Abundant Martial Arts Virtue
Chapter 109 - 84: The Return of the Leader

Chapter 109: Chapter 84: The Return of the Leader

This was a metropolis.

The army was forming a defensive position, battling the demons that were continually descending from the sky.

Suddenly.

The Void flashed.

A giant steel Mobile Battle Armor appeared in the square.

Standing on the shoulder of this Mobile Battle Armor was a human officer.

He looked around, stunned for a moment, and then said softly,

"I’ve been transported out..."

A gentle electronic voice came from within the Mobile Battle Armor:

"Scanning the battlefield, detecting the first wave of demon arrivals, preparing to join the fight."

Hum—

The Mobile Battle Armor drew a steel long blade with terrifying sonic vibrations from its arm, its form shuddering as it soared into the sky, clashing with several equally huge demons.

The human officer had already jumped down from its shoulder, standing alone in the square, seemingly pondering something.

"The body of humans from a low-level civilization... is far too weak to wield my power,"

"It seems I must find a stronger vessel."

He took strides, walking through the chaotic square as if he were strolling.

Unlike humans—

Any demon that came near him immediately quivered in terror, kneeling on the ground, motionless.

In an instant.

He looked up at the sky.

A gigantic figure was emerging in the depths of the sky.

"Ah... it’s you,"

The human officer said softly.

Suddenly, he collapsed to the ground, motionless.

The Death God howled upward from his body and flew toward the immense creature in the deep sky.

...

"The map is the same, but the names of places are different," said the Captain.

"But we all know the location of the Empire’s Capital... even by using the offline navigation on our phones, we can still find it!" Wu Xiaode said.

The Captain pondered for a moment, then nodded silently.

Yes.

This indeed was the simplest method.

Only—

"Little Wu, do you think we might encounter another us?" she asked with a trace of anxiety.

This question also made Wu Xiaode nervous.

If these two Epochs were an era of the human world, then the so-called "Otherworld" was merely time travel.

But what if...

This was a parallel world?

"We shouldn’t meet ourselves, this world is almost destroyed, perhaps it’s only the map that’s the same—maybe all human worlds are like this? For instance, it could be a kind of uniformly manufactured spaceship?" Wu Xiaode suddenly speculated.

The Captain gradually regained her composure and said, "Let’s first understand the situation here, then decide what to do."

"Alright," said Wu Xiaode.

The two searched back and forth in the spacious control room and quickly found a "channel switch" button.

Wu Xiaode pressed the button directly.

Yet no doors opened around them.

Two lines of warning text quietly emerged on the wall:

"Please be aware."

"According to radar detection, the base is surrounded by demons. If you are prepared for a breakout, press and hold the button for ten seconds."

Surrounded by demons?

No wonder the undead had said, use this thing only as a last resort.

This place was also dangerous.

Wu Xiaode asked, "How many more monsters do you need?"

"One," replied the Captain.

"Good, you go first when it’s time," Wu Xiaode said.

"What about you?"

"I have the Demon Mist, which is much safer than you."

"Alright then."

Wu Xiaode moved to the wall and silently observed the map.

Unfortunately, it was a world map, and thousands of years old at that, unable to provide any help to Wu Xiaode.

Wu Xiaode’s finger pressed on the button.

Time slowly passed.

Mist began to billow from Wu Xiaode.

The Captain also took out a talisman, folding it into a paper crane.

Ten seconds elapsed.

Boom—

The walls slowly rose.

Instantly, a giant hand covered with black hair reached in, groping for objects in the room.

The Captain was about to release the paper crane, but after seeing the enormous power emitted from the giant hand, she immediately dismissed the thought.

—She was no match for it.

Wu Xiaode grabbed her hand as the giant hand moved to the other side, quickly hugging the wall as they made their way out.

Outside was a dark underground tunnel.

Various strange sounds were echoing, as if attracted by the disturbance on this side, rushing over.

A two-headed snake as tall as two people wriggled toward them, about to brush past them—

Wu Xiaode squeezed the Captain’s hand, then let go.

If not now, then when would they kill?

The Captain released the paper crane she held in her hand.

While still in mid-air, the paper crane took on form and suddenly pierced the two-headed snake’s head with its sharp beak.

The two-headed snake immediately let out a "hiss" of agony.

The immortal crane flapped its wings, carrying the wildly struggling two-headed snake back into the chamber.

