I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature -
Chapter 734 - 548: Want to Blow Up the Land?_1
Chapter 734: Chapter 548: Want to Blow Up the Land?_1
Casualties were unavoidable, so why not make them more meaningful, better to achieve victory than to let a group of people live luxuriously as traitors!
What infuriated people even more was that this agreement was secret, and the public was completely unaware of it.
Some were furiously denouncing it online, demanding the whistleblower to publicly reveal the list of those spared, and as a result, the local military became very unstable.
The Oath Keepers, who had sworn stringent oaths, had no choice but to conduct investigations amidst such denunciations, while those official locals who had taken oaths of integrity were besieged by large numbers of people.
But the result was that these people with oaths of integrity didn’t know about it at all... They too were kept in the dark.
"Brother Chang Qing, you... are you alright?" Liu Hongzhao quickly moved closer to Zheng Yichen after he landed, wanting to support him, but was stopped by Zheng Yichen’s gesture.
"It’s not a big issue, don’t touch me for now." Zheng Yichen looked at the dark purple Chaos Mist contaminating his body, flesh rapidly disintegrating under the power of this intense destruction force.
It somewhat resembled the destructive force produced by the deep Demonic Abyss Seven Kills.
However, these forces of destruction obviously had different classifications, with the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills targeting life more and having a strong effect in its range, while the destruction of the Chaos Mist seemed to be against everything.
All-Things Assault.
Furthermore, this thing made Zheng Yichen feel somewhat familiar; he concentrated and it seemed to him that he had encountered it in some cancerous world.
At the moment of Oblivion when the cancerous world was coming to an end, he had felt that kind of ’Oblivion,’ although this destructive power only manifested somewhat similar traits, very weak.
After a while, the Chaos Mist clinging to Zheng Yichen gradually disappeared.
He took a long breath, "I’m temporarily fine, for the following battles be more careful, don’t get too close to that monster underground."
Liu Hongzhao still harbored an aura of slaughter. While he was fighting, this girl was also fighting.
Liu Hongzhao nodded solemnly, "I understand."
She knew that if the force that Brother Chang Qing couldn’t immediately dispel was approached rashly, it would only hinder and distract Zheng Yichen’s focus. She said, "We’ll take care of the other obstacles!"
If they couldn’t solve the monster, couldn’t they deal with other Boundary Breakers?
The three of them working together, along with the weapons Zheng Yichen had provided them, could even take on an Arriver without the interference of other enemies.
"That’s the way to do it." Zheng Yichen glanced at the ice crystal Heroic Spirit and after thinking, released the ashes silhouette, "Do a good job in assisting."
"Hehehe—" the ashes silhouette let out its usual strange laughter.
Zheng Yichen then said to Liu Hongzhao, "It can work with the ice crystal, but be careful when you use it, I’m leaving."
Watching Zheng Yichen’s departing figure, Liu Hongzhao glanced at the ashes silhouette and noticed at a glance that its physique was synchronized with Zheng Yichen, only it appeared much darker in appearance, and that dead-person kind of smile, with crescent-shaped eyes and mouth, felt incredibly inauspicious.
"How’s your recovery?" She asked Qi Xiangyun, who looked at her arm still with palpitations, "That mist-like power was so uncomfortable, touching it made both my Inner Strength and body uncontrollably disintegrate, has Brother Chang Qing always been fighting against such things?"
"Perhaps...after this is over, we could ask him for a notebook," Liu Hongzhao tentatively said, unable to help directly: "Now what we can do is to provide a stage for Brother Chang Qing to perform!"
"...The problem is that most of the Boundary Breakers have almost all run away." Lin Yaoyao looked towards a nearby Boundary Breaker, who had been taken down by her poison. Originally there was no one else, but he had seen them while fleeing and thought they looked young and easy to bully, hence becoming their captive.
"Then make him spill everything he knows." Liu Hongzhao’s eyes filled with malice as she walked over and pressed her hand against his forehead, causing the Boundary Breaker’s blood to flow abnormally and making him scream in agony. With time to spare, the interrogation began.
Zheng Yichen returned to the town. At the same time, the Dusk mercenaries also regrouped, with lone Dusk mercenaries joining temporary teams, while others opted for retreat.
Seeing the overwhelming tentacles bursting out all over the town, they knew things had gotten out of control; Dusk wasn’t a rigid type of AI. If they stayed, they had to fight properly. Slacking off would result in the same as leaving—either way, no benefit and an increased risk of an accident.
On the contrary, leaving directly was much easier; there would be no benefits, but neither the chance of an accidental death.
