Chapter 26 – Intelligent creatures?

“The previous outposts are the symbols of our loss, we were besieged 21 times, and now it’s the 22nd time.”

The mysterious man spoke calmly as if he were narrating another person’s story.

“This is the last chance, I had no choice but to summon all of you from the real world.”

“And here, this is the last line of defence between phantasy and reality.”

“The moment it falls, phantasy will enter reality, then……”

“Humans will simply be driven into illusions.”

After finishing what he had to say, the mysterious man looked at the group again and asked.

“Will you still run away?”

Silence.

After a while, the skinny old man opened his mouth, “Are you requesting for us to do something? After we arrived, you are the only person we met, are you from the first batch that was summoned? If not……”

“Tch.”

The mysterious man interrupted him, “Except for all of you, no one ran away.”

“Er……”

The old man retreated backwards silently after receiving scorned gazes, his expression was awkward and he chose to keep quiet.

“I am willing.”

Fang Yan spoke and walked towards the screen, with Ji Zhen following quickly behind him.

“Soldiers, we should depart!” After throwing a punch to Lu Hai’s forehead, Xi Qiu strutted towards the screen with his head held high.

“Bastard! I’m going to kill you!” Tears almost flowed from Lu Hai’s eyes, and with a roar, he charged into the screen in anger.

The skinny old man was still hesitating, he turned towards the mysterious man and asked, “Someone like me……”

He wanted to say that he had lived a long life, and with an elderly body, was it even possible for him to enter a battlefield? He was afraid……

The mysterious man looked calmly and the old man, before turning to enter the tent. He said nothing, leaving the old man behind.

The old man trembled with awkwardness for a while, and eventually gritted his teeth before entering the screen.

………

“Why are there only praying mantises? Why are there only praying mantises? Why are there only praying mantises……” Zhang Yang lamented.

Yet another giant praying mantis was defeated by them, they had killed countless amounts of monsters like this that fought mechanically in the same manner.

As these giant praying mantises only had three levels, their experience gain was extremely slow, and all they could do every day was kill praying mantises, and praying mantises, and praying mantises……

He had already gotten tired of it a long time ago!

Could it be, in the future……

Killing praying mantises at level ten……Killing praying mantises at level twenty……level thirty……

Suddenly, a screen as polished as a mirror appeared in front of them, and a creature covered in a human’s black robe walked through it. His face was invisible, covered in a black mist.

“What? A new monster?!”

Zhan Yang was stunned, but his heart was filled with eagerness as he immediately ordered his pet to attack.

After the black-robed person appeared, the screen behind him did not disappear, and yet another black-robed person followed out.

They seemed to be conversing, but Wang Yang could not understand their strange language. Regardlessly, the way the two moved as they communicated had unsettled him.

Seeing a black dog charge towards him, the robed man seemed to be flustered, before quickly calming down. The two of them unsheathed identical iron longswords from their waist.

“Run!”

Wang Yang shouted hurriedly, he had finally understood the situation. This new kind of monster……seemed to be intelligent!

Whether or not they had special powers, for someone like him, even if it was against a full-grown mutt, as long as he had an iron sword he could kill the dog.

Humans were not as useless as they seemed.

And after his shout, Wang Yang ignored the confused Ji Si Qi and Zhang Yang and ran away.

“Ao wu!” (Dog’s cry.)

As he predicted, a shriek came from behind him. Zhang Yang’s eyes widened as he gasped.

“Si……”

Only one husky, with its face covered in a deep wound, chased him with a sorry figure.

It was obvious that everything happened as Wang Yang predicted, these two black-clothed people could kill this dog.

“Fuck! What kind of monster is this?”

His husky was already level 8, a level that was considered to be in the upper ranks of all of the players, and it was defeated so easily against these black-clothed people.

“An unusual situation has occurred, this might be related to the school incident……this is bad.”

Wang Yang’s face was solemn, the school incident was only a few days ago, and now these humanoid, intelligent creatures have appeared. He was sure that something was definitely off.

Is the invasion of the other worlds starting?

That can’t be! He must……

“Hey! Mr Kun! We found new monsters!” Zhang Yang suddenly shouted for help from Qian Kun, who was currently in another fight against monsters.　

“Hm?”

As a big shot, Qian Kun was from a wealthy family, and those that partied with him were chosen among experts, whose monthly pay amounted to $5000. This was something that was comforting to his father, who chose to support his actions.

Because of that, as others risked their lives in the fight against these monsters, someone would be pouring tea for him, and another would be massaging his shoulders. He only had to comfortably sit in a Tai Shi chair, holding his phone as he occasionally commanded his pets.

“What monsters? Where?” Even Qian Kun was bored of this repetitive daily life, and hearing that there was a new monster, he was intrigued.

Under the gaze of the confused Wang Yang, he excitedly swung his arms and ran away.

“Here! Here! Bring more people with you! I’m worried you guys won’t be able to win too!”

With a few shouts, he called a dozen men with him and ran towards Zhang Yang.

“……”

“Wang Yang? Should we go and take a look as well?” Ji Si Qi asked timidly.

“No!” Giving up on this tempting choice, Wang Yang spoke, “We need to go to the police station, we need to report this quickly, this is strange.”

The biggest difference between humans and animals was intelligence.

Those two black robbed men clearly communicated, even though they spoke a language that was undoubtedly not a language from Earth. If a species could create language, that species would be considered civilised.

And a systematic language came from a bright history.

Prior to this, there were only animals that mechanically attacked humans, and despite their strength, they had limits to the threat they posed due to their lack of intelligence. Unless they had apocalypse-inducing strength, humans hardly worried about them.

But now, an intelligent creature has happened in Earth’s plan. A case of this level would be one of the highest priorities in the entire world.

This was no different from their first contact with an extraterrestrial.

Furthermore, everyone that knew Earth’s plan was filled with countless doubts.

What was the reason behind the appearance of Earth’s plan? What purpose did it serve? Where did it come from? What was fate? Was it something that threatened the civilisation on Earth?……

Humans were bound to be filled with fear when facing the unknown, they were beings that were used to expecting the worst from the unknown.

And they scrutinized for hope from the biggest dangers.

Translator’s note:

It is important to note that the purchasing power of the Yuan (China’s currency) when compared to the USD is close to 2:1. So, in layman’s terms, when it comes to buying things in China, an item worth 1 USD would be worth 2 Yuan in China’s economy.

As such, when the novel mentions money, just divide it by 2 in your mind and it’ll all work out nicely.