"He seems humble and kind on the surface, but I don’t think he’s a good person deep down. He’s bewitched so many people into following him, yet he neither sends them to fight the Zerg Race nor oppresses them. He must have some secret, ulterior motive."
"Look at Liu Ruojiao. They’ve completely brainwashed her. It’s like she’s possessed, disowning her own family."
Han Yuxin was particularly wary of such things.
The several hundred believers that group abandoned back in Jin City were, without exception, just like Liu Ruojiao was now.
They spent their days muttering nonsense in a daze. Not only were they impossible to command, but if anyone tried to forcibly stop them from finding their Sect Leader, they would fly into a rage and start destroying everything.
In the end, those madmen were sent to a research institute to receive "humanitarian care."
Ever since then, Han Yuxin had kept a close eye on this group, conducting numerous investigations, gathering intelligence, and making a point to bring it up with Lin Feng.
She hoped Lin Feng would step in and deal with them for good, nipping the problem in the bud.
If these people were allowed to take root in the temporary base, they would spread like a virus within months. The resulting destruction would be comparable to a nuclear blast.
Lin Feng shrugged. He had other plans.
"Don’t be taken in by his mysterious act. What he says is half-truth, half-lie, which means at least half of it is true."
"And what he’s doing is simply trying to turn the other, unknown half into a certainty as well."
"Of course I understand how dangerous he is. But Jin City is too small for him, and so is the entire South. He needs to be in a place ravaged by war, where survivors are displaced, to truly expand the power and scale of his church."
"As for why I’m not dealing with him... if he really can become this so-called ’One of Destiny’ and save humanity, then what’s the harm in letting him go for now?"
"As long as he still has ambition and is driven—unlike those higher-ups cowering in the rear who only know how to throw their weight around—there’s no need to kill him. Just driving them off is enough."
"This world is on the brink of collapse. Until it does, any attempt to ensure our survival and defeat the Zerg Race is worth pursuing."
"We’re actually on the same side. We’ve just chosen different paths..."
"Don’t overthink it. Go down and tell them to speed up the harvest."
"You heard what Zhang Tianming said. We have less than five days, and there are over a hundred thousand acres to cover here."
The reminder of the countdown made Han Yuxin tense up. She rose and excused herself.
Lin Feng let out a soft sigh, then looked up at Liu Yueqi, who was sitting in the tree above him.
She had climbed the tree specifically to see farther into the distance.
"They’re already two kilometers away. You won’t see anything, no matter how hard you look..."
Lin Feng said slowly.
Liu Yueqi wiped her eyes with her sleeve and then jumped nimbly to the ground. But as she landed, she instinctively put out her left arm to support herself...
The young woman couldn’t help but hiss in pain.
Lin Feng’s eyes fell on her injured left forearm.
The bite marks she’d gotten before had scabbed over, but they hadn’t fully healed.
The jump had torn the wound open again, and fresh blood was seeping out.
A Tier One Awakener’s healing rate was only two or three times that of an ordinary person—a far cry from a Tier Two’s, who could heal at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The young woman endured the pain, saying nothing.
Perhaps the pain in her heart at that moment far outweighed the physical sting of her wound.
The two of them stood there like that, staring at each other in silence for several minutes...
...until Lin Feng finally spoke, his voice calm.
"What are your plans now?"
"Are you interested in continuing to kill Zerg?"