Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Bai Jin extended her finger, a small flame dancing at her fingertip.

With a gentle flick, the small flame at Bai Jin’s fingertip emitted a dazzling light, passing through several people’s bodies in a row, gradually disappearing along the bustling street.

These NPCs can’t be attacked for the time being.

Lotcar made a sound: ”Can’t attack them? Is this level similar to the previous one, requiring us to play a specific role to pass?”

Yang Yu pinched his chin and replied: ”I don’t know for now.

Do not disperse randomly.

It’s okay to go slow, let’s see if there are any hints for passing this level.”

Everyone nodded and boarded Lotcar, running through the bustling streets.

As they approached the city center, a giant screen suddenly lit up, showing a female host with a smartphone head reporting next to a gray sphere:

”...If any enthusiastic citizen can find the above personnel and submit them to us, they will get the opportunity to approach the mysterious sphere for free.

The next broadcast time is in an hour, please watch the other programs on this station carefully, maybe you can grasp some clues.”

After the voice was broadcast, the giant screen switched to other images.

Without a doubt, the condition to pass this level is to find the ”above personnel” mentioned by the female host.

And to find those personnel, various intelligence must be collected, analyzed, and organized into useful information.

Yang Yu took out paper and pen, distributed them to others, and sat by the street, letting them record what impressed them.

The screen began rolling various images, presenting vividly before them some things Yang Yu had seen in history textbooks.

After steam came electricity, the first screen switched to talking about the invention and development of the telephone, from old-fashioned phones to fully functional smartphones, and also explained the principle of radio.

Then, using radio as a backdrop, it talked about some uses of radio in war, and the development of various weapons.

Humans constantly develop all kinds of advanced weapons to more efficiently annihilate each other, eventually developing atom bombs, such an efficient destructive weapon.

A small atom bomb can easily destroy a city, raising a mushroom cloud that symbolizes death.

Bai Jin and the others saw such scenes for the first time, and fell into deep shock.

Legend has it that some magic harnessing the world’s power can effortlessly wipe out a city or a nation, but Bai Jin had only heard about it.

Those magics capable of harnessing the world’s power had long disappeared over the years.

Now, Bai Jin saw the most brutal scene, which was just accompanying the pouring fire rain that Yang Yu triggered. Yet, the mushroom cloud rising in the image was dozens to hundreds of times more brutal than what they did. Bai Jin and others looked somewhat pale.

Yang Yu, however, felt better, at least he knew why the other side got bombed.

If possible, Yang Yu hoped that such weapons would never be used.

Unfortunately, if one side possesses powerful weapons, the other must quickly catch up, or they will always be restrained by that side’s powerful weapons, subject to oppression and exploitation.

Not having a sword and not using one are completely different matters.

When the first immobile creature moved among a group of immobile creatures, the immobile creatures also chose to move to avoid being eaten by the moving one, prompting the Cretaceous explosion of life.

The arms race among creatures inevitably began.

No one can be sure that the person holding powerful strength won’t suddenly aim their weapons at themselves one day.

The good outcome is that the history Yang Yu saw on screen continued as he knew, these terrifying weapons were banned, and the world ushered in peace.

However, saying it this way seems somewhat inaccurate.

The world wasn’t entirely peaceful either; long-lasting wars still erupted in many regions, leaving people homeless and subject to arbitrary slaughter.

It’s hard to imagine that tragedies of ethnic massacres still occur in the modern world with widespread smartphones.

In seemingly peaceful countries, undercurrents are also surging.

The superficial wars have stopped, yet they have changed their ways, appeared in the public view wearing a new guise.

Unemployed people sleeping on the streets, protesters rising one after another, individuals promoting their supremacist ideologies...

Some people vent their emotions excessively towards unknown individuals in masked identities over the internet; some listen to the roaring wind atop high buildings; some hustle in dark corners for profit, even reaching out with dark hands to their compatriots...

The screen played dim and oppressive scenes, contrasting sharply with the bright and colorful streets.

However, the world isn’t entirely dark either.

Even when some realize the world isn’t as beautiful as imagined, they strive to do something for it to the best of their ability.

There are firefighters going against fires; tireless scientists engaged in research; doctors repeatedly assuring patients they are trying their best; and teachers constantly teaching children to believe in a bright future.....

These people, relying on their meager strength, try to make the world a bit better.

The female host with a smartphone head reappeared before Yang Yu and the others:

”Now cutting in with a quick announcement, our station is looking for ten special individuals.

Please be alert, citizens, if you find the special individuals mentioned above, please contact us promptly.

The following are each individual’s traits and general circumstances:

First up is the first one...”

A human head appeared on screen without any strange object on it.

”Next is the second one...”

The second person’s head appeared on screen, similarly without any strange objects on it, just a human head.

Then the third, the fourth...up to the last one.

All are human heads, without anything strange on top.

Exactly five good people, five bad people.

After introducing the ten people to find, the female host continued speaking:

”We have no more intelligence, please keep your acquired information safe.

If any enthusiastic citizen can find the above personnel and submit them to us, they will get the opportunity to approach the mysterious sphere for free.

The next broadcast time is in an hour, please watch the other programs on this station carefully, maybe you can grasp some clues.”

What the female host said at the end, perfectly connected with what Yang Yu and the others heard the first time.

The screen’s images also began to repeat.