334: Beidu, knocking on the mountain shakes the tiger

Tian Ming looked at everyone and said, "I will buy time for the base's development. Before that, without my permission, do not act rashly, and do not try to rescue people from the corpse race. This isn't just one or two people; it's millions."

Everyone nodded slightly, naturally understanding this point.

"The rest can wait until I return," Tian Ming said, then got up to leave.

At this moment, Lin Yao, Meng Xian, and others also stood up.

"Boss!" Meng Xian spoke.

"Hm?"

"How long will it take for you to return this time?"

Meng Xian's question made Tian Ming fall silent for a moment. He said faintly, "I don't know. I'll return when the matter is resolved."

Upon hearing this answer, everyone quietly pondered their own thoughts.

"Be careful!"

Tian Ming nodded slightly. The incident with Lord Li would not happen a second time. In an instant, Tian Ming's figure vanished into thin air; he had already left.

Ji Ruping sighed and said, "Boss is going to save Shen Yuan this time, isn't he?"

"Let's go. Just do our own work. We can't interfere with his matters. Building up the base is what we should be doing."

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Tian Ming appeared above Beidu. The current Beidu was completely a dead city, devoid of its former prosperity and liveliness, only ruins and desolation. At this time, the weather had turned cold. Although it was not yet winter in the second year of the corpse race outbreak, the north was already covered in ice and snow.

Tian Ming looked down at the ruins. At this moment, on the ground of Beidu Base, some corpse race were scattered and moving. In the first winter, some ordinary corpse race could not withstand the low temperature; they would be frozen stiff as the freezing point arrived. However, in just one year, these ordinary corpse race had developed the ability to resist extreme cold.

Tian Ming descended, and several groups of corpse race quickly surged towards him. These corpse race had evolved thick metal scales, looking like ancient armored soldiers.

Tian Ming frowned slightly. The defense of these corpse race had improved significantly. Several Nitrogen Bombs quickly condensed. In just one encounter, amidst fierce explosions, the surging corpse race were all annihilated.

Beidu's ground was under attack. In the central area of the underground base, many Corpse Kings looked extremely flustered. Ever since they learned that Lu Tianming was not dead, these Corpse Kings had been living in constant dread.

On the throne, Jiang Chen looked at the group of kings under his command, a hint of coldness on his face.

Lord Li even knelt directly and said, "My Emperor, Lu Tianming's visit today is surely about Su Yuan Base. This humble subject was foolish back then. For this crime, this humble subject is willing to bear it alone."

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, a hint of coldness flickering in his golden pupils. Beidu Base had a large population, and its operations were just getting smooth. Some of his Corpse Kings had already begun to evolve light golden pupils. Jiang Chen was absolutely unwilling to sacrifice the entire base's population to perish with Tian Ming, like Lord Li had suggested.

Just as Jiang Chen was about to speak, a Corpse King with one arm broken stumbled into the hall.

"Report, My Emperor! Lu Tianming is here! We can't stop him at all!"

Before the Corpse King could finish speaking, he was directly torn to shreds by Tian Ming's clone. At this moment, Tian Ming's figure flickered and appeared inside the main hall.

A Red Crystal Core slowly condensed and flew into Tian Ming's hand. In an instant, it was absorbed by Tian Ming. All the Corpse Kings in the hall stood up, their faces filled with vigilance.

Tian Ming waved his hand slightly, and his clone instantly entangled Lord Li. Black smoke transformed into sharp barbs, directly piercing into Lord Li's eyes.

With a shrill scream, Lord Li's eye sockets were directly empty, and his two eyeballs fell to the ground.

Jiang Chen stood up and shouted sternly, "Lu Tianming, aren't you going too far?"

"Too far? Six hundred thousand Su Yuan residents all buried underground, and your subordinate, is he not too far?" Tian Ming looked at Jiang Chen coldly, directly tearing Lord Li to shreds in front of him.

Lord Li's Red Crystal Core slowly condensed. This was a special red and white Red Crystal Core. The Red Crystal Core fell into Tian Ming's hand, and Tian Ming absorbed it without hesitation.

"Indeed, it's the ability of an illusion," Tian Ming muttered to himself, a faint blue light flickering in his pupils.

Jiang Chen's face turned ashen when he saw Tian Ming kill his subordinate on the spot: "You kill one of my subordinates, and I will have one hundred thousand people buried with him."

A hint of coldness appeared at the corner of Tian Ming's mouth, and he said coldly, "You can try. I didn't intend to rescue anyone when I came here. These people you keep are not related to me. Do you really think I care about their lives?"

Jiang Chen's brows furrowed slightly. Instead, he slowly sat down and said, "You and I are both for our respective races. Why be so confrontational? You can't kill me. This kind of meaningless mutual consumption is pointless, isn't it?"

Jiang Chen's tone softened a lot, even actively showing weakness to Tian Ming. With such an existence among humans, he absolutely did not want to joke around with his own race.

Tian Ming was silent for a moment, then said faintly, "If your corpse race doesn't eat people and voluntarily migrates to the polar regions, I can consider letting you off."

Jiang Chen's expression changed slightly, and he said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Tian Ming's face darkened, and another Corpse King was captured by Tian Ming.

Jiang Chen looked at Tian Ming with some despair, and angrily said, "Lu Tianming, I was once human too. The human collective is simply not worth pitying, do you understand? It is an honor for them to be replaced by the corpse race. We are the most perfect species. Among the corpse race, there are no lies, no deception. You humans also eat pigs and sheep; these are all rules in the food chain. Do you know what you are doing? You are breaking the rules, you are resisting the laws of evolution."

Tian Ming's hand trembled, and the Corpse King in his hand instantly had his head crushed.

Jiang Chen simply couldn't stop him. Evolved players and cheat-enabled players were not on the same level at all. But the only thing that could contend was simply because Tian Ming did not yet have the ability to restart the game.

"Lu Tianming, I don't want to exterminate humanity. As long as you help us evolve, I guarantee that everyone will live a life of comfort and peace without worries about food and clothing. I can also guarantee that your death will be painless. Why, in your mind, must all the corpse race be eliminated? I really want to know, what exactly did we do wrong?"

Tian Ming looked at the Red Crystal Core in his hand, then at Jiang Chen. He hadn't expected Jiang Chen, the dignified Corpse Emperor, to say such words.

"You are not wrong. It's just that your existence does not conform to our human values. You should not exist. Even with intelligence, in our eyes, you are nothing more than man-eating monsters."