Chapter 317 Mayor’s Authority

Amidst the quarrel, Wu Chang finally explained that there was a misunderstanding between him and Grace.

Because Amber got up early, Wu Chang’s plan had to be slightly changed. He had to deal with the giant stitched monster first and then start breakfast.

If it’s just about protecting Amber’s inner world, defeating the final monster, allowing Amber to awaken, and complete the upgrade, then only the true self will be able to take action.

But he did not forget that the original reason why he came to the Doomed copy was to hunt down Lin Jiang and prevent the highest authority of the four major organizations from being brought into the world of reason.

What if Amber awakens the moment the giant stitched monster is killed by him, and the copy ends directly? That would be troublesome.

In order to ensure that the giant stitched monster dies with Lin Jiang, his original body must act together, just in case.

When he reached the door and was about to leave, he found Amber holding his sleeve.

“I want to go with you.”

He turned around, smiled, and said, “Don’t worry, I’m just going out to buy some groceries and will be back soon.”

Amber shook her head, “I know, you’re going to deal with that monster, right?”

Wu Chang said helplessly: “Did you hear our conversation?”

In order to avoid being heard by Amber, he had used a mystical ritual to soundproof the conversation.

But this is Amber’s inner world, and as long as she wants to listen, nothing can stop her.

Amber grabbed Wu Chang’s sleeve tightly and looked up at Wu Chang. Amber’s appearance did not change at all, but Wu Chang could feel that Amber’s aura and eyes had changed.

Amber said: “I listened to a few sentences at the beginning. When you were halfway through, I remembered a lot of things and recovered my memory.”

Wu Chang looked at Amber, as if his daughter had suddenly grown up overnight, and he didn’t know what to say.

Amber said to herself:

“There were a lot of things they didn’t say, but that were very important to me.”

“When I was in the institute, many people wanted to escape, including me. At first, whenever they organized an action, they would be discovered by the institute’s surveillance, and the organizers would be brutally killed. But we didn’t stop.”

As Amber spoke, the weather above No. 26 Garden Street changed rapidly.

Amber continued: “We used more covert methods of communication and adopted more cautious plans, but we all failed.”

“I personally participated in every operation, but I was afraid of failure, so I only dared to follow behind them. Because of this, every time the plan was about to fail, I had time to use Gaia’s divine power to take some people into hiding and avoid the guards’ pursuit.”

“Everyone calls me the Spark. They believe that as long as I am here, they can find loopholes in the institute step by step and eventually lead everyone away from that damn place. But only I know that I am not a Spark. I am just simply afraid. I am afraid that one day I will die and become one of those hanging on the training ground.”

Wu Chang thought of Amber’s third mental flaw, called survivor’s guilt. This mental flaw might have originated from this experience.

Amber’s eyes became firm, and she said, “This time, I don’t want to be a bystander or a fire starter. I want to go to the end myself.”

Wu Chang asked: “As the center of the world, can you control your own power now?”

Amber exuded a divine aura and said confidently:

“That monster and I represent two sides of the world. With it around, I can’t completely take over the world, but I also have enough combat power. I’m not much weaker than it, so I can be of use.”

The divinity that Amber exudes alone proves that her bottom line is not low.

She is not much weaker than the giant stitched monster. According to her current stats, even if all the players except Wu Chang were tied together, they would still not be as good as her.

Any situation that can be used as a copy in the Abyss Game will not be a situation where death is inevitable.

If the giant stitched monster is the hidden final BOSS of the copy, then Amber, who has repaired the mental loophole and regained her memory, is the helper in defeating the hidden final BOSS.

According to the original game process, players should assist Amber and fight a decisive battle with the giant stitched monster in order to win.

But for Wu Chang, as long as Amber cannot completely control the copy world and kill the giant stitched monster in seconds, there is no need for her to take action.

With Amber causing trouble, it would be better for him to take action directly.

He touched Amber’s head and said, “I can see that you have tried very hard to change, but do you remember our agreement?”

“You just need to do your best and trust the power of your guardians.”

Sigoff, City Hall.

