Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

He could clearly see his own body and these rats, and he could even mentally simulate what would happen if he were actually standing there, how his body would be crippled and in pain by these rats.

But he felt nothing at all. When the rats passed by him, they didn't even make a ripple in his presence, as if they were just passing through a piece of air.

This unprecedented experience, so different from the objective reality, caused Rentaro and Enju's hearts to pound, their mouths agape, and they unconsciously broke into unrestrained smiles.

The swarm of rats rushed past, followed closely by a tremendous tremor. The narrow sewers were being jostled by a huge monster, emitting a desperate, agonizing scream as if they were about to burst.

It was a regional level 4 Gastrea, hunting a swarm of rats.

Even though ten years have passed since Gastrea, tenacious creatures still find their own way out. Even though the world has been taken over by Gastrea, all kinds of normal animals still exist and stubbornly continue to live on.

However, it is obvious that their living space is being increasingly squeezed by Gastrea, their numbers are decreasing, and some powerful Gastrea are deliberately hunting them.

And this hunting isn't for eating, but rather for the majority of infections.

Rentaro and Enju watched as the level 4 Gastrea caught up with the swarm of rats, devouring at least a thousand of them out of tens of thousands. At least six or seven hundred of the remaining rats were quickly transformed into Gastrea and swarmed around the dominant Gastrea.

"!"

Before Rentaro could even feel suffocated, the scene quickly changed and switched.

Rentaro and Enju saw it all: in the mountains, in abandoned human cities, in rivers, in the ocean, underground, in sewers, and high in the sky, countless animals that were still barely surviving were being chased and transformed by all kinds of Gastrea, becoming countless new Gastrea.

That quantity, that quantity, that quantity...!

Whoosh!

Just as Rentaro and Enju were both staring with rage, clenching their fists, veins bulging, and gasping for breath, overwhelmed by despair, with a whoosh and a crisp sound, the two of them were back in the alley in the Tokyo area where they had first met Mefilas.

"Well, are you now willing to have a proper conversation with me?"

Mefilas elegantly placed one hand behind his back, revealing a gentlemanly smile as he looked at Rentaro and Enju, whose eyes were almost bulging out, completely bewildered, their minds filled with the wonders they had just witnessed and the sheer number of Gastrea that even all of humanity's nuclear missiles and known metals couldn't kill.

Mefilas's voice and tone were so gentlemanly, yet the truth he revealed with a smile was so devilish:

"I have no ill intentions towards you, there's no need to doubt it, because I didn't even need to lift a finger. The fate of humanity on this planet being wiped out was already decided ten years ago, wasn't it?"

Volume 1: Chapter 514. The Turning Point in Rentaro Satomi's Fate, Mefilas's Demonic Heart

514. The turning point in Rentaro Satomi's fate: Mefilas's demonic heart.

"vomit!"

Upon returning to the alley, Rentaro and Enju immediately collapsed to the ground, trembling and gagging.

The journey, lasting only one minute, was so thrilling that every second of visual enjoyment was an unparalleled feast, a feast that surpassed all the knowledge I had gained in the past sixteen and ten years. However, the side effects were also obvious.

Without being adequately prepared, both Rentaro and Enju were terrified. They dry-vomited for a while, unable to vomit anything, before gradually recovering. They took deep breaths, pressed their palms to their foreheads, and their heartbeats gradually returned to normal.

Mefilas also contributed to this; his telekinetic powers were released at will, and the surrounding air was immediately filled with a pleasant scent, soothing Rentaro and Enju's body cells and their turbulent thoughts.

Mefilas, the wise and shrewd of the Four Dark Kings renowned throughout the universe, asked with gentlemanly concern, "How is it?"

"What do you mean, ugh..."

Rentaro Satomi gagged one last time, wiped his mouth, and staggered to his feet, helping Enju to her feet as well. Then, with an incredibly complicated expression, he looked at Mefilas and asked, "What's wrong with you...?"

"It's just a trivial application of telekinesis, please don't worry about it. If it frightened you or this young lady, then I sincerely apologize."

The term "insignificant application of psychic power" refers to the fact that the person recognized by everyone in the Land of Light's main universe as the number one person in terms of psychic power below the ultimate level.

