Power of the Common Sovereign, the Common Sovereign and the Human Miracle...

He was startled and instinctively closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he realized that it was just his hallucination and there was no arrow at all!

The transmission of the Sight Worm also stopped; no more images entered his eyes, as the Sight Worm ' signals were disrupted.

Yu Guangzhong noticed someone. He suddenly turned his head and saw someone standing silently on the wall, appearing out of nowhere.

It was a slender, pale woman. She supported a human on the city wall, who had been succumbing to Gambler just moments before. This human was now in the woman's grasp, receiving healing through her supernatural abilities, the lust in his eyes rapidly receding. The woman, facing the fallen territory, seemed to pierce through the Barrier of Bewilderment without hindrance, seeing the hell within.

Gambler:"..."

"You are..." The Gambler narrowed his eyes, immediately guessing the newcomer's identity, "You are the legendary Healer from the human side."

The Gambler gave a mocking smile. The Healer, revered by humans as a high-ranking figure, whose identity was shrouded in mystery, seemed less human and more like someone on their side—a monster.

Ye Jiang did not respond to the Gambler, because the human in her hands quickly regained consciousness due to her treatment, and she put him to sleep. After doing this, she turned to look at the Gambler.

What did you do to him?

What did you do to them?

She asked two questions in a row, then slowly turned her gaze back to the occupied area.

In her view, the occupied zone was littered with corpses and rotting flesh, reeking of foul odors. The Polluted roamed freely, their density exceeding that of humans. The surviving humans were all numb and exhausted, as if their souls had been ripped out, becoming like walking corpses. They did not evade the Polluted ' pursuit, but only stared blankly into space.

Ye Jiang had never seen such humans before. Even in the despairing Shuiling Town, the townspeople were more vibrant than the people inside this enclosure.

Ye Jiang couldn't see any will to survive in these people, while the humans she knew were all weak yet resilient. They had lost their most precious things, they had been destroyed, they had been deprived.

A faint dark red tinge appeared at the edges of Ye Jiang's pupils.

"Are you curious?" The Gambler seemed completely unfazed, chuckling as he licked his lips with his scarlet tongue.

The Gambler was quite happy to introduce his masterpiece. He said, "Of course, I divided the city's inhabitants in two. I let one half fall into desire and lose their minds, and I let the other half come to their senses. The sober humans will not abandon their compatriots who have fallen into desire at first. Humans always have an inexhaustible amount of empathy. They do not accept their fate and always think about saving someone."

Until casualties began to occur.

Even those who are clear-headed have started to fight amongst themselves: should they save them or abandon them?

It's all in chaos, everything's in complete disarray.

Personal feelings clash with the greater good of humanity, leading to daily arguments, injuries, and even death. There is sadness, confusion, bewilderment, and then fear.

At this point, we need to spread some Pollution inside, you know? Fear and similar emotions can actually accelerate the mutation of humans into Polluted.

Polluted appeared, making things even more chaotic.

And that's how the city slowly became what it is today.

The Gambler smiled and said, "That's all I did. Hell is of our own making. If they had abandoned those who were caught up in desire from the beginning, perhaps it wouldn't have become so tragic."

He glanced at the human Ye Jiang had rescued. "As for the person you have, he was a spy sent by the humans outside to investigate the situation inside the occupied zone. I caught him, which is terrible. We didn't send any spies to the human base, so I taught him a lesson."

With a flick of her hand, Ye Jiang conjured several arrows that shot out of thin air without a moment's hesitation, heading straight for the Gambler.

The Gambler stepped back, and the arrow clattered into the spot where he had been standing.

The arrow didn't disappear; it's a real object!

Gambler:"..."

He looked up and sized up Ye Jiang.

What kind of superpower do you have?

Ye Jiang's eyes turned red. With a flick of her wrist, arrows flew up, multiplying infinitely until the Sky was filled with a dense swarm of arrows. The Gambler's expression changed drastically, and he retreated further and further away, keeping a safe distance.

"Didn't we already agree on this?"

A sound rang out, and a monster with the appearance of a pink Polluted tore through space and appeared.

Ye Jiang paused, looked up, and saw Shi Li appear, tearing open space. The eyes above her head were staring intently at the dense array of arrows in the Sky, a moment of confusion flashing in her eyes. Like the Gambler, she was astonished by Ye Jiang's supernatural ability.

But now wasn't the time to think about that. Her eyes turned to Ye Jiang, and she asked helplessly, "What did we agree on before? Who gets the Gambler's share?"

Ye Jiang: "."

Gambler disgusted her; she forgot that.

With a flick of her hand, the arrows in the air stopped repeating, and she directed them to shoot at the Gambler.

