Dominion’s End V6C10: The People in Hell, Part Two

Dominion’s End Volume 6: The Unknown Elite

Original novel in Chinese by: 御我 (Yu Wo)

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Chapter 10: The People in Hell, Part Two—translated by Raylight (C/E edited by lucathia)

After gaining a new perspective, I stared at Jin Feng’s back and suddenly felt sorry for her. Why would such a valiant and beautiful beauty be so hung up on me, choosing to die on this rotten hill—No, just by my face alone, I got to at least be a magnificent hill!

“Jin Feng, you really…” I asked her softly, “No matter what I want to do or where I am, will you always support me?”

Jin Feng turned around to look at me with a smile as she answered, “Most of the time. If you ask me to go against my bro when he isn’t in the wrong, then I won’t do it.”

Oh, that kid didn’t have a brother. Other than this life savior big sis, he had nothing left. That was probably why he had no hesitations.

I gave a cough and said, “My dàgē is right. Something like marriage shouldn’t be done sneakily in the dark! Anyways, now is not the time. Let’s discuss it another day. I have something more important to talk about.”

Hearing that, Jin Feng froze for a moment, and then the corners of her mouth upturned as her eyes softened with a smile. Watching that made me feel embarrassed. I should be the one smiling, right? What’s with your smile as though you just managed to nab yourself a wife!

Jin Zhan looked between my embarrassed self and his smug sister, and then let out an “ah.” He seemed to have suddenly realized something and said, “I see.” What the heck did you see? Actually, I don’t want to know what you figured out, so you better not say anything!

Jin Zhan muttered to himself, “Not a brother-in-law but a sister-in-law huh. If that’s the case, that’s fine.”

Fuck you! Third tiers have amazing hearing. Can’t you just keep your thoughts to yourself? Even my dàgē’s face has turned sour. He must have heard it, too. Just look at his face. It’s as black as thunder at the thought of marrying off his little brother!

“Feng-jiějiě, then can I be the bridesmaid?” Shujun raised her head, asking in a pitiful tone. Though she still looked a little off, her attention seemed to have been distracted by the word “marriage.” I should pay more attention to Mèimei after this.

Jin Feng pinched Shujun’s ponytail, and nodded as she agreed, “You can as long as you call me Sister-in-Law—Sǎozi.”

Shujun blinked a little, and then obediently called, “Èr Sǎo.”

“Good girl.” Jin Feng dug out a tier one crystal and handed it to Shujun. “Here you go, a marriage gift. I didn’t bring a red envelope, so I’ll make it up to you in the future.”

So this is the marriage gift. That day, I casually called many people things like brother, stepmom and such, and the result of this casualness is that I’m now getting married…

And didn’t I just say that we can discuss marriage another day? You two, don’t just start discussing it now! I still want to postpone my decision until I’m twenty! In order to avoid getting married on the spot, I immediately threw out the main topic, “I managed to hear from the aberrants the direction the other aberrant wave is headed to. They’re headed toward the Shangguan military zone.”

“We know.” Dàgē said, seeming to have already known about it. “Tang Liang and the others have also noticed it. There was a terrifying, large fellow leading a bunch of aberrants, headed in the direction of their military zone. That was why we split up in Lan City. They went to notify the military zone, while we returned to Jiang Dominion for backup. Lan City is too messy now, so Jin Zhan agreed to come over to help guard the base. In exchange, he gets to stay here and seek shelter while doing so.”

“The Yggdrasil Earthworm.” I said and took a deep breath. What happened in my past life was really going to repeat itself again. The flap of a butterfly’s wing was too minor to be able to fan it away.

“That sounds like an appropriate name for it.” Jin Zhan seemed curious and asked, “You managed to survive running into that thing?”

I admitted truthfully, “I desperately wormed into narrow areas to avoid it, and after running away from the earthworm, I almost died to wolfmen who surrounded me. That was when Jin Feng rescued me, took me back, and gave me a red envelope.”

Jin Zhan gave a laugh, but actually did not mock me. Probably the fact that I had met the Yggdrasil Earthworm yet survived to tell the tale left him impressed.

Dàgē asked in detail, “Just how powerful is that Yggdrasil Earthworm?”

I gave the question some thought. To gauge its strength purely from my escape last time would not be entirely accurate. Heavy firepower was still very useful against it currently, but I didn’t have any convenient weapons at the time. So it had been difficult to deal with an overly tanky enemy like always.

I recalled how in my past life, the Shangguan military zone perished together with it in the end. Then I honestly said, “It is extremely terrifying. It has a really large body, and its skin is thick and elastic, so ordinary guns are useless against it. If you want to blow it up, you probably need enough firepower to be able to bomb down an entire base to do it.”

