Chapter 73 Fungal Remains Frenzy 34 "You are the fifth person to receive a gold name!"...
Wei Chongru raised a hand: "South, South..."
This word was extremely sensitive. The other three immediately looked up in unison, and when they saw Nanmen Jue's figure, the same surprise was shown on everyone's faces. But then they also noticed the direction Nanmen Jue was looking.
"What is that?" Ji Chengying, the only one whose physical stats hadn't been improved, asked blankly. "Isn't it a dark cloud?"
Deng Erhuai suddenly realized what was happening and loudly warned his troops, "Beware of enemy attack—"
They were at the very back of the group, surrounded by soldiers responsible for protection and guard. Her shout made everyone who had just experienced the crisis of the Mother Tree panic and immediately became alert.
"Where is the enemy attacking?"
"What happened?!"
Deng Erhuai pointed to the sky, “Up there!”
Nanmen Jue naturally heard the commotion below. She glanced down and saw that people had already set up defenses amidst the chaos, then calmly looked away and continued to focus on the visitors from above.
She sensed danger in the sky as soon as she arrived, but before she could warn them, she was surprised by how alert Deng Erhuai and the others were.
Of course, she didn't know that it was because these people had been thinking about her that they were so sensitive to her presence. Deng Erhuai should have been the first to notice, but she had been in a daze these past two days, so Wei Chongru was the one who noticed her first.
The survivors also sensed the ominous aura emanating from the approaching dark clouds. They huddled together in fear, looking up like terrified little animals being herded into a ball.
Some people spotted Nanmen Jue standing on the high ground and exclaimed in surprise, pointing upwards. Hao Hong rushed over from the front and immediately saw Nanmen Jue and several familiar-looking people below.
He looked them up and down and asked, "Can we win this time?"
The group was taken aback. They had witnessed the scene where the furnace factory manager had fallen out with Nanmen Jue. Seeing him ask such a question calmly, as if he were not at all frightened or surprised, they were all confused about what he meant.
“Don’t look at me like that. I admit I’m selfish, but I’m not thinking straight.” Hao Hong sighed, looking up at Nanmen Jue with a complicated expression. “He really is her brother… She’s also ruthless with her words, even cold to the point of hurting people, but their choices have never changed.”
Lu Yunxiao looked at him thoughtfully, then suddenly said, "You did that on purpose?"
The others looked at him in surprise. Everyone had seen what Hao Hong had done and how angry Nanmen Jue was. However, Nanmen Jue cared for these indigenous people unusually and did not want to hurt them even in his anger, which is why the others did not want to do anything to Hao Hong.
But no one liked the old man.
Hao Hong smiled slightly, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepening, a mixture of sorrow, relief, and, more than anything, melancholy.
“It might not be my true feeling… People are selfish. I really pray that the child can be like his sister, using some extraordinary methods to perform miracles and save us ordinary people from suffering. But he is also a mortal.” Hao Hong said in a low voice, “Since he can’t do it, he should leave sooner rather than later. Don’t be born with eyes that can’t bear to see the suffering of the world and waste your life.”
These words truly took everyone by surprise. As they stared at the old man they had once regarded as a program, an NPC who drove the plot forward, the shock reverberated in their chests like never before.
“But he still came back.” Ji Chengying’s voice trembled slightly. The girl’s eyes were very bright. She looked up at the lone figure with his hair flying in the wind, as if she could see the back of the figure that resolutely turned around and rushed back to the church.
Ji Chengying's eyes welled up with tears as she repeatedly turned back for the sake of the lives that these reincarnators considered insignificant and uncertain.
“Brother Nanmen has his own principles and his own code of ethics. He never cares what others say or do. He only does what he thinks is right. So no matter how ugly things get between you and him, as long as he knows there is danger here, he will never abandon you.”
"Yes." A tear was faintly visible in Hao Hong's eyes. "I really didn't expect him to come back at a time like this."
He only focused on Nanmen Jue, not even paying much attention to the densely packed dark clouds. In the course of their conversation, the clouds had become visible to the naked eye; they were a dense swarm of birds, led by a giant eagle.
Hao Hong couldn't see it, but the reincarnators who had enhanced their physical data could see that there were two people sitting on the giant eagle!
Cheng Xiuye made a grand entrance, setting the bar for style and making a silent declaration. He was announcing to the world that he was here to kill the people Nanmen Jue had risked his life to protect!
As for the other one...
Nanmen Jue's eyes turned cold. He wasn't particularly surprised that Yu Wanyan and Cheng Xiuye had joined forces. After all, they were both from Ouroboros and now had a common enemy. It would be crazy for them not to team up.
Two orange-named attackers joined the attack.
The first wave of attacks arrived, with countless birds flying like bullets, suicidally plunging into the crowd. Gunshots rang out, blood splattered, and a white scalpel flew across, leaving almost a vacuum in its wake.
Amidst the fluttering birds, feathers, and blood, Nanmen Jue leaped into the air, her movements light and graceful. As she landed, the white bone knife traced a cold arc back into her hand, startling a flock of birds around her into flight.
Nanmen Jue looked at the several reincarnators and Hao Hong incredulously, "Seriously? Do they really disregard life and death like that?"
She noticed this from the moment they started talking!
She was a bit far away and couldn't hear what they were talking about, but she could tell they were looking at her.
What do you mean? You're talking badly about her behind her back?
Seeing that the flock of birds had arrived and they were still chatting, Nanmen Jue couldn't stand it anymore. She had originally planned to confront the two orange-named players from up there, but later decided to come down and remind them.
