The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 152

When a person, after undergoing experiments, was no longer physiologically human, could they truly no longer be recognized as human?

Regarding this topic, as long as even the slightest bit of emotion existed, probably no one would define it as: once physiologically no longer human, then no longer human at all.

But for Su Li, who clearly understood that the otherworld transformed monster beasts—even if they were initially human, they later had no connection with humanity—it was difficult to regard the other party as the same species as himself.

Furthermore…

Even among humans, didn’t oppression and being oppressed, exploitation and being exploited exist between each other?

Su Li stood before the formation array. He couldn’t see that due to his approach to the formation, Egbert and Lan Zhe were exerting even more force to input elements into the interior.

His platinum-colored hair moved without wind. The only thing Su Li knew was that the beast before his eyes, after he approached, already had no escape route.

When pursuit was accompanied by acquisition, that close-distance approach was equivalent to obtaining.

The flying bird didn’t move, and Su Li similarly didn’t move.

The young man outside the formation array slightly narrowed his eyes as the elements around him fluctuated, while the humanoid monster beast inside the formation instantly spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood.

Although there was only a brief delay, the formation that could originally be violently torn apart had now become that flying bird’s death trap.

Su Li watched as its body became like dried clay—unfired clay that had no refinement, only endless cracks after drying.

Su Li just watched like that, looking down from above.

He restrained his own malice and, before the flying bird inside the formation completely died, said coldly, “I suddenly don’t care so much about whether there are those monster beasts that, with thoughts of destroying humanity, attempt to bring about the arrival of peace.”

“In fact, just by standing here, I’m destined to be enemies with this era.”

He wouldn’t accept humans being recklessly transformed into non-humans.

He wouldn’t accept another civilization that, after eroding humanity for generations, then took it for granted to regard all irrationality as common sense.

Twenty-one repetitions form habits; two hundred and ten repetitions become established principles.

But this ridiculous established principle would absolutely never include Su Li’s acknowledgment.

As long as there was still one human who didn’t acknowledge all this, it proved that error would always be error. No matter how it was packaged, what wasn’t acknowledged was nothing at all.

The flying bird inside the formation gradually changed from having spirited eyes to becoming completely dim and lifeless.

Su Li didn’t give himself time to quietly watch it completely breathe its last. At that moment, he had already turned to face his own people and said, “After that thing dies, what will come in exchange will only be stronger enemies.”

“How do you view this matter?” Su Li inquired calmly.

Joel, who had caught up later, scratched the back of his head. Unlike his unfortunate friend, he didn’t instantly imagine the subtext of Su Li’s words.

Joel’s friend now had his mind completely filled with Su Li’s gaze that seemed to stare at death itself.

When he looked at the flying bird inside the formation, there was no emotion in his eyes. The friend didn’t know what mindset he was in when gazing at the internal monster beast. But from the side angle, the friend clearly saw the malice and ferocity in Su Li’s eyes.

No one would regard an existence with that kind of gaze as weak.

So he decisively interpreted Su Li’s inquiry about their views as: if they didn’t kill that bird, they wouldn’t encounter stronger enemies next. Now that they had killed it, would others blame Su Li because of the stronger enemies?

This was a warning, the unfortunate friend thought.

But Joel obviously didn’t think so. He said with great interest, “If we can kill one, it means we can kill more.”

“No matter what kind of enemies arrive next, since they’re enemies, we just need to choose to be hostile. Whether the opponent is strong, whether we are weak—none of that actually matters. Everyone knows this has long been a life-or-death situation.” Joel was unexpectedly clear-headed.

Or rather, he had gradually become rational since he retrieved the emotions from his memories.

“Then get ready to…” Before the last word could fall, Su Li’s sixth sense frantically urged him to leave his original position.

Following his instincts, Su Li lunged forward.

This change was too startling. At least no one reacted in time, and the current situation had no extra time for explanations.

Su Li stood up from the ground, ignoring the scrapes on both hands, his gaze fixed deadly on the new humanoid monster beast in his sight.

Groundhog, pangolin, or something else?

Actually, it didn’t matter.

Among the Winged Tribe, Beast Tribe, and Water Tribe, with one dead, before the other two fell, truly stronger beings at the hierarchical level wouldn’t be summoned. But humans also had no opportunity to continue killing humanoid monster beasts through lucky means.

What followed was a battle hell of blood and flames.

——They simply couldn’t win.

Everywhere were people screaming in panic. Powerful counterattack methods, at the moment when consciousness collapsed, no matter how strong the individual was compared to Su Li, they found it difficult to organize reasonable counterattacks.

They couldn’t rely on those without combat ability.

The only ones Su Li was familiar with were those he had brought from human society.

Rather than praying to unfamiliar others, Su Li still believed that the people in his hands were usable.

They were very weak.

Poor levels, combat awareness, damage, and defense.

