Chapter 597: Heaven Coming
Chapter 597 The Kingdom of Heaven Arrives
Yinyin has lived in her own garden since she could remember.
She still remembers that two years ago, when she was six years old, she sat on her father’s shoulders and looked at the world outside the farm. Her father asked her how she felt. She thought for a while, shook her head and said that although the world outside was vast, it was still far inferior to the garden in the manor.
She also remembered that her father seemed to laugh heartily, and then said something else. She couldn’t remember the specific words, but she only remembered that the meaning was that soon the forest, the mountains, and the plains outside would become part of the farm, and they would have a larger manor.
And by then, she would change from the daughter of the farmer to the princess of the kingdom.
At first she didn’t understand her father’s idea until she learned the word ambition from her tutor.
But what still confused her was that this idea obviously didn’t sound bad, why did everyone want to escape from here, so that her father had to take a child who was about her age as a hostage, and that person was her friend. Of course,
this was just one of many confusions.
What confused her even more was that this idea didn’t sound bad…
but why, since that day, the outside of the fence was still the barren wasteland, while the inside of the fence looked more and more like the outside.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw a pure white space. The soft light shone on her light eyelashes, but she didn’t feel the slightest glare.
She looked around blankly.
She found herself in a pure white space.
”Where… am I?”
The strange voice seemed to float from far away.
”Welcome to the main god space.”
Yinyin was stunned for a moment, looking at the stranger who suddenly appeared in this space, and didn’t come back to her senses for a while.
”… What?”
”Cough… Sorry,” in order to make the atmosphere less heavy, Chu Guang originally planned to make a harmless joke, but just as he said it, he remembered that people in this world couldn’t understand the jokes he knew, so he coughed lightly.
Looking at the confused eyes, he adjusted his expression and continued.
”This is the Holy Land.”
Yinyin looked at him blankly.
”Holy Land?”
Chu Guang nodded lightly.
”Hmm.”
The confusion in her heart did not decrease at all. Yin Yin looked at him nervously and asked cautiously in a low voice.
”Then… who are you?”
Chu Guang continued in a gentle tone.
”I am the manager of the alliance.”
Manager?
Yin Yin’s face was confused.
She had heard of the alliance and seemed to have heard the word manager somewhere, but she didn’t know what he did.
Speaking of which…
wasn’t I dead?
The memory covered with a layer of white mist gradually became clear in her mind, and she gradually recalled the last second before she closed her eyes.
In order to save her best friend, she stood in front of Xiao Yang, and the bullet hit her back and passed through her body.
The man walked in front of her and was about to take action, but it seemed that someone suddenly rushed over and wrestled with the man, and the two fell out of the window together.
And then…
there was nothing else.
”Xiao Yang she-”
Knowing what she wanted to ask, Chu Guang looked at her and said.
”Thanks to you, she is still alive and is now protected by us.”
Yin Yin breathed a sigh of relief.
After a long silence, her lips trembled slightly, and she squeezed out a sentence from her lips in a very small voice.
”Am I… dead?”
Chu Guang was silent for a while, thinking about whether to tell her the truth, but after thinking about it, he finally nodded gently.
”Yeah.”
Yin Yin’s face showed an expression of expectation.
But to his surprise, she was not sad, but relaxed her tense shoulders and smiled gently.
Although the smile was somewhat lonely and forced.
”So this is what death feels like…”
She looked at her hands, then raised her head to look at the pure white ceiling, and smiled as if talking to herself, “It doesn’t seem to hurt as much as I imagined.”
Chu Guang didn’t know how to respond to this sentence.
He had mostly seen the memory of death in dreams, and perhaps his little players would have more say.
After a pause, he decided to answer her previous question first.
”Back to the previous question, although your body is dead, your consciousness is stored in a bionic chip… Its name is the Holy Land, which is the space under your feet, and this is why we can communicate face to face.”
The memory in his mind was completely clear.
Yinyin nodded, not quite understanding, and lowered her head after a moment.
”The Holy Land… is it where the Holy Son lives?”
Chu Guang nodded, then shook his head gently.
”The person who has been communicating with you all this time is actually named Luo Qian. He may tell you that his name is the Holy Son, but in fact the Holy Son is someone else.”
