Foreword:
[Bombs will destroy everything instead of selective attacks]
[——Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]
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[Part 1·Artificial Sun]
The Pavlov substation is getting closer.
Thousands of meters away, on the towering rocky bedrock of the tundra, there are several huge windmills over a hundred meters slowly rotating.
It is built on a deserted land, and further away is a vertical cliff hundreds of meters deep.
Looking down from the cliff, you can see layers of strange rocky platforms, which are natural dangers that are difficult for conventional vehicles to overcome.
The stone ballast road has been built here, which is the last stop for mankind.
To this day, there are still people staying here, providing power to the RSH outpost and observing the abnormal spiritual pressure coming from Niflheim, the Land of Mist.
Jiang Xueming's team arrived here successfully and parked the vehicle next to the dormitory building in the living area of the substation. They saw this group of uninvited guests wearing heavy armor knocking on the door of the duty room.
Xueming kept asking questions along the way and was very interested in the organization [Stairway to Heaven].
Listen to what the two VIPs have to say, with additional input from Jason Megan.
This organization should be followers of [Xinwang]. They are not members of the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult. They sneer at the Vita Brand, but they respect Xinwang's actions very much.
The way Aohun Mingde gifts passengers with essence is to send a panacea to cure diseases and injuries.
Those who preside over the ceremony can become kings.
Xueming couldn't understand it at first. He couldn't figure out how virtuous and capable this [Salary King] was. He could be compared with the King Hunter, King Craftsman and King Explorer.
The first three represent the armed security, scientific research industry, and road transportation of the Abyss Railway.
What can [Xinwang] represent? Is it worth following them? Worship them? Be them?
Only later did the two VIPs clarify the term.
It turns out that King Xin wants to be the sun, and he really wants to be the sun - not a metaphor or artistic rhetoric.
Rather, from a physical level, it becomes firewood, burns, releases energy, and becomes the sun.
Teacher A-ling talked to Jiang Xueming several times and became a reply reader.
Xueming was stunned but didn’t understand——
——He really didn’t expect that the underground sun he saw at Dusk Pass when he first drove to Fangfeng Village was a [Salt King].
That's not some natural phenomenon or ball lightning.
It is a person, a soul.
It was a homo sapiens who had seized many essences and possessed immortal runes, and then used a powerful spiritual body and a simple nuclear restraint device to turn into a human-shaped fireball and shine in all directions.
The sun can kill most viruses and fungi in nature.
The energy released by the sun can make the dead earth rich.
Solar energy enables Homo sapiens to grow healthier and have stronger bones.
The sun never asks, the sun only gives.
King Xin, a new branch of the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult, is like a deviant rock musician, giving the middle finger and swearing at other saints.
When these powerful individuals with soul power choose this necessary path, they have already thought about how to plunder the essence, how to ignite themselves, how to dispel the Vita imprint of the underground world, how to become a living sun that shines on all things, and finally enter In the Kingdom of Heaven, from ordinary undead souls, they become gods and heroic spirits in shrines and temples.
Therefore, their followers are also called [Stairway to Heaven].
As long as an artificial sun successfully launches into the sky——
——The firewood people who have helped the king of firewood will also achieve enlightenment, and chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven.
These firewood are ready at any time, ready to become a solid platform for the ladder to the kingdom of heaven, providing fresh essence to the king of firewood, even if it is human flesh - as long as these powerful individuals have a blood-giving body and have the ability of [carnism] With the ability to eat people, the firewoods will not hesitate to collect essence for their leaders.
Nietzsche once said - "Those who fight monsters must beware of becoming monsters themselves."
Xinwang is a group of unscrupulous people. They initially fought against Crazy Butterfly and wanted to take a shortcut, so they used the blood power of Crazy Butterfly and Mountain Giant to become the fanatical seeds of the Xinwang sect.
They have long since become monsters, specifically, they should be a pile of flesh and blood polymers. For example, Earth Dragon Anna gained spiritual wisdom by devouring the spiritual essence of Homo sapiens, which is the same as the disaster beast's physique.
They are not a single person, but after repeated selection and devouring each other, they eventually become a very complex mixture.
A salary king may have the memories of hundreds of people and the social experience of hundreds of people. The more complex the recipe, the more complex the essence.
Before they start burning, they will collect excellent essence from various cities in the railway system, look for powerful individuals, and use various means to kill these individuals, and finally swallow them in their stomachs to prepare for the ignition ceremony.
These monsters never feel that they are committing murder-
——As long as we can create an artificial sun, it will be a blessing to our descendants and will last forever.
Even if it can only burn for hundreds of years, or decades, or even only a few years. This fiery red sun will make a thriving human city-state appear in the dead underground cavity.
"Oh! It's a virtual idol!" When Liuxing heard Teacher A's talk about the salary king, he immediately thought of the man in the leather suit: "Black and red are also red! Everyone comes out to be idols, aren't they just fans on Stairway to Heaven? "
Jason had just taken off his helmet and was about to take a sip of engine antifreeze and warm his body with the ninety-six-degree water of life. When he heard Meteor's roaring words, he spit out the wine and everything turned into ice.
