Chapter 180

Wu Pifu had ultimately lost track of the two people and one creature.

As soon as they left this abandoned factory, they completely vanished; even with Wu Pifu's strong inspiration, he could not perceive them.

And when he rushed back into the abandoned factory, that corpse underwent a change that made his hair stand on end. The corpse was being decomposed—not by rotting, but every part of the corpse seemed to have developed terrifyingly severe herpes. A large number of tumors emerged from the corpse and then exploded, from which various different insects emerged: ants, bees, flies, worms... many insects he had never even seen before hatched from this corpse.

This scene made Wu Pifu's heart crawl. In just a short moment, the corpse completely disappeared, turning into densely packed insects that spread to the surroundings.

When Wu Pifu returned to the base and told all the maintenance personnel about this scene, most of these maintenance personnel were shocked; only a very few people had calm expressions.

"The Twelfth Singularity Company, Singularity Technology Chimera," Gao Zhanggong said with a grave expression.

Weng said, "Yes, it is Singularity Technology Chimera... I didn't expect that human-shaped Chimeras had already succeeded long ago. This is too terrifying."

Gao Zhanggong said, "They succeeded long ago. The Thirteenth Singularity Company is shrouded in heavy darkness; the little bit that outsiders know is merely insignificant information they have leaked..."

Wu Pifu asked in confusion, "Wait a minute, doesn't the so-called Chimera refer to a monster similar to a dragon but with three different animal parts?"

Everyone looked at Wu Pifu, and Wang Yihui explained, "That is indeed the image of the Chimera beast in mythology, which also triggered a scientific concept, namely the so-called genetic embedding, fusion of life characteristics, etc., gathering the advantages of multiple lives together..."

"Crossbreeding? Grafting? Transgenic?" Wu Pifu asked.

Wang Yihui paused for a moment and nodded, "Yes, these technologies are indeed the predecessors of Chimera Singularity Technology, or rather, almost all Singularity Technologies have very ordinary and simple precursor technologies. But when these technologies are researched to a certain depth, their principles, processes, calculation formulas, etc., will all undergo inexplicable changes, to the point of becoming an unknown thing, just like the event horizon of a black hole. Once this threshold is crossed, it can no longer be observed, so this level of technology is called Singularity Technology."

Gao Zhanggong continued the topic, "The Singularity Technology of the Twelfth Singularity Company is Chimera technology. This technology has become so exaggerated that it can replace all human genetic segments with purely non-human biological genes, yet still retain human reason, consciousness, and memory. This is the powerful military force of the Twelfth Singularity Company, divided into four major armed teams: Avian, Beast, Scaled Insect, and Fantasy."

Upon hearing this, Wu Pifu roughly knew the terror and weight of this company.

Avian, Beast, and Scaled Insect—these three are likely genetic embeddings of birds, beasts, and insects. As for Fantasy, there is too much that can be understood by that; if this company really created something like demons or angels, Wu Pifu felt it might be normal.

Wu Pifu still couldn't help but ask, "Just one Twelfth Singularity Company is already this awesome; other companies must be just as formidable. Then, who exactly was the Human Revolutionary Alliance back then, to be able to almost completely destroy these thirteen companies?"

Everyone was silent. After a long while, Wang Yihui sighed, "The predecessor of the Human Revolutionary Alliance was actually Azure... that massive organization that ended the catastrophe of the Third World War, wiped out the biochemical beasts, and saved human civilization."

Gao Zhanggong also said, "These are some historical mysteries. After the Third World War, everyone unified under the banner of Azure. Then, to prevent the tragedy of the Third World War from repeating, Azure banned almost all history before the Third World War, as well as several Singularity Technologies that triggered the catastrophe in the late stages of the Third World War. But later, no one knew when, Azure disappeared, followed by the human unified government and the gradually rising thirteen Singularity Companies."

"It wasn't until the Human Revolutionary Alliance launched the Fourth War that, through combat, arrests, searches, research, etc., after the end of the Fourth World War, we learned that Azure had never completely disappeared but had gone underground. Finally, it turned into the Human Revolutionary Alliance, launching the Fourth World War with the entire solar system as the battlefield. Azure also possessed multiple Singularity Technologies, especially after becoming the Human Revolutionary Alliance—'he' became one of the five leaders. This is the most fatal part."

Weng Tianfang also took over the topic, "As mentioned before, in the beginning, Chu Minghao was imprisoned. At that time, 'he' was still himself, full of ambition and unparalleled in the world, attracting many benevolent and righteous people to join him. Among them was another super-brain, named Xu Wanfang. Although not as good as Chu Minghao, he was also a top-tier battlefield-type super-brain ability user. At that time, he piloted a cutting-edge mecha specially made for him by the Human Revolutionary Alliance and broke into the Earth sphere. In the most exaggerated instance, he destroyed three Singularity Companies in one battle. In one second, hundreds of thousands of Dragon Knight wire-controlled weapons surrounded the globe, and at least millions of Singularity Company troops and high-level personnel were killed."

Xu Wanfang?

Is this the name of Xu Shilan's younger brother?

Wu Pifu thought carefully about this information, and then he asked, "So, what are your plans next?"

The people on the video looked at each other. Wang Yihui took the lead and said, "Continue to maintain the maintenance work at the weak points of the curtain and reduce the damage to the curtain as much as possible. This is a necessary task, but at the same time, we will gather manpower and material resources to start building a doomsday shelter. Once there is a sudden change, we will enter the shelter and wait for a possible opportunity to return."

