Published: March 2, 2025
"Just one last step, tsk tsk, this task is probably what they call working for five minutes and traveling for two hours?"
The three of them chuckled for a moment, and Sun Ye jumped into the crack first, followed closely by Howard and Stewart.
...
Gul had never felt that the journey from his bedroom to the elevator was so long.
Even though he was in the resistance army's first base, his own home, Gul felt like he was deep within enemy territory, surrounded by foes.
An endless barrage of steel rain constantly assaulted him, and even as an eighth-level limit breaker demonic creature, he could only preserve his life and that of uncle number three under Stewart's call of steel.
The ferocious strikes continued for ten seconds, and just as this long period passed, Gul immediately noticed that the steel rain around him became sparse, eventually disappearing completely.
"I survived..."
Just as a glimmer of luck arose in his heart, the next moment, a tremendous tearing sound of steel exploded, and the originally solid iron wall above him seemed to be torn apart by invisible giant hands, splitting the entire resistance army's first base in two.
Bright moonlight poured down, and Gul suddenly looked up, only to see three figures descending one after another from the crack above.
Their target was, of course, the baru demon beast maternal body deep underground, which was emitting anxious cries.
In that moment, little Gul's heart turned cold.
All the past events surged in his mind, and within a short time, he understood the cause and effect of everything.
It turned out that no one cared about his ideals, his aspirations, or the resistance army's first base he founded.
From start to finish, the only thing people coveted about him was one thing.
The baru demon beast.
...
Gul's steps became unsteady as he reached the elevator entrance; he suddenly stopped.
His face was pale as he listened to the increasingly urgent cries of the baru demon beast below, yet he couldn't move his feet.
"Go! Go!"
Next to him, uncle number three looked anxious, pulling at Gul, seemingly wanting to rush underground quickly together, but his size did not dictate strength. Under uncle number three's tug, Gul remained motionless.
"Uncle..."
Gul looked up, revealing eyes already filled with tears.
"I'm scared..."
A simple sentence seemed to expose Gul's true thoughts.
In the face of irresistible forces, no one could be unafraid.
Looking at the panic-stricken, hollow eyes of the child, at that moment, even Wen Yu, who originally harbored ill intentions toward Gul, felt a sorrow arise.
This child had done nothing wrong.
He was simply bearing a heavy treasure and, at a time when he lacked protection, encountered the wrong people…
The grip on Gul's hand gradually loosened. At that moment, Wen Yu looked at Gul, seeing little Gul with his head lowered, tears continuously dripping down, like a child being punished for a mistake, lost and helpless.
After a silence of about ten seconds, Wen Yu finally crouched down and gently embraced Gul.
"Since that's the case, then let's go."
"Okay!"
Wen Yu could feel the child in his arms moving slightly, then nodding—he had made the right choice…
However…
The tragedy of the weak lies in the fact that they have no right to choose!
"Goo goo~~ goo goo~~~"
Underground, the sorrowful cries of the baru demon beast grew increasingly louder until reaching a peak. The next second, the baru demon beast's cries suddenly ceased, and for a moment, the entire resistance army's first base fell silent as if it were in the Realm of the Dead.
Until the wind blew, three figures appeared around Wen Yu and little Gul.
...
"Yo yo yo, look what I've found? Two living fish that slipped through the net!"
Stewart laughed in an exaggerated and strange tone, moving leisurely as he joined Howard and Sun Ye, forming a triangle to surround Gul and Wen Yu.
It was only at this moment that Gul seemed to come to his senses. He looked at the three encircling him, focusing particularly on the transparent ball that Sun Ye was toying with.