Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 509 - 504: Is This the Real Divine Domain?
A group of people cautiously entered the ancient castle.
This time, Ye Xingyan and Masha also entered.
The inside of the castle was silent, as if deserted. Bloodstains that hadn’t dried yet could be seen on the floor, and every few steps, there were charred corpses turning black.
Masha had seen many dead bodies before, and now she was braver. She didn’t scream, just tightly held Ye Xingyan’s hand, occasionally closing her eyes.
"The commander sent a message, asking us to immediately move people from the dungeon."
The second-in-command glanced at the communicator he had just taken out. There was a detailed route map on it.
The group immediately followed the route but encountered a dirty little boy covered in bloodstains at the entrance of a staircase.
Everyone halted, instantly on guard, not daring to underestimate him because of his age.
"Are you also looking for that sister?" After sizing them up and seeing they weren’t the bad people he had seen before, the little boy put away his killing intent and seemed relatively friendly.
"Yes, who are you?" the second-in-command asked.
"They call me Master," the little boy pointed to the corpse lying below the stairs, his expression indifferent.
His gray-white pupils did not waver at all.
The second-in-command and the others felt a chill down their spines and couldn’t help but step back half a step, vigilantly gripping their weapons, "People of the Qiao family?"
"Shut up!"
The little boy suddenly became furious, and along with his voice, a powerful spiritual power erupted.
But before he could attack, his spiritual power was fiercely strangled by Ji Ning.
Ji Ning’s irrefutable voice resounded in the boy’s mind.
[Don’t touch my people.]
The little boy was displeased, clenching his fist, yelling in one direction, "I hate the Qiao Family the most. How dare they treat me like those bandits..."
[Alright, they don’t know your grievances with the Qiao Family, come here quickly.]
Only then did the little boy reluctantly turn his head to glance at them, his sinister gaze making everyone feel as if they almost stepped into hell.
Fortunately, he then walked down quickly, encountering a corpse in a black robe, harshly stepping on the face, grinding it as if wishing to pulverize it.
How much did he hate the Eternal Life Cultist?
The second-in-command let everyone wait a moment before maintaining a safe distance and proceeded deeper into the dungeon.
The "scenery" along the way was ghastly.
Rats crawled over white bones, and corpses that hadn’t yet decomposed were half-decayed flesh and half-bone, with soft-body worms gnawing away.
Not even the labs in Beizhou had as many corpses and bones as this.
These people had suffered indescribable torture before death, with some torture devices still attached to the bones.
Suddenly——
The little boy leading the way ahead suddenly went mad again.
"Ah——"
"Qiao Family, I will kill you all——"
The little boy’s spiritual power climbed rapidly, the gray-white pupils turning blood red, his pale fingers desperately tugging at the metal door nearby, but it didn’t budge.
The boy’s Spiritual Ability had reached the Eighteen Rank, but his physical strength was only a D2 level.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been controlled by the Qiao Family for so long.
"Wuwu... Dad... Mom... Ah..."
The boy’s piercing cries carried strong spiritual power waves, spreading outward like a tide.
Everyone immediately felt a throbbing pain in their brains, clutching their ears, using their spiritual power to resist this vast, ocean-like spiritual force, but it was like striking a stone with an egg, quickly being slaughtered by it.
Finally, when they were about to give in, the spiritual power suddenly vanished, and even the boy’s cries could no longer be heard.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, wiping away the blood on their faces.
It must have been the Commander using the Space Ability on them.
Ji Ning waited for the boy’s emotions to stabilize a bit before dispersing the Space Power.
[Help him open the iron door.]
***
The setting sun’s afterglow shone even brighter against the backdrop of roaring flames.
The centuries-old castle estate was gradually turning into ruins amidst the great fire.
It was as if to burn away all the evil and filth here, eradicating it completely.
Masha thought of the legend in her mind, another ending her dad had once told her.
[The hero went through countless trials and was finally allowed to enter the god’s domain, gaining the Tear of Moon God that grants eternal life, but little did they know this was also a test, a test of human greed, but the hero failed the test. After drinking the Tear of Moon God, he was dragged into the hellish abyss by the god’s brother, the Devil, suffering eternal torment, unable to leave.]
So this was the true ending.
There is no true immortality in this world.
Masha watched as the little boy seemed to merge with the sky-reaching flames, as if witnessing that hero crawling out of hell, wanting revenge against the gods.
...
The cars found in the castle estate were just enough to take all the rescued detectives.
The convoy, majestic and mighty, headed from Moon Lake Oasis to a larger oasis in the northern part of the West Continent.
Several families occupied the largest oasis in the northern part of the West Continent. It had modern high-rises, villas, hospitals, schools, a stark contrast to the slums, like two extreme worlds.
Even most members of the Qiao Family lived here.
Masha had never seen so many tall buildings, nor had she seen such wide and clean roads. Everything was like a Divine Domain, so beautiful it made people yearn for it.
"Grandpa Ye, is this the real Divine Domain?"
Ye Xingyan smiled and said, "Not quite, once you get to Hua Continent, you’ll know what a Divine Domain truly is."
The little boy on the other side was also somewhat tempted. He had heard many things about Hua Continent from this Grandpa Ye’s mouth.
There, slums were rare, and all children his age had to attend school, and it was free.
If his parents were gone, he could go to an orphanage, where he wouldn’t go hungry or cold, and could grow up healthily.
If he successfully avenged his parents and himself, he too wanted to follow this Commander of Hua Continent to live there.
An individual of such high status willing to go to other continents to save people for their citizens had to be a benevolent leader.
...
In West Continent, there weren’t as many law enforcement officers to maintain order, but entering the oasis wasn’t easy.
There were guards at each checkpoint verifying identities, and they were only able to enter smoothly thanks to Ji Ning’s spiritual power.
The technological development here was very slow; many things were established with the help of South Continent, and even West Continent’s Smart Brain network was built with assistance from South Continent and the Ji Family Army.
With [Zero], Ji Ning could easily obtain all confidential information of the West Continent, including the dirty deeds secretly done by the big families.
"Commander, the convoy ahead is the Qiao Family convoy. They have already received the news that the castle in their clan’s land was burned."
[Zero]’s voice suddenly sounded in the earpiece, and Ji Ning immediately turned the wheel, positioning the car across the middle of the road, blocking the convoy ahead.
The Qiao Family convoy was forced to brake abruptly.
The driver poked his head out of the driver’s seat, cursing, but suddenly lost consciousness.
Other people in the convoy were instantly on alert.
Just as they were about to open the car door, a wave of brain pain hit, and they immediately lost consciousness.
The little boy looked rather dissatisfied at Ji Ning, "Commander Sister, why not just scramble their brains?"
Ji Ning restarted the car, reversed it, and continued driving forward.
"If you want to leave the West Continent, this is not a battlefield."
