Chapter 314: Disaster Enters the City

Rip—

The tip of a match scraped across coarse sandpaper, and a tiny flame struggled to ignite in the cold wind. A hand raised the flame to a thick cigarette, but before the heat could light the tip, a faint gust of frosty wind extinguished it. A wisp of smoke drifted past Han Meng, the cigarette in his hand still hard and cold.

Han Meng, cigarette dangling from his lips, remained silent for a long time amidst the swirling black snow. Finally, he shook his head helplessly. He stepped forward and continued walking.

Aurora City, which moments ago had resonated with the aftermath of battle, was now completely enveloped in deathly silence. In this city frozen by frost and snow, it was as if he were the only one left, abandoned amidst forgotten ruins.

To ensure the smooth execution of the “Hand of Redemption” plan, he and Tan Xin had split up. Tan Xin was to draw fire, while he was responsible for ensuring the explosive detonator did not fall into anyone else’s hands. No one would have expected Tan Xin, who had single-handedly betrayed the Aurora Base, to so trustingly entrust the crucial detonator to Han Meng, who had just entered Aurora City.

As it turned out, Tan Xin’s plan was correct. No one paid attention to Han Meng during the chaos, and he managed to protect the detonator intact until the “Hand of Redemption” was successfully implemented, surviving to the very end.

A few minutes earlier, Han Meng had observed almost all high-ranking enforcers who hadn’t frozen to death begin to evacuate Aurora City. The mysterious curtain blocking the Forbidden Sea had bought them enough time; given their strength, there was a high probability they would survive.

“Hoo…”

The biting cold permeated every inch of Han Meng’s skin, as if freezing his very soul. He let out a long sigh, and the instantly crystallized water vapor froze his lips purple.

The Judgment path was, after all, weak in defense, lacking skills to enhance vitality or resistance to abnormalities. After prolonged exposure to extreme cold, Han Meng’s body was rapidly stiffening, yet he still maintained a steady pace, knowing his condition would only worsen otherwise.

Falling snowflakes drifted from the sky, and the world was so quiet that only Han Meng’s heavy breathing could be heard, until his foot stepped into a shallow puddle of seawater, sending ripples across its surface.

Pop—

Immediately after, a soft sound came from nearby.

Han Meng looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a strange red flower suddenly sprout from the eye sockets of a frozen child’s skeleton on the street, like a pair of eerie, enchanting eyes staring directly at him. Between the petals of the red flower, faint runes could be seen slowly crawling, devouring the flesh and brain matter within the skull.

“This is…” Han Meng’s brows furrowed tightly.

Pop, pop, pop…

More and more soft sounds erupted from all around him. Han Meng then realized that, at some point, a large number of runes had poured into the city, frantically searching for human corpses, and strange red flowers were silently blooming in the deadly silence.

Han Meng seemed to recall something, and his face visibly darkened.

“Judgment.”

As Han Meng raised his gun, the Court of Judgment abruptly descended upon the street. But the instant he pulled the trigger, dozens of skeletons scattered across the street disintegrated into nothingness, taking the alluring Forbidden Flowers with them.

However, the next moment, a continuous stream of runes surged from afar, and at the same time, angry roars echoed from outside the city gates.

Han Meng’s brows furrowed even deeper. He realized there wasn’t enough time to deal with them this way, and his gaze finally settled on the detonator in his embrace…

“I didn’t expect to have to use this thing,” he murmured. He gripped the detonator and turned to look at Aurora City’s tallest tower, where a red kite fluttered in the wind at its peak.

As the Grey World gradually converged, numerous holes appeared in the sky, like dense perforations burned by cigarette butts. Endless grayness seeped from these openings, and countless flying calamities squeezed out, blocking the entire sky.

BOOM—!!

Almost simultaneously, a thunderous roar erupted from outside the city, and the roars of the colossal beasts, which had seemed muffled, suddenly became piercingly clear!

The red curtain of the finale was ultimately torn apart, and countless calamities, long awaiting their moment, surged frantically from the Forbidden Sea into Aurora City, like actors rushing onto an empty stage, poised to begin their final revelry!

At this moment, most of the calamities were rushing directly towards Han Meng!

Perhaps because Han Meng had just killed dozens of their young, the hatred of the calamities for him had reached its peak. From a distance, it looked like a roaring tide closing in.

Han Meng’s heart had sunk to rock bottom, but he knew he had nowhere left to retreat. With a gun in one hand, his enforcer’s trench coat flailing wildly in the cold wind, he charged towards the towering structure, alone and resolute, confronting the oncoming wave of calamities!

The sky was already blocked by a multitude of calamities, none of them lower in rank than him. So, Han Meng decisively abandoned the idea of taking to the air. Instead, he flew close to the ground, utilizing Aurora City’s complex terrain, covering hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye!

WHAM—!

A rune-infused tentacle, resembling seaweed, suddenly shot out from the reflection on the sea surface, lashing like lightning towards Han Meng’s path. As a black lightning bolt, accompanied by the rune, slammed down, the black-clad enforcer was caught off guard and sent flying!

Han Meng violently spat out a mouthful of blood, his body launched like a cannonball into the Aurora Base, smashing through two walls before he finally managed to stop. A hideous tear marred the back of his trench coat!

“Damn it…”

Han Meng staggered to his feet, seeing a colossal, octopus-like creature slowly rising from the sea. Thousands of tentacles writhed in the air, almost completely blocking his path.

If Chen Ling were here, he would instantly recognize this as the Tier 7 calamity that had wiped out Winter Harbor.

But at this moment, Han Meng was surrounded by more than just this one calamity.

Four or five flying fish, wreathed in electric light, circled above Han Meng. Each exuded a Tier 5 aura. Like hunters spotting prey, their crimson eyes watched Han Meng below with vigilance, seemingly ready to dive down and snatch him away at any moment.

The base warehouse beside Han Meng was violently knocked down. Amidst the swirling dust, the silhouette of a thirty-meter-tall rune giant slowly emerged. It grabbed fragments of the shattered warehouse from the ground, grotesquely twisted them into a long staff in its hand, and let out a deafening roar of fury at Han Meng!

ROAR—!!!

Besides these, more and more calamities poured into Aurora City, surrounding Han Meng. Among them were several Tier 6 beings, and an even greater number of Tier 5s…

Like an inescapable net, they blocked all escape routes, staring menacingly at the wounded, black-clad human before them.