Chapter 1589: Great Calamity

Props?

Don't move! That's mine!

Quick-eyed and quick-handed.

Bang!

Hit the shelf.

The middle-aged person nearest the card lunged forward, almost flying, and snatched the card in hand before anyone could react.

In his rough motion, he even knocked over several shelves, which was especially jarring in the quiet supermarket.

Any system equipment and props are treasures to these low-level survivors.

Not caring about his unsightly appearance, Huang Long slammed into the shelf and grabbed the card.

Merchandise fell all over the ground.

Just as he grabbed the card, his whole body shuddered.

As if hearing something incredible, Huang Long suddenly stiffened in place.

With his back to everyone, no one noticed the shock on his face.

The frozen Huang Long seemed to have suffered a great shock; his heart, which had stopped, surged with an indescribable ecstasy accompanied by hot blood, buzzing up to his head!

This thing! This thing is actually a Divine Artifact!!

Ding, obtained Fourth Stage Title Card (Legendary).

After completing the final mission, one can advance to Fourth Stage!

The prompt was brief, but the horror of each word combined made Huang Long seem unable to believe it, gripping the card tightly.

Fourth Stage! Legendary Prop!?

The world spun, as if he'd won a hundred-million jackpot!

Huang Long swallowed dryly, his weathered face filled with utter shock!

Unimaginable, unbelievable! If a white-colored prop were enough to make someone like him, a low-level Awakened One, risk his life...

Then the card in his hand could stir up a bloody storm, driving the entire war zone mad!

In his extreme ecstasy, he didn't even notice he was gripping too hard, to the point that the silver-white metal card was driven into his flesh!

Heaven has opened its eyes!!

This is my opportunity! I've struck it rich! I'm invincible!

His heart, which had stopped, began to pound wildly in his chest like an explosion.

Although I don't know why something of this level would appear so casually in a supermarket.

But at this moment, Huang Long felt no wariness, only boundless ecstasy!

He's nothing but a worthless life!

He's heard too many lucky ones after the Apocalypse walk into dogshit luck, picking up spiritual energy fruits or precious props.

Sometimes it's just a fruit! Or making contact with a node early, or a blue equipment!

Just with these things, those who walked into dogshit luck shot up to the sky, many even becoming leaders of gathering places! High level of the Safe Zone!

Everyone is human! Those so-called superpowers, in his view, are just dogshit luck!

Now.. his opportunity has arrived!

Fourth Stage! Invincible! God! I will become the ultimate powerhouse!

Countless fantasies and ambitions, madness breeding.

If someone could see his eyes now, they would surely discover that Huang Long's eyes are filled with extreme madness.

Without him desperately suppressing his excitement, intending to examine the card closely.

Behind him, a youth considered his relative suddenly darted to his front, looking at him curiously.

"Uncle Huang? Is this card a system prop? What does it do? Is it a white-grade?"

"I think this thing's grade isn't low... Uncle Huang, your luck this time is...."

In their laughter, the youth realized he couldn't outmatch the stronger Huang Long, but still planned to get some benefits.

Moreover, out of curiosity and envy, his gaze couldn't help but drift to the middle-aged person's palm.

His gaze swept over.

Before he could finish speaking, seeing Huang Long obviously off, the youth's question cut off, and he turned to look with suspicion at Huang Long's palm.

Gripping so hard!? Did he draw blood!?

The youth reacted extremely quickly; almost in an instant, he noticed Huang Long had nearly driven the card into his flesh. The crimson blood on the silver-white card was especially striking.

And Huang Long's own condition was even more abnormal!

Given how familiar the two are, the youth instantly realized that the card in Huang Long's hand is probably not low-grade!

"Nothing much, just a little trinket!"

"Let's go first! The sound just now was so loud, surely zombies heard it!"

Not daring to meet his gaze, in his panic Huang Long instinctively wanted to hide the card behind his back.

However, before he could hide the card, the youth who noticed the problem took a quick step, deliberately shouting as he reached out!

