Chapter 188: Divergence

(PS: Rest for one day with three chapters today, and complete the last alliance leader addition tomorrow.)

"... It should be a cognitive result of idealism."

In a hidden network connection, hundreds of IDs were displaying various experimental results and speculations about this.

Since the appearance of the massive veil weak points and the breakthrough of various monsters to the real level, thirty-six hours had passed.

During this period, humanity was not without resistance. In fact, within less than an hour of the doomsday appearance, the military of various countries had mobilized heavy troops to start encircling and suppressing all monsters, but the situation was countless times worse than everyone imagined.

All technological weapons were ineffective.

But this itself was a thing that completely violated logic.

Technological weapons were not rule-based weapons. To cause damage, they also triggered some phenomena in the natural world—temperature, speed, explosion fluctuations, etc. —to achieve destruction. If technological weapons were ineffective, then all monsters should be truly invulnerable and immortal.

But technological weapons were ineffective, yet hacking with knives, guns, and axes could cause damage. This completely didn't make sense, right?

Because the principles of damage caused by both were completely consistent. It's impossible that your ordinary physical damage with knives, guns, and axes becomes rule-based damage with guns, bullets, and gunpowder. There's no reason for that, right?

But the fact was that all destruction and damage caused by technological weapons were ineffective against these monsters, whether single or range, whether physical or explosive. As long as it was destruction brought by technological weapons, it could not touch these monsters at all.

In contrast, the martial artists active in the Human Freedom Federation and the People's Coexistence Nation were different.

The Human Freedom Federation didn't have many martial artists. This country was the strongest in technology among the three major hegemon countries. They were good at technological weapon combos, but it happened that powerful martial artists were in this country. Led by Wu Pifu, more than a dozen martial artists were extremely active. They cleared the monsters in the capital circle and the surrounding four cities, more than a dozen towns and villages, forming a connected safe zone. Currently, the Human Freedom Federation had fully evacuated the people, migrated them to the safe zone, and built isolation defense works at the edge of the safe zone, which was considered the most stable place among the three continents.

But after a rough count across the country, at least five or six percent of the population died, and in other countries on the same continent outside the Human Freedom Federation, seven or eight percent deaths were common, and the number of deaths was still increasing.

Although the People's Coexistence Nation didn't have a connected safe zone, it was the country with the largest number of martial artists. Martial arts were prevalent in other small countries on that continent. There were thousands and tens of thousands of Ming Jin, An Jin, and Hua Jin martial artists. Although there were only a few martial artists at higher levels, with a sufficient base, they still established small safe zones on the entire continent.

In comparison, the Supreme Empire was a bit unlucky. Although there were martial artists, the martial artists of the Supreme Empire were mostly ancient knights and battlefield martial artists. With the modernization process, these armors and weapons were considered cold weapon systems, and the modern society would definitely suppress them. So apart from high officials and the rich, there were almost no martial artists among the civilians.

As a result, when the catastrophe broke out, the Supreme Empire didn't even have a safe zone, almost becoming a battle royale scene.

The Supreme Empire really had no other way but to continue to verify the reasons for the ineffectiveness of technological weapons. But after countless experiments, they could only reach one conclusion: this was a power of idealism. Just like many experimental results in the quantum field, as long as it involved the field of technological weapons, even if the effects triggered were the same, they would have no effect on any monster at all.

After verifying this step, the Supreme Empire could only think of ways from other aspects, such as using high-end technology to manufacture sharp swords and big knives, and at the same time manufacturing cold weapon armor with amazing defense, and then gathering famous and powerful martial artists in the country to wear them, forming elite special combat teams. With the support of modern intelligence and tactics, they surrounded monsters one by one. Although the results were not great, at least they were no longer being completely crushed.

In a highest-standard underground hidden shelter of the Supreme Empire, the special operations team leader and seven members were accepting questioning from the royal family and the cabinet.

"... So, the organization has completely disappeared?" an old man asked.

The team leader stood with his hands behind his back in a serious standing posture and said loudly: "Yes, but there are still members active outside. Mr. Wu Pifu is one of the core members of the organization. The information sharing obtained from the Human Freedom Federation shows that the organization was likely attacked or besieged by a hostile organization, thus suffering heavy losses, which led to the world's drastic changes. Currently, the organization is likely hiding from the pursuit of the hostile organization!"

Someone in the crowd sitting in a row said dissatisfiedly: "We should be the ones to judge the specifics!"

The team leader said loudly: "Yes!"

The crowd sitting discussed for a while, and the old man in the center said to the team leader: "These monsters are evolving, getting stronger. Do you know about this?"

The team leader said loudly: "Yes, I know. The intelligence department has already let us see the relevant reports!"

Another person said at the same time: "And they are hunting down all living people. This is a purposeful slaughter, not for food, not for territory, unable to talk, unable to communicate... What do you think is the reason?"

