Chapter 459 The Dead End of Eden

The battle below did not last long.

At this point, both sides understood that this fight was a deadlock, so even though many from the Eternal Life Palace looked confused and shocked, wondering when their faction got tangled up with such a big evil cult and ended up in open conflict, they had no choice but to do their best against the people from Eden or, rather, to do their best to save their own skins.

However, it’s worth mentioning that after the last battle in Eden, the demons who had been hammered senseless by the Eternal Life Palace stopped fighting and became bystanders instead. Nevertheless, the group from Eden had heard from Meat Canned that they were not going to solve problems for them unconditionally, so it was not surprising that, after they stepped in, these demons opted to watch from the sidelines, and they didn’t really care.

As for the Eternal Life Palace… Originally, they were indeed wary of those demons, but after almost getting their brains beaten out by Eden while being distracted, they completely let loose and didn’t care anymore—what the hell, just take out the happy bunch in front of them first.

In such a battlefield where both sides were giving it their all, the rate of casualties exceeded anyone’s expectations.

This was probably the first large-scale internal battle among humans since coming out of the game—the shift from firearms to abilities on this super battlefield displayed a horrific atmosphere that gave the onlookers a new perspective.

Of course, they definitely did not wish to personally participate in such a battle, much less a war.

So this did promote the recognition of Ling Mo’s previous suggestions from the meeting among all present. Even those who had been insisting on exterminating all the demons shut their mouths in such a scenario.

Many things are easy to say, but only by witnessing that kind of scene can one truly understand the situation itself.

As the battle drew to a close, with heavy casualties on both the Eternal Life Palace and Eden sides, it was finally time for the spectators to enter.

Suddenly, all the demons began to act simultaneously, surrounding everyone from the Eternal Life Palace and Eden within. This abrupt change caused a momentary pause in the fighting from both sides. The leader of Eden initially thought this was the demons coming to help them, but then he realized he was sorely mistaken—very sorely mistaken—

“Well, it’s time for a halftime break, everyone.” Ling Mo’s voice came through a loudspeaker from outside, and the fighting groups saw the high-ups from several factions like the Chicks and the New Dawn Ability Bureau appearing outside the ring, all beginning to strongly observe the demons from the outside, causing Yan Zigui’s expression to finally change.

Especially when he saw Ling Mo standing next to Guan Ling, Yan Zigui finally realized they had fallen into a trap.

A big trap, layered upon layers.

This wasn’t even set up with the appearance of the demons, it might have been in motion since that meeting held by the Chicks!

How sinister!

The expression of Eden’s leader was now as colorful as Guan Gong’s face-changing act; at that moment, he finally realized that things had spiraled out of his control… or rather, that they had never been in his control to begin with.

The scene fell into a deathly silence at that moment.

Ling Mo held the loudspeaker, smiled, and asked, “Why is everyone silent? Don’t make it awkward—should I play something fun to liven things up?”

Then he activated the loudspeaker’s recording function—

“Collect—hair! Collect! Long hair…”

“Oops, wrong one.” Ling Mo cleared his throat, switched recordings again, and then the voice of Cheng Ming came from the loudspeaker—

“Listen up! Very soon, a big group of humans who look just like me will come to decide your fate, and they call this action an expedition! Their goal is to kill all beings that aren’t of their kind—meaning you! You demons! And I! Am here to represent Eden to surrender to you!”

The content Cheng Ming shouted on the outskirts of the city was also recorded on this loudspeaker. In this environment, it made the face of Eden’s leader turn white a few shades.

“I’m not sure if anyone recognizes this voice. It seems he wants to represent Eden to surrender to the demons. Isn’t that saying Eden is going to be a traitor among humans?” Ling Mo raised an eyebrow.

The Eden leader immediately roared, “Eden has always acted with integrity and has never stood on the side of demons! Isn’t it a bit pathetic for you so-called righteous ones to slander us in this way?!”

He was gambling, betting that Cheng Ming had just been caught by this group, which was why they hadn’t seen his presence at all, even that idiot had left the loudspeaker in their hands, and actually recorded this nonsense! Simply unfathomably foolish!

But in this situation, he had to fight tooth and nail not to admit it!

“Slander?” Ling Mo paused for a moment and then played a recording that he had earlier shared with Summer Jincang, “How about this, is it also slander?”

The leader didn’t even wait for him to finish before shouting, “I don’t know where you found someone to impersonate my Eden! But no matter how inappropriate our actions are, we would never betray humanity! Kill or cut me, do as you wish, but I will not allow you fools to insult my lofty pursuit!”

“Lofty pursuit? Is it to kneel at the feet of demons and act like their dogs?” Ling Mo, this time, couldn’t be bothered to play along anymore and directly played the recorded communications with the leader—wherein the basic idea he expressed in the last few contacts was to let him act like a dog for the demons, making them cozy until they fully recognized Eden, so that the next step of the plan could take place.

And these recordings completely sealed Eden’s identity as the mole.

This became an issue of nature—no matter how many despicable deeds Eden committed on the human side, that could only be considered a criminal at most. If they were caught with a good attitude of repentance, they might even receive a lighter sentence. But if they surrendered to demons, the nature was entirely different, even worse than being a traitor during wartime. A mole only betrayed their nation, while this was equivalent to betraying all humanity.

So once this point was firmly established, there was no salvation for Eden; no one could save it, nor would anyone want to.

At that moment, the leader’s expression had turned extremely grim: “…So it was you who approached us from the very beginning?”

He finally understood, this had always been a trap.

“Correct,” Ling Mo shrugged, “But I didn’t expect you all to be so easily fooled, and to inadvertently help us expose another big fish.”

As for the other big fish, Yan Zigui: “…”

Damn it, fool.