The Villain Slaps The Protagonist’s Halo - Chapter 147

Chapter 147 - Hunting the World

As long as they were ordinary people, they were to die.

He Qingtang stared in shock and disbelief at Nie Jia on the podium, his ears filled with the desperate cries of the panicked crowd.

She watched as Nie Jia lifted his finger, and the blood-stained hunting knife on the ground seemed to come alive, buzzing forward like a living entity, accurately taking lives as it pierced through the crowd. In less than a minute, apart from Shen Su, He Qingtang, and a few other abilities, there was no longer any sound of breathing on the entire square.

The vast square was awash in blood.

"Nie Jia..." He Qingtang's face drained of color, blood pooling around her feet, rising higher and higher.

Stepping onto the pile of corpses, Nie Jia's voice was cold and weary, but a tremendous killing intent still lingered between his brows. His ruthless words echoed throughout the nation, "Back then, I saved your worthless lives for Shi Chen's sake. If I had known this would happen, I should have let the nuclear missiles of the Oasis turn this country into ashes! Since you don't cherish the peace that Shi Chen defended at great cost, then you shall perish. In the wars to come, I won't harm the abilities, but if they don't know what's good for them and come to resist me for the sake of those people, I will kill without mercy!"

"Nie Jia, if Chief Shi were still alive, he would never want to see you like this!" He Qingtang shouted.

"Is he still alive?" Nie Jia's sharp eyes glanced at He Qingtang.

"I know Chief Shi's death is endless pain for you, but I feel the same! My sister also sacrificed herself in this accident. I understand your feelings better than anyone else." He Qingtang looked at Nie Jia with tear-filled eyes in the pool of blood, sorrowful. "Now that you've killed Qiao Yuan, and these fanatics in the square, stop here. Don't bring harm to more innocents."

Nie Jia fell silent for a moment, then said lightly, "I know, I've always known that Shi Chen doesn't like me this way, but I've been like this for a long time."

He Qingtang was somewhat puzzled but still tried to stabilize Nie Jia. She wanted to say more, but she saw Nie Jia gently raise his hand, stopping her. "Lieutenant Colonel, you're Shi Chen's subordinate, so I won't harm you. It's best for you not to lead the attacking forces against me in the future."

After saying this, Nie Jia's figure disappeared abruptly. He Qingtang and Shen Su exchanged glances, seeing the fear in each other's eyes. They were Nie Jia's friends. Apart from Shi Chen, they understood Nie Jia the most. Only they had a clear idea of how formidable Nie Jia's strength was. If he truly intended to attack all of humanity, with Shi Chu gone, who else could stop him?

After Nie Jia disappeared from Qinghai Gate, he didn't immediately attack another place but suddenly lost contact again. However, his behavior in the square had already caused nationwide panic—or rather, panic among the ordinary people nationwide.

This was an absolute disaster for the military. He Qingtang, eager to save lives, did not heed Nie Jia's warning to stay out of it. Instead, she immediately held meetings through the night with surviving senior officers to discuss countermeasures.

"I don't think we can stop Nie Jia at all," a high-ranking ability officer said wearily.

His words quickly raised doubts among others. "What do you mean by that? Do you want to stay out of it? You want to watch Nie Jia massacre us on the East Coast, is that it?"

"Otherwise? Human weapons are useless against him. To stop Nie Jia, we can only send abilities to their deaths. Why! Are ordinary people human, and we abilities are not?"

"What war isn't built on sacrifice? Protecting the weak is the duty of the strong!"

"Then I can't bear this responsibility. I can't fight this battle. I'm afraid of death, and I have to be responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of abilities under my command. So, I choose to withdraw." The man stood up, tore off his epaulets, and threw them on the table, then walked out.

"Zhong Heng! Zhong Heng!" A brigadier general, unable to call him back, kicked over a chair in frustration, cursing, "Coward! Damn it, if it weren't for Shi Chen bringing Nie Jia back, we wouldn't have had this mess!"

Song Nuanyang, who had been lost in thought at her own seat, heard this and looked up with an unfriendly gaze. "Do you still have the face to say that? Some of you here, back then, didn't you try to incite public outrage with Qiao Yuan to bring down President He? Who exactly is responsible for the President and Chief Shi's current situation, we may not know, but everyone has a clue in their hearts. Nie Jia killed Qiao Yuan first, and each and every one of you shouldn't think of running away. In the end, Nie Jia wants to kill so many people simply because he doesn't know who the real culprit is. So, rather than let him go unpunished and kill everyone, it's better for you to step forward and confess to Nie Jia. If you die, Nie Jia might not continue to kill the innocent."

