Chapter 26: They don't deserve to be saved!

【No one can decide who can become who...】

【No one hopes for their own path of return...】

【And they consider themselves lucky, merely, happened to pick up the torch...】

【--------Observer (Recorded in Blue Star Era 2541)】

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Lu Ming stared fixedly at the experimental subjects surging like a tide; the church bell rang in the distance, distant and especially jarring amidst the subjects' roars.

Suddenly, the piercing howls stopped, and the blood‑stained hands that had been waving wildly in the air also ceased.

"It... seems able to move?" Yilin Ka murmured.

Mo Yan hesitated not, instantly unleashed flames, scorching the experimental subjects; Blazing Light Street flickered; the subjects didn't move, didn't make a sound, killing a few of them, Mo Yan's skill level rose a bit, damage clearly increased a notch, the subjects licked by the flames instantly turned to ash, thus he literally burned a path.

, Yilin Ka also held on, everyone fell to the ground, very high.

"Lu Ming!" Mo Yan discovered, Lu Ming hadn't moved since the bell started ringing: "Are you alright?!"

Lu Ming knew his condition, his body's essence was the same as those failed experimental subjects; surely Lin Ran had used some means of control.

"Traveler from another world..." a figure slowly walked from the experimental subjects, black robe fluttering in the firelight.

Everyone's gaze turned to look.

"Said, defying the will of the Island God,,, those from another world..." Lin Ran held a cross in her hand, her white coat changed into prayer garments.

"Who?!" Yilin Ka struggled to lift her head.

Mo Yan readied to strike, while the skinny uncle hid behind him.

"?" Lin Ran chuckled twice, hands behind her back, the experimental subjects resumed walking: "Of course, the Island God's most devout follower, the Island God's earthly spokesman!"

"What did those experimental subjects do?" Combining the clues Lu Ming gave, Mo Yan also largely understood.

"Having been given the chance of rebirth, one should be grateful, letting the body move again."

"Walking corpses?" Mo Yan could not accept such a notion.

"." Lin Ran again denied, then admitted: "All have devoted themselves to the Island God; their souls shall receive eternal peace, exchanging such foolishness for loyal followers—what of it?"

"Damn the Island God, all monsters!" the skinny uncle shouted behind Mo Yan, but quickly shrank back under Lin Ran's icy gaze.

"It's fine, we'll settle accounts; believe the Island God is magnanimous and will also understand these ignorant offenses."

"Just keep talking." Lin Ran turned and walked toward the church: "Once you become experimental subjects, the Island God will also purify the souls."

His figure gradually faded, the church bell rang again.

One, two, three...

The surrounding stationary experimental subjects began to emit low growls.

"What do we do, it seems to be moving..." the skinny uncle's eyes turned red with anxiety, not noticing that the experimental subjects behind him had already reached out their hands.

Mo Yan propped Lu Ming's arm on his shoulder and said to the two: "Quick, before it surrounds us, find a house to hide in!"

"Ah!"

The uncle let out a miserable scream, being dragged into the corpse horde; his voice drowned in waves of howls, Mo Yan's face startled, flame hand formed, but the uncle's figure was quickly covered by the experimental subjects.

"Come on!" Lin Jiu grabbed his shoulder.

Mo Yan knew the uncle couldn't be saved, so he could only give up; just as he was about to enter the nearby shop, the bell suddenly stopped, and the originally restless experimental subjects fell silent again.

"..." Mo Yan looked around, at a loss what to do.

"Quick, come in!" Yilin Ka waved at the shop entrance.

Mo Yan glanced at Lu Ming's tightly shut eyes, then also went inside.

"Don't move!"

Lin Ran stood at the church doorway, a gun pressed to the back of her head.

"How can one break free of control?" Lin Ran half‑believed, after all, the ones behind her were her own hand‑modified creations.

A sheet of light, Lu Ming stood behind Lin Ran; though his body couldn't move, his shadow could.

Lu Ming said coldly: "Stop the bell!"

Under threat, Lin Ran could only take the control switch from her pocket and stop the church's bell.

"Why do you keep defying the will of the Island God?!" Lin Ran's voice neared madness.

Lu Ming wanted to reason, knowing such twisted notions were hopeless.

He pushed Lin Ran, and the two entered the church; all within sight were corpses, chairs thrown haphazardly, like a prayer, likewise, many residents were already corpses, appearing eerily strange at first glance.

【Main Plot: The Island God they worship is a nameless god, who granted the technology to resurrect the dead.

The town became a testing ground; for his daughter, he changed from an atheist to a devout believer, trusting the Island God's guidance, his daughter would surely be reborn!

"Is it not right that the Island God's most devout follower exchanges such things for a devout follower?!"

【Main Plot Progress: 67%】

Lu Ming noticed a hidden door between the churches, estimating it led to the laboratory, and also why those experimental subjects would quickly appear in the town.

"Traveler from another world, do you think such beings deserve to be saved?"

"Those ignorant and filthy townsfolk once held benevolent hearts, intending to rely on their lifelong learning to save more."

"Once believing in justice, that human nature is good, it instead took his daughter!"

【Main Plot: The island's first official, after a break‑in and theft at home, the daughter fortunately survived; because of the police superintendent's actions and the islanders' cover‑up, the murderer has remained at large, known but no one willing to identify him!】

These are all demons; the existence of the Island God is just to purge these demons!】

【White rescue, late slaughter, yin‑yang chaos, walking in the light, hunting in the dark!】

【Main Plot: 89%】

Originally, his daughter drowned; Lu Ming guessed, as Gailiao Yiran's parents might have said, so he offered a similar explanation to cover up for himself on the island.

"Fit." Lu Ming said: "But, even if the type acknowledges being a match, what use is that? What should be done still needs to be done..."

"Compared to, how do we get those experiment subjects to stop?" Lu Ming asked.

"Useless..."

Lu Ming also stopped listening to nonsense; a shot struck his shoulder, and the gunshot echoed in the church.

Lin Ran covered the wound, bending over in pain.

"The will of the Island God cannot be opposed..."

"Bang!"

The gunshot struck the left leg, Lin Ran knelt down directly.

"The experiment just succeeded..." Lin Ran raised both hands toward mid-air, facing the church's stained glass: "Island God, take a look!"

"Swish!"

A tentacle stretched from the dark door, piercing Lin Ran's heart; Lu Ming dodged but was hit in the leg, losing three points of health. Only then did Lu Ming realize that when the shadow is injured, the main body also loses health.

After firing two shots in succession, the tentacle finally broke; Lu Ming hurriedly took cover behind a nearby pillar and reloaded his gun.

"Dad?"

Deep mist carried a tender child's voice; a figure slowly emerged from the darkness.