241: Chapter 242 Lord of Humanity

While Lin Li's physical body stood motionless like a statue.

This group of The Fourth Calamity, who never played by the rules, had already become bystanders without the slightest psychological burden.

The players who had just successfully repaired the pv terminals were frantically finding angles to take photos and record video footage.

As for those who hadn't fixed their equipment, they simply made use of whatever was at hand.

They dragged over a few relatively intact Warrior Bug corpses, laid them on the ground, and sat down comfortably on them.

If they had had any food on hand, they would have taken out peanuts, melon seeds, drinks, and beer to watch the CG cutscene while snacking.

"Brothers."

ikun True Fan sat on the bug's carapace, rubbing his chin thoughtfully,

"I think after this is over, we definitely need to start brewing beer back at the base! Without a drink during such a grand scene, it feels like something is missing. Hmm... right, what family of plants do hops belong to? Are they easy to grow?"

Nicotine Truth chimed in from the side, dead serious:

"I don't know what family they belong to, I only know that stuff can be grown in the summer. It grows in eleven days after planting, and then you can harvest it once every day! That was the most profitable crop during the first year of land reclamation!"

ikun listened, stunned, then suddenly realized what he was saying and retorted angrily:

"Get lost! Who the hell asked you for a Stardew Valley guide?! This is the Warhammer Universe! What do you mean it grows in a day and can be harvested every day!"

Just as the players were bullshitting as if they were watching a movie and waiting for the plot to progress,

Lin Li, not far away, was enduring torment that ordinary people could never imagine.

Within the dimensions of the Warp.

Lin Li's soul was currently being tightly entangled by several dense mists of different colors, each radiating terrifying pressure!

These mists, like greedy hounds, bit into different parts of his soul and began to pull frantically in every direction!

During the pulling process, many small, mindless gray mists kept drifting from the surrounding void. Like parasites, they swarmed over the surface of Lin Li's soul, attempting to get a share of the spoils.

An excruciating pain, as if his soul were being torn apart, washed over him in waves like a thousand arrows piercing his heart.

But Lin Li gritted his teeth so hard that the veins on his forehead bulged, refusing to let out a single scream.

Even more terrifying was the constant, soul-shattering roar coming from above Lin Li's head, strong enough to break one's sanity.

This sound was like a giant hammer striking his brain.

Even Lin Li didn't know why his consciousness hadn't been completely torn to shreds by these lunatics yet.

However, those high and mighty beings knew nothing of mercy.

They had no concept of restraint.

These Chaos Gods were only interested in unleashing their power and striking wildly; they didn't care about Lin Li's survival.

In fact, after their struggle reached a stalemate, they began to think that tearing him into pieces and each taking a fragment of his soul seemed like a pretty good idea!

And so.

Lin Li was like a fat sheep forcibly served onto a dining table.

Before a group of Chaos Gods who had temporarily reached a tacit agreement, he waited in despair for the fate of being devoured.

"Boom!"

The red mist, representing rage, was the first to lose patience and struck violently!

"Bloodlust and brutality are mine!" a deep voice echoed in the void,

"This is quite a good nourishment for war!"

A large red hand, formed entirely of blood, grabbed Lin Li's right arm tightly and exerted force, intending to rip that part of his soul out by the root!

However, faced with this deadly tearing.

Lin Li's gaze did not look at that large red hand.

He endured the excruciating pain, opened his eyes wide, and stared at this twisted space filled with burning emotions, seemingly searching anxiously for some figure.

His consciousness slightly clearer, Lin Li now fully understood his situation.

His soul had most likely been forcibly dragged into the depths of the Warp.

Those few scoundrels hovering above were definitely the notorious Chaos Gods of the Warhammer Universe!

But things had come to this, and as a mere mortal, he had no room to resist.

Lin Li gritted his teeth and silently cursed in his heart:

"Old Man Huang! If you don't come now, dammit! I'm really going to lose my life today!"

Almost the very next second after Lin Li finished cursing in his heart!

"Zheng—!"

A terrifying golden light, blinding and pure, devoid of any impurities, like a supreme sword that split the heavens and the earth, violently hacked through the purple-red haze of the Warp from the outside!

When this warm and overbearing golden light completely covered Lin Li's soul.

The crazy, blasphemous whispers in his ears receded like a tide, replaced by the prayers of countless humans with different voices, all incredibly devout.

The forceful intervention of the golden light made this already tense "dinner party" even more chaotic!

