PSW - Chapter 125
Chapter 125
[Can you withstand it?] Zero One watched Zheng Yi's physical condition with some worry. Although the core of this Zheng Yi… might have once been some incredible powerhouse, or perhaps some kind of unspeakable existence? But that was all in the past. No matter how talented the current Zheng Yi was, she was still just a young person with a body of flesh and blood. [If you can't handle it, we can always come back next time. In any case, that Wu Banhuai can't get close to this meteor fragment at all, so he probably can't move it either.]
The reason Wu Banhuai dared to say all those things, and even agreed to let Zheng Yi and Yu Yinan experience the meteor fragment, was clearly because he was confident that this energy was something no ordinary ability user—or even any human in their current state—could withstand. He was fearless.
Zero One didn't want Zheng Yi to suffer even the slightest harm. It even said, [Although my current template can't analyze the meteor fragment's composition and can't help you absorb or resist this overflowing energy, if you give me some time, I'll try my best to improve it, upgrade it or something… Maybe then I'll have a chance to help.]
'I appreciate the thought.' Zheng Yi walked toward the fragment step by step, unhurriedly. Neither the overflowing energy nor the omnipresent pain wracking her body seemed to affect her in the slightest. 'This is nothing…'
Zheng Yi seemed to let out a soft laugh.
Perhaps it was Zero One's imagination, but it felt like the ghostly blue light on the irregular, basketball-sized meteor fragment was growing brighter. Through this light, it felt as if it was once again seeing the seed of calamity that had torn through the pitch-black night sky and scattered disaster upon the world.
Seeing that the woman was actually about to approach the meteor fragment, which even he had never touched from such a close distance, Wu Banhuai finally felt that everything had gone completely off the rails. He had completely misjudged this woman's strength!
How is this possible? How! Even mutated beasts with powerful bodies couldn't directly touch the meteor fragment. On what grounds could she? How could she? Looking at her back, she didn't seem to be coughing up blood, feeling any discomfort, or showing any signs of her body exploding!
From the very beginning, when Wu Banhuai heard that these two were here for the meteor fragment, he had inwardly sneered at their fanciful ideas. When he said he wouldn't let them take the meteor fragment, he was just pretending. Deep down, he didn't believe for a second that these two could take the fragment. He had been so cooperative, even laying his strength bare and bringing over the ordinary people to increase his leverage, only because he was afraid this powerful mental-type ability user would go crazy after discovering she couldn't touch or take the meteor fragment, and get ideas like killing him or taking over Xuancheng.
But Wu Banhuai had never imagined that this person could actually get so close, and even touch the meteor fragment! No, this is impossible! Yes, even if she could get that close to the meteor fragment, the energy felt from approaching it versus touching it were on completely different levels. If she rashly laid a hand on it, her body would definitely explode!
Explode! Why is she still standing? On what grounds is she still alive! Wu Banhuai didn't notice that his expression had become completely twisted. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the back that was now becoming indistinct. He stopped waiting outside the wall and walked in, step by step. He felt the burning and cutting pain as the energy made contact with his skin. He grew more and more frenzied, taking one quick step after another, constantly moving forward until he reached Yu Yinan's side, trembling all over with deathly pale lips. He froze at the marked spot.
His limit… why was it still here?!
He watched Zheng Yi, watched as she bent down as if completely unaffected, about to touch the meteor fragment! In that instant, he remembered the vehicle she had casually made disappear, and was shocked to realize that this person might also be a dual-ability user—mental and spatial. Endless emotions engulfed him, making him unable to care about anything else. He even lost his usual calm demeanor. "You can't touch it!"
"You're right, I am a dual-ability user. However, my other ability isn't just emotional influence. I can also plant a mental brand on anyone who piously believes in me and is mentally unguarded against me!"
"If you take away the key bestowed by the god, everyone in Xuancheng will die because of you!" In that instant, Wu Banhuai could no longer control himself. He abruptly turned and attacked Yu Yinan, wanting to subdue her to threaten Zheng Yi. "Your companion will die too!"
"?!" Yu Yinan hadn't expected Wu Banhuai to suddenly go berserk, but she had been on alert ever since he came to her side. Thus, she reacted instantly, swallowing a Stamina Recovery Pill and raising a hand to form a shield of fire, forcing back the black smoke that had suddenly swept toward her.
In that same instant, faint raindrops began to fall from the sky. Yu Yinan froze, her head snapping toward Zheng Yi in the center. Under these circumstances, how could Zheng Yi possibly still be manipulating her ability to make it rain? Was she really not afraid of death?
However, in the next moment, Yu Yinan relaxed, because she felt a burning pain where the raindrops wet her skin.
The fourth great rain of the apocalypse had arrived at this very moment.
"It's raining? It's raining! Hahahaha, it's raining!" The pain made Wu Banhuai jolt, but it was followed by wild joy. He quickly withdrew his hand and retreated. "Heaven is truly on my side!"
The pain this rain inflicted on ability users was not insignificant, and it was also a burden on their minds. In the heavy rain, Wu Banhuai couldn't even walk to the original marked spot. If that woman in the center didn't retreat in time, she would probably have a mental breakdown any second now!
