Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 580: Chapter 197: Zero’s Second Descension

Wen Hao, who controlled the endless seawater that surrounded the entire city, indeed could be said to "purify."

King of Hearts looked up at the endless seawater that could crush down at any moment, recalling the city’s situation; there was no plan to counter it.

This was no longer an enemy he could face; he had to use the emergency device to call for help from the farm!

But though the King of Hearts was far from the Golden Generation, he was still a K-level of the contemporary farm.

As the master of Sanchez City, he had planted countless Evil Fallen within it.

Yet ten times more numerous than the Evil Fallen were humans.

"Stay calm, stay calm..."

Inside the Kein Building, the King of Hearts saw countless cheering humans.

They finally saw hope.

Realizing that this city was merely a pasture for raising humans, they longed to leave but were also afraid to go.

At this moment, if a hero appeared, everyone would instantly feel safe.

Zero and Wen Hao were such heroes.

But heroes carry their own burdens.

In this city, far from any coastline, the sight of an ocean vast enough to destroy everything instilled fear of the opponent’s power in the King of Hearts.

But when he saw those humans, the King of Hearts suddenly realized...

It was all an illusion.

"The boundless ocean can swallow everything, but even if you can control the seawater, how can you ensure that when it engulfs the city, it won’t harm the innocent!"

"This is just a blank gun meant to deter us!"

Realizing this, the King of Hearts felt somewhat more composed.

Next, as long as he found a way to contact the farm and awaited "Father’s" arrival, any monster controlling the ocean or Mechanical Emperor would fall here.

Inside the Kein Group Building, the King of Hearts tried to contact the farm through a Spirit Possession item.

Although the farm was in a special space, to facilitate the transport of babies from the blood bank and the breeding center, a special passageway had already been established.

After receiving the message, "Father" Jing Yi could arrive in the shortest time!

As for Sanchez City, so long as it was filled with hostages, the enemy would dare not use a widespread attack.

The Spirit Possession item was a pendant, and the King of Hearts was confident that this time, the crisis would be resolved.

But as he tried to wipe the pendant—

The "variable" arrived.

...

...

Minutes earlier,

Outside the Kein Building, in the sky above Sanchez City.

Standing proudly above the waves and lifted by the tides into the high sky, Wen Hao arrived at the colossal mechanical fortress in the heavens.

Seeing the immense, futuristically-detailed Mechanical Temple above the fortress, Wen Hao suddenly felt that his Ark was no longer appealing.

"It seems I’ve overlooked something; when my enemies were beneath the turmoil of the sea, they were scattered to pieces..."

"But this time it seems impossible; I can summon ten times the seawater, but can’t make it submerge."

The city concealed countless Evil Fallen, and these beings even had their assignments, each carrying out their duties.

Some were responsible for patrols and maintaining order.

Some were tasked with education, brainwashing humans.

Others became idols, occupying fragments of people’s time.

This was truly a paradise for the Evil Fallen.

Because in every dark corner, there might well be incidents of Evil Fallen attacking humans to feed on their negative emotions.

These Evil Fallen were indeed despicable; if possible, Wen Hao would want to slaughter them clean.

But he couldn’t.

Because in this city, there were even more humans than Evil Fallen.

If they were to fight one by one, their greatest advantage would instead be lost.

"What should we do? With so many people, we can’t all be buried with them."

Zero glanced at Wen Hao, though Wen Hao was an Evil Fallen, his feelings towards him were like those towards most humans, indifferent.

They were merely collaborators.

"Why do you think I brought my palace?"

The gaze of the Mechanical Emperor fell upon the Kein Building, where the Black Heart King resided.

Before Wen Hao had started to express his difficulties, Zero had already begun collecting data.

He had once upgraded the Angel Envoy for Bai Wu, enabling him to see all kinds of data on everyone.

Hotel registration records, credit card usage, private behaviors under various electronic cameras...

The Angel Envoy was one of Zero’s masterpieces, but under the distortion, his own mechanical construction was far more powerful than the Angel Envoy by countless magnitudes.

By the time the Mechanical Temple was suspended over Sanchez City, Zero had already completed the data sampling.

The Evil Fallen were bizarre in countless ways, but humans were almost indistinguishable.

Especially in this city, every human was branded with a number.

Sanchez City, much like the second layer of the Well World, where everyone lives under the control of the seven major consortia, seemingly idyllic, but all roads leading to the higher layers were thoroughly blocked.

Everyone merely had a number, deliberately blurring the concept of being human.

All things materialized.

But this also made it more convenient for Zero to collect information.

Wen Hao didn’t understand him, but asked somewhat embarrassingly,

"I don’t know what to do now... Damn!"