Those black and gray mists floating on the periphery, attempting to scavenge, hissed like rats touching sulfuric acid the moment they came into contact with the golden light. They turned around and fled, completely retreating from the battlefield, not daring to participate in the struggle for the person.

The red mist, burned by the golden light, retracted the large blood hand in pain.

It gathered with the other three massive mists, instinctively resisting the unreasonable intrusion of the golden light.

The blue mist, representing change, surged violently and morphed into a blurred face.

"You... have come after all..."

However! Before the blue mist could finish its philosophical and sarcastic remark.

"Swish!"

A giant golden sword, condensed from pure energy, slashed directly from the void!

Without any nonsense, it fiercely slashed at the blue mist!

"Bang!"

The blue mist was violently scattered. Although it reassembled and recovered in an instant, suffering no substantial, fatal damage.

But this merciless sword strike directly and domineeringly indicated the tough stance of the golden light's owner!

Get lost!

The blue mist rolled, seemingly a bit annoyed after suddenly taking the hit.

"Strong on the outside, weak on the inside!"

The blue mist mocked coldly,

"You are nothing but a withered bone; a projection of this intensity won't last long!"

After saying this, the blue mist silently retreated and completely disappeared into the depths of the Warp, as if it had never appeared.

The purple and green mists nearby saw this, weighed the pros and cons, and did not stay any longer.

The two mists quickly contracted and ran away.

Only the red mist, with the most explosive temper, remained!

It was unwilling to let the prey at its mouth fly away, so it sprouted a giant claw from the mist, attempting a final close-quarters struggle with the golden light.

For a time, the golden and red lights collided and tore at each other above Lin Li's head, triggering violent storms.

But seeing this familiar golden light appear, the heart that had been in Lin Li's throat finally settled back down.

"Phew... survived."

Lin Li let out a long sigh of relief,

"The ones who attacked me just now were clearly those shameless scoundrels from the Warp. I almost fell for their trap for a moment."

Lin Li watched the golden light fighting overhead,

"Fortunately, Old Man Huang still has that short-tempered, unreasonable, and protective attitude. After all, I still owe him a mountain of usury. If I just croaked here, there would be no one in the real world to work off my debt for him."

In Lin Li's view, Old Man Huang's style of doing things was as simple and brutal as ever.

It was exactly like four gang bosses sitting at a table playing cards, preparing to divide the chips on the table.

Then suddenly, a tougher guy ran in from outside the door.

Not only did he not say hello, but he kicked the table over.

He even pointed at everyone's noses and cursed:

"The chips here are all mine! All of you, get the hell out!"

It was unreasonable to the extreme, but also domineering to the extreme.

Who knew how long they had been clashing in the void.

The collision of the two light clusters above Lin Li's head finally gradually subsided.

The red mist seemed to realize that it couldn't gain any advantage by stubbornly fighting at this anchor point, and eventually could only let out an unwilling roar and slowly recede.

Until all threats were cleared.

The domineering golden light cluster then slowly descended from high above, dropping to a height roughly level with Lin Li's soul.

Lin Li focused his mind and steadied his breath, raised his head, and faced the blinding light, trying to see the true appearance inside the golden light.

Deep in the core of the golden light.

Lin Li vaguely saw a withered, shriveled face!

Rather than saying it was a person.

It would be better to say that it was a terrifying skeleton, covered in thick life-support tubes, sitting on a massive mechanical throne!

This was a shocking combination of contradictions.

In the high-dimensional projection of the Warp, He was a cold, great, and unlookable holy golden light;

And in the real world on Terra, He was just a shriveled corpse, imprisoned for ten thousand years and on the verge of death!

Even though Lin Li, as a transmigrator, had long been prepared for the background of Warhammer.

But when he truly faced the greatest and most tragic existence in this universe, his heart still felt an irrepressible and extraordinary shock.

"Emperor of Mankind..."

Lin Li's lips moved slightly, silently spitting out these four words.

The next moment!

Seemingly as a response to Lin Li's address.

The static golden light suddenly erupted!

The golden light directly transformed into a giant hand burning with raging golden flames.

This giant hand reached forward domineeringly and grabbed Lin Li's somewhat broken soul in its palm!

"Boom—!"

The prayers of countless mortals, sounds of atonement, and the wails of the war dead, like a bursting flood, once again resounded in Lin Li's mind!

This strong emotion belonging to the entire human race once again shocked Lin Li's soul, causing it to tremble violently.