Hearing that, Jin Zhan’s expression changed as he said straight-forwardly, “I don’t have that kind of firepower. Are bazookas not enough?”

I scratched my head as I answered, “I haven’t used a bazooka before, but based on what I saw of the Yggdrasil Earthworm, it’s extremely large, so it probably wouldn’t work.”

“Then I can’t do anything about it.”

Perfectly understandable. Hoarding guns is a normal thing, but who the heck would hoard a bunch of explosives? Right now the only one who could deal with the Yggdrasil Earthworm is probably the Shangguan military zone.

Now to think about it, if it weren’t for them taking care of the Yggdrasil Earthworm, it would be hard to say if Thirteen would have been able to take over Lan City later on. However, leaving the Yggdrasil Earthworm alive so it can deal with Thirteen is definitely not an option. If that thing levels up, it could be even more terrifying than Thirteen!

Dàgē said, “Tang Liang left a few people who came over with us. They’ll be notifying Shangguan Chenhao to go back and assist the military zone. They haven’t left yet. They’re hoping to get our assistance.”

Jin Zhan asked in surprise, “You really listen to your dìdi, huh?”

Dàgē answered confidently, “My dìdi is smart and studious. He dissects and analyzes things in a way that makes sense, so it can’t go wrong to listen to him.”

At the part where “studious” was mentioned, Jin Zhan seemed unconvinced, but his expression later relaxed as he nodded his head in agreement. “He does run around wildly a lot, so he’s not too ignorant.”

At the mention of “running around wildly,” Dàgē’s face became even stormier.

I immediately changed the subject. “What are Tang Liang’s terms?”

“They will never attack the Jiang Dominion again, they will compensate for our losses incurred when Shangguan Chenhao attacked, and they will provide military power. The rest has to wait until he goes back and checks with the higher-ups.”

“It’s not worth it.” I commented honestly. Among those terms, the best part was the part where they would never attack the Jiang Dominion again. However, if they were to break the contract, what could we even do? Go to court and sue them?

“To think I was worried that you would want to go over and save them due to the hot-bloodedness of youth.” Jin Zhan’s expression looked a lot better. The satisfied look in his eyes was even more obvious. Have you already entered the stage of how a mother-in-law would look at their son-in-law and find more and more things to approve about them?

“Let the Shangguan military zone deal with the Yggdrasil Earthworm themselves.” Dàgē said in a relaxed tone, “They have many people and troops. Our side has too few people, and we can’t afford the sacrifices. It’s not worth it just to get some resources.”

I remained silent. The Shangguan military zone would perish together with the Yggdrasil Earthworm. To the Jiang Dominion, this would perhaps be considered a good thing, to be able to get rid of two enemies at once.

“Where are the people Tang Liang left? I have stuff to ask.”

“In the lobby. They don’t have time, so they’re already getting ready to go.” After saying that, Dàgē continued, “After you finish asking your stuff, go and discuss it with Xiao Sha.”

Xiao Sha? I froze, and then nodded.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door, to which Dàgē replied with a “come in.”

Only two people entered the room. One was Zhu Yuanzhou who had a heavy expression. The other was a familiar face, too. It was He Jiu, the person who was at Tang Liang’s side last time.

Even before the two could say a word, Dàgē cut them off with a “we’re not going.” Zhu Yuanzhou remained silent while He Jiu looked a little dejected. The two of them must have expected this answer already though, as they did not look too disappointed.

“Then we are heading off.”

I called out to them, “Wait up, have you heard the name Wei Mingyun before? He should be someone in your military zone.” The person that I mainly wanted to ask was He Jiu, but I couldn’t single him out to ask, or it would have been too obvious.

Honestly, I didn’t have much expectations on getting an answer, since there were so many people in the military zone. He Jiu couldn’t possibly know the names of everyone there. I was more hoping to take this chance of talking with them to warn them about the Yggdrasil Earthworm.

However, to my surprise, He Jiu nodded and said, “Of course! That’s the good recruit that my boss found from the military school! The boss had to pay a really large penalty for the breach of contract to take him out of the military school. Commanding Officer Tang Liang had nothing but praise for the dude, and said the boss had a good eye for people.”

At this point, He Jiu asked in curiosity, “Do you know him? Oh, that’s right, the two of you are the same age. Were you two classmates from junior high school?”

… It was a friendship from a past life.

I didn’t comment on that and went along with He Jiu’s words, “Yeah, I heard that he went to the Shangguan family after dropping out of military school. I’m a bit worried about his safety.”