The appearance of the giant stitched monster put the city hall into a state of emergency. Phones could be heard ringing everywhere in the city hall, and emergency calls from all over the place were about to blow up the phones of all city hall employees.

Everyone was discussing how to deal with the monster that suddenly appeared, except for the newly appointed Mayor Heping, who sat steadily in his office, neither anxious nor impatient.

The employees of the city hall really wanted to ask him, didn’t he know that after the monster incident, he would be the one to take the blame?
Or did he think that God would bless him a second time and send an angel to get rid of the monster?

Although the second method is indeed feasible, Wu Chang is not prepared to let Irene take action.

Irene is his secret weapon, and he will not use it until the last moment. He is enough to deal with the giant stitched monster.

He is sitting here, not unprepared, he is waiting.

What we are waiting for is not the arrival of the giant stitched monster, but a result.

Shortly after the giant stitched monster appeared, he controlled his true self to observe the monster up close.

The existence of the giant stitched monster reminded Wu Chang of a game he played a long time ago. The stitched monster was very similar to a character named Butcher or Abomination in the game.

Its appearance is that of a human. If a person with severe myopia takes off his glasses and looks at it from a distance, he might mistake it for a person.

But if you look closely, you can see that every part of it is made up of different bodies, or corpse parts.

The body parts were stitched together with thick black thorns.

Wu Chang was no stranger to these thorns, as they were the essence of the mark of doom.

Under the stitching of black thorns, the giant stitched monster became bloated and obese, with a long sharp claw on its left hand, five thick tentacles on its right hand, and the lower limbs of four different animals: cow, horse, sheep and lion under its body.

What can I say about the appearance of the Stitched Monster? Except for the fact that it looks like a human from a distance, every area on its body does not look like a human when viewed individually.

In addition to experiencing the monster’s beauty up close, he also saw the big red last words on the monster’s body.

He originally thought that the owner of the resentment would be Li Zi, but he didn’t expect it to be Lin Jiang.

Lin Jiang, whose belief in Mercury has ended and has entered the stage of doubt, has no loyalty to the Guangming Society.

His resentment recorded everything they did in the Doomed dungeon, and also faithfully recorded how Li Zi seized the highest authority and then plotted against him.

In addition, at the end of the scene in resentment, before Lin Jiang’s consciousness was about to be swallowed by the divine stitched monster, there was a short monologue about Li Zi.

Li Zi has a bad habit, which is that he likes to taunt dead bodies.

It is said that villains die because they talk too much. Li Zi learned lessons from film and television works and changed the order. He killed the person first and then mocked the corpse.

He revealed that the Illuminati had treated him as their trump card from the very beginning and had prepared a special prop for him.

As long as the Doomed Copy can be transformed into a Pillar of the Real World or upgraded to the Realm of Reason, he can sneak into the Realm of Reason with the help of special items.

Li Zi held a special prop and mocked Lin Jiang, who had turned into a thorn cocoon, saying that Lin Jiang had been used to attract consumables from the four major organizations from the very beginning, but he thought he was in control of the overall situation. This made him very nervous and he almost laughed many times.

Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. Not only did Lin Jiang die at the hands of Li Zi, but he was also danced on his grave, making his bloody last words simple and direct.

[Kill Li Zi, upgrade the Doomed Dungeon, and destroy the Bright Society’s plan. ]

Tsk, Guangming Society and Li Zi were so ruthless. They squeezed Lin Jiang dry and then abandoned him as a pawn. They certainly didn’t expect that Lin Jiang’s resentment would in turn expose their conspiracy.

God is watching what people do. Even if God cannot see it, Wu Chang can.

After confirming that the true identity of the giant stitched monster was Lin Jiang, my true self returned to the city hall and used the mayor’s authority to apply for a state of emergency to the parliament.

Once the application is approved, it means that the city of Sigoff will be in a state of emergency, and the mayor, as the highest leader, will obtain emergency power.

During the duration of the authorization, his rights will not be subject to any restrictions or limitations.

At this moment he is sitting in his office, waiting for the result of the parliament.

After waiting for a while, there were less than two minutes left before the giant stitched monster arrived at the city hall. At this time, the negotiation master finally received news.

