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Chapter 764 - 762 - "And so, people stopped believing in love.

Chapter 764: Chapter 762 - "And so, people stopped believing in love.

Lin Guang had lost count of how many cuts he had made.

His Black Blade chopped down again and again, as if mincing a pile of flesh into paste. He nearly lost his mind, his brain filled with pitch-black emotions, leaving only a destructive desire.

Die, die, die...

Disgusting, greedy, ignorant, foolish...

One cut, two cuts, three cuts...

"Drip, drip, drip..."

Blood oozed out, soaking his boots, the smell of blood spreading far.

The player on the ground had long been dead beyond any doubt, yet Lin Guang continued to hack amidst the mess, gradually reducing the several intact human forms to shattered remains—a horrific sight.

"...The most stubborn, the most paranoid, those who insist on ruining their own lives, the darkest, most despicable people."

Amidst the noisy downpour, footsteps approached from a collapsed house nearby.

Lin Guang heard this and slowly turned around, seeing a young man in a white coat approaching him, it was the Deity.

The Deity surveyed the chaotic scene, glanced at the girl’s charred corpse and the finely minced meat beside it, and shook his head with a smile:

"Lin Guang, you really are such a person."

"But this is still not enough."

Lin Guang stared at him intently.

The Deity approached him, "You must have regretted it, right? Back then, your mercy towards Doomsday City caused your current beaten dog appearance... If you were still high up in the City of Gods, would such disgusting people have crept before you? They all would have become sacrifices in your execution by fire."

Lin Guang kept his gaze on the Deity.

The heavy rain wet Lin Guang’s white hair, making the strands appear dull and matted, a few twisted tendrils falling before his eyebrows, further accentuating his pensive look, making it even more somber.

"You gave Doomsday City a chance back then, allowing them to expel you from the City of Gods to the current wretched state. Letting those vile beasts continue to live, letting your friends be unscrupulously morally kidnapped..." The Deity slowly walked from Lin Guang’s right to his left, "Do you regret it?"

His body blocked the slanting purple-blue neon light coming from the neighboring street, casting a deep shadow over Lin Guang’s face.

Lin Guang’s gaze shifted slightly.

"Regret." He touched the purplish bruises on his neck, his voice deep, "Very... regretful."

The Deity laughed, "You should regret it, you once had the chance to dominate the whole situation, you could have saved anyone, or destroyed anyone, because you were once the most powerful Agent in the Deity’s camp... Unfortunately, you threw away your City of Gods, now you’re a stray dog."

"But there’s still a chance." The Deity’s tone shifted here.

He stood half a step away from Lin Guang, very close. As his tone lifted, he raised his eyebrows, like a demon that was seducing a soul.

"...What?" Lin Guang said.

"Do you want to keep your friends forever?" The Deity suddenly leaned in closer and whispered.

The shadows of the two flickered slightly in the light of the lamp, rendered indistinct by the pouring rain.

"What?" Lin Guang took a step back abruptly, his voice momentarily halting.

"You should know... Su Ming’an is not of this world. He is a free traveler of worlds. And now, his journey in this world has reached its end, he will completely leave in no more than three days," the Deity said.

"As for your end... I suppose it will be said that you were ’defeated by Su Ming’an, the world boss,’ or ’a failed antagonist NPC.’ Much like those characters of the past, not worth remembering. You don’t even have appealing roles like ’Holy Initiation,’ ’Cici,’ or ’Knight of Light.’ The audience even dislikes you, thinking that you are clumsily imitating someone named ’Lv Shu.’"

Lin Guang furrowed his brow, somewhat unable to understand.

The level of knowledge front of this Deity always seemed far beyond his own—it was recognition that felt like it transcended several dimensions, like a God-like perspective.

"I am not Lv Shu." Lin Guang only focused on this sentence from the Deity.

The Deity laughed, "Alright, alright, you are not."

"What should I do?" Lin Guang asked.