She was not angry because she was deceived. She seemed to have expected his words. She just looked around and asked with a hint of curiosity in her voice.
”Does he live in a place like this…”
”And he has lived there for nearly twenty years,” Chu Guang nodded gently, paused and continued, “He gave this place to you in the end.”
”What about him? Where did he go?” Yinyin’s eyes searched the room, as if she wanted to find the person who had been communicating with her all this time.
”I don’t know. That guy may have been poked in the sore spot by me, and he has been ignoring me. After doing everything, he disappeared from this space.”
Chu Guang looked at the center of the room, where there was an ordinary chair before, and the old man was sitting there.
After a pause, he continued.
”There is no data about him in this chip, including that of the apostle… and his existence can no longer be sensed. I am more inclined to believe that he may have given this world to you.”
”Given it to me…”
”Yes.”
Yin Yin looked at him in confusion and asked.
”Why did he… do this?”
”No one knows. You may be the only person who has communicated with him as a human. I think you may know the answer.”
”That kind of thing…how can I know it?” Yin Yin hugged her head with a painful expression. “I also have many questions to ask him. I said I would believe him, but why did he turn everyone into that? What kind of heaven needs to be achieved? Can we…not go there?” In her dying moments,
she had figured out everything.
Including why everyone became like that, why her father died, and why those people came to kill her friends…but she was not smart enough. It was too late to figure it all out. If she had realized all
this earlier and realized who the real culprit was, she could have told her secrets to the brothers and sisters who helped her in time.
Maybe those tragic things would not have happened, and that big brother would not have died to save herself and the lamb.
She was only thankful for one thing.
She was standing next to the lamb at the time.
At least at the end of her life, she did not make a mistake that she would regret for a long time – killing her best friend because of her blind trust.
”…Choice is more expensive than survival. We have been fighting for this power since the birth of the alliance.” Still unable to bear the sad look, Chu Guang sighed softly and said in a gentle tone, “We will try to allow you to walk in the original world, but it will take some time. During this time, you may have to stay here for a while.”
”If you remember anything, you can call my name.”
He was about to leave this space.
At this time, Yin Yin, who was holding her head, suddenly raised her head and called him.
”Wait a minute…”
Chu Guang stopped and cast an inquiring look at her.
”What’s wrong?”
”That fog…”
”Fog?” Chu Guang frowned slightly, “What did you think of?”
Yin Yin nodded gently, her face pale.
”I may remember…what exactly is that fog.”
That person once told her.
And more than once –
she recited that sentence softly in her mouth.
”…The eternal kingdom of heaven will descend upon the mortal land when the gray fog rises, and the creatures enveloped by the kingdom of heaven will return to eternal peace and tranquility.”
Chu Guang’s pupils shrank slightly.
He seemed to have guessed something…
…
Jinhe City.
The cold and silent urban area.
Looking at the gray-green haze that gradually spread over the abandoned buildings and the sunset that was gradually blocked in the distance, the hunched high priest Gomo frowned slightly and muttered softly.
”The time is earlier than expected.”
Standing next to him, Qi Gan said expressionlessly.
”Isn’t it better to be earlier?”
Unlike Gomo.
His eyes were always fixed on the steel airship in the distance.
Compared with the plan of the Torch Church, he wanted to know more about how to defeat that guy.
Even if the kingdom of heaven descended to the earth and made the sheep in the sheepfold more docile, they still had to expand the size of the tribe through external wars.
The north is undoubtedly the most ideal target.
It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the Giant Stone City, surrounded by towering giant walls, which can be used as a natural pasture.
However, the problem is that those guys have such terrible weapons.
Just a few hours ago, the towering steel behemoth launched terrifying firepower towards the west of the Pine Cone Farm.
Even though he was more than ten kilometers away, he could still feel the trembling of the earth and the air.
It was obvious that
the fierce firepower was aimed at his centurion Kuru.
To be honest, Garn didn’t like those charlatans. After all, even if those guys promised them a lot of benefits, they were still old humans in the end.
However, he had to admit that his tribe did need to rely on the power of those charlatans.
