Life Game In Other World
Chapter 738

Chapter 738: 738

Newland City-State • Core Island

Boom——

The rocket that tore through the night sky fell in the center of the square, its huge explosive fireworks cloaking the gathering of monsters at its heart.

When the fireworks dispersed, under the charred writhing flesh, two monsters at the core shook off the carcasses of their fellows and staggered to their feet.

The next second, a shadow wielding a large ring-headed saber appeared out of thin air in the square, swinging the blade and cutting in half the dazed monster that was approaching.

Meanwhile, another monster came to its senses completely, its tentacle instantly lashing out at the shadowy figure.

But the shadowy figure didn’t dodge, instead taking the strike on its back, stepping forward with sword in hand, and cutting the second monster in two as well.

Then he waited a moment to make sure there were no more monsters at the center, before slightly relaxing and planting the sword into the ground.

He then turned his head to look back at the survivors hiding in the library, who watched the scene with intense concern.

At that moment, a young man immediately ran over and came to the shadowy figure’s side, "Boss!"

"Is everything taken care of?"

Before the young man could speak, the shadowy figure asked quickly and directly.

"All cleaned up, no monsters escaped."

The young man nodded rapidly.

Following that, a man wearing the uniform of the gendarmerie ran over as well; he glanced at the shadowy figure and said with sober respect, "Mr. Chen Lin, thank you···"

"No problem," Chen Lin waved his hand, sweeping his eyes over the charred monster corpses around him, and asked quickly, "Which wave is this now?"

"If we don’t count those scattered ones and only consider the groups of monsters, this should be the third wave of monsters," the man answered promptly.

At this time, the young man glanced at the shadowy figure, then at the monsters that had just been severed, and anxiously interjected,

"Boss, these monsters are getting stronger. We’ve started to see monsters of weak C-level strength. As we go on, it’s possible that even thermal weapons won’t kill them. And we’re almost out of ammunition."

"Yes, I’m aware."

Chen Lin sighed softly, his gaze turning to another spot not far from the survivors, where several gendarmes had cornered some people with their guns.

Most of them were injured, glaring furiously at the gendarmes in front of them, their faces hostile as they confronted the gendarmerie, and faint curses could be barely heard.

"Mr. Chen Lin, how do you plan to deal with these... ’Monster Followers’?"

The gendarmerie man quietly asked upon noticing Chen Lin looking at them.

Chen Lin watched those people.

These were the ones who had been ’bewitched’, constantly knocking on doors, even forcibly breaking into others’ houses.

It wasn’t clear how these monsters recognized one another, but these people were not attacked by the monsters and could even manipulate their movement to a certain extent.

The monster groups that gathered were assembled by these people.

Previously, because too many doors were destroyed, the number of monsters exceeded the limits.

And it was too dangerous for a large number of survivors to wander the streets.

Therefore, Moonlight and the gendarmerie gathered survivors from various districts as much as possible and placed them in several large facilities.

Then these ’bewitched’ ’Monster Followers’ gathered the street monsters and attacked those congregations.

These fellows’ sanity was not quite normal; they harbored an obsessive closeness to the monsters while harboring an unusual hatred towards humans.

Moreover, the group of these people kept growing because they were not attacked by monsters, so more and more new people joined them, persecuting and murdering ordinary people, even competing in their killings to become the most ’loyal’.

"They’re of no use to us, you can follow Moonlight’s procedure for handling them," Chen Lin glanced at those people, waved his hand, "Let’s move on to the next place."

The ’followers’ who could manipulate and guide the monsters were the most extreme among all ’followers’.

Even if they themselves were not completely brainwashed by that twisted seduction, they were the ones who had killed the most.

These lunatics all had the blood of innocents on their hands; they had not truly lost their minds. They were fully aware of what they were doing, but they had ceased to regard the lives of ordinary people as lives at all.

Moreover, Chen Lin had previously tried to ask, and these people actually knew nothing about the inside story. They were just acting according to the instructions of the seduction.

"Then we’ll proceed with the normal protocol."

The gendarmerie man nodded gently. After watching Chen Lin leave, he gestured towards the others.

Another squad of armed, wounded gendarmes quickly surrounded them, their dark gun barrels pointed at those ’followers’.

Seeing these gun barrels, the ’followers’ cornered in the alley looked up at Chen Lin’s position. Looking at the bodies of the monsters lying on the ground, they realized that the situation was beyond hope.