Yes, he had to retreat first. He needed to come up with an excuse to tell those ability users, to convince them to attack and kill these two together later. This rain was a good thing. The great god must have sensed that the divine messenger who came this time was actually a heretic, and so sent down this rain of divine punishment to help them vanquish evil.
He quickly retreated, not even bothering with Yu Yinan who was following behind him, and directly addressed the thoroughly brainwashed ability users. "This is bad, that person is actually-"
He was only halfway through his sentence when his words were drowned out by a louder sound. The light drizzle had already turned into a downpour. Pelting raindrops hammered down, quickly soaking everyone's bodies and bathing them all in a searing pain.
"Life isn't easy for anyone in this apocalypse. Although I deceived them, haven't so many people managed to survive?"
A loud voice echoed through the air. Wu Banhuai stiffly looked around but found nothing. Yet, those were his words! What kind of ability was this? Was it the dual-ability user in the center? Or the fire-type from just now? Were they all dual-ability users?
"So, the god you spoke of is fake?"
"Of course it's fake. If a god really existed, who knows what this world would have become."
Wu Banhuai's eyes widened, black smoke pouring from his body. He looked at his trusted followers and pushed his mental influence to its maximum. "This is all fake, she's a heretic! She's not the real divine messenger at all. I was deceived by her, tricked! These words are all fake, she fabricated them!"
But the grand voice didn't pause for a second because of his explanation. It simply broadcast their entire conversation, word for word, at high volume.
"It's not that I won't let you touch it…"
The recording played until the very last sentence, followed by the sound of footsteps, and then faded back into the sound of the pouring rain.
"This is all…" Wu Banhuai was about to say more, but the world suddenly changed. He turned his head in horror. The downpour froze in mid-air for an instant, as if the entire sky had suddenly cleared. The next moment, accompanied by a magnificent and majestic dragon's roar, a water dragon so long its tail couldn't be seen—only half its form visible—burst through the curtain of rain, swooping and soaring down from amidst the clouds and rain. Its long whiskers stood on end, its eyes were wide with fury, and it held a round, ghostly blue crystal in its mouth as it stood tall in mid-air.
The falling raindrops seemed to melt into the water dragon's scales, or perhaps they trickled down along the scale patterns.
But was it the water dragon's might that made Wu Banhuai's heart pound with terror? Was it the meteor fragment held in the dragon's mouth?
It was neither.
It was the woman standing leisurely atop the dragon's head, cloaked in golden light.
She stood above it all, like a goddess descended to the mortal world. Her eyes were filled with pity, yet also seemed exceptionally cold. She seemed to be gazing gently at him, at every single person, yet it was as if all living beings were beneath her notice.
Wu Banhuai's legs trembled, and countless extreme emotions flooded his mind, leaving him momentarily unable to react. He realized in a panic that he seemed to have gotten it all wrong from the very beginning. He didn't understand this person at all, not one bit. He had miscalculated everything! His legs went weak, and just as he was about to fall to his knees, a searing longsword of fire sizzled through the rain-filled sky and decisively, directly, lopped off his head.
The intense flames cauterized the wound, so not even a drop of blood splattered.
The trusted ability users Wu Banhuai had brought with him should have questioned this, or even immediately apprehended the person who had killed their divine messenger. But… but for some reason, the moment Wu Banhuai died, something in their minds seemed to vanish, leaving them in a momentary daze, as if they had broken free from some kind of shackle.
More importantly, they were all staring blankly, unable to move, at the giant dragon in the sky, at the woman looking down upon the world. No! That was-
"You stand before a true god, why do you not bow?"
"A group of ignorant fools, bewitched by a charlatan, you have anxiously strayed onto the wrong path. It is not too late to turn back!"
Clad in a robe of fierce flames, Yu Yinan intensified her fire, continuously consuming her mental energy in the rain to strengthen her flames and keep them burning. She let out a sudden, cold shout that startled these ability users into taking several steps back. They exchanged panicked glances and then heard Yu Yinan slowly recite the Saint's scripture: "The apocalypse is fraught with disaster, the Saint saves the world…"
"The one you believe in is nothing but a false god, who regards the apocalyptic disasters as a trial and disregards the lives of the people! Does he have a venerable title? Can he perform true miracles? Has he ever answered you, ever truly helped you? Mutated beasts can also awaken abilities—do they believe in a god? Mutated plants have just gained sentience and know nothing—do they know of a god?"
The Saint God's… mortal incarnation?
These ability users were still somewhat bewildered, but after seeing the giant dragon and the golden light, any questions they had were crushed by the powerful visual impact and overwhelming pressure. Before they could kneel and kowtow, the other ability users and ordinary people who hadn't been summoned by Wu Banhuai arrived of their own accord, kowtowing ceaselessly to the manifested water dragon and Zheng Yi.
"It's a miracle, a true miracle!"
"We were all tricked by Wu Banhuai!"
The broadcasted sound was so loud that it had covered more than half of Xuancheng.
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