Chapter 135
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Chengjiang City.
Rain was still falling, but the cries and wails that had been heard everywhere in the past few days had diminished significantly. Apart from occasional shrieks emanating from corners, Chengjiang City was quiet.
In this quietness, three assault boats navigated through the submerged high-rise buildings, swiftly heading towards the outskirts of the city.
The turbid water surface was pulled into thick white waves, and the rumbling sound caused the people taking refuge in the high-rise buildings to react, poking their heads out of the windows one by one, staring intently as the three assault boats moved further away.
After realizing that these were not the boats sent daily by the soldiers to deliver supplies, they lost interest and retreated back inside.
Anomaly Control Bureau.
Lin Feng stood on the fourth floor, watching the ripples caused by the departure of the three assault boats, his mood heavy.
He didn’t hesitate for long before agreeing to Lou Yan’s proposal for a rapid counterattack.
There was no other choice. Just as Lou Yan said, if they didn’t seize this opportunity to round up the cultists who had secretly gathered, who knew what they would do next? Especially since they still had an A-rank terror, the “Water Ghost,” unresolved.
Lin Feng sighed, unable to understand, “Why are there so many cultist leaders secretly gathering in Chengjiang City? What do they want to do… and what is their purpose…”
Even his disciple Wu Qiong had become an undercover agent for the cultists. How many undercover agents like Wu Qiong, who hid themselves deeply, were there?
Lin Feng’s face suddenly looked much older due to fatigue.
This was only the second month after the Anomaly Resurgence!
Why did the cultists develop so rapidly!
“Team Leader, the wound on your neck needs stitches. Let’s go to the medical room to treat it first,” the doctor advised.
Lin Feng snapped out of his thoughts, nodded, and followed the doctor to the medical room.
The medical room was a small room temporarily set up on the fourth floor. After Lin Feng and the doctor entered, two soldiers stood guard at the door with guns. Two other soldiers followed them into the medical room, closely guarding Lin Feng.
The doctor took out a surgical blade from the tray and cut open Lin Feng’s clothes at his neck, instructing the two soldiers in the room to hold gauze and medicine.
Lin Feng was still thinking about things, his mind not entirely focused on the wound. When the severe pain came from his neck, he couldn’t believe it and raised his head, only to see the doctor who suddenly stabbed the scissors into his neck revealing a crazy smile, “Hahaha, you’re dead! You’re going to die!”
“Team Leader!”
The two soldiers beside him were shocked, one immediately rushed up to subdue the doctor and drag him away, while the other supported Lin Feng, shouting loudly outside, “Team Leader’s in trouble! Someone, quickly!”
Lin Feng didn’t expect that even this doctor was a cultist. He made a dry, hoarse sound in his throat, gripping the soldier’s hand tightly, and said with difficulty, “Let… Lin You… take over my position… Tell him… I… have important documents… put in a place… only he… knows…”
On that document were the names of the undercover agents Lin Feng had discovered among the cultists, as well as another list of personnel he suspected but had not confirmed to be undercover agents.
Lin Feng felt his strength diminishing, and the sorrow and guilt made him feel even more unwilling.
He didn’t want to die!
He hadn’t finished what he wanted to do yet. He didn’t even die on the battlefield fighting against anomalies!!!
Lin Feng lamented that he died before completing what he wanted to do, feeling guilty that his death not only didn’t help anyone else but also could lead to chaos.
He was about to leave, but the Water Ghost had not died yet, and those cultists had not died either…!
Lin Feng’s breathing became rapid, tightly gripping the soldier’s hand, he emphasized, “Keep… my news… hidden… don’t tell Lou Yan… and the others immediately… let them continue their operations… Don’t… don’t create chaos…”
After saying that, Lin Feng’s vision went dark, and he closed his eyes.
“Team Leader!!!”
The soldiers shouted with red eyes.
***
Accompanying Lou Yan in the siege of the cultists were a total of twenty-two talented individuals and five snipers.
This was all the combat power Lou Yan could bring along. As for other soldiers and some talented individuals who were not suitable for combat, Lou Yan did not let them participate in this mission.
In battles against cultists, ordinary people were just cannon fodder in the past, and only skilled snipers could secretly eliminate some cultists with bullets.
