Rosa knew very well that if she wanted to trace the origin, it would have been a long time ago.
At that time, the whole world was fighting, and everyone was happy to use the weapons forged by science to kill the same kind. As time went by, the war expanded step by step and swept the world. Under the crazy ambition of the leaders, the people were manipulated by people with thoughtful intentions. Under the instigation of blind public opinion and driven by the capitalists' desire to seize more profits, countless young lives were thrown into the battlefield, and they raised their weapons and began to kill each other.
Countless farmland was abandoned in the war, countless villages were burned in the war, people's bodies were exposed in the wilderness every day, and the sovereignty of Alsace-Lorraine was cut over and over again. I wrote the last lesson again. Again... War is a demon. It can easily turn a trembling new soldier who has just entered the battlefield, hiding in the trenches and shouting "Mom, I want to go home", into a soldier who is expert in forcibly expropriating the food and youth of the village. The prime-age labor force, along with a pat on the back of a fellow countryman, is the best at luring people to break through their own bottom line again and again, allowing people to step into step by step the deepest, most brutal, and twisted dark side of their hearts that they dare not admit is their own.
Turn a person into a demon alive.
No matter who it is, that era is a nightmare that no one wants to recall.
The same goes for Rosa.
Rosa didn't have much memory of his parents as long as he could remember. Maybe they died in the last war and he survived by luck and became a war orphan. Or maybe he was abandoned because he couldn't feed him during the war. , no matter which one it is, parents have no place in Rosa's life.
They may be more like a symbolic presence, a background board for Rosa - thanks to them, without any consent or inquiry, Rosa was brought to a world that he did not want to be born at all.
At that time, orphans living on the streets for whatever reason could not survive if they did not join a group to keep warm. Rosa was lucky. He had lived with a group of orphans as long as he could remember. They were like sewers. Like the rats in the house, they have no dignity and morals. They beat each other when they see each other. In order to survive and have something to eat, whether it is working together to steal food or grabbing a mouthful of moldy black food from other homeless people. Be it bread, they are willing to work on it.
Such days continued until Rosa was ten years old and met a girl who always had a bright smile on her face and a very smart mind.
At that time, Rosa was caught on the spot for stealing a piece of bread. After escaping for five streets, she was still blocked. Finally, she was hung up, beaten, and thrown into the garbage. Although her clothes were shabby, she was neatly taken care of. The girl quietly came over after the crowd dispersed, handed him a piece of moldy black bread and a little water in a broken bottle, and said something that he would never forget.
"Hey, there's no one who can be as upright as you when it comes to stealing. You grab a piece of bread, knock down someone's stall, and run straight along the avenue. How do you live so long?"
"How about I teach you how to use Hermes, the God of Thief of the Slums, and the Baguette Reaper in this lower city? Or you can just join me and I'll protect you!"
This was the first encounter between Rosa and the girl with a long list of self-proclaimed titles.
Although Rosa was quite unconvinced at the time, it turned out that the girl was indeed much more powerful than him. For a long time after that, Rosa followed the girl around. Maybe it was so that she could eat a full meal a day without being beaten. Maybe it was because the girl often said that she had to find a way for the two of them to learn something. He was attracted by the long-term future of serious craftsmanship and self-reliance to live a decent life. Maybe it was some reasons that he himself couldn't figure out that drove him to hang out with girls for a long time.
When they stole things together, they were chased and beaten in the street, and they also cooperated with each other and successfully stole wallets and food and had a feast. The girl also tried to learn some skills from him more than once and find a legitimate way to support herself. Act like decent people, and then they went to the factory run by the aristocratic gentleman... but not even half a day later, the girl cursed a bunch of vampires, sweatshops and other incomprehensible words and led him away, and she walked away smoothly. Take the foreman's purse.
Looking back now, Rosa feels that that time might have been the happiest time in his life.
But after a new war started, the whole world changed.
Rosa will never forget that day. The marching soldiers and chariots plundered the village, destroyed the farmland, and left a pile of corpses. She will never forget that not long ago, she was talking to herself about how to be like those people after becoming a decent person. Like noble men, they hired many maids and orphans to take care of their young girls. Not long after, he was beaten to death by a gun while trying to save a little girl. Rosa, who narrowly escaped death, could only carry her increasingly cold body on her back, holding the quilt. The little girl she rescued looked for help.
