1. Find and collect Beast Gold (10 grams).
2. Find and collect the complete Super Giant Mechanical Armor Technology.
3. Find the cause of the rising sea levels.
4. Close the Undersea Space Wormhole (Optional quest: huge reward for completion, no penalty for failure).
5. Save this world, return the sea level to its original position, and revive human civilization (Optional quest: huge reward for completion, no penalty for failure).
Time limit: None.
These were all the requirements for the Water World Apocalypse mission.
For Shen Feng, he had already completed all these tasks, and even exceeded the requirements of the True Apocalypse Game system.
After all, he had even wiped out the World Beasts and directly blown up the Wormhole Generator on Shield UY, fundamentally preventing any similar situations from ever happening again.
The human civilization of the Water World, once on the brink of total annihilation, would now have a brilliant and splendid future.
Hearing Shen Feng’s words, Jingwei pouted and said,
"Are those stingy bastards behind the system going to agree to that? You’re planning to go back and start a massive steel-smelting operation, huh? Still, better than smelting copper."
Shen Feng blinked but didn’t say anything more, quietly waiting for a response from his wristband.
As if the beings behind the system needed to maintain their dignity, about a minute passed before a line of text was projected from the wristband:
"Mission assessment result... 99% completion. Congratulations, player, on completing the game mission. Issuing mission rewards.
Reward: Player may bring back a Nanomechanical Cluster of Beast Gold... one hundred thousand cubic meters.
No other rewards will be issued."
A flash of light, and the light on the wristband went out. The text vanished as if nothing had ever happened.
Shen Feng couldn’t help but pout and mutter, "Stingy..."
However, he also understood that the Nanomechanical Cluster, fused with Beast Gold, possessed an extremely powerful energy signature, making it incredibly difficult to pass through the spatial barrier between two Parallel Cosmoses.
Being able to take one hundred thousand cubic meters of the Nanomechanical Cluster in one go had already exceeded his expectations.
After all, his initial outrageous demand was just a negotiating tactic to bring back more.
’One hundred thousand it is, then. It’s enough to fight the World Beast.’
One hundred thousand cubic meters was roughly the size of a small, kilometer-class World Beast.
It would solve his immediate problem.
Shen Feng picked up the Quantum Backpack lying to the side and slung it forcefully onto his back.
The full backpack made a SHH-SHH sound, like a bag of golden sand grains rubbing against each other.
The reason he didn’t care much about other rewards was that he had already obtained the contents of this backpack.
To him, this was the greatest prize. Nothing else compared.
Then, Shen Feng raised his arm again and spoke to the wristband:
"Mission complete. Returning to my original world."
Jingwei No. 2, who was nearby, had already heard Shen Feng explain some of the system’s rules. It tactfully hid in a nearby cabin and shut down the video surveillance system.
This time, the True Apocalypse Game system didn’t dilly-dally. With a flash of blue light, it made Shen Feng vanish completely.
On the ground beneath Zero Armor, Witch Tower only saw a flash of blue light in the cockpit and knew that Shen Feng must have left.
She let out a soft sigh. Composing herself, she began to gather the people with the other Minstrels present, preparing to choose a ruined city to rebuild their home.
Similar scenes played out all over the world. The seawater receded completely in just a few days, revealing vast amounts of land. The survivors who had once lived on the ocean’s surface were thrilled to discover they no longer had to treat every grain of sand as a precious treasure, for they now possessed a vast continent!
The survivors who had originally lived on Hidden Island, the Cordillera Islands, and other such islands also packed their belongings and headed for the lowlands, preparing to find other survivors and restart human civilization.
Soon, the survivors of this world would gather and rebuild human civilization upon this vast continent.
For them, although the Savior had left, his will remained.
And they were the inheritors of this Fire of Salvation.
Human civilization would rise again on this fertile continent, awaiting the Savior’s return...
As for the profession of the Minstrel, perhaps it would endure forever, so that all who grew up in the new civilization would know of this magnificent epic and sing the praises of the youth who had turned the tide...
...
The familiar darkness returned, accompanied by a trembling, twisting, weightless sensation, as if he were falling from a great height.
But this time, Shen Feng didn’t feel dizzy. Instead, he savored the feeling.
The next moment, a cool sea breeze hit his face, and the scene from just before he entered the Water World Apocalypse appeared before his eyes.
It was the exact same moment, the same scene. He was standing on the shoulder of the Gray Tide Giant as the Three-kilometer Level World Beast swung its sharp leg down. One of its limbs was just above his head, about to slice him in two.
The corner of Shen Feng’s mouth curved up. A thick, metallic, mechanical tentacle instantly shot out from behind him, wrapping around the World Beast’s leg and stopping it in its tracks.
Behind him, the one hundred thousand cubic meters of the Nanomechanical Cluster had also been teleported over. These shiny silver Beast Gold Nanomechanical Insects were rapidly devouring the old version of the Gray Tide to expand their own mass.
The World Beast seemed stunned by this. It let out a furious roar, instantly releasing a violent electromagnetic pulse. Arcs of electricity even danced along the leg that had been caught.
Although it hadn’t been in this world for long, it had already discovered that these electromagnetic pulses were extremely destructive to the Gray Tide.
But to its surprise, the once highly effective electromagnetic pulse was now completely useless. The silvery metal clumps, which resembled ash, clung tightly to its legs and tentacles, actually pushing it back several hundred meters.
In just a moment, the giant, gray, metallic humanoid figure had been completely devoured and transformed into that troublesome silver color.
Then, the silver metallic humanoid suddenly collapsed like a tidal wave, surging toward the World Beast.
Countless metallic mechanical tentacles shot out, firmly binding the World Beast’s legs and tentacles.
Shen Feng, now also encased in his Gray Tide Battle Armor, landed on the shore nearby.
With a wave of his hand, the powerful Beast Gold Gray Tide immediately swarmed over the World Beast before him, burrowing inside through its lamprey-like, spiraling maw.
Caught off guard, the World Beast thrashed desperately in the sea, but it quickly grew weaker. After a short while, it stopped struggling completely.
Shen Feng stood on the shore, watching the World Beast with a smile, his heart filled with emotion.
’This trip to the Water World Apocalypse was really worth it.’
Then, with a slight crook of his finger, a huge sphere suddenly bulged from the World Beast’s abdomen. Amidst the beast’s tragic screech, its belly was instantly stretched open. The Beast Gold Gray Tide, covered in green blood, poked its "head" out. It immediately formed the shape of a gaping maw and began to tear viciously at the World Beast’s body, resuming its consumption and assimilation.
"Fuck my nigger eyes..." a cry of astonishment came from the side. It was a dumbfounded black man. "What the hell is this plot!? Cthulhu infected with the Alien virus, making a chestburster!?"