Baptism! All Darkness Ends with Me!
How big is the wasteland world? How far is it from Earth?
Having come from modern civilized society to this wasteland, these two questions have been raised more than once on the World Channel, sparking waves of heated discussions.
If it weren't for the chat panel provided by the game, it might have taken humanity twenty, thirty, or even fifty years to restore modern communication in this wasteland.
The internet has brought people closer together, reducing the sense of distance between them.
However, another characteristic of the internet is that it also catalyzes the evil desires within people.
Every day, people are being scammed, harmed, or ambushed in the game's chat panel.
Some perpetrators threatened to "chop you up through the internet cable," while others shouted, "Don't let me catch you!" Although in a wasteland environment, everyone would treat it as a joke.
But Ying Tianlong couldn't laugh! He hadn't told anyone that just two months ago he had a video call with "Su God" among humans, and the other party had even threatened to "find" him.
Ying Tianlong even chose to keep it a secret from the Ying Family members who followed him.
Who would have thought that just two months ago he was just an "ordinary person" with a bit more luck, and that he could rise to prominence so quickly, like a shooting star streaking across the night sky! And who would have thought that being targeted by such a person would require immense mental fortitude to withstand the anxiety?
Ying Tianlong was just an ordinary person, a petty person, and he had no cunning.
Aside from his lack of morality, he was no different from the bullies in civilized times who used their large clan numbers to oppress their fellow villagers.
Therefore, after careful consideration, all that's needed is for this Su God to give the order.
Knowing that he would be disgraced in the human community, Ying Tianlong naturally chose the only path he could take: to join the alien race!
But now, slumped on the ground, listening to the endless shouts of "thank you," he regretted it! Let's rewind to twenty-one minutes earlier.
Seeing that Ying Tianlong had seen through everyone's delaying tactics to some extent, and that he had asked Lu Yongyi to exchange with the Tundra,
The entire room fell silent.
As per Lu Yongyi's instructions, the current delay has not only met expectations but has even slightly exceeded them.
If this momentum can be maintained, the fleet will achieve an unprecedented victory! Once reinforcements arrive, these alien races and Human Traitor will be wiped out in one fell swoop.
However, unforeseen events can happen at any time.
The timing of Ying Tianlong's attack was too coincidental! "Stop talking nonsense, it's already come to this point, damn it!"
"We must continue to stall for time, every minute counts, and ensure the safety of all hostages!"
Without almost any time to think, Lu Yongyi stood up with a smile and raised his right fist.
The next second, the crowd erupted in uproar.
Although they had anticipated that Lu Yongyi would make this choice when they saw the news.
But when Lu Yongyi actually did it, they still couldn't help but tremble.
"Lu Suobu! In any war, there are bound to be casualties. Without you, we wouldn't be able to escape anywhere!"
"Yes, Director Lu, it's better for us to rise up and resist than to trust a beast like Ying Tianlong!"
"If you leave, and something goes wrong with the reinforcements and they don't arrive in time, wouldn't we be sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives for the sake of a few thousand?"
"Land Institute"
No one agreed with Lu Yongyi taking the Tundra to his death!
On deck, all the captains started arguing almost simultaneously.
The Tundra Fleet has now lost 240,000 people.
This number is a full twenty times that of the hostages on the other side! To let these people sacrifice themselves in vain for the sake of these hostages, and to leave the remaining hundreds of thousands without a leader, is unwise!
Before both sides have reached the point of mutual destruction, to hand over one's core fighting force and send one's highest general bound and sent over is cowardly!
Such unwise and cowardly behavior led everyone to exhaust their remaining wisdom and try every means to "morally blackmail" Lu Yongyi.
But just like before, this time, Lu Yongyi didn't stop everyone from arguing. Instead, he smiled and gazed at the "end" of the sea.
He leaned his arms out over the railing of the Tundra, letting the blood-stained sea breeze blow through him, and laughed, "Sigh, I guess I'm getting old, hahaha. I thought I could handle this pressure all by myself, but I almost couldn't."
"Our reinforcements will arrive soon, and none of us will have to die."
"By the way, haven't you all been wondering who our reinforcements are?"
"That's him."
Without saying the name, Lu Yongyi simply mouthed the words.
But for humans living in the wasteland, this lip movement is more familiar than the name of their own vault!
"Damn? Su?"
"How could this be? Our reinforcements, how could they be..."
"Holy crap, is it really Director Lu? Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!"
Seeing the incredulous look that suddenly appeared on the faces of the captain and sailors below, Lu Yongyi nodded slightly.
The support from Su God is a powerful medicine, no less invigorating than adrenaline at a critical moment! But it's too early to say this. If it's exposed to the enemy or these Human Traitor, it could cause trouble.
Only by unleashing it at the right time can it generate an effect of 150% or 200% or more! And now, with just over half an hour left before midnight, Lu Yongyi felt that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived!
There is so much darkness in this world that people have forgotten that light still exists!
These beasts of the wasteland are too arrogant, so much so that people can't even bring their butcher knives down on their heads! This world shouldn't be like this! The time for change in this world is coming! After confirming that the reinforcements were indeed Su God, this time no captain dared to object, and no one questioned Lu Yongyi's decision.
Of course, the warriors on the rafts below only knew that reinforcements from the fleet were about to arrive, but they didn't know it was Su God.
But this doesn't hinder the acting skills that are rooted in everyone's genes!
In an instant, hundreds of thousands of people participated in this grand spectacle, even including the hostages.