“He’s still young, and he’s someone the boss values, so he’s not going to be sent to the front lines.” He Jiu hesitated for a bit before he asked, “If there’s a need, could you shelter some of our people?”

If the one you’re sending over is Wei xiao-ge, I’ll accept him in a heartbeat, no returns! If it’s one of those high ranks, then that would be a disaster! Why the heck would we want them here? To start a power struggle? Just one Shangguan Chenhong is already irritating enough!

Dàgē agreed to his request, “For every person, you have to give us a gun, a hundred rounds of ammo, and five kilograms of rations. For every additional day they stay, add on half a kilogram of rations. Payment later is fine.”

Hearing that, Zhu Yuanzhou and He Jiu’s expressions looked a lot better. A price offer like that was already considered helping them. I reminded them with a frown, “The Yggdrasil Earthworm is an aberrant that is hard to deal with. If possible, it would be better to use a large number of explosives and blow him up from afar. Bazookas are probably not enough. You definitely need a lot of firepower because he has exceptionally tough skin.”

The two of them nodded, but they clearly weren’t taking my advice to heart. Their attitude wasn’t tense enough. Nobody would have ever expected that the military zone would perish because of the Yggdrasil Earthworm. That was because as terrifying as the current aberrants were, they could still be defeated by guns.

At this rate, the Shangguan military zone would be heading toward the same end as what had happened in my past life.

I wanted to warn them one more time, but Dàgē grabbed me and said, “Shuyu, you’re too anxious about this. Were you frightened by the Yggdrasil Earthworm when you saw it from afar?”

Dàgē stared at me, clearly reminding me not to behave strangely.

Knowing the future is indeed a power that can bring a lot of trouble, but how can I possibly just stand by and watch the same thing repeat at the Shangguan military zone—

“Dàgē!”

The door suddenly slammed open, and Jin Xiaoyue rushed in, saying, “Dàgē, listen to me! You absolutely can’t go with the Shangguan Family!”

Jin Xiaoyue’s rash behavior made Jin Zhan look livid as he scolded her, “Didn’t I tell you to go stay with Lil’ Mom? Why are you here? Go back!”

Jin Xiaoyue’s expression looked terrible as she frantically said, “Dàgē, you absolutely can’t go. Everyone in the Shangguan Family will die. It’s been way too long, so I nearly forgot about this. Don’t go!”

Thank you for your sacrifice! I had been worrying over how to warn them without revealing my weirdness, and then someone just came along and took the lead for me.

Really, how reckless of her! I watched Jin Xiaoyue reveal her “prophetic” abilities so fearlessly. To think that someone can still act like this after the baptism of the apocalypse… Or perhaps… it’s the security that comes with a strong backing? After all, she knows that Jin Zhan will become the Thunder God, and she is the blood-related sister of the Thunder God. That’s why she can act like that?

But aren’t you scared that you’re going to get the Thunder God killed with your actions?

As the Ice Emperor’s brother, I managed to make the Ice Emperor disappear off the face of the Earth with just a phone call. As the Thunder God’s little sister, you better not also cause the death of the Thunder God, or else we can become humanity’s future sinner duo!

As Zhu Yuanzhou sized up Jin Xiaoyue with a frown, He Jiu could not stop asking in a panic, “What do you mean, everyone in the Shangguan Family will die?”

“I mean that it’s all over for the Shangguan Family! Aberrant tides are already charging at you all, but to think you all dare to still come over and attack the Ice Emperor’s base. Do you all want to die faster? But oh, I guess dying at the Ice Emperor’s hands is still better than being eaten alive by aberrants.”

Jin Xiaoyue gleefully made fun of the two. This woman really has a horrible character. Looks like I got to hide the fact that I was also reborn. I can’t even tell Feng. If Xiaoyue finds out that someone else was also reborn like her, who knows what she would do?

Well, it definitely wouldn’t end up with us sympathizing with each other, and then cross-referencing each other’s memories and recording it down to benefit humanity, that’s for sure! Such fantasies are beautiful, but in reality, they are beautifully wrong!

He Jiu anxiously asked, “Do you really know what will happen? Is that your ability? How accurate are you?”

Jin Xiaoyue ignored him, having achieved the goal of making sure Jin Zhan wouldn’t go over after throwing a bomb like that. With that sort of personality, it made sense why Jin Zhan always wanted to chase her off to Lil’ Mom’s side.

Jin Zhan’s expression was stony as he coldly said, “Whatever ability she has is none of your business. The more you know, the faster you die. You should know that, right?”

