Chapter 365 Everything Will End

【Everything will end.】

The Fifth Elder’s flying magic weapon was shaped like an enlarged fishing boat. Mingmei stood at the bow, feeling uneasy as she recalled what Mu Chen had mouthed.

"What are you thinking about?" Mei Jiu sidled up to Mingmei, watching her gaze at the churning clouds and the mountains and rivers that appeared and disappeared beneath them. "Are you scared?"

"No," Mingmei shook her head, only answering the last question. She still didn’t answer the first.

With a quick glance, Mingmei knew that Mei Jiu would continue to dig deeper. Just as she was wondering how to avoid it, Lu Xiaoyao suddenly let out an earth-shattering scream from inside the cabin—

"Ahhh! I caught it! Oh my god!!"

Even the Fifth Elder, who had been sitting on the roof of the cabin with his eyes closed in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes and came down to see what had happened.

Everyone entered the cabin together. The sound transmission talisman in Lu Xiaoyao's hand was still glowing. Seeing everyone looking at her, Lu Xiaoyao's face flushed with excitement, and she shouted, "I caught it! I caught the evil cultivator!!"

Lu Xiaoyao was extremely excited. Catching the evil cultivator was the same as catching the Zerg, right?!

"Damn! Where, where?" Zhen Po was also excited when he heard this and quickly asked Lu Xiaoyao for more detailed information. Lu Xiaoyao said, "It's in the Linjing City Lord's Mansion, locked in the dungeon!"

Mingmei looked at Lu Xiaoyao's excited appearance and felt even more puzzled about Mu Chen's earlier words about the game ending soon.

【Is Mu Chen a prophet? Why is the game about to end?】

If the Zerg was really caught, then the game would indeed be coming to an end.

However, she felt that something was wrong.

【I don't know either.】 Gui Gui really didn't know, but there was one thing it was very puzzled about. 【How was that Zerg caught?】

"Hmm…" Mingmei naturally wanted to ask after hearing Gui Gui's question, but someone was one step ahead of her.

Mingmei saw that the Fifth Elder was actually concerned about this matter: "How was it caught?"

Lu Xiaoyao didn't hide anything and shared the method that Mu Chen had shared at Bu Tian Sect for destroying the teleportation array and then searching in sections. Although it still sounded time-consuming, it was better than the current situation.

As it turned out, Lu Xiaoyao shared this news with Lu Gui, who shared it with his friends, one of whom, Lou Jia, happened to be the one who had been frantically hunting down the Zerg recently.

There was no way around it.

The Huanxi Palace Protector, a high-level wage earner—when there was something to do, Lou Jia really went for it!

If he didn't, he would be letting down his Nascent Soul cultivation!

While the players were entering the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, he was rocketing into the Nascent Soul stage, far ahead of all the other players.

However, his identity as a demonic cultivator also meant that he was not as safe as the players who were righteous cultivators.

As the Huanxi Palace Protector, he was simply the number one thug. Being toyed with by the Zerg, especially after seeing the tragic deaths of players he knew, Lou Jia had been holding his breath for a long time.

After receiving Lu Gui's message, he chased and destroyed along the way. As the saying goes, heaven never disappoints those who put their heart into it, and he really caught the Zerg!

However, after catching it, he didn't know what to do.

Take it back to Huanxi Palace?

Or hand it over to someone else?

Just as he was troubled, Julian told him to hand it over to the Linjing City Lord.

Because the city lord was the enforcement NPC in the game who helped the players capture the Zerg.

…

"Look, this Zerg isn't anything special."

At this time, several groups of players in Linjing City had come to watch the Zerg, who had been toying with them for so long and had stirred up trouble and plotted against them in other games, like they were watching a monkey.

"Emmm, it's even disfigured. It really doesn't look like much."

"Huh! Wasn't it supposed to be very powerful? How was it caught so easily?"

Feng Xun's veins were bulging on his head. Listening to these words, he felt extremely humiliated.

Mo Wenshu had actually locked him in a special cage and placed him on a high platform outside the City Lord's Mansion. With all his abilities suppressed, he was now just a clown for everyone to watch.

The players were just chattering and didn't seem too extreme, but some ordinary NPCs in the game had a bigger reaction!

"Smack!"

A rotten egg hit Feng Xun's head before he could dodge it. The stinky egg liquid dripped down his forehead. Before he could react, a pile of rotten vegetable leaves was thrown at him.

"It's you, evil cultivator!!"

An old woman with white hair was standing in front of the high platform, supported by a young woman with a married woman's hairstyle. It was clear at a glance that they were ordinary people living in Linjing City.

However, at this time, they were incredibly bold.

"It's you, this evil cultivator! You killed my grandson and son, give them back!" The old woman cried hoarsely, saying that her only grandson had just started on the path of cultivation, but he had died without a complete corpse. Her son went to look for him, but what came back was an evil spirit wearing her son's skin.

The old woman couldn't forget how terrifying it was when her son suddenly exploded on the street, revealing a hideous evil spirit that began to attack people.

"That old woman is the most famous for selling braised chicken on the street, she hasn't set up her stall for several months…" A player who had been a rogue cultivator in Linjing City since the beginning was explaining to Merui Ta and Qi Hai Kui, who had just arrived.

In addition to the old woman, many other NPCs righteously threw rotten vegetable leaves at Feng Xun.

"These people… are like the people whose homes were destroyed by the Zerg."

Lou Jia, who had captured Feng Xun, didn't leave but stayed here and happened to witness this scene.

The fire of hatred in these people's eyes was very similar to the look in his eyes when he was finally rescued and saw the bodies of his parents and grandfather, and then turned to look at the already dead Zerg corpses on the ground.

Grief and indignation!

But they were powerless and could only vent their anger on something that posed no threat.

"Ah…" Merui Ta was startled by Lou Jia's words. She turned her head to look at the crazy hatred in those people's eyes, lost in thought.

Her environment had always been very peaceful.

But Merui Ta seemed to have seen those people's eyes in her mother's eyes.

After her father died, her mother had been in a very bad mood for a long time.

Her mother, who had always been considered a proper lady by her grandfather, had also cursed at the people who brought back her father's belongings like a shrew. Although it was displaced anger, no one blamed a woman who had just lost her husband.

She had also angrily cursed the federal high-level officials in front of her grandfather, but in the end, at her father's funeral, she returned to her most dignified appearance, standing in the mourning hall with her back straight, looking at everyone who came to pay their respects, a glimmer of light lost in her pupils.

One was still, one was moving, both going to extremes.

It wasn't until she heard that the Zerg legion that had ambushed them had been wiped out that her mother gradually returned to normal.

If the world in the game kept moving forward, how long would it take for these NPCs to get over their grief?