The team leader didn't hesitate, still saying loudly: "Because killing humans is beneficial to them! These monsters don't command each other, and judging from the information, their origins are all different. And according to observations, they occasionally fight among themselves, but they also don't have any communication with us. At the same time, as long as they see living people, they will attack immediately. This point shows that their purpose is just to kill us all."

This person nodded and asked again: "Is there any benefit to killing us all?" The team leader thought for a while and said: "Perhaps it fits the content provided by Mr. Wu Pifu. Our world is not the main battlefield. The organization is still fighting them outside our world, and the leader of the organization is still fighting. And the more people we die, the fewer people alive, the easier it is for those monsters to come to our world..."

The crowd sitting talked and discussed for a while, and the old man said to the team leader: "We, the Human Freedom Federation, and the People's Coexistence Nation have jointly decided to establish a world doomsday confrontation team, gathering all martial artists of our three major countries—here martial artists refer to those whose physical bodies exceed any most elite soldier—wearing the best and sharpest cold weapon armor and weapons, boarding extraterrestrial fast shuttles, and conducting mobile operations globally."

"Our three major countries have divided all monsters that have appeared so far into five levels. Among them, level 1 monsters require five Ming Jin martial artists to confront, level 2 monsters require fifty Ming Jin martial artists or ten An Jin martial artists to confront, level 3 monsters require at least one Dan Jin martial artist to lead, plus hundreds of Ming/An Jin martial artists to confront, level 4 monsters—except for Mr. Wu Pifu, no one else can confront them. As for the strongest level 5 monsters... in our simulation calculations, the probability of Mr. Wu Pifu being defeated and killed exceeds seventy percent!"

"Currently, globally, apart from the numerous level 1, 2, and 3 monsters, eighteen level 4 monsters have been discovered, and three level 5 monsters have been discovered. This is the greatest threat to our human civilization, and the goal of this joint team is to clear out level 4 and level 5 monsters!"

The team leader heard all this, and he already had a count in his heart, but he still stood on the spot listening.

The old man said at this time: "The number of martial artists in our Supreme Empire is very small, and there are no high-level martial artists, so in this team, we cannot provide a large amount of martial artist combat power, so we can only provide other materials, intelligence support. At the same time, we have decided to send you eight people into this team. After all, you also belong to the external personnel of the mysterious organization."

Sure enough, the team leader immediately said loudly: "Yes, mission must be completed!"

At the same time, on Wu Pifu's side, he also learned about the establishment of the joint team from the ten logistics soldiers.

However, his treatment was naturally different from that of the special operations team leader. The government inquired about his opinion.

"Mr. Wu's main task is actually to confront level 4 and level 5 monsters, while monsters below level 4 will be handled by government-organized personnel," the soldier said.

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Wu Pifu frowned and asked: "How to handle it? Can technological weapons be used?"

The soldier shook his head: "Still can't be used, but we can't just wait for death because technological weapons can't be used, right? Our country, and other countries, have all started training soldiers in cold weapons. From shield formations, bows and crossbows, to long spears and lances, all are cast from the most advanced alloy steel... Although it is ridiculous to use the most advanced technology to manufacture ancient cold weapons, this kind of weapon also has enough lethality for these monsters. As long as the formation doesn't collapse, enough personnel can still encircle and kill these monsters."

Wu Pifu was silent.

If they were just ordinary monsters, skeletons, etc., this method was indeed feasible. But once a powerful monster with extraordinary power appeared, this kind of battle formation would belong to using human lives to fight.

The soldier seemed to see Wu Pifu's psychology and smiled: "We can't just wait for death when monsters come, and then blame Mr. Wu for not having thousands of clones to save us, right? This is our duty to fight, and sacrifices are inevitable."

Wu Pifu asked in a low voice: "What do you need me to do?"

The soldier immediately said: "Level 4 and level 5 monsters! Theoretically, that is a disaster that numbers cannot confront. Currently, only Mr. Wu can confront them. This is also our greatest request!"

Wu Pifu was about to agree when his phone suddenly rang. He was stunned, waved at the soldier, took out his phone, and saw it was Wang Yihui's call.

Wu Pifu connected the phone, and Wang Yihui's voice sounded: "Brother Wu, are you okay over there?"

Wu Pifu said: "Still alive, so... is there a problem with the shelter?"

Wang Yihui smiled bitterly: "No, the shelter is fine. It's that a divergence has appeared within us... No need to say more, Brother Wu, about sixty people on our side are preparing to return to the mainland, including me, fifty people have no combat power and need you to come to the seaside to escort us. The other ten are extraordinary people, they decided to assist Brother Wu in fighting."

Wu Pifu was stunned when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed. He asked repeatedly: "Where to land? Also, what on earth happened?"

Wang Yihui was silent for a while and said in a low voice: "In short, a very serious divergence occurred. Some of them..."

"Wanted to destroy the world, we stopped and destroyed it. Now we are almost at odds!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 189 =====