Chapter 743: The Anomaly-Suppressing Tower

Time rewound to when Chu Che and his group went to find Cha Wu. After Cha Wu refused, Chu Che and his group left, planning to regroup other Superhumans to head to the battlefield.

After Chu Che and his group left.

Cha Wu hung his head low, lost in thought.

A highly recognizable figure appeared beside Cha Wu.

"What do you want from me?"

Cha Wu, head still lowered, caught sight of someone standing before him and lifted his gaze slightly to look at the other person.

The person before him was very distinctive, and naturally, Cha Wu recognized him.

Back during the No-Rules Race in Oasis, this guy had been the commentator.

His sharp-tongued style had left a deep impression on many who had participated in that race.

After the race ended, plenty of people had wanted to find Zhu Zizai and beat him to a pulp.

But unfortunately, the guy was as slippery as an eel. No matter how many people were fuming with rage and wanted to strike at him.

They simply couldn't find him.

Even when Oasis fell, this guy never showed up either.

If anyone claimed to be number one in the apocalypse when it came to elusiveness, no one would dare claim number two.

Zhu Zizai still wore a suit, a pink hair clip tucked in his hair, and red lipstick painted on his lips.

He looked to be somewhere between sixty and eighty years old. As for his real age, no one knew.

On his back was still that massive hiking backpack, stuffed to the brim.

"Old man, you still haven't croaked yet?"

Zhu Zizai cackled, plopping himself down right beside Cha Wu, his grin dripping with schadenfreude.

"Just can't seem to die, what can I do about it?"

Cha Wu's response was thoroughly defeatist.

"Heh heh, old bastard, are you really not going to help out?"

Zhu Zizai's smile was sly and cunning.

"What good would it do if I went?"

"Would going there kill that thing?"

"I haven't seen it myself, but if that many Sequence 4s couldn't kill that monster, then I'd just be the same!"

Cha Wu said slowly.

"Just like Oasis?"

Zhu Zizai's mouth was truly vicious, always kicking people right in the heart.

Cha Wu's expression turned ugly in an instant.

"If you came to talk nonsense, you can get the hell out right now!"

Faced with Cha Wu's venomous words, Zhu Zizai didn't get angry at all. Instead, he giggled.

"City Lord Cha, don't be so upset!"

"Those kids have run into a huge problem now, something truly terrifying!"

"If you don't make a move, they probably won't survive!"

"And then the Return to the City Plan will definitely fail!"

"That bald guy was right. If the Return to the City Plan fails, then for a long time to come, no one will even think about restarting a similar plan!"

"By then, you and I might both be dead already!"

Cha Wu snorted coldly. "What use is it if I go? It'll just be one more corpse!"

"And what if... you had this?"

Zhu Zizai grinned slyly, pulling something out of his massive hiking backpack and laying it flat in his palm.

The moment Cha Wu laid eyes on it, his entire aura shifted.

It was nine poker-card-sized jade tablets.

Each tablet's front face bore a different carving.

Some carvings depicted a towering pavilion.

Others depicted all manner of monsters and demons!

The back faces were covered in dense scriptures.

These scriptures were all different too. Some tablets only had two or three lines of scripture on the back, while others were packed with densely written text.

"This is... this is..."

City Lord Cha Wu's eyes bulged wide, his hands trembling slightly, and he even shot to his feet.

Zhu Zizai chuckled. "Number ten in the number ranking, the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower, second only to the number nine, the Sky Whale!"

"This is the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower? This is the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower? This is the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower!!!"

The first two were questions, while the last one burned with overwhelming fervor.

"The name of the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower, I'm sure you, as a Formation Master Sequence superhuman, know it well!"

"Back then..."

Zhu Zizai began explaining the origins of the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower, though his pace was a bit quick.

It seemed like a bunch of useless talk, but Zhu Zizai actually had his reasons.

If even Chu Che and the others couldn't convince Cha Wu to make a move, then he surely wouldn't be the exception either.

So, this so-called nonsense was actually meant to persuade Cha Wu to act.

Back when the Anomalies first erupted, many major cities across the world had fallen and become uninhabited zones.

The few cities that remained were hanging by a thread.

But one city was the exception.

That city was Yunzhong.

Just as Yunzhong was about to fall, a phantom ancient tower descended from the sky and directly suppressed all the Anomalies in the entire city.

A single tower suppressing an entire city's worth of Anomalies.

News of this spread quickly. At the time, many people risked life and limb, hoping to reach Yunzhong and seek refuge.

There were even rumors that major powers planned to travel to Yunzhong and make it humanity's future central city.

To those who knew the news back then, Yunzhong was humanity's city of hope in the coming apocalypse.

If the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower had kept functioning, Yunzhong might have truly become the only city where humanity could survive.

But unfortunately, for reasons unknown, the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower suddenly lost its effect. That caused Yunzhong to lose its protection and become a new Uninhabited Forbidden Zone.

From then on, the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower vanished.

As the City Lord of Oasis, Cha Wu naturally knew what the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower really was.

It was these nine jade tablets before him.

"You... you..."

Cha Wu's hands began to tremble.

If Oasis had possessed this Wonder back then, it might have truly become a real oasis.

So many people wouldn't have died.

But... Oasis was already gone.

"What exactly happened in Yunzhong back then?"

This was a question on everyone's mind.

Zhu Zizai let out a sigh, and for the first time, a look of dejection and anger appeared on his face.

"It's not as complicated as you think. It can be explained in one sentence!"

"Some dumbasses wanted to score points, wanted to gift the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower to certain big shots!"

"In the end, they lost their own lives too!"

For a moment, Cha Wu didn't know what to say.

People had grown too used to the peaceful life before the apocalypse. Some people's minds had rotted, and all sorts of lunatics existed.

"Alright, old undying bastard, I've told you all this. So are you going or not?"

"If not, I'm leaving too! I don't want to die alongside you lot!"

Cha Wu stared at the nine jade tablets of the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower. "That kid Hou Junji kept saying a top-ten numbered Wonder holder would come. Never thought it would be you, you neither-human-nor-monster freak!"

"Heh heh... If you called me neither-man-nor-woman, I might get angry. But calling me neither-human-nor-monster doesn't bother me at all!"

Zhu Zizai giggled.

"Fine. With the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower, what's one move from me?"

With that, Cha Wu grabbed the nine jade tablets of the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower, rose, and departed swiftly.

Who would have thought that this always half-dead City Lord could move so fast?

...

Chen Ye could feel the craving of the Hundred-Ghost Eater.

It was an instinctual craving, as if a voice kept whispering in his ear, "Sacrifice it, sacrifice it!"

A greedy glint began to creep into Chen Ye's eyes.

At first, Chen Ye only wanted to survive, and driving away Number Two was the best option.

But now, avarice was breeding different thoughts in Chen Ye's mind.

A man's greed is a snake that tries to swallow an elephant. That saying perfectly described Chen Ye's current state.

"Boy, what kind of delirium are you in? Get... moving!"

His graying hair was whipped into a mess by the sea breeze.

Cha Wu's face was already flushed crimson.

Even with his current strength and such a miraculous Wonder to assist him, fully suppressing Number Two was still exhausting work.

The Anomaly-Suppressing Tower was extremely powerful. If Cha Wu had enough time to fully master it, suppressing Number Two wouldn't be difficult at all.

But in this rushed moment, relying on himself alone, unleashing the full power of the Anomaly-Suppressing Tower in such a short span was nearly impossible.

To bring a Wonder he'd just obtained to this level of performance, anyone else probably couldn't have done it either.