It was also on that day that Rosa heard about the apocalypse, made a deal with a suspicious existence, and after gaining knowledge about the wishing technique and the great wishing technique, she began a plan to subvert the world and save the girl.
The past world seemed to him a cold, painful and extremely hopeless world.
In order to change such a world, and to bring the dead back to life, he began to look for like-minded partners who wanted to change the world. Then, at the height of the global war, he emerged and won the Miracle Battle, successfully completing the primary level of the world. The ideal transformation of the form, and then, they found something suitable as a physical carrier of the wish network in a certain old force's storage warehouse. Then, in the underground of a remote small village, he worked together to create a wishing network based on his wishing and grand wishing techniques, the knowledge in his mind, and his body structure.
Every time the wishing network is expanded and more individuals are connected to the wishing network, it means that Rosa is one step closer to his dream. Until he accumulates enough wishing power, he can finally activate the great wishing technique to resurrect the girl he misses. When I thought I could stand up and tell her that both of them could live a decent life.
But fate played a big joke on him - the dead cannot be resurrected.
What the Great Wish Technique created was a fake that was mixed with his own desires and was closer to the real thing.
Wearing a student uniform, a short-haired girl with freckles jumped out of the cave entrance. The girl who walked all the way here saw Rosa standing in front of the plant roots, with an excited and bright smile on her face. , a crisp sound resounded in the cave like a silver bell.
"My dear, I'm here to see you again~!"
Miraculous Saint Rosa woke up from her brief memories, looked up and saw the short-haired girl standing at the entrance of the cave waving vigorously at him, and couldn't help but sigh.
It's exactly the same.
No matter her appearance, demeanor or behavior, she was exactly the same as the girl in his memory.
But Rosa knew very well that the disaster matrix only looked and behaved exactly the same...
"Come here, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Rosa watched as the expression on the short-haired girl's face became shocked due to his words, then returned to a brighter smile, and whispered in a voice that could only be heard by himself: "It's time to make a decision."
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The city of fantasy, the central area, the edge of the pit.
The air twisted for a while, and blurry figures quietly appeared on the edge of the pit, turning from virtual to real, and quickly became solid.
As soon as Vincent's figure appeared in reality, he couldn't help but frown.
There had obviously been a great battle here.
The streets were torn apart layer by layer by the huge force, and the terrain became uneven. All the houses and buildings collapsed. The ruins caused by the explosion could be seen everywhere. Traces of freezing and burning were everywhere in the ruins. Half-destroyed buildings Cages, strange mechanical devices that have been dismantled into parts, and handcuffs that have lost their supernatural light scattered on the ground can be seen everywhere.
And there is a very slight smell of pollution hanging around.
"It looks like it was attacked, but it shouldn't be from the mother of disaster."
The air twisted again, and Harland's figure turned from virtual to real. He followed Vincent's footsteps and came to the real world. The giant man with rich experience in fighting enemies glanced at the street, and then compared several battle traces. Fiery Point collected some samples and immediately determined a lot of useful information: "This is a battle with ulterior motives. Flames, explosions, and freezing methods are all targeted at houses. There are scattered cages, machines, and handcuffs." They are all made of cornerstone crystals, and they have all been destroyed. Apparently, the attackers' brazen destruction of the streets attracted the attention of the Rebel Guards and the Pioneers. The latter were limited to the principle of making wishes and could not attack, so they could only try to capture them. was arrested, but was counterattacked and ultimately failed..."
Vincent frowned, but before he could say anything, Harland looked at Wu Ming and the four people who slowly walked out of the light group with vigilance. He lowered his voice and said to Vincent, "What do you think is the most important thing?" It’s better to keep an eye on those guys, they might be behind this incident.”
In his eyes, Wu Ming and these supernatural beings with unknown origins and suspected of being extraordinary creatures from the old era are the most suspicious in this situation - after all, individuals who are affiliated with the Wishing Network cannot attack or kill other people, and they are individuals who are not part of the network. But there is no such restriction.
"Hey, can you do it..." Just as they were muttering in a low voice, Wu Ming had already dragged the half-dead Mori out of the solid ball of light, followed by Qi who had transformed into a human form. Ge Fei and Elizