The demon ape was sent flying by a single sword strike.
It wasn’t until it had flown a few hundred meters that its body was split in half as it fell to the ground.
Not a single drop of blood was shed.
The two halves of its body turned into mud, then quickly fused back together.
「 Useless, you can’t kill me this way! 」
The demon ape stood up and shouted in anger.
The other demon ape had also been shot twice, so it stopped trying to fight with Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li, instead, it jumped towards this demon ape.
The two demon apes slowly fused into a four-armed twin-headed ape.
A more powerful and cruel presence could be felt from this monster.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
It slowly approached the group.
「 You managed to force me into this form, it seems like this will be a battle worthy of my full strength 」the four-armed twin-headed ape solemnly declared.
Gu Qing Shan wielded his sword.
Zhang Ying Hao quickly reloaded his gun.
Almost a dozen bright red sharp spikes grew from the Clown’s back.
When the battle seemed inevitable, a loud series of noises resounded from the far edge of the city.
Coo coo coo—– chirp!
Coo coo coo—– chirp!
The four-armed twin-headed ape froze up.
Several black minuscule figures flew into the city at an unusually rapid speed, chirping all over the burning venues of the city.
“Major Li, what’s going on?” Gu Qing Shan questioned.
Li Da Jun hurriedly answered: “This noise is from the Demonized Steel-winged Falcons, the type of birds the enemy uses to relay orders”
The four-armed twin-headed ape seemed to have realized something, looked down on them with a strange gaze and spoke: 「 Humans, pitiable humans 」
Leaving those words, it turned around and ran without even bothering to look back.
It fled at such an impressive speed that it was already out of sight in mere seconds.
Everyone was stunned.
What’s going on?
Soon, everyone discovered that it wasn’t just the four-armed twin-headed ape, but the other apocalyptic monsters had also turned around and fled the city.
“Extract the satellite images, I want to see the situation!” the woman in military uniform declared.
A soldier ran in from afar, placed a simple satellite receiver from his back on the ground, and connected to a satellite in space.
“It requires your authentication, General” the soldier said.
The woman walked forward and faced her amber-colored iris into the retina scanner while also placing her hand on a pad.
Three.
Two.
One.
Authentication complete!
An image was displayed on the electronic screen.
The soldier quickly operated the satellite surveillance tool to display the entire perimeter of the city.
Only to find countless monsters have gathered around the city, forming a closed encirclement that left no gaps.
They tightly surrounded the city to make sure that no one could leave this place.
The woman appeared confused and muttered: “They surrounded us but aren’t attacking, why? Have we perhaps received reinforcements——- Major Li, has your [Order] reported anything out of the ordinary?”
Li Da Jun observed the screen in front of his eyes for a while, then replied: “My mission is only to keep up our defenses, other than that, there aren’t any other reports”
Temporarily, the flames of battle had snuffed.
There were no longer any sounds of combat or killing.
The Clown descended from above and took off his mask, then asked: “I still haven’t gotten warmed up yet, why did things already end?”
Zhang Ying Hao pondered: “There’s something strange going on…”
Gu Qing Shan’s gaze fell onto the woman.
——–she was a relatively young woman with black hair and amber-colored eyes, she carried a sense of refreshing beauty as well as power fluctuations that wasn’t lacking compared to anyone. Although quite strangely, she wasn’t carrying any weapons at all.
This is the innate Deity of [Chaos]?
Gu Qing Shan silently thought.
…
At the same time.
At an extremely distant location from this city.
The human world alliance’s headquarters.
Everyone was busy preparing something.
[Grizzly One here, requesting permission to carry out the top-secret mission]
“Copy that. Permission granted. Terminal 3’s gate is engaging, please check your reserve fuel and ammo one last time”
[Grizzly One reporting, everything is ready]
“In three seconds, you may begin to take off!”
“Three”
“Two”
“One”
“Lift off!”
With a sonic boom, a fighter jet shot out from the base and headed towards the horizon.
…
“Then, we’re currently trapped in this city?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“That’s right. Gu Qing Shan, I know that you and your friends are people from this city, and you’ve only just recently awoken your abilities; normally, you should undergo a period of training and mentoring, but we don’t have the time for that now. I ask you, are you willing to join the human world alliance’s army to fight against the apocalyptic monsters?” the woman asked.
