Chapter 571 - Walk Straight Into The Trap (2/2)

With this disguise, he and A’Ji could swagger closer to Mutual Gold Coliseum through the underground tunnels. They did not need to go through the sewers or ventilation pipes, as they did before when they went to other places.

On their way, they were checked by three batches of armed gang members.

But there were just too many homeless people in the lair, and even if the lair was fortified, there were still plenty of men and women who could not find shelter.

The gangs could only do their best to point these people to the underground shelters, but not delay them so long as they did not run out and cause trouble. In such an urgent situation, it was impossible for them to check their identities one by one.

Meng Chao and the team had split into two groups. He and A’Ji served as the vanguards to see whether the secret tunnel leading straight to Mutual Gold Coliseum still existed.

Su Mulian and Song Jinbo stayed at the back.

Su Mulian could use the time together to tell him about what had happened in Leprosy Village, the will of the villagers led by Wild Wolf, and the tragedy that might happen nine hours later.

Song Jinbo was a local of the lair. He had been Saber Jin Wanhao’s right-hand man for years, and even though things had not been going well for him the past few years, no matter what, he still had his ways. He naturally had some plans to solve the situation and good friends that he could trust to have his back.

The moment Meng Chao found a breakthrough point and concrete proof, Song Jinbo would stake the connections, resources, and the reputation he built over decades to work with him.

But at that moment, Meng Chao heard muffled explosions that came from everywhere.

He saw the ceiling above him tremble a little.

The intersecting cracks became larger and denser.

A few spiders were creating their webs at the corners, and they got so terrified that they climbed up their threads, crawled into the cracks, and disappeared.

The lair citizens in the area became restless.

Rumors flew everywhere, just like in Leprosy Village.

No one knew where the news came from, but all the grassroots citizens in the lair knew that an incredibly dangerous abnormal beast and human traitors who were tempted by the monsters, corrupted, and turned into puppets had made home deep in the lair. They were hiding around them and were about to turn the lair into a literal hell.

Some people said that monsters had already occupied Leprosy Village and were using rapid-growing fungal sheaths and plants to turn the city into a bloody forest.

Some people said that the monster had created a terrifying drug known as Deification Capsule, which could turn humans into monsters. The villagers had all been “turned” and had now become the most evil and terrifying monster army. They were about to rush out of Leprosy Village and rip apart as well as eat all the lair citizens.

Some people even said that the abnormal beast had not tempted the Leprosy Village, but the villagers had willingly joined the monsters, because the infectees’ descendents had always been so deformed and ugly that they did not look human, so they no longer thought of themselves as humans. They would kill all humans as monsters, for this was the only way they could vent the anger and resentment they felt over the decades of discrimination.

Other people said that it did not matter whether the villagers did it willingly or not. The village was already a chaotic vortex, and the monsters’ paradise. This was an undeniable truth.

Before long, the horrifying vortex was going to expand and devour everything around it, even tear down the order in the lair.

The major players sitting high up in the city never cared about the survival of the lowest class citizens. Now, they had even sent all their elites to the borders and left the lair citizens to their own devices.

If the lair people did not want to be torn to shreds, they had to save themselves.

There was only one way for them to survive, and that was to charge through the barricade at any cost.

If the dirty and smelly citizens of the lair rushed to the classy residential areas where the superhumans stayed, those powerful people would not continue ignoring them and would protect them at least for their own benefit, right?

Of course, the last view was not the main view. For the moment.

Most of the lair citizens still believed in order, the superhumans, and that the Survival Committee would definitely not abandon them.

Even the homeless people who had nothing had a hard time making up their mind to charge the barricade at the borders of the lair.

However, Meng Chao was not sure how much longer the lair citizens’ confidence in the superhumans and Survival Committee would last.

If the Vortex and its puppets started brutally attacking the lair’s fundamental facilities, resource warehouses, and densely populated residential areas and the monster puppets lurking in the gangs, such as ambitious people with high positions, like Red Brows Su Lun, continued fanning the flames and adding fuel to the fire, it would be far too easy for them to crush the lair citizens’ confidence toward the outside world and make the outside world misjudge thes situation in the lair.

At that time, the entire lair would go through the same thing as Leprosy Village, and Meng Chao would be unable to do anything to bring it back from chaos and destruction.