The brigadier general was mocked by a captain like this, infuriating him, but Shen Su was sitting next to Song Nuanyang. Shen Su, the greatest force to resist Nie Jia in the future, no one could afford to offend him now. His relationship with Song Nuanyang was also well known. At this moment, the brigadier general could only swallow his anger.

"My death has nothing to do with Chief Shi, don't talk nonsense." The brigadier general's arrogance faded, obediently sitting back down.

"Captain Song, can you control Nie Jia? Or change his memory of Chief Shi?" someone asked.

Song Nuanyang looked displeased at the person, then stood up and said, "It's like this, everyone. Nie Jia has awakened a new ability, and he has taken away my ability. I'm no different from an ordinary person now. I don't want Nie Jia to kill so many people, but he won't listen to me at all, so I'm powerless."

The conference room erupted into chaos.

"What do you mean he took away your ability?" Shen Su pulled him over in surprise. "Are you okay? Did you get hurt? Why didn't you tell me anything?"

"I'm fine, Nie Jia won't hurt me," Song Nuanyang sighed.

"Can Nie Jia destroy the abilities of abilities, or is it true that he can use them himself?" He Qingtang heard the most critical and deadly question.

Everyone's hearts were hanging in suspense. Song Nuanyang said, "He can use them himself."

"Then how do we fight this battle!" An ability officer couldn't bear it anymore, tore off his military rank, and said with sorrow, "Everyone, since Nie

 Jia has made it clear that he won't harm abilities, then I won't participate in this battle either. If there's any hope of winning, I won't abandon you all, but against Nie Jia, even we abilities are powerless. I wish you all the best."

Ability officers were not the majority. One by one, they left. In the end, only Shen Su and He Qingtang remained.

"Colonel He, Major Shen, you're both Nie Jia's friends. You must find a solution!" The remaining officers were desperate. At this moment, it was a matter of life and death, and they were almost pleading with the two.

"Find a solution? What solution?" He Qingtang took a deep breath, unable to suppress the anger and sadness in her heart any longer. With one punch, she smashed a corner of the conference table. "You guys now know fear, you and those rioters outside killed my only relative and the chief I respected the most. Now you ask me to find a solution? If it weren't for not wanting to violate my sister's last wish, when Nie Jia killed you guys, I would have been applauding on the sidelines! Why should I save you bunch of selfish bastards!"

He Qingtang shouted so loudly that the whole room fell silent. She herself couldn't help but collapse on the table, crying.

The heavy burden on her shoulders and the pain of losing loved ones made it hard for her to breathe.

"Major!!" A special forces soldier rushed into the conference room in a panic, standing in front of Shen Su, saying, "Nie Jia appeared in the military region of our attacking forces, and he killed Ning Lang..."

"Trouble, he definitely took Ning Lang's ability!" Song Nuanyang immediately realized.

"Nie Jia himself already possesses a highly destructive ability. Why would he bother taking Ning Lang's ability?" Shen Su pondered.

"Could he, could he even tear the entire earth apart?" someone trembled with fear.

"Nie Jia has truly gone mad. Does he really want to kill everyone to accompany Shi Chu?" Shen Su gritted his teeth.

Looking at him, Song Nuanyang's expression was full of weariness. "He's not venting his anger. He just... doesn't want to live anymore."

At the moment of losing her ability, Song Nuanyang witnessed the complete collapse of Nie Jia's psyche. While there was an element of displaced anger in Nie Jia's desire for slaughter, it was more about using those lives to fill his own sense of guilt, to end this cycle, and seek revenge in the real world.

After struggling in agony for so long, he eventually gave up all hope, including that of Shi Chen.

With a hoarse voice and tears glistening in his eyes, Song Nuanyang said, "Su-ge, if you sense Nie Jia's presence, take me to him. I have something to say to him. If you can't stop him, then kill me."

"What are you saying?" Shen Su touched his cheek.

"I am the end of this world. Nie Jia still has hope of survival." His words were inexplicable, filling Shen Su's heart with an inexplicable panic. He couldn't possibly agree to Song Nuanyang's request.

Nie Jia briefly appeared in the military region, took Ning Lang's ability and life, then disappeared again. When he reappeared, he did indeed begin systematically killing high-ranking military officials, sparing the abilities. This clear distinction between the two groups only heightened the fear among the ordinary people on the West Coast.

This man truly didn't care about the billions of lives at stake. Must he slaughter all ordinary people?!

Even if he was provoked by Shi Chu's death... back then, only a small fraction of the people on the streets were involved in the protests. Why must even these innocent people be implicated?!

Nie Jia brought about an apocalypse. The habitable space on Earth was limited, and in the face of a Sixth-order ability who could teleport at will, there was nowhere to hide.

Countless people compiled a list of individuals who participated in the protests against President He from news footage and online records, hoping Nie Jia would see it.

Kill them, just kill them.

Don't kill us, we're innocent.

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