Chapter 56: One God Carrying Multiple Scrubs
The shockwave swept through Lubei City, large buildings collapsed, and the streets were completely empty.
With a loud crash, a three-story building collapsed, and a contractor rushed out through a door and window, one hand covering her ear.
“All that preparation for street fighting by Black Bee was really unreliable, huh.”
A spider woman brushed the dust off her clothes. She was called a spider woman because her lower body was almost identical to a spider—a colorful spider abdomen and six sharp, jointed legs.
The spider woman wore heavy purple eyeshadow, which made her look both seductive and dangerous. Her eyes scanned the surroundings; there were no intact buildings left along the nearby streets.
“Where should I go? I really don’t want to regroup with those pig teammates. A coastal city hit by this kind of shockwave—the sea will surge back, and a tsunami is only a matter of time. If that’s the case… it seems like we’ve already lost our advantage.”
The spider woman was from the Apocalypse Paradise side, but her style of action was completely different from most Apocalypse Paradise contractors. Someone might even believe she was from the Reincarnation Paradise side.
Just as the spider woman was considering whether to regroup with the main force or hunt down isolated Reincarnation Paradise contractors alone, a heavy sound of footsteps came from the distance.
A ‘minotaur’ over three meters tall was the first to catch the spider woman’s eye. Based on her experience, this minotaur was 80% likely to be a follower or summoned creature.
The spider woman shifted her gaze and spotted a man covered in blood aura near the minotaur, a husky looking around in all directions, and a child about 12 or 13 years old… a little girl?
This combination clearly confused the spider woman. It wasn’t that the team’s composition was strange, but that there seemed to be internal conflict within the group.
The group of one man, one dog, one minotaur, and one little loli was exactly Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, Amu, and Gulu. As for why Gulu was advancing with Su Xiao into the depths of Lubei City, that was quite interesting.
Su Xiao’s goal was the device at the city center that was emitting the shockwaves. According to what he knew, that was a weapon set up by the Huangchuan Adventure Group. As a large adventure group, they naturally had contractors specialized in gathering intelligence. The task at hand wasn’t to annihilate all the Apocalypse Paradise people, but to find Black Bee—specifically, to seize the World Core from Black Bee. That was the most important thing.
Gulu’s goal was the same, so their destinations aligned. Since neither wanted to take a detour, they ended up entering Lubei City together.
Mutual dislike was inevitable, but since they were in a war world and couldn’t fight to the death, they might as well treat each other as air.
A long dagger flipped in Gulu’s hand. The dagger was very thin and seemed weightless, with a fruit candy pierced on its tip. Gulu often popped this candy into her mouth.
As Su Xiao moved forward, he glanced at the spider woman. He didn’t want to waste time here, so he headed straight toward the city center.
Since Su Xiao ignored the spider woman, Bubu Wang and Amu naturally wouldn’t provoke her either. Gulu, with the candy in her mouth, glanced at the spider woman and, after judging that the woman’s strength was barely passable, paid her no more attention.
Crack, crack…
Stones crunched underfoot as Su Xiao and the others walked past the street near the spider woman.
“Being ignored?”
Watching the two people, one dog, and one minotaur walk by, the spider woman suddenly felt ignored. Moreover, the little brat’s gaze toward her clearly conveyed one meaning: trash.
The spider woman hesitated. She didn’t know the strength of her opponents, and a one-versus-four fight was too risky.
Just as she was about to give up, she noticed a detail: the man covered in blood aura kept his hand on his sword hilt, while the little brat also held a dagger, seemingly eating candy but actually on guard against that man.
After some observation, the spider woman confirmed one thing: that man and the little brat were definitely not teammates. On the contrary, the two were wary of each other.
Realizing this, the spider woman’s lips curled up. Killing enemy contractors had a chance of dropping a Scarlet Chest, which was a good thing. And coincidentally, she was very bored right now.
“Hey, you little brat over there.”
As soon as this shout rang out, Gulu, who was walking ahead, stopped in her tracks. Bubu Wang’s steps paused too, and so did Su Xiao’s.
Gulu turned around, her eyes fixed on the spider woman, and pointed a finger at herself.
“Little… brat?”
Gulu enunciated each word.
Bubu Wang turned his head to look at the spider woman and let out a long sigh, as if to say, “Isn’t it good to be alive? Why do you have to provoke that little mistress?”
“I wish you die here, little brat.”
Su Xiao waved his hand without looking back. He certainly knew Gulu wouldn’t die here, but along the way, he had experienced just how sharp-tongued Gulu could be. He seriously suspected that Gulu was deliberately staying near him to attack him with words.
“Crack~”
The veins on Gulu’s small hand gripping the dagger bulged. She was furious, very furious. A faint red mist spread around her.
…
Central area of Lubei City.
Boom!
A loud explosion rang out as a figure crashed through the rubble and flew into the ruins of a nearby building.
Space energy surged, and the next moment, blood splattered.
Drip, drop…
Blood dripped onto the concrete slab. A metallic arm grabbed a head and tossed it aside. The owner of the metallic arm wiped the blood off his face. He was Black Bee, the top figure on the Apocalypse Paradise side.
Black Bee looked a bit disheveled at the moment. Earlier, he had fought someone from the Reincarnation Paradise side. That person was dressed like a middle school teacher, and Black Bee hadn’t expected that the opponent would ignore his bee venom and beat him half to death with just his fists. Of course, he hadn’t fought to the death yet—it wasn’t the right time.
Black Bee shook the blood off his hand. He had encountered a Reincarnation Paradise contractor by chance and finished the fight in half a minute. Sometimes, the gap in strength couldn’t be bridged by fearlessness.
Black Bee’s heart was heavy. He felt like all his teammates were dead weight. At the beginning of the World War, this feeling wasn’t obvious, but during the free-for-all phase, it became more and more apparent.
“Much later than planned. The Sanctuary Paradise fence-sitters… but it doesn’t matter. The plan is going smoothly.”
All the previously arranged plans had been disrupted. Street fighting was basically impossible now. Black Bee contacted all the Apocalypse Paradise contractors through the war channel. He had his own plan too.
Black Bee was a lone wolf. Because of his strength, most Apocalypse Paradise contractors had elected him as their ‘leader.’ Whether those contractors would obey his orders depended on the situation.
From the start of the war world until now, Black Bee had been trying to confirm one thing: what was the mission penalty for the Reincarnation Paradise side?
In the last World War, after the last few Reincarnation Paradise contractors died, the defending Apocalypse Paradise won. At that time, the world coordinates hadn’t formed yet, so they won. But it was a pyrrhic victory—out of a thousand contractors on both sides, only a few dozen survived in the end. The terrain that time was very special, forcing the Apocalypse Paradise side to fight without any room to avoid battle.
This puzzled Black Bee. Why were the Reincarnation Paradise contractors so crazy? To avoid mission penalties, they fought to that extent. This made Black Bee think that maybe the Reincarnation Paradise people would die from mission penalties even if they didn’t die on the battlefield.
That was why, in this World War, Black Bee wanted to confirm the mission penalty for the Reincarnation Paradise contractors as soon as possible.
PS: (Today, the circuit at home had issues, causing frequent power outages. After calling someone to fix it, it was very late before it was resolved, hence the late update. Fei Wen is going to grab some dinner—I’m too hungry. The next chapter will be updated soon.)