Chapter 359: If One Day I Have to Be an Enemy of the World
The procedures for entering the military zone were very complicated, especially during a period of high alert. Freya underwent a very strict inspection.
However, Freya’s identity was well-known, so the female soldier dared not be too rude. As Freya’s anger began to surface, they only confiscated her outer clothes and sword. They left Freya with her undergarments.
Freya put on a new martial arts uniform and fastened her new hairpin, then walked out of the inspection room with a cold expression.
Xia Feng, in his ‘patch’ state, had his vision greatly restricted, but fortunately, his spirit particles were still functioning normally.
He could use his spirit robe.
With a slight sway and jolt, he used his Eye of Deconstruction to look outside.
It was already late at night, yet the military zone was brightly lit.
The off-road vehicle passed through the training ground, multiple command centers, the general command hall, multiple arms depots, Level 3 spirit material storage, Level 4 spirit material storage, Level 5… It traveled for a full half hour before arriving at the experimental building complex.
This place was indeed a treasure trove. Xia Feng’s eyes were shining for the entire half hour he was en route. Well, he didn’t have eyes at the moment.
His Enlightenment Domain covered everything.
He directly copied 165 N-level spirit artifacts, 23 D-class spirit artifacts, 20 C-class spirit artifacts, and 2 B-class spirit artifacts!
What a haul!
It was truly worthy of being a military zone; the quality of the spirit artifacts was much higher than those in the living quarters.
Xia Feng briefly reviewed the effects of all the spirit artifacts. Several of them directly enhanced Strength and Agility attributes. For example, the B-grade spirit artifact, ‘King of Fist Gloves,’ directly provided a 10% increase to his Strength value upon wearing it.
The effect was not bizarre, but it was practical.
In addition, there was an N-level spirit artifact that immediately caught Xia Feng’s attention, causing his eyes to widen like saucers.
[N-level · Hedong Declaration: Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river — when you are defeated, shout this declaration, and your comprehension will be randomly amplified, and your luck will randomly increase.]
Xia Feng: “?”
It could only be an N-level spirit artifact to have such peculiar effects.
If used well, it might even allow one to defy fate.
Unfortunately, his surname wasn’t Xiao; he believed in Mu!
After getting out of the off-road vehicle and following Freya into the underground experimental base with a soldier, Xia Feng felt he was getting closer to the Calamity Spirit Pearl.
The Calamity Demon Heart was beating wildly, filled with excitement, and even his nerve endings were trembling. It was the kind of excitement only Miss Evil Dragon could provide him.
This meant that there were indeed a large number of Calamity Spirit Pearls ahead!
It made him extremely eager.
As they went deeper, they could see that many half-dragons were in hibernation within the underground base.
In their glass capsule hibernation chambers, naked half-dragons floated in emerald nutrient fluid, their eyes closed in deep sleep.
Such hibernation chambers filled the entire dim plaza, arranged in rows and columns, totaling over two thousand, a truly magnificent sight.
Xia Feng sensed that five hundred of these half-dragons were his former subordinates whom he had previously contracted and controlled.
Walking down a long corridor, Freya continued to follow the soldier deeper inside. As she passed a glass curtain wall, she couldn’t help but stop.
The nameplate above the glass curtain wall read [Hall of Observing Life].
The scene within was somewhat eerie. More than a dozen researchers in white coats and masks stood on a high platform, looking down at the scene below.
Below, only one man in a white coat and a feeble soul clad in withered armor sat opposite each other in the dim light.
Xia Feng recognized the identity of this feeble soul at a glance from his armor.
It was a veteran from White Emperor City!
However, he was already dead, leaving only a remnant spirit, seemingly surviving to this day through some means. The veteran’s spirit body stared blankly at the mobile phone on the table, its screen reflecting light through his soul and onto the wall behind his head.
Xia Feng saw clearly that the phone displayed the history of the past thirty years, with the public’s criticism and curses against the White Emperor City rebels on the internet.
“Do you see? This is the result of your thirty years of bloody battle in White Emperor City.”
The man in the white coat put away the phone and said gently in a soft voice, “You are traitors.”
“Roar!!” The veteran’s spirit body suddenly looked up. The chains fixed at the back of his neck violently tugged at his enraged spirit body. His remnant eyes were blood-red, letting out meaningless roars, “We—are not!”
With a resentful and hoarse low voice, he roared, gritting his teeth, “Yes, it’s you!!”
“That’s right, it is indeed us,” the man’s expression remained gentle and calm. “It was Mr. Dong Jun’s order, and Lord Herlen carried it out personally, but so what?”
The man pointed to the video on the screen and let out a sinister chuckle, “But you personally killed your mother.”
The video showed the veteran bravely fighting enemies outside White Emperor City, and finally decapitating a female half-dragon.
The female half-dragon was fully armored and wore a mask. In the chaos of battle, the veteran had no time to consider anything else and did not know the identity of the beast he had killed with all his might under the mask.
But at this moment, with the man’s reminder, the veteran’s spirit body became unstable. As he looked up, his eyes turned completely blood-red, looking extremely ferocious, “Roar!!!”
!
*Clack*, the chains at the back of his neck broke!
The man’s white coat fluttered in the gale as he sat opposite, but he remained smiling, unmoved.
“Ye Li Dongjun!!” the veteran roared, his eyes filled with venomous killing intent. But after the chains broke, his soul could no longer maintain itself and began to rapidly dissipate. The hatred in his eyes turned into endless unwillingness, and he vanished into the soul in despair.
*Clack*—his remnant spirit suddenly condensed, forming an oval-shaped pebble flashing with an eerie red light, which fell onto the table.
Seeing this, the man in the white coat leaned back in his chair, took a breath, and grumbled, “Damn it, after working for more than ten years, I’ve finally succeeded in transforming this last Observing Life person!”
Freya watched in silence for a moment before being urged by the soldier to continue forward.
Xia Feng also fell silent. According to the rules, sacrificing 99,000 Observing Life stones could grant 1000 Life Points.
The production of Observing Life stones required a person who was on the verge of death to possess a strong will to survive, and their emotional state had to be largely unified.
Xia Feng had previously wondered how Ye Li Dongjun managed to unify the emotional states of the White Emperor City veterans. Now it seemed the method was not difficult.
Let the White Emperor City veterans know the truth, and then there would be a unified object of hatred they wished to dismember—Ye Li Dongjun.
This was the unified emotion of the White Emperor City veterans before their deaths: the desire to dismember Ye Li Dongjun, coupled with the unwillingness and despair of being on the verge of death and unable to do anything!
Thinking of this, Xia Feng felt as if his heart was being clenched, and a nameless rage spread unrestrainedly, rising and finally filling his mind.
“Mr. Xia, I’m always pondering a question.”
“What is it?”
A cold, clear female voice echoed in Xia Feng’s mind, as if coming from the endless underworld: “Why is this world always so boring?”
“Boring… but this might just be reality,”
Xia Feng said in a low voice. With everything he had seen on this journey, he couldn’t help but understand Mu Qingtong’s perspective.
As Miss Mu said, the empire was already rotten.
“Miss Mu, if one day I have to be an enemy of the world, would you help me?” Xia Feng suddenly asked softly.
“Obviously.”
“Hmm?”
“I’ll help you.”
