Chapter 17 - Chapter 17: Chapter 17: A Despairing Conclusion!

Chapter 17: Chapter 17: A Despairing Conclusion!

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After Du Gang and Ma Li returned to the dorm, the atmosphere was somewhat tense.

The main cause was Ma Li’s unease, Du Gang had changed dramatically, and he didn’t know how to face him now.

“Ma Li, what’s wrong with you?”

“I just feel like you’re being too… too…” He didn’t dare to say it out loud, worried that Du Gang would throw him out. If it were the old days, he wouldn’t have this worry, but now, he really couldn’t understand Du Gang.

Du Gang was speechless, having to assure others and guide Ma Li as well, but there was no other choice, they had grown up together after all. Seeing his silence, Du Gang asked, “What’s my favorite novel?” Without hesitating, Ma Li replied, “Infinite Horror!”

“What is the one thing I hate the most?”

“Zheng Zha is a saint…”

“Exactly, I often fantasize about what it would be like if I could enter the Main God’s space. I didn’t get to enter the Main God’s space, but I ended up in the apocalypse…”

“That’s not the same!”

Ma Li shook his head interjecting, with a pained expression, “That’s fiction, but this is reality. Those people are living beings, you can’t just deprive them of…” After a long tirade, Ma Li got to the point, “You’re too cold-blooded!”

Du Gang was somewhat exhausted. At one point, he even contemplated the idea of throwing Ma Li out the window.

But he still held it in, waiting for Ma Li to finish speaking, then asked, “Do you know about the Three Obediences and Four Virtues?”

“I know!” Although Ma Li didn’t know why he was asked this, he replied, “It’s a tool used in ancient times to restrain women…”

“Is it written into the law or is it a moral issue?”

“It’s a behavioral and moral norm used in ancient feudal society to restrain

women, it’s not a law…” “Then let me ask you again, did I kill anyone?”

“Did I break the law?”

“No, you didn’t!”

Du Gang spread his hands open, “So tell me, what’s wrong with me?”

“You…” Ma Li was at a loss for words, something felt off.

“I admire and appreciate people of high moral character… but I am not such a person!”

“But those girls…”

“Ha, I’ve said it before, they are all new to this world and why should I be responsible for their decisions? I gave them a chance, they didn’t trust me—so there’s nothing to talk about. It was their choice…”

“But…”

“Yesterday, when I was pouring hot water, my cow insisted on drinking straight from the pot. I tried to shoo it away but it kept coming back, even after it got scalded by the hot water, it finally stayed away!”

Du Gang continued to explain, “Let me put it this way, my ability to transform is limited, if I had stayed back then, I might not only have failed to save the other five girls, but also risked my own life… Are you suggesting I should sacrifice my life to save unrelated people?”

“You… this…”

Ma Li’s expression twisted in conflict once again.

“The apocalypse has already happened, there’s no turning back, you have to adapt quickly… My ability is just enough to save us. Save the world? I don’t have that ability or mindset!”

“All I hope for is to take you back to Luo An City and reunite with our parents!”

After his persuading, Ma Li finally put aside his compassion and moral indignation.

He understood that everyone is different.

Some people adapt quickly, while others do not.

He felt that Du Gang was someone who could quickly recognize reality and make rational judgments.

The Arctic Circle – Command Center of Hua Nation. “Report, the fourth type of bug has appeared…”

“Report, the fifth type of bug has appeared…”

“Nanyuan Military District has abandoned ten spatial channels…” “North Yuan Military Region has abandoned eleven spatial channels…” “Commander of the Jinan Military District fell in battle, district lost…”

“Taiwan Military District has fallen…”

A litany of bad news, as if synchronized, relentlessly bombarded the command center.

And all the people here could do, was watch, unable to do anything.

Yao Zhenguo pressed his temples, this string of bad news was giving him a splitting headache.

At this moment, Li Mingzhi came over again, looking as if he had something to say but hesitating.

“Sigh!”

Yao Zhenguo let out a sigh, then said bluntly, “Speak up, what’s the bad news? I can handle it!”

“The Arctic Circle perimeter, in the short daylight areas, after a brief daylight period, reentered the night.”

He looked at Yao Zhenguo’s withered face, shook his head, and said with bitterness, “The spatial channels that disappeared during the day, reappeared after the sun disappeared!”

The only thing that kept him from collapsing was the previous report from Li Mingzhi about the disappearance of the spatial channels when the sun came out.

He never expected that it would all be for nothing, the apocalypse hadn’t ended!

On hearing this news, he couldn’t hold on any longer, he coughed up blood from a surge of indignation, then fainted.

“Medic, quick!”

Li Mingzhi caught Yao Zhenguo and yelled out loud.

Soon after, the entire command center was in chaos.

The Arctic – The Scientific Research Department of Hua Nation.

In contrast to the outside chaos, there was order here. Everyone was calm and focused on their research work.

In the Biological Research Center, Lu Zhou was looking incredulously at a set of data.

“How can this be… how could this be possible!”

At this point, his assistant approached and asked, “Director, should we report this news?”

“Sigh! ”

Lu Zhou took a few deep breaths before firmly saying, “Report it! It’s harsh, but they have the right to know the truth!”

The assistant immediately left with the report, heading toward the command center.

The conclusion on the report read, “These bugs, all from similar environments: moist, crowded… it’s very likely they all come from the same underground bug nest…”

This implied that the bugs, which were several meters high and tens of meters long on the other side of the channel, were merely crawlers. They were at the lowest end of the food chain.

Even if that was the case, these bugs had spread all over the globe.

Lu Zhou only had samples from the eastern hemisphere, but he was almost certain that the bugs from another world’s nest filled the entire Earth.

Dark matter has connected another universe or world with Earth.

He roughly guessed why no extraterrestrial beings came to Earth in spaceships.

Because when their spacecraft reached the edge of their respective star systems, they would trigger some mechanism, open Pandora’s Box, and invoke a demonic invasion.

He couldn’t imagine how large the world invading Earth was. The bugs that were just from the lowest end of the food chain from an insect nest could bring a deadly blow to Earth!

The apocalypse has just begun!