295: Never die, never rest.

"This has to be fake..."

Chen Yu stood there, dazed, letting the rain wash over his face.

Before him, Zhang Ning's body had ceased breathing.

Zhang Ning's body was riddled with bullet holes, her blood mingling with the rainwater on the ground.

The poison gas bomb beside her corpse was still continuously leaking dark yellow gas.

Thump.

Chen Yu fell to his knees before Zhang Ning.

The mask hid his face; no one knew what expression he wore at that moment.

Chen Yu's mind had gone completely blank.

Now, the resuscitation ventilator could no longer revive her.

What Chen Yu found most unacceptable was that if he had been just a little faster, he might have been able to stop Triss from making that wish.

"Heh..."

"Hehehe..."

"Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha!"

Chen Yu's laughter grew increasingly manic.

Others couldn't hear his manic laughter, but they could see his shoulders trembling wildly.

Because of the mask, those present couldn't tell if Chen Yu was crying or laughing.

Chen Yu picked up the heart of africa that Zhang Ning had dropped. He held it up and shouted with a laugh:

"I wish to resurrect Zhang Ning."

"Hahahahaha! Hahahaha."

As his voice fell, Chen Yu looked at the indifferent heart of africa in his hand, laughing even more maniacally and despairingly.

Ten thousand meters away, Shen Cangsheng watched Zhang Ning's corpse and Chen Yu kneeling before it, tears streaming down his face.

"Brother Chen... You knew it all along..."

"The resuscitation ventilator revives us because of the price paid by our predecessors; that has never been the power of the heart of africa..."

Looking at the deceased Zhang Ning and the broken Chen Yu, Shen Cangsheng's heart felt as if it were being violently squeezed.

Back in school, Shen Cangsheng had already heard of Chen Yu's great reputation. In terms of seniority, Chen Yu was Shen Cangsheng's senior.

After graduation, Shen Cangsheng went to the company where Chen Yu worked. Initially, he thought that someone like Chen Yu would surely bully him in the workplace.

But to his utter surprise, Chen Yu and Zhang Ning not only didn't bully him, but instead treated him like their own younger brother.

Now, seeing the state of the two, Shen Cangsheng didn't know what to do.

Swish.

Shen Cangsheng wiped the rain off his sniper scope.

In the scope, Chen Yu slowly stood up. After looking around, Chen Yu saw Raven, who was shoving poison gas bombs into the mouths of other Xia Country Operatives.

"It's you, isn't it?"

Chen Yu muttered, his voice icy to the extreme.

"Give me an independent battlefield, just me and him."

"Undying."

"Unending."

Chen Yu held the heart of africa in one hand and pointed at Raven with the other.

Meanwhile, a hoarse, sorrowful voice sounded beside Chen Yu:

"I'm sorry, if only I had been there."

"Actually, Zhang Ning wasn't beyond saving; you've been blinded by hatred."

At this moment, everyone present could only hear whistling in their ears. Naturally, this voice did not reach Chen Yu's ears either.

Chen Yu gazed blankly at the heart of africa disappearing in his hand.

In his eyes, this battlefield was now shrouded by a massive, dark hemisphere.

In the distance, Raven, who was frantically slaughtering the Xia Country Operatives, suddenly stopped.

In his perception, there was only one person left on this battlefield...

A momentary look of bewilderment appeared on Raven's manic face. When he turned his head, there was no one else on the battlefield except for a figure wearing a golden mask.

Even the rain seemed to have ceased to exist.

"I wish for these five hearts of africa to maximize all my abilities."

"I wish for infinite ammunition for the firearm in my hand."

"I wish for the damage caused by my firearm to be unrecoverable."

"I wish for the power of my firearm to be enhanced to the maximum."

"I wish for the "heaven is round, earth is square" in my quantum storage to be usable passively."

Chen Yu, standing in the distance, was now pulling the hearts of africa out of his quantum storage one by one.

These hearts of africa, which were originally intended for the greater good, were all being used by Chen Yu on himself.

As that voice had said, Chen Yu was now completely blinded by hatred.

He was different from others. Anyone else might have been able to restrain themselves in this situation, but Chen Yu—he always avenged his grudges!

Bang!

Almost instantly, Raven appeared behind Chen Yu and fired a shot.

Ding!

The "heaven is round, earth is square" in Chen Yu's bag shattered in response.

"Oh, so that's how it is..."

"I was wondering what that whistling was for."

Chen Yu turned his head and looked at Raven with indifferent eyes.

"You used this to kill her, didn't you?"

Bang-bang-bang!

"Hahaha! Hahaha!"

"One after another, one after another!"

"Hahaha! Hahaha, everyone, stop me!"

The crazed Raven didn't answer Chen Yu's question at all. He laughed wildly while raising his gun and aiming at Chen Yu's head.

Ding!

Chen Yu didn't dodge, using the "heaven is round, earth is square" to tank Raven's bullet.

"Hahahahaha, stop you?"

Chen Yu also began to laugh manically.

"Don't flatter yourself."

"Look at what kind of trash you are! Garbage!"

"Xia Country has never launched an attack on the Tidal Prison, nor have we ever taken a single brick or tile from it."

"Xia Country's goal was merely to end the war, and we even aimed our spears at Hafke! Not Asara!"

"But you, who suddenly attacked Xia Country at the critical moment of our decisive battle with Hafke!"

"What difference is there between you and a plague or a virus?!"

"You motherfucker should go back to the Tidal Prison! Go back to your cage!"

Snap!

As he finished speaking, Chen Yu instantly raised his hand and shattered his own eardrum.

Then, Chen Yu immediately raised his gun, aimed at Raven's head, and pulled the trigger.

Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!

Here, Raven lost his target and also lost the ability to teleport. Chen Yu's bullets hit Raven's head, not much different from when Shen Cangsheng fought Reis.

But Raven's bullets hitting Chen Yu's head had absolutely no effect either. In this space, only the roaring sound of their guns as they fired at each other remained, along with the sound of the "heaven is round, earth is square" shattering.

Outside the space, Raven and Chen Yu vanished into thin air before everyone's eyes.

Patter, patter—the sound of rain hitting the ground clearly reached everyone's ears.

"I can hear!"

"Really, me too!"

Joy instantly appeared on the faces of those who had recovered their hearing.

Only Shen Cangsheng and Lin Han looked at the patch of ground where Chen Yu had been standing before he vanished, their faces full of worry.

Given their understanding of Chen Yu, they naturally knew what kind of solution Chen Yu would choose.

"Wait, look, what is that?"

An operative raised a hand and pointed toward the distant horizon.

There, a fleet of aircraft, denser than the dark clouds, was slowly approaching.

"Instructor Cai's fleet has arrived."

"But that Raven from just now—even Instructor Cai's fleet would have a hard time dealing with him, right?"

"After all, he kept flickering back and forth among us."

"No..."

The operative who had spoken first shook his head, his eyes widening. He pointed in another direction.

In the far distance, another fleet of aircraft, blotting out the sky, was also slowly flying in. Its sheer numbers and density were like a beast from the abyss opening its maw, charging toward the battlefield.

"That is... Hafke..."