Eternal Night

Chapter 563 The True Demon-Slaying World!
"...I really don't understand, are my demands too high? I just want them to be human beings."

In the city government office of Jiangdu, Wu Pifu couldn't help but complain while drinking.

There were only a few people at the table with him. Huang Rong sat next to him, constantly serving him food and pouring him wine. There was also Yang Zhewan, who was wrapped in gauze, and Khadyev, who looked haggard and had injuries, but they were minor.

Besides them, Qin Hui was also there, but he only sat on one side of his buttocks, and dared not move the rest.

Yang Zhewan shifted his body slightly and said with a wry smile, "Thanks to your arrival, otherwise I might not have been able to escape this calamity."

Wu Pifu waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to worry about it. Yang Zhewan picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks and said, "Actually, the problem you mentioned is composed of many factors, from the era, from civilization, from the foundation of productivity, from the progress of social culture... If it were an absolutely real world, without supernatural powers, it would take thousands of years to slowly progress and still not be able to be completely achieved. It would just be that everyone is equal on the surface."

Khadyev poured himself a large glass of wine and said, "Sir, you should know, right? Even on the eve of World War IV, people were never truly equal. We all know what the law is like, but it's just words. The company's top executives are like nobles; they can treat human life like dirt far better than the gentry and nouveau riche of this era. It's just that the people they prey on are different from the people the gentry and nouveau riche prey on..."

Wu Pifu nodded silently and said, "Yes, I know."

Yang Zhewan and Hadyeev exchanged a glance, and he said, "So we can only get infinitely closer to equality for all, with each person treating the other as a human being. Even if we can rapidly improve the level of civilization in this world, to truly achieve equality for all... even our unified human government cannot do it."

Wu Pifu wasn't stupid; he just sometimes didn't want to think too much. So he put down his wine glass and said seriously, "Just say what you want to say directly. There's no need for us to hide anything from each other."

Yang Zhewan and Hadeyev took another look, and Yang Zhewan spoke first: "Can the killing...stop? The reason they rebelled is simply that they felt their rights were being violated, and although that is indeed the case, God is evil enough to kill them. If this continues, it is really going too far in killing them."

Everyone looked at Wu Pifu, even Huang Rong had the same expression.

The tenth day since Wu Pifu suppressed everything.

All the rebels either surrendered, were beaten and killed repeatedly until they were utterly broken and scattered, or were completely annihilated... Yes, completely annihilated. From officers to soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people were killed outright.

At this point, there were no more rebel armies, chaotic armies, or defeated armies in the south of the Song Dynasty. At the same time, they were attacked by superhumans, but with their own strength and the protection of a large army, Khadyev finally managed to bring a new army to the south.

And the liquidation has only just begun.

Wu Pifu was truly unafraid of trouble when it came to killing these inhuman beings. He took to the air and, in superhuman form, patrolled all the inhabited villages, towns, cities, and cities in the entire southern region. He then used his super brain's emotional perception to filter out all the gentry, wealthy merchants, officials, and scholars who had participated in the rebellion, and began to process them quickly according to their crimes.

In other words, the punishment was severe, swift, and strict. More than 100,000 landlords and officials in the southern regions were beheaded, and more than 500,000 people were stripped of all political and economic power, their property was confiscated, and their entire families were sent to remote and desolate areas further south to develop the frontier.

This operation nearly wiped out all the power holders in the south of the Song Dynasty. Apart from a few scattered landlords, scholars, and officials, almost all the "scholars" in the south were gone!

Even now, half of them are still waiting to be beheaded.

This massacre was truly excessive, yet the entire Song Dynasty remained completely silent.

They were really terrified.

Last time, Wu Pifu killed the emperor, ministers, and Confucian scholars, but he really showed mercy, killing only a little over 10,000 people in total. This time, however, he killed hundreds of thousands of people. The key point is that he is truly invincible!

A creature with a normal flight speed of over 4,000 meters per second, impervious to blades and bullets, and whose perception can cover everyone in a city, could easily annihilate an army and breach a city, killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers fleeing on the plains, and not a single one of them escaped.

These are our ancestors!
So no one dared to speak up, because they were truly terrified.

Wu Pifu did not answer Yang Zhewan's question. Instead, he turned to Qin Hui and said, "Qin Hui, I ask you, why do you now treat every farmer, laborer, and merchant as a human being? You not only treat them with respect but also genuinely believe they are human beings. Answer me."

Qin Hui was startled. Although he was pleased, he was also nervous. He immediately scrambled to his feet, cupped his hands, and said, "Your subject..."

“You are not my subject, I have said that.”

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly and said seriously, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. Even if you curse me now, I'll just curse back. It's a very simple principle. Because you are a person now, I am willing to treat you with the same attitude as a person. So, to be honest, you should know that you can't hide what you're thinking from me."

Qin Hui was silent for a moment, then paused before saying, "This humble official is afraid of death."

