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In Zhao Hao's opinion, six of the seven Hell Demon Kings should be Silver 4-star or 5-star.

However, they have already integrated with the rules of hell and have great authority in hell. In their territory, they are regarded as pseudo-gold.

The last one, the Morning Star Fallen Angel who has not yet appeared, should already be at the pseudo-Gold level. However, because he was integrated into the rules of Hell, he was also restricted and could not truly advance to the Gold level.

If it were Lucifer, it would be impossible for him to achieve victory so easily.

Although the original plan to sacrifice the entire world to ascend to the stars failed, the First Demon King's strength was undeniable.

However, He doesn't seem to have much interest in the original world that gave birth to Him, and has never made a move.

……

In March 1998, the foggy city of Da Ying was still very cold.

The sky over the foggy city was gray and gloomy, with a still, lifeless wind blowing above the barrier dome.

Food prices have fluctuated again recently, and the public had previously staged a protest, but it was suppressed.

Although more than half a month has passed, the atmosphere is still somewhat serious.

Especially today's awful weather, dry and cold with a hint of bleakness.

Although 99% of existing human settlements and forces have already joined the Mantis Shrimp Alliance.

But the essence of humanity lies in struggle. After the birth of private ownership, people struggled for profit. Before that, it was for something else entirely.

The major official government, as a powerful force with a large population and high status at the time, was still far superior to the smaller official alliances, even though it had joined the Shrimp Alliance.

Even with many policies from the headquarters of Pipi Shrimp, they sometimes try to negotiate. They might even outwardly comply but inwardly defy them.

Of course, because of this, many people have been punished by the authorities, with the most severe punishment being exile.

Given the current living conditions, being exiled outside the city would probably not be the worst outcome.

However, humans are not ordinary beings. There are indeed some who live in groups of ten or more, or even alone, in the wild.

They faced suffocating air, ferocious monsters, sudden natural disasters, disease, hunger, and the covetousness of other supernatural beings. Yet, some still survived the night like wild beasts.

Until this year...

The barriers of space are beginning to weaken.

In some unusual places, things have started to look strange.

For example, that island nation of a thousand islands (now it's crammed together, and the monkeys on the islands have all gone extinct), it has a giant volcano called Krakatoa that connects to the seabed.

According to Zhao Hao's observations, the land inside the volcano and near the peaks had begun to turn into a hellish state.

Large amounts of sulfur and toxic gases spewed hundreds of meters high from the fissures in the ground and the volcano!

Some low-level fire spirits, which only exist in hell, have begun to be born in the lava.

This world was formed from the aura of hell combined with the power of fire, not from hell itself.

There is a fundamental difference between them.

If you were born in this world, you are considered a "legal resident," which is equivalent to having a green card, and many methods such as deportation are useless.

This is why many demons always plan to create a "Demon Child" scheme, attempting to stealthily enter this world.

This indicates that the world is becoming hellish, and it will transform into a certain plane of hell.

In those countless layers of hell, how many worlds ultimately fall into hell?

The powerful will give birth to new demon kings, while the weak will be reduced to ruins and wastelands.

Now, the wilderness is not only home to rabid wild beasts, tireless dead, harsh and deadly living conditions, and extremely scarce survival supplies, but also to extremely cunning and treacherous lower planes.

Some of them, unable to actually come into this world, will cast a weak shadow over others, using their silver tongues to bewitch those already suffering extreme hardship in the wilderness.

Some will create evil things, which may bring people great power in a short time, but in the end they will definitely suffer a painful end.

Those evil spirits can draw power from negative emotions, or their target is simply your soul.

However, only those demons with no real background and mediocre strength would seek out those few survivors in the wild who were barely alive.

The real high-level demons and great demons, however, are all eyeing the city!

Those cities, shimmering with lights and shrouded in powerful barriers, house at least several million people.

If we could conquer one, wouldn't we save ourselves a thousand years of hard work?

He might even be promoted directly to lord!

As the former capital of the Great Ying Empire, and where the government still holds immense power, Fog City is an excellent target.

There are inactive or even corrupt administrators here, as well as occasional public protests, and instances of shoddy workmanship that even affect the operation of the barrier.

This is an ancient city with a history of nearly two thousand years. Beneath this city lies the world's oldest subway network, with countless, unexplored, complex and deep underground rooms, secret passages, manholes, and sewers...

Countless works of art have used the city's mysterious underground spaces as a prototype to showcase their fantastical blueprints.

The shadow city beneath the city, the mysterious entities in the underground passages, the elusive monsters, the ghosts, the criminal gangs... this place is simply a perfect breeding ground for evil.

……

Three fully armed, multi-functional vehicles, covered in metal armor and even engraved with psionic runes, were speeding through an abandoned city.

They were originally dispatched to collect some scarce resources. However, the city's monitoring department suddenly detected severe spatial fluctuations within the city.

Under normal circumstances, this place is probably connected to some strange space.

For safety reasons, the higher-ups ordered an immediate retreat.

However, as the multi-functional psionic protective vehicle crushed the rubble and retreated rapidly out of the city, several dark figures suddenly jumped down from the collapsed rooftops on both sides of the street and landed on the multi-functional vehicle.

