Novel Full Chapter 274: The City’s Last Hope: Gu Yuexi and the Divine Mosquito Are Still Alive
Chapter 274: Chapter 274: The City’s Last Hope: Gu Yuexi and the Divine Mosquito Are Still Alive
What did it mean to have Mental Power below the Fourth-Grade?
Unlike Hong Kong Island, most Cultivators in Du Nan City primarily focused on cultivating Qi Blood, supplementing it with Mental Power.
This meant that the vast majority of Martial Artists likely didn’t even have Fourth-Grade Mental Power.
If that was the case for Martial Artists, it was even more so for ordinary citizens with no Cultivation whatsoever!
And so!
The spread and infection rate of the mental mutation far exceeded anyone’s imagination!
It started with thousands, then tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands…
In the end, nearly eighty percent of the entire city—over millions of people—succumbed to the mental mutation!
Roars, terrified shrieks, and panicked screams erupted in every corner of Du Nan City in an instant.
Reason collapsed in an instant, and the city’s order completely disintegrated.
Then, after a brief period of chaos, the tide of millions of mutated people seemed to receive a single, invisible command. As one, they turned toward the city’s west side!
Roaring and trampling everything in their path, they surged like a demonic horde toward the Chen Family’s Ancient Mansion!
…
Outside the Ancient Mansion.
「Ten minutes earlier.」
Before the Evil God had broadcast its malevolent mental waves across the city.
Li Zhantian’s gaze was as sharp as a blade. He spoke in a heavy tone,
“We can’t wait any longer!”
His voice was low, laced with the iron-willed resolve of a man who would not be questioned.
“Evacuate as many civilians from the vicinity as possible. In five minutes, I will forcibly detonate this Space Array!”
“Even if we can’t completely annihilate the thing inside, we have to cripple it and disrupt its summoning!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the color drained from Qi Chongshan’s face.
Despite being a King-level Governor, he held the lowest status of anyone present.
Still, he gritted his teeth and hurriedly objected,
“We can’t!”
“Emperor Li! Gu Yuexi and that Divine Mosquito are still inside! They might still be alive! We…”
“Alive?”
Li Zhantian whipped his head around, his icy gaze sweeping over Qi Chongshan, and sneered,
“Governor Qi, are you deluding yourself?”
“Against an Alien Race of this caliber, even if it’s just a sliver of its consciousness in a host body, do you really think a little Fourth-Grade girl and a mosquito stand any chance of survival?”
“By now, their souls have likely been drained dry, becoming nothing more than fuel for the Evil God’s revival!”
“But…”
Qi Chongshan tried to argue, his mind flashing with images of Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng creating one miracle after another. A faint glimmer of hope still lingered in his heart.
“No buts!”
Li Zhantian cut him off sharply, his tone leaving no room for argument.
“Hah! And so what if they were miraculously still alive? Are their two lives more important than the potential collapse of the entire Great Xia?!”
“Obstruct me again, and I’ll deal with you first!”
After he spoke,
Lei Xiaotian opened his mouth to speak.
“He’s right. People sacrifice their lives on the battlefield every day.”
“Gu Yuexi and that mosquito are undeniably important, but right now, they must be sacrificed!”
Li Daoyi said nothing, but he didn’t object either, seemingly giving his silent consent.
He had received orders from his superior to do everything possible to save Gu Yuexi and her Contracted Beast.
But that was only if possible.
The attitudes of the three men were like ice water poured over Qi Chongshan, making him shudder.
He opened his mouth, but ultimately let his head hang in defeat, his face an ashen mask of despair.
Li Zhantian snorted, turning away from him to face Lei Xiaotian and Li Daoyi.
“Thunder Emperor, Elder Li, I’ll need your help in a moment. Together, we’ll forcibly detonate the core node of this Array!”
Lei Xiaotian nodded grimly, and Thunder Power began to coalesce in his palm.
Li Daoyi sighed. Though he found it regrettable, he knew this was the only way to prevent the disaster from escalating. A profound aura began to rise from him.
