Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 5

"I thought that your generation of Protectors was blessed," You Zhengping and the others' superior Director Xiao said after reading the report You Zhengping had delivered. His expression was grave.

Director Xiao was You Zhengping and the other's direct superior, and he had formerly been called "the most powerful Protector."

He was forty-three years old and had kept his figure well. Ordinarily he was as affable as a next door neighbor. Only in the slanting eyebrows that had picked up the marks of the passage of time could you see the keenness of his youth.

"If possible, I'd hoped that you wouldn't have the opportunity to encounter a Destroyer in your lifetimes," Director Xiao said.

While You Zhengping's young generation were Protectors, they had actually never seen Destroyers. They had learned everything they knew about Destroyers from books. They had no real combat experience.

You Zhengping hesitated, then said, "I was chosen by you fifteen years ago to become a reserve Protector. You told us then that in the future we would face frightening enemies. But fifteen years have passed, and we haven't come across a single Destroyer. Why is that?"

Director Xiao shook his head and said seriously, "I don't understand either. Fifteen years ago, in my time, Destroyers came to our world regularly. They were hidden among the crowd, harboring different aims. When they were caught, they killed themselves. To this day, we've fought with the Destroyers for hundreds of years, but we still know nothing about the power behind them."

Director Xiao had experienced the most arduous era. He had started taking part in hunting Destroyers at age seventeen. During the most difficult period, he and his team had apprehended over thirty Destroyers within three years. During that time, the sum of Destroyers throughout the whole world had reached the hundreds.

No one knew where the Destroyers came from, why they came again and again to this world. They would become some random person in this world, possessing complete identity records. No matter how advanced science technology got, they still couldn't prevent the Destroyers from tampering with government records.

Such unknown beings were frightening to humans. Each nation showed unprecedented unity in facing the Destroyers, establishing an international organization to pursue the Destroyers throughout the world.

Despite this, after hundreds of years, they had yet to take a single Destroyer alive. Director Xiao had heard foreign Protectors say that they had captured Destroyers alive, but if they dared to ask about the power behind them, the Destroyers would self-destruct at once.

Ordinary people's peaceful lives were forged from the sweat and blood of countless Protectors. But since You Zhengping's class had become reserve Protectors, this world hadn't seen any more Destroyers.

"Fifteen years ago, we were faced with a crisis that threatened to destroy the world," Director Xiao said, remembering. "I was planning to tell you this the first time you carried out a mission, but you haven't come across a single mission."

You Zhengping and the others felt very guilty facing Director Xiao's envious "you are truly fortunate" expression. Their class of Protectors really had it too easy.

Director Xiao sank into his memories. Fifteen years ago, he'd been only twenty-eight, hardly older than You Zhengping, but he'd already been a seasoned veteran.

That day, all the world's Protectors had simultaneously felt an enormous power that made their hearts palpitate. Unusual phenomena appeared in the skies. All the countries where it was night saw a full blood moon, while all the countries where it was day experienced a total eclipse of the sun. The globe's magnetic field was thrown into disorder. The birds and beasts wailed. Director Xiao stood under the blood moon, feeling the air around him congeal.