This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 163 You have launched an attack on [CSSS·Warning Line]
What?! What?! What is all this?!

Inside the cave, Han Jiangxue and the others dared not look up. They could only grit their teeth and carry the falling rocks, trying their best to retreat outwards.

Compared to those terrifying eyes, the mental pressure from 'Sinhe' and the knowledge about the Void-Crossing Demon, God, Blood Moon, and Golden Heavenly Lord mentioned in his words seemed insignificant!
"You want to kill me? How are you going to kill me?"

'Sinhe' sneered. Its human body still allowed it to exhibit anthropomorphic reactions, even though it was essentially just a subroutine of a Homo sapiens automatic cleaning program.

“You are nothing now, Nie Weiyang. If you were to revert to your original form, I might be able to have a proper talk with you, but right now, in this space, you can hardly even harm my body…”

'Sinhe's' voice stopped.

He slowly lowered his head. A golden spear emerged from the head of the brown-gold python, its white-glowing tip piercing his chest and abdomen.

The brown-gold python, a companion he had never looked at closely, was being dragged by the spear, its head tilted back, leaving only five bloody holes where its eyes should have been.

It was already blind, and that spear took its life.

It fell from the sky, merely a tailor-made gift box; the real danger lurked within its brain!

"What are you looking at?" Nie Weiyang smiled.

His smile was as gentle and calm as ever, yet it was chilling like never before.

“Come on,” he said, “obedient dog, come and fight the fight your master didn’t finish.”

Han Jiangxue and the others ran out of the cave through the rubble, but after only a few steps, a huge boulder collapsed and crashed down behind them.

The flying stones hit the ice shield with a crackling sound. Han Jiangxue, at the back of the crowd, ran up the ice shield without saying a word. Her posture began to distort again, but the ice shield she held up remained cold and hard.

She gave the old Taoist priest a deep look, seemingly very interested in his ability to levitate.

“‘Original Body’…?” Xuan Yun murmured, repeating this key word.

"Don't think nonsense," the old Taoist priest suddenly reminded him.

A blue light flowed around him as he held onto the replica sword with all his might, floating in mid-air and following the others.

“I saw that person with these eyes,” he said. “And then…”

"What was the result?" Xuan Yun asked.

"As a result, I no longer take off my sunglasses casually." The old Taoist priest smiled.

"He doesn't take off his sunglasses because he's afraid that if someone looks into his eyes, they'll die. I don't take off my sunglasses because I'm afraid that if I see his eyes again, I'll die young." He answered frankly, "It's good that my vital energy has dissipated. Without this supernatural power, if I look at him again, nothing will happen."

Xuan Yun remained silent, and the people around him were also lost in their own thoughts. They rushed up to the upper floors and out of the research institute, only to be overwhelmed by the stench as soon as they stepped outside.

The ground was littered with thousands of snake corpses, mixed with human corpses, their flesh and bones crushed into a pulp.

The hellish scene made everyone almost feel like they were no longer in the human world, but had just entered a research institute and come out as if they had traveled through time... But it also seemed to be just normal, and this was the true nature of the new world. All the peace and rules of the past, all the order that continued on Earth, were just something that someone was suppressing.

Under the cover of darkness, on the blood-soaked earth, chariots stood in rows.

Yi Jian emerged from the shadows, brandishing the gleaming revolver in his hand, and shouted, "Old Han! No, Xiao Jiang! I'm here! Where's Brother Nie?"

Han Jiangxue, who was at the back of the crowd, walked over quickly. She was covered in dust and looked like she had fallen many times, but she didn't mention what she had experienced inside. Instead, she asked, "Why did you change your tune?"

"It feels like calling him 'old man' sounds too much like calling him that," Yi Jian muttered, then asked again, "Where's Brother Nie?"

"Brother Nie still has some things to take care of," Han Jiangxue replied without changing her expression.

She glanced around at the surrounding chariots, seemingly hesitant about something. The most critical moment had passed, and her social skills were starting to fail her.

Yi Jian sensed that she seemed to want to say something and immediately asked, "What do you want to say?"

"..." Han Jiangxue organized her thoughts for a moment: "Did you feel the earthquake just now?"

“Of course!” Yi Jian’s eyes widened at the mention of this: “My God, that was… I almost lost my footing! But it didn’t seem to have any upward force, so it shouldn’t have been a real earthquake…”

"That's Brother Nie fighting with something down there," Han Jiangxue said. Amidst the shocked reactions of those around her, she calmly warned, "You'd better get back somewhere. I suspect this ground is about to collapse..."

