At the entrance of a village dozens of kilometers away from HQ City.
"Hoo, hoo, hoo!" Luo Yulong was panting heavily, resting while leaning on his Long Spear. All his energy had erupted, and running all the way from the foot of the mountain nearly exhausted him.
There was no one from the Xuanjian Division beside him; everyone had tacitly split up to run, ensuring that if they were pursued, the slower runners could buy them time.
'It's over. The Xuanjian Division, even humanity, is completely finished.' Luo Yulong looked utterly despairing.
Not only did these Team Leaders fight amongst themselves at the last critical moment, but someone else also managed to exploit the situation.
He wondered how many Level Five members of the Xuanjian Division would survive.
Just as Luo Yulong was catching his breath, people walked out of the village and looked at him.
The villagers saw blood flowing from his neck and blood staining his body, and their expressions changed instantly as they rushed back home.
"Quickly report to the Inspector! There's a murderer here!" someone shouted loudly.
Luo Yulong then watched an old man tremblingly pull a button-operated Feature Phone out of his pocket.
His gaze instantly sharpened: "There's still a signal here?"
"Stop, give me that phone!" Luo Yulong moved instantly, appearing behind the old man with a loud shout.
The sound scared the old man so badly his face turned pale, almost shrinking into himself.
Luo Yulong didn't care about the old man's state; he roughly snatched the phone, then pulled a stack of tens of thousands of blue star coins from his chest and threw it to the old man: "I bought your phone."
"You can't go back on your word now!" The old man's eyes lit up as he looked at the tens of thousands of blue star coins in his hand, grabbed the money, and ran away.
Luo Yulong looked at the signal displayed on the Feature Phone and began pressing the buttons to call Headquarters... In Town City, outside the Xuanjian Division building, all the surrounding structures had been completely reduced to ruins.
Wu Yuan stood calmly atop the building; the Centipede Emperor that had attacked earlier was gone.
"What a difficult thing to fight. It was a complete waste of time," he grumbled.
As for how many people died in this battle, he couldn't care less.
Bang! The door to the rooftop was suddenly kicked open, and a girl in a suit ran up frantically holding a phone.
Seeing Wu Yuan standing at the edge of the building, she rushed over, shouting as she ran: "Lord Wu, something terrible has happened! An accident occurred in HQ City, and this call is from a surviving Awakened One."
Upon hearing this, Wu Yuan moved his consciousness, and the phone in the girl's hand automatically flew to his side.
"This is Wu Yuan," Wu Yuan said flatly.
"Lord Wu Yuan, I am Luo Yulong of the Fifth Group…" Luo Yulong's voice came from the other end of the phone.
He proceeded to recount everything that had happened after the signal was cut off.
Wu Yuan's originally calm expression gradually darkened. He hadn't expected so much to happen just because the Centipede Emperor had held him up for a while.
"Immediately contact the Military and launch the nuke according to the predetermined plan!" Wu Yuan turned to the girl behind him without hesitation.
"Y-yes, sir!" The girl turned and ran down. As Wu Yuan's Secretary, she had the authority to contact the Military directly.
But what Wu Yuan didn't know was that in the center of the rooftop, Evil Eye was quietly watching him, monitoring his every move.
"Is it over?" Wu Yuan stood at the edge of the rooftop, and a transparent Phantom identical to him appeared.
The Phantom took a step, and the surrounding environment instantly changed.
The Phantom appeared in a city full of architectural ruins. It looked around and quickly sensed several powerful auras.
Among them was the faint aura of Bai Wenliang. The Phantom's gaze narrowed, and it took another step, causing the environment to change rapidly again.
When its foot landed, the Phantom reappeared in another ruin.
Here, it saw Bai Wenliang lying on the ground, barely clinging to life.
As for the terrifying Monster not far away, it completely ignored it. After all, its Phantom body was special, and general physical or energy attacks were ineffective against it.
Just as the Phantom appeared, Gold, who had been standing nearby looking around, suddenly turned its head toward an empty spot.
Swish! Before the Phantom could react, a flash of Golden Light streaked past.
The Phantom, which could ignore physical attacks, was instantly shattered and vanished from the spot.
Gold's figure stood beside Bai Wenliang, a cold smile appearing at its mouth: "Just a wisp of special Mental Power, yet it dared to ignore me."
Suddenly, Jiang Yan's voice echoed in Gold's mind: "Do you have the confidence to face the nuke head-on?"
Gold's lips curled up, revealing confidence: "Master, just watch me."
At the same time, Blood Master appeared. He nodded toward Gold and took Bai Wenliang away.
The remaining Black Gold in the city also received orders and began moving outside the city.
On the rooftop of the Xuanjian Division building in Town City.
A wisp of special Mental Power suddenly appeared, having crossed an unknown distance, and rushed into Wu Yuan's forehead.
Wu Yuan felt the images relayed back by the Phantom, sighed helplessly, and looked up at the sky.
He saw several streaks of fire crossing the sky in the distance—these were the nukes launched near Town City.
At this moment, not just here, but across the country, launches were occurring sequentially after calculating the simultaneous arrival time.
"Old Bai, goodbye," Wu Yuan murmured softly to the air in front of him... HQ City, at the ruins site, only Gold remained.
Outside the city, Jiang Yan flew a thousand meters in the air, his eyes gleaming: 'Come on. Let me completely crush the weapon you are most proud of.'
He wanted to fully display the power of the Monster Association in front of all humanity.
In space.
Major world organizations were closely monitoring the area below using satellites; they had all detected the traces of nuke launches.
The other Awakened Ones organizations on the side fell silent or into panic.
This signified that the Xuanjian Division had been defeated and was forced to launch nukes to eliminate everything.
However, the events in HQ City were strictly sealed off. Even if a group of organizations were observing, they would not release the news.
Doing so would only cause panic and serve no other purpose.
Among these satellites, one from Liyang Country was mixed in.
On this day, a live stream link suddenly appeared online. This link was sent to people's mobile phones and computers around the world through special means.
In an Internet Cafe, the seats were mostly filled.
A group of blond, blue-eyed Caucasian youths were playing a Shooting Game.
"Holy crap, get him! We still have five people left, and there's only one guy remaining!"
Just as the match was intense, a live stream window was forcibly popped up on everyone's computer screens.
"What the heck is this virus!" a curly-haired youth roared, having nearly won his Promotion Match.