Wu Pifu was silent for a long, long time. Everyone thought he had nothing more to say, so they discussed how to deal with the remnants of the company or the attacks from the remnants of the Human Revolutionary Alliance.

Wu Pifu suddenly asked again, "Then... what about this world?"

The people present and the people on the screen were all bewildered, then speechless, and remained silent in response.

This silence lasted for at least several minutes before Wang Yihui said with difficulty, "Brother Wu, we are just ants struggling to survive. Under this overwhelming trend, we can't even protect ourselves and can only drift with the tide... We are not existences like Chu Minghao or 'him'..."

Wu Pifu looked up, speechless. After a long while, he nodded and said, "I know, ants struggling, unable to control their own fate... How could I not know."

Inexplicably, Wu Pifu thought of Lin Heier, Xu Rongyu, those paper figures filling the sky, Amida, and Xu Shilan in his mind...

Wu Pifu suddenly said, "Today, when I solved that battlefield-type curtain weak point, I saw that the Redemption Degree had a slight increase—a very small bit, not even one percent. But I did see a very tiny increase. Does this mean that solving the curtain weak points and killing the root monsters inside can increase the Redemption Degree?"

Everyone was bewildered. Several people immediately started taking action; some had rulers, some had mobile phones for calculations, and some were calculating directly on computers. After a long while, Wang Yihui took the lead and said, "It really increased a tiny bit! About 0.02 percent! Because the main brain's indicator is only visible to our naked eyes, and we are not martial artists like Brother Wu, we didn't notice it at all. It must be measured with tools to get an answer. But why? We have closed curtain weak points before, but there was no increase at all."

Wu Pifu pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps it has something to do with the things outside the curtain." Previously, Wu Pifu had mentioned his encounter with Chu Minghao outside the curtain, but he had not explained in detail what the situation was inside and outside the curtain. At this time, he told them what he had seen and heard.

"According to Chu Minghao's few words, the mutations in this world all come from those terrifying roots outside the curtain. For example, this battlefield-type curtain weak point was triggered by two remaining pupils of a death god."

Wu Pifu said while recalling, "Do you think the so-called Redemption Degree refers to wiping out all those things outside the curtain? As long as there is no pollution or terror coveting this world, then this world will be redeemed?"

Everyone looked at each other again, and then each of them gave a bitter smile.

Gao Zhanggong said, "Although I really don't want to say such shirking words, if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. If it really requires killing the roots of pollution and terrifying existences outside the curtain to increase the Redemption Degree, then it really can only be left to Chu Minghao to work hard alone."

Wu Pifu didn't say much more. He just said goodbye to everyone and left the room, leaving them still discussing the construction of the doomsday shelter, while he came to the cafeteria.

At this time, many martial artists were still eating, and they had started drinking early in the morning.

"Truly satisfying!"

"This is the world a martial artist should face!"

"No war, unable to fight, fearing this and that when sparring with people, and having to swallow one's anger when facing provocations. Clearly being a haughty descendant of a powerful family, they can actually point at our martial artists' noses and curse. It's truly stifling!"

"Patriotism, the great hero—this is the path for us martial artists!"

!

Many martial artists were drinking and talking loudly, each full of ambition, each imagining the future.

Wu Pifu sat silently among them, drinking whatever was offered, refusing no one. Gradually, he made a decision in his heart.

At the same time, in a small city of the Human Freedom Federation, Liang Min was yawning while flipping through the protection fee ledger of this Happy Street.

Just then, the light in his office suddenly dimmed. Although the lights were on and it was daytime outside the window, it took only a few seconds before the entire office was pitch black. In the next instant, the dimness disappeared, and at the same time, Liang Min in the room also disappeared.

Liang Min sighed. He was flipping through the ledger and yawning. When the office began to dim, a voice sounded, "Leader, is it really you!? Just now... how many times did 'the past' go by?"

Liang Min didn't even lift his head and said, "Only thirty-something times. Dongcheng, you are still as impatient as ever."

In a flash, five men and women appeared in the office. They all looked at Liang Min excitedly, but before they could speak, Liang Min said first, "Wait a moment. First, let me clarify one thing: I am not him. I am just a small accountant who is just getting by. My current name is Liang Min. Alright, you can speak now."

The one named Dongcheng was a man with his eyes covered by a cloth. He immediately said, "Leader, it doesn't matter. You have just awakened. As long as you come into contact with more of the information left behind, you will be able to fully recover quickly!"

Liang Min chuckled and did not refute anything.

The five people looked around, and one of the women said, "Leader, we have already done a lot of work and have a core base. Come with us!"

Liang Min did not deny it. He put down the ledger and sighed again, "So what do you intend for me to do? Just say it directly."

"Destroy Chu Minghao's plan!"

The five people said in unison, "He is too strong. We cannot let him continue to grow stronger!"

Liang Min did not answer immediately. He just walked to the window and looked out. Below was Happy Street. Although it was daytime, there were quite a few people coming to seek pleasure. Further away were ordinary streets with pedestrians coming and going. The whole world looked peaceful.

"In other words, let this land rise in war, right?"

Liang Min turned his head and smiled. That smile became more and more exaggerated, more and more hideous.

"Alright, then let this land rise in war. Otherwise..."

"In such a peaceful world, I am so bored that I want to yawn."

(End of chapter)