The speed of the assault boats was fast. Half an hour later, under Xia Wu’s guidance, they arrived at the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of the city.
This mountain was called Xiaoqing Mountain and was a place where the residents of Chengjiang City liked to visit on weekends. It was about a hundred meters above sea level. On the mountaintop was a temple rumored to be very efficacious for making wishes, and there was also a large flat area where residents could picnic and set up tents.
Such a place should have been a good refuge, but on the second day of the appearance of the “Water Ghost,” Xiaoqing Mountain experienced a landslide due to heavy rain, resulting in a debris flow disaster, burying many people who had fled to Xiaoqing Mountain.
The debris flow also severed the trees at the bottom of Xiaoqing Mountain, completely blocking the way up the mountain. Therefore, Xiaoqing Mountain was excluded from being a refuge.
“The cultists were hiding here, no wonder we haven’t discovered their presence all along,” Li Sanxin, wearing a black raincoat, looked up at the distant mountain peak, rain striking his handsome and firm face. He sighed lightly, “The mountain road is blocked by debris flow and trees, it’s not easy to go up.”
Lou Yan also noticed, “Let’s circle around and see if there’s a better way up.”
The assault boat approached the foot of the mountain, circling around Xiaoqing Mountain, finding a slightly better path up the mountain.
The group tied the assault boat to a tree and helped each other climb over the piled-up broken branches and slippery mud, walking laboriously into the forest.
The mountain path in the rain was extremely difficult to traverse, one step at a time, rapidly depleting their energy. The raincoats worn by everyone were torn by branches, leaving them partially wet in no time.
Fortunately, after walking for a while, there were more fallen leaves on the ground, making it easier to walk. Before them appeared several mountain paths that had not been buried. However, there were quite a few paths to choose from.
A talented individual who looked like a teacher, wearing glasses, wiped the water off his glasses and suggested, “The mountaintop of Xiaoqing Mountain is very spacious. I suggest we split into several teams and go up from different directions. Firstly, if we all go together, it will make too much noise, which would be bad if those cultists notice us; secondly, if we surround the mountaintop from different directions, we can also capture all the cultists in one fell swoop.”
Another middle-aged woman named Luo Hongyan, who looked like an auntie, nodded repeatedly, “I agree with Mr. Zhao’s suggestion. I’ve brought my daughter to Xiaoqing Mountain to play twice before, and it’s indeed vast up there. No one knows where the cultists might be staying on the mountain. Let’s split into teams, each taking a different route. We shouldn’t put all our eggs in one basket.”
Mashan volunteered, “I have strong leg jumping ability. How about I run to the mountaintop first to see the situation and then come back to inform you?”
Dragged along by Lou Yan with a rope in his hand, Xia Wu couldn’t help but sneer, sarcastically saying, “Haha, with your speed, you’ll be spotted by our people before even reaching the mountain. Do you think you’ll have a chance to come back and report?”
Mashan’s face changed color with embarrassment and he glared angrily at Xia Wu.
Xia Wu grinned defiantly, staring back without backing down, “Stupid men with long limbs but short brains, tut tut.”
Lou Yan glanced at Xia Wu, “Thank you for helping us avoid a loss of personnel.”
Only then did Xia Wu realize she had misspoken, her face swelled with anger, and she turned her head with a cold snort, refusing to say another word.
“Hey, little traitor, did your cultists cause the debris flow on Xiaoqing Mountain?” Lu Haoxiu approached curiously, poking Xia Wu’s arm.
Xia Wu exploded, jumping half a meter high, “So what if we did or didn’t? You have no right to call me a traitor. I’m not a traitor at all! I never betrayed the cultists. It was that cunning and sly man who used his abilities to make me reveal that information!”
Li Sanxin, described as cunning and sly, smiled faintly, completely unaffected by Xia Wu’s angry gaze and resentment.
“I didn’t say you were a traitor to the cultists. I said you were a traitor to humanity,” Lu Haoxiu quipped, “You are a cultist, aren’t you? What else but a traitor to humanity?”