Wen Hao hadn’t finished speaking, but standing at the edge of the huge mechanical bastion, he witnessed a horrifying scene. freeweɓnøvel.com

The mechanical bastion hanging over the city suddenly unleashed its full firepower.

Like a mechanical monster, it launched an attack on the city in an instant.

Thousands of terrifying rays traced sinuous paths, like hounds sensing their prey, diving towards the targets below with precision and lethality!

Wen Hao had guessed that this huge mechanical bastion could provide a surprising amount of firepower from the air.

The traveling palace of the Mechanical Emperor certainly had the firepower strong enough to annihilate the majority of the Evil Fallen.

But what he hadn’t anticipated was that the rays could also be precisely guided.

Watching thousands of rays pursuing their targets, snaking and twisting, Wen Hao was dumbfounded.

On the ground, Evil Fallen were dying at a rapid pace—in unison.

Some Evil Fallen possessed certain special sensory words and tried to dodge the rays, but the rays pursued as if they were alive... unrelentingly.

Pedestrians on the streets only felt a burning sensation originating from their temples, as if a flash of fire crossed their vision.

The next second, they heard wails from the Evil Fallen patrol behind them.

The formidable creatures were pierced through in an instant by the terrorizing rays.

The pedestrian touched near his own temple and suddenly felt terrified.

He swore the ray had missed him by just a few millimeters.

This happened in every corner of the city.

Countless pedestrians exclaimed, fear, and anger surged in their hearts.

But it was only a fleeting moment...

Because soon they realized that the so-called dangers were just their own thoughts.

Under Zero’s terrifying computing power, each ray hit the Evil Fallen with precision and perfectly avoided all humans.

The boundless sea holds vast power, yet it cannot fall.

Though Zero’s mechanical bastion was insignificant compared to it, the problem that caused Wen Hao so much trouble seemed trivial to Zero.

A great number of Evil Fallen were eradicated by the powerful rays.

The design draft from the leader of Eye of Colossus, the top weapon merchant of the Mechanical Race, was favored by the Mechanical God and summoned by Zero, transmitted into the Mechanical Temple.

Ultimately, the design blueprints of the Eye of Colossus were transformed into a formidable weapon. The internal structure of Mechanical City shifted significantly as well.

At this moment, Black Spade K, who was trying to contact the farm, became dumbfounded again.

What kind of power was this?

He couldn’t imagine how that silver-haired mechanical monster, which barely qualified as a living being, could instantly and accurately control thousands upon thousands of rays!

How terrifying was its computational power?

The majority of the Evil Fallen had been eradicated, but there were still a few elite forces with formidable combat capabilities!

Once it was confirmed that the overwhelming mechanical bastion was a "trojan horse" for besieging cities, the top combat force of the Evil Fallen, who had been lurking in Sanchez City to resolve major crises, had already begun their assault!

One after another, powerful Evil Fallen soared into the sky. Their speed and strength could even surpass those terrifying rays.

This alone was enough to see the source of the ruling power of the Evil Fallen, who dominated the city of Sanchez!

Zero looked indifferently at the Evil Fallen who were continuously approaching the mechanical bastion and said nothing.

He glanced at Wen Hao again.

Wen Hao felt a great pressure.

He pondered in his heart:

"It seems what those humans said wasn’t wrong... Although he is kind in many ways toward humans, it’s all for the sake of Bai."

"I can feel that... He is not pretending to be indifferent; he really is very cold. Damn, I need to show some performance here!"

Wen Hao, who usually retained a full presence even when facing monstrous crew members and powerful sea beasts without any fear, suddenly felt that this half-mechanical lifeform was somewhat terrifying.

Watching the Evil Fallen getting closer, Wen Hao said:

"Leave them to me!"

The mechanical bastion, suspended at a height of twelve hundred meters, was far enough from the ground when the monsters were about to approach, and Wen Hao, who could manipulate the sea, had no more concerns!

His eyes became sharp.

He seemed like a deity who controlled the sea.

Each of these Evil Fallen was a powerful being among the strong, but just as they were about three hundred meters from the mechanical bastion...

The roaring sound of the sea waves came!

The charge of the Evil Fallen was so minuscule compared to the huge waves shaped like arms!

The boundless seawater that could engulf an entire city became the left and right arms of the massive mechanical bastion at that moment!

As the hands closed in, all the Evil Fallen attacking the mechanical bastion... suddenly sensed that they had no way out!

On both sides, the palms formed by sea waves were closing in! They were so vast that their ends were almost out of sight!

