# 1961
Chapter 1851: Bait
Su Zhe stared at Zhao Zhengbin in a daze.
"You know what? Maybe you're really suited to be a Night Watch." After a long while, he smiled helplessly. "Your courage, your determination, your sense of mission... they're all far stronger than mine. You're practically a natural Night Watch... And me? I'm just a coward who's timid and talks too much!"
Su Zhe possessed the identity of a Night Watch, yet lacked the corresponding spirit and bravery.
Zhao Zhengbin had no Night Watch cloak, but possessed a heart that shone like a gemstone... They were like a joke fate played, placing each other's souls into the wrong bodies.
"You're not a coward." Zhao Zhengbin glanced at the bulging area around Su Zhe's waist.
"A true coward who surrendered to reality would desperately hide their past, pretend to forget everything, and start a new life... Rather than constantly keeping a Straight Blade that symbolizes their past tucked in their belt."
Su Zhe was stunned.
"I..." Su Zhe touched his waist. The hard Straight Blade was pressed tightly against his body by the belt, cold and uncomfortable.
He didn't know why he had always carried this blade on his person... In this shelter, weapons weren't needed at all. He carried this blade purely out of instinct.
He came back to his senses and shook his head bitterly.
"You're overestimating me. I know exactly what kind of person I am..."
"Do you really?" Zhao Zhengbin spoke helplessly. "If you truly understood yourself, you wouldn't have gotten beaten to a pulp these past two days... I told you, this place doesn't belong to you."
"Doesn't belong to me? So what?"
Su Zhe's brow furrowed, his voice rising. He didn't even know who he was angry at.
"With my pathetic strength, what good would it do even if I went out now? I can't help anyone! In the end, I'd just be like a deflated ball, left behind with full of pity!!"
"Fine! Now I've stayed, I've desperately tried to fit in! And now you're saying this place doesn't belong to me?? What kind of joke is this?!"
Su Zhe's inexplicable anger made Zhao Zhengbin furrow his brow as well. He opened his mouth to say something, but the former turned and walked away.
Watching his retreating figure, Zhao Zhengbin sighed helplessly...
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"Has Su Yuan not arrived yet?"
By the helipad, Fang Mo glanced at the time and asked in a deep voice.
The rotors of several helicopters churned in the air, emitting a buzzing rumble. The gale blew several purple cloaks, as if they were waiting to take off at any moment.
"She just messaged saying she's almost here... There she is!" Li Zhenzhen gazed into the distance. Before she could finish speaking, she saw a plane rapidly approaching.
The plane landed on the airstrip. Su Yuan quickly walked up to everyone. All six active members of the [Devil] Squad had arrived.
"Captain, what does 'enemy attack moved up' mean?" Su Yuan asked, puzzled. "Isn't there still several hours until the scheduled time?"
Before Fang Mo could explain, a voice came from the distance.
"The [Key to the Gate] has awakened. All the futures we learned from Wang Mian were wrong to begin with." A figure in a mud-stained cassock walked over slowly.
Seeing the Fate Monk had come personally, surprise flickered in everyone's eyes. Lu Baoyou stared at him, frowning, and asked in a low voice.
"You don't seem surprised?"
"When Old Wang Mian came back, I already predicted this possibility."
"Then why didn't you warn the others?? Now all of Great Xia's arrangements have become useless."
Fate Monk glanced at him. "Do you know what's most important in fishing?"
"Fishing?" Lu Baoyou raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
"The bait." Fate Monk said calmly. "Vishnu is the bait the Cthulhu Faction sent to earn our trust. If we want to make the Cthulhu Faction lower their guard, we naturally have to offer enough bait...
The war on the front lines is nothing more than the war against the [Black Goat] spawn and those corrupted gods. Victory or defeat doesn't matter at all. Only by killing [Chaos] and [Black Goat] can we truly determine the outcome."
"But no one can stop Them. Many, many people will die, and there will be tremendous panic..." Fang Mo frowned.
"It doesn't matter how many people They kill or how much panic They cause, as long as enough people survive to support human reproduction." Fate Monk replied calmly. "Before the war began, I secretly moved one thousand pairs of young men and women outside Great Xia's borders. Even if all the people within Great Xia die, humanity can still exist.
Those so-called 'Operation凛冬' plans, evacuation plans, shelters... they were all what Lin Qiye wanted to set up. From the very beginning, I never agreed with his approach. It was a complete waste of time and effort."
Fate Monk's words directly shocked the [Devil] Squad members. They looked at the Fate Monk as if they were looking at a madman!
It was fine if all the citizens within Great Xia died??
Even Lu Baoyou, who considered himself cold-blooded, was shaken by Fate Monk's words...
Following this logic, in Fate Monk's eyes, all citizens, Night Watch, human gods... they were all just pawns to be sacrificed... His goal was extremely clear and unwavering: kill the Three Pillars!!
"Don't look at me like that... You don't have to认同 my ideas. You just need to complete your own mission." Fate Monk's gaze fell on Fang Mo. "Do you understand your mission now, Captain Fang Mo?"
"...Understood." Fang Mo nodded complexly.
Fate Monk turned around, and eleven figures walked over from the distance—the Twelve Gold Immortals' proxies, who had crossed paths with the [Devil] Squad a few times before!
"They are the targets you must escort... After you deliver them to the Ancestral God Temple, Captain Fang Mo will tell you what to do." Fate Monk checked the time. "Time is running short. You need to move fast."
Fang Mo's gaze met with the other eleven Gold Immortal proxies. Their expressions varied, but they still boarded two planes separately under Fate Monk's guidance.
Under Captain Fang Mo's signal, the [Devil] Squad also walked straight toward another plane.
"Lu Baoyou."
Just as Lu Baoyou was about to board the plane, Fate Monk suddenly spoke.
Lu Baoyou stopped and looked back.
"Sorry, time was too tight. We couldn't find her." Fate Monk said.
"..." A flash of loss flickered in Lu Baoyou's eyes, but quickly returned to normal. "I understand."
With that, he stepped into the cabin.
The planes rose rapidly with a buzzing sound, flying toward the horizon!