He wanted to see exactly what card Huang Long had obtained!

In an instant.

Just touching the corner of the card, the youth who instantly heard the system prompt suddenly stiffened in place.

Just as shocked as Huang Long!

He also heard the system's prompt!

"Fourth Stage!?"

"This thing is legendary!!!?"

Like a mouse that had its tail stepped on, the youth screamed as if he were about to jump up.

Trembling all over, in extreme shock, he felt his calves spasming!

Oh heavens!! A Fourth Stage legendary Props! The value of this thing could be comparable to trillions upon trillions before the Apocalypse! It's a priceless treasure!

Before the youth could even voice his excitement, several fellow survivors nearby also jumped in shock, their gazes instantly turning to Huang Long.

Almost at the same moment, everyone's eyes were filled with endless greed and excitement.

The atmosphere suddenly turned strange and subtle.

Huang Long, frozen in place, clung tightly to the card in his hand; upon realizing the card had been exposed, he was like a beast guarding its food, with not a shred of reason left in his mind.

They want to snatch his card! It's his! It's my treasure!!

"Captain Huang! Share the sight! Let us see it too!"

"Uncle Huang! This thing belongs to everyone...!!"

"Get lost!!"

"Bang!!"

Slaughter erupted instantly.

Under the absolute desire to possess, Huang Long seemed to go mad, instantly drawing the axe behind him with a backhand grip and clutching it tightly in his left hand.

He absolutely would not allow anyone to glimpse the card! It's his!

A shrill sound burst forth, bright red blood blooming in the darkness.

Accompanied by an anguished cry, Huang Long, without hesitation, swung his axe at his own companion!

The sound of flesh being cut tore apart the last tranquility.

No one knew that a darkness of humanity had suddenly erupted in this cramped supermarket.

A few minutes later.

Huang Long, slumped on the ground with a deathly pale face, lay amid the corpses he had hacked apart, twisted and askew beside him.

They're all dead!

Everyone who tried to look at his card was killed by him!

Even his own nephew! He split the boy's skull with an axe, shattering the bone!

But..

Worth it!

Huang Long laughed maniacally, desperately pressing his hands over the abdomen torn open by a dagger, trying to stuff his intestines back in.

As if he felt no pain, he excitedly rubbed the blood‑stained card in his hand, leaning against the wall, laughing and crying at once.

"Is that the mission!? I will fulfill it! I will reach the Fourth Stage! I will become a god!"

"Give me power! My card! My treasure!!"

In the weakly undulating vortex, a Fourth Stage escapee snorted coldly, mockingly peering through the vortex at everything happening in the supermarket.

All we saw was him shaking his head, his eyes full of ridicule as he crossed off a number on the list.

"Greedy... and foolish humans..."

According to the God Lord's plan, they scattered these cards containing Fourth Stage power across the globe.

Although those who become Fourth Stage with the aid of the cards fall far short of true Fourth Stage, merely qualifying as pseudo‑Fourth Stage, for the whole plan it is already enough...

If Lin An were here, he would probably be astonished to discover that these cards are essentially identical to the "handgun" he initially obtained.

Under the guidance of false Props information, the survivors who obtain the cards will desperately spread the "faith" meme.

Like a cancer in humanity, it will drag the whole world into Shen Yuan of chaos.

Together with the detonation of various latent thought memes, Lin An will have no chance left to unify the world... unless...

Lin An is so cold‑blooded that he personally slaughters every newly ascended Fourth Stage!

But...

A multitude of Third Stage will do! Even Second Level is enough!

Lin An, you're too strong!

This monster's strength has already reached the limit of the current progress! All they need to do is give him a light push, then watch Lin An despair and wait for death!

Just like the final straw that breaks the camel's back!

When the situation is turned around, forcing Lin An to treat his own kin as enemies, everything becomes utterly hopeless!

"Lin An... Lin An..."

"I'm actually curious how you'll counter the new disaster..."

"A Fifth‑Stage disaster... tsk tsk, that's simply wonderful..."

"That seems to be... a calamity?"