Halfway through his sentence, another earthquake suddenly shook the ground!
Han Jiangxue reacted extremely quickly, using ice crystals to form a cane to support her. Perhaps because she had fallen so many times, she had developed an inexplicable skill in doing so.

Yi Jian skillfully turned around and grabbed the chariot, barely managing to avoid falling to the ground. "Retreat! Retreat!" he shouted, relaying Han Jiangxue's message over the loudspeaker: "Run! It'll be too late if you don't run now!"

‘Boom! ! ! ’

'Singhe' was pierced by a spear and pinned to the top of the cave. He wore a compassionate smile, and clear blood flowed down the spear like a spring.

His body was crumbling; his bones were softening, his blood was discolored, and his injuries showed no signs of healing. The spear from the Golden God had now become an excellent tool against the Golden God's creation. The spearhead's crystalline aggression against Homo sapiens' genes was now being displayed in its most acute form!
At this moment, vegetation is growing in the cave, but after the soil and rocks were scattered, the original metal structure was exposed again.

Behind six or seven meters of rock, walls, instruments, rooms with higher access, and 'area seals' that bind everything... a 'research institute's bottom layer' filled with high technology gradually emerges.

Nie Weiyang was trapped in a vine thicket, countless vines and grasses entwined around him, hanging on his body, crawling into the gaps in his armor, and tearing his inner clothing.

He was also bleeding profusely, but his expression remained calm. With a single effort, he broke off a vine and leaped out of the deep pit.

The blood of dark creatures mingled with the radiance of divine power, constantly corroding each other, bringing him pain and erasing the greenery mixed within.

“Interesting, Administrator Number Two,” 'Sinhe' chuckled.

It slid forward, its body caught by vines extending from the cave ceiling, its posture elegant and light.

"Two 'world bosses' are fighting desperately here, and one of them is actually fighting for an enemy..." it asked with a smile. "Isn't that ironic in the eyes of humans? One of their enemies is fighting for them and another enemy."

“Look, you’re still not human enough.” Nie Weiyang pulled a vine from his chest and abdomen, tossed it aside, and watched it wither on the ground.

“If you had called me ‘Administrator Number Two’ in front of them, the message would have been more effective.” He switched the longsword to his other hand.

“Really? Why?” 'Sinhe' asked, seemingly a little curious.

“No, I was just kidding,” Nie Weiyang replied. “Even if you shouted it out, they wouldn’t believe you. And even if they did believe you, they would pretend not to.”

Now 'Sinhe' was genuinely curious: 'Why...?'

"Because this is—"

With a flick of his finger, Nie Weiyang caused the spear on the cave ceiling to suddenly detach from the soil and rocks and plummet downwards!

"--secret!"

"Crack!"

The vines contracted, but 'Sinhe' hanging on them couldn't dodge in time, and the spear smashed the body from mid-air into the ground!

This blow was incredibly powerful; 'Singhe' and his spear were slammed several meters into the ground, causing the soil and rocks, which appeared out of nowhere, to crack open and reveal the cold, metallic ground beneath.

Nie Weiyang took a few steps forward and leaped into the air!

"you--"

The longsword in his hand shone brightly, and a galaxy-like radiance converged and extended!
"Too slow!"

He swung his sword down, and together with the light, crashed into the crater!

'Singhe's' power was severely limited by this body, but he was still very resilient. The heavy blow did not kill him, but rather tore his skin and shattered his bones, yet he still did not die.

The metal structure beneath him was cleaved with a massive groove.

He let out a breathless laugh, and at the same time, a cold notification appeared in Nie Weiyang's field of vision:

[You have launched an attack on [CSSS·Alert Line], and [CSSS·Alert Line] has entered combat.]

"Come on! Come on! Administrator Number Two!" 'Sinhe's' voice was as loud as a whale's song. The anthropomorphic illusion gradually faded from its body, and golden scales completely replaced its skin: "Return to your true form and fight against the incarnation of the world!"

He suddenly lowered his voice, raised his head, and wore a strange, puppet-like smile:

"You only have security personnel access to the CSSS system, don't you? You can't shut it down—it will rise, rise like a blood moon, and then, bring all those you care about to the great evolution!"

"What are you going to do, Administrator Number Two?"

(End of this chapter)