"When I joined the Human Plane Army, I was prepared to die fighting those demonic races, all for my daughter..."
Qi Lin's eyes were bloodshot. He gripped a talisman tightly to his chest, his body trembling with rage: "But after I was captured in the other realm, those guys from the International Association of Extraordinary Individuals didn't give my daughter any compensation as promised! My daughter didn't receive a golden dragon or any cultivation resources!"
"Linnai, I've inquired about your background. Your parents were also lost in the interdimensional war against the alien race, right?"
"I've been through similar experiences to you, and you should understand this feeling better than anyone else!"
“Hmm…” Lin Nai paused for a moment and said, “Actually, there is a slight difference. I am a little better off than you. At least my 70-square-meter house was compensation.”
Qi Lin: "......"
Linnaeus: "..."
Qi Lin: "......"
Lin Nai: "There's nothing I can do, I'm from Yan... uh, but I can still understand."
"That's just a drop in the ocean!" Qi Lin said grimly. "You and I both know that in this extraordinary era, can you survive just by having a house? Your daily spiritual energy tax, soul energy tax, communication fees... are those things that ordinary people can afford?!"
"You should still remember the lousy life you led before you awakened and became an apostle of the White Reaper, right?!"
Lin Nai remained silent.
"This is an era that doesn't allow the extraordinary at the bottom to live!" Qi Lin gritted his teeth: "We people can only become cannon fodder in the end! My daughter is just like me, an ordinary person without any talent. She can't get resources and can only go to the city mission hall to take on high-difficulty, high-mortality cannon fodder missions!"
"What angers me even more is that bastard Horner..."
Qi Lin took out the photo that had been slashed to pieces by scissors from his pocket, tears streaming down his red eyes: "He actually called my daughter over and lied to her, saying that if she was willing to stay with him, he would send a high-level superhuman warrior to another dimension to rescue us prisoners!"
Linnaeus: "..."
"You can imagine what the final result was." Qi Lin's face was contorted with rage: "My daughter got nothing in the end. In the end, she was deceived by that scoundrel Horner! Horner even pretended to be kind and arranged a mission for her, saying it was easy, simple, and paid well. In reality, it was just a cannon fodder mission to pave the way for him! My daughter died in that alien realm, without even a body!"
"......"
Linnai was silent for a moment, then asked, "So, how did you eventually return to the human realm?"
Qi Lin gave a pale smile and said, "Back then, although our group of captured human warriors had become slaves, we were still constantly looking for opportunities to escape in the camp."
"Finally, one day, taking advantage of the Nightmare race's laxity, we killed their guards and successfully escaped through the underground mine tunnels."
"More than a hundred of us escaped, but on the way, the Nightmares chased after us, and more than ninety of us died. In the end, only a dozen or so of us managed to escape back to the human realm."
"The first thing we wanted to do after returning to the human plane was to find our families."
"However, by then my daughter was already..."
"Later, when I inquired around, I learned what Horner had done. All my former close colleagues were accomplices! They clearly knew Horner's intentions, but not one of them warned my daughter!"
"Do you know what's most ridiculous?" Qi Lin suddenly burst into sarcastic laughter: "The dozen or so brothers who escaped back had almost the exact same experiences as me!"
Linnaeus: "..."
"So tell me," Qi Lin roared, "You say I betrayed humanity, switched sides to the dark side, and cooperated with the demons, but these humans were the ones who abandoned us first. What makes you say we betrayed them!"
Linnaeus: "..."
"Are we, as humans, destined to be like worker ants in an ant colony, becoming cannon fodder serving the queen?!"
"..." Lin Nai was silent for a while before saying, "Actually, it's not that simple. It's just that this is how your International Association of Extraordinary Individuals operates. There's no need to generalize..."
"Heh, I'm not generalizing." Qi Lin sneered, "Let me tell you, Lin Nai, you only have value to us now. Some of your superiors may genuinely care about you, but there are definitely others who want to possess you and exploit your special status to achieve their selfish goals! You just haven't encountered them yet! There will also be people who greet you with smiles but will stop at nothing to use you behind your back! That's human nature!"
Linna sighed.
"So you went back to the capital, used the identity provided by the gene company to replace the original Night Watchman Jiang Lin, and wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on Horner and the others?"
“That’s right.” Qi Lin said in a deep voice, “Besides me, there are several other Night Watchmen. They all escaped from the demon slave camp with me! We’ve been lying in wait in the capital for revenge!”
"But we all knew we couldn't do it on our own. So we agreed to cooperate with Gene Corporation and the werewolves. Gene Corporation also promised us that they would help us kill that bastard Horner as soon as they found an opportunity!"
After hearing this, Lin Nai slowly shook his head.
What if I told you you'd been scammed?
"What?"
Qi Lin frowned.
“You’ve been fooled.” Linnaeus shook her head. “You really believe that the people from the gene company would help you kill Horner?”
Qi Lin: "...What do you mean?"
Lin Nai said calmly, "To tell you the truth, I just came back from the International Association of Extraordinary Individuals. I happened to run into the people from Gene Company having a pleasant conversation with Horner at the association."
"...This is impossible!" Qi Lin exclaimed angrily.
"Don't worry, you're not the only ones who've been scammed." Lin Nai said calmly, "Besides you, the International Association of Extraordinary Individuals and the Demon-Werewolf Clan have probably all been tricked by the Gene Company."
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