"I can forgive the actions of your betrayal before, as long as you cooperate with me. We can try to keep Su Ming’an in this world forever. After my world has taken over this Ruined World, I could give you a piece of land to live on... if you wish, you can continue to be my Agent," the Deity wiped an arm where there was a substantial wound: "Frankly speaking, many people around Su Ming’an are quite troublesome, especially that NPC who left the instance. They have caused me quite a hindrance..."

At this point, the Deity sighed, "If Nuoliya’s Red Rose were still around, I might be tempted."

Lin Guang could not understand this kind of enigma and frowned, saying, "Get to the point!"

The Deity leaned close to his ear and whispered a few sentences.

Lin Guang’s expression shifted from anxious to shocked, then gradually to contemplative, and after a moment, he nodded, "Can this really keep him here?"

"Of course."

"I agree," Lin Guang said.

With a confirmed answer, the Deity nodded at Lin Guang, turned, and left, like a white ghost shuttling through the heavy rain.

At that moment, Lin Guang could not help but clench his fists. Struggle flashed across his eyes, and then suddenly he looked up and called out to the Deity:

"...God, in your understanding, what is ’love’? You are so intelligent, surely you’ve figured it out, can you tell me?"

His voice pierced through the cold rain, like a piercing sword.

"What is love..." The Deity paused for a moment, as if reminiscing. His deep gray pupils tightened slightly, as if floating with countless images. But soon, those pupils seemed to cloud over.

"Love is not merely about giving, sacrificing, and gaining but about continuously developing and perfecting one’s own persona through interactions with each other. It will make one increasingly independent and complete, thereby establishing a connection with the world. Good love makes a person’s state positive, healthy, and stable," the Deity said, "In my view, ’love’ makes one feel happy, something you can’t understand."

Lin Guang looked baffled, "But Su Ming’an told me that love is ’to die.’

"..." The Deity shook his head and no longer lingered, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

Lin Guang’s gaze fell as he picked up a piece of broken mirror glass from the ground, seeing his own eyes reflected in the light, eyes filled with all negative emotions, like a pair of mud pits.

"Stay," he murmured to himself.

Falling into darkness is quite simple, less moral bottom line, less ethics, less kindness and compassion, reducing as much of the good qualities as possible could achieve that.

...But if a person is born into darkness, never learning how to embrace positive emotions, how shall they glimpse the light? If everyone looks at them with disgust and fear...

"Stay?"

As if responding to someone, he tugged at his lips, smiling at his own reflection in the mirror.

"Stay."

...

[But now, true love is mostly painful, silent.]

[Poets have eradicated it, ceaselessly writing about love until it overflowed like a river.]

[Thus, people no longer believe in love. Students think under the branches that love is no longer fashionable.]

...

"Stop."

Amidst the intense downpour, with very low visibility, only the variegated neon lights were reflecting faint glows in the puddles.

Su Ming’an stood before a heavy-duty robot, his index finger pressed to his lips, seemingly comforting the other party.

In the astonished gazes of the players and soldiers, the robot’s eyes flickered red and then went into hibernation. Along the way, Su Ming’an had already stopped three or four heavy-duty robots, saving hundreds of residents.

"Chief!" Xi ran over, hesitantly no longer calling him "Handsome Su."

"Did you find the Deity?" asked Su Ming’an.

"No good! The communication has been cut off, Su Xiaobi can no longer be reached, and Mu’s team has also gone silent. I’m not sure if it’s a signal issue." Xi anxiously said, "Yaoguang Mercenary Corps’ Anita led her team away; she said she doesn’t want to die with us. Andeveis and Bogue are also wavering. Now it’s crucial that we kill the Deity—or rather, break through the Central Political Building!"

Su Ming’an looked up, among the layered buildings, the tallest Central Political Building stood out like a towering silver horn, its honeycomb-like windows flashing with crimson warning lights.

Players gradually gathered around. Leading them was a brown-haired middle-aged man named Hicks, who was part of the United Group Tian Yu branch, possessing considerable authority among the players.

"Su Ming’an, during your resonance time of over an hour, the Central Political Building is now guarded by a strange creature, and we cannot break through. We need your strength," Hicks earnestly said.

"Let’s go," Su Ming’an said.