Just then, however,
a malevolent mental wave erupted from the center of the Ancient Mansion.
The icy, sinister feeling within the wave stunned the four of them. A bone-chilling sensation instinctively flooded their minds.
“Hmm?!” Li Zhantian, who was about to strike, suddenly froze.
’What’s happening?’
Before any of them could react, the faint sounds of roaring and chaos began to drift from Du Nan City.
Qi Chongshan was the first to sense that something was wrong.
He shot into the air, ascending hundreds of meters, and cast his gaze over all of Du Nan City.
A moment later,
a look of absolute horror spread across his face!
“Th-this is impossible.”
Seeing the look on Qi Chongshan’s face, the hearts of the others sank. They immediately shot into the air as well.
And then, the same look of horror appeared on their faces.
Even Li Zhantian, a battle-hardened veteran known as the God of Slaughter, felt his pupils contract as he sucked in a sharp breath!
What sort of sight could make three Emperor Realm masters and one King-level expert react with such expressions?
People.
A tide of people.
A tide of millions, their eyes crimson, a tide of madness.
As far as the eye could see, a “crimson tide” of countless human figures surged from every direction in Du Nan City. Wave after endless wave, it rushed madly toward the Ancient Mansion!
A dense, swarming mass that blotted out the earth!
It was millions of Du Nan City’s citizens!
Every one of them had crimson eyes and twisted faces. Unconscious roars escaped their lips, as if they were soulless puppets!
The sight of Chu Sheng’s usual thirty-thousand-strong swarm was terrifying enough.
But this was a swarm of millions of living, frenzied people!
The sheer impact of the scene caused even the Emperor Realm experts’ faces to turn deathly pale.
As for Qi Chongshan, the Governor of Sui Ming Province, he began to tremble uncontrollably.
“Impossible… How can this be! How could so many people undergo a mental mutation!”
“It’s over.”
“It’s over… Du Nan City is done for. Sui Ming Province… it’s all over!”
As they watched,
the tide of millions of mutated people had already closed to within dozens of miles of the Ancient Mansion, and they were moving incredibly fast!
Lei Xiaotian gritted his teeth.
“What is their purpose in coming here?”
“Is the Evil God planning to sacrifice the entire city’s population?!”
“This is bad. We have to detonate it now!”
“We can’t!”
This time, it was Li Daoyi who objected.
“These people are already within dozens of miles. If we detonate it now, it’s no different from slaughtering millions of our own citizens…”
At these words, Lei Xiaotian drew a sharp breath, his expression changing drastically.
’Slaughter… the entire city?’
’Who would dare do such a thing?’
Even Li Zhantian fell silent.
At this moment, even the two Peak of Emperor Realm experts were helpless. They could only watch as the tide of millions gathered around the Ancient Mansion.
To detonate the Array was to massacre the city’s inhabitants.
But if they didn’t, and the Evil God used these people for a blood sacrifice to complete its summoning and open a rift to an Alternate Space, the consequences would be just as dire.
’What were they to do?’
The situation before them was utterly hopeless.
…
Just then, Li Zhantian’s expression shifted. He suddenly looked down toward the Ancient Mansion.
He had sensed a powerful surge of Energy from below.
Meanwhile, Lei Xiaotian looked up toward the heavens.
Layers of thunderclouds were gathering and overlapping in the sky.
“This is…”
“Such an intense fluctuation of thunder Energy… it’s unlikely to be from that malevolent Alien Race.”
“Could it be… that Gu Yuexi and the Divine Mosquito are still alive inside?”
“And they’re still fighting back against the God of the Alien Race?!!”
Among the fundamental Origins of the world, the Law of Thunder was one of the few forces that could suppress the Alien Race.
Therefore, the Alien Race was fundamentally incapable of controlling Thunder Power.
This meant there was really only one possibility.
At this thought, the hearts of the experts in the air trembled!
A faint sliver of hope emerged in their despairing hearts.
And at this moment, that faint sliver had become their only hope!