Chapter 940: 580, the last thing_2

Qing Chen asked, “What about Jindai Yunxiu and Jindai Sorajima? Don’t they count?”

Jindai Yunlo was silent for a moment again. “They’re just like-minded allies.”

Qing Chen said, “Then why don’t you just not cultivate? They won’t possess Transcendents below C-Class, they’ll become foolish.”

Jindai Yunlo chuckled lightly. “If I don’t cultivate, how can I end this cursed fate?”

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll tell the others in the Jindai clan what you’ve said?” Qing Chen muttered.

“Not afraid, after all, me being alive benefits you,” Jindai Yunlo replied, “Enough talk. I know you’re hiding in the sewers now, hurry and escape.”

“Why?” Qing Chen raised an eyebrow. “I’m quite comfortable hiding here.”

“Do you really think the consortium is powerless against the sewers?” Jindai Yunlo laughed. “Each consortium has some secret military technology, and the Jindai Consortium just happens to have one for dealing with sewer warriors. Moreover, Jindai Sorajima and others are already in a completely signal-blocked area, and they’ll start using the Cloud Mirror sporadically next. You’ll have to figure a way out on your own.”

Qing Chen smiled. “Don’t worry, I’ll surely outlive you.”

With that, he ended the call.

To be honest, Qing Chen found his interaction with Jindai Yunlo somewhat bizarre. Even though they both knew they would become enemies in the future, each with their interests.

Yet at this moment, neither had the intent to kill the other, as if they were really friends.

At this moment, several hundred Jindai soldiers, from the Garrison Forces in City 22, were driving multifunctional combat vehicles to every corner of the city.

Soon, after all the soldiers arrived, they opened the black boxes in their vehicles.

A soldier put on a neural interface helmet beside the box, and immediately, hundreds of palm-sized black Mechanical Spiders poured into the sewers like a tide.

They had six pairs of compound eyes on their heads, observing from all angles, and could even use night vision mode to transmit all footage back to the surveillance command center in real-time.

The movement of the Mechanical Spiders was very swift, advancing at nearly 40 kilometers per hour.

In total, 18 deployment points were established across the city, and thousands of Mechanical Spiders quickly spread throughout all the sewers to locate Qing Chen’s hiding spot.

This was the scout in the Inner World’s modern warfare; a soldier skilled in neural interfacing could cover a 40-kilometer radius of reconnaissance work.

The core of the Mechanical Spiders was loaded with high explosives and could detonate upon encountering an enemy.

Someone once said that neural interfacing with unmanned machines was the direction for small-scale warfare.

However, when the Mechanical Spiders completely sealed off the sewer system of City 22, the Garrison Forces suddenly discovered that the entire sewer was “clean,” with no sign of the Assassin!

This Assassin evaded capture repeatedly as if they had prophetic foresight, even the pursuit artifact like the Cloud Mirror failed!

At this time, a Mechanical Spider suddenly discovered a piece of paper ‘stuck’ on the wall in the dark sewer, crudely drawn with the word “Joker” and a smiling face.

The soldier responsible for controlling the spider through neural interfacing was stunned, thinking, “Is it because they can’t afford playing cards?”

“You don’t even have playing cards, and you’re still pretending?”

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In a ten-story office building in the third district, an officer addressed the Time Travelers in front of him, “The urgent summons today is due to the pressing situation. As you know, there is currently an assassin hunting down all the Time Travelers within the clan, so we must be on guard.”

Officer: “Rest here assuredly; the Garrison Forces have imposed martial law nearby. Once the masters return to City 22 after the funeral of the ancestral patriarch, you will no longer have to worry about this. Furthermore, we have laid a vast net in the city, and perhaps we will capture him soon.”

At this moment, everyone felt the building tremor slightly.

Even the lights on the ceiling swayed.

“Earthquake,” the officer shouted, “quickly take emergency shelter!”

The trained Time Travelers hid under desks one after another. Gradually, the stairwell of the building began to tilt, and items fell from the tables, with cups rolling on the ground.

The angle of the building’s tilt grew larger, and at this moment, someone noticed something was amiss.

The structural integrity of Inner World buildings wouldn’t collapse under such seismic intensity, and even taller buildings outside weren’t shaking!

“What’s happening?” someone panicked.

The officer abruptly stood up, stumbled to the window, and saw that below the second floor of the ten-story Garrison Dormitory, the building had completely turned to sand!

The bricks on the walls were continuously turning to sand and falling like an earthen waterfall.

And that sand kept stirring above the foundation, eroding and breaking the steel bars with fast friction!

All the Time Travelers became lambs trapped in this building.

Someone tried jumping off from the building, but soon they realized the entire building began to turn to sand, burying everyone under the quicksand!

On the open ground on the other side of the building, the soil suddenly morphed into the words: Zard took responsibility for this attack.

At this moment, the officer suddenly understood that the Assassin relentlessly hunting Time Travelers anticipated that once enough casualties occurred, the Jindai Consortium would surely protect the Time Travelers collectively.

Yes, only this way could time not be wasted!

But under normal circumstances, no one could achieve this in the Garrison Camp area unless it was an A-Class Earth Element Awakener attacking personally!

And Qing Chen happened to know that the Qing’s Family had just such an Earth Element Awakener who could complete the massacre mission and take the blame!

Moreover, this person seemed to particularly enjoy willingly taking the blame…

Qing Chen had killed so many Jindai Time Travelers before to purposefully gather these Time Travelers together.

Of course, even if, after such a significant loss and casualty, the Jindai still managed these Time Travelers separately, he wouldn’t mind killing them one by one.

Until now, Qing Chen had completed three of the four tasks he set out to do after crossing over.

The first task was to escape from the A02 secret military base and retrieve intelligence personnel.

The second task was to develop a new Parents’ Meeting gradually surrounding the Upper Sixth District using the slums, though this couldn’t yet be considered complete but had started to take shape.

All that’s needed is to wait for time to do its work.

The third task was to eliminate all Time Travelers who besieged him in the Outer World.

Now, only the last task remains, to kill Jindai Yunhe.