"Thank you, Senior Uzuki, for saving my life!"
A message suddenly came in. It was from Du Chengming.
"A young man wanted to ask me for your contact information and specific details, but I didn't reveal anything."
"We don't know when those non-humans revived another Level 3. We suspect there may very well be more."
"We'll find out the specific reason as soon as possible."
After Shimizu had dealt with that werewolf earlier, he had originally wanted to take a closer look at what the legendary creature actually looked like. Unfortunately, there had been an outsider present at the time who did not know his true identity, so he could only leave first.
He locked the phone screen, then looked again at the blood on the wall not far away.
It was the scent of blood he had not touched in a long time.
Over there, two criminals who had been about to assault a young woman were now slumped against one side of the wall.
They were dead.
He had not even used the slightest bit of chakra. He had merely pushed them lightly, and two living lives had vanished just like that.
This was the first time he had killed someone after returning to reality.
There was no tearful gratitude like he had imagined, nor were there cheers from the crowd for a hero.
Whether it was the woman he had saved or the passersby who had rushed over after hearing her cries, their eyes were filled with confusion, shock, and even fear.
"Why did he have to kill them? Their crimes didn't deserve death, right?"
"But robbery, and sexual assault too—that's already a very serious crime."
"But he killed people. Is this young man going to prison?"
"Maybe it'll count as justified self-defense?"
"Don't talk nonsense. This is clearly excessive force."
"How is it excessive force? This is obviously righteous intervention!"
Shimizu heard the surrounding crowd's discussion clearly.
This was no longer that world of killing from before.
Here, killing someone could lead to punishment under the law.
Even if he were ultimately judged innocent, he would certainly be detained first.
Shimizu suddenly felt a little tired.
Everything that had once been so familiar now made him feel completely out of place.
Was it really impossible to go back anymore?
The truth was…
The world that suited him better, the world he preferred, was that one.
…
When he passed Qinghai Commercial Plaza again, he saw the roller-skating youth in one corner of the plaza.
She was still recommending her drawings.
"Sir, what a coincidence."
The youth saw him as well.
"Since we're so fated, how about I draw a picture for you? It's very cheap."
"Then draw one."
Shimizu then asked, "Do I need to pose?"
"Anything is fine. Just be natural."
"All right."
The youth picked up the pen and began to draw. In only a short while, the artwork had already taken shape.
"How is it?"
The youth seemed quite satisfied with her own work.
Shimizu's expression became slightly strange. So this was how ordinary people saw him. It was rather different from the image he had imagined earlier.
"What's your name?"
"Jian Lin."
A somewhat unusual name.
"You're a girl?" Shimizu noticed that she did not have an Adam's apple.
"Ah… yes."
So she was a tomboy.
"It's a good drawing."
Shimizu paid, then turned and left directly.
"Eh, sir, your picture?"
"No need. You keep it."
Leaving only those words behind, the black-clad figure had already disappeared into the crowd.
Jian Lin lowered her head and looked again at the drawing in her hand.
All right.
A strange person.
Still, thank you.
And goodbye.
…
January 29, 2022.
The Night God Palace, Nanhai.
As expected, this was a grand international banquet, with hundreds of guests in attendance.
The people who could come here were likely either those with some understanding of the supernatural world or simply supernatural individuals themselves.
"Hey, handsome. Aren't you going to buy me a drink?"
A tall, beautiful woman had set her sights on Shimizu. Although Shimizu's appearance was not especially outstanding, any single man able to enter a place like this must possess considerable social status.
This was not somewhere money alone could get a person inside.
"Aren't the drinks here free?"
Shimizu glanced at a nearby attendant and said, "There are some over there. Take whatever you like."
"Uh…"
The beauty was choked off for a moment and could only speak more directly.
"My name is Shen Xu. I currently work at Northern Industries Group."
That was one of the nation's top military-industrial enterprises. Anyone able to work in a place like that must certainly have considerable connections, and anyone able to attend this banquet was bound to be either one of its higher-ups or a direct relative of someone in the upper levels.
Shimizu, however, felt nothing about it.
"Xu Ziqing. I write for a living."
"Huh?"
"Web novels."
"Is it some famous literary work…"
Clearly, the woman had never wasted her youth on web novels. She actually did not even know what they were.
Of course, it was also possible that she had preconceived the idea that Shimizu must hold an extremely powerful position in some industry or field.
"Twin Fates of Konoha. Oh, and remember to subscribe and support it. Writing isn't easy."
Shimizu turned and left, leaving Shen Xu standing there completely confused.
Meanwhile, Ye Xiaoqing and Lin Jingyan, who had heard the entire exchange from nearby, were stunned.
"Isn't he a senior executive at Eastsea Technology?" Ye Xiaoqing found it a little strange.
Lin Jingyan immediately reached a conclusion.
"He's a scumbag. Who acts pretentious like that?"
"That counts as acting pretentious? Also, how exactly do you define scummy?"
"All men who breathe are scumbags."
"…"
Not knowing how to respond to that, Ye Xiaoqing began searching online for the book title Shimizu had just mentioned. A moment later, she said in surprise, "This book really exists."
