Bai Yuwen looked at the soldiers. For some reason, he felt that there was something off about their eyes.
There was nervousness and terror, yet they still stood at their posts.
What is wrong with them? Has the situation in Yangcheng become so dire that even ordinary soldiers feel hopeless? As Bai Yuwen walked inside, an uneasy feeling arose in his heart for some reason.
Out of his sight, several invisible threads hung above the soldiers' heads.
They were being controlled, unable to move a muscle, forced to stand there indefinitely.
After following the youth through several corridors, Bai Yuwen arrived before a metal door.
Two young men stood outside the door. Their expressions were cold, and they did not look like official personnel.
“Gentlemen, the person Archbishop Zhang requested has arrived,” the youth said, looking at the two with a respectful expression.
Archbishop Zhang? Since when did the government have someone like that? Bai Yuwen looked at them. When they looked back at him, their gazes were condescending, as if they were looking at livestock.
The unease in his heart instantly peaked.
On high alert, he involuntarily took half a step back and forced a smile. “Everyone, I forgot that I left some important intelligence upstairs. I'll go back and retrieve it first.”
With that, he turned to leave.
Thud!
Just as he turned around, he bumped into something soft yet slightly firm.
“Bai Yuwen, our Archbishop invited you, yet you want to leave? Is the Church of the Earth Mother so beneath you?” a cold, sinister voice came from above his head.
Bai Yuwen took two steps back, his expression turning ugly as he looked at the monster in front of him. It was three meters tall, and its entire body was so fat it was almost a perfect sphere.
It had the head of a chubby young man, and when it spoke, its mouth split wide to the sides, revealing backward-facing barbs inside.
“I didn't expect Yangcheng to be controlled by a bunch of monsters like you.” Looking at the creature, he had no choice but to turn back.
Seeing this, the two young men standing at the door reached out and opened it.
Bai Yuwen walked inside, and the metal door shut behind him.
A conference table, a large screen, and Wang Hai and the others, who were currently held captive by monsters, came into view.
In front of him, a black high-backed chair was turned away from him, with a young man sitting in it.
But in the next moment, Bai Yuwen spotted Bai Xiaohua tied up in the corner.
His expression changed drastically. “Xiaohua!”
Bai Yuwen rushed toward her.
Swish!
Suddenly, an afterimage flashed before his eyes. He felt his head grabbed by an overwhelming force he couldn't resist.
Thud!
In the next instant, Bai Yuwen's head was slammed hard onto the table. A two-meter-tall burly man with white-furred arms pinned his head down with a single hand.
“Kid, do you still not know your place here?” the burly man's cold voice rang out as he exerted force on Bai Yuwen's head.
Bai Yuwen felt like his head was going to explode. The intense pain forced a scream from him: “Ahhh!!!”
“Mmph! Mmph!” In the corner, Bai Xiaohua was highly agitated, struggling with all her might.
But with her entire body bound and the rope behind her secured to the wall, she couldn't move at all.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at Bai Yuwen in despair.
“Let go. Don't kill him,” a calm voice finally commanded, and only then did the burly man release Bai Yuwen's head.
The moment he was released, Bai Yuwen ignored his bruised face and immediately ran toward Bai Xiaohua.
“If you take another step, she dies.” The calm voice spoke again, causing Bai Yuwen to freeze in his tracks.
He turned around, glaring gloomily at Zhang Yi sitting in the main seat. “What do you want? I've already lost my item. I'm of no use to you anymore.”
“No, you are still useful. You should have been with that dancing clown recently. He still has an item in his possession,” Zhang Yi said with a faint smile.
Bai Yuwen's expression flickered.
Xiao Qi had saved him, but now they were clearly planning to make a move on Xiao Qi.
Seeing Bai Yuwen remain silent, Zhang Yi said indifferently, “You only have one choice now: lead my people to him.”
As he spoke, the burly man with white-furred arms began walking toward Bai Xiaohua.
Bai Yuwen's expression changed. “I'll lead you to him! I'll do it!”
Hearing his words, the burly man stopped in his tracks.
A smile appeared on Zhang Yi's face. “Go then. You just need to head in that direction, and my people will follow you. I won't keep you here any longer.”
He turned to look at the screen. From the aerial perspective, eleven figures were sprinting across the rooftops in a surrounding formation, their target being the chimpanzee that had jumped down onto the street.
The metal door opened. Bai Yuwen cast a complicated glance at Bai Xiaohua before walking out. Xiaohua, I will definitely save you!
Once outside the metal door, the agent from before was already waiting in the corridor. He forced a strained smile. “Follow me, I'll lead you out.”
