The siren kept ringing. Hope City encountered the biggest danger of the latest three years. Pure Hatred infiltrated the city for reasons unknown!
The balance shattered, and the former fear descended again. Crying came from the buffer zone. The complacent patrols became scared. Different from the center, there were some persona users at Hope City who didn’t know how to battle. They joined the patrols only for their benefit. They could struggle, perhaps against normal ghosts, but they ran faster than normal people when they met Pure Hatred. A weak battle spirit, a corrupted admin, tore apart the defense easily. The illusion of safety was torn apart.
“Make chaos. Only pain will wake them up.” The buffer zone had a lot of labs. There were many rare ghosts like Big Sin. These ghosts were priceless to Han Fei, so naturally, he wouldn’t let them go. Since he was there, might as well go for them.
“I need to destroy more labs to confuse Hope City.” Han Fei had found an excuse for his actions. He led the black merchants and started to ransack the place. Actually, Han Fei was doing a good thing. He didn’t let the ghosts wander away because that would harm the innocent citizens. Eating them was the best choice.
“Heart, skin, other organs…” When Han Fei wanted to go reclaim the rest of Big Sin’s body, the gate of Hope City’s central area opened. Vehicles with Deep Space Tech’s symbol rolled out. They were much stronger than the patrols. “Are they going for real this time?’
The elite force of Hope City was used to protect the people of the central and inner zones. The outer city and buffer zone were test zones. Only those who survived could rise to the middle city zone. “These monsters are failing to follow the rules less and less. I’ve long said that they can’t be treated as humans! They are not humans, so they have to be killed! We cannot retreat. We need to kill all of them!” A crazy howl came from a distance. A man in bloodred patient’s garb stood on a bloodred truck. His hands and face were bandaged. He was like a crazy beast.
“Many ghosts are formed from human obsession. They can be understood as another form of human beings. Ghosts feast on negative emotions. They never want to fully vanquish usual.” A man in a white suit sat across from the bestial man. He held a scale.
“Wu Nian, do you hear yourself?” The man grabbed the other by his white collar. “It’s because there are too many like you that Hope City becomes like this!”
“Democracy, fairness, and freedom, aren’t these the difference between humans and animals?” Even with his collar being held, the man in the suit didn’t change his mind.
“I wish to break your limbs and throw you to the bases where the ghosts fester so that you can experience the lives of those on the bottom layer of the society.” The patient’s eyes were scarily red.
“I know your history as a livestock, but you need to consider those to be necessary sacrifices.”
“Sacrificing some humans for hope, that is not hope. Stop lying to yourself.” The patient let go. He planned to enter the still-expanding ghost territory, but the man in the white suit stopped him. He pushed the patient towards the black mist instead.
“I’m familiar with the Pure Hatred around Hope City. Leave them to me.” Before the patient could say anything, the man had already walked to the ghost territory.
“You coward! How can someone like you have eight awakenings? There is no fairness in this world!” The patient charged into the black mist. “What ghost territory is this? Why can I feel the presence of different Pure Hatreds?” The bandages fell. The patient’s body changed. “Never mind. It doesn’t matter. No ghost can stand up against the brutal persona!”
The patient seemed to see something. The rationality in his eyes faded away. “Do you like to play hide-and-seek?”
A giant fist moved at the patient from the mist. The patient didn’t even try to evade. He focused and punched back! Part of the mist was pushed away. The patient’s arm cracked. Another person would have surrendered, but the man only smiled. The greater the pain, the happier he was. The broken bones were snapped back into place. His blood rapidly healed his body. “The brutal feast is about to start!”
The patient went down on all fours like a dog. His shirt was torn apart, exposing the different brands left behind by ghosts. This man had been kept as livestock by different ghosts. He was no longer human. Different curses and stuff had been injected into his body. Through accident, he obtained supernatural self-recovery power. After confirming the headmaster’s location, the patient’s body started to mutate. His flesh and blood could injure ghosts. The more he was in, the more active the bugs hidden in his blood were.
“Die! Die!”
The patient crawled onto the headmaster. No matter how the headmaster tried, it couldn’t shake him off. The madman tore apart the headmaster’s soul. He wanted to crawl into the headmaster. “You’re not even a Pure Hatred and you dare to fight me?”
In response, a strand of white hair slowly approached and pierced through his body.
“There’s another Pure Hatred?!”
The ghost territory opened around the patient. The patient’s body started to crack. His body was made into drawers. The drawers contained his memory and life. They were the reasons he could survive through the darkness. But now, the Pure Hatred wanted to go for his memory.
“Unforgivable!”
The patient grabbed the white hair. The white hair easily cut through his body. The intense pain caused the patient to laugh. He looked at his sliced fingers and cackled. “Being brutal means being brutal to oneself too!”
To everyone’s surprise, the white hair was affected by the patient’s broken flesh. The unknown bugs living in his body feasted on the white-haired woman’s soul.
“The greater the pain, the happier I am!” He had been kept for too long. He was immune to most curses. “Can you feel fear too? I used to be a normal person. You made me into this! The venom in my blood is there because of you!”
The patient howled. The bugs would eventually corrupt the headmaster and the white-haired woman. At that moment, a lick of black flame burned in the sea. A giant whale leaped out of the water. The flame burned through the bugs on the white lady. The bugs struggled before they turned into ashes.
“A third Pure Hatred?” The patient hesitated. The black flame could burn through his worms, and there could be more Pure Hatred in the black mist!
The mist appeared to be connected to hell. No one could see the truth. The patient felt like retreating for the first time. However, Han Fei wouldn’t let him go so easily.
When Han Fei saw this man with eight awakenings walk into the black mist alone, his greed persona expanded. He wanted to keep the patient for himself.
When the little girl appeared, fear demon materialized behind the patient. They attacked the patient mentally and physically. No matter how strong the patient was, he was no match for two Pure Hatreds. The black mist swirled around the patient. Han Fei tried to drag the patient into the abyss, but he failed. Gao Cheng’s greed abyss could only trap ghosts. Even at a higher level, that wouldn’t change. To consume the patient, Han Fei had to kill him first. Gao Cheng’s memory looked at Han Fei silently. Compared to Han Fei, he was quite selfless.
“The persona can’t eat living humans. I can understand that.”
The patient was dying but Han Fei let him go. He wouldn’t kill for no reason. When it was God’s birthday, Han Fei needed the patient to help him fight Gao Xing. After Han Fei got the rest of Big Sin’s body, he decided to leave.
He tossed the souls of the ghost card criminals before the patients.
“There are people inside Hope City colluding with Pure Hatred to prepare for God’s birthday. They want to sacrifice the whole city. I’m here to warn you.” Han Fei said.
The patient was shocked. He knew there were problems with the higher-ups, but he had no idea the problem was so serious.
“You’ve been too complacent and forgot the fear. I hope my appearance can remind you of the cruel past.”
The patient was from the fighting camp so he understood Han Fei.
“Who… are you?”
“I’m the person lighting the way for you with the flame.” The mist faded away. Han Fei escaped. This felt surreal to the patient. Moments ago, he was attacked by four Pure hatreds and was about to die. However, he was suddenly rescued and heard shocking news.
Looking at the ruins and the damaged labs, the patient was shaken.
The Pure Hatred retreated just like that. They didn’t harm the normal citizens. They only destroyed the labs that contained rare ghosts.
“Who is that person?”