The tank leading the way suddenly started shaking because the monsters were attacking the driver through the reinforced glass!

It was a monster with several pairs of scythe-like limbs, a large or several small eyes on its head that shone with an orange glow, and a hunched body that seemed to walk on four limbs.

They clung tightly to the car, trying to break the reinforced glass with their sharp, hard limbs and attack the people inside.

The first tank quickly overturned after one of its wheels hit nearby rubble.

The chariots behind were also forced to stop, and seven or eight more monsters of various sizes sprang out from the ruins and attacked the chariots.

The driver of the first vehicle was trapped by his seatbelt and unable to move after the vehicle rolled over. A monster spotted him, shattered the reinforced glass with its spiked forelimbs, and then stabbed at his head!

At the crucial moment, with a "thud" sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh, a broad-bladed sword emerged from the monster's mouth, which was filled with sharp teeth and a forked tongue.

A psionic metal exoskeleton armored soldier stepped on the monster's back, drew its broadsword, and then reached out to pull out the driver, who had already cut the seatbelt with a knife.

At this moment, more than a dozen psionic warriors in the three vehicles had already formed a battle formation and were annihilating the dozen or so monsters.

The flashes of psionic runes on the exoskeleton armor, the sounds of blades slicing and hacking, the clatter of power axes tearing monsters apart, the rat-a-tat-tat of psionic machine guns unleashing their fury, the roars of humans and the howls of monsters all mingled together...

The battle lasted only four or five minutes before all the monsters were killed.

The one who rescued the person was the captain of this operation. Through the mask of the prototype, you could see a middle-aged, weathered, square face with a thick beard and a fierce look. He was even smoking a cigar in the mecha.

While this thing can filter the air, isn't it a bit much to expose yourself to so much smoke?

He used his broadsword to pry open the monster's corpse on the ground.

"Dark red demon skin with demonic markings; it's a sadistic demon from the Third Hell. We need to leave here quickly; this city is no longer safe."

The human warriors squeezed into the remaining two vehicles and drove towards the distant foggy city.

The captain, with his cigar and bushy beard, looked back at the city that had disappeared into the gray horizon. Years ago, this city was called Westminster…

Another patrol was also attacked near an abandoned church in a nearby town.

The attackers were flying monsters with grayish-black skin, heads and faces somewhat resembling bats, wings, and flexible claws on their lower limbs.

This thing is jokingly called the "headgear demon".

Because they fly silently in the dark and are extremely adept at camouflage, remaining motionless like inconspicuous stone statues, they always ambush their prey, silently ripping off your skull in the darkness!

There were more than twenty of these scabbard demons, and they launched a premeditated attack on an eight-person patrol.

One soldier's hood was torn open first, and a bloody hole was pierced in the back of his head by sharp claws. He had already gone to see Zhao Hao.

Another heavily armored warrior was tackled to the ground by two headgear demons, and his power armor had already suffered 15% damage.

However, there was a modder among the patrol team.

He was 1.85 meters tall, with his head completely shaved, and several psionic adapters, each about the thickness of a finger and three centimeters long, had been implanted in his head. They flickered with psionic sparks like antennas!

He wore two different metal gloves on each hand, which were embedded in his body and connected to his bones.

This brutal transformation also gave him extremely strong combat capabilities.

One hand can unleash psychic flames at thousands of degrees, while the other can release a psychic energy field, making it both offensive and defensive.

After the modder unleashed its full power, incinerating four creatures in mid-air and crushing two more that lunged at it, the battle quickly turned around.

However, a five- or six-meter-tall seductive demon sprang out from the depths of the ruins. Psionic firearms could not penetrate its armor, and even psionic grenades could only inflict negligible damage.

The Temptress, braving the psychic flames of the cyborg, shattered his field barrier and used its crab-like pincers to cut the cyborg in two.

Then the mechanical modifier self-destructed, leaving nothing but destruction within a fifty-meter radius.

……

These localized skirmishes have occurred all over the world.

Some monsters are quite strong, with several 4- and 5-star Black Iron monsters appearing. Others appear in groups of 2- and 3-star Black Iron monsters. Occasionally, some high-level Bronze-level demons will also appear.

In some places that have had special experiences, dark red cracks will appear on the walls or the ground.

That is a rift between hell and the underworld, from time to time some hellish monsters would leap out.

In the complex, deep, and unknown underground space beneath the Fog City, some people who had not been branded with the game's curse mark and relied on various black markets and other means of survival were gathered together.

Their eyes were vacant, like walking corpses, and a complex emblem appeared on their foreheads, symbolizing a powerful lord in hell, a being second only to the demon god.

Due to the special circumstances of the foggy city and the problems of the administrators, a loophole appeared inside the barrier.

Deep within the subway, a man-made hellish rift appeared, and hundreds upon hundreds of monsters with bone spurs on their backs surged through the abandoned subway, charging toward the surface.

Deeper inside, a wall seven or eight meters high was covered with patterns of blood.

At this moment, the entire wall emitted a dark red glow, like steel about to melt.

On the other side of the wall, something was pounding against it, and fiery red cracks appeared on the wall, gradually spreading.

With each increasingly powerful blow, the front wall finally collapsed with a deafening roar. Heat waves and flames erupted forth.