In gaming terms, the opponent was like an NPC with an unknown thickness of health bar, naturally high attack and defense, plus powerful charge skills useful for destroying opponent formations, like a shit-stirring stick…

Su Li bit down hard on his left fingernail.

The cracked nail wasn’t within his attention range. When blood flowed down his finger into his mouth, bringing a fishy-sweet taste, Su Li suddenly realized…

Essentially, everyone in this world was an NPC.

Not in an emotional sense, but truly in terms of combat level.

With this premise, what Su Li needed to do was observe the opponent continuously during the system’s automatic battle phase.

Like the infinitely skippable arena in trash web games.

When combat power was obviously lower than the opponent’s, to achieve victory, one couldn’t click skip, but had to reasonably use one’s own skills to kill the opponent and achieve victory.

Their greatest advantage was——having Lan Zhe as sustain.

Roy’s restraining ability had achieved phased improvement in the battle with the Pope of Light.

And Egbert, who to some extent played with small-scale nuclear explosions in the palm of his hand, was like the best damage dealer in their three-person team.

They could win!

Su Li had never been so determined.

As long as it wasn’t like Elvi’s rule-level strength, they could definitely win!

The price of high attack and defense was relatively slow movement speed. After the ground was covered with ice blocks, even if that monster beast was powerful, the damage it dealt during movement would show certain target deviation tendencies.

Furthermore, unlike the flying bird that had targeted him, this monster beast that emerged from the ground aimed to kill all people closest to it.

Killing everyone, then taking Su Li away, would be easier than directly snatching him.

This might be the psychological state of terrestrial monster beasts.

It was also a weakness that could be exploited.

With one attack from that monster beast, all people closest to it would be severely injured. Joel, when that attack came, had assumed a full defensive posture, but the result was still uncontrollable desperate vomiting of blood.

It wasn’t an instant kill——

With sufficiently calm consciousness, Su Li gambled that with these gorilla-like guys’ enhanced five senses, as long as he spoke, everyone could hear him.

“Lan Zhe fall back, Roy move forward to tank.” The calm voice spoke at extremely fast speed. The humanoid monster beast that prioritized attacking the nearest people was obviously stunned for a moment, but this moment of daze was enough for Lan Zhe to conceal his actions and throw healing potions to the unlucky Joel.

Before the monster beast’s next attack targeting Joel appeared, Joel could be in a continuous blind spot as long as Egbert and Roy didn’t die.

Su Li didn’t expect those whose combat methods he didn’t understand to become his assistance. What he wanted was for Joel, recovering from a collapsed state to having mobility, to actively approach again before Roy, currently closest to the monster beast, was hit, and stabilize the aggro.

Combat was something that greatly required instinct.

Like how players in team competitive games would sometimes be startled by their teammate’s sudden appearance, bypassing thinking ability and directly using instinctive methods to use displacement skills to flee far away.

Similarly, Joel’s approach would immediately cause the attack that should have hit Roy to forcibly change targets.

That was the monster beast’s instinct of killing all the nearest people that it had set for itself. An existence that one attack couldn’t kill would only need two attacks to kill.

But this attack, due to the hasty swing and because of the ice blocks Roy continuously created under its feet, brushed past Joel.

This scene was too bizarre.

But for the monster beast, this shouldn’t have happened.

When something that shouldn’t happen happened, it meant the scales of victory tilted toward humanity.

When Joel, covered in blood, charged toward the monster beast, Roy, who had long been accustomed to coordinating, once again created large quantities of restraining ice blocks around that monster beast. Although there was no immobilization-level control effect, as long as it delayed the movement speed and action trajectory even a little…

Then that monster beast’s next attack target would still be Joel, who was closest to it.

From the moment the humanoid monster beast raised its fingertip, everything seemed slowed down before Su Li’s eyes.

When that monster beast, out of reluctance to make a fourth attack, subconsciously ignored others’ advances and worked hard to continuously compress the elemental attack in its hand while aiming at Joel, Su Li shouted desperately, “Fire!”

No one noticed that the young man, whose face had originally been empty, now wore a monocle over his right eye.

Light elements floating in the air continuously compressed. Although everyone’s initial definition of Egbert was that he could take Su Li and run at critical moments, the guy who considered himself Su Li’s most trusted subordinate had never placed himself in a position where he could only flee.

How to exhaust himself and deliver the strongest attack—Egbert knew better than anyone.

Firing an elemental blast that completely drained his own elements, Su Li, knowing this attack wouldn’t completely kill the humanoid monster beast, placed his gaze on Lan Zhe.

The latter had already launched a follow-up move within two seconds of Egbert’s action.

The moment light elements collided with the terrestrial monster beast, dark elements arrived as well…

In an instant, heaven and earth collapsed. Su Li raised his hand to block the fierce wind rushing toward his face, unable to see clearly ahead.