Seeing the message pop up in the regional chat, their "thank you" was incredibly sincere!
[Congratulations to Wanplus users in channel 6732! Your Area Channel has been entered by the No.1 player with two badges!]
Welcome to this Area Channel, esteemed "Acid Rain King" and "Snow Emperor" Su Mo!
[A powerful player has been detected entering this Area Channel. Entrance effects will be automatically triggered (Cooldown: 10 days)]
[Congratulations to all players in this Area Channel! You have automatically received the attribute bonus: 100% Stamina Recovery Speed * 12H]
[Congratulations to all players in this Area Channel! You have automatically received a bonus of 100 Disaster Points.]
Throughout the journey, in order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, Su Mo never accessed the Area Channel.
So strictly speaking, apart from the channels near the depression, this is the first time Su Mo has entered the updated Area Channel since the ocean attack.
Su Mo did not speak.
But this entrance effect is enough! This name, when it appears in the wasteland, represents only one meaning: All darkness ends with me! "Ying Tianlong, you can't escape. Once Su God arrives, there will be no place for Human Traitor like you in the wasteland. You will not escape death!"
"But these people who are with you, if you're willing to lead them to rescue the hostages, I can guarantee they'll survive."
"You can decide for yourself!"
Life is tough, don't expose it!
Seeing Ying Tianlong fall helplessly to the ground, a crew member quickly ran down from the Tundra and relayed Lu Yongyi's words to the crowd.
Lu Yongyi wasn't incapable of using disgusting methods, but in many situations, he simply chose not to.
Now that the attack had been launched, the more than 300 people following Ying Tianlong also reacted and rushed towards Ying Tianlong without any hesitation.
Lu Yongyi's words opened up new ideas for them and showed them how to survive! "Boss, Su God is here. Should you retreat first? Staying here will lead to big trouble!"
"Cousin, you were the one who made us do these things in the first place. Now that Su God is here, what if he holds us accountable?"
"Tianlong, you'd better leave now. If Su God comes, we might escape death, but we'll face severe punishment. But you..."
"Brother Ying, how about you make a sacrifice?"
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down; when a drum is broken, everyone beats it; when a tree falls, the monkeys scatter—some run away, some slip away.
Seeing Ying Tianlong in this state, his three hundred warriors were not surprised! Not long ago, Su God had bluntly stated that Human Traitor must be killed.
As the leader of everyone, no matter what Ying Tianlong does now, he cannot escape death.
On the contrary, his death now, before Su God arrives, would give those who followed him a reason, a reason for being coerced into going astray.
Suddenly, all those people who had previously been so refined and easygoing, calling him "Brother Ying" on the left and "Cousin" on the right, were now in a state of shock.
Upon suddenly revealing this true color, Ying Tianlong staggered and tried to stand up, but ultimately fell back down while still half-squatting.
"Tianlong, hurry up and make a decision, before the alien races discover us!"
"If they find out, we won't be able to leave even if we want to!"
In the crowd, two slightly older middle-aged men exchanged a glance, and immediately four young men kindly stepped forward to "help" Ying Tianlong up.
The two on the left and two on the right were young men, and in this fight, Ying Tianlong was pulled up from the ground like a rag doll.
The Certificate of Allegiance of loyalty that Lu Yongyi mentioned was to rescue all the hostages, which was too difficult for more than 300 people.
Therefore, they chose a more relaxed Certificate of Allegiance ...
Ying Tianlong! "Heh cough cough, you think you can let me go just because you've captured me, Su Mo, that brat Su Mo!"
"You have no idea who he really is!"
"He's a hypocrite, a tyrant, he has no mercy whatsoever, he kills without hesitation, he wouldn't care about the lives of you people at all!"
"Besides, it's here! Where can you go from here!"
He was consumed by rage.
Ying Tianlong coughed up a small amount of bloody phlegm, his face turned as white as paper, and in an instant he looked as if he had aged more than ten years.
He was being held by four young men, but he neither chose to escape nor resist.
In front of everyone, he gently pointed to the sky, which was a little brighter than before, and raised his head with a complicated expression, as if he was sighing and murmuring, or as if he was expecting something.
He was looking in a strange direction, neither towards the fleet nor towards the alien race's base.
But at this moment, the direction he was looking in was miraculously the same direction that Lu Yongyi, with tears welling up in his eyes, was still staring intently at at the bow of the Tundra.
The Tundra Fleet, with hundreds of thousands of survivors spontaneously standing on the deck, their eyes fixed on the direction.
More and more people from other races realized the direction of the loud calls.
And these "warriors" who had just been about to use him as Certificate of Allegiance, but now collapsed helplessly on the ground, were exactly the same! In everyone's sight, the sky, which was already close to midnight, suddenly brightened.
On the distant horizon, twelve luminous objects, trailing long, glowing tails like Halley's Comet, appeared! The alien races probably didn't understand what they were.
But humans understand.
The survivors knew this was justice, justice that swept away the darkness! Ying Tianlong knew this was baptism, a baptism that would wash away all the filth!
Sorry, I just got home from work and the editor called me to write an acceptance speech! The update is late! (facepalm) "Shelter" topped the charts on Qidian's overseas Starting Point last week, garnering nearly 80,000 votes and 1.2 million reads in a week, winning second prize in Starting Point's overseas writing competition! The specific celebratory benefits will be announced by the operations team after the awards are announced. Thank you for waiting so long, dear readers! Sorry again!