Humility and avoiding boasting are the virtues of a gentleman in Mefilas.

"Insignificant? Haha." Rentaro Satomi laughed weakly. Since Mefilas had said so, what else could he say?

The only thing to do is let it go, isn't it?

Rather than continuing to ask questions that would obviously not yield many answers, Rentaro Satomi struggled, took a deep breath, and solemnly asked, "What exactly was that we just saw?"

“As you can see,” the Mefilas aliens chimed in, acting as the ever-answering aliens, “since humanity fell into chaos ten years ago and chose to retreat to a corner of the world, the number of Gastrea has been increasing dramatically every day during this period.”

"According to my estimate, it might be five years at the earliest, and ten years at the latest, when the Gastrea on this planet will be so numerous that even if the giant gilded monument standing outside remains stable, they will collectively choose to overflow and cross the border, attacking human settlements everywhere."

Rentaro Satomi's pupils constricted, and he involuntarily hissed, "What a joke! How could something like that happen?!"

"If that's the case, are you implying that in ten years, or even just five, humanity will become completely extinct?"

Mefilas smiled, showing no anger whatsoever at being offended, and innocently said in a voice like that of a historian, "I deeply sympathize with you, Rentaro-kun."

"How could this happen..."

Seeing that Mefilas remained unmoved, Rentaro Satomi stopped getting angry and instead leaned heavily against the wall of the rented room on the side of the alley to keep himself from losing his balance.

His expression became incredibly varied in just a few seconds, with a multitude of emotions playing out in turn, sometimes even simultaneously on his face.

Actually, he knew it too. There was no need to ask. Just like him and Yeonjoo, after seeing those scenes with their own eyes, they already knew everything.

This is reality. Globally, the number of Gastrea outside has now reached a point where it's impossible to count them all, which is enough to make his scalp tingle.

To put it simply, if we were to gather the top police forces in the Tokyo area, we could probably counter a large-scale invasion of thousands of Gastrea, which are Level 4 Gastrea.

If we include the military with firearms, and also the remaining police officers ranked lower, and exert all our efforts, we can resist an invasion of 100,000 Gastrea.

However, after defeating this wave of 100,000 Gastrea, both the military and the police will be severely weakened, especially the police, who will definitely have very few people left.

However, the number of Gastrea that the Mefilas aliens, along with him and Enju, saw in just one minute was already in the hundreds of millions within Japan alone.

No, you could even say, a billion?

The reason I say it's in the hundreds of millions is because once the number exceeds one hundred million, I lose all sense of it. I only know that they are everywhere, that they are endless, but I have no idea how many there are.

This doesn't even include Gastrea in the oceans near Japan, only those on land and in the air.

He didn't know how much knowledge those Gastrea had. He only knew that, not just Tokyo, but also all the other cities in Japan, including Tokyo and Osaka.

Now, even if all the living people, all the forces, and all the human power in the world were gathered together and brought to Tokyo, what if the Gastrea from the Japanese region all invaded Tokyo...

Then, I'm afraid that in less than three days, or perhaps only one day at most, humanity will be completely wiped out!

And this is just the Gastrea species found in one place, Japan.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Rentaro Satomi chuckled dryly. Although everyone knew that Gastrea could turn other protozoa into Gastrea, since humanity chose to retreat ten years ago, everyone from the highest levels of government to ordinary people in various countries had tacitly stopped thinking about this.

But hiding your head in the sand won't work.

Now, after being shown the sights of various places by the Mefilas aliens in just one minute, Rentaro Satomi is feeling utterly hopeless, his throat dry and hoarse.

Before today, he lived each day with great enthusiasm, dreaming that humanity would eventually accept the cursed child, wondering whether he would marry Kisaragi or Miori, how many children he would have, and how many places he could be ranked on the police IP list.

However, all those dreams were shattered at this moment, trampled and crushed by cruel reality. The so-called dreams were nothing more than wishful thinking and daydreams.

Five to ten years, the countdown to human extinction.

Once he learned this, an immense pressure, greater than the collapse of the sky, suddenly surged within him, making it hard for him to breathe.

Rentaro Satomi, panting heavily, stared weakly at Mefilas, squeezing out a feeble condemnation through clenched teeth: "Why...why did you do such a wicked thing?"