The council voted to declare a state of emergency in the city of Sigoff.

Wu Chang stood up with excitement on his face. He had finally waited for something.

Initially, he ran for mayor in order to make use of the police force of Siegf City, investigate the actions of Lin Jiang and others, and complete the main task three.

But after he became the mayor, he found that the mayor was indeed a good thing. In the city of Siegf, money can buy everything, but the mayor’s special authority can do things that money cannot buy.

The effect of federal coins is very strong, but whether it is to make construction effective, speed up elections, or unlock additional attributes, it can only work on the city of Sigoff and the players themselves.

The mayor has different powers.

When Sigoff City entered a state of emergency and the entire city was under his command, he gained a certain degree of copy authority and could set rules for the copy, add or delete copy rules.

Although he can only influence one world rule to a certain extent, for Wu Chang, one is enough.

The world rules he chose to modify were: to invalidate the additional damage reduction effect of the Juyi Order and to increase the damage between players.

“The existence of the Gathering Order is considered to be a threat to the public safety of Sigoff City. In order to maintain peace in the city, the additional damage reduction between players brought by the Gathering Order will disappear, and the damage value caused by players will be reduced from 70% to 50%.”

The effect of the mayor’s authority was significant. As soon as Wu Chang made the decision, Abyss Game issued an announcement to all players in the copy.

The mayor’s authority is so useful, why did no one mention it in the copy of intelligence Hou Jingchuan gave him?
Oh, no player who entered the dungeon before became the mayor, so that’s okay.

Wu Chang stood up and asked the mayor’s secretary beside him, “If the glass in the office is broken, can we use the public account to pay for it?”

The secretary couldn’t keep up with Wu Chang’s train of thought for a moment, and nodded blankly, “The repair costs are paid by the city hall.”

Wu Chang nodded with satisfaction and instructed: “Please quote more later. An Air Force coffee cup can be quoted for 1200 federal coins each. With so many pieces of glass, it should be reasonable to quote .”

After saying this, without waiting for the secretary to react, he picked up the office chair he had just been sitting on and smashed the floor-to-ceiling window of the office.

He came to the edge of the window and was about to jump down when he remembered something and added, “Don’t forget to report the cost of the chair.”

He said that before jumping out of the window and running towards the giant stitched monster.

After landing on the city hall, his body doubled in size with every step he took. When he arrived in front of the giant stitched monster, his body had grown to a height of 200 meters.

The huge stitched monster suddenly looked small in front of Wu Chang.

Lin Jiang’s consciousness has been swallowed up by the giant stitched monster, and now it is just a monster that destroys according to its instinct.

Since it had no consciousness, Wu Chang naturally had nothing to say about it. As the first divine being he had seen in the copy, he had to give it the highest respect.

“Man!”

He punched out an elbow at the Stitched Monster, and the tip of the elbow, with the light of divine thunder, hit the Stitched Monster’s head which was made up of five different faces.

With the divine thunder and the cooperation of the blasphemer, even the lower god Mercury could not withstand it, let alone a group of scrap divine seeds.

The lightning penetrated into the body of the stitched monster. Through a layer of skin, one could clearly see the lightning moving inside its body, wreaking havoc.

With one elbow strike, the stitched monster was directly broken, the black thorns broke, and large pieces of scattered parts fell off its body.

The exploded parts, without the support of the main body’s vitality, were immediately swallowed up by the divine thunder and turned into charcoal in the electric light.

The giant stitched monster did not have the control-free mechanism of the dragon armor. It was blinded by the Mamba’s iron elbow and waved its tentacles to launch indiscriminate attacks on the surroundings.

Perhaps because of the special mechanism of the Doomed dungeon, the attributes of the dungeon BOSS given by the Abyss game are extremely restrained, and the attributes of the Stitched Monster are all around 150 points.

Compared with other players who are suppressed by attributes, this value is ridiculously high. When fighting against this kind of BOSS, you will die instantly if you are touched.

But compared with Wu Chang, the Stitched Monster’s stats are not impressive enough.