Wu Pifu clapped his hands and said, "That's right." He then looked at Yang Zhewan and Khadyev and said, "That's why I'm killing them."

Yang Zhewan and Hadyeev looked dumbfounded. Wu Pifu ignored them and said, "You don't know the history before World War III. Although you experienced World War IV, you haven't seen a chaotic world... The real chaotic world is not when humans unite to fight against the bio-beast horde, but when monsters in human skin lash out at humanity with the most naked malice."

"Once chaos erupts, ordinary people with families and relatives will suffer a fate worse than death. There will be chaotic soldiers, defeated soldiers, and massacres in various places. Even without these, they will experience famine. Do you even know what it means to exchange children for food?"

Both Yang Zhewan and Hadeyev looked somewhat bewildered.

They understood the literal meaning, of course, but they had never actually seen what the so-called "exchanging children to eat" actually looked like.

Wu Pifu looked at Qin Hui and said, "Do you even know what it means to exchange children for food?"

Qin Hui lowered his head, his voice hoarse, and said, "This humble official has seen it with his own eyes, but it was not the people of my Great Song Dynasty, but the former territory of the Western Xia in the northwest... Children skipped and jumped out of the house, and at dusk, rice and meat were put into the pot... The so-called rice and meat was human flesh, it was truly tragic..."

Wu Pifu nodded slightly. He looked at Yang Zhewan and Hadeyev and said, "Perhaps the rebels are only after their own interests, perhaps they just want to resist your changes, or perhaps they are just being coerced and feel that they have a chance to rise to power. No matter what it is, they may not really intend to kill tens of millions of ordinary people. Everyone has their own desires, wanting to gain more, wanting to exploit more, and then millions of people gather together... Have you ever thought about what would happen to the ordinary people and innocent people living on this land if it weren't for me?"

Both Yang Zhewan and Hadyeev felt a chill run down their spines.

Wu Pifu picked up his wine cup and drank it all in one gulp. He said, "I'm not good at governing, nor do I like these tedious matters. I'm well aware of my limitations, and I have no desire to rule over a large number of people. To put it bluntly, I'm an immortal, after all. What kind of immortal becomes emperor? But I do know one thing: the people in the world I've been to cannot be worse off than before I arrived. That's why I have to kill—kill all I can, and then..."

“They will be afraid. Although people have a long memory, I am willing to kill them again and again until they will be terrified from their very genes if they dare not treat people as human beings.”

Wu Pifu laughed as he said, "And what about you guys? Continue surveying the land. With my killing spree, all your resistance will be gone. Then start land reform, improve technology, and increase productivity. Wouldn't that solve everything? As for me, I'll be your nuclear weapon. Don't worry, I can bring myself to do it."

After saying that, Wu Pifu turned and walked out of the main hall. Everyone stood up, and Huang Rong immediately ran to Wu Pifu's side. Yang Zhewan called out, "Are you going back?"

Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "No, I've decided to exterminate all demons in the world. It's not enough to just scare them in Asia. You can tell from the foreign superhumans who came this time. I've decided to exterminate all of them. If that's not enough, I'll exterminate them several more times in the future. Once they're scared, they naturally won't dare to do it again. Besides, there's something I'm holding onto.

The group was bewildered. Before they could ask any questions, they saw Wu Pifu supporting Huang Rong's waist, then soaring into the sky. When they looked again, he was already far away.

Thus, five days later, Baghdad, the most dazzling pearl of the Abbasid Caliphate, was established.

The Zoroastrian high altar is located here, where the sacred life burns eternally. Around this altar, the Zoroastrians built a magnificent and solemn temple, with hundreds of steps all carved from marble, and huge white stone pillars supporting the grand hall.

Every moment, believers come kneeling in worship, offering gold, silver, and copper coins to the priests of the sacred fire. Depending on the amount of currency offered, they receive different receptions and blessings. At the same time, there are also believers who offer their bodies to the saints, bringing the sound of life to this temple.

All of this was so magnificent, and the high priest, as always, stood at the highest point of the altar, looking down at the entire temple and the Pearl City of Baghdad.

Then he frowned because he saw a black dot rapidly approaching in the distance.

The black dot is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more vivid. It looks... like a huge ship?

In the sky?
It's not like the golden boat from Egyptian legend; how could a ship fly in the sky?

He grew increasingly confused, but before he could figure it out, the ship had already flown from the horizon to above the city, and then his eyes widened in disbelief as the ship hurtled toward the top of the temple at an incredible speed.

Just before he was about to be crushed, he saw the figure on the ship, and a human supporting the entire ship from the bottom.

This was the last thing he saw: the human throwing the ship down, then kicking it through the air, causing the air to swell and spark from the friction. The next instant...

The high priest, along with most of the temple, was kicked to pieces. The massive temple ruins flew hundreds of meters into the air before scattering into fist-sized stones that fell towards the center of Baghdad.

Wu Pifu.

coming.

(End of this chapter)