After drawing cards, the evil god became my source of吐槽 (tu cao, a form of humorous commentary/criti

Chapter 16 Explosion
"You all deserve to die if you dare to lie to me!!!"

Li En roared, his voice reverberating throughout the magnetic field like a tearing sound.

But before he could finish speaking, 001 had already rushed forward again.

He wanted to take a gamble.

But just a moment after getting close to Li En, his pupils contracted sharply.

He suddenly felt a powerful force.

Li En's body has begun to deform.

From deep within his sternum, the bomb spread along his skin like a spiderweb, and his flesh trembled slightly with the high-frequency vibrations of psionic energy, as if something hidden beneath a shell was awakening.

"Run!" 014 shouted suddenly.

He was leaning on the ground, still spitting blood, his left arm was broken, and his face was pale, but he managed to turn his head with great effort.

There was no fear in his eyes, only calmness and determination.

"001!" he practically roared. "It's going to self-destruct! This isn't an ordinary explosion; it's our bomb combined with its own detonation. Everyone will die!"

001 suddenly stopped, gasped, and her eyes instantly turned cold.

The combined explosive power of the two is beyond what can be explained by C-level or B-level.

Li En's outer shell was trembling, and his soul and flesh were collapsing little by little towards their limit. It was not the appearance of being "detonated", but the prelude to a "self-destructive explosion".

014 coughed up blood, but still gritted his teeth and said, "He's planning to fight to the death... I've pushed him to the limit."

001 froze, his eyes fixed on the high-level mystery that was about to collapse not far away.

He slowly withdrew from his charged posture, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly took a long breath.

“...The first time,” he murmured.

"I've entered magnetic fields countless times, but this is the first time... I'm completely helpless against a mysterious creature."

He had many props, but very few of them were high-end.

In the end, 001 is just an ordinary person who knows a lot about the mysterious.

014 did not respond, but simply watched as the aura emanating from Li En continued to surge outward, a sign that a qualitative change was about to occur.

The magnetic field is also oscillating.

The energy flow surged in like a tide, and the already disordered gravity around us began to churn chaotically. Low-frequency tinnitus crashed like giant waves against the shore, layer upon layer, crushing our nerves.

001's shoulders trembled, and he turned to look into the distance.

An Jing was still standing there.

Her face was deathly pale. The psychological battle she had just fought had left her completely exhausted, and her fingers were still resting lightly on the notebook card.

She seemed to realize that 001 was looking at her, and her gaze instinctively met his.

At that moment, An Jing immediately became alert.

001's gaze was so deep, like the sea before a storm.

"What do you want to do?" Her heart skipped a beat, and she almost immediately took a half step back.

Did he want to use her for something before he died?
But 001 simply walked over slowly, his tone unusually calm: "Don't move."

An Jing tensed up instinctively, her breathing becoming erratic.

She wasn't stupid; she knew that her secret had been discovered by the lamplighters.

001 If you want to get something out of her, now is the best time.

But the next moment, she froze.

001 took something out of his pocket; it was a light blue sphere.

He placed it in An Jing's palm, and the shield activated instantly, enveloping her like a bubble.

An Jing felt a sense of security from this thing and stared at him blankly.

"What are you...doing?"

"A shield," 001 said softly. "The last life-saving item. I don't know how many seconds it will last."

"you……"

Before she could finish speaking, another figure approached – it was 012.

These two comrades, who had fought side by side dozens of times, almost tacitly agreed to press down on her shoulders from the left and right, forcibly pushing her down and shielding her beneath them.

"Are you crazy?"

An Jing struggled instinctively, her voice trembling slightly. She could feel Li En's magnetic field amplifying, the explosive aura making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

And they actually wanted to use their own bodies to block the way?

She looked up at 001, and at that moment she saw an unprecedented calmness in his eyes.

"An Jing," he said softly.

"I don't know if you'll survive."

"But we hope to exchange our lives for yours. If you die, Chu Yuan might end up in some unknown magnetic field and could be found by the mysterious forces again."

"If you survive, I beg you, do not hide the Primal Source within you from the Lamplighters outside."

“I know this request is shameless at this time, and it’s no different from moral blackmail, but if you survive, we’ll be your saviors, right? Just consider this a small request from your saviors.”

An Jing was startled, his pupils contracting.

"……What did you say?"

“I know you haven’t been able to fully control it yet,” 001’s voice was slightly hoarse, but still carried an almost obsessive calmness, “and you are no longer an ordinary person.”

“I can see that you have some misunderstandings about the 404 Special Service Division and about us, the Lamplighters.”

“That’s right, we don’t care about the lives of ordinary people. Because in the magnetic field, just surviving is difficult enough, and our mission is not to save people. Saving survivors would only increase our workload and bring more unknown dangers.”

"We have seen too many corpses and too many comrades fall. Those who survived understand that the priority to protect is never their own lives, but their mission objectives."

"And you, An Jing."

He paused, and his voice suddenly lowered a few decibels.

"The primordial source within you is our only breakthrough in researching the mysterious, and it is the target of my mission this time."

"It is the core that could potentially turn the entire situation around."

“I am not a god, I cannot protect everyone. I cannot even guarantee my own survival, but I hope my home will not be harmed by the mysterious.”

"I still want to ask you for a favor."

His voice suddenly choked, and he took a deep breath:

"If you survive, don't hide."

"Grow up and protect it."

"Let's not let our sacrifices become treacherous nourishment."

An Jing stared at him blankly, and at that moment, a strange, unprecedented bittersweet feeling welled up in her heart.

The man in front of her was right; she had always thought that the Lamplighter wouldn't care about the lives of ordinary people.

He didn't know her.

But he was willing to risk his life for her.

Even if it's for what's inside her body, it's still an unbearable debt of gratitude.

Her throat tightened, and just as she was about to say something, a loud bang suddenly came from behind her.

"Click."

That was the sound of everything coming to an end.

Li En's body completely shattered at that moment, and his spiritual energy and flesh, like a torn pendulum, released an extremely unstable energy core from the center of his body.

All colors have faded.

The entire magnetic field seemed to have been instantly stripped of all light and sound, as if it had fallen into an endless collapse.

Before dying, 014 turned his head to look at 001 and chuckled softly.
"It depends on her."

Then he closed his eyes.

001 didn't turn around, but simply held her tightly with 012.

"Live."

His tone was calm, yet it carried a weight that seemed to penetrate the very soul.

next second.

The world seemed to have collapsed.

explosion.

It completely devoured everything.

(End of this chapter)