Frost, then fire.

The game-breaking means of the Arctic Continent team have become a weight on the scales at this moment.

However, it is not the key to the final victory - it, including the combined attack of several members of the Central Continent team, is not the last of the most crucial.

And what really tilted the scales in one direction was another.

…………………………

Zhao Shukong opened his eyes.

He smelled the familiar and arrived at the familiar place. He felt that his mind was extraordinarily clear, and the dark power that had been accumulating in the depths of his soul seemed to be temporarily away from him at this moment.

"Mistaken." He lifted his hand and looked at his palm, which had returned to its normal human form. He knew that he was now within himself, in the depths of his soul, in the palace of his heart. The outer shell is still fighting against its opponents on the battlefield in a strange and uncontrollable manner.

You may lose, you may lose, but it is not so easy to die.

Because by unlocking the fourth-order genetic lock, the essence of life will be liberated. The ability to survive and adapt will be greatly improved. As long as your heart does not give up, even if it is rotten, the tens of trillions of cells in your body will struggle to find the direction of life.

If you are cut in two, you will not die.

If you are chopped into pieces, you will not die.

Burned by flames, struck by thunder, and then soaked in a pool of strong acid, it will not die easily. It's just that life will always find its own suitable way out, and the fourth-order genetic lock can condense this evolutionary process that would have taken a long time into a short moment.

It doesn't die, as long as a slightly larger piece of minced meat leaves the battlefield, it can parasitize on other living creatures until it has enough energy to return to normal. And it doesn't matter if it's not a living thing, water, dirt, stones, and even air, as long as there is matter, it can always find energy and materials to repair itself, and at most the process will be a bit long.

Monsters are so able to live, but humans with reason will die more smoothly. Because the human heart is always fragile and full of holes. So much so that often when I can still hold on, I think that I am already a dead end.

Just like Zhao Fukong before, for a moment, he felt that it was okay for him to die there. If it weren't for the man from the Zhongzhou team who said the last sentence that broke the straw, then Zhao Weikong might really have died there from an ordinary fatal injury.

But did that person really say that?

Maybe.

Zhao is also unsure.

But no matter what, now he is here.

"I still have a chance to salvage the situation." Zhao Fukong pinched his fingers, gently inhaled a slightly fishy breath, and then turned his attention to this familiar place—the fortress of the Assassin family was littered with the wreckage of monsters, claw marks, and human fragments. He stood in the center as the ultimate survivor, surrounded by several unrecognizable wreckage, which maintained the appearance of protecting himself in the last moments before he died.

This is the final battleground for the members of the Air Project.

Dozens of members of the Empty Project, who had developed their own genetic locks to the point where they were close to the runaway Fourth Order, broke into the lair of the Eastern Assassin family at a point in time when they could catch them all. What awaited them was the Assassin Elder Order, who had been attacked by surprise but had been able to react in a very short time. And that is enough to bring them the sense of security that they have gathered here, and the dozens of bodies have gone deep into the depths of the runaway state, possessing the light of the heart, and only the elders' orders are the precursors of the empty plan.

Zhao Yukong survived to the end.

He didn't survive to the end because of his talent and strength—which was only a small part of the reason, because when his siblings also reached the beginning of the runaway fourth, the difference in power between them was not too big.

He's strong, but not overwhelmingly strong.

He survived to the end more because other people gave him the hope of life.

He tilted his head and looked at the door not far away—and even if he survived, it took him a long time to regain his strength in a relatively illiterate environment with no energy circulation. And then...... And he saw her.

Yes, in his memory, in a few tens of seconds, Zhao Yingkong, who was disturbed by his cognition, would arrive at this battlefield. And at that time, she should not have seen herself, and she could not see the remains of her brothers and sisters other than herself. However...... She barely hid, but she saw a certain hysterical despair in her eyes.

Something is wrong.

