Chapter 328: Discarding Rationality

Knight stood at the edge of the city wall, facing this raging heavenly disaster; with just this one sword he again cut open the land of the heavenly disaster.

And coincidentally, the city also suddenly blared an ear-piercing alarm.

Jierte thus walked back amid the ear-piercing alarm, and even the meat on the grill was still sizzling with oil.

The big cat and the little cat, upon first seeing Jierte's reaction, saw not his triumphant return but his regret.

Thinking this, the two simultaneously let out a sigh of relief.

"Knight Sir, let's run quickly!"

"I won't despise you for fleeing the battlefield; life is most important!"

Jierte oddly glanced at Lan Baoshi, then sat down calmly, picked up the perfectly grilled meat, and began eating it unhurriedly.

Lan Baoshi was about to say something doubtful when the piercing broadcast suddenly vanished, replaced by a person's solemn voice.

"Just now the alarm sounded inside the city; those well-informed should know that the heavenly disaster has broken through the modified warriors' defenses and is already about to reach the city gate."

"And just before I sounded the alarm, a sword light... directly swept them away."

"I didn't even get a clear look at the master of that sword light, but I know this peerless powerhouse must still be inside the city."

"On behalf of the city's residents and warriors, I pay you tribute, thanking you for your generous intervention."

Only then did Lan Baoshi realize what Jierte had done; she had thought Jierte had turned back upon seeing the heavenly disaster.

Unexpectedly, he instantly wiped out those heavenly disasters!

Big Cat:.....

"Jierte, you really are a monster...."

"You flatter me."

"At 23: after this unbelievable event, the world began spreading your legend, and you have not disappointed people's expectations, remaining active on every city near the heavenly disaster, saving them from fire and water."

"I must say, the vitality of the heavenly disaster is extremely tenacious; they are like a highly elastic steel spring, the more they are compressed, the greater the rebound, or perhaps their very purpose is to contend with humanity— the stronger humanity becomes, the stronger they become."

"You begin to understand what Boss said: why humanity must be added to this Gu cultivation petri dish."

"Over the past dozen years, even hundreds or thousands of years, the heavenly disaster and humanity have remained in a delicate balance; although humanity once nearly got forced to death, at least it didn't become as wildly mutated as now."

"In repeatedly destroying the heavenly disaster armies and slaying sin, your strength has again increased; if this continues, you will sooner or later possess the power to destroy the entire planet."

"After realizing this, the corners of your mouth will often turn up in a smile; when you think humanity still has hope, the catgirl's eyes once again well up with worry."

"In your eyes, your smile is hope, the hope of seeing an end to all this, the hope that humanity will ultimately triumph over the heavenly disaster."

"But in Lan Baoshi's eyes, your smile appears quite strange......"

"Imagine, a righteous knight usually wears a solemn, unsmiling face, then one day he reveals a madman-like grin amidst a pile of corpses....."

"To be frank, Lan Baoshi not thinking you're crazy right now is thanks to her kindness!"

"Knight... Knight Sir....."

"Could you stop laughing.... I'm scared......"

Jierte:......

He somewhat embarrassedly touched his own face; could his appearance of smiling while killing really be that strange?

Well..... it really does seem rather strange.....

Jierte withdrew his smile and approached the catgirl; her eyes were full of fear, and she even involuntarily stepped back, causing his outstretched hand to awkwardly hang in midair.

"Lan Baoshi... you....."

"Knight Sir!"

"Don't keep doing this! Even if those you kill are all sinners, Lan Baoshi doesn't want you to keep falling like this!"

"........?"

Jierte somewhat didn't understand what Lan Baoshi meant; carrying out justice... is there a problem?

"Knight Sir.... look around... this is not what a righteous knight should do."

This is a stronghold trading human and heavenly disaster organs.

And right now, these people inside die in utterly gruesome ways—some are split in half, others have their skulls caved in by a punch; to reach this point, aside from deep hatred, it is utter madness.

Jierte belatedly reacted; although it's undeniable that many of these people are heavily sinful, upon self-reflection he indeed found a few who.... did not deserve death a thousand times over.

"........"

"Knight Sir.... you haven't noticed.... you've already begun to lose your humanity...."

"Indifference to life, casually killing a life without feeling—how is this behavior any different from those who arbitrarily experiment on human bodies?"

"......"

"You're right."

Jierte agreed with Lan Baoshi's statement; the impact of slaughter on the mind is far greater than he imagined.

If not for the catgirl, Jierte's last shred of compassion might have vanished together with the slaughter.

"I.... I will stop for a while to properly consider this matter."

"Don't worry about me."

"As a knight, one should cherish compassion; you have realized that carrying out justice's killing is essentially still killing, with no difference."

"You intended to bring the catgirl to see some beautiful things, but you sadly discovered that there is hardly anything beautiful left to see in this world."

"Back when you were in the sea city, you saw the vast azure ocean, saw the crew's thrilling, passionate voyages, and also saw the mist-wreathed mountains of the Eastern Kingdom."

"But now, these have long disappeared; the heavenly disaster has destroyed everything."

"In your absence, the heavenly disaster launched massive assaults; even with you present we could at least hold some seemingly unholdable cities, but ultimately humanity had no choice but to discard the last shred of rationality and employ the ultimate trump card."

"Discarding the last shred of rationality, the weapon of hope and humanity—flesh-and-blood editing technology—has been formally deployed onto the battlefield."

(Seems stuck in review, meow, probably need to check with the chapter, why has it been constantly stuck in review lately)