"Bad intentions? Although you're not the first person to give that assessment, it's just a coincidence that I'm a universally acknowledged gentleman. What bad intentions could I possibly have?"

Humans cannot discern the expressions of the Mefilas aliens, but Rentaro Satomi is certain that this guy is currently wearing a very pleasant smile!

He is a demon, a demon whose wickedness has reached its extreme!

"Enough!" Enju gritted her teeth and shouted, "Stop bullying Rentaro, you wicked and twisted guy!"

Upon hearing this, Mefilas seemed to laugh even harder: "Oh dear, little one, aren't you at all worried about dying in five years?"

"There's no way I'm not afraid of dying!"

Enju snorted heavily, "But what's the use of being afraid? Since I already know there are only five years left, I'll just use these five years to win over Rentaro, and do this and that with him. Then I'll have no regrets in this life, so it doesn't matter!"

"Is that so? But in my opinion, it's because you know that the cursed child is basically impossible to live to fifteen, right? But have you thought about your partner? Rentaro-kun doesn't just want to live for another five years."

Looking at the resounding words of Enju Aihara, Mifilas, in a rather gentlemanly manner, casually uttered a sentence that instantly left Enju speechless and unable to respond, standing there stuck in a rut.

"Enough! Did you just come here to toy with me and Yeonjoo?!"

Rentaro Satomi shouted!

Then, looking at the seemingly unyielding Mefilas, he paused again, as if suddenly realizing something: "Wait...you, Mefilas alien, you..."

"Hmm?" The Mefilas alien met his gaze with a gentle expression, as if encouraging him to say something.

Rentaro Satomi's eyes were unpredictable, as if he were making the biggest struggle in his history.

This struggle lasted for more than ten seconds, and then at a certain moment, the ground of the alley suddenly made a deep, sincere sound. Rentaro Satomi knelt heavily on the ground, made a perfect dogeza (a traditional Japanese prostration), and knelt down, pleading loudly: "Please help us, please help us defeat the Gastrea, Mefilas aliens!"

"Huh?" Things happened so fast and suddenly that Yeonju hadn't even had time to react.

Mefilas, on the other hand, seemed to have expected this. He chuckled and clapped his hands in praise: "Not bad, not bad, Rentaro-kun. I thought you would try to play the moral blackmail game with me. It seems you are not as pedantic as I thought. You are a good person, Rentaro-kun."

"Then?" Rentaro Satomi excitedly raised his head, his eyes filled with longing.

With a smile, Mefilas casually interrupted all of Rentaro Satomi's thoughts with a single sentence: "However, I am not that cheap. You are dreaming a bit, Rentaro-kun."

"—"

Rentaro Satomi remained silent, his mouth agape as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a word.

He had actually considered using moral blackmail. If it were for the sake of all humanity, even though he knew it was wrong, he would still do it!

He didn't even need to guess to know that moral blackmail would be completely useless against this wicked and wicked alien in front of him.

If the other party were someone who could be morally blackmailed, they wouldn't have toyed with him and Enju like this in the first place. Although they did ensure his and Enju's safety throughout the entire process, this is enough to prove that the Mefilas aliens are probably not righteous heroes!

That's why he pleaded so earnestly.

But if even that doesn't work, then what should he do? What should he do to get this alien, whose power is beyond everyone's imagination, to help humanity and ensure the continuation of humankind?

Just as Rentaro Satomi was in a state of confusion and didn't know what to do, a childish voice suddenly rang out.

"--wrong!"

"Enju?"

With one hand on her hip and the other pointing at the Mifilas alien, Aihara Enju exclaimed, "This isn't right!"

"Oh? Is something wrong?" Mefilas was quite cooperative, giving her a stage to perform.

"You must have something on your mind, something about me, or something about Rentaro and me combined!"

Ten-year-old Enju's mind worked faster than Rentaro's at this moment. "Otherwise, there's nothing special about Rentaro and me. Why don't you appear in front of other people? Why do you have to appear here with us and talk so much to Rentaro and me?"

"You've been rambling on and on; you must have your reasons. Tell me right now what it will take for you to accept Rentaro's request!"