Powerful beings among the Evil Fallen felt like people seeking survival in a chamber, desperately rushing toward an exit, only to find the walls relentlessly contracting and crushing them, spiked with sharp points.

The sound of sea waves crashing against each other arose.

Water is the softest element, yet the fury of the ocean is never to be underestimated.

When the two massive waves collided... those tough Evil Fallen, already as tiny as mosquitoes... had their bodies smashed, and the small amount of blood they shed could not even tinge the vast sea with a hint of crimson.

Black Spade K desperately wiped his pendant, but received no response.

Zero looked at Wen Hao:

"Not too shabby."

"Hahaha..." Wen Hao actually felt somewhat embarrassed.

Receiving praise from Zero was quite unexpected for him.

But suddenly, he felt that although there were many Evil Fallen in Sanchez City, facing him and Zero, the Evil Fallen’s strength was just not enough.

He felt somewhat disappointed.

Zero, on the other hand, was not disappointed; he just furrowed his brow.

"Something’s not right."

"What is it? Speaking of which, why didn’t you kill the one in the building?"

Zero had already conducted the pre-war investigation. He was clear about the current configuration of Sanchez City and its leaders.

Although Wen Hao did not know the details, he was also aware that one of the most important leaders in Sanchez lived in the Kein Group building.

To completely liberate Sanchez City and give humans a true haven in this post-apocalyptic world, that person had to be removed.

But Zero had not done so.

Zero still stood at the edge of the Mechanical Bastion, slaughtering most of the Evil Fallen in this city without even having to move.

As one of the very few who had transcended the Well Level threshold, Zero was acutely aware that his strength was godlike compared to those Evil Fallen who had yet to take that step.

Therefore, for this battle, Zero didn’t even consider the Evil Fallen of Sanchez City itself, not even the Spade K, as a threat.

"I didn’t kill him because I’m giving him time. Time to contact those behind the scenes in Sanchez City,"

Zero rarely offered such explanations.

Wen Hao knew that battles should be fought quickly, to prevent the enemy’s reinforcements from providing support in time.

Zero was actually deliberately giving his opponent time?

He pondered for a moment and said,

"You want to resolve the farm as well? You’re crazy... Even with your great strength, you can’t deal with the monsters in there."

Wen Hao had also learned some about the Well Levels and the farm from other sources.

Indeed, Zero had defeated Well Level beings before, more than once.

But one and five were entirely different matters.

Zero said,

"Think about it carefully. Would the reinforcements give up on this city just because they didn’t arrive in time? From the very beginning, we never had the chance to save Sanchez City."

Wen Hao was startled.

Upon careful consideration, he realized this was indeed the case.

Raising humans was clearly a big plan for the farm, one that couldn’t afford to be disrupted.

If necessary, Jing Yi would personally protect this place.

"He is indeed seeking help, which means that there is some conduit between the farm and here."

Zero could see every move of Spade K clearly, even from a great distance.

But now, Zero noticed Spade K’s somewhat panicked expression.

"So he sought help?"

"He did seek help, but the farm has not responded."

Zero’s frown deepened.

Wen Hao said,

"Isn’t that a good thing? Perhaps we can’t take down this city, but at least we can take some people away. If that Well Level monster doesn’t appear, we’ll have time to rescue the people here."

Wen Hao wasn’t wrong, Zero brought the Mechanical Bastion, also, to be able to take away some humans.

Taking over Sanchez City was not in his original plan, what he could do was to save as many people as possible while killing as many Evil Fallen as he could.

Now, Spade K’s reaction was strange; it seemed that the pendant for Spirit Possession hadn’t responded.

The one behind the farm hadn’t made contact with Spade K.

Wen Hao watched as Zero pondered, then suddenly understood:

"This place is important, but an important place shouldn’t have its city leader unable to contact the farm."

"That’s right."

When Wen Hao showed some capacity for thought, Zero’s tone was not so detached. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

"If I were a Well Level monster and I went to great lengths to build this city, to farm humans, and now this city is being covertly attacked, wouldn’t I save it?" Wen Hao began to answer his own question:

"I would. But what you’re seeing now is the other side seeking help in vain... which means they can’t provide help, they are being held up by something."

"And this something is more important than Sanchez City."

Zero nodded in agreement with this analysis.

He suddenly had a premonition, the recent significant decrease in the Twisted density was just the calm before the storm.

Jing Yi might be engaged in something far more significant than Sanchez City at the moment.

For humanity, this might not be a good thing.

He also knew somewhat that various humans were fighting against the impending Twisted Master in their own ways.

But the Twisted Master wouldn’t just sit and await his fate.

"Kill him then. He’s of no more value," Zero gestured towards the Kein Building.