Lin Jingyan said disdainfully, "A total flop."
"Flop means it's doing badly, right? Also, how do you know that?"
"I've read it. What kind of transmigrator gets killed by the natives?" Lin Jingyan rolled her eyes. "Tch. And he was even lusting after that Hyūga girl's body. Shameless."
"…"
…
"The food here tastes pretty good, doesn't it?"
Du Chengming said this when he saw Shimizu eating heartily without holding back.
"It's rare for me to come out. I have to eat enough to make the trip worth it."
Did you pay for it?
Du Chengming immediately buried that question deep in his stomach.
"I heard both the ingredients and the chefs are top-tier, so it shouldn't be bad." Du Chengming swirled a glass of red wine in his hand. "How nice. We get to eat a meal of delicacies, then go home."
Listening to his relaxed tone, he seemed completely confident.
"Senior Uzuki, we'll be starting work soon. Just watch us perform."
"So you don't need me to act anymore?"
"The preparations this time are extremely thorough. The military, Yanhuang Awakening, and Master all believe it's foolproof!"
"Confidence is a good thing."
"Of course. We were taught by you, after all."
At this time, the banquet also entered its main theme. Yanhuang Awakening and the Shen family displayed the two sacred relics from this operation, using the opportunity to express their hope of gathering the world's supernatural forces and establishing a truly powerful organization with real authority, one that could work together to resist the revival of the non-humans.
"That sword isn't bad," Shimizu commented.
It looked like an ordinary metal sword, aside from its somewhat unusual style.
Du Chengming was surprised. "You can tell?"
"I can't."
"…"
"Didn't you say that golden apple contained a large amount of innate true qi?" Shimizu suddenly frowned.
"Yes. Yanhuang Awakening is very certain about that."
"But in my perception, it's just a very ordinary object."
"You can sense that?"
Du Chengming was startled. This was the golden apple. How could it possibly be an ordinary dead object?
Then he remembered the true identity of the person before him.
"Are you sure?"
"Unless you've developed something new that can block my perception."
In an instant, Du Chengming's face turned deathly pale.
The original plan had not been like this at all.
Unless the item had been switched.
"Oh, you haven't? I thought so. The current military shouldn't have that ability either."
Shimizu had already understood where the problem lay.
"So are you going to confirm it?"
Du Chengming subconsciously nodded.
"Then wouldn't that alert the enemy?"
Du Chengming nodded again.
"All right, stop wasting my time."
Shimizu put down the plate in his hand.
"I still want to go home early."
If even something like that could be swapped out, then there was clearly a mole inside.
Taking the thought further, if the upper levels of humanity had been corrupted by the non-humans, then as long as they set a trap and killed all the supernatural individuals gathered here, humanity would basically lose its ability to continue resisting.
After all, almost all of the world's supernatural elites were gathered here.
Could it be that this plan had been a trap set by the non-humans against human supernaturals from the very beginning?
Suddenly, Shimizu sensed a not-weak burst of chakra erupting farther to the west.
Level 4.
Humanity had not even produced a Level 3 yet, so this Level 4 was clearly a non-human.
It was not an existence that the current humanity could deal with.
"By the way, what did you deploy on the ground over there?"
Boom—!
A series of muffled explosions rang out. It was the sound of artillery fire.
In an instant, everyone in the banquet hall became alert.
"The main force of the military and Yanhuang Awakening is over there."
"There's a Level 4 on that side."
Shimizu wiped the stains from his hand and continued, "Actually, this was originally prepared by the non-humans for all of you."
"The last supper."
"Senior Uzuki, please!"
When Du Chengming raised his head again, Shimizu had already disappeared.
…
When Shimizu reached the western battlefield at extreme speed, what he saw was a ruined battlefield.
Large numbers of human soldiers lay collapsed in pools of blood. Dozens of armored vehicles burned fiercely, and there was even an armed helicopter that had crashed to the ground.
It was not hard to imagine how brutal the fighting here had been moments earlier.
At the center of the battlefield, the one still standing was a vampire with only half of one bat wing left, still panting.
It had survived even under that kind of artillery barrage?
Was that monster really only Level 4?
"Who's there!"
With a sharp shout, soldiers aimed their guns at Shimizu, who had appeared at the edge of the battlefield.
Wang Yunshan immediately saw his immortal senior and cried out, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! He's one of ours!"
"Misunderstanding?!"
The moment the words fell, Shimizu had already arrived before the vampire. As the temperature plunged, snow-white frost began to crystallize over the vampire's body.
"Hmm?!"
The vampire suddenly realized that another human had appeared before it, but its body was abruptly unable to move.
Frost slowly spread across its body.
This was…
It could not break free.
It would die.
But if it died, then their race's awakening plan would…
In that instant of thought, it completely digested the small fragment of golden apple it had previously stored inside its body.
That was the hope of their race.
It felt boundless energy erupting inside it.
"This… is the power of the golden apple."
When had this monster eaten the golden apple?
Eating a fruit could make chakra erupt?
Could this thing be a chakra fruit?!
For the first time in this world, Shimizu felt a lethal threat.
In the next moment, a blue chakra storm swept across the entire battlefield.
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