Chapter 22: Infernal Affairs

Song Que's matter-of-fact tone revealed one of the world's evil secrets as Tang Xian returned to Fortress Thirty-nine.

Assuming the identity of Tang Jikede, he sat in a corner of the outdoor café, watching the comings and goings, observing the terror on everyone's faces.

In reality, it wasn't something too difficult to accept. The Judgment Knights had only emerged in recent times.

But similar events had been ongoing since ancient times. Humanity's obsessive research and transformation of itself, the desire to accelerate the evolutionary process, had always been tinged with a destructive pathology.

In some ways, the Judgment Knights proved this point.

Compared to the residents of the Pyramid who were still somewhat unaware, struck too hard on the head to instantly realize what was happening, the lords were the most nervous.