Free Web NovelChapter 182: Chapter 182: The Horn of Counter-Offensive!
Hearing that Jiang Che still chose to answer, even Leng Feng was stunned.
Logically, the organization lost several people, and they died after those people forcefully broke into Jiang Che’s dungeon.
For the greater good, this isn’t an unresolvable blood feud.
Besides, humanity has already set an unspoken gentleman’s agreement: no matter how much scheming goes on inside a dungeon, settling scores after coming out is not allowed.
Betrayal and calculation for survival in the dungeons have become ordinary acts for humans now.
Sometimes, during livestreams, you might even see someone selling out everyone around them just to survive.
But once they leave the dungeon, they go out of their way to learn about the family of the deceased, and do everything they can to support those families’ lives.
It all looks horribly contradictory, yet this kind of thing happens frequently in today’s world.
As for Dragon Cloud Tower, they have their own rules—if outsiders backstab them, so be it, but they never allow their own people to betray each other.
They put great emphasis on loyalty and righteousness, but, of course, only towards their own.
And when it comes to these two words, they’re almost brainwashed to a crazy degree.
What they probably can’t stand most right now is their own people dying in a human’s dungeon.
Fei Hu also couldn’t quite figure out Jiang Che; she felt his thought process was simply beyond what normal people could measure.
Logically, after the Dragon Cloud Tower lord threatened him, Jiang Che should’ve put on airs and played hard to get.
Right now, only Jiang Che knows the answers they seek.
If Jiang Che refuses to speak, humanity’s side will definitely lower their own stance in the end, maybe even force the lord of Dragon Cloud Tower to apologize to Jiang Che, no matter how unwilling he is.
Jiang Che only needs to stall for a bit.
Fei Hu sighed; she figured Jiang Che simply didn’t understand the tricks and politics among people here.
In the small room, she shot a glare at Xiong Jie sitting across from her. This old man used to be a shrewd CEO, yet somehow he’s not teaching even these basics now.
She didn’t mean Jiang Che shouldn’t tell humanity these answers, just that he should act more aloof, so they’d have to come beg him.
In her eyes, Jiang Che never found warmth among the humans, and it wouldn’t even be wrong if his experiences in the psychiatric hospital made him hate humanity.
Now, Jiang Che has the power to create dungeons, and on the evil spirit side, a wife who is truly devoted to him. In this struggle between humans and evil spirits, no matter which side wins, he’s set either way.
No one other than insiders knows the real relationship between Jiang Che and the evil spirits. She didn’t think this was good for humanity to find out, either.
If they did, they’d just be pushing Jiang Che to the spirits’ side.
Xiong Jie saw her glare and sighed helplessly.
Does she think I don’t get that?
But he hasn’t known Jiang Che for long—there’s not much he can teach him anyway.
Decades of life experience—how could you pass that on in a few words?
Seeing Fei Hu give him the look, Xiong Jie quickly opened his mouth.
"All this isn’t as important as before. We can hold off for now; the intel we’ve already shared is plenty for everyone to digest."
"This stuff is too complicated—after everyone finishes creating dungeons, we can tell those who’ve created theirs." Xiong Jie stepped toward the camera, and refused to answer on Jiang Che’s behalf.
Jiang Che just waved his hand at Xiong Jie.
"If a lord dies but their dungeon hasn’t been passed on yet, every creature within that dungeon has the right to fight for the position."
"As for your other questions, here’s my only answer: Yes. Be it spirits or humans, anyone can seize a dungeon. Likewise, humans can take over dungeons of evil spirits."
As soon as Jiang Che finished, Long Yun’s pupils shrank while watching the livestream.
He’d just wanted to disgust Jiang Che a bit—who told him to kill their people?
He never expected Jiang Che to answer, let alone drop such a critical truth.
If you kill the lord, you really can seize ownership of their dungeon?
Leng Feng sucked in a sharp breath. He’d always been thinking how to break free of Dark Star’s control, how to steal power from Dark Star—and now Jiang Che pointed him a way.
He could feel it—Dark Star’s strength was rapidly fading.
The first time he met him, the terror radiated from the bottom of his soul, but as he grew, he felt Dark Star’s aura weakening.
The kind of aura unique to the strong was fading too.
Maybe it’s because I threw a bunch of people into his dungeon, siphoning off a lot of Dark Star’s strength.
But Dark Star never refused, because the moment he needed power, he could always take back what I’d once obtained from him.
At this moment, the livestream’s chat was mixed with hope and worry,
[Finally, a glimmer of hope to resist.]
[Killing humans is one thing, but is the Evil Spirit Lord really so easy to take out?]
[Leng Feng is humanity’s strongest, but he’s just rank fifteen. Evil Spirit Lords at SSS level are rank sixteen. They have home field advantage. How can we possibly pull off a one-rank cross in their turf?]
[Hope, even a little, is better than none at all.]
[Right now, all hope is pinned on Leng Feng—who knows when he’ll break through to rank sixteen.]
[It’s tough—the higher you go, the harder it gets. I admit, he’s strong, but if he could have broken through, he’d have done so already.]
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Watching everyone’s chatter, Leng Feng couldn’t help but give a bitter smile.
The hope of humanity is me?
He turned on his phone’s selfie camera and stared at the Dark Star mark creeping up his neck.
A slave of an Evil Spirit Lord—can someone like that really be the hope of humanity?
Leng Feng’s subordinates lowered their heads; they too bore the Dark Star’s mark.
The tattoos spread all over their bodies—they never revealed anything below the neck in public.
"Boss Leng, you’re the hope of humanity." The masked subordinate beside Leng Feng spoke in a deep voice.
"They don’t know what you’ve sacrificed, but we do."
"In the future’s records of victory, your name will be the very first written!"
Leng Feng opened his mouth, but in the end, all that came out was a heavy, "Humanity will prevail!"
"If we win in the end, just leave my name off the list."
"Ever enslaved by evil spirits—doesn’t sound too glorious. Let victory be recorded in a brighter light."
Fantasizing about the future victory, Leng Feng couldn’t help the sliver of a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Although I don’t know why the Evil Spirit Lord behind Jiang Che would let him tell us something so important."
"I have to admit, this info is really crucial."
