Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1200: Chapter 693: One Last Battle (Part 4)

The Rat King roared angrily, trying to claw that forbidden object out from its flesh, but it couldn’t reach it at all.

In the next moment, countless rats, under the Rat King’s command, climbed onto its back, gnawing through its dorsal skin. The Rat King was controlling its subjects to help find that bizarre object.

However, even if the rats found it and its tendrils, they couldn’t harm it in the slightest!

Taboo objects cannot be destroyed, cannot be damaged!

As time passed, the Rat King’s eyes went from gray to black, changing back and forth, until it finally fell powerlessly in the sewer.

The black pupil was finally overtaken by gray.

In another subterranean location, Jindai Chika, with a piece of blood-red wood in his hands and eyes tightly shut, suddenly stood up and laughed, ”It’s done!”

In this safehouse, twelve security personnel lay in wait, their eyes lighting up as soon as they heard this, ”Congratulations, Ancestor!”

Jindai Chika laughed, ”Finally waited for this moment... Wait, something’s not right.”

The security personnel exchanged confused looks.

What’s wrong?

Jindai Chika’s expression turned grim, ”Why are there only one-quarter of the rats left? It’s bad. Uncle Li Dong passed! When did the Knights gain such terrifying area damage abilities?”

This taboo object, ACE-022 the Queen Ant, allows Jindai Chika to control the Rat King, search its memory, and, like the Rat King, see the sights from the rat swarm’s perspective.

Jindai Chika’s hand trembled a little when he saw Uncle Li Dong spit out that cloud gas in the Rat King’s memory.

A Knight, an existence at the peak of individual strength, possessing such a terrifying area damage ability? Is there any reason left in this world?!

According to his plan, if the various consortiums dropped missiles in the city, he would leave the safehouse to seek opportunities in other cities. If no missiles were dropped, he would sacrifice half of the rat swarm to break into the lower Third District, using it as a granary for rapidly breeding new rat swarms.

In just three days, he could take the rat swarm north, by which time the Li Family and Qing’s Family would perish, and many neutrals within the Jindai Consortium would turn back to him.

But now, something unexpected happened. The lower Third District’s defenses mounted a tenacious resistance, killing a batch of his rat swarm, and Uncle Li Dong appeared, killing yet another batch. The remaining rat forces now couldn’t possibly breach the lower Third District!

”Abandon the lower Third District!” Jindai Chika coldly ordered, ”The rat swarm must withdraw as soon as possible. As long as they reach the wilderness, there’s still a chance for a comeback.”

Although the wilderness didn’t have as much food as the lower Third District, it was the rat swarm’s only path to survival.

Once the rat swarm reached the wilderness and swept through the beasts and animals, in no more than three months, he could once again possess a vast rat swarm.

No longer able to go north, Jindai Chika had to preserve his strength.

In the next moment, the Rat King in the sewer got up and began crawling slowly towards the sewer exit.

In the defenses of the lower Third District, Xiao San had just returned to the defensive line when he saw the rat swarm retreating like a receding tide.

They’re fleeing!

The rat swarm scattered and dashed towards four gates of the barriers, aiming to escape the city and regroup in the wilderness.

Xiao San watched the retreating rat swarm, bewildered.

They won?

They won!

”Not right,” Qing Shuli suddenly said, ”The rat swarm wants to run; we can’t just let them go. We must kill them all in one fell swoop, or they will return one day!”

Xiao San snapped back to reality, jumping onto the sandbags of the defense line and shouting in a hoarse voice, ”Pass the order, everyone, according to formation, follow us to scour the city and don’t let the rats escape!”

As he spoke, all the refugees, following their families, rushed out of the defense line like a flood.

Without waiting for the Federal Group’s army support, City No. 10 still achieved victory.

The consortiums had been waiting for the lower Third District defenses to collapse before dropping bombs.

Jindai Chika thought the rat swarm was enough to wipe out a city.

History always belongs to the people, but some always forget this fact.

Gao Wen, a reporter from Hope Media, watched the scene with excitement, raising his camera and continually capturing the scenes before him.

A dust-covered little girl sat amidst the ruins, an aunt with a chipped kitchen knife rushed through the streets, a man carrying stools ran amidst the crowd, and the Parents’ Meeting wrapped scarves cut from clothes as they rushed at the forefront.

Dawn broke, and the snow stopped.

The golden light of the sunrise enveloped the whole city.

All buildings turned golden, and sunlight poured over the refugees, warming them.

Gao Wen suddenly wiped the corner of his eye; at that moment, he felt a vitality he had never seen before surge through City No. 10, complementing the rising sun.

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The rat swarm continued to flee, heedlessly executing Jindai Chika’s escape plan.

In the elevator shaft of the Fourth District, a white lantern flew up into the sky, resembling a signal beacon.

Shikigami, ATS-271, Unfaltering!

At the entry and exit gate of City No. 10, an Onmyoji dressed in a black combat uniform held binoculars, coldly observing Unfaltering in the sky, knowing it was a signal from his ancestor to open the gate.

This city defense system — physically isolated and with independent backup power — could only be controlled internally by humans, impossible to control from the outside, so this Onmyoji had been waiting here for his ancestor’s command.

Now, the order had come.

The Onmyoji turned and walked towards the control room...

As he stepped into the control room, he suddenly sensed something unusual behind him.

No time to think further, the Shikigami of his Divine Destiny Bridge surged forth, rushing at the unexpected intruder behind him.

The space began to tremble; the Onmyoji felt his internal organs ache unbearably, vibrating as if resonating with the space.

He saw a hand emerge from the Door of Shadow, gripping his neck tightly.

Qing Ji, expressionless, walked out from the Door of Shadow, clasping his neck, tossing the Onmyoji’s body aside like a plaything, sweeping away the Shikigami that besieged him.

Afterward, he calmly lifted the Onmyoji and smashed him repeatedly against the alloy gate until every bone in the Onmyoji’s body shattered!

Blood streamed from seven orifices!

”Boring,” Qing Ji tossed the Onmyoji aside like a discarded rag doll.

At this moment, Qing Ji remembered a friend who once loved saying ”interesting,” while he preferred saying ”boring”...

He shook his head, directly walked into the control room, unplugged the Onmyoji’s device, and replaced it with his own.

In an instant, the city’s metal storm ceased, and a second later, the metal storm reactivated completely!

At this moment, the bioprofile targeted by the metal storm was no longer humans, but rats.

Qing Ji looked serene, walked out of the control room, placed his hands in his sleeves, standing in the once-bustling entry and exit passage, observing the human remains killed by the metal storm in the distance.

No one knows how many people this metal storm, meant to protect humans, killed over seven days.

Qing Ji watched this scene, thinking he really shouldn’t ponder such questions.

Just being a sword is enough, not a sword that thinks.

Otherwise, it would cloud his heart of the way.

The strife and commotion of this world... really boring.

In the underground safehouse of the Fourth District, Jindai Chika said solemnly, ”We must also withdraw.”

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