Chapter 298
“On top of that, that aberrant rat’s mutation is seriously off. Higher-ups are worried it might disturb the sleeping Ghost King, so they’ve ordered us to team up with the Hunter Corps and lure the rat into a safe zone.” Deng Yuqi was directing the Exploration Corps soldiers and the arriving City Defense reinforcements to help evacuate the residents in the area, while also filling Fang Mingyue in on the emergency meeting the Council had held that night.
Fang Mingyue immediately responded, “I led the patrol at Defense Line 3 myself. Let me go activate the lure plan, then?”
“The problem now isn’t just about executing the lure plan—it’s also those New God Cult fanatics. They think this is a golden opportunity to awaken their ‘New God,’ and they’ve actually gone and started some kind of worship ceremony right at Defense Line 3. That’s what drew the attention of the surrounding anomalies. Now Defense Line 3 is complete chaos.” Deng Yuqi let out a weary sigh.
The moment Fang Mingyue heard that, her fury erupted. “Those idiots in the New God Cult! They’re useless at the best of times, and now they have to go and stir up trouble when it matters most.”
Fang Mingyue had previously talked with Shen Ge about the seventh-tier Ghost King. Although the world’s downfall had been caused by the anomaly disasters triggered by eighth-tier aberrations, those eighth-tier ones had fixed territories. There weren’t any roaming around the Dajing area.
But after the surrounding cities fell one after another, Dajing had become a new “cursed city.” Multiple high-tier anomalies devoured one another until eventually, a seventh-tier aberration emerged—and it was naturally dubbed Dajing’s “Ghost King.”
In truth, everyone in the shelter knew that if this “new Ghost King” were ever discovered by other eighth-tier anomalies, a massive battle would erupt, and that would spell the end of the shelter.
Yet, curiously, every time the seventh-tier Ghost King devoured a high-tier anomaly, it would conceal its presence and fall into a deep slumber, barely waking a few times a year. That was precisely why the New God Cult regarded it as their “New God,” believing this Ghost King had descended upon Dajing to protect them.
When humanity faces the apocalypse, faith becomes the crutch that keeps people going. That was why, in just two short years, the New God Cult had grown powerful enough to rival the very forces that had originally founded the shelter—a testament to just how terrifying “faith” could be.