Chapter 156: The Third Silk Pouch

Huang Litian is a lie detector; he can clearly judge that everything this figure before him is saying is the truth!

It is precisely because of this that he feels a deep chill. Qingcheng... is the city about to be destroyed?

"Where did you come from? What kind of nonsense are you spouting? There are no demon-kind with royal-level bloodlines near Qingcheng; how could monsters in numbers sufficient to destroy Qingcheng possibly gather here?" Xu Xiu questioned.

"Believe it or not, if it weren't for my lord's orders, I wouldn't even bother to warn you people."

That figure dropped this sentence and dove back into the wall, disappearing from sight. Xu Xiu wanted to give chase but found he could not catch up to the other party at all.

"Stop chasing; who that person is doesn't matter anymore!" Huang Litian took a deep breath, cold sweat constantly breaking out on his forehead. He now desperately hoped that his lie-detection ability had malfunctioned and that the other party had lied without him noticing.

But soon, a piercing alarm that shot straight into the clouds suddenly rang out overhead, resounding throughout all of Qingcheng!

This alarm shattered all of Huang Litian's fantasies.

Level I alert!

Once a city issues a Level I alert, there is only one possibility: this city is facing an irresistible crisis of total destruction!

Huang Litian glanced at Ye Lin, then said nothing more and left with his people immediately.

When a Level I alert sounds, regardless of what an investigator is doing or whether they have retired, they must rush to the Investigation Bureau to assemble at once.

It no longer matters who killed Yin Xiang; the entire Qingcheng is facing a catastrophe.

Hearing that a massive number of monsters were heading toward Qingcheng, Ye Lin also felt his scalp tingle. For some reason, he suddenly thought of that ruined version of Qingcheng inside the Gate of Apocalypse.

Could it be that the ruined version of Qingcheng is what Qingcheng will look like in the future?

"Damn it! Boss! Why are you still standing there in a daze! It's a Level I alert! Hurry and come with me!"

Ji Lingyu rushed over anxiously, shouldered Ye Lin's clone, and left.

When a Level I alert sounds, all class-changers in Qingcheng who are at least 25 years old and have reached level 10 or above must go to the city walls to assemble.

The first batch to evacuate are young class-changers with talent, followed by minors, and finally the elderly, weak, women, and children.

Ye Lin and Ji Lingyu are both university students about to enroll, so they are naturally on the list for the first batch of evacuations.

Watching his clone being carried away by Ji Lingyu, Ye Lin's gaze was somewhat complex.

Not long after the clone and Ji Lingyu left, a figure as thin as a monkey appeared beside Ye Lin; it was Guo Qin, who had been missing for many days.

At this moment, Guo Qin's complexion had turned extremely ugly.

"Son of a bitch! To force the two of us to show ourselves, those people actually lured tens of thousands of monsters here! The whole of Qingcheng is finished; hurry and come with me!"

He had a contract with Guo Qin, so Ye Lin was not surprised that Guo Qin could accurately find his true body.

But what shocked Ye Lin was the content of Guo Qin's words.

"What did you say? Those monsters were lured here by someone?" Ye Lin widened his eyes.

"Yes! They couldn't catch me and couldn't find that fake identity of yours, Ling Ye, so they came up with this godforsaken plan to destroy the entire Qingcheng!"

Guo Qin gritted his teeth and cursed.

"Damn it! There are so many of my old flames in Qingcheng! These people have absolutely no humanity!"

Ye Lin's breathing also became heavy. He truly did not expect that in order to find him, Xie Hong could actually pull off such a crazy move.

This world is a giant courier station, filled with large and small packages, and some of the packages aren't even labeled!

The people of the Xie family are clearly treating the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Qingcheng as a joke!

To leave? Or to save?

If he leaves, his clone has already evacuated in the first batch with Ji Lingyu, and with a big boss like Father Ji, he surely has a way to escape. There is no one left in Qingcheng that he cares about.

Relying on the heaven-defying Great Void Art, Ye Lin has a hundred percent certainty of successfully leaving Qingcheng.

If he saves them, this is clearly a trap set by Xie Hong. If he appears and displays extraordinary combat power, he will definitely be targeted by the Xie family immediately.

By then, he would likely have to face the Xie family, one of the five great clans, head-on!

With his current strength, facing the Xie family is no different from throwing an egg against a rock. Even Xie Xiaoxiao could hold a divine artifact; how could the equipment in Xie Hong's hands be any worse? It wouldn't be impossible for him to have six divine artifacts on his person.

Once he falls into the hands of the Xie family, Ye Lin would have no other ending than being sliced up for research after they forcibly extract the Origin Ancient Artifact.

Ye Lin hesitated, and at this moment, Qingcheng had completely fallen into chaos. The streets were packed with people, and cries could be heard from time to time.

"All class-changers in Qingcheng under the age of 18 who have successfully changed classes, please proceed to the teleportation array to assemble immediately!"

"Class-changers aged 25 and above who have reached level 10 or higher, proceed to the city walls immediately to assist in resisting the monsters; violators will be executed on the spot!"

"This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!"

"Child! Go with these uncles; they will take you to a safe place. You must be brave and live on well! Mom and Dad love you very much."

"Don't be afraid, honey, I'm here. Although I can't beat those monsters, maybe if they eat me until they're full, they won't eat you?"

"I beg you, let my mom go! Her legs aren't good; I can stay behind, let my mom go first!"

"If only Mr. Zhuge were still here..."

On the streets, there were all sorts of people, with cries and shouts everywhere. Ye Lin stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Ji Group, calmly watching this scene.

If nothing goes wrong, in about an hour or two, these hundreds of thousands of people in Qingcheng will all be buried in the mouths of the monsters.

Guo Qin hurriedly pulled him.

"Stop watching, let's go! Even if these people die, it's because of those bastards! If we show up now, we'd really be playing right into their hands. Should good people be morally kidnapped by others? Should good people be held at gunpoint?"

"I don't count as a good person." Ye Lin shook his head, "I just... feel a bit uncomfortable."

"Sigh, there's no helping it. This world is just like this; if you want to beat the bad guys, you can only be worse than them."

Guo Qin patted Ye Lin's shoulder helplessly and said.

"Shouting about love and courage to defeat the bad guys—that's a plot from cartoons."

Just as Ye Lin was hesitating whether to leave or save them, a silk pouch fell out of Ye Lin's Great Sumeru Ring. The third silk pouch given by Zhuge Qianxing had opened at this moment!

Ye Lin picked it up instantly. The last silk pouch had contained the Great Void Art and the One Qi Becomes Three Pure Ones, two heaven-defying forbidden spells, which had directly solved his urgent needs.

"Master, was everything now already within your expectations?"

Ye Lin muttered to himself. He truly hoped someone could tell him whether to leave or stay.

But when Ye Lin opened the silk pouch, he found that there was nothing inside, only a slip of paper with eight simple characters written on it.

"Do what you must do, follow your heart."