Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 92 - 91 Frontline Rescue

Chapter 92: Chapter 91 Frontline Rescue

As Chen Meng watched the video, the audience in her livestream did the same; her channel had a popularity of around nine million. Chen Meng didn’t quite understand how Racoon Streaming’s popularity calculation worked, but she was sure she had several hundred thousand viewers watching her.

So when Chen Meng clicked on the video made by a YouTuber named “Frontline Reporter,” barrages of comments like “Dream Bro’s matchmaking squad is here” and “Dream Bro, look at me, look at me” began floating across the screen… It was the kind of barrage that made Chen Meng feel a bit troubled, yet helpless.

“Can I turn off the comments and just properly admire Queen Mei’s beauty?”

Chen Meng took out a pack of Magic Power chips from her bag, ripped it open, and started munching. The chips were tasteless, but she felt as if something was missing if she watched videos without snacks, like eating vegetables without white rice.

As Chen Meng crunched on her chips, chewing noisily behind her Lion Heart helmet, the video finally began to get to the point.

It was a biographical video. The narrator, a pleasant-sounding woman, briefly introduced Queen Mei as the ultimate boss in the Divine Wars.

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“This biography is based on the private diaries of Queen Mei found in the instance map ‘Private Royal Library.’ To prove its authenticity, the Frontline Archaeology Team was even chased by Queen Mei herself.” The narrator added a clip of the Dancing Nuclear Guild being chased by Queen Mei and a screenshot of the diary as a prop.

“From the combat records of the Divine Wars frontline strategy teams, it’s evident that Queen Mei was one of the toughest bosses in the wars, with high mobility and wide-reaching blood-essence attacks that gave major guilds’ strategy teams quite a headache. But this queen, who appears cold and doesn’t blink an eye when killing, actually has a past that isn’t too dramatic.”

Get to the good stuff already! I’m about to fall asleep!

Chen Meng really wanted to skip the opening monologue by dragging the progress bar, but the next words from the video’s creator made her perk up a bit.

“She was frail and sickly since childhood, but she made it through with her mother’s meticulous care, until at the age of eleven, her mother passed away from illness. Therefore, Queen Mei can be seen as someone who was in great need of motherly love and craved affection from others. This is evidenced by a passage in her diary written at eleven years old, ‘I don’t like to cry in father’s embrace—there’s a strange smell about him. If only mother were here, I wouldn’t have to hold back my tears.'”

Wow!

Chen Meng’s hand movement, as she ate the chips, sped up by a factor of point three. At thirty-seven years old, she had not gotten married, not because Chen Meng didn’t want to… she just hadn’t found someone who sparked her interest.

But as she aged, Chen Meng gradually harbored thoughts of raising a child, which she channeled into her gaming. Whatever online games Chen Meng played, she always started with pet raising.

Unfortunately, the Holy Spirit World game had not yet introduced a pet system.

But Queen Mei’s character setting really hit the mark for Chen Meng.

“Yet, upon reaching adulthood, Mei still took on the heavy responsibilities of being a king. However, shortly after Queen Mei’s ascension, disasters began to occur—the catastrophe of the shattered world, a disaster far more terrifying than earthquakes and volcanic eruptions… After the spread of the Corpse Curse, the number of people in the entire city who could communicate with Queen Mei dwindled.”

I really want to skip this… Chen Meng, listening to the narrator’s follow-up story, was all about how Queen Mei managed to sustain the lives of her people through the apocalypse, and regrouping the order within the royal city.

It sounded truly epic, especially when accompanied by Queen Mei’s diary, but Chen Meng wasn’t too interested in this part of the ‘game background setting,’ not until the video started to near its conclusion.

“Having heard this far, don’t you all think Queen Mei is quite amazing, sustaining her people for so long in the post-apocalypse? But this shrewd, competent, and supremely powerful queen also had a vulnerable side, or rather, it was her vulnerability that was her true self. As proof, after the onset of the apocalypse, Queen Mei wrote a plea for help. I won’t narrate the specific content of the letter; please watch the following clip.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Meng’s eyes, which had been half-closed, now widened as she focused on the text emerging on the screen. The text wasn’t typed by the video creator; it was an enlarged screenshot that was semi-transparent. One could vaguely see that the background was a somewhat chaotic bedroom.

Chen Meng concentrated on the screenshot. It was an old-fashioned letter, written in the unique script of the Holy Spirit World, apparently by a girl, judging from the delicate handwriting. Beside the writing, the translation started to appear, one word at a time.

‘This is a distress letter.

Whoever receives it, please.

This content is taken from fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm.

Save us.

We are trapped in this city…’

The content of the distress letter was somewhat long. Chen Meng stopped eating her chips as she read the letter and saw the translucent image of Queen Mei lying and crying on the bed behind the message.

If Chen Meng focused and listened carefully, she could even hear the sobbing of the queen.

Finally, when the sobbing gradually ceased, the voice of the video host resumed.

“This is a distress letter that arrived into the hands of all players a hundred years too late. If you are watching this video on May 3rd, an event to save Queen Mei will soon be announced on the official website. Will you choose to completely purify Queen Mei from the Corpse Curse, or…”

Chen Meng dragged the progress bar back after reading this far. She pulled it to the scene where Queen Mei was lying on the bed crying again.

She repeated this scene over and over, as if obsessed, until the Swordsman standing next to her could hardly bear it anymore.

“Chen Meng, why don’t you log off and go to sleep?” the Swordsman tentatively asked.

“Log off my ass! Swordsman, hurry up and summon everyone, we’re going to clash with the top five guilds,” Chen Meng slapped her knee guard and said.

“This… doesn’t sound good,” the Swordsman felt hesitant inside. He had only established an entertainment guild, and although they outnumbered the top five guilds of Holy Spirit World, their overall combat strength wasn’t even close to being significant.

“Didn’t you send me this video and article so I could watch this kind of show? It’s not our first time rebelling.” After finishing watching, Chen Meng immediately shared the video and article on her microblog and attached a comment… ‘Tonight, we group up to save Queen Mei’.

At this time, Chen Meng also received a gift from the officials. Following the prompt, she opened her mailbox where a Time-Space Transformation Gift Box lay quietly.

Once Chen Meng opened the gift box, inside was a small crystal and an ancient letter.

“Chen Meng, this crystal seems to let players transform into any one of the five Knights or the axe-wielding man,” the Swordsman, who also received the gift box, spoke, as everyone around showed off their crystals under Chen Meng’s gaze.

“Take on the new branch main quest. Starting from today, we are all members of the Knights under the King!”

Chen Meng tossed aside her chips, drew out her great sword, and stood up to shout to the guild members.

The players by the Time Merchant, motivated by Chen Meng’s call, concurrently brought out their transformation crystals. Accompanied by the flash of light… one by one, Lion Heart Knights and Bee Knights, Wolf Knights, as well as axe-wielding men and Hawkeye Knights appeared before Chen Meng.

Brat! Don’t be scared! Mama’s here to save you!