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Lin Lu nodded expressionlessly, but in reality, a wave of emotions was surging within him.

Who the hell was I before? Things are getting more and more outrageous! What is this "Shangri-La Project"? I'm still wandering Terra! Being able to build these independent spaces in major cities of various countries without being discovered... It sounds easy, but it's a pipe dream, no different from stealing a city. If discovered, it would probably lead to a global siege.

What exactly is the Army Without Borders doing? Have they mastered Terra's core technology and are preparing to achieve universal harmony?!

"Good, very energetic."

Lin Lu was filled with questions, but his face remained calm and composed.

In contrast, the regicide didn't react at all, seemingly indifferent... because she couldn't understand.

The conman seemed to be deep in thought. As expected of the BOSS, even with amnesia, he still possessed a magnanimous spirit.

In fact, Lin Lu was quite surprised.

This is the core area of ​​the mobile city, and the most important place. Lin Lu had learned a little about Wei Yanwu, the governor of Longmen, tonight; he was a man who wanted nothing more than to control the whole world.

The fact that the Borderless Army could build such a colossal underground city right under Wei Yanwu's nose meant their resources were far greater than he had imagined...

Lin Lu patiently observed the surrounding walls. Putting everything else aside, the soundproofing alone was beyond his expectations. Apart from the roar of the Originium Engine he heard the moment he stepped off the elevator, it was now so quiet that he could hear the rustling of his own clothes.

"I almost forgot, I haven't introduced myself yet." The middle-aged man with black hair smiled helplessly. In his subconscious, the BOSS was still the same BOSS, so there was no need to treat him differently. Only then did he realize, "My code name is 'The Deceitful,' and I belong to the intelligence group of the Army Without Borders. I have deceived countless people, but I will never deceive you, BOSS."

“That’s a lie,” Lin Lu said with a calm smile.

"As expected of the BOSS, I have ever grown to respect you more and more." The swindler exaggeratedly opened his arms wide, exclaiming from the bottom of his heart.

"Ah...this..." Lin Lu was speechless and shook his head helplessly, "That's true."

“Our reverence for the BOSS is like that for a father.” The conman couldn’t help but smile nostalgically, a smile tinged with sadness. “BOSS, you were once our light, our guide, our beacon. But you… perhaps you have completely forgotten us.”

"Hmm, I really don't remember."

Lin Lu said calmly that he knew nothing about his past. However, he was prepared for one thing: no matter what kind of person he had been, he would not let the past cloud his judgment of the present. Those who dwell on the past will never see the future.

Whether it's Amiya, the Kingslayer, or Kal'tsit... Lin Lu appreciates and acknowledges certain qualities in them, not because of their past identities. They are all people worthy of Lin Lu's attention now.

What is an army without borders?

The Kingslayer asked curiously. She had heard of this organization in the assassin world, but knew nothing about it. In terms of information warfare, this mysterious organization perfectly concealed its intelligence, and they had only ever appeared during crisis contracts.

"Good question."

The conman removed the necklace from his neck and handed it to the kingslayer. A stainless steel necklace pierced through it, bearing an identification tag. It appeared to be made of some special metallic mineral, emitting a soft, pale blue glow. The tag bore the emblem of the Borderless Army, and an ancient script…

“We are all pawns, we are all the black general. We checkmate every time, we are an army without borders. Five years ago, a private military contractor founded by a legend in the mercenary world, we raised funds and recruited new people just to give the outlaws of this vast land of Terra a home. The war three years ago made us lose almost everything, even our light... BOSS, you are our light.”

“Since then, we have followed the key you left behind and developed the Shangri-La Project around the world. We are willing to lick the blood-stained mud of the battlefield. If someone needs someone to do the dirty work for them, we will do it. This is neither for the greater good nor for justice.”

The conman gently took the dog tag back from the kingslayer's hand. He gripped the chain tightly, his fist clenched so hard that veins bulged.

"Boss, compared to you, I'm just a liar. You're the real liar; you've deceived the whole world."

Chapter 209 The First Lawyer Lin

"This is the base construction platform, mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance of the base. Project Utopia was also completed by the operators of the base construction team. This is the intelligence platform, responsible for intelligence processing. The medical platform and the isolation platform are a bit far from the headquarters platform. This was designed from the beginning to take into account the important role of the area responsible for the daily health management of the base and the treatment area for isolating critically ill infected people."

The conman walked at the front, explaining things to the crowd, followed by Lin Lu and the King Killer.

