Chapter 17
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Chapter 17: Beast Tide, The Bombardment Of The City’s Defense Cannons!
“What exactly happened at that time?”
“Why am I so afraid to recall what happened back then?”
Gu Qingqing was acutely aware that a large part of her memory was blank. She tried desperately to recall it, but no matter how hard she racked her brain, she couldn’t retrieve even the slightest impression.
She slumped down, closing her eyes.
Why? Why did all of this happen?
Others also found it strange. On the light screen, the relationship between the siblings was clearly very good. So why did the tyrant ultimately disregard the bond of the past and attack his sister?
In the end, everyone could only conclude that Gu Ran, the tyrant, had undergone a complete change. The evil nature had entirely taken over his true self.
…
On the light screen.
After that night’s agreement, the relationship between the siblings became closer than ever before.
However, Gu Ran hadn’t given up on the idea of encouraging his sister to make friends of her age. He had been an orphan since childhood, without any friends. Although he had become accustomed to being alone, he didn’t want his sister to end up like him.
He hoped his sister would have her own friends, and he also wished for her to receive a proper education.
He wanted his sister to grow up safely and peacefully, to become a teacher or a doctor, or anything else, as long as it was something she liked. He just wanted her to live like a normal person.
But these things couldn’t be achieved while staying in the slums.
Gu Ran had always planned to take his sister away from the slums. Although the two of them lived quite comfortably in the slums, thanks to the “donations” from the gangs, he even felt somewhat at ease in this environment.
This place had been his home for many years, and he had some feelings for it.
But there were no proper schools here, and his sister couldn’t receive a formal education.
The community schools in the area were mostly occupied by children from families with gang affiliations. He didn’t want his sister to attend these schools or make these kinds of friends.
His sister deserved to grow up in the sunlight, to be able to chase her dreams like other children.
Therefore, he had to take his sister out of the slums and into the inner city.
Only in the inner city would there be the best educational resources, allowing his sister to grow up healthy.
Moreover, there was a place in the inner city that he very much wanted to go to.
— Saint Yore University.
Saint Yore University was the best university in this city—Saint Yore City.
He felt that he had reached a bottleneck through self-study of the books he bought on the market. No matter how many times he read these books related to supernatural abilities, they could no longer advance his knowledge.
But when he tried to acquire more advanced books and materials from the market, he found that they were no longer available for purchase.
This made him realize that the books that could help him rapidly improve might only be found in the library of Saint Yore University.
However, entering the inner city and living like the other people there wasn’t an easy task.
The people in the slums and those in the inner city were worlds apart, like people from two different realms.
The entire outer perimeter of Saint Yore City was made up of slums, forming a ring that encircled the inner city.
In this ring lived tens of millions of people, the vast majority of whom struggled daily just to survive. To stay alive, they would do anything, even selling their souls and bodies.
Only by becoming a resident of the inner city could one enjoy the dignity of a normal human being.
As a result, every day, there were people trying to sneak into the inner city, but most were blocked by the towering electric fences, caught by the omnipresent patrols, and sent to forced labor until they died.
“I must plan this carefully,” Gu Ran thought to himself.
Anyway, his sister wasn’t yet at the age where she urgently needed to go to school and make friends, so there was still time.
Thus, in the following days, Gu Ran began “visiting” the leaders of various gangs daily, inquiring about ways to enter the inner city.
Since his sister was no longer the baby she once was, Gu Ran didn’t keep her by his side anymore. Instead, he set up a spatial coordinate at home, so that as soon as his sister called him with the communicator, he could teleport back instantly.
Soon, Gu Ran successfully discovered a route for smuggling into the inner city, and to his satisfaction, it even provided legal identification.
However, the price was a bit steep. Even with the substantial wealth he had accumulated through the “donations” from various gangs, it was still not enough for the required amount.
And because these gangs had been serving him like subordinates for so long, he felt a bit embarrassed to exploit them too much, so he had to endure and save up funds for the time being.
Time passed like flowing water.
One day, as usual, Gu Ran went around collecting the “donations” from the various gangs.
Suddenly, he felt the ground tremble violently.
Then, the sky darkened instantly, as if shrouded by dark clouds.
A beast tide!
Gu Ran immediately realized what was happening.
The slums were located on the outskirts of the main city of Saint Yore, and beyond the slums was the wilderness, where fierce beasts roamed.
Although the inner city regularly dispatched supernatural beings and warriors to the wilderness to clear out some of the beasts, the number they could eliminate was insignificant compared to the vast number of beasts in the wilderness.
And for reasons unknown, the beasts in the wilderness would occasionally gather in swarms to attack the main human cities.
Humanity had a total of nineteen main cities, each with a population of nearly one hundred million.
The reason for concentrating all of humanity in just nineteen cities, creating such enormous metropolises, was to better consolidate human power to resist the onslaught of beast tides.
And the slums were the first line of defense against the beast tides!
These beasts were incredibly bloodthirsty and wouldn’t stop unless they saw human blood.
The slums were deliberately established by the main cities as a buffer zone against the beast tides.
It took time for the main cities to mobilize their personnel and weapons. If the beast tide were to directly charge into the core area of the city—the inner city—it would cause massive and irreparable damage.
But with a buffer zone, enough time could be bought.
After all, the people in the slums were considered to be of little value, with no need to pay taxes, and the number of strong individuals born there was pitifully small. They lived in a daze, like puppets, so if they suffered casualties, so be it.
In fact, this was the mindset of the inner city elites.
Gu Ran understood this very well because his parents had died in one of the beast tides.
“Damn it, my sister.”
Thinking of his sister who was still at home, Gu Ran’s heart filled with anxiety. He couldn’t afford to lose another loved one.
“Get out of my way!”
Ripping through space and teleporting home, Gu Ran saw a massive flying beast wreaking havoc on the top of his building as soon as he emerged from the spatial rift.
This flying beast resembled a pterosaur but was a hundred times more ferocious.
At this moment, the entire top of the building had already been ripped off, and the people inside were in grave danger!
Gu Ran immediately sent out a spatial slash, but the beast, with its acute sense of danger, dodged it.
However, the dodging flying beast also moved out of the way, allowing Gu Ran to embrace his terrified, tearfully suppressed sister and gently comfort her.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Big brother is back. Big brother will protect you.”
Unable to hold back any longer, his sister burst into tears.
“Don’t cry. Watch your brother fight the beast. If you cry, brother will get distracted, okay?”
His sister quickly stopped crying, but her eyes remained red, making her appear extremely pitiful.
Just then, a blinding light suddenly erupted in the far distance.
The moment the enormous light burst forth, it shot straight toward where Gu Ran was.
Boom!
In an instant, the buildings, the humans, and even the beasts in the area were all reduced to ashes!