Raising all of humanity: Starting with a backyard pool world

Chapter 88 [The Necessary Evil]

Inhuman roars.

The screams of the dying.

There were also muffled sounds of huge pieces of flesh being torn apart.

These voices, mingled together, indicated that a massacre was taking place.

Wang Xuan, Ai Jia, and Chen Kai exchanged a glance.

Trouble is brewing.

Opportunity also arrived.

Kahn's fists were clenched so tightly they turned white as he stared at the four people inside the shack.

He loathed them and feared them, but he had no other choice.

"Terra made the right decision." Kahn's voice was inexplicably hoarse with complex emotions. "You are a walking plague."

These words were fair and polite, but also contained underlying hostility.

"But now, the tribe needs your strength to fight against those monsters outside," he said, turning to the side.

Another tall figure appeared at the doorway.

He is Terra, the leader of the tribe.

Terra's expression was equally grave. His gaze passed over Kahn and landed on the four people in the center of the shed.

"The village's defenses are about to collapse." Even at this critical moment, Terra remained calm.

"Kahn's warriors were brave, but what they faced was something we had never seen before."

He paused for a moment, as if organizing his thoughts.

"That's... the wrong thing."

"Our sharp iron spears pierced their chests, yet they did not fall."

"Even after our brave warriors cut off their heads, they can still swing their claws."

"Death has lost its meaning for those contaminated creatures."

Terra's description made Wang Xuan and Ai Jia realize the seriousness of the problem.

"So, you need us." Wang Xuan stepped forward, brushing the grass clippings off his clothes. He showed no awareness of being a prisoner and remained quite calm and composed.

"We need this power that you cannot understand."

"That's right." Terra looked him straight in the eye. "I need you to stop them."

Kahn let out a cold snort from the side.

"This is not a request," he added coldly, "this is a deal."

"Or rather, it is your chance to atone for your sins."

Terra raised her hand to stop Kahn, who stepped forward and stated his terms.

"Use your strength to stop those monsters and prove your worth."

"If you succeed, you will gain the freedom to move about this land under certain conditions."

"Failure, or...losing control again and injuring any member of the tribe."

"I will make Kahn personally plunge a spear into the heart of each of you."

A brief silence fell over the shack.

Li Yao instinctively gripped her arm tightly; this deal, fraught with the threat of death, made her heart skip a beat.

But Chen Kai simply took the stone spear, which had been enhanced with the concept of "sharpness," from the wall.

"Deal." He only said two words.

Ai Jia pushed up her glasses, her gaze behind the lenses calm and collected.

"We need battlefield information and absolute command," she added. "We will not accept any combat orders from you; that will only cause casualties."

"Okay," Terra agreed without hesitation.

The tribe's combat experience was no longer useful against those wrong monsters.

"Then, take us to see it."

Wang Xuan shrugged, a slightly crazy smile appearing on his face.

"Look at all the trouble you've got, just how troublesome it really is."

……

The tribal warriors used their spears to clear a path for the four of them.

When the four men emerged from their cages, the entire tribe had become a chaotic battlefield.

The wounded soldiers were dragged to the rear, their cries of agony echoing throughout the area.

Women and elderly people were frantically trying to put out the burning tents.

A warrior with a contorted face lay on the ground, his body seemingly being torn apart from the inside, with countless dark green vines sprouting from his mouth, nose, and wounds, lashing wildly at his comrades who approached him.

"Don't touch him!" roared an old shaman. "He's been corrupted by whispers!"

This scene turned Li Yao's face pale, and she almost vomited.

Chen Kai stood silently in front of her, blocking the stimulating scene.

Wang Xuan and Ai Jia exchanged a glance.

"It's pollution at the conceptual level," Ai Jia whispered. "The form of life has been forcibly distorted into something else, like plants."

"Interesting." Wang Xuan stroked his chin. "They're even crazier than us."

Led by Kahn, they traversed the chaotic camp and reached the main defensive line on the western side of the tribe.

The sight before him sent chills down Chen Kai's spine, even though he was used to seeing battlefields.

The defenses have collapsed.

A dozen or so spear-wielding warriors under Kahn formed a makeshift battle formation, which was tightly surrounded by a group of distorted monsters.

Those monsters may have once been wild boars, tigers, or ferocious beasts of the forest.

A creature that should have been a saber-toothed tiger had a body that looked like a dough ball stretched out at will, with limbs of varying lengths. Its running posture was extremely bizarre, yet its speed was ridiculously fast.

The other enormous wild boar had tusks that had transformed into two stalactites of rock that dripped corrosive liquid, and its body was covered with a layer of slippery moss.

"roar!"

A giant bear with a spear piercing its skull did not fall. Instead, an arm covered in sharp claws grew out of the hole, grabbed the spear shaft, and dragged the tribal warrior away.

Amidst screams, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

This is already a one-sided massacre.

"Did you see that?" Kahn suppressed his anger and resentment.

"Our weapons, our strength, are a joke in the face of them."

"The most troublesome thing is that thing!" he said, pointing to the center of the battlefield.

There, a gigantic beast, so mutated that its original form is unrecognizable, is wreaking havoc.

Its lower body consists of countless enormous, snake-like tentacles coiled together, while its upper body retains the outline of an ape, but has three heads.

A head was roaring madly, spewing out dark green acid.

A head with its eyes tightly closed was emitting a low, dizzying buzzing sound.

The last head, however, was quietly smiling.

It was an incongruous smile, full of serenity.

However, every tribal warrior who was looked upon by its smiling gaze would drop his weapon, walk towards it in a daze, and then be easily rolled up and crushed by its coiled tentacles.

"Physical attacks, mental shocks, and conceptual contamination... This is strangely interesting." Ai Jia's eyes gleamed with excitement.

"This thing probably doesn't have a very simple mechanism."

"Are we going to start with this for our debut?" Wang Xuan whistled, strolling leisurely.

"Where is its weakness?" Chen Kai asked his trusted teammate, his grip tightening on the empowered stone spear.

"Its strength is also its weakness," Wang Xuan and Ai Jia answered in unison.

"It simultaneously displays three distinct forms," ​​Wang Xuan pointed to the three heads, "a roaring ferocity, a buzzing chaos, and a smiling silence."

"These three forms conflict with each other," Ai Jia continued. "It's clear that this is a classic, old-fashioned monster with a weak core. The reason it can be maintained is probably because that core is balancing everything."

"Our mission is to find that core weakness and break this balance."

"Chen Kai, prepare for action."

"The target is the invisible voice it emits, not its physical form."

Ai Jia looked at Wang Xuan and Li Yao.

"The first thing we need to do is to completely silence this battlefield."