Their leader looked at the gendarmerie and shouted, "Go on, shoot us! We will obtain eternal life in death!"

But one of the men among them suddenly fell silent. Looking at the gendarmerie with indifferent expressions, he suddenly charged out, knelt on the ground, and screamed,

"Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me! I was forced to do this! I surrender! It’s the devil, the devil that’s seducing me! I didn’t mean to bring monsters to attack you! Give me a chance! Give me a chance!"

"You weren’t completely brainwashed?"

The gendarmerie squad leader was a man with a blood-stained uniform and a blood-soaked bandage on his shoulder, his arm severed. He looked at this man.

"Yes! I wasn’t brainwashed, I’m a normal person!"

The man immediately replied.

"So you’re saying that everything you did, including leading monsters to attack us, and killing people, knocking on other people’s doors, putting innocents in danger, all of it was your own decision?"

The squad leader continued to ask.

"Yes!"

The man answered instinctively, then immediately shook his head, "No, I didn’t, I was seduced... just give me a chance!"

He failed to notice that the look in his ’comrades’ eyes had completely changed when they looked at him. Rage filled their crazed pupils.

"Lift your head, look at me,"

the gendarmerie squad leader commanded sternly.

The man looked up blankly, staring into the squad leader’s icy countenance.

"You opened my home’s door,"

the squad leader said calmly, his gaze fixed on the man as he grasped his pistol, "At that time, my wife was home. She begged you not to open the door. Did you ever give us a chance?"

Upon hearing these words, the man was stunned. He had never thought he would encounter an ’acquaintance’ here.

"Damn it, if I can’t live well, neither can you,"

he drew a small knife from his waist and stabbed towards the squad leader closest to him.

Bang—

A crisp gunshot rang out, and his body fell backwards.

The squad leader’s aim was off; he didn’t take the man’s life, but someone from behind gave him a hand.

Those equally crazed ’comrades’ grabbed the ’unclean traitor’, swarming over him and tearing at his flesh with the most brutal force, biting through his veins. As blood spurted like a fountain, their beastly roars echoed in the quiet corner.

In the darkness, the cold sound of gunfire rang out.

The entire world fell silent.

"Boss,"

a gendarme put down his firearm and said softly to the squad leader, "Condolences."

"Hmm?"

The one-armed squad leader looked at him, puzzled.

"Your wife—"

The gendarme spoke softly.

He remembered the leader saying that the villain had opened the door to his home.

"She’s hopping around lively in the settlement."

The leader smiled as he took a cigarette and placed it in his mouth.

"Did that bastard who opened the door not open the passageway to the monster space?"

The gendarme was a bit surprised.

"It was opened."

The leader said in a low voice.

"Then your wife..."

Now it was the gendarme’s turn to be confused.

"Maybe,"

The leader paused, gazing up at the fixed night sky, his mind flashing with the image of the monster that was about to bite through his wife’s throat and the ’phantom’ that split the monster into two so fast that the human eye could hardly catch it,

"there really are divine beings in this world."

At that time, he’s been a whole street away from his ’home’, without any weapon in hand, and he could only run towards that point of despair. He had never longed for the existence of divine beings in the world as much as he did in that moment.

And then, a divine being really responded to his prayers.

The gendarme didn’t quite understand why his boss would suddenly express such sentiments, but he could only nod gently, "It’s good that everything is fine."

Then he looked at the pool of fresh blood and murmured softly, "This guy probably never imagined he would run into the victim, you, by such a coincidence."

"This isn’t a coincidence,"

The leader lowered his head, his gaze sweeping over the few gendarmes holding their guns tightly and staring intently at the scattered flesh and blood, "It’s a coincidence for one person to meet another in a crowd, but it’s not a coincidence to meet a group of people. If I hadn’t stood up, someone else would have."

The young gendarme nodded in semi-understanding, and then, looking at the scorched remains of the monster in front of the library plaza, he asked in a low voice, "Boss, with the sky always this dark, will we really be able to live to see tomorrow’s sun? Is the world going to be destroyed?"

"Perhaps,"

The leader took off the cigarette butt and snuffed it out on the wall, "Perhaps there really is a divine being in this world willing to give us and this world a chance."

...

Sitting in the backseat of the moving sedan, Chen Lin swept his gaze over the empty surrounding streets.

His current role was that of a firefighter captain; whenever there appeared to be powerful groups of monsters somewhere, he would go there, deal with those monsters, and then move on to the next location.

