My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World-Chapter 434 - 374: Liberation, Happiness, and Expectation

It wasn't long before the rest of the guild members noticed the strange phenomenon.

The number of monsters that were originally chasing them from behind began to decrease at some point, dwindling from hundreds to a size that visibly shrank.

In the end, only a few straggling ones remained, attracted by their severely injured members, with eyes flashing red as they pounced, getting their heads blown off by the Street Fighter's punch.

"Huh, what's going on?" The Golden Beetle looked up in confusion.

"No idea, but the shiny red is really beautiful." Fei Yueyue pulled the axe from the monster beneath her, wiping the blood off the blade.

Someone looked wary: "Could it be that other guild members have already entered the village?"

The bespectacled man next to him pushed up his glasses, the shattered, blood-stained lenses reflecting a shrewd light: "No, there must be another large source of hatred attraction moving rapidly, it's drawing the monsters that were chasing us away."

Everyone simultaneously turned to look at the dark red-haired girl crouching in the corner, her face full of thoughts, as she twirled a blade of grass, applying crimson pigment to the forehead of the mask in her hand; resembling Yaksha in form yet having large spider fangs, half-angry half-smiling, fierce like a fiend.

"Is that... the Angry Spider Face?" A man evidently interested in the history of Chichu Heaven blurted out.

Noticing the stares, Chichu Chun silently put away the mask in her hands, shrinking her shoulders, "Why are you looking at me?"

Throughout the Light Chasing Garden, Chichu Chun had the highest agility attribute, yet clearly, the girl had nothing to do with the attraction of hatred.

At this moment, Xu Xiaoyou's command clearly transmitted into everyone's ears.

"Rendezvous at the dock, get ready to close the net."

...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Shells continuously exploded around the silver-haired girl, as she dodged the artillery fire from behind and warded off the sporadic attacks from Life-Devourers lunging from street corners, maintaining high-speed movement.

"Xu Xiaoyou, what exactly did you do?"

Angelina's eyes blazed with fury as she loudly questioned Xu Xiaoyou on the other end of the communication.

"Why are all the monsters converging on me?"

With Angelina's keen senses, she detected the anomaly in the wind.

No, even if her senses were dull, she should have reacted by now.

Initially, there were only a few dozen monsters, including the Lord, chasing her, but now almost the entire town's hostile creatures were on her tail.

The twisted faces crowded every corner of the street, like a tsunami crashing down, rotten limbs piled up into shrieking mountains, countless faces grinning, resentful, weeping, rolling within that meat grinder, casting a pall of death across the sky.

Being caught in it would undoubtedly lead to only one outcome, being torn to pieces.

"Those with ability should bear the burden." Xu Xiaoyou replied ambiguously. "Continue advancing to the dock, Anya."

A spear thrown from nowhere pierced Angelina's back, causing her grievously recovered health to plummet once again, thrusting her into critical condition. Angelina could envision how disastrous the deviation in her Sea of Consciousness would be if she died now upon leaving the Oasis.

Her spirit might suffer severe damage directly.

If she could, she'd certainly log out of the game and sabotage Xu Xiaoyou's plans, watching her face screw up in embarrassment.

But she couldn't.

She couldn't log out or die at this time.

Angelina was sure she couldn't bear the cost of severe deviation in the Sea of Consciousness. Pain meant little to her; centuries had already engraved it into this body, numbing her to any pain.

But mental trauma was different, her Heart of Desire still ceaselessly seduced her, whispering in her ear. If her spirit ever relaxed, that damned heart would instantly invade her consciousness, dragging her back into the cage of the abyss.

She would endure a pain far worse than death, incomparable to any other kind of pain.

The feeling of weakness coursed through her entire body, Angelina's awareness began to float unsteadily, with the whole world in her vision spinning, the piercing screams swirling in her ears faded, replaced by incessant murmurs and her heavy breathing.

That person had calculated just this, using it as a threat to manipulate her.

Boundless fatigue suddenly enveloped Angelina. She lowered her eyes, her heart budding with the thought of letting the black wave behind her devour her, allowing those crazy monsters to tear her apart, letting herself be consumed by self-destruction.

Why, why did she have to endure loneliness, pain, endless cold, to continue living?

What was the meaning of her existence?

This question always troubled Angelina.

After escaping from that hell's cage, Angelina found herself shackled with heavy chains, wearing sharp shackles, becoming a sinner, burdened with all sorts of sins walking an endless wasteland.

The past pain constantly tormented her, even though those memories had blurred, stripped away by others, yet her soul would not forget, countless companions once imposed the curse on her with hopeful, selfish, malicious eyes — to live.

Living, for her, was the most brutal punishment.

Clearly...

Even if she continued to live...

Tomorrow would not bring any expectation of happiness to her.

Did she really escape that hell?

Such confusion arose in Angelina's heart.

What must she do to find relief?

"Anya, we're here." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The voice of the girl in her ear interrupted Angelina's thoughts. Dragging her injured body, she saw a black sea; if it weren't for the floating wreckage on the water surface, she'd think this was her final resting place.

Angelina turned around blankly, a large number of monsters were chasing up at this time.

"Angelina, jump into the sea!" Xu Xiaoyou urged.

Angelina calmly watched as the twisted faces lunged toward her.

She coldly observed the approaching guild members throwing torches in her direction, causing sparks to fly, instantly igniting the pre-laid fuel, and the flames surged toward the ships docked on the shore.

Vaguely, it could be seen that the cabins of those docked ships were packed with dark red crystal stones.

At that moment, an unprecedented sense of crisis exploded in the mind of the Heavy Cannon Lord who issued orders. Its muddy consciousness suddenly cleared. It turned, wanting to shout for all the Ratmen to retreat. But at that moment, the ships started to burn fiercely, golden-red glow pressing down, blinding white light engulfing the world!

Boom—

The deafening explosion echoed over the land.

The night draped low, the black dome expanded skyward, flames roaring like a giant dragon soaring toward the sky, fire tongues clashing, biting mid-air, collapsing swiftly, yet expanding even faster, layers of petals slowly unfolded, weaving a brilliant golden rose.

The guild alliance, on a forced march from afar, was struck speechless by this scene.

The splash of water was drowned in the grand explosion noise.

In the cold, silent world, Angelina opened her eyes, only to see flickering lights floating on the water surface and, at the last moment, the person who lunged, pulling her down into this boundless cold darkness. The girl's scattered long hair resembled gold fragments in water, so close yet so distant, so beautiful yet untouchable.