Chapter 138: Wade's Last Resort

Lethal injection requires three drugs: thiopental sodium to induce unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory failure, and potassium chloride to stimulate the heart muscle, making the heart beat rapidly so the other drugs spread quickly throughout the body, serving as an auxiliary accelerator.

On the control console sits an injection button; once pressed, the drugs are injected sequentially into the prisoner's body. Within 35 to 40 seconds, the prisoner loses consciousness; within 5 to 20 minutes, the prisoner dies.

People stood in silence, gazing into the execution chamber.

Global live broadcast cameras quietly recorded the scene inside the room. The cameraman pointed the lens at Wade's face, seemingly hoping to find a trace of fear in his expression, but he was disappointed; Wade was very calm, even appearing serene.

He was supported as he lay down on the execution bed. A special police officer operated something on his handcuffs; the handcuffs automatically split into two, continuing to suppress his abilities like bracelets.

Afterwards, he stretched out his limbs, and his wrists and ankles were shackled to the execution bed.

He tilted his head, looking at Yang Yi through the transparent isolation wall.

Yang Yi heard him say, "Yang Yi, before I die, I want you to see what I once saw..."

His lips did not move; his gaze remained calm as he looked at her.

Yang Yi straightened her body, and a telekinetic barrier protected the crowd in the audience stands.

She sensed that Wade's ability was not powerful and held no offensive power. Considering Wade wore three ability suppressors, even if he were stronger, he could not unleash his full power; perhaps he simply wanted to convey some information to her.

"Good," Yang Yi said silently.

Thus, she seemed to possess Wade's body, following his perspective to witness scene after scene.

Wade, obeying Argos's orders, came to a planet with two blood moons. There, he encountered an alien race no less advanced than human civilization, a race with a unique developmental trajectory.

Their strongest members could leave their home planet, travel to the two blood moons in the sky, open up and transform the blood moons, turning two desolate planets into environments suitable for their race's survival.

Their strongest members could not only open up alien planets but also survive alone in the universe for a period. They were even planning to go further, exploring more races and civilizations in the universe.

But the arrival of that day completely shattered this civilization.

A bizarre substance descended upon this planet and the two blood moons in the sky, which had been transformed into new homes. This race's bodies were altered by this substance—the strong grew stronger, and the weak also began to become robust.

At the same time, a new faith spread through this civilization. Some began to worship an evil god of unknown origin, claiming it brought the changes. This faith grew rampant, sweeping across three planets.

The original civilization's religion and government strongly rejected this faith. They massacred the worshippers of the evil god on a large scale. They won; the evil god's followers were slaughtered clean, and everyone turned pale at the mere mention of the evil god. Finally, a great plague descended upon the three planets, ultimately extinguishing the entire civilization. Everyone, before dying, wore expressions of fear, as if they had witnessed the most terrifying sight of their lives...

Even the strongest among those races, though they resisted the plague, gradually perished amidst the dwindling numbers of their kin over the long years.

And this was merely a casual strike by the evil god's followers; the evil god never revealed itself from beginning to end...

There was also that desert planet where Argos established an altar. Long ago, a civilization race lived beneath the desert, its level of civilization no less than Earth's.

The final result was the same: in the process of rejecting the evil god, an unstoppable disaster descended, and the lives of all races were drained away in pain...

As the planet gradually turned into a terrifying void of silence, Yang Yi's thoughts suddenly returned to the execution chamber.

At this moment, needles were already inserted into Wade's arms. Under the gaze of hundreds of millions of global viewers, the executioner solemnly pressed the injection button.

Inside the syringe, thiopental sodium solution flowed into his veins. Wade's expression gradually grew hazy, his eyes becoming increasingly unfocused.

"... Even if becoming a henchman, becoming livestock kept in pens... humiliation... the continuation of civilization... is the most important... He... terror... chaos... evil god..."

In the moment before losing consciousness, he finally did not address that one as "Lord," but used that disrespectful title—"evil god."

The second vial of solution was pancuronium bromide. After being injected into Wade's body, his muscles relaxed completely, and his breathing changed from heavy and coarse to faint.

The third vial of solution was potassium chloride. After being injected into his body, he became completely motionless.

This moment was very quiet; people around the world watched this scene in silence.

On the monitor, the curve representing life turned into a straight line. The medical examiner stepped forward, checked Wade's heartbeat and the pulse on his neck, and declared Wade Davies dead.

This head of a terrorist organization responsible for nearly seven million lives, this enemy of humanity, this executioner, this warlord, this advocate of the new humanity, died here and now.

Just as the execution staff were unfastening the locks binding Wade's limbs, the door was suddenly pushed open. A staff member shouted in terror, "It's bad! The sky... the sky is cracking open..."

Yang Yi remembered the last words Wade said when she left the cell yesterday: "Don't forget, even until the very last moment, I will not give up on my goal."

She walked quickly out of the execution room to the open ground outside. The sky was cracked open as if eroded; the blue sky and white clouds were stained with large patches of red scars, resembling rotting wounds on skin.

Strange and misshapen alien creatures crowded behind the passages, seemingly eager to rush into this world and feast to their heart's content.

People looked at the sky with unimaginable terror as information and text message notification sounds rose and fell in a cacophony.

Yang Yi opened her phone notifications. The Awakening Bureau of Xia Country sent over several links. She clicked in and saw a video left by Wade. He sat on a sofa in his office, looking gentle and refined, with a kind face, speaking to the camera:

"Oh, everyone, if you are watching this video, it means I am already dead. I have left you all a gift. I placed a spatial device in another world, a world vast beyond measure, inhabited by various creatures raised by the Lord. It is one of the Lord's countless pastures. This is my final loyalty, offered by me, a believer of the Lord, to the Lord. At the moment of my death, this gift is also opened. Of course, this is also a little surprise I have left for Yang Yi. I sincerely hope you will suddenly realize your error and return to the Lord's embrace..."

It was obvious this was a trap set for Yang Yi.

After watching this video, the people around her turned to look at Yang Yi without exception.

The way they looked at Yang Yi varied: some looked at her as a savior, hoping to obtain redemption; others looked at her as an enemy, as if she had brought the disaster; some looked coldly, full of scrutiny; and most were filled with a sense of urgency...

Yang Yi seemed not to see these gazes. She continued to open the other live broadcast links. Not only here at the United Nations Palace, but the skies around the entire Earth were gradually opening spatial passages to the other world.

In some places, small alien creatures had already crawled out of the newly cracked spatial fissures and began to wreak havoc among the crowds.

She silently put away her phone without the slightest hesitation. Her figure flashed suddenly, a sonic boom rang out, and her slender form vanished into the sky.

Before entering the fissure, a thought surfaced in her mind—originally, she intended to go see him after settling Wade's matter. If she had known, she might as well have gone earlier...