Chapter 91: Trap

"Your speech was inspiring, and your ideals are worthy of respect; perhaps you will become a hero someday," Yang Yi said with a faint smile, "but I still choose to stand with ordinary people."

Wade sneered at her. "What a weak choice! Yang Yi, you think you stand with the majority, fighting for the public good, but to me, it is so blind and hypocritical. You clearly saw humanity's true future, the only path to survival, yet you are prepared to extinguish that sliver of hope with your own hands for the sake of those empty morals and conscience.

"Do you think they will thank you? No, they will resent you, they will despise you, and in the end, they will abandon you! Moreover, you will become the common enemy of the New Humans. In the near future, you will be unanimously cursed by the New Humans! You are a traitor to the New Humans!

"You will become a historical criminal, forever carved on the pillar of shame! They will use stories, novels, and films to dramatize your wrong choices. Because they hate you, they will fabricate vile deeds you never committed; they will mold you into a collection of selfishness, arrogance, malice, cruelty, baseness, ignorance, and short-sightedness! They will use your name to name the dirtiest and most vile things in the world!"

Yang Yi continued to smile, unmoved. "Then I will at least achieve immortality in a different way."

Wade also smiled, but the expression was somewhat mean-spirited, ill-suited to his usually gentle and refined face. He spread his hands and raised an eyebrow. "What, you think if you stand with ordinary people, they will be grateful? No, they will envy you. The stronger you are, the more people you protect, the more they will fear you—because you are different from them! To them, you are an aberration!

"Think about it: if you were an ordinary person, would you not fear an aberration who could kill millions with a wave of a hand? Would you not do everything possible to crush it, lest it change its mind at any moment? If one day it suddenly feels bad and wants to vent—who would entrust their life to a bomb that could explode at any time? Do you think if you protect them, they will support you? Love you? Trust you? No! Never! People will only trust those of their own kind whom they can understand and control."

Yang Yi's smile vanished.

She had worried about these things, but she would never admit it now.

She looked around; the bodies of 90,000 humans were too many to take in at a glance. This stadium, abandoned here out of thin air, was destined to become their grave in another world.

"There is an old saying in Xia Country: if words do not click, even half a sentence is too many. Since our ideals differ, there is no need to continue. No matter how much more I waste my breath, you won't tell me where the altar is..."

Ignoring Wade's projection here, she turned and prepared to fly out from here to find the altar, to find Wade's true body.

"Do you think that with last time's experience, I would still place the altar before your eyes?" Wade's smile was mocking, yet beneath the mockery lay excitement: "You realized I dare not come in person, but you failed to realize the altar is not in this world?"

Yang Yi stopped.

"So, this is a trap?" Yang Yi said expressionlessly. "A trap designed to lure me here?"

"A trap set specifically for you. Now, you are trapped in this glass bottle like an insect. How about it? Are you satisfied with this world?"

Yang Yi's face turned iron-green.

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Translucent lines in the sky continued to connect, forming the faint outline of a circular structure.

Almost everyone in Britain saw the massive pattern in the sky; it resembled a translucent celestial phenomenon covering the entire island of Britain.

Even people in several nearby countries, such as Ireland, France, and Germany, could see this strange celestial phenomenon.

Such a strange phenomenon had never appeared on Earth; the moment the lines appeared in the sky, the whole world focused on Britain, and all media were broadcasting the event live.

After the Misty Town and Buffalo City incidents, many experts were studying those two Evil God altars. When the faint outline of this altar suddenly appeared over Britain, relevant experts had already spotted the signs and urgently issued warnings to their nations.

After discovering what the phenomenon in the sky was, the Prince, accompanied by the Princess and their children, left the capital under the secret protection of agents, flying on a supersonic aircraft to the overseas territory of the Channel Islands.

Other royal nobles and high officials and the wealthy also boarded private planes one after another, fleeing Britain. In an instant, the airspace over all of Britain was busier than ever before.

"Your Highness! Please make a decision immediately!"

In the video call, Tony Carter, the highest military commander of Britain—the Chief of the Defence Staff—looked stern. "We have all identified what this altar is. It is clearly targeted at our country. The altar now covers our homeland. If we let it continue to develop, we may face a national extinction crisis!

"The only option currently is to sever the altar's connection and launch missiles at the Great Void of Wembri! Hydrogen bombs! Even nuclear bombs!"

"No!" the Prince said with difficulty. "The civilians in the capital and nearby areas have not yet evacuated. If we rashly launch missiles, the world's spit will drown me... Moreover, that superhero from Xia Country is still inside; the Xia Country side will not agree..."

"Your Highness, facing people's curses and the threat from Xia Country, or simply becoming a king of a fallen nation, is a very easy choice." Tony Carter said expressionlessly. "Moreover, as the highest military commander of Britain, I have the right to make the most beneficial decision in times of national life and death!"

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In the office of the President of Ark Country, a huge screen was broadcasting the strange phenomenon in Britain's sky live.

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency said solemnly, "Mr. President, relevant experts have confirmed this is the same altar that appeared in the extra-dimensional spaces of Misty Town and Buffalo City, capable of drawing human life to sacrifice to the Evil God. The previous altars were made of stone, while this altar appearing in the sky is composed of dark matter energy and several other unknown energies. Because our experts on site have urgently withdrawn, we cannot obtain more results. We speculate this must be Wade's doing, with the aim of sacrificing the entire population of the island of Britain to the Evil God!"

Although the President of Ark Country was in his seventies, he used technology to keep his face smooth and flat to maintain his image. At this moment, he frowned and asked the Minister of Defense, James Austin, beside him: "If such an altar appeared over our country, could we resolve it in time?"

The Minister of Defense paused. "We will launch missiles in time to stop the altar's connection!"

"What if we cannot stop it?"

"Then we will launch nuclear bombs!"

"What if we still cannot stop it? After all, this is a new type of unknown energy."

The Minister of Defense fell silent.

The President's old, cloudy gaze turned to the high-ranking officials standing in the office. A glint of sharp light flashed in his eyes as he issued orders:

"List Wade as the world's number one terrorist. Capture him or eliminate him at all costs!"

"Increase funding, accelerate research into dark matter energy and dark matter weapons, especially that thing called... the Dark Matter Interrupter?"

"Set up a nationwide alert and strictly inspect all foreign personnel entering the country!"

"As for the British Prince's request for help—tell him we deeply sympathize with Britain's plight..."

"As for the rest, let us see if that superhero from Xia Country can stop this crisis. If she cannot, we will have one less threat more powerful than nuclear weapons; if she can, then we must activate that plan..."

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Beside the Great Void, after recognizing what pattern the lines in the sky formed, experts from nearby countries had already urgently withdrawn; only personnel from Xia Country remained holding their ground.

Xia Country experts, covered in sweat, were urgently detecting various energy fluctuations beneath the cave.

The organization issued an order: they must do everything possible to contact Yang Yi and notify her to evacuate immediately.

Wei Chang'an and Chen Chen Yushu, who had just climbed halfway up, went back down after receiving the news. Currently, the signal line was almost at its limit, and the connection between the ground and the two of them was intermittent.

Zhang Zhang Ningning looked anxious, being spun around by various experts, doing whatever she could to help a little.

Director Zhou paced back and forth by the cave, sometimes contacting the Xia Country side urgently, sometimes looking up at the lines in the sky growing brighter, and sometimes looking down at the deep hole beneath his feet...