anovelconsole Chapter 317 I Have My Own Rhythm
Chapter 317 I Have My Own Rhythm
The holographic projection had just finished speaking.
Below the dance floor, hundreds and thousands of translucent spirits suddenly appeared on the previously empty semi-circular wooden chair booths and reinforced glass floor.
They all stood up and clapped wildly.
The applause echoed deafeningly in the vast underground space.
The spotlight beams were all focused on Chen You.
A blinding red light popped up on the system panel in front of him.
[Trigger Hidden Challenge: Starry Night Carnival]
[Task Objective: Use the control panel to create an electronic mix that achieves an SSS rating.]
[Mission Restrictions: The use of any skills or items is prohibited. Pure rhythm is the only criterion for clearing the mission.]
[Failure Penalty: Detonates the entire subwoofer matrix, unleashing a devastating sonic attack that ignores defense (90% of maximum health as damage).]
Chen You looked at the last line of text.
His current shadow clone only has 1 point of health left, which is forcibly preserved.
Why would you ask a typical office worker who's never even been to a nightclub and only listens to free music charts to DJ?
Do we still need an SSS rating?
Isn't this just blatantly preventing us from playing?
A holographic DJ is seen wildly waving his arms in mid-air.
"Let me see your hands! Special guest DJ Chen You! Five seconds countdown, the music is about to reach its climax!"
"five!"
Buck, huddled in the corner of a booth, covered his ears and yelled, "Sir! Hurry up and do it!"
"Four!"
The holographic DJ's volume was raised again.
"three!"
Chen You remained expressionless.
He glanced at the glowing [broken turntable parts] in the recess of the control panel.
If we're not allowed to play, then nobody should play!
"two!"
Chen You stretched out his right hand, grasped the part, and pulled it out forcefully.
"Click."
The deafening electronic music disappeared instantly.
The holographic projection flickered twice and then froze in mid-air.
A piercing red alarm blared throughout the nightclub.
"Warning! Task flow forcibly interrupted! Low-level logic error detected..."
The spirits on the dance floor instantly stopped moving and all looked up at the high platform.
Thousands of pairs of eyes, glowing eerily, stared intently at Chen You, creating an extremely bizarre scene.
Chen You looked at the part in his hand, then at the groove.
He put the part back in.
"Click".
The alarm stopped abruptly.
The holographic projection restarted, and the blue light shone brightly.
"Welcome to the star..."
Chen You exerted force with his wrist and pulled it out again.
"Warning! Quest flow..."
Insert it.
"welcome……"
Pull it out.
"warn……"
Chen You remained expressionless, his right hand transforming into a blur.
Insert, pull out, insert, pull out, insert, pull out...
"Cheers! Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!"
The system notification sound and the holographic intro were completely ripped apart.
Two completely different audio tracks were forcibly stitched together into an extremely bizarre and explosive sound effect with a strong industrial metal style by being physically interrupted at extremely high frequencies.
The indicator lights on the control panel were flashing wildly, with the frequency of the alternating red and blue lights exceeding the limit of what the naked eye could perceive.
The spirits below the dance floor were stunned for a full three seconds.
Then, they actually started shaking their heads wildly to this bizarre and absurd rhythm.
The spirits moved in perfect unison, and the glass dance floor creaked under the weight of the invisible force of gravity.
Buck peeked through his fingers at the scene, and his chin slammed into his knee.
Chen You maintained his own rhythm of plugging and unplugging.
The surface temperature of the workbench rose sharply, and pungent black smoke began to billow from the edge of the groove.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud came from inside the control panel, followed by a violent burst of electrical sparks.
Chen You released his grip and took a half step back.
The part was completely stuck in the groove.
The holographic projection in mid-air distorted into a jumble of random characters before exploding into countless points of light.
The bizarre and catchy song abruptly stopped, and the entire underground space fell into a deathly silence.
Immediately afterwards, a sickening metallic tearing sound came from the black metal wall behind the control panel.
A ten-meter-long crack spread out from the center of the wall.
Extremely violent energy fluctuations erupted from the crack.
A strong wind swept across the entire venue.
The spherical spotlights on top shattered one after another, and glass shards rained down on the ground.
The spirits in the dance floor were instantly forced to the ground by this terrifying pressure, their bodies becoming extremely transparent, as if they would dissipate at any moment.
Buck was thrown into the air by the wind pressure, crashing heavily into the wall, his eyes rolling back as he passed out.
Chen You stood on the high platform, his clothes fluttering in the strong wind.
"Who is it!"
An extremely angry roar came from the crack.
The sound, heavily processed with electronic audio, made the entire underground space vibrate and buzz.
A gigantic hand made of dark blue energy emerged from the crack and clung tightly to the edge of the wall.
The metal wall, half a meter thick, was forcibly torn open to both sides.
A gigantic figure, over five meters tall, strode out.
The familiar blue skin, the familiar bandages.
It was a projection of Star Neptune.
"How dare you destroy my equipment and disrupt my rhythm on my turf!"
The Star Neptune projection strode towards the control panel. With each step, the metal mesh beneath its feet dented deeply, emitting a piercing creaking sound.
He raised his enormous right hand, and a highly compressed ball of sonic energy rapidly condensed in his palm.
"die!"
The Star Neptune projection roared, then suddenly lowered its head to look at the destroyer on the high platform.
Chen You stood still, looking up at him.
Eyes facing each other.
The energy ball in the Star Neptune projection's hand suddenly stopped spinning.
The eerie blue flames in his eye sockets flickered violently twice, even hissing like an electrical short circuit.
That expressionless face, that Jade Emperor Sword radiating the terrifying aura of a primordial spiritual treasure.
The Star Neptune Projector's memory module was instantly overloaded.
Not long ago, this human ignored all his sonic attacks and used the hilt of that sword to strike the back of his head two hundred times.
If he hadn't been able to escape quickly through the portal, the projection would have been destroyed long ago.
"you……"
The Star Neptune projection emitted a dry, mechanical grinding sound from its throat.
The originally cool and stylish electronic music effects have completely disappeared.
"How did you manage to follow me all the way here?!"
Chen You patted the dust off his clothes.
"Your portal wasn't closed properly."
The Star Neptune projection glanced at the wall it had torn open, then at Chen You.
The sonic energy ball in his hand dissipated silently, without even stirring a wisp of wind.
"thump."
The five-meter-tall giant's knees buckled, and he knelt heavily on the metal platform.
The entire underground space shook violently.
"Big brother, I was wrong."
The projection of Neptune rested its hands on the ground, its head bowed, its posture extremely humble.
"I'm just a projection. Is it really necessary for you to hunt me down across the entire map?"
The spirits lying on the dance floor struggled to raise their heads and looked at the master they revered as a god, the one who controlled life and death, who was now kneeling and trembling before a human.
The group of spirits flickered violently, as if their worldview was collapsing.
Chen You looked at the enormous figure kneeling before him.
"I just want a divine core."
"Hand it over, and you can continue being a DJ here."
The Star Neptune projection suddenly looked up, its face full of bitterness, its features all scrunched up.
"Big brother, that's the leader's divine core!"
"I'm just a drained projection; where would I get such high-level stuff!"