Seeing Nanmen Jue descend before them like a god, the group and Hao Hong were not surprised at all; instead, they exchanged smiles.
Nanmen Jue was even more puzzled.
She raised her hand and fired a few shots, clearing out the few remaining birds around her. Then she turned to look at the group and gave a sudden smile.
"Whether you want to curse me or kill me, you first need to have a life, right? What do you guys mean by this? Have you seen through the illusions of the world and are ready to face death with equanimity?"
Familiar faces, familiar smells—everyone beamed with joy.
"Brother Nanmen!"
"Brother Nanmen!"
"Welcome back, South Gate."
Their joy was undisguised, carrying an excitement that Nanmen Jue couldn't comprehend. She paused, realizing she had probably misunderstood something.
But faced with this unreserved trust and joy, the smile on her lips subsided somewhat.
"...Take care of what's in front of us first, then we'll talk about the rest." She stared at the approaching eagle, her expression sharp. "Listen, their target is me. I'll hold them off. You should be able to handle the rest of the birds. There's not enough time; they won't have time to find a higher-level parasite. Deng Erhuai, Wei Chongru, you two work together to deal with that eagle. Be careful, anything that can be controlled by Yu Wanyan, no matter what level it was before, you must now use all your strength to fight it, or you will all die."
Sensing the chilling tone in her words, everyone's expression turned serious.
"I understand," Deng Erhuai and Wei Chongru said in unison.
Deng Erhuai hesitated for a moment, then said tentatively, "Yu Wanyan might also be an orange name. If there are two orange names..."
All the worried looks fell on Nanmen Jue, but Nanmen Jue's expression didn't change. He simply said, "Just do your own thing and don't worry about anything else."
A simple sentence provides an unparalleled sense of security.
In the tense final moments, Nanmenjue quickly turned his head to glance at Hao Hong.
If anyone remembers that unpleasant parting the most, it's undoubtedly her, the person involved. Even if Hao Hong isn't as madly sarcastic as he was that day, she doesn't know what else to say.
Hao Hong spoke first: "Fight with peace of mind. I'll take care of things here. I'll do everything in my power to protect the others."
Nanmen Jue paused for a moment, then nodded as she looked at the glistening tears in the old man's eyes.
"They're here."
The giant eagle glided down, heading straight for Nanmenjue, but they didn't mind taking a few more lives along the way. Amid the gasps of the crowd, they passed through a hail of bullets, and only when they got closer did they realize that its wingspan was more than ten meters.
The bullet struck its body with a metallic clang, and the ejected cartridge case even injured a person.
Before any casualties occurred, Nanmen Jue took a step forward, pulled back, bent her body backward, and threw the bone knife in her hand with all her might, like throwing a long spear. Wei Chongru, who was closest to her, even heard the sound of the air being cut, like a supersonic bullet, flying straight towards the oncoming giant eagle.
Previously, Nanmen Jue and Yu Wanyan's puppets clashed. At that time, the bone blade failed to break through the puppet's ultra-dense metal defense, but she realized then that it was just a matter of strength. So this time, she added distance and body rotation, injecting more kinetic energy into the bone blade. It rushed towards the giant eagle with the force of breaking through the air, piercing through its raised neck and exiting from under its wings.
A small bone knife, combined with enormous kinetic energy, ripped a huge, explosive hole in the giant eagle's body.
This directly damaged the giant eagle's key movement mechanism. The giant eagle's body suddenly stiffened, and like a broken giant machine, it flipped over and fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Amidst the swirling dust, a figure suddenly appeared, the bone knife returning to its hand, and thrust towards the tumbling figure!
Cheng Xiuye's pupils contracted. He hadn't expected to face Nanmen Jue so soon. He thought that with the advantage of being in the air, he could make more moves.
But Nanmen Jue moved like a ghost, his strikingly beautiful yet cold face right in front of him. As he awkwardly rolled away to dodge the vicious blow, he shouted in a shrill voice, "What are you waiting for!"
A figure, as light as a feather, landed silently behind Nanmen Jue, delivering a vicious kick aimed directly at his groin.
Even though Nanmen Jue wasn't a real man, that kick sent a chill down her spine. She twisted her waist, contorting herself into a bizarre angle, and then reached back to grab Yu Wanyan's throat with deadly accuracy amidst the chaos. With a slight smile in Yu Wanyan's incredulous, wide-eyed eyes, she threw the knife in her hand again in a flash, this time in the motion of throwing a dart.
The dart pierced Cheng Xiuye's shoulder, and the immense force sent him flying, crashing into an abandoned building behind him.
In a single exchange, both orange-named players were defeated by Nanmen Jue; one was held in her hand, and the other was pinned to the ground.
Yu Wanyan desperately tried to pry open Nanmen Jue's arm, and seeing this, her eyes finally showed fear. She squeezed out a voice: "You, who exactly are you..."
Nanmen Jue smiled gently. "As a puppeteer, don't you even have this much experience? When you don't have a puppet, it's best to stay far away from the enemy. It's better to let the enemy go than to expose your true form to them."
"You are... Jin Ming! You are definitely Jin Ming!"
Yu Wanyan's voice rang out on the battlefield, filled with madness and excitement. She was forced to raise her neck, exposing her most vulnerable part to Nanmen Jue's control, but even her previous physical fear disappeared, and she laughed tremblingly.
"You're the fifth person to win a gold medal... Pfft!"
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