"Don't let him die too easily," Ye Jiang said to Shi Li. After saying that, she put the human she was holding back on the ground and leaped towards the city center, which was covered by the Barrier of Bewilderment.

Behind him, the Gambler dodged the arrows and was slightly taken aback when he saw Ye Jiang's back.

"She's trying to save the humans inside?"

He seemed to find it amusing, "The Barrier of Bewilderment is someone else's creation; no one can break through it..."

Before she could finish speaking, the barrier shattered with a crash, and Ye Jiang, having reached the center, entered the city.

Gambler:"..."

The Barrier of Bewilderment... is broken?

The Gambler instinctively tried to enter the city, but suddenly a pink tentacle attacked him, which he quickly dodged. The tentacle stopped after its attack, Shi Li floated in the air, several eyes staring intently at her fellow gambler. "Where are you going?"

The Gambler remained expressionless, staring at Shi Li for a moment before laughing again, "What's going on today? You all came out like this, are you all out of your minds? Have you forgotten how badly that guy beat you?"

Shi Li's tentacles moved, and she sneered, "Then let's see if that kid playing in the mud today will come to save you."

The Gambler paused, an incredulous look on his face. "This can't be your plan, can it? Sending that woman to stop the ' World Destroyer '? Pfft, are you crazy? Or do you have a grudge against that woman and deliberately send her to her death?"

The Gambler was laughing so hard he was doubled over; it was really funny.

"Oh, so this is your plan?" He remained calm and unconcerned, saying, "But even if that one doesn't come, you can't kill me. Have you forgotten that I'm also a high-level monster? One high-level monster can't kill another high-level monster... you..."

"What if we join?"

A sound interrupted him.

The Gambler froze, then suddenly looked up and saw high-level monsters appear in his field of vision—one, two, three.

Including Shi Li, the four high-level monsters were all looking at him.

Gambler:"..."

Bang!!

A loud bang was heard, Ye Jiang looked up to see a huge mushroom cloud rising from the city wall.

Bang bang bang!!!

Several more mushroom clouds appeared.

Thick, black Pollution emanated from the mushroom cloud; a colossal, billowing black smoke was about to emerge, and the Gambler materialized.

Ye Jiang raised her hand, and a new barrier was erected, replacing the Barrier of Bewilderment and covering the occupied area. Its purpose was to isolate the terrifying Pollution from the monsters.

Not concerned about the battle situation over there, Ye Jiang calmly withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and looked in front of her. In front of her, a human, thinner than a skeleton, sat against the wall. Her eyes were open, her eye sockets were deep, and her eyes stared blankly into the void.

My gaze shifted, and I saw another human huddled in the corner, curled up and hugging himself tightly.

Da da--

The Polluted ' footsteps grew louder as they approached, heading this way, but they remained motionless.

The Polluted spotted its target and ran excitedly towards it. Ye Jiang frowned, and before the Polluted could get close, she smashed its head with a piece of gravel.

The noise finally startled the two humans in front of them. They stiffly turned their heads, and it took them a while before their gaze settled on Ye Jiang.

His dry lips moved, and his throat made hoarse sounds, unable to form coherent sentences.

But Ye Jiang heard clearly that these two humans, who seemed to have had their souls ripped out, stared at her as if trying to recognize her, and then murmured:

"A healer?"

Ye Jiang's heart skipped a beat for these vulnerable creatures.

A small, dark red energy ball appeared in her palm, slowly floating upwards to block the barrier above, before shattering with a roar and turning into fragments that drifted down like a dark red snowfall.

Snowflakes fall, landing on every living human being, brushing away the curse of desire from them, restoring their clarity, wiping away their wounds, restoring their health, and erasing the nightmare memories from their hearts. The sins committed by the monster should not be borne by them.

The gifts that once fell upon those outside the occupied territories now gently descend upon those within them.

The clarity in the eyes of the humans ahead increased, and the numbness was receding from them. Ye Jiang exhaled and vanished from her spot. The humans were fully awake, leaving only the corpse of a Polluted before them.

Has the Healer come by?

Humans are in a daze; they seem to have lost a piece of their memory, and every time they try to peek into it, a bitter taste comes back.

At the same time, a beautiful, dark red snowflake appeared, and within the snow, a luminous figure watched them calmly, seemingly empathizing with their suffering.

The Healer has been here.

The humans in the occupied zone gradually awoke, but the Healer had already left.

She went to the next occupied area.

Chapter 172 The Sovereign of Power and the Miracles of Humanity...

Ye Jiang stopped in her tracks. Ahead lay a city that was both familiar and strange—she had lived in this city as a human for several months. The Invisible Man and the Mushroom Man had almost destroyed it but hadn't. Now, however, it had become a ruined city, with towering buildings collapsed and a desolate wasteland.