Gu Qing Shan appeared anxious and nervous, asking her in return: “Can we really? To protect our home, we were going to ask you to do so in the first place”
The woman smiled and replied: “Of course, your identities have been proven to be clean, and from how you coordinated to kill that snake, I can see what you’re powerful. We’re in desperate need of new blood like you”
Gu Qing Shan exchanged glances with Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li.
“””We’re willing””” the three of them answered in unison.
The woman nodded, appearing pleased.
“Very well, I am the human world alliance army’s Eastern continent Xia country’s Major General of the Southwestern army, Ye Ru Xi”
The female general offered them her hand.
“General Ye, how will we be arranged now?”
After shaking her hand, Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Since you were talents recruited by Major Li Da Jun, you can follow under him for now and learn about some superhuman advanced knowledge, while also preparing yourselves to enter combat at any moment”
“Understood”
“As for your military ranks. Although you’ve contributed greatly today, there’s always a long process before military promotion, let’s not consider it for now, they will come in due time”
“Roger”
Seeing how cooperative the three of them were, Ye Ru Xi couldn’t help but nod.
She smiled at the three of them and prepared to leave.
After taking a few steps, she suddenly stopped, appeared a bit hesitant, then turned back to Gu Qing Shan: “Gu Qing Shan, do you know how to use a sword?”
Gu Qing Shan was surprised.
Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li both had strange looks on their faces.
This question is quite interesting.
Gu Qing Shan nodded: “This humble one had studied the sword for a long time, I’ve basically mastered all of the foundation knowledge”
Ye Ru Xi asked: “Then your sword—— can I take a look at it?”
The three of them were all stunned.
Ye Ru Xi also felt a bit embarrassed from her question and shook her head: “My apologies, I’ve been rude”
With that, she left.
Gu Qing Shan thought of a few things.
He felt an indescribable feeling.
It feels like I’ve experienced this same feeling before.
At this point, Li Da Jun carried four portions of military rations over, handing one each to the three of them.
“We don’t know what would happen next. For now let’s eat, then reorganize ourselves on the spot and wait for orders” Li Da Jun opened his own portion and began wolfing it down.
“Roger” the three of them answered at once.
A large number of civilians were still slowly moving along, all of them heading towards the company’s temporary base.
Gu Qing Shan, Zhang Ying Hao, and other soldiers remained in the destroyed city, eating their meals where they sat.
Gu Qing Shan ripped open the simple ration bag and examined the items inside.
This ration contained microwaved rice with braised pork, cold steamed peas with meat, sour geese soup, a portion of cake, some dried rations, fruits, chocolate, tea bags, coffee, sugar, salt, and even a bag of cumin powder.
Ye Fei Li and Zhang Ying Hao also ripped their bags open.
“I say” Zhang Ying Hao joked around, “If not for those monsters, I would have thought we’d just joined a survival camping club”
Gu Qing Shan picked up his spoon and began eating.
“Major Li, what kind of weapon does General Ye use?” he asked while eating.
“Barehanded, she’s really impressive” Li Da Jun praised.
“Barehanded? That’s truly impressive, then, what’s the most impressive thing our human world alliance army has?” Gu Qing Shan then asked.
Li Da Jun opened his eyes wide at him, then naturally answered: “Carriers of [Order], Professionists, both of these are the most effective means against those apocalyptic monsters”
“Not that” Gu Qing Shan laughed and explained: “I was asking about technological weapons we had before the Apocalypse”
“Ah, you’re asking about weapons. Say, little Gu, you don’t even know about something like that?” Li Da Jun appeared doubtful.
Gu Qing Shan lowered his head: “I haven’t studied much, already started working at the docks since I was 12, so I don’t know a lot”
Seeing his despondent appearance, Li Da Jun was a bit embarrassed.
“Ah, it’s ok even if you haven’t studied much. You’re strong enough, you can always study by yourself later on”
“Right, about your question, the most powerful weapon we humans have ever created would naturally be nuclear bombs”
Gu Qing Shan seemed confused: “Then why aren’t we using nuclear bombs to attack these monsters?”