“D*mn it…” Xia Wu’s veins bulged on her head, her red hair was about to stand up. If she wasn’t tied up, she would have rushed up to kill Lu Haoxiu, “cultists are not traitors to humanity, but messengers of the gods! We are the vanguard of this era, ahead of everyone else. You ignorant fools, you have no idea how great things we are doing! If it comes to the contribution to humanity, no one has contributed as much as we have.”
“Great? Contribution?” Ye Buyan sneered, “The great act of being accomplices to the tigers? The contribution of killing fellow humans?”
“Why tigers? What’s it to do with tigers?”
Xia Wu didn’t understand the idiom “being accomplices to the tigers,” but it didn’t prevent her from understanding the disgust in Ye Buyan’s tone. Xia Wu snorted coldly, speaking with a tone of hidden joy and disdain.
“What you don’t understand is that we cultists are the saviors of humanity. Haven’t you noticed? The power of anomalies is so powerful that it’s far beyond the reach of humans. Their power can make us stronger, they are the source of evolution, the true gods! As long as we keep them happy, we cultists can become the first to master evolution. You are all just backward in the era. I advise you, if you don’t want to be abandoned by evolution, join us cultists as soon as possible.”
Lu Haoxiu was stunned by Xia Wu’s shamelessness, “Wait a minute, did you just say that evolution means helping anomalies kill our own kind??? Using human lives to entertain anomalies??? With so many humans killed by anomalies, have you ever thought that humanity might eventually be wiped out?! This is not evolution at all, this is genocide of one race by another!”
Xia Wu indifferently said, “Survival of the fittest. As long as a small number of evolved people can survive, what does it matter if the vast majority of humans perish? If their deaths can allow us to obtain the power of anomalies from the hands of anomalies, then their deaths are worthwhile sacrifices for the future of all humanity. The humans who survive in the end are the elite humans who have evolved. Their offspring will only be stronger than the current humans. This is the right way, and you’ve been influenced by outdated moral concepts.”
Xia Wu’s righteous and unyielding attitude was both frustrating and sad. She was only twelve years old, yet her values had been instilled to be like this. It showed how crazy other cultists might be.
Not afraid of evil teaching bad things, but afraid of evil teaching faith. Perhaps in the eyes of cultists, what they do is truly the right thing to do.
Lou Yan had heard this kind of argument countless times already, and he calmly asked, “Who told you this?”
With Xia Wu’s lack of cultural knowledge, even “being accomplices to the tigers,” Lou Yan felt she couldn’t come up with such words on her own.
“…”
Although Li Sanxin wasn’t currently using the surgical thread hidden in her brain to control her, under Lou Yan’s intimidating gaze, Xia Wu reluctantly spoke, “Saint Son Ye Ruan.”
Saint Son Ye Ruan…
A man killed by Fu Xuezhou in the previous life.
And the killing of Ye Ruan was also the beginning of the spread of Fu Xuezhou’s reputation as a ‘savior.’
After the death of Saint Son Ye Ruan, his brainwashing rhetoric did not disappear. Instead, it spread widely among the cultists, who considered it to be indisputable truth. This talk about evolution is too capable of shaking people’s rationality. Even in the words of Saint Son Ye Ruan, he described anomalies as ancient gods that have long existed on Earth, only having fallen into a long slumber and now awakening again.
He found many ‘evidences’ of the existence of anomalies from myths and legends from both domestic and foreign sources. Such as the initial appearance of almost all Buddhas and Western angels being depicted as having three heads, six arms, and a fierce appearance, and the simultaneous recording of ‘prehistoric floods’ in legends from around the world.
As well as the human legends before the ‘prehistoric floods’ exaggerating the existence of gods, such as kings living for thousands or tens of thousands of years in legends, humans with heads of sheep, tails of horses, and bodies as huge as hills, and some mysterious ancient civilizations that appeared thousands of years ahead of science… And after the ‘prehistoric floods,’ humans gradually began to be depicted in a more understandable manner.
So Saint Son Ye Ruan said, ‘Before humans, anomalies were the masters of the Earth.’
He also said, ‘The real invaders are actually us humans.’
Brainwashing, it’s really too much brainwashing.
So this person had to be killed.
The author has something to say:
Ye Ruan is the contemporary CPU master.
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