“No need, I can find my own way,” Bai Yuwen said, not even sparing him a glance.
He walked out of the corridor.
Meanwhile, outside the Jin Dada Zoo...
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Loud thuds echoed from all directions, as if some massive entities were moving toward this location.
The chimpanzee, Ah Dong, bared its teeth, holding the long blade in its right hand. “Ooh ooh ooh!!!”
“Hahaha, this achievement is mine!” Suddenly, a manic laugh echoed from the right. Ah Dong whipped its head around.
A monster appeared. It was three meters tall with four two-meter-long bamboo-pole legs, a stubby upper body, and hands that were two-meter-long black lances with hard outer shells.
Its four legs bent slightly, and it leaped powerfully from the roof of a nearby building.
Swish!
The monster instantly vaulted twenty meters into the air and lunged at Ah Dong, pointing its lances straight at the ape.
At the same time, grotesque monsters began to appear one after another around the street.
With ferocious expressions, they all charged at Ah Dong simultaneously.
“Ah!” Ah Dong roared. It leaped into the air, swinging its long blade toward the incoming four-legged monster.
Clang!
The long blade clashed with the pointed lances, sending black fragments flying and chipping two gashes into the black lances.
A ferocious look appeared on the four-legged monster's face as it pressed down with all its might. “Get down there!”
Ah Dong had only received enhancements in its combat skills, with very little boost to its physical attributes. Under this immense pressure, it was instantly smashed down from the sky.
Crash!
Ah Dong's upper body slammed hard onto the ground. Behind it, a fine white thread shot through the air at extreme speed.
Just as the thread was about to pierce Ah Dong's body, the ape suddenly tossed the long blade into the air and caught it with its left foot.
Buzz!
The colors of the street instantly dimmed. A three-meter-long blade energy shot out, tearing through the white thread and hurtling toward its source.
Over there, a spider-like monster with human heads for hands and feet was clinging to the wall of a three-story building.
The heads at its feet had their mouths wide open, biting firmly into the wall, while one of the heads was spitting out the fine thread.
“What terrifying blade energy! It actually sliced through my silk!” The human-headed spider gasped in shock as it watched the approaching blade energy.
Its silk was harder than steel, easily matching the strength of special alloys.
Without hesitation, the heads at its feet let go, and it scrambled to the side in an attempt to dodge the attack.
Splat!
However, the blade energy was too fast for it to evade. A small portion of its body was sliced open, spilling green blood and organs.
“Ah!” The human-headed spider shrieked in pain. Using its remaining limbs to cling to the wall, it fled rapidly.
In that brief moment, ten other Earth Priest-level monsters had already surrounded Ah Dong.
Ah Dong executed a backflip to stand up, holding the long blade in its right hand as it glared warily at the surrounding monsters.
“You beast! You killed two of our Church of the Earth Mother's Earth Priests and injured another. I will skin you alive!” a cold voice echoed.
In the middle of the street, a woman who maintained a human form floated a meter off the ground, gliding toward Ah Dong.
Swish!
While she was speaking, Ah Dong locked onto its target and violently unleashed a blade energy toward the woman.
The moment the blade energy came within five meters of the woman, it visibly shrank and dissipated, vanishing completely when it was a meter away from her.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Seizing this opportunity, the other surrounding monsters lunged at Ah Dong.
Vroom!
Suddenly, the wild roar of an engine echoed as another figure appeared at the end of the street.
“Stealing my prey? You're all asking for death!” a furious roar boomed from the distance.
On the road, Buck had revved his motorcycle to two hundred and forty kilometers per hour. As he neared the monsters,
he suddenly leaped off the vehicle, using the motorcycle as a weapon. He whipped his trench coat toward one of the monsters.
A powerful gale erupted. Swept by this fierce wind, the already speeding motorcycle accelerated even further.
It turned into a blur, hurtling straight toward a two-meter-tall monster covered in mouths.
Seeing this, the monster's expression changed, and it quickly crossed its arms.
Crash!
Just as its arms crossed, the motorcycle—now traveling at over four hundred kilometers per hour—slammed violently into them.
Under the massive kinetic energy, the motorcycle rapidly crumpled and shattered, sparks flying from the fuel tank upon impact.
Boom!
In the next instant, an explosion erupted, engulfing the monster in flames.
“You guys kill that beast! I'll handle this one!” the floating woman shouted.
She spun around and charged at Buck, who was also closing in.
Two other monsters immediately broke away from the group and followed her toward Buck.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Ah Dong swung its long blade, parrying away the lance-wielding monster, before turning to block a boulder flying toward its back.
Boom!
The moment the boulder collided with the long blade, it exploded into a ball of fire, engulfing Ah Dong.