Compared with the old human civilization that has accumulated for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, the mutant civilization is still too young.
Only the wisdom of the old people can fight against that terrifying power.
He occasionally needs to compromise with reality.
Gomo knew what the leader was anxious about, and sighed softly.
”I don’t think it’s bad. The sooner the kingdom of heaven descends to the earth, the stronger our rule over this land will be… I just wonder if it will be too hasty.”
Garn looked at him and asked.
”Where’s Luo Qian? Why don’t you just ask him?”
A trace of embarrassment appeared on Gomo’s old face.
”…I can’t contact him.”
Garen frowned.
”Can’t contact him?”
The final “ritual” was about to begin. The thick gray fog had spread to the urban area of Jinhe, and soon this area spanning dozens of kilometers would be swallowed up. At
this critical moment, he couldn’t contact that guy?
Gomo lowered his head and dared not look at the leader, and said in a low voice.
”It doesn’t matter… The plan has been made, as long as it is carried out step by step. It’s the same for us to perform the final ritual.”
Garen sighed and looked at the sky in the distance with hatred.
”None of these two-legged animals is trustworthy…”
He swore.
Sooner or later, he will kill them all!
…
The area around Jinhe City is like boiling water, and the official forum of “Wasteland OL” is the same.
When the brothers of the Jungle Corps brought the record of killing the chicken brother back to the forum, the reply of 666 immediately flooded the post reporting the results of the battle.
Although there are many sad people who failed in the casino, there are more people who are just watching the show and praising the experts.
Outlaw: “Brother Ji is awesome!!! (broken voice)”
Stop bullshitting: “Twenty-one! Too strong!”
Makabazi: “Not like a certain lizard, a sparrow! (funny)”
Garbage Picker Level 99: “%￥#@!”
Tail: “Wow, I’m crying with envy! Si! Tail also wants to change his job to become an Astarte! QAQ”
Sisi: “Touch Awei, don’t cry, don’t cry.ヾ(ω`。)”
Meat Mountain Big Steamed Bun: “Hiss… A tail that is two meters and five meters tall and one meter wide at the shoulders? I can’t imagine it at all!”
Aoao Sesame Paste: “Ahaha… Rourou will be crushed to death. (*￣~￣*)”
Midnight Chicken Killer: “The coordinates of the job transfer NPC, Giant Stone Military Industry Ibers! No exaggeration, it is really useful! (Silly smile)”
Garbage Picker Level 99: “Damn it, you guys started a group and didn’t even call me! TT”
Xiao Xiaoxiao Bookworm: “You don’t He is from our group, why are you calling him?”
Garbage Picker Level 99: “Fuck! So ruthless?”
Qiangrensunan: “Damn it, let this guy act alone!”
Fudi Laomo: “Brother Mouse, where are your brothers? (Funny)”
Qiangrensunan: “I picked them up a long time ago. My resurrection CD is only one day. (Grinning teeth)” Fudi Laomo
: “6666!”
Speaking of this, there is a small episode. When Qiangrensunan turned into a beam of light and disappeared on the battlefield, his brothers did not leave too far.
It was not because of loyalty to the boss, but mainly because mice did not restrain their food. The leftovers of mutants were enough to eat for a long time.
So, the mice brothers were only sad for a few minutes, and then they feasted on the place where their boss died and started a party.
And on the second day when the mice were eating happily, the big horned rat that they had just gnawed clean suddenly came back.
This trick of “resurrection on the spot” directly stunned the mice, and they kowtowed and worshiped.
Although he couldn’t understand what the mice were saying, he could clearly feel that his image in the eyes of his fellow mice had become even more sacred and majestic.
I want to be quiet: “But why hasn’t the fog dispersed yet?”
Ye Shi: “I always have a bad feeling.”
Quitting: “What premonition?”
Ye Shi: “According to the general RPG routine, after clearing the mobs, there must be a boss battle or something?”
Quitting: “What the hell?! You’ve already gone down, don’t be such a pessimist!”
Irena: “Ye Shi is a perception system, I believe in Ye Shi. (Funny)”
Fang Chang: “Well, this possibility cannot be ruled out. The Torch Church seems to be very sensitive to our research on antibodies that inhibit Nago hyphae. If that mutant army is their only backup, it would be a bit too hasty.”