Maybe it's because Ruikong's seal is not strong enough, or maybe it's because the real Zhao Yingkong is stronger than expected. Anyway, she saw everything she wasn't supposed to see, and it all broke her.

She fell.

Zhao Weikong, who was hiding behind the bunker, saw all this with his own eyes, but he couldn't do anything. All he could do was try his best to suppress the violent emotions in his heart, and he didn't dare to try to meet Zhao Yingkong who was in despair with that posture. He'd rather hide in a corner and get moldy, and then die.

Because he was scared.

He was afraid that Zhao Yingkong could see at a glance that it was because of the dedication of his other brothers and sisters that he could survive the war at the end. He was not afraid of being killed by Zhao Yingkong, he was only afraid that Zhao Yingkong would break free from his shackles and fall into uncontrolled madness again in order to kill him - he tried his best, did everything he could, and the ultimate goal was nothing more than to let his sister live and live as happily and healthily as possible. Instead of turning into a monster in a madness and dying.

And yet he failed.

He eliminated the threat of the elders, but destroyed his sister's most cherished treasure - his brothers and sisters were killed and wounded, and the last thing he should have survived was left in the world.

He didn't do anything. He curled up in the shadows like a piece of trash, watching his sister fall into a perpetual slumber in despair. Then the remnants of another sister took over the body completely. And after that, he went crazy looking for all possible ways to cure Zhao Yingkong's birth defects, but in the end, he found nothing.

He was so desperate that he was able to meet the Lord God.

Now, however, he is in a similar position as before.

- Those words...... I'm not actually really angry.

Jiang Yu and Zhao Yingkong's mouth cannon didn't actually have much effect on him. My sister has someone she likes, and this kind of thing makes his sister angry and crazy. But in the bottom of his heart, he was not relaxed, and a happy mood surrounded him - his purpose was just to let his sister live and live as well as possible. And if you have yourself involved in this wonderful life, it is naturally good, but if it does not include yourself...... Actually, it's not too bad.

Because sooner or later he will lose control, he will go crazy, he will die. Even the Almighty Lord God doesn't seem to be able to find a way to deal with this flaw directly. Of course, there is the possibility that he did not find the right way to communicate. But at least at this point in time, he did have some of a good idea.

He's going to die - he's going to die sooner or later.

So in my sister's future life, it is actually better to have myself than to have myself.

It doesn't feel bad to die there. After all, although his sister-in-law is not very forgiving, it can be seen from Sakura's initiative that he actually attaches great importance to and cares about her. And since one of his sisters ...... The remnants of the younger sister have chosen and recognized their own destiny, and the other has also agreed with this choice. Then, it's good for my brother, who is alive and will only get in the way, to leave the scene early.

But...... But ah.

"I'm missing one thing." Zhao Fukong clenched his fists lightly. The mental structure around him is becoming unstable, and he is about to awaken from his inner palace and return to the battlefield again.

"The Fourth Order doesn't die so easily, and she's not the same as I am - I thought she had chosen to sleep and gave everything she had to the dregs of Ruikong. However, I forgot that Ruikong was an outsider, and that this was actually her shell. ”

That man couldn't kill her.

Unless Ruikong also reached the fourth order, he successfully suppressed his own cellular will. Otherwise, Sakura will die. This shell, which does not belong to the void, will go on a complete rampage, falling into twisting and madness.

The man had lied - Sakura wasn't dead, even if he was physically and mentally traumatized. She was still alive, but she had fallen into a deeper slumber than before. And this means that there is still a need for me to live.

One sister has attained happiness and a home, but the other has not—he can accept that Ruikong has a lover of his own, but this is already the limit of his tolerance. And Rui Kong and Sakura were sleeping with a man together...... Just thinking about it made his head explode.

"I've got to fix this."

Zhao Fukong made up his mind.

"Sakura still needs my rescue, and she hasn't found a way to make up for her flaws...... I...... You can't just die. ”

'Click-'

(End of chapter)