"I understand. Do not panic. You must be firm in your confidence of victory, fear no sacrifice, defend your homeland to the death, and never let a trace of corpses seep in! If you hold on for just a little longer, reinforcements will be here soon."
As he spoke, King Pingdeng hung up the phone and shouted at Gu Qi, "There's a problem upstairs. I have to go back. You must guard against the invasion of corpse energy. I will soon ask the immortals to come down and help."
"Gu Qi, immediately declare a state of emergency on Floor Zero, close the reincarnation portal, and order all Dao Masters and Office Directors to go to the front line to supervise the interception of corpse energy. All ghosts on Floor Zero must be deployed and guard the area to the death to prevent even a trace of corpse energy from entering. Do you understand?"
Gu Qi's expression changed upon hearing King Pingdeng's words. He realized that King Pingdeng was about to slip away. As soon as Wang Yao left, Gu Qi's heart began to pound. Although they still had protective shields on them for the time being, without the replenishment of immortals, how long could they last?
He was still hoping that King Pingdeng could come up with a way to persuade Wang Yao to come back, but unexpectedly, King Pingdeng wanted to go back upstairs. Although he didn't know what was said on the phone, he wasn't stupid. This phone wasn't connected to the upstairs, but rather it was a communication phone between the various blockade points.
When King Pingdeng answered the phone, he said there was something going on upstairs. Besides receiving bad news and planning to run away, what else could it be? Fortunately, King Pingdeng was considerate of his subordinates and gave him a chance to slip away.
"Uh...yes..." Gu Qi's mind raced as he answered, but before he knew it, the King of Equality had vanished without a trace.
King Pingdeng never considered begging Wang Yao to come back. He couldn't bear the loss of face. Even if all the ghosts on floor zero were dead, he, a dignified King Yama, would never say a soft word to Wang Yao.
As soon as Wang Yao left, he and Gu Qi both realized the problem with the protective shield. They were considering whether to discuss with the people upstairs and send down another immortal. After all, the point where the corpse energy was leaking upstairs was very small, and it would be a waste to have dozens of immortals staying there.
Although it would be troublesome for the immortal to come downstairs, he was a meticulous ghost and kept calculating the duration of the protective barrier in his mind. He knew there was plenty of room for maneuver, so he acted unhurriedly, planning to first eliminate the high-level corpse puppet in front of him before contacting the person upstairs.
But before he could figure out how to persuade the nine Yama Kings upstairs who wished they could hide inside an immortal's belly, an emergency situation arose where high-level corpse puppets launched a large-scale attack. This was no longer something that one or two immortals could solve by simply coming down.
At the very least, each checkpoint must have a celestial being in charge, so seven checkpoints would require seven celestial beings. Currently, there are only thirty-two celestial beings in the underworld. Zhu Cong and You Junda, two foolish celestial beings, have entered the Underworld Queen's area and never came out again, leaving only 30 celestial beings.
Seven more would have to be taken downstairs? How could that be possible? Even if the other Kings of Hell agreed, King Pingdeng himself wouldn't be willing. After all, his wives, concubines, mistresses, family, estates, villas, jewelry, paintings, pets, and so on were all upstairs. If they were to fall, the losses would be enormous.
Therefore, ensuring the safety of the eighteenth floor is of paramount importance and absolutely cannot be lost. It is the core and most important place in the underworld. It doesn't matter where else is lost, but the eighteenth floor must not be lost.
In this way, the collapse of each checkpoint is inevitable. If even one checkpoint collapses, the zeroth floor will be finished.
Once the ghosts on the floor are infected with the corpse aura, especially if two of them with moderate symptoms cause a ruckus, the entire floor zero will definitely be in chaos. Once the ghosts start causing trouble, they will definitely try to storm the elevator office and the main road, which are places to escape to. At that time, it will be inconvenient for you to leave.
If the protective shield on your body is worn out, there is a high possibility that you will also contract the corpse aura disease.
So King Pingdeng thought to himself, "I'd better run away as soon as possible." Although the Zero Floor was still quite large and had enough room to maneuver, the Underworld Affairs Area of the West Fifth District was exactly where the Zero Floor's elevator office was located. All the ghosts going up and down the floors had to go through here.
In other words, once the Fifth Western District falls—not even the entire Fifth Western District, but just the Underworld Affairs Section of the Fifth Western District—falls, King Pingdeng will have no way out.
Although the collapse of Floor Zero is an unparalleled calamity for the Six Realms, since the cycle of reincarnation will cease and beings in the other five realms will only die, not be reborn.
Moreover, the ghosts of the dead would linger in their respective realms, causing all sorts of terrible aftereffects. But even if all living beings in the six realms were to perish, it wouldn't be as terrible as King Pingdeng's own death.
Furthermore, the corpse energy will eventually be cleared away. As the saying goes, "Where there's life, there's hope." When that time comes, we can rebuild Floor Zero and resume the cycle of reincarnation. If I were to get trapped here in order to protect Floor Zero, wouldn't I be a complete idiot?
Then, dragging along a half-corpse-qi, half-yin-qi fragmented ghost body, watching other Yama kings swagger around, pointing out the world and building the Zero Floor, even after you've been reduced to ashes, it'll be questionable whether there will still be any ghosts left to remember you. Isn't that a terrible injustice?
Being a martyr is never something a leader should do. Leaders are supposed to do the glorious work of remembering the martyrs and carrying on their legacy. King Pingdeng never misunderstood his position. He called out to Guqi and then flashed off to the elevator office to take the ghost-catching machine upstairs.
Wang Yao hadn't actually gone very far. He walked a few hundred meters down the corridor, passed a fork in the road, turned into it, and walked a long way before seeing another fork in the corridor. He didn't go any further, just lingered at the fork.
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