before him with a teasing smile. He switched the block in his hand for [Yamato] and pointed the blade at Sunday.
"Since you have nothing to say, let's skip the red tape and fast-forward straight to the life-and-death struggle."
Sunday narrowed his eyes, staring fixedly at [Yamato] in Fu Zhu's hand. Although it didn't look particularly special on the surface, he had an instinctual feeling that this blade was far from simple. Coupled with Fu Zhu's formidable strength, confronting him head-on would likely be very strenuous, not to mention that he currently needed to concentrate his mental energy on reconstructing the Dream of the Great One.
After briefly weighing the pros and cons, Sunday's figure began to turn illusory. This act of seemingly wanting to flee surprised Fu Zhu slightly.
"Mr. Fu Zhu, I will await you at the Grand Theater. If you feel your decision is the more correct one, then come and sever my path forward with your own hands."
Sunday's figure completely vanished from before Fu Zhu, but the reconstruction of the Dream of the Great One continued. In fact, after Sunday focused all his attention on reconstruction, the speed of repairs actually began to exceed the efficiency of the [World Devourer]'s destruction.
Fu Zhu, however, was in no rush. Sunday needed to expend a massive amount of mental energy and power to repair the world, whereas he only needed to build the [World Devourer], and the rest was left to the magical Redstone technology!
After putting away [Yamato], Fu Zhu threw himself back into the work of building [World Devourers]. With every wave of the block in his hand, a brand new [World Devourer] would appear before him. The only cost was that the blocks stored in his [Sophisticated Backpack] were rapidly decreasing.
"Let's just see whose speed is faster: my destruction or your repairs."
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Meanwhile, on the other side.
After separating from Fu Zhu, Xing entered the other dreamscapes and successfully woke up the rest of the group. The crowd then arrived at the Dream of the Great One and met up with Acheron, Black Swan, and Boothill, who had tracked them down.
"Holy baby, Brother Dan Heng, I finally found you guys."
Seeing Dan Heng and his group, Boothill immediately raised his hand in greeting. Dan Heng nodded at him, then looked with some confusion at Acheron, who was following him.
Earlier, when Xing woke him up, she had told him about Acheron. He knew that Acheron was the impostor Galaxy Ranger that Boothill had been searching for. But what surprised him was that Boothill was actually staying peacefully alongside Acheron right now. This wasn't the style of the evil-hating Boothill he expected.
Boothill spotted the confusion in Dan Heng's eyes and shrugged, explaining, "Holy baby, this woman impersonated us Galaxy Rangers just to send off another Galaxy Ranger. I almost misunderstood her."
Acheron bowed her head slightly in apology. "Sorry, but Galaxy Rangers are truly too mysterious. If I didn't use bait, it would have been very hard for me to find you."
"Tch, forget it. Let's talk about more important meow right now."
Boothill held the brim of his cowboy hat with one hand and pointed at the ground with the revolver in his left hand. "Who knows how we're supposed to leave this weird place?"
Everyone fell silent upon hearing this. Even Acheron felt that the Dream of the Great One was incredibly tricky. If she wanted to leave alone, it would be simple, but she couldn't just abandon these hundreds of thousands of oblivious tourists to continue sinking into the Dream of the Great One, could she?
Just as everyone was in a dilemma, March 7th's foot suddenly slipped, and she nearly fell to the ground. Fortunately, Xing was standing next to her and reached out to support her.
"March, you didn't dream for too long and get a leg cramp, did you?"
Even in this critical moment, Xing didn't forget to tease March 7th.
"Screw you, you're the one with the leg cramp!"
After rolling her eyes at Xing, March 7th asked the group with some doubt, "Did you guys feel the ground shaking just now?"
With her reminder, everyone closed their eyes and sensed carefully, then suddenly opened them wide.
"It really is shaking, and the intensity is getting stronger!"
In just a short moment, the surrounding buildings began to tremble violently, and the others started to lose their footing.
Acheron was the first to look in a certain direction, narrowing her eyes and pointing. "Look over there!"
Everyone followed her finger and saw violent explosions constantly occurring in that direction. The airwaves generated by the blasts swept toward them like a tsunami, and the houses in that area were vaporized in an instant, leaving not even dust behind.
everyone's faces changed drastically. Almost in unison, they turned around and ran in the opposite direction.
"W-What is that thing?!"
As March 7th ran, she glanced back occasionally. She only saw houses constantly disappearing, and in the sky, there seemed to be something stretching for dozens of kilometers with no end in sight, moving straight toward them. It seemed that thing was the source of the explosions.
Xing also turned her head to look. Seeing the white shockwaves generated by the explosions, she felt they looked familiar. "Why does it feel like the commotion caused by a [TNT Duplicator]?"
"Huh?" xN
Prompted by Xing, Welt, Himeko, and Dan Heng couldn't help but slow their steps, turning in unison to look. The three of them stared carefully into the distance for a few moments. Indeed, as Xing said, the effect produced by this explosion was almost exactly the same as the TNT explosions from Fu Zhu's hands.
"Wait a minute, I think I saw a person?"
Welt immediately constructed a telescope in his hand and pressed it to his eye to look at the sky. There, on that long strip of the [World Devourer], he saw Fu Zhu strolling atop it, advancing along with the [World Devourer].
"It's Fu Zhu!"
"What?!" xN
The members of the Astral Express crew calmed down after a brief moment of surprise. If it was Fu Zhu, then everything made sense.
After all, he had too many magical things in his hands. They wouldn't be surprised in the slightest even if he pulled out something capable of destroying the world right now.
But Boothill and Black Swan couldn't sit still. The former held onto the cowboy hat on his head to prevent it from being blown away by the blast waves, pointed at the [World Devourer] that was constantly approaching, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Holy baby! That meowing thing is constantly destroying houses and streets! Are you guys really the mother-fudging Astral Express? And not pawns of Destruction?!"