He turned and walked towards the core, with the trembling bell sounds from the bell tower echoing in his ears, as if foretelling the finale of destiny.

Some players murmured among themselves:

"I really like Su Ming’an’s current look, he seems very reliable."

"It’s really reassuring to act following him, it feels like the path to victory is right before our eyes. I truly hope he maintains this state."

"..."

They lined up neatly behind Su Ming’an, forming a long train.

Just then.

In the sky, there suddenly appeared a swirling halo of blue and purple light, as if caused by electromagnetic flickering.

"Ka—da!"

Before people could even express their surprise, a giant breadth of light unfolded rapidly like a scroll, displaying itself above the entire city-state, resembling a layer of light that covered the entire sky. At the same time, television screens, car screens, roadside billboards... all electronic devices, all emitted a "ka-da" sound of activation!

Screens suddenly lit up, instantly like scattered starfire, illuminating the entire night. People watched the suddenly bright screens in shock, realizing something.

World broadcast!

This was a world broadcast that covered the whole Caius Tower region! Any city, gathering place, or even villages and small towns allied with Doomsday City—could all watch the broadcast simultaneously.

Back in the Dawn War period, Su Ming’an had used such broadcasts to spread the teachings of the Lighthouse Church, telling stories to people all around the world daily, his voice always reaching far and wide. But now, this device was being used by the deity unexpectedly.

On the screen, the face of a deity with a gentle demeanor appeared. The deity sat on a skyscraper’s rooftop, dressed in a white suit with cufflinks of sapphire glowing in blue and purple, his fingers resting on a silver plate adorned with tiramisu, looking utterly at ease, as if he had no relation to the war ravaging the city-state.

"What is this situation?" Violet sensed something bad.

"The deity has interrupted our signal. Now, whether friend or foe, no one can transmit information outward, but he himself can!" Rimu Sheng raised his eyebrows, "That is to say, the world broadcast he’s launched now—every word he says, we can’t refute!"

"What if the deity tells the millions of people outside the city that we are the rebels stirring up the city-state’s civil unrest—we can’t refute that either?" Yamada Machiichi finally grasped the crux of the matter: "The problem is, the fake one is the deity himself! We are the valid ones! Isn’t this a case of accusing others out of one’s own guilt?"

He couldn’t help but look at Su Ming’an standing beside him.

...All these were clearly the achievements of Su Ming’an, the city-states he had personally conquered... and now...

Su Ming’an was already drenched from the torrential rain, his black hair wet and clinging to the sides of his ears, his pupils misted with a layer of water vapor, his face full of water marks, making it impossible to discern his expression.

"Su Ming’an!" Yamada Machiichi couldn’t help but cry out, clenching Su Ming’an’s hand tightly: "I believe in you, you can definitely defeat that deity! That thing is so despicable! Kill him!"

Su Ming’an did not pull his hand away from Yamada Machiichi.

As Yamada Machiichi looked directly into Su Ming’an’s eyes, he thought he saw a smile, which made him momentarily doubt whether he had seen correctly.

"Da."

In the broadcast, the deity stood up. At this moment, people around the world, whether city-states, towns, or villages, all within the coverage of the signal, could see and hear every word and action of the deity.

The torrential rain seemed to swerve around the deity, as if in reverence of his figure. The deity looked up and suddenly spoke with a compelling aura to the vast expanse of the human world—

"People of the Ruined World. I am Yasa Acto! I need your strength."

"Doomsday City is being invaded by a group of rebels who worship a demon named ’Su Ming’an,’ trying to overturn everything humanity has achieved over these forty years!"

"It’s ridiculous that some people... regard this demon as their leader, chief, and even their faith... They have been misled. Today, I am here to completely eliminate these human traitors—if you can see my face, hear my voice, please raise your hands in support of me!!!"

His voice was very loud, spreading far and wide. From the core of Doomsday City, it reached thousands of human settlements.

Even in the most remote border towns, people could hear his voice from the screens.

As if invisible chains were latched onto people’s hearts.

While the players were shocked, angry, loudly cursing the deity, Su Ming’an still quietly watched the scene, seeming neither angry nor sad.