Watching the progress bar on his panel rise once more, the corners of Xu Mo’s lips curled upward.
Not bad. Liang Shuguang’s plans were now completely laid bare, with only the final bit remaining.
However, at this moment, he was the only one whose lips could still curve into a smile.
“Fairness... What the hell is that?!”
After hearing Liang Shuguang’s words, Ye Hanshan stared at him, utterly dumbfounded.
You’re a madman who has spent thirty years plotting to turn the entire city into aberrations, and now you’re suddenly talking about fairness?
What a complete non sequitur of a value system!
He violently shoved Liang Shuguang aside, his body blurring into an afterimage as he rushed back to Ye Yu’s side like a madman.
Ye Yu’s condition was still relatively stable; she didn't look like she was about to undergo aberration yet, but her face had begun to flush, and she felt feverish to the touch.
This was only because she had used relatively little of the potion in the past, and after meeting Bai Feifei, she had never used it again!
“No, we can’t stay here.”
Ye Hanshan gritted his teeth, light erupting from his body as he soared into the sky, crashing straight toward the emerald-green light screen overhead.
Boom!
The full-force strike of an Edgerunner, however, produced almost no effect upon hitting the light screen.
The city defense array remained motionless, like an overturned coffin nailing the entire city inside.
Instead, a terrifying rebound force surged back. Ye Hanshan was sent flying, crashing heavily back toward the ground!
He didn't even have time to use an Escape Art before he slammed into the earth with a thunderous bang, blood instantly coughing from his lips.
The plaza was now in total chaos.
Everyone who had ever been injected with the potion felt power surging within them, as if they wanted to peel their own skin off.
As for the Edgerunners previously controlled by Liang Shuguang, they began to twitch where they stood, their minds struggling against the intense mental shock.
The strong were too busy saving themselves, while the weak fled in all directions, though they had no idea where they could possibly run.
Everything seemed to have instantly returned to the state of things thirty years ago.
In the crowd, Kong Man’s brow furrowed. The anomalous aura in the air was silently brushed away by a thin water membrane.
She had never been injected with the potion, and as a Prophet, she was unaffected. However, her peach blossom eyes were filled with shock.
To think there was someone in this world who could orchestrate something like this... Just who exactly was this Liang Shuguang?
Could a man in a wheelchair truly cause such a horrific disaster for the world?
And what did he say earlier... humanity taking a step forward?
How could such a terrifying act of annihilation be described with such idealism? What kind of 'step' was that?
Since Kong Man had only just arrived, she hadn't heard Liang Shuguang’s previous speech in the North District and didn't understand the context behind his words.
At this moment, she wasn't even paying much attention to Qiu Jing behind her or Liu Yun to the side; instead, she was watching those two individuals.
In this city of suffocating madness, only those two remained calm, facing each other from a distance of over ten meters.
They were “Bai Feifei” and Liang Shuguang.
One was determined to assassinate at all costs, while the other was determined to cause chaos regardless of the consequences.
Perhaps only these two, who were once the craziest of all, could remain calm in such a frantic moment.
Liang Shuguang leaned back in his wheelchair and looked up at Xu Mo. “What you wanted to see, I have now shown you.”
He paused, his eyes flashing with a scrutinizing light. “Now, it is your turn to respond.”
Xu Mo blinked and picked at his ear. “Huh? My turn for what?”
As he spoke, his peripheral vision caught sight of an Elder with hollow eyes, who had officially transformed into an aberration on his game panel.
At that moment, the man had just succumbed to the mental torture and was in the final transformation stage, possessing almost no combat capability.
Xu Mo didn't hesitate. With a casual swing, his sword flew into the center of the man's forehead.
The movement was crisp and efficient, without a hint of hesitation.
A substantial amount of experience points flooded into his body. Feeling the EXP from a Scion-level aberration (equivalent to an Edgerunner), Xu Mo narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
Under normal circumstances, killing such an aberration would never be this easy.
But now, it was practically a freebie.
“Heh.” At that thought, Xu Mo couldn't help but chuckle as he turned back to Liang Shuguang.
“Actually, it sounds a bit inhumane to say... but I somehow feel like this move of yours is a perk specifically prepared for me.”
Liang Shuguang raised an eyebrow, not understanding why “Bai Feifei” would suddenly make such an unserious expression.
Xu Mo’s mind was already calculating.
With this massive dome locked down, the entire city was filled with potential EXP fodder, and no one could leave.
With his character’s current top-tier configuration, the entirety of Dawn City was a closed grinding zone!
As the people in the city slowly aberrated one by one, he could farm them one by one. Wouldn't that lead to the ultimate resource maximization in the end?
However, if he did that, the storyline he had worked so hard to push to over ninety percent would be somewhat wasted.
Besides, a certain someone would probably get quite anxious.
Sure enough, the moment that thought crossed his mind, Bai Feifei’s voice echoed in the depths of his consciousness: “What did you just say about a perk?!”
“Ahem.” Xu Mo gave an awkward laugh and shifted the subject without missing a beat. “Nothing, just messing with him.”
He planted his sword in the ground, momentarily ignoring the people around him who were turning into EXP fodder, and tilted his chin toward Liang Shuguang in the wheelchair.
“What kind of reaction do you think I should have? If I kill you now, can this thing be stopped?”
Liang Shuguang leaned against the back of his chair and nodded with a smile. “Didn’t you come here today specifically to kill me?”
“You can certainly try...”
Before his voice could even land.
A black light tore through the air!
Xu Mo erupted without any warning, the short sword steeped in black energy flying from his hand, tracing a straight black line as it shot forward!
The tip of the sword plunged straight and accurately into Liang Shuguang’s chest, sinking in up to the hilt instantly!
“Then I’ll give it a try! Who the hell do you think you’re playing god with?!”
Xu Mo cursed as his body surged forward along with the flying short sword, closing the distance to within a few meters of Liang Shuguang in an instant.
In his view, the final ten percent of the storyline could only involve Liang Shuguang’s strange ability, the source of which was still unknown.
But it didn't matter! When it came to fighting, that was his specialty. He’d find out once they traded blows!
As he lunged forward, he reached out with his right hand, fingers splayed, intending to grab the hilt of the blade still embedded in the man’s chest. He planned to channel the black energy from the heart directly through the blade and stir it around inside the man’s body!
But just as his fingertips were about to touch the hilt...
Thump!
The phantom heart belonging to the Real World throbbed violently, its pulse rate skyrocketing in an instant.
Xu Mo’s pupils contracted sharply. In the next second, an irresistible, massive force slammed into him from the side!
Without any time to react, he was sent spinning through the air as if he were riding the clouds, blown away by the impact.
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