I'm bombarding the Supernatural World with my firearms

What were really simple words, why did they have to wait until the barrier between yin and yang was in place before echoing between heaven and earth for the first time?

"Sigh."

Zhou Shen couldn't help but sigh again as he looked at the old woman in front of him, who gradually stopped crying while sitting in the chair. He squatted down, softly comforting her, "Old lady, I believe..."

His voice suddenly cut off when he realized the old woman's breathing had stopped.

There was no heartbeat either.

"..."

Zhou Shen withdrew the words at the edge of his lips, slowly stood up, and turned to the people behind him, "Bury the old lady quickly, if we're fast, we might catch up with her husband on the Hell Bus."

With that, the second mission was successfully completed.

Everything gradually got back on track.

...

However—

At this moment, the Events Bureau in Jingjiu City of the Federation was noticing something quite unusual.

The fixed event with the code number 128, the "Hell Bus," was a very rare occurrence. It usually wouldn't happen even once a month, but today, they had already received news of it happening 2,939 times.

And the vast majority were still in progress.

This rare anomaly prompted an emergency meeting at the Jingjiu City Events Bureau.

"Something's not quite right."

A woman with a curvaceous figure, dressed in a tight outfit, with red curly hair, rested her hands on the table. A 3D projection in front of her was displaying sets of data, "Today, the fixed event 'Hell Bus' has been activated 2,939 times."

"Among them, 2,912 are still in progress, while the rest all ended with complete annihilation of the teams."

"We were able to gather this data because these 2,939 Hell Buses all have a ticket collector role, which allows contact with the outside world, but you need to know that it's extremely rare to encounter the role of ticket collector on a Hell Bus."

"Without the role of the ticket collector, those with supernatural abilities on the Hell Bus would not be able to contact the outside world no matter what."

"This means that, in actual fact, the number of 'Hell Bus' fixed events activated today must be at least 20,000."

"What are your thoughts on this?"

This fiery-bodied woman was the deputy director of the Events Bureau, a very famous figure on the federal rankings. Her position was definitely not attained by her looks alone. Without genuine capability, even if one managed to climb up, they wouldn't be able to control the unruly agents below her.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The stronger the individual, often the more thorny they are.

"..."

The first young man to the left of the table murmured absent-mindedly, "What else can we think? Haven't there been less than 100 activations of the 'Hell Bus' in total? If I remember correctly, that's the accumulation over several decades."

"Now there's been 20,000 activations in a single day, and that's just an estimate, there might be even more."

"My thought is that the world is about to collapse. Let's all go home and prepare for the end of the world."

The red-haired woman ignored the man and scanned the people sitting on both sides of the table before continuing, "According to the information we have, all the Hell Buses that began today originate from Zhenba City without exception."

"They are all picking up the lost souls from Zhenba City."

At that moment—

A muscular man on the right side of the table spoke thoughtfully, "Perhaps it's because Zhenba City just experienced the fixed event numbered 11, called 'Sea of Human Suffering'? A large number of people died a tragic death, so that's why the Hell Bus has been deployed more frequently today?"

"No."

The red-haired woman shook her head, "The world has transcended for so long. Although it's rare for hundreds of thousands of people to die at once, it has happened before. Not to mention, there have been numerous occasions when a whole city was slaughtered, but even so, there weren't as many Hell Buses activated in a single day."

"Not even one."

"The 'Hell Bus' is a fixed event, it's not certain to appear just because there are a lot of deaths. The sudden appearance of at least 20,000 buses today must be due to some unknown special condition. If we don't handle it properly, I'm guessing there will be big trouble."

The muscular man nodded thoughtfully, "It must have a lot to do with Zhenba City, perhaps it's a follow-up to 'Sea of Human Suffering'? After all, we've never experienced this fixed event, and we don't know much about it. Maybe the event hasn't truly ended, and the follow-up is these 20,000 Hell Buses?"

The red-haired woman's eyes narrowed slightly as she turned to look at the man without speaking, silently confirming his hypothesis.

But soon—

She glanced at her wristwatch, stood up, and walked out of the office, "Let's go, guys. We have a new mission. We're ordered to head to Zhenba City urgently. There might be big trouble this time."

"Oh, and the data has been updated."

"As of now, there have been 4,299 Hell Buses with ticket collectors dispatched."

"This means that in the places we can't see, there are even more Hell Buses without ticket collectors silently departing."

...

Meanwhile, Chen Miao picked up his third passenger.

It was a young man.

A simple story, with a simple panel.

This young man was a homebody. Aside from playing games, he had no other hobbies. Even as the world transcended, he preferred to stay in his room playing games, enjoying life in his own world.

