CHAPTER 298: CHAPTER 294: WRATH! BURNING BRIDGES!

Crack—Crack—

Before the [Pioneer] could comprehend why senior personnel were dying, several consecutive alert sounds echoed from his brocade pouch in the space.

The [Pioneer], startled, even forcibly halted the repair of his consciousness wounds, reluctantly opening his eyes.

He retrieved the brocade pouch and casually cast out seven or eight items that looked like sacrificial tablets.

The moment they hit the ground, these wooden tokens crumbled into dust, stirred up by the fierce wind blowing into the cave, making the [Pioneer]’s face turn pale.

"All... all dead? Why? What happened? I just left for a few days?"

Seeing the [Pioneer] in such a frustrated, teeth-gnashing state, Yin Qiming laughed recklessly within the consciousness space, feeling as if he might burst into tears from laughter, though he couldn’t control his body now.

"Hahaha! Maybe when Wu Liang killed that bunch of [Ghost Valley Old Guard], he also plundered their memories. Those retreat methods and secret bases you mentioned, the [Ghost Valley Old Guard] knew them too!"

Yin Qiming scornfully mocked the [Pioneer]’s previous arrangements.

But after hearing this, the [Pioneer] solemnly rebutted, "Impossible. Although such means exist, he could never invade the brains of that group [Ghost Valley Old Guard]!"

It is often said—your enemies know you best.

The [Pioneer] could almost bet his life that after using a mental cage trap once in the Utopian Village, Wu Liang would never easily invade any member’s mind in the [Promised Land].

Because if it were him, he wouldn’t do it either.

"Damn it, how did that guy manage it? To what extent has the external [Promised Land] progressed?" The [Pioneer] was now somewhat anxious.

On one hand, his consciousness wound couldn’t easily allow the body to emerge, nor could he separate his consciousness to use an avatar to investigate the situation.

Otherwise, if the consciousness avatar encountered problems again, his injuries might be severe enough that he couldn’t even withstand the early to mid-stages of the second paranormal massacre, let alone the later stages.

On the other hand, he couldn’t simply let the [Promised Land] members outside be inexplicably slaughtered completely.

If the authorities truly resolved the [Promised Land] utterly before the second paranormal massacre, the ultimate purpose of this organization’s existence would be nullified!

"Wu Liang... the authorities... you are forcing me to use this thing... which was initially intended to be unveiled midway through the second paranormal massacre to break your defenses..."

The [Pioneer] reddened his eyes, gritting his teeth, took out a small bottle from the brocade pouch.

Inside the bottle was a little boy’s virtual shadow crouching in a corner, occasionally sobbing, resembling a ghost with its eerie semi-transparence.

Pop—

The bottle was opened by the [Pioneer] with a grave expression, and the little boy’s virtual shadow dazedly lifted his head, glancing at the exit.

But the next second, the barely whimpering little boy suddenly opened his mouth and wailed loudly, as if he cried tears of joy at finally finding an escape route.

The whole figure gradually floated out of the bottle’s mouth.

Afterward, his gaze turned to the distant edge of the sky, as though being summoned in a predetermined direction, he began to float and move.

During this process, even the [Pioneer] who released him could only curl in the cave’s corner.

He firmly closed his eyes, covered his ears, and used the Fierce Ghost Ability to block all his consciousness that could perceive the outside world.

It seemed as though just hearing or seeing the little boy cry would lead to disaster.

Half an hour passed by.

Only then did the [Pioneer] slowly open his eyes, stand up, walk to the cave entrance, and take out a spade-like object from the brocade pouch.

Scrape—Scrape—

With the continuous scraping sounds made by him excavating the soil surrounding the cave entrance with the spade, the ground seemed conscious, starting to distort.

In less than three minutes, the soil twisted entirely to seal off the cave’s entrance.

The [Pioneer] completely locked himself inside the cave!

His actions more resembled a bizarre attempt to protect himself from some external influence.

Woo—Woo—Woo—

However, within minutes after the cave was sealed, a faint crying sound came from various places deep in the mountains, echoing through the whole mountain like the cries of ghosts and wolves.

Yet there wasn’t a single living person within a hundred-mile radius of these mountains!

So who was making these sobbing cries?

At this moment, a nearly two-meter-long thin snake descended slowly from the treetops, its forked tongue flicking, inexplicably displaying a sadness even humans could understand instead of the usual cold-blooded slit-eyed gaze.

"Woo...woo...woo!"

The sound it made from its flicking tongue was not a hiss, but an eerie sob, as if a child was wailing.

Not only that, even in a village in the direction where the little boy left outside the deep mountains.

At the ancestral graves where villagers buried their deceased relatives, numerous white skeletal hands suddenly thrust out, propping themselves onto the muddy ground, pulling their bodies out slowly.

These corpses, dead for many years, had even their eyes fully decayed, leaving only hollow sockets, making them horrifying.

Some even had their chins missing, yet they still emitted strange whimpering sounds from their mouths.

Then they turned their gaze towards the nearby village, mechanically began to cry as they walked towards it.

Shortly after, in the village, there was no longer any sound of living people speaking or moving to escape.

Only the piercing sobbing sound remained...

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Currently, far away in Jinnan City, Wu Liang had no idea—a massive paranormal event, about to amaze the whole world, was unfolding.

He stood before a group of [Promised Land] members, sincerely expressing his intentions as a former [Ghost Valley Old Guard].

Watching him not only present numerous supernatural objects to enhance his brothers’ combat power, but also lead them to discover many secret bases left behind by [Ghost Valley].

Most people had basically believed him by now.

"Wow, this red umbrella can block all negative effects? And without any side effects?"

"And this kitchen knife given by [Mask] to me, don’t let its unassuming appearance fool you, its ability is amazing, nearly unstoppable!"

"Haha! My Life-taking Rope is even more terrifying! I don’t know how many officials it hanged during the breakout just now!"

"..."

They all believed they had obtained powerful supernatural objects, but little did they know they were not supernatural objects at all...