Su Ling scratched her head: "That's what it sounds like."
Xia Xia scratched her head: "Indeed! A-Ling! Not only virtual idols, but those artists who are hysterical in life and want to appear on the big screen and movie stage, don't they all do this? It's just that they don't kill or eat. People should focus on making money, regardless of whether the money comes from clean sources. After becoming famous, they will do charity, become charity ambassadors, and become artificial suns, and they will be admired by others."
Xiao Qi helped the teacher scratch his head: "It makes sense."
Xueming remained silent on the side——
——He is a rigorous and curious engineering student.
After coming out of the battery factory, he has been obsessed with various mechanical structures and chemical products.
For a creature like King Xin, he was full of awe in his heart, and he was also thinking about what kind of magical soul power and what kind of powerful spirit body could turn the human body into raw materials for nuclear fusion, and use the electromagnetic constraints of the spirit body to control it. The nuclear reaction rate can achieve such a miracle as creating an artificial sun.
all in all--
——The founder of this sect has a madness index so high that he could pierce the moon even standing on the surface of the earth.
But this behavior of getting on the bus first and waiting for tickets is really evil.
Putting aside the wonderful life brought about by the burning sun, the way to collect essence before that was to hunt the strong, whether they were spiritually strong or physically strong, whether they were humans or beasts of disaster, These things have to be sent to the crown prince's belly. Let them eat well and sleep well, just so that one day they can fly into the sky and bless all things.
Xueming can also understand a little bit why the people on Stairway to Heaven are so worried about the immortal rune.
[Desperado's] physique is very magical. Even if he is crushed into powder and scum, he can still recover as before, including the skull structure and cortical memory.
Although we don’t know whether the strong magnetic and electric fields of nuclear energy will change the synapses of these monsters, and whether they will lose the memory of the cerebral cortex during the nuclear reaction, one thing is certain, the Immortal Rune can at least make King Xin burn the essence. Afterwards, there is the possibility of waste reuse.
A freak like Mary Stuart, even if she only has one arm left, will be reborn in another way as long as it is connected to someone.
The members of [Stairway to Heaven] are also always preparing to become the next crown prince.
It's just that this process is very cruel, like a bomb ready to explode.
The bomb doesn't choose a target, it destroys everything.
[Part②·Giant]
At this moment, there are still sixteen people on duty at the Pavlov substation.
Fifteen of them were outsiders, engineers in the station system. They greeted Jason and explained the current spiritual disaster index on the beach where RSH was located, and then continued to work at their respective posts.
The other three are RSH natives, children who came out of the beachhead outpost.
Most of them are young people of fifteen or sixteen years old, with physical disabilities and deformities. They deliver supplies from the substation to RSH, mostly canned food, and return to Hongxing Mountain every day.
Listening to the children’s description, it was completely different from the outpost Xueming imagined——
——Hongxing Mountain is not a mountain, but a village.
It covers an area of more than 20 kilometers on the beach, which is much larger than an ordinary military base, but its population is very small. Only about fifty people still live here.
After Jason finished communicating with the three children in Russian, he spoke to Diamond.
"If you stay here, the place we are going to is dangerous."
Diamond didn't understand: "Then why did you bring me here? I thought I could finally have an adventure with you! Brother Jason!"
Jason patted Diamond on the shoulder: "It's for the people in the Red Nail Hotel - if they know you ran out and came back safe and sound, they will respect you and won't dare to bully you anymore."
Diamond reluctantly said: "I can't be a fake! Jason! The workers will know that I am a paper tiger as soon as they take action. If it is like what you said, I should accompany you to RSH. Only fire can make real gold." !I want to become the real thing."
Jason wanted to say something else.
Xueming threw the entire set of heavy armor to Diamond and prepared to go to the elevator on the cliff.
"Take him with me. He knows how to drill holes. I need help to deal with steel together. He has heard what we said before. He knows the difficulties and obstacles of this trip. He is a person who is not afraid of death."
Eventually Jason gave up and stopped being coy.
People got into the big iron cage of Pavlov substation, except Xueming and A Ling who did not enter the elevator.
One of them stood by the suspended rope of the elevator to observe, and the other squatted on the base of the motor winch.
Xueming said: "Katyusha, you stay."
A Ling threw two large iron boxes into the elevator.
"Xia Xia, catch it!"
The waiter ran out of the elevator carrying a sniper rifle and secondary weapons.
Then she saw Xia Xia catching her iron box luggage. Unlike Meteor who was struggling like that, she didn't even take a step back.
Xiao Qi didn't understand what the two commanders meant, but at this moment, Xueming and A Ling should have thought of one place.
Xueming told people.
"We were watched before in the car. Teachers A Ling and Xia Xia said that they were the sentries of [Stairway to Heaven]. They had sniper rifles. I don't know how far their snipers can hit and how accurate they are."
