Chapter 669 - Tearing Through Space? (2/2)

Ye Lingchen’s gaze turned serious. Those words were worth thinking over.

He took a deep breath, finally asking, “Chief Qin…what’s the purpose for the existence of a martial artist?”

“Of course it’s to protect our home and country.”

“Then…who’s our enemy?” Ye Lingchen continued questioning.

Qin Baichuan and Lin Tianxiong fell silent at the same time. They both exchanged looks, then looked over at Ye Lingchen with a hint of surprise in their eyes.

Qin Baichuan furrowed his brows, then shot a glance at Dong Miaomiao, signaling for her to leave.

Ye Lingchen already had his own speculations and probed, “Chief Qin, what is Hell’s Gate?”

That question caused both their expression to change immediately.

“You know about Hell’s Gate?” Lin Tianxiong exclaimed.

Logically speaking, that name was very childish. However, it was unavoidable. Such a phenomenon was even more unimaginable than childish thoughts.

“We found its information from the Stick Nation’s network. Is there really another world out there?” Ye Lingchen’s expression turned somber. Beside him, Dong Miaomiao felt anxious. It was one thing to read about it online, but altogether a different matter when confirmed.

“Hell’s Gate…” Qin Baichuan thought for a moment before nodding and said, “There’s really another world. However, I’m not sure about its actual contents as well.”

“Even you’re unsure?” This time, Ye Lingchen was really surprised. Qin Baichuan was the person in charge at the Coiling Dragon special training camp, someone at the rank of General, but was still in the dark?

Lin Tianxiong shot a look at Ye Lingchen, “No need to be surprised. A person’s rank does not mean much. It’s all just a facade for the general public. Moreover, you can think of the Warrior’s Department as a training and filtering organization.”

“Training and filtering?” Ye Lingchen could extrapolate a lot just from the literal meaning of those words. Training was naturally referring to the training of martial artists. However, filtering should be referring to picking out martial artists with exceptional talent. However, what was the filter for?

Noticing the change in Ye Lingchen’s expression, Lin Tianxiong nodded and said, “That’s right, it’s literally what the word means.”

“To defend against Hell’s Gate?”

“Yes, and no.” Qin Baichuan sighed. “As to what Hell’s Gate is, both Old Lin and I have no idea. However, from what the legends tell us, it sounds like transcendence and tearing through space.”

“Tearing through space?” Ye Lingchen was intrigued and felt his heart tightened.

Putting all else aside, he had in fact obtained the Cultivation skill. Did that mean that he would be able to tear through space and transcend in the future?

“It is indeed tearing through space, but at the same time, not exactly so. Sometimes, the tear in space would tremble and drop some stuff out of it. It may be a good thing, or a bad thing.” Qin Baichuan’s expression was serious. He then explained in a low voice, “Three years ago, East Capital experienced a serious earthquake with massive losses. That was caused by the Hell’s Gate over there. Moreover, last year’s tsunami that hit Atlantis was also caused by Hell’s Gate. You should’ve heard about Dazhou Island that was almost destroyed a hundred years ago. The virus responsible for melanosis also came from Hell’s Gate!”

Ye Lingchen gasped, feeling a chill run through his heart.

Although Dazhou Island was called an island, it was actually quite a populated country. A hundred years ago, it was still doing quite well. However, just because of the appearance of melanosis, it almost caused the entire country’s population to perish! According to the records, over 80 percent of its populace died!

Regarding melanosis, the internet had a lot of theories. However, the source of the virus was still inconclusive to that very day…