Lin Lu slowly collected and organized the information provided by the other party, while the King Killer was lost in his own thoughts.

The girl recalled the time when she first met Lin Lu. At that time, the Reunion Movement was just a small organization of a few dozen Oripathy infected people who united to survive. Under the leadership of Dr. Elmoni, they searched for a suitable place to gather while struggling to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Back then, every time they found a suitable place to live, they had to move on to find the next place.

Natural disasters never wait for anyone, and neither do man-made disasters.

In the frozen wastelands of Ursus, military personnel would always arrest the infected and drag them to the mines as disposable laborers. If you didn't want to be worked to death in the Ursus mines, or maliciously pushed into the abyss, you had no choice but to keep moving forward and never consider stopping.

The regicide was somewhat lost in thought, and unconsciously slowed his pace as he stared at Lin Lu's back.

The dark coat was covered in dirt and grime, and the person walked with a slight sway, but still held their back straight.

Her shoulder-length, silvery-white hair was tied up with a dark red ribbon, and one could vaguely sense the presence of that person.

Over the years, Lin Lu seems not to have grown taller, nor has his appearance changed at all; time seems to have stopped flowing for him.

The king killer felt a moment of disorientation, his gaze following the swaying ribbons binding Lin Lu's long hair.

Those days were tough. We had to give up cultivating both food and herbs because of the frequent changes in safe zones. Every night, as we fell asleep, we had to endure the pain of Oripathy and worry about whether a natural disaster would strike. When we woke up, we wondered if we would be back in the nightmarish mine.

Even so, no one gave up hope.

A Sarkaz woman with silver-white horns led them, never abandoning them, accompanying them on their unknown journey. No matter how arduous the days, no matter how many felt like battles, everything was for the sake of saving more lives.

Elmoni, this Sarkaz woman, was chosen as the first leader of the Reunion Movement, and she systematically established various squads.

Infected individuals skilled in combat and capable of independent fighting were assigned to bounty hunting jobs in exchange for supplies. Another group was tasked with scouting trails left by the military, while the remainder stayed at the settlement to serve as guards and instruct others in combat techniques.

Those severely infected with Oripathy, or those whose congenital conditions made them unsuitable for combat, were assigned by Elmoni to handle logistical matters. Whether it was planting potatoes, cultivating herbs according to her requirements, gathering wild fruits in safer areas, or digging for natural minerals growing in the desert... these were all things that non-combatants could do, allowing them to support others in another way.

In this chaotic world, you have to learn some skills, otherwise it will be difficult to survive.

The Kingslayer's knowledge of herbs was acquired through Elmoni's forced instruction, which saved him countless times.

No matter where or where in the world, anyone infected with Oripathy will have their original identity stripped away by everyone. A bleak and hopeless future is laid bare before them, their social status plummets, they are denied the resources they deserve, and they are branded with negative labels.

The anger, the humility, the despair, the helplessness of the infected—in the early days of Reunion, you rarely saw anyone with such expressions. Here, everyone wears the same smile, a smile that other infected people never had… hope.

In the Integration Movement, everyone has a job to do and everyone has something to do; no one is truly a burden.

Under Elmoni's leadership, everyone is equal, and everyone shares the same goal.

Lin Lu was picked up from the woods by Elmoni, with an Originium Bug hanging from his leg at the time.

He was like a researcher in distress, wearing a white lab coat, barely alive when he was found, his body so frail it seemed as if a single touch on his arm would break him. It was only under Elmoni's meticulous care that Lin Lu recovered from the dangerous state of dehydration.

"A strange person."

This was the regicide's first impression of Lin Lu.

While helping to clean his body and treat his wounds, she and Elmoni examined Lin Lu over and over again, but they couldn't find his tail or horns.

Elmoni, who had once worked at Rhine Labs, was as if she had discovered a new continent. If it weren't for the rudimentary conditions, the King Killer would have suspected that she would have dissected Lin Lu on the spot. To put it bluntly, her eyes were like those of a wolf that hadn't eaten for weeks seeing a lost traveler in the wilderness.

In the end, Elmoni held back.

The Originium Bugs they picked up together seemed to possess intelligence, constantly guarding the unconscious Lin Lu.

The Kingslayer once poked Lin Lu's sleeping cheek and was hit by an Originium Bug, causing his abdomen to go numb and nearly sending him flying out of the room.