Canyon Fleeing Mole: “And it’s strange… It’s actually just the antibody carrier that needs to be eliminated, right? Is it really necessary to send a whole mutant army?” With
such a high-profile operation, even if they rush to the Pine Cone Farm, the Alliance will have enough time to send a plane to pick up the key personnel, right?
It’s better to send a few more assassins.
Commander of Fountain: “Well… I always feel that the fog is not so much covering the mutants’ march as the latter is covering the former.”
Ye Shi: “What do you think it is?”
Commander of Fountain: “How do I know… Anyway, brothers who are still alive should be careful.”
…
As it turns out, although he died early, Ye Shi’s bad words seem to have come true again.
According to the reports of players stationed in the Songguomu Farm area, local residents entered the fugue state shortly after the fog started.
And this is without the influence of the mind interference device!
Fortunately, the players have covered the brainwashing of the 03 band through the device, otherwise the disaster that happened last night might have to be repeated again.
Because they were well prepared in advance, most of the survivors stayed at home, and even if they entered the fugue state, they just stood or sat motionlessly.
But what is disturbing is that the fog with a radius of more than ten kilometers is slowly spreading to farther places, and by dusk, it has spread to the edge of Jinhe City.
The fog is gradually becoming thinner, and visibility is recovering, but the area covered by this thick fog is getting wider and wider.
Not only that, the area where the spore cloud stays is no longer limited to the surface, but spreads to the sky and even begins to touch the edge of the cloud.
This is what is happening in Jinhe City at this moment.
”… It feels like a stone has fallen into the lake. The height of the ripples is decreasing, but the outlines of circles are spreading from the center of the lake to the shore.”
On the Heart of Steel.
After listening to the captain’s explanation of the current situation, Chief of Staff Vanus, who rushed to the front line from the rear, pondered for a moment and expressed his opinion.
The captain frowned slightly,
”What on earth do those charlatans want to do.”
Chu Guang, who had been staring at the French window without speaking, suddenly said.
”I actually care more about another thing.”
Vanus looked at him and asked.
”What is it?”
Chu Guang continued.
”What exactly is that eternal heaven.”
Vanus fell into thought.
At this time, the hatch of the bridge opened, and Frost walked towards everyone from the direction of the door.
”…Our air force’s reconnaissance drone cruised about hundreds of kilometers to the south and took these photos.”
As he spoke, he handed a tablet to Chu Guang.
Chu Guang took the tablet from Han Shuang’s hand, and a hint of surprise appeared between his brows the moment he looked at the screen.
I saw patches of gray-green fog covering the ground, with only a few mountains and forests occasionally leaking through and not being swallowed up.
In places further south, the thick gray fog was like an airtight wall, as if it had frozen the entire space.
It was impossible to see the situation in the fog from the outside.
He frowned slightly, looked at Han Shuang and asked.
”Where is this?”
”South of Jinchuan Province, located in Haiya Province on the southern coast of Zhongzhou Continent. Our drone encountered signal interference and electronic warfare attacks when entering the airspace over Haiya Province, but our AI technology is more advanced, and it has now returned.”
When saying this, Han Shuang’s expression was a little proud.
Drone control is her specialty, and electronic warfare is Eclipse’s specialty. A group of amateurs wanting to take down the aircraft controlled by her with their mediocre skills is still a long way off.
However, Chu Guang didn’t care about these details. He had already experienced the Torch Church’s technology.
He was more concerned about another thing…
”When did it start to become like this?” The captain standing beside him stared at the screen in surprise and asked Chu Guang’s question.
However, Frost obviously couldn’t know, it was just a bionic man, and shook his head with embarrassment.
Vanus standing beside him thought for a long time and spoke.
”I guess it should be these few months, when we were fighting the Legion, otherwise such a big thing would not have been reported to Dawn City at all.”
Chu Guang nodded.
”I think so too.”
But this is just a guess based on limited intelligence.
In fact, even if the group of charlatans had completed their plan a long time ago, they were fully capable of blocking the news in their own territory.