He did not know how long he had been working with such high intensity, but his body’s fatigue was telling him that he might not be able to hold on for much longer.

The good news was that even though more powerful monsters were emerging, even D-level ones, the overall situation was still within the coping limits of the ’temporary alliance’ formed by Moonlight and the Research Institute.

Although the pressure was immense, they had erected the defensive line, and the casualties had been kept within a very small range.

The bad news was that up to this point, the enemies they had faced were just some ordinary villains who had been misled, and some monsters.

But the voice that misled them could not have only affected ordinary people.

In fact, many Transcendents had reported to him strange thoughts emerging in their minds.

For the time being, as the Transcendents within the temporary alliance were all steadfast, there had been no cases of defection, and some of the more dangerous situations had been barely kept under control.

But Newland City-State had more Transcendents than just those officially known; apart from those remnants left from the Church of Chaos, there was another Transcendent organization hidden in the shadows, ’Daybreak’.

Both the Research Institute and Moonlight’s intelligence clearly stated that Newland City-State was within the sphere of influence of Daybreak’s ’Deputy Leader’, and a crucial stronghold at that.

Although no one knew how many people Daybreak had allocated here, everyone knew that a massive and loose city-state like Newland City-State was the most suitable place for Daybreak’s Transcendents to hide.

Among them, there were likely D-level, or even C-level.

Moreover, Daybreak’s ’Deputy Leader’ recruited without regard for background, with most of his subordinates being Transcendents guilty of heinous crimes.

These villains were the easiest to mislead.

And what Chen Lin was most worried about was exactly this.

Now, both the Research Institute and Moonlight had pushed their manpower to the limit. If anything that surpassed these limits, even an ordinary D-level Transcendent who showed up among a group of monsters, were to appear, their defense lines would immediately be breached.

What would follow was much like an avalanche collapsing.

More and more people would join the ranks of monsters out of despair, and slaughter would fill every corner of the city.

If one were to look simply at the balance of power, they had already lost.

At this moment, Chen Lin no longer fantasized about what He Ao, Feiya, or even Hao Yi would do if they were here.

Even a B-level with one or two C-levels couldn’t change anything.

This city, and even the world, had entered the countdown to destruction; they were but ignorant mantises trying to halt the wheel of history.

However, up until now, Chen Lin had not seen a single Transcendent from Daybreak appear on the battlefield.

These pests that should be lurking in the corners of the city had vanished entirely as if they had never been there at all, without causing any trouble.

Even if they were plotting something in secret, it was time for them to come out.

Chen Lin gazed out the window and suddenly gave a bitter smile,

It wasn’t possible that there was still a powerful guardian hidden in this city, dealing with all the unstable elements in the shadows, and striving to maintain this fragile ’balance’ of the city, was it?

He shook his head and sighed softly,

Actually, as he pondered these things, some thoughts would involuntarily sprout in his mind.

’Rather than struggling in vain, it would be better to accept the fate of extinction, join them, and perhaps gain distorted power and life like the monsters.’

These thoughts clung to his mind like a chronic disease, endlessly emerging whenever he began to think.

That’s why he actually understood his subordinates who were influenced by temptation, for he himself was constantly affected by those whispers of temptation.

He was well aware that this was the seduction of the persons behind the scenes, but at this moment, he didn’t know which way to go.

He tried hard to suppress these seductive voices, and at the same time, he suddenly turned his head with a feeling, looking towards the end of a backstreet.

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but he felt a fleeting sense of dangerous intent at the very end of that backstreet.

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Meanwhile, at the deepest part of the backstreet Chen Lin was looking at, He Ao retracted his Shadowless Sword and glanced at the bodies of the D-level Transcendent and the D-level Monster Followers lying on the ground.

Standing in the darkness, he looked up in the direction where Chen Lin’s vehicle had disappeared.

It was close, just missing a critical clue.

He stepped back a few times and vanished into the darkness.

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"Boss, is there something wrong?"

The young man driving seemed to have sensed Chen Lin’s discomfort, glanced at the rearview mirror, and asked in a low voice.

"It’s nothing,"

Chen Lin suddenly got up, his mind clearing of the chaotic thoughts.

They hadn’t lost yet!

They couldn’t give up just here!

He picked up the walkie-talkie, tuned it to a special channel, and pressed the button, "Kodo, are you there?"

"I am."

A cold and deep voice came from the walkie-talkie.

Behind this voice seemed to be the whistling of propellers. In fact,