ryethenovel Chapter 199 We are in the light, they are in the shadows.
Chapter 199 We are in the light, they are in the shadows.
Jincheng Temporary Military Base.
The underground hangar has been converted into a temporary rest area.
The air smelled of a mixture of disinfectant and engine oil.
The other members of the first squad were all present.
No one spoke.
Zhao Lei was sitting on the equipment box, wiping the shield of the Earth Wall over and over again with a piece of deerskin cloth.
There were no wounds on the shield to begin with, but he rubbed it so hard that the joints on his hands bulged out.
The name on that book, "The Gospel of God's Grace," made everyone very uncomfortable.
The rear I fought so hard to protect has turned into this mess.
Celebrating victory?
Nobody was in the mood for that.
Lin Chuxue sat in the corner with her knees drawn up to her chest, her face tense, lost in thought.
Even the usually quiet Shen Xinglin seemed to be surrounded by a colder atmosphere than usual.
Footsteps approached.
Lu Yan walked in.
He wasn't holding the law book in his hand.
"Come here, everyone."
His voice was flat.
Several people looked up and silently gathered around.
"My career advanced after that trip to Kunlun."
Lu Yan said directly.
"The profession of Aura Master has been abandoned."
He brought up his professional panel, which was not encrypted, and shared it directly with his teammates.
A new message appeared on everyone's tactical terminal.
At the very top are four large characters.
Black Lotus Zen Master.
The hangar fell silent for a moment.
Zen Master?
Su Yunqing was taken aback. As a wet nurse, her understanding of this word leaned more towards spiritual comfort and purification.
Is the captain's ability more geared towards support?
Can……
The scene of the black lotus erasing the monster flashed through her mind again.
Does that thing have anything to do with "Zen"?
"cough."
Zhao Leiguang put down his shield and stood up.
His height of over 1.9 meters was intimidating, but at this moment he looked at Lu Yan cautiously like a curious child.
"team leader."
"You 'Zen master'..."
He thought for a moment and then made a gesture as if he were punching someone.
"Is it the kind of physical ritual for the deceased to be saved?"
Lin Chuxue chuckled, then quickly covered her mouth.
Lu Yan glanced at Zhao Leiguang and smiled.
"almost."
He raised his right hand and opened his palm.
The black lotus has reappeared.
But this time, it didn't exude any dangerous aura.
The originally black petals have become like crystal carvings, completely transparent, with a faint golden light moving inside.
It floated in Lu Yan's palm, not like a weapon, but more like a beautiful work of art.
"At its core, it is deconstruction."
Lu Yan's voice drew everyone's attention.
"The reason we annihilated that mountain of flesh earlier was because we deconstructed its life form and spatial structure."
"But deconstruction is not necessarily destruction."
He looked at Zhao Leiguang.
"For example, you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the crystal black lotus trembled slightly.
Zhao Leiguang felt a lightness in his body.
The heavy Earth Pulse suit he was wearing turned into yellowish-brown energy specks that swirled around him but did not disperse.
Holy crap!
Zhao Leiguang looked down at his upper body, which was now only covered by a work vest, and was dumbfounded.
This is an S-rank set!
It's bound to his soul!
It was just... demolished like that?
Lu Yan moved his fingers, and the light spots recombine, transforming back into the armor.
Zhao Lei moved his hands and feet and felt the same as before, without any injury.
"It can deconstruct the enemy's buffs, defenses, energy forms, and even the rules they rely on for survival."
Lu Yan's gaze swept over each team member.
"Anything that exists based on rules is meaningless in its presence."
"Because it defines the rules."
The entire hangar was so quiet that you could hear the wind blowing through the ventilation ducts.
Everyone was stunned.
Only then did they understand what the four characters "Black Lotus Zen Master" meant.
This is not a support role.
This is a power that only a god could possess!
"so."
Xiao Qianyu, who had been silent until now, looked at Lu Yan with sharp eyes and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Your god-level war aura creates an absolute home ground for the Chinese gods on the battlefield."
"And this black lotus is a tailor-made doomsday for our enemies, one from which they cannot escape."
She took a deep breath.
"You're not a support."
"You are the rule itself."
Upon hearing this, every team member felt a jolt of unease.
The role of the first squad seems to have changed.
They are no longer the group protecting a top-tier support.
They are the sword and shield that clear obstacles for a god who walks among men.
Zhao Leiguang picked up his double shields again, his eyes filled with nothing but fighting spirit.
Wen Yue silently inspected the arrow casket of the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow, her gaze calm.
The team's tactics changed from "protecting Lu Yan" to "creating an opportunity for Lu Yan to make his move."
Just then.
A piercing communication request broke the silence in the hangar.
The figure of a colonel, a staff officer, appeared in the holographic projection; his expression was very unpleasant.
"Comrade Lu Yan!"
"Emergency!"
The colonel's words also confirmed Lei Dingguo's strange statement before his arrest.
"In those twelve hours that the military was purging internal defectors."
"In the East China Sea, we have seven forward deep-sea outposts and a listening island codenamed 'Ghost Reef'..."
"At the same time, everyone lost contact!"
Lost contact.
These two words are more unsettling than "being attacked".
Lu Yan frowned.
He took out the book "Gospel of Divine Grace" from his storage space.
The Western Vatican's approach is corruption and transformation, turning people into their believers and monsters, and carrying out grand sacrifices.
The Donghai's silent disappearance is a completely different style.
An idea popped into Lu Yan's mind.
The Western false gods are causing such a huge commotion in Europe, intercepting transport planes and sending down twelve-winged angels...
It's a complete feint!
Their goal was to distract China's top military force and buy time for another hidden force to make its move in the East!
There is more than one enemy!
"We cannot afford to be passively defensive."
Lu Yan closed the law book.
"First squad, depart immediately."
"Target: East China Sea."
His voice was crisp.
"I want to see for myself what this 'ghost' hidden in the East really is."
Ten minutes later.
The engines of the "Kunpeng" transport plane roared loudly as it soared into the night sky once again.
The atmosphere inside the cabin was somewhat heavy.
No one mentioned the traitor anymore.
Everyone knew that an even more troublesome battle was about to begin.
Wen Yue leaned against the porthole, watching the city lights rushing past below and the endless darkness.
She tapped her fingers lightly on the crossbow.
"I always felt that..."
She said softly.
"This enemy is more troublesome than those winged monsters."
"Yes, our enemy is in the shadows, while we are in the light; we must be careful at all times."