"Another unfamiliar entity, the foundation of the Great World... truly profound," the two Dusk mercenaries who had narrowly escaped death after a failed beheading operation muttered as they observed the tentacles shrouded in Chaos Mist.
The Dusk Mercenary Group had developed since its formation, but the Great World had not been slow in progress either. The mercenaries had most frequently encountered Alien Phenomenon creatures, and dealing with those was something they had grown experienced in, their advantage being the ability to carry some heavy weaponry.
The Great World, on the other hand, because it pushed through forcefully, didn’t bring much with them. But their people had analyzed that the Great World had now developed the Descent of God Technique, which meant they had extra research in forcefully breaking boundaries. Perhaps in the future, they could bring even more formidable items during invasions.
The Dusk mercenaries had always had it easy. Even if they encountered significant troubles, they could always retreat first, pull in stronger forces from the organization, or bring in more powerful equipment, and all it cost was an extra ticket.
Just one merit point, which was not a significant expense for an established Dusk Mercenary Group. However, during operations, the organization would assess the invaded world to decide whether to send support—if it seemed worthwhile, or to simply give up if it wasn’t.
After all, neither a streak of victories nor defeats would affect the Dusk Mercenary Group as a whole; it would only affect individuals and teams. Of course, there was still an overall impact. If there were many teams suffering defeats, the organization’s development pace would slow.
A streak of victories, however, would create a beneficial cycle.
"Should we retreat?"
Another Dusk mercenary said decisively, "...No, let’s stay. This Proxy Agent is highly valued by the Great World; otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many Arrivers appearing."
"What about support? There’s still a chance if we call for it now."
"Let’s wait on that. We’ll first clear out the remaining Boundary Breakers and sort out the local issues, then take the opportunity to probe that monster."
There was much to do, but they could act simultaneously. The Dusk Mercenaries weren’t just the two of them. Other mercenaries would gladly choose a safer battlefield to pursue and eliminate the Boundary Breakers.
The local issues were the impact brought by the widespread havoc of destructive weapons. Earlier, because of these weapons, the local authorities rejected a second collaboration with them against the Boundary Breakers, with a solid rationale: to prevent more innocents from being involved...
But now, it wasn’t just a matter of involvement anymore. After over a decade of the Boundary Breakers’ operations, who knew how many dangerous weapons they had planted? Those devices would likely detonate not because of the arrival of the Dusk Mercenaries, but at some point later.
Just like in some works of fiction where a gun appears, eventually, that gun will be fired. If there was no intention to use it initially, why would the Boundary Breakers arrange so many destructive weapons?
Some local officials might have seen through this, but upon realizing that their own forces were powerless to resist, would they choose a desperate struggle or... surrender? Without saying more, as long as certain individuals could survive, that was enough, and that wouldn’t be hard to arrange from the Great World’s side.
So after the destructive weapons spread far and wide, the local issues needed addressing. However, as those who were appointed to deal with it began their task, they found it seemingly unnecessary; a massive storm had already erupted in the local network.
In a very short time, a secret protocol spread like a rampant virus, reaching anyone with access to electronic devices.
And one couldn’t skip it without finishing it!
When Dusk mercenaries who were skilled in network technology tried to trace its source, their electronic devices were instead wrecked by the virus.
The secret protocol was out in the open, but the preservation list attached to it wasn’t disclosed; the undivulged information became an even better deterrent weapon.
If there was no need to deal with that situation anymore, then it was time to probe the monster. As for the relevant information, the mercenaries combating the Boundary Breakers would soon gather it bit by bit.
"Boss, the military forces originally directed here have stopped their advance. Some want to attempt finding the leaker to negotiate, but this action was intercepted by other local hackers and exposed. The local hackers are also trying to find that preservation list," reported a Dusk mercenary.
"Understood," Zheng Yichen knew that doing this would cause chaos, but it would buy enough time. He did not wish to have the local armed forces interfere while battling the Boundary Breakers and the monsters they created.
It wasn’t about being unable to fight, but rather how messy it would be. There was no telling how much time it would secure, but at least it would ensure that nothing would fall on their heads in the short term.
"How are things elsewhere?"
"It’s a mess. After hacking into the satellite, I discovered that besides the catastrophic attacks on cities, some landmasses also suffered ’explosions’, causing what looked like natural disasters."
"...They plan to blow up this world’s landmasses?"
"From the satellite monitoring, it seems so. A series of chain explosions would indeed cause severe damage to the landmasses of this world."
"..."
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