Captain 017

The vice-captain screamed and fell to the ground, his severed arm lying quietly nearby.

Gu Heng was completely dumbfounded; his previous heroic aspirations and ambitions vanished into thin air.

It was impossible to win. How could they possibly win?

"Um, I... I surrender!" With just one glance from the female entity, Gu Heng blurted out the words subconsciously.

"Gu Heng! You!" someone shouted in sheer anger. "How could you surrender to the entities?"

"We are the assault team! Have you forgotten what our superiors said? Better to die than surrender!"

"Gu Heng! Your wife and children are still at the headquarters, aren't they?"

Gu Heng abruptly turned his head. "If you want to die, go ahead and die! I'm done playing! Wife and children? I don't have a wife and children!" He had completely figured it out. Previously, he really thought Fang Zhiyi was just playing house with these entities, but after seeing these boss-level existences right in front of him, he finally recognized his own place.

"What about the rest of you? Do you want to die or surrender?" The entity with a mourning face looked at the others.

"Hehehe." The smiling-faced entity seemed somewhat excited.

"Better to die than..." a team member opened his mouth and shouted, but before the last word could leave his lips, a gloomy figure holding an umbrella appeared beside him. Vein-like patterns on the umbrella's surface gradually lit up. It merely tapped the human's shoulder lightly with the umbrella handle, and the human's face instantly lost all color. His skin shriveled at a visible rate, the blood in his veins drawn out as if by an invisible straw, flowing along the umbrella's patterns into the handle. Finally, like a thoroughly sun-dried piece of human skin, he slapped onto the ground with a smack.

"Bastard..." another team member drew his blade, but the entity opposite him, whose smooth face had nothing but a pair of eyes, suddenly revealed the silk threads in its hands. To his horror, the man realized he could no longer feel his hands. Immediately after, his field of vision shifted. He could actually see his own feet from the front?

Seeing his team member's body suddenly diced into pieces, the assault captain completely lost his will to fight. In despair, he raised his gun and aimed it at himself, but the gun did not fire. A slippery, slimy limb snatched it away.

"You all..."

"Hehehe, apart from those who resist, no one else can die. You cannot die," the smiling-faced entity said, sounding somewhat regretful.

The remaining people instantly dropped their weapons.

"Boring... hehehe." The smiling-faced entity was clearly disappointed.

Watching these entities walk past them, as if all they wanted was their verbal surrender, Gu Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fang Zhiyi is so slow, so slow."

"He should be here soon, soon."

The conversation among several entities drifted into his ears.

"Fang Zhiyi?" He suddenly looked up. If relying on humans wouldn't work, maybe relying on Fang Zhiyi wasn't such a bad idea? Wasn't this a way out? He opened his mouth and asked, "Where is Fang Zhiyi?"

However, the response he received was the voice of a tall and thin entity: "Judgment, judgment."

"Judgment?" someone echoed in confusion.

Gu Heng looked at the tall entity before him, whose face was as wrinkled as tree bark. It held a pitch-black scepter in its hand. When it looked at Gu Heng, its eyes suddenly widened, eyes with no whites, entirely pitch-black.

"Guilty!"

Gu Heng didn't know what happened next, because to his horror, a pool of sludge suddenly gathered beneath his feet. The sludge seemed to come alive, and in the next moment, he was sucked into it. No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't muster any strength.

From that moment on, Gu Heng plunged into endless terror. Countless thoughts from his past continuously surged in his mind, and countless versions of himself spoke incessantly, the noise driving him to the brink of madness. Then, he fell into a small, square courtyard.

Here, he, Gu Heng, was just an ordinary person. He looked at the familiar back standing in the courtyard, and an inexplicable sense of dread welled up in his heart. Wasn't that himself?

He cautiously stepped forward to investigate, and the figure turned around at the same time. He saw a headless version of himself. Looking down, his own two hands were firmly cradling his own severed head.

"What is he screaming about?" an assault team member asked, looking in confusion at Gu Heng, who was struggling and yelling wildly.

The entity standing nearby smiled sinisterly: "Judgment, judgment, he is guilty!"

Everyone swallowed hard.

When the news of the Gu Heng assault team's total annihilation reached the headquarters, the first person to suffer was Lin Wanxing. She was kicked out of her house, all her money was confiscated, and then she was thrown into prison.

Hearing people say that her husband had surrendered, she didn't believe it at all, but there really was no news from Gu Heng.

Lin Wanxing kept comforting herself. Everything would surely be fine. She had done so many good deeds; how could anything bad happen to her? Thinking of the gratitude she had received in the past, her heart filled with hope once again.

"Me? I'm going to be the mayor?" A fat man pointed at his own nose.

Shen Yue nodded. "Yes, that's what they demanded."

The fat man was a bit nervous. "Captain Shen..."

"Just call me Shen Yue."

"Shen Yue... what exactly do these entities want to do?"

"To be honest, I don't know either."

As a fallen zone, they had originally thought that humanity would be greeted with massacres and cruel torture. However, those entities had absolutely no such intentions. Instead, they selected specific people by name to serve as new leaders, and then left in a hurry.

It was as if they had never been there.

This left everyone scratching their heads in confusion.

But as more news came out of the mouth of Coffin Lady, Shen Yue seemed to understand a little.

The wildlands previously occupied by the entities were no longer restricted areas; humans could freely reclaim and farm the land.

Moreover, the former restricted zone signs across the entire occupied territory had been removed. Coffin Lady specifically stated that there would be no more unprovoked attacks on humans by entities here in the future.

It was as if these entities came specifically to liberate them.

Harboring doubts, the people began to move about outside once again for the first time. Although they would occasionally encounter an entity or two, those entities just stood there, paying them no mind.

"Does the boss want to enslave humanity?" Li Fei looked a bit dumbfounded.

"Have you ever seen this kind of enslavement? Giving us fields, land, and houses, and even killing off those violent entities," Zhao Lei said.

"Captive breeding?" Li Fei swapped to another word.

Shen Yue shook her head. "I don't know. If I could meet him just once, maybe I would know..."

The army of entities approached the headquarters located in the capital. The Guardian Headquarters emptied out all their resources, and then the higher-ups all fled, leaving behind those humans who still wanted to fight to the death against the entities.

Strangely, the entities halted their advance near the capital, and this war initiated by the entities hit the pause button.

Although it felt strange, the surviving humans also felt somewhat fortunate, fortunate that they were still alive.