Su Ling took off her heavy chain mail gloves and revealed the sparkling pyroxene.
"According to my observation, based on the speed of this big elevator, it will take at least a minute and a half to land on the next bedrock platform, and then transfer to another elevator. The three of us will not go up. We will set a signal here. Be a living target.”
Xueming: "Humanoid units are always more tempting than elevator cables. I'm afraid these hounds hiding in the dark will be difficult to deal with."
"I understand!" The little waiter immediately alerted and raised his gun: "If they dare to attack us, I can fight back immediately! In such a quiet and vast place, even if there is no gun flame, I can clearly distinguish where the bullet is coming from. Where did it come from! I am an expert at beating dogs! It doesn’t matter whether it’s a white dog or a black dog! I can kill them all!”
Jason thumbs up in the elevator.
Meteor still wanted to rush out, but just shouted: "I'm coming too! I'm coming too! I'm very good at taking bullets!"
He was immediately pulled back by 3301.
Teacher Sansan covered her face, not knowing what to say.
Why do employers get so excited when they talk about being "very good at eating bullets"? Just like the crazy Thursday food service!
Xiao Qi looked at Xueming worriedly and said nothing.
The elevator headed toward the endless cold abyss, and there was only the buzzing sound of the motor's gears and nooses engaging.
Xueming and Katyusha squatted down together, silently counting the time and waiting.
Wait for the winch to stop operating and for your partners to arrive safely at the station.
Everything went as usual, no accidents occurred.
Xueming asked: "Katyusha, did you see something?"
Katyusha: "No, there is no reflection from the mirror. Maybe the enemy's mirror uses paint. My Phantom sniper rifle mirror has this kind of matte paint, which will affect the light transmittance of the sniper scope - but it can hide the mirror. reflected light."
Xueming asked: "Where is Teacher A Ling?"
Su Ling: "I don't feel any abnormal spiritual pressure. Maybe he has left and given up tracking."
After that, Su Ling added Xueming and Katyusha into the team.
There are only three of them on Phoenix's squad list.
Xueming: "There is no one else in the team? Is it beyond the range of Soul Power?"
"Yes, my soul power can only extend about 120 meters at most." Su Ling pulled the handle of the elevator: "If you exceed this range, you will run out of my service area."
Wait until the lift returns to Pavlov's cliff platform again.
Xueming felt like she was locked in a big iron cage——
——Its iron mesh is full of traces of acid rain and rust. Looking outside, you can see some fireflies dozens of kilometers away. Those are the lights of the RSH outpost and human activities.
The small air conditioner built into the heavy armor has begun to overload as an air purifier. You can hear the rustling mechanical failure notes coming from the fan motor and filter. The dust, mist, sand, gravel, and aerogel in the air gradually gather into large pieces. Big chunks of sludge.
There was a roar——
——The elevator starts to operate.
The movement of the chain was like a roller coaster climbing uphill, slowly sending Xueming deeper.
The light sources of the weather observation balloons can be seen in mid-air, illuminating part of the beach and sea.
The dark water splashed on the quagmire, carrying hot blue-black steam, making it look like hell.
The orange and red balloon lights hit the squirming mud and turned into millions of strange shapes with different shapes and greasy luster.
Further away, you can see several mountains on the sea——
——No, no, that’s not a mountain!
Xueming's childish hole shrunk.
He took out the telescope from his backpack and wanted to see clearly the "giant island" in the mudflat offshore——
——That is the giant. When it stands up, it is more than three hundred meters tall.
They stood frozen in the dark ocean, and they could see the thick fog emanating from the skulls of these giants. The original facial features had been chewed away beyond recognition by Madam Bai, revealing partially petrified skulls.
On the missing nose bridge and the sunken face, there is a dark rune. Its darkness is deeper than the fog or the natural environment. It seems to absorb all light sources, making it particularly conspicuous.
Its shape should be [Hagalaz]
Represents ice, delay, restriction, the disintegration of nature.
Calculated according to real proportions, the immortal rune in this giant's head is at least as tall as a six-story building.
Even though the distance was so far, Jiang Xueming could still feel a terrifying spiritual pressure coming towards him.
It is still alive, and its body is constantly disintegrating and reorganizing. You can hear the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in the ocean. In the steaming water mist, it seems that there are huge crazy butterflies falling from the giant's body, and are being killed by these powerful and arrogant creatures. The ultra-ancient creatures were sucked back into the body and turned into the essence that reshaped the body.
In the fountain square of Jiujie Station, the giant bronze sculpture that built the station for BOSS is kneeling.
Even if they kneel down, on the top floor of the Council of Five Kings, in the lounge of the VIP special tea room fortress, looking out the window, they are at the same level as these bronze heads.
At this moment, they stood up——
——When these creatures stand up and ask Homo sapiens to look directly at them, they can feel their consciousness slowly draining away.