Later, Lin Lu woke up. Under Elmon's questioning, he claimed he didn't belong to this world, came from a very, very far place, and couldn't find his way home. Despite everyone else's objections, Elmon insisted that Lin Lu live with the Reunion Movement. Besides the fact that Lin Lu was a rare, uninhabitable human, the main reason was that Elmon was worried about letting someone who knew nothing about Terra leave alone.

If Lin Lu is allowed to be driven away by others, he will die without a burial place if he encounters natural disasters or beasts.

Therefore, Elmoni became enemies with Mephistopheles of the opposition.

Mephistopheles harbored resentment and set a trap while the three were out.

Countless Originium-infected creatures surrounded Lin Lu, the Kingkiller, Elmoni, and the Originium Bug Soujiro on the mountaintop, putting them in imminent danger. In this critical moment, Lin Lu comprehended Originium Arts, and a deep cobalt blue light shone in his dark eyes.

During that attack, Elmoni was forced to separate from the Kingslayer and Lin Lu in order to rescue the people at the settlement. Neither of them could have predicted that their next meeting would be... in the mines north of Ursus!

To rescue Elmoni, who had been captured by the Ursus military and taken to the mines, Lin Lu seemed to transform into a different person. He went from a frail researcher to a warrior wielding a sharp blade, willing to do anything to achieve victory. Back then, he wasn't the strategist he is now; he was a clumsy, simple-minded fool, single-mindedly wanting to protect others, even at the cost of his own injuries. He was always at the forefront, never willing to fall.

As the days went by, Lin Lu's wounds multiplied, and the burdens he carried grew heavier, as he walked unsteadily amidst the expectations of others.

Later, when the infected collectively broke out, Lin Lu, the second leader of the Reunion Movement, was ruthlessly driven away and left quietly with Zong Jilang.

Ironically, there was only one reason for the conflict.

He is not infected.

Chapter 210 The easiest woman to win over on all of Rhodes Island (4K)

"Mira, what's wrong?"

Lin Lu turned around and looked at the regicide who had been standing there for some time.

"No, it's nothing."

The regicide blinked, and before he knew it, tears had filled his eyes and slid down his cheeks.

Her memories were far heavier than she had imagined. A great deal of pain that she had buried deep within surged up with her memories, turning into sharp blades that pierced her heart.

The less willing a person is to think in normal times, the harder it is for them to extricate themselves once they are caught in the quagmire of pondering contradictions.

"Are you tired? I'm sorry, I didn't notice you weren't feeling well." Lin Lu came to the King Killer, reached out and touched her cheek, wiping away her tears. "Hang in there a little longer, we'll go back soon and let me finish these things."

"……Um."

The regicide nodded obediently.

It would be a lie to say I'm not tired.

Whether it's a surprise attack on the outer ring of Lungmen, a mobile defensive operation, or a standby mission at the Lungmen Administrative Office, none of these tasks are easy.

But the regicide knew that the one who was truly exhausted to the point of being unable to stand, yet still taking steps, was not her, but the man before her with a worried and self-reproachful expression.

Lin Lu asked cautiously, "How about we rest here for a while?"

If only the Spirit Realm could still function normally at this moment, Lin Lu had never felt so dependent on the digitized Spirit Realm.

Lin Lu was worried that the king killer might be experiencing some health problems, but he couldn't accurately grasp the girl's data at his current level.

If he calmed down now, perhaps he could perceive the girl's true feelings. But Lin Lu greatly underestimated the importance of the Kingslayer to him. Thinking about how he had repeatedly forced the Kingslayer to his feet tonight, and how she might actually get hurt, now was not the time to worry about the Army Without Borders.

If Lin Lu had to weigh the borderless army against the regicides, he would decisively choose the latter over the former.

Lin Lu doesn't care about how much glory and power he had in the past; he only truly cares about a few people.

"Ritsu, let's go, I'm fine."

The regicide rubbed against Lin Lu's palm before reluctantly letting go of his hand.

"From now on, I won't let you leave secretly anymore. Wherever you go, I'll go with you."

The emoticon mask of the regicide revealed a big smiling face as she stepped forward, filling in the gaps that had previously prevented her from moving forward.

She didn't know how much suffering Lin Lu had endured after leaving the Reunion Movement, how he had founded the Army Without Borders, established his prestige on Rhodes Island, and paid such a high price. But she knew that she would be with Lin Lu from now on. She would take on all of Elmoni and Soujiro's burdens; they would always be there, never having left.

Lin Lu chuckled, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly followed.

In the distance, the con artists, who had been unknowingly fed a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing a romantic relationship), were waiting for them.