“It’s useless” Li Da Jun lowered his voice: “Those scientists say that there’s some sort of power suppression. They said that with our current level of technology, it would be impossible for us to understand the principles behind this”
“In short, it doesn’t do anything to the monsters?”
“Yup, that’s exactly it, that’s why the army is reliant on us carriers of [Order]” he looked at them, then added: “And Professionists like you”
Gu Qing Shan exchanged glances with Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li.
Indeed, this situation was the exact same as their homeworld.
Technological weapons of mass destruction had no effect.
Zhang Ying Hao whispered: “Impartial Goddess seemed to have come up with a way around this, Liao Xing should know”
Gu Qing Shan replied: “In our current situation, there’s no way to contact Liao Xing”
At this point, several soldiers who carried communication receivers ran up to them and saluted: “Major Li, there has been a break in our communication signal. We don’t know what’s the issue, please confirm, sir”
“Where did the signal break?” Major Li asked without looking up.
“The entire city, sir. We’ve tried many times but couldn’t establish communication with any superiors or even outside the city” the soldier appeared a bit frightful as he answered.
“WHAT!? LET’S GO! HURRY!”
Li Da Jun threw his rations to one side and stood up to follow the soldiers.
Gu Qing Shan, Zhang Ying Hao, and Ye Fei Li silently continued having their meal, but Li Da Jun still hadn’t returned when they were finished.
It was now already twilight.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly said: “I feel… a bit uneasy”
Zhang Ying Hao replied: “Me as well”
He raised his arm for them to two.
All of his hairs were standing on their ends.
“I would only feel something like this when I’m on the verge of life and death” Zhang Ying Hao explained.
Ye Fei Li sighed: “I can’t feel anything at all——- but I was thinking about something——- why was that Ye Ru Xi interested in your sword? Have you thought of anything?”
“There was a period of time when I wished to obtain a sword, during which I also felt like she did earlier” Gu Qing Shan replied.
Gu Qing Shan continued his train of thought.
And it wasn’t until I took the sword of that dead cultivator that I awakened.
Awakened!
Perhaps, Ye Ru Xi is the same?
Does she want to obtain a sword in order to awaken her identity as a Deity of [Chaos]?
Gu Qing Shan turned to the void of space and asked: “Did you feel anything earlier?”
None of the swords answered.
Only the Chao Yin sword gave off a short vibration.
“She was looking at you?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.
The Chao Yin sword vibrated again.
Gu Qing Shan slowly frowned.
Why did Ye Ru Xi only look at one sword?
What did he sense from the Chao Yin sword?
Ye Fei Li then said: “Never mind the swords. Now that we’ve found her, what should we do next?”
“Either help her awaken or bring her with us; both of these options require us to first earn her trust” Zhang Ying Hao replied.
Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight to observe the surroundings.
Everything was calm and normal.
Ye Ru Xi and two other Generals stood together, all of them solemnly discussing something.
In front of them, every soldier from the communication squad was attempting to contact the world outside the city.
Li Da Jun was lying under a certain machine, busy opening it up.
Why do I keep feeling something amiss…?
The monsters have surrounded the city.
Communication has been cut.
The four-armed twin-headed ape suddenly retreated.
——where exactly does the issue lie?
Unfortunately, there’s too little information, I can’t come up with any answers at all.
Gu Qing Shan pondered for a bit before standing up:
“Let’s go and take a look at the giant snake’s body, maybe we’ll find some clues”
…
Night fell.
The fighter jet was quickly flying through the sky under the shroud of night.
Occasionally, some small apocalyptic monsters who could fly approached to examine the situation, but then quickly left.
Very unusually, they didn’t seem like they wanted to attack this jet, instead it seemed like they were protecting it.
On the plane.
Through his communicator, the pilot was making his final report:
“Grizzle One had entered the maximum firing range. Strike can be conducted, requesting orders”
A voice responded from his communicator:
[Open fire]
“Roger”
Communication then ceased.
The pilot unlocked the firing system, took a deep breath, then muttered: “May God bless those poor innocent people”
He clicked the flashy red button.
A tactical nuclear missile was shot from the jet, howling as it flew across the sky towards the faraway city.
