Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 143: Chapter 65: If Not Me, Then Who?_2

Many of the bizarre incidents all stemmed from the Ember Church.

Like the human trafficking gang Li Yelai encountered before, they attempted to resurrect a long-dead baby through the evil ceremony provided by the Ember Church. The result was the hatching of a Void Realm Creature...

The Ember Church has done countless evil deeds!

So, Li Yelai could understand the mission now.

If they could completely erase the power of the Ember Church in No.3 Border City in one fell swoop, the safety of the people’s lives would be guaranteed.

Afterward, Cheese continued to warn, ”You need to be careful on this operation, I won’t be by your side to assist. You have to coordinate carefully with your teammates and not act rashly! They might not be able to keep up with your pace.”

”Okay, I know, and you be careful too!” Li Yelai replied.

A few minutes later, Li Yelai received the branch’s instructions.

To go to the underground garage, meet up with the assigned teammates, and rush to the mission location.

Therefore, when Li Yelai arrived at the underground garage, he saw three Processors and seven combat personnel standing next to three armored vehicles.

Two of them were acquaintances among the Processors.

One was Team Leader Benlei, whom he had cooperated with before. He must be the commander of this group.

Another was the Heavy Knight with whom he had just been chatting.

Well, she was right; he was indeed in a group with her.

The last one was a somewhat unfamiliar female Processor, codenamed Fu Hu, carrying a treasure sword.

Li Yelai, holding the Big Black Umbrella, quickly approached and said, ”A Night General from Team One, reporting for duty!”

”Good, get on the vehicle!” Benlei nodded with a faint red glow in his eyes and had everyone board the armored vehicle.

The armored vehicle quickly left the underground garage and drove rapidly towards the northeastern direction of Giant City.

On board, Benlei began to brief the mission.

”Several years ago, one of our Dark Piles successfully infiltrated the Ember Church.”

’Dark Pile?’ Li Yelai was surprised inwardly.

Becoming a Dark Pile was naturally a very dangerous action.

Although Li Yelai himself was an official Dark Pile planted inside the ark.

But that was only for a few hours on the fifteenth day of every month when he entered the ark.

The most dangerous time was during those few hours, usually, there was no need to worry about the danger of identity exposure or being attacked.

It is the special mechanism of the ark. Most members of the ark do not recognize each other, thus greatly reducing the risk of exposure.

But becoming a Dark Pile and infiltrating the Ember Church, which is a cult, was very dangerous.

Once discovered, with the methods of the Ember Church, the consequences would be unthinkable!

”He spent three years, going from an ordinary believer to the middle management. And finally, made it into a branch of the Ember Church!”

”A branch? Not a stronghold?” asked the female Processor codenamed Fu Hu, frowning.

”The so-called strongholds are just gathering places for the followers,” Benlei sneered, ”The Ember Church has been developing silently in Giant City and has gained the covert support of some people.

These people are not Spiritual Ability Users, yet they long to become so, to shed their so-called mortal identities. As such, they have become the most loyal vassals of the Ember Church, covering for those believers who have become Spiritual Ability Users.

But within the Ember Church, as long as one is not a Spiritual Ability User, they are less than dogs; those believers will randomly kill those non-spiritual believers. Yet, these have to strive to hide for them, not being discovered by the authorities of Giant City.”

Desire to become Spiritual Ability Users?

The Processors shook their heads one after another.

Those people, they probably don’t know.

What exactly would a Spiritual Ability User face upon gaining their powers?

”That Dark Pile, through official covert assistance and the resources of the Ember Church, succeeded in ascending to a Third Awakening Spirit User. He leaped into the role of Middle Management, and thus entered the hidden sub-branch underground!”

”Underground?” Li Yelai was somewhat stunned; it seemed this sub-branch was quite substantial in scale.

How could it hide underground?

Or rather, how did those believers manage to excavate such a vast space underground without being discovered?

Could it be that there were traitors among the upper echelons of the Giant City?

Perceiving Li Yelai’s confusion and shock, Ben Lei explained, ”When the Giant City was initially constructed, the human situation was dire. The leaders of the Giant City back then had prepared for the worst scenario.”

”The worst scenario?” Li Yelai and the others wore puzzled expressions. Clearly, neither Heavy Knight nor Fu Hu knew of that history.

”That is, if the high walls were breached and the Calamity invaded the Giant City!

Humans would then have to fight alley battles with the Calamity’s supernatural creatures within the city!

If the alley battles were lost, the humans would have to retreat to shielded areas underground!

At the same time, detonate all nuclear bombs within the Giant City! Destroy all surface facilities!

Humanity would then hold out in the Underground City, which is easy to defend but hard to attack, and battle the Calamity to the last moment!”

Li Yelai was shocked.

It was hard to imagine what kind of dire straits the Giant City’s leaders faced at that time?

This was indeed the worst-case outcome, as well as the most blood-fueled resistance plan!

High walls, alley battles, nuclear explosions, underground defense battles! To fight to the death!

If the Disaster Forbidden Zone wished to consume the Giant City, it would only inherit ruins, at a tremendous cost!

”Later, as you know, the Giant City withstood the pressure of the Disaster Forbidden Zone, and the human situation gradually improved. And the cost of constructing the Underground City was extremely high. The Giant City then ceased the construction of the Underground City,” Ben Lei said: ”The Black Prison of each subdivision is actually the rudimentary form of the once planned Underground City.”

Black Prison? Yes, those huge areas located dozens of meters underground were actually remnants of the rudimentary space of the Underground City.

Li Yelai pondered, ”However, the rudimentary forms of the Underground City that were sealed by the Giant City were partially located by the Ember Church. And they were developed into their sub-branches!”

”Indeed, the human facilities reserved for opposing the Calamity have been tainted by those madmen. It’s a desecration!” Ben Lei said coldly, ”They remodeled the underground space and used some Taboo Items for further excavation. It is said, the deepest point is over a hundred meters underground.”

Ben Lei continued: ”That Dark Pile, under such circumstances, succeeded in infiltrating the Church Branch and started gathering intelligence. As long as we control all the exits, these beasts cannot escape! However... until he uncovered the Evil Ceremony deep within the sub-branch. It seems to be an evil ritual that could use all deceased creatures within a wide area as a sacrifice! To gather intelligence, he risked getting close but was accidentally detected. Hunted down...”

At that moment, Ben Lei’s eyes began to redden, tears uncontrollably sliding down, while the others also showed sorrowful expressions.

Discovered deep underground as a Dark Pile... that fate...

”He managed to escape the Underground City, returning to the surface through an exit, but was cut down at the last step! Cut at the waist! When we found him, the entire factory had already been scorched!” Ben Lei wept copiously, ”Just one more step, just one short step!”

”But... he still successfully sent the intelligence. Before dying, relying on Virtual Realm Beast Language, he controlled a snake to swallow the intelligence and deliver it to me.”

”This is intelligence he sent at the cost of his life! We must not let his sacrifice be in vain!”

”Tonight, we will uproot all of the Ember Church’s strongholds, storm into the Ember Church Branch, and eliminate them all! Leave none behind!”

”Night General!” Ben Lei’s eyes red, he looked at Li Yelai, ”You can resent me! Because, it was I who insisted you join the operation. I wanted to use your ’You Must Meet Strong Enemies’ curse, to precisely eradicate those bastards! It was my decision to involve you in this dangerous mission.”

Li Yelai understood; if he were present, then once these strong enemies entered a certain range, they would be brought to him by fate. This way, it would be safer for the siege.

Immediately, he shook his head in response: ”Even without your request, I would join the operation.”

”Who else but me to lure the monsters!”