Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 221: Chapter 104: Arrival of the Doll

Jing Lin compensated Li Yelai with a piece of Spiritual Ability Equipment, which was a C-ranked Three-Pointed Blade.

The Three-Pointed Blade is also a variant of the long spear and is also known as a three-pointed two-edged spear, lance, knife.

Among its users, the most famous is the mythological figure of True Lord Erlang, the Manifested Sage.

Its spear handle is made of some unknown red wood, and the spear blade shows a pattern with black and gold edges.

It looks very appealing in terms of sale. The weapon overall is quite light, estimated to be only two-thirds the weight of the Red Dragon Spear.

Its spiritual energy effect comes from the Flowing Wind of a Spiritual Ability User on the Path of Zero.

When using the ability, it will cause air currents to surge according to the movement of the Three-Pointed Blade, creating a vortex.

If controlled properly, it’s also possible to slash out a Wind Blade.

It’s considered an attack-type Spiritual Ability Equipment.

Li Yelai was swinging the weapon single-handedly to get the feel of it while listening to Jing Lin speak.

In conversation with him, Li Yelai learned about the situation they had encountered.

According to the Jing Family, on their way from the manor to the branch office,

they met some civilians hiding in houses.

Mostly, these were people who failed to reach the shelter in time or were dispersed human teams.

The Jing Family hesitated but ultimately decided to protect these civilians.

Another part consisted of Wild Spirit Ability Users and their followers.

Some of them were wanted for murder, and even with the Disaster Fog, they dared not appear within the government’s view.

They could only rely on their extraordinary abilities to create their own shelter, foolishly hoping to escape both the Insect Swarm and the officials.

In such an environment, enveloped by calamity, their morals and order completely crumbled.

Some Wild Spirit Ability Users, or their followers, relying on their own force, domineered within their shelters, oppressing men and bullying women.

And the civilians they were ”protecting” could only maintain their silence.

Because any Resisters had already been killed by them or thrown directly into the Insect Swarm.

Without official restraint, they were like returning to a wild land beyond the law, capable of any absurd deeds.

Humiliating someone’s wife in front of her husband, dropping a steamed bun in a room filled with starving people, manipulating relatives to lure away the Insect Swarm.

When the Jing Family accidentally encountered these people, a conflict inevitably erupted.

Although Jing Lin was a son of a Spiritual Ability Family and had different values from ordinary people, he detested evil.

He directly took action and wiped out that small group of Wild Spirit Ability Users, gaining a lot of materials and taking on more civilians.

”From the mouths of the rescued civilians, we know that those who most brutally oppressed them were the followers of the Spirit Ability Users. They received your official protection normally, but in the Calamity, they committed acts of oppressing their own kind. So, even if they are accomplices... I also...” Jing Lin paused.

”You killed them?” Li Yelai asked.

”How could that be, I just didn’t take them with us, and I kindly locked their floors.” Jing Lin chuckled lightly: ”I am a law-abiding good citizen.”

”Oh, then I suppose, there are still Insect Swarms wandering in the building.” Li Yelai nodded slightly, understanding Jing Lin’s intention.

Jing Lin continued speaking. As the number of civilians in the shelter grew, it was difficult for the team to move forward safely and at some point during the journey, they disturbed an Insect Swarm.

Jing Lin himself encountered a giant War Worm in that battle.

That was a fighting insect of a higher class than the Hunting Insect.

If the Hunting Insect is a stealthy assassin lurking in the darkness,

then the War Worm is like a heavy tank on the frontline of the battlefield.

The upper body is similar to the Hunting Insect, with six thick arms, each arm ending with sharp and heavy drills.

But at a height of eight to ten meters, its lower half is a massive and powerful tail of a serpent.

Its strength is roughly equivalent to a human Spirit Ability User in the Four Awakenings. Among them are mutated giant War Worms with the fighting power of around a Fifth Sense Spiritual Ability User.

Jing Lin was forced to use the Skyfire Eyes to exterminate the War Worm,

The Skyfire Eyes, one of the Magic Potion inheritances of the Jing Family.

Simply by focusing one’s gaze on the target for a moment, one can ignite Spiritual Flames on the target that are difficult to extinguish.

The Detective would probably be envious on hearing this.

Jing Lin first used the Skyfire Eyes to burn a War Worm to death, then used another eye to burn a large number of the Insect Swarm. It was enough to rout the first wave.

Then he was spent, with an abundance of spiritual energy but rendered incapable of causing damage because of a curse.

The team then took the chance to hide in a commercial street and set up a defense, waiting for his curse to be lifted.

Unfortunately, they were besieged by the Insect Swarm.

Jing Lin could only make a sound in the Void Realm, contacting the nearest official shelters, calling for reinforcements.

However, the sounds he made in the Void Realm were also heard by the Insect Swarm. Even more swarmed in directly.

Had Li Yelai not taken action, the casualties might have been even greater.

Currently, the Disaster Fog blocks all signals.

Humanity’s reliable form of communication is now only the connections within the shelters. These are underground lines set up in advance, which can still be used.

Everything else, whether signal flares or communication through the Void Realm, will draw the Insect Swarm.

It was precisely because of this that Jing Lin didn’t hesitate to give Li Yelai a set of Extraordinary Armor as a token of gratitude.

At this moment, a member of the Jing Family came to report: ”Brother Lin, the official reinforcements have arrived again, and it’s one person again.”

Jing Lin looked at Li Yelai with some confusion: ”All the reinforcements your officials send come one by one? What’s wrong with you?”

”I got separated and came over when I heard gunshots,” Li Yelai shook his head.

Jing Lin nodded, then said to the Jing Family member: ”So invite him in, okay? My vision hasn’t fully recovered yet,”