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  Upon seeing how readily Jiang g agreed, the Fatty was stunned. "Doctor," he stammered, "The sed option is...?"

  "We stay here and wait a bit longer," Jiang g said.

  "Ha—" The Fatty sighed in relief, thinking Jiang g was trying to trick him again.

  "Ohose creatures from Bckstoown show up tonight, you go ahem, try to get some information out of them," Jiang g looked out the window, full of encement. "Sihe mission is almost over, I think there will be many abnormalities that could help us. Go for a stroll around the town and e back to tell me what you find there."

  The Fatty stood there in a daze, then suddenly excimed, "Am I to go by myself?"

  "Of course," Jiang g said. "It's already so dangerous, and you still want t me into this? Do you have any sce?"

  With that, the two of them lit their torches, grabbed a few spare ones, and prepared to head downstairs. This time, they avoided using the previous white oil.

  At first, the Fatty hoped that Bckstoown would not appear again after dark, but reality quickly spped him in the faot only did the brightly lit town reappear, but it also mobilized in full force.

  tless torches, like a tidal wave, began moving toward them.

  Roughly estimating, there were likely hundreds of them.

  The whole of Bckstoown was in turmoil.

  It seemed their guess was correct. Those non-human, fish-like creatures could indeed sense what was happening on their side, though it was unclear how they knew of their situatioher it was through the stone sb or the old woman beside them.

  "Doctor," the Fatty said with a mournful face, "It's not that I'm a coward, but if we go down to meet those things, we're probably gonna be dead. We might as well just deal with this old woman."

  "You want to deal with the old woman?" Jiang g asked.

  "Doctor, you know I 't do it, please don't force me," the Fatty nearly cried. On one side, the tide of monstrous creatures in human skin was fast approag, oher side, was the moself.

  This was a tough choice for him.

  Jiang g took a deep breath, looking at the torches on the dark sea surface, and slowly said, "Trust me for the st time. e with me, I have something to firm."

  "Doctor, this is different from before. If we're wrong this time, it really will be the st time."

  "I know."

  Seeing that Jiang g was insistent, the Fatty didn't argue anymore. If things were as Jiang g said and he easily dealt with Ran, with Jiang g's bat abilities, he might even be able to hold his own against the smaller fish-like creatures.

  Thinking like this, the Fatty oddly felt reassured.

  "Doctor," just before they left, the Fatty gestured to the old woman who was hiding in the er, grinning at them. "Are we really leaving her here?"

  Upon notig the old woman staring at him, the Fatty quickly withdrew his hand, as though afraid of being bitten.

  Jiang g thought for a moment, then said, "Tie her up."

  After securely binding the old woman and stuffing her into a basket meant for firewood, the two of them left together.

  While helping the doctor, the Fatty actally touched the old woman's abdomen and found it swollen. He immediately pulled his hand back, his face ging.

  Carrying torches, they desded the stairs, and the Fatty took the opportunity to ask Jiang g many questions, like what he thought of Bckstoown.

  The doctor's answer was that Bckstoown did indeed exist, but not on the sea surface—rather, it was beh the sea. It only eerily surfaced at night, and the flooding around the stoe was due to the submerged town.

  Those grotesque creatures used Bckstoown as their base and attacked passing ships. Because of their brutal methods, almost no one survived, which was why their secret had bee until now.

  Of course, se anizations might know about it, but only to the extent of knowing something strange happens here, and ships often disappear nearby.

  "So that means, in their eyes, we must have looked like monsters?" the Fatty asked.

  "Probably."

  "Then why did they look like..."

  "Humans?" Jiang g g him.

  "Yes."

  "Like I said, the rules restrict us. We 't see through their identities, otherwise, how could they fuse us?" Jiang g said casually, holding the torch.

  "But... isn't that unfair to us?" the Fatty frowned. "The advantage is entirely on their side. We were chosen to be part of this world as witnesses, yet we have almost no advantages. Even if we get the life-saving white paper or the clue-filled neers, we still have to exert a lot of energy. And we have to make sure we survive the first mission."

  "Two points," Jiang g's tone suddenly became a little harsh. "Fatty, why don't you uand this simple fact? The rules aren't just for us, but for everything in this mission, even the grass and trees must follow those rules."

  He paused, then turo look at the Fatty, l his torch such that his face became blurry.

  For a moment, the Fatty felt strangely unfamiliar with the doctor.

  "If there were no rules, do you think we could defeat those strange creatures?" Jiang g asked calmly.

  This seemingly insignifit question struck the Fatty at his weakest point.

  In the first mission, there was a family who took pleasure in t prisoners; in the sed, there was a girl whose jaw was twisted in the campus; and now, in this mission, there were those flesh-eating creatures, the massive mohat attached itself to humans.

  Without the rules, these creatures would have been totally uable.

  No matter how smart or ing you were, you couldn't fight them.

  Their existeself was a challeo human knowledge and theoretical foundations.

  "So..." the Fatty widened his eyes, his breathing being untrolbly fast. "The rules... are actually set up to protect us?!"

  Jiang g turned and tinued dowairs.

  (End of the Chapter)

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