Thud!
Nearby, white energy surged around Buck's fist as he smashed it into an incoming wild dog-like monster.
With just a single punch, the monster was sent flying, crashing through and collapsing a nearby building.
Crackle!
Energy crackled wildly in his other fist as he swung it toward the approaching woman, unleashing a burst of white energy.
However, as the energy neared the woman, it rapidly diminished, vanishing completely when it was half a meter away.
With an expressionless face, the woman extended her left hand and made a wiping motion toward Buck.
The white energy surrounding Buck's body suddenly vanished.
“Huh?” Buck, who had been charging forward, suddenly stopped. Feeling the energy drain from his hands, he stared at the woman in shock and suspicion.
With a thought, energy surfaced on his body, only to vanish again in the next second.
“Roar!” While he was distracted, another monster resembling an insectoid suddenly appeared before him.
Two sharp scythes extending from its elbows slashed toward Buck's neck.
Without even looking, Buck let his trench coat automatically rise to block the strike while launching a front kick straight at the monster.
Boom!
With a loud blast, a visible shockwave erupted from where the insectoid was kicked, sending the entire monster flying backward.
“Hmph. It seems your ability suppresses or nullifies energy. But I'm no useless weakling who relies solely on energy!” Buck snorted coldly.
Charging toward the woman, he decided to let her taste just how heavy a Ghoul's fist could be.
Clatter! Clatter! Clatter!
The sound of dragging chains suddenly echoed through the street.
Just as Buck was about to smash the woman, an exaggerated voice called out, “Well, well, well, this is quite a lively party!”
Buzz!
The moment the voice spoke, the sky visibly reddened at a rapid pace.
The temperature began to soar. Flames suddenly erupted on Buck's trench coat. Not just him, but the woman opposite him, the surrounding monsters, and even the chimpanzee Ah Dong—
every monster and animal present burst into flames.
This bizarre sight caused the expressions of everyone present to shift.
Seeing this, Buck immediately halted his steps, looking solemnly toward the source of the voice.
A four-armed monster about 1.7 meters tall appeared. He wore a white robe, with chains wrapped around his waist that dragged on the ground for several meters, and his eyes were covered with a white cloth.
He wore a manic, crazed grin, standing at the exit of an alley in the middle of the street.
“What kind of creature are you? And what is with these flames!” the four-legged lance monster roared at Lin Yuanshan, feeling the burning sensation on its body.
“Hehehe, you guys are quite interesting. Do you believe in a religion? Join my Sun Sect and revere me as your Sect Master!” Lin Yuanshan said with a chuckle.
As he spoke, flames rose at both ends and sides of the street, merging to form a ten-meter-high wall of fire.
Within a few seconds, the temperature inside the street skyrocketed to over a hundred degrees Celsius.
The flames on the floating woman vanished. She stared coldly at the monster. “The Sun Sect? What kind of trashy, bootleg cult is that? Only our Church of the Earth Mother is the true divine religion in this world!”
The other surrounding monsters glared at Lin Yuanshan. Religious matters were always extreme.
Every follower firmly believed that the god they worshipped was the only true god and the origin of all things. To them, any other church's deities were merely evil gods and cults—pure heresy.
“The Church of the Earth Mother? What kind of cult is that? It seems you are all heretics. In that case, I will have to purify you!” Lin Yuanshan's smile faded, veins bulging on his face.
“Laughable! Some trashy cult dares to be so arrogant? Kill him!” the woman roared, enraged by his insult to her church.
At this moment, fighting over the Lord of Evil's item was no longer the priority. Eradicating the heretics took utmost precedence.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
As the woman's voice fell, all the monsters charged at Lin Yuanshan.
Watching this unfold, Buck felt something was off. His well-honed survival instincts from taking numerous beatings told him he had to leave immediately, or he would be in for a severe thrashing.
With that thought, he turned and rushed toward the nearby wall of fire.
His trench coat lengthened, wrapping completely around his body.
“A trashy cult? Then I shall let you heretics comprehend the divine power of the Sun!!!” Lin Yuanshan's two lower hands reached out and clasped together. A white candle materialized out of thin air, gripped firmly by his hands.
Buzz!
The white candle ignited on its own without any flame source. Aiming it at the leading four-legged monster, he bellowed in rage, “O God, let Your heavenly fire purify the filth of this world!”
Buzz!
The flame on the white candle swelled explosively, and a fire dragon a meter thick surged forth.
It hurtled toward the Church of the Earth Mother's monsters, expanding continuously as it flew.
By the time it reached the four-legged monster, it had ballooned to a massive five meters in size!
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