At least its blind attack posed no threat to Wu Chang.

Even so, the battle was already in my favor, but Wu Chang still didn’t let his guard down and continued to add two elbows to fill in the Mamba Mark.

After the dungeon rules were modified, other players’ damage reduction was reduced, but he had the extra damage reduction from the Mamba Mark, so he was not affected much.

Stacking three layers of Mamba Mark to reduce damage makes the Stitched Monster’s already weak attack even weaker.

Wu Chang withstitched the monster’s attack, tore off the black thorn stitches on its body one by one, and disassembled its parts bit by bit.

Faced with his strength of over 200 points, the Stitched Monster didn’t even have the qualifications to struggle.

First came the claws, then the tentacles, then the four animal limbs, and finally layers of flesh and blood that looked like armor.

After the disassembly, Lin Jiang was revealed at the core of the stitched monster’s body, with a seal on his forehead.

This seal engraved with the swastika is a special prop given to Lin Jiang by the Guangming Society. It is connected to the divine hidden thunder buried by the Guangming Society. It can be used to subdue copy monsters, or it can be used to merge with copy monsters to obtain additional attribute liberation.

He would never have imagined that the seal would be used on him for the last time.

After being dug out from the body of the stitched monster and seeing the light again, Lin Jiang seemed to have regained some consciousness and began to breathe heavily.

Wu Chang pulled Lin Jiang out and asked him in a voice that Lin Jiang could hear:
“Does it feel good to be surrounded by the remains of divinity, trapped in pain and despair?”

In Lin Jiang’s memory, he mentioned more than once that he wanted to make the world’s will collapse, and Wu Chang remembered his speech.

Unfortunately, the only answer he got was a hoarse gasp.

Wu Chang felt a little disappointed, so he crushed Lin Jiang’s body and took away the swastika seal.

Not far from where Wu Chang and Lin Jiang were fighting, a monster suddenly appeared, disrupting the lives of the citizens of Sigfu City.

In order to avoid the monster’s attack, people avoided the monster’s route and hid in roadside buildings.

Li Zi mixed in with the panicked citizens, hid in a bank, and observed the battle in the distance.

He had anticipated the failure of the battle, but the course of the battle was completely beyond his expectations.

He didn’t understand why Heping, a player from the Wilderness Realm, could defeat Lin Jiang, who had achieved the fusion of divinity.

Lin Jiang behaved like a shoddy rag doll with rough stitching, whose parts were easily torn off, the fabric torn open, and the cotton taken out.

The battle was over before Li Zi even had time to gather intelligence.

He couldn’t understand why Heping could maintain his stats in the Doom-bound dungeon and why he could ignore divinity when they were all players in the Wasteland.

He was also present when Heping killed Murphy. He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but it seemed that it was easier for Heping to deal with the divine fusion than the fearless stone man.

Li Zi shook his head and observed a moment of silence for the Abyss game, another game ruined by plug-ins.

Fortunately, he had foresight and guessed that the divine fusion might not be enough, so he transferred the highest authority of the four major organizations in advance.

Now you just need to wait until the copy is upgraded, and use the props before the copy ends and entering the settlement space, and you can sneak into the world of reason.

Although the world will could not be recovered, at least the highest authority was retained.

Watching Heping kill Lin Jiang and then turn away, Li Zi’s heart was finally at ease. He was about to leave the bank and find a place to hide until the end of the copy, when he suddenly found a pool of water under his feet.

Is there a leak in the lobby?
Just as he was wondering, someone patted his shoulder.

Li Zi turned around and saw a stranger smiling at him.

“Hello, did you drop something?”

Li Zi looked at the stranger’s hand and saw that the other person was holding a seal with a swastika on it.

Why is this thing in his hands? When did he take it away from Lin Jiang? What is his relationship with Heping?
Li Zi stood there in a daze, his brain overloaded for a moment, and he felt Murphy transforming into a fearless stone man.

Wu Chang smiled and said, “If you can’t figure it out, just go swimming and you’ll figure it out.”

The next moment, Li Zi was swallowed up by the water under his feet.

(End of this chapter)