This act alerted all the monsters.

They swarmed toward the chamber.

Wu Xiaode and the Captain dodged and weaved while moving toward the other end of the tunnel.

Suddenly.

The team leader pinched Wu Xiaode’s hand and nodded at him.

——The two-headed snake had already been killed by the immortal crane.

Wu Xiaode quickly wrote on her hand:

"Go first."

The team leader gave him a deep look and pulled a talisman from her sleeve, stuffing it into Wu Xiaode’s hand.

"Tear it, and you can return."

She whispered.

The next instant, she gradually vanished into the void.

——She had teleported back.

Now.

Only Wu Xiaode was left here.

He held the talisman in his hand, momentarily not understanding Zhao Zhibing’s intentions.

The Book of the Dead quietly flipped open, revealing lines of ice crystal small text:

"You have obtained a Storage Talisman."

"It contains 20 sealed low-level demons."

"When you tear it, all the monsters will die immediately."

...So that’s it.

Zhao Zhibing could have gone back long ago.

Even before arriving here, she had been prepared to retreat at any moment and return to the real world.

So, was her descent this time to gather intelligence about this world?

And to evaluate the new team member on the side?

"Ensuring an invincible position... This woman is too cautious." Wu Xiaode shook his head with a sigh.

There was even a possibility.

She knew that the gunman wanted to kill her, so she came down this time specifically to draw the snake out of its hole and clean out the traitor.

In case of failure—

Just crush the talisman in an instant, and she would be back.

Looking at it this way, she had followed him for so long, truly gathering intelligence while evaluating whether he was trustworthy or not.

Loud cries of the immortal crane came from the secret chamber behind him.

More monsters surged toward the chamber.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Wu Xiaode quickened his pace and finally reached the end of the tunnel.

He saw a slope covered in white bones.

Wu Xiaode tiptoed over the bones scattered about and climbed up the slope.

The path ahead gradually flattened.

He found himself on a platform.

——Another underground platform.

A damaged underground train lay beyond the platform.

Wu Xiaode stepped forward to take a look and saw that the inside of the train was filled with white bones.

Compared to the previous train he had seen, this one had a similar shape but was in a much more advanced state of decay.

——Who knows how long it had been lying abandoned underground.

Wu Xiaode fell into contemplation.

It seems that, perhaps...

When the first epoch was destroyed, these people wanted to enter the secret chamber, but they didn’t make it in time and were killed by the monsters.

And that chamber, having been well camouflaged, with no scent of living humans inside, miraculously evaded the monsters’ scrutiny.

What to do now?

Kill a monster and then go back?

No...

He must figure out more of the truth.

He needs to come back here tomorrow night. If the underground is filled with monsters, there will be no escape!

Wu Xiaode’s gaze followed the train tracks into the distance.

An uncontrollable thought emerged in his heart——

He should leave, find the place where he lived.

After all——

Could there be another him struggling in this world?

Wu Xiaode leaped lightly into the air, transforming mid-flight into a bird, enveloped in rolling mist, and flew toward the tunnel leading to the surface.

The cold wind blasted against his face.

Occasional stray monsters appeared in the tunnel.

The bird carefully avoided any trouble and finally arrived at the end of the tunnel.

There, a partially collapsed opening awaited.

The bird turned back into Wu Xiaode, gently landing in front of the opening, and cautiously looked outside.

This was a mining area.

Mining carts lay overturned on the ground.

The ground was littered with broken human corpses.

I see.

Those monsters fed on people here and inadvertently opened the hidden passageways of a past era, swarming in consequently.

Wu Xiaode walked out, followed the mine tunnel forward, and finally saw a glimmer of light.

That was...

The faint light of dawn.

Unknowingly, he had spent an entire night in the Otherworld.

It was already daylight.

Wu Xiaode walked out of the mine and vanished in a flash, taking to the skies as a crow, flying toward the urban district.

He soon arrived in the city.

Here laid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

No living being remained.

The only sounds filling the streets were of monsters chewing.

Wu Xiaode perched on a streetlamp, transformed back into human form, and quietly pondered where to go as he watched the monstrously diverse creatures roaming the streets.

His gaze swept over the surrounding buildings, and suddenly, he saw a rather majestic building.

On the exterior of the tall building were written a few large characters:

"Baijiang City Bus Terminal."

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