He played a racing single-player game the most.

The man had strived for the world record.

After countless attempts, finally... his performance peaked, and he completed the single-player game in one minute and twenty-three seconds. As long as he uploaded the recorded game footage to the platform, he would become the new world number one.

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For that world number one, he had expended a great deal of energy, and when he was certain there was none faster than himself, the man excitedly jumped up on the spot.

However—

Just as he was about to upload the recorded game footage to the platform, the fixed event Sea of Human Suffering suddenly descended, and he died in the maw of a monster. His entire life had been a struggle for that world number one, which he finally achieved, only to die at the crucial moment.

This nearly caused his frustration to overflow.

The mission was very simple.

Go to this young man's rented room, upload the recorded game footage to the platform, and attach the man's name to it.

After sending off all these things to the influence channel, Chen Miao finally sat in his own seat, turned his head, and cast a glance at the three passengers sitting behind him, his brows slightly furrowed and his heart somewhat uneasy.

This time seemed somewhat different from the last.

Most of the previous missions and stories involved betrayal or murder.

In any case, they were relatively gory.

Whereas this time—

It was mostly about regret. It wasn't just mostly, it should be said that all of them involved regret, and how fitting it was that just as they were about to experience a major turning point in their lives, the fixed event Sea of Human Suffering arrived, giving them a glimpse of hope for their life's turning point but not enough time to make the turn.

If it were one or two instances, perhaps it could be chalked up to coincidence.

But now there had already been three in a row.

Together with the name "Sea of Human Suffering," he had a vague feeling that this time's fixed event Sea of Human Suffering was not simply about monsters besieging the city. If it were that simple, it probably wouldn't be the fixed event labeled number 11.

Ranked so high, it certainly had its special characteristics.

A monster siege, no matter how many monsters there were, should probably not be ranked as high as number 11.

Right at that moment.

He received a message from the mayor of Fengtian City. According to statistics from the Events Bureau in Jingjiu City, it was estimated that today, there were about 50,000 instances of the fixed event "Hell Bus," a situation that was extremely bizarre. Since the world's transcendentalization, the total number of times the "Hell Bus" event had been triggered was less than one hundred.

Today, almost 50,000 instances were triggered all at once, and this number was still continuously rising.

This was no longer a case of "there is something strange when things are too unusual."

Anyone with common sense could see the trickery in this.

It was utterly ludicrous.

Ludicrous beyond belief.

And nearly all the Hell Buses originated from Zhenba City; all the passengers came from Zhenba City.

According to the speculation of the Events Bureau in Jingjiu City, the tens of thousands of Hell Bus instances were likely caused by the event Sea of Human Suffering, or even more directly, were a part of the Sea of Human Suffering event.

The fixed event Sea of Human Suffering had now truly begun.

The few hundred thousand people who died were like a primer, used to activate the real Sea of Human Suffering. Nobody knew what kind of chain reaction these tens of thousands of Hell Buses would initiate; before this, the Federation had never experienced this event.

Everything was unknown.

But there was one very peculiar point.

Which was that...

According to the information gathered by the Jingjiu City Events Bureau, nearly all the passengers on the Hell Buses had died at turning points in their lives during the fixed event Sea of Human Suffering.

The tasks for all of them primarily revolved around regret and frustration.

One person, who had a tough first half of their life, finally saw a chance for a turning point but then died.

This story sounded somewhat sad, but it wasn't anything extraordinary in a city with such a large population.

But—

If everyone in that city experienced this, then it turned bizarre.

More importantly, according to information from the Jingjiu City Events Bureau, they visited quite a few survivors from Zhenba City's major event and discovered an extremely terrifying common point: all these people encountered their life's turning point right before the Sea of Human Suffering.

Just like those who had died.

The difference was that they didn't die.

The entire population of Zhenba City came upon their life's turning points on the same day.

From a certain angle, the fixed event Sea of Human Suffering seemed more like a large-scale fate-transformation formation, which within one day, twisted the fate of everyone, although the price was death.

But because of Lord Miao's existence.

The event deviated, and many who were fated to die did not.

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ps: I'm taking a day off tomorrow. The Starting Point annual meeting invited many authors with exceptional achievements to Singapore for the gathering. There will be many great authors there and we will all dine and drink together, which should be enjoyable.

On such an important day, I definitely cannot update.

Enjoy new adventures from empire

Wait, I just remembered something, it seems they didn't invite me.

Oh, in that case, no problem, I won't be taking a day off tomorrow, updates will proceed as normal.

I'm not sure how strict Singapore's PC regulations are. I wish everyone a safe return, especially since the end of the year is a time when many might be trying to rack up performance metrics.

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