According to their style of doing things in Jinhe City, they would promise some benefits to the local survivors in the early stage, and then gradually show their fangs when the local survivors could no longer do without them.
In the process, the plants and animals corroded by the Naguo have spread all over the land, and the pervasive mycelium has eroded almost every inch of soil.
In addition, the influence of the mind interference device.
When the realm called the Kingdom of Heaven was fully unfolded on this land, the local survivors had already become captives of the church.
It is understandable that no news has been spread.
If the alliance did not have a large number of merchants and mercenaries from Jinchuan Province, and if some players had not gone to the south, I am afraid that when Jinhe City completely became a part of the “Kingdom of Heaven”, they would still be kept in the dark and know nothing about what is happening here.
Chu Guang looked at Han Shuang.
”What is the opinion of the Council?”
”The Council believes that this is undoubtedly an emergency, and…” Han Shuang swallowed the words on her lips halfway through.
Chu Guang knew what the second half of her sentence was.
All the suffering here is inextricably linked to the conflict a century and a half ago.
Even if Ideal City is not the direct cause of this disaster, as descendants of the Production Department, they still bear an unshirkable responsibility for what is happening here.
But now is not the time to pursue who is responsible.
Chu Guang skipped this heavy topic and continued.
”Our researchers believe that the release of spores is the third stage of the biological evolution of the Nago bacteria. According to the existing experimental results, the infected people shrouded in gray fog will gradually enter a trance state within 12 to 72 hours.” ”
People who have not eaten Nago will also be slowly poisoned in this field until their immune system is broken down and they eventually become part of this field…”
”And this is the essence of ‘heaven’.”
If swallowing Nago was a voluntary choice of the survivors at first, then the third stage of “heaven coming” has nothing to do with the word voluntary. The
originally mild bacteria will force the spores that are secreted all the time into the respiratory tract and mouth of every organism.
Regardless of whether the local survivors accept it or not,
the eternal heaven in the mouth of the Torch Church will come.
The organisms covered by the heaven will lose all suffering forever, and the price is to lose themselves, live as a seedbed for the breeding of Nago fungi, and be manipulated by the mind interference device to do some simple work.
Except for more powerful mutants, the selected apostles, and the perfect life form they are designing, no creature can live in this field for a long time.
Before the technology of the perfect life form is finally completed, this place is undoubtedly hell.
Looking at Han Shuang, whose electronic pupils are slightly dilated, Chu Guang continued.
”According to the conclusion of Heya’s research, this gene is a fragment cut from the DNA of the mutant slime mold after all. Referring to the mother nest in Qingquan City, the essence of spores is a medium for transmitting information, so it can be inferred that there must be something like a mother nest in this area.”
The sanctuary is a decentralized network without a core, but the heaven that descended on the earth is different… It is purely a pseudo-utopia built by biotechnology.
The sanctuary that does not exist on the ground is its spiritual core, and its physiological core must be somewhere in this land.
It is the core of everything-
it issues orders to all hyphae to keep this heavenly kingdom going.
Han Shuang looked at him seriously and asked.
”Where do you think it is?”
Chu Guang looked at it and said.
”The most likely place is the Champion Group’s biological research institute in Jinhe City… What are you going to do?”
Han Shuang said seriously.
”I will suggest that the Council use strategic weapons to destroy it. The harm caused by this research project has far exceeded the scope of regional harm.”
Chu Guang seemed to have guessed what he would say and sighed softly.
”The underground experimental facility there is at the level of a nuclear bunker, like an unnumbered shelter. What weapons do you plan to use to deal with it?”
This is what he saw in the memory of the apostle named Yule. The elevator is not ordinary deep. It takes a long time to reach the surface when standing on it.
Frost was stunned.
”Ah…”
Before it could analyze the alternative plan, Chu Guang continued.
”We need that artificial mother nest. Only by understanding it can we solve it. Our people will go and grab it, but the mutants there will definitely not let us get it easily. I need you to provide the necessary support.”
It seems that permission has been obtained from somewhere.
Frost nodded and agreed without any hesitation after hearing this.
”No problem, we will provide all necessary support.”
”This is not just your threat.”
”It’s ours too.”
(End of this chapter)
