Reborn As a Snake, I Can Absorb Fear

Chapter 157 Brother ZhijiaSu Ling’s current domain can cover a radius of one hundred kilometers, enveloping the entire former site of Los Angeles.

Countless wandering souls, as if returning to their mother’s embrace, transformed into pure energy and merged into the Houtu Domain.

Within the domain, ghosts like Su Yue and the others also received significant enhancements.

Su Yue, who only had half a body, floated out automatically; she was now able to manifest in the real world.

”Su Ling, how many departed souls did you absorb? It has been a long time since I felt this full.”

Su Ling did not answer; her eyes were tightly closed.

Because these departed souls had been dead for too long, they were not complete, leaving only resentment behind.

Su Ling was trying her best to comfort them, allowing these resentful souls to rest in peace.

Her Houtu Domain was, in fact, a resting place for departed souls.

Su Ling did not know why she had awakened such an ability, like a collector of corpses.

After a long while, all the departed souls in the entire city were at rest, but one soul in the domain had not dissipated.

He was carrying a camera and was covered in blood.

His name was Jiteng Sanlang, and he had accidentally fallen to his death while filming scenes of the city ruins.

Before dying, he felt intense unwillingness; as a photographer, he had actually managed to fall to his own death. He still had a mission unfulfilled; he still had to film.

However, he did not know what he wanted to film; his only remaining obsession was to film.

He was now a ghost newly acquired by Su Ling, a Photography Ghost.

Su Ling was not at all surprised by these strange ghosts; in her domain, there were plenty of messy ghosts like the Cruise Ship Ghost and the Photography Ghost.

But the only ones who could truly remember their past lives were Su Yue, Auntie Zhang, Uncle Zhao, and the rest of the Su Family.

After absorbing the departed souls and resentful spirits of Los Angeles, Su Ling’s strength increased significantly once again.

Stepping on snake skin, she walked through the air and headed rapidly towards the east.

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Chicago, USA.

This is the third-largest city in the USA and also the central economic lifeline of the USA.

To its north lies Lake Michigan, the largest lake in the USA, and to its south lies an endless plain.

At this moment, the city was exceptionally noisy.

Because a large number of refugees had flooded in today, all fleeing from the west.

Those refugees naturally assumed that a city as large as Chicago would have strong defensive forces and relatively higher safety.

Yet they had not considered that a city as large as Los Angeles had still been destroyed by the Big White Snake.

It can only be said that the thinking patterns of ordinary people are easily swayed by the external environment and past perceptions; they believed that the country would definitely prioritize large cities and that the resource security in large cities would be better.

Therefore, millions of people had flooded into Chicago, far exceeding the city’s carrying capacity.

Furthermore, people were continuously arriving in Chicago, and violent incidents within the city were rising sharply.

The phones at the police station and city hall were ringing off the hook, but unfortunately, no one had the time to answer them.

Inside the mayor’s residence.

Mayor Miller paced anxiously back and forth; he had already ordered the city entrances to be blocked.

But this could not solve the problem at all; the nearly ten million people in the city could trigger a major riot at any moment.

Even more terrifying was the fact that the Big White Snake was approaching Chicago and had already destroyed several cities along the way.

”Director Obama, please hurry and think of a solution! Otherwise, Chicago is finished.” Miller complained to Obama, who was sitting at the head of the table and still had the heart to drink coffee.

”Mayor Miller, being anxious now is useless. Can anxiety stop the Big White Snake from coming? The only thing we can do is wait, wait for an opportunity to negotiate with the Big White Snake.”

Obama had only arrived in Chicago recently, and he had originally intended to have time to properly plan a contact with the Big White Snake.

But the Big White Snake’s speed was too fast, moving east almost without stopping.

No, that’s not right; it had turned north once in the middle.

After that, it headed straight east, having already destroyed six cities in a row, and was now immediately bearing down on Chicago.

Obama knew he could not retreat; if he retreated, the USA would be finished.

Therefore, he intended to speak with the Big White Snake in person here; if he succeeded, he would be a hero, and if he failed, he would die.

”But Director Obama, what is the point of us just waiting here?”

”Who said we are just waiting? Pass down the order: have all the citizens in the city go outside the city to welcome the Big White Snake.” Obama said, shocking everyone.

”What?” Miller doubted he had heard correctly.

”I said, have everyone in the city go outside the city to welcome the Big White Snake, including you and me.” Obama’s tone was serious as he emphasized it again.

”Are you crazy?” Miller asked in disbelief.

”I am not crazy. We must not only go out to welcome it, but we must also kneel to welcome it, just like welcoming our king, and offer our loyalty.”

”You... you want to submit to the Big White Snake? This is treason.” Miller pointed at Obama; he had never imagined that the Director of the Intelligence Agency of the USA would actually want to defect to the Big White Snake.

”Miller, this is not treason, but saving the USA. Do you think we still have the strength to fight the Big White Snake head-on? Are we just going to wait to be slaughtered by the Big White Snake without compromising?” Obama questioned Miller sternly.

”But if we do this, what will our citizens think of us? What will the people of the world think of us?”

”We are about to be wiped out; why do we still care what others think?”

Miller remained silent for a long time. Actively submitting to the Big White Snake—would that really work?

Two hundred kilometers west of Chicago.

Jiang Feng stood on the ruins of the city, taking stock of the harvest from this city.

Ten million fear points!

That’s right, only a pitiful ten million.

Even though Jiang Feng had killed tens of thousands of people.

Because most of the people who were afraid had run away, and those who remained were not afraid of death.

Some were there for national glory, some were there to protect their homes, and some were there for their loved ones.

Love can make people timid, but it can also make people brave.

Although he was mentally prepared, Jiang Feng still found it somewhat difficult to accept.

Accustomed to fear points in the hundreds of millions, it had suddenly shrunk by ten or a hundred times.

It was just like a monthly salary of ten thousand suddenly becoming a few hundred.

Is slaughter really not the correct way to obtain fear points?

Jiang Feng asked the system, but the system did not know either.

He now realized that this fear points system had quite a few limitations.

Because he could only obtain fear points from people who were directly afraid because of his actions; indirect fear did not count.

For example, at the beginning, he wanted to let Perit destroy the city, but he did not receive any of the fear points generated by the people Perit killed.

Therefore, in the end, he still had to do it himself.

But fortunately, the thing he had worried about—being targeted—did not happen; no strange dark clouds came to strike him.

Perit was also left behind by Jiang Feng because he ran too slowly.

From the time he subdued Perit until now, he had destroyed six cities in a row.

The six cities had only provided him with about one hundred million fear points in total.

The increased difficulty in obtaining fear points made Jiang Feng not dare to squander them casually; he did not use this one hundred million for the time being.

Jiang Feng’s gaze continued to look towards the east.

He saw a large city two hundred kilometers away, where the high-rise buildings were far denser than in the six cities he had previously destroyed.

It seemed he had arrived at this large city in the USA.