Chapter 1191: Explanation

Team Leader Lin, what is this?

Where have you been? You've been gone so long!

Idly fiddling with the intestines on his body, Zhang Tie stared in astonishment at the six vials of medicine Lin An handed over.

After Lin An mysteriously vanished while pursuing a spaceship, he ran back to Long An to alleviate the insect swarm's pressure.

It was precisely his running and the commotion caused with Lin An that frightened the Asian Alliance into conducting an urgent internal investigation, even disrupting their subsequent plans.

This is a suppressive agent that can shield against insect perception. You gauge the situation and head out; I'll be leaving soon.

How long has it been?

After a casual explanation, Lin An glanced, somewhat surprised, at the corpses piled outside the gathering site.

The strong corrosive insect blood smell was piercing, and the rotating Long An soldiers were desperately fixing their weapons. Merely seeing this scene told him the insect tide had come at least six or seven times.

Pretty long! At least thirty hours!

Those bugs attacked more than twenty times! Luckily, the military and the alliance bore most of it; otherwise, our small force would have been worn out.

He scooped up some hissing, smoking insect blood on his face, Xiong Hanzi grinned, and pointed to the Awakened Ones on the front line.

Not bad; these kids have actually managed to develop some skill.

At first, Team Leader Lin, you didn't realize these kids are as dumb as bears; even when the bugs were right in front of them, they just kept blasting heads. Damn it, I don't know how An Jing Tian trained his soldiers—whatever the enemy, whatever the method!

He couldn't help but voice a couple of complaints; after speaking, Zhang Tie curiously eyed the medicine Lin An gave him.

Team Leader Lin, where did you get this? Have you uncovered some secret?

What about those Heavenly Eye People—any issues?

Remembering Lin An's pursuit of the spaceship, Zhang Tie's interest sparked instantly.

Lin An smiled upon hearing and then promptly gave Zhang Tie a full rundown.

As he spoke, his eyes quickly scanned the ranks, and he noticed that Long An's Awakened Ones had visibly changed. Previously they resembled elite troops with lavish equipment, rigid and formal; now they were far more down-to-earth.

Thirty hours...

It appears that after breaking through the Apocalypse battlefield, the time flow between the two sides is different...

Fortunately he had brought Zhang Tie along; otherwise Lin An suspected that upon his return, the gathering site held by Long An would have vanished entirely.

In the troop he brought, aside from Zhang Tie being third rank, the other third ranks were all captured by him; realizing he was absent, they would definitely defect on the spot.

Holy crap, a second-level civilization, even more badass than Earth!

One shot can kill a third-rank peak? And there's a fifth-stage mutant?!

This isn't just courting death?!

After listening to Lin An's explanation, Xiong Hanzi was visibly shocked. He never imagined that Team Leader Lin, after vanishing for just two or three hours, would return and dig up such a massive secret.

Instinctively, he couldn't help but cast a glance at the somewhat numb Heavenly Eye People within the gathering site.

One above, one below.

If the ground-dwelling Heavenly Eye People knew the truth, they'd likely hate those in the sky to death.

One has to say, when a people turn ruthless, they can be truly ruthless. Yet no matter how ruthless, it's pointless—still got fleeced for a big amount by Team Leader Lin.

What kind of race is this, also utterly useless.

I think they just played themselves to death; good thing we didn't follow their example.

Zhang Tie couldn't help but voice a couple of complaints, a glint of relief flashing in his eyes.

Fortunately human civilization isn't like that; most Holy Mothers had already perished by the time the Apocalypse erupted. Maybe it's precisely because humanity is weak that we avoided catastrophic outcomes?

Seeing Zhang Tie's dismissive attitude toward the Heavenly Eye People, Lin An smiled and gave a slight shake of his head:

Don't underestimate them, nor any civilization.

The history they told me has surely been revised, and most of the content is definitely fabricated to win my sympathy.

Especially the causes of their civilization's collapse, it's absolutely not that simple.

Lin An's eyes glinted as he let out a soft laugh.

His lack of empathy for the Heavenly Eye People above was purely because the other side's fabrication was too convincing.

Their development history is nearly identical to humanity's—loving peace, rejecting war, and advocating equality.

Having endured the ravages of war and internal conflict, they were led astray.

Although these factors led to their extinction, from a civilizational standpoint the Heavenly Eye People had almost crafted themselves into a harmless image.

But how is that possible? Any life seeking to top the food chain must inherently revere violence!

A civilization able to advance this far, the Heavenly Eye People—Lin An could tell with his toes that Ariel was putting on an act from start to finish.

All their statements and preparations were probably based on on-the-spot research of his information, hastily fabricated!

Think about it: their civilization was eradicated by the Holy Mothers; what sort of people are those who survived?

If Ariel is the leader of those Holy Mothers, he must have won an internal victory. Being alive, his hands are surely stained with the blood of his own people.

When the Holy Mother goes extreme and realizes her beliefs are wrong, her thoughts will swing to the opposite extreme!

As Lin An spoke, he slightly lifted his head, gesturing for Zhang Tie to look at the Heavenly Eye People behind him:

If Ariel isn't the leader of those Holy Mothers, then this group of ground-dwelling Heavenly Eye People are likely the descendants of those Holy Mothers...

Otherwise, how could they so calmly let their own kind die?

Zhang Tie listened, somewhat bewildered, to Lin An's explanation; only after a moment did he comprehend something, his whole body shuddering.

Holy crap! So ruthless!

Is this repentance?!

Seeing Zhang Tie grasp these twists and turns, Lin An secretly sighed. Though he didn't expect Xiong Hanzi to become a leader-like figure with exceptional judgment, he hoped even more that Zhang Tie wouldn't cease thinking and become overconfident in smooth sailing.

After this encounter with the Heavenly Eye People, Lin An's sense of crisis deepened.

The Heavenly Eye People needed him, which is why he survived this time!

From a certain point of view, he this time has encountered an unforeseeable, unstoppable crisis! The Heaven's Eye people want to kill him, he will really die!

If it weren't for the Perfect One's identity, would he Lin An still want benefits? Would Ariel still act so lowly toward him?

What a joke, a race with a population as high as hundreds of billions, at its peak crushing Earth's civilization leader, how could it possibly be a pitiful little old man?!

Thinking too simply of the opponent is just foolish.

"All right, I'll leave soon; the rest is up to you to hold."

"Soon there will be a massive insect swarm attack, but the target is not us. Wait until those alliance people are mostly dead, especially those guys from the Eastern Ying war zone, then you can make your move!"

"When the time comes, you'll kill and seize points depending on the situation! If you feel it's unsafe, you can also join forces with the Huaxia Military!"

No more nonsense, after Lin An gave a brief explanation, he prepared to leave.

Inside his communication Props, Taylor's side started shouting for help again.

"I understand! Lin Dui!"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Tie nodded sharply, gripping the reagent in his hand tightly; before he could say anything else, in the next second he saw Lin An vanish on the spot.

After a moment, he stood foolishly on the spot, his face showing thought; after a while, he suddenly slapped his head.

"Holy shit, I forgot to tell Lin Dui, the people over at the capital are a bit weird!"