Compared to He Jiu’s anxiety, Zhu Yuanzhou seemed to be able to stay composed. He merely said, “There are many civilian camps inside and outside the military zone. I can’t calculate their numbers but it’s an estimate of at least twenty thousand people. If you all know anything else, please let us know. If what this young lady says is correct, that our military zone will be completely annihilated, then thousands of people will die in this fight.”

Thousands of lives are at stake. Even a mafia like Jin Zhan fell silent at that.

Dàgē shot a look at me, seeming to understand why I was so anxious.

“Xiaoyue.” Jin Zhan finally asked, “What do you know? Just say it!”

“Even if I say it out loud, it’s not going to be of any use. There are so many people gathered there. They’re all dead meat.” Jin Xiaoyue grumbled, not seeming to want to talk more on the subject. However, she seemed to be scared of Jin Zhan, so she continued honestly, “The aberrant tide this time is led by a very large aberrant. They weren’t able to enter the base at first, and only ate the humans outside of the military zone, but more and more aberrants were attracted there. In the end, the entire Shangguan military zone was surrounded by the aberrant tide. No one could escape it.”

Yeah, it did happen like that. I recalled some details. In the midst of it, someone even tried to escape through the sewers, but the moment the waterways opened, horned mice swarmed out from it, causing a large number of injuries and deaths.

Was she also in the military zone at that time? I shot a look at Jin Xiaoyue. She’s not someone I know right? That time after we escaped from the military zone, we had no weapons or resources. Surviving was difficult. I saw the aberrants disperse from the base, so I suggested going back to pick up some weapons. A lot of the older members of the team had been with us since then.

“They can’t think of a way to break through? So all of them were trapped there until they died?” I quietly pointed out what the other had been hiding, “Among all those troops there, there has got to be at least a couple who have fought wars before right? They have weapons too. Would they really just be trapped there like that to their deaths?”

Once I said that, Jin Zhan also realized that something was not right about it. He glared angrily at Xiaoyue.

Jin Xiaoyue reluctantly added on, “In the end, they decided there was nothing left to lose, so they blasted a hole to attract the attention of the aberrants. They had the civilians escape from a small hole at the other side. Whether I say it or not makes no difference, right? Since they were already going to do it regardless.”

Zhu Yuanzhou completely ignored Jin Xiaoyue’s attitude, and instead asked her politely, “Is there any way to get through this?

Jin Xiaoyue unhappily said, “What way, just don’t gather that many people in one place. Thousands of people in a place, you all are simply asking for it! If you all want to live, hurry and run!”

That’s right. You have to disperse them, for twenty thousand people in a place is too noticeable, and is bound to attract the aberrant tide.

He Jiu’s expression looked terrible as he muttered, “Where could thousands of people evacuate to? The civilians would refuse to leave—”

Zhu Yuanzhou interrupted him, “Let’s get the higher ups to decide this. We have to go back immediately to notify the military zone.”

He Jiu nodded, but could not resist asking, “Does our boss survive? He is called Shangguan Chenhao.”

Hearing that name, Jin Xiaoyue fell silent for a bit. She seemed to have mixed feelings as she said, “So your boss is that dummy, Shangguan Chenhao? He’s a pretty decent guy. The troops who were guarding the doors to the military zone with their lives all said that they were his subordinates. However, right after the civilians escaped, there was a large explosion, to the point the aberrant leading the wave exploded into a pile of rotten meat. I didn’t see Shangguan Chenhao escape then.”

Hearing about the large explosion at the military zone, everyone in the room seemed to understand why, and could not help but look solemn and show respect.

At this moment, I had a feeling and looked in the direction of the door. Someone stood outside—Xiao Sha. He had his back leaning against the room door, his fists clenched deathly tight, and his eyes red.

Although he kept saying that he hated the Shangguan family, it seemed like Xiao Sha’s hatred toward that brother of his was not that simple.

Shangguan Chenhao, Wei xiao-ge. This time, neither Xia Zhengu nor I are there. Would Xiao Qi be able to escape to the military zone on her own? She should be able to. Although Xiao Qi’s healing ability was really weak, and her combat ability wasn’t even as good as mine, if I were to say who would live to the end, I would place my money on her.

For a woman who struggled so hard to survive, she can’t croak in the first year in this life.

In my past life, I wanted nothing more than to escape from the Shangguan military zone. In this life, I should stay far away from hell. However…

I looked in the direction of the Shangguan military zone, and gave a laugh. Really, what choice do I have?

There are important people in that hell!

As long as you are there, no matter where you are, or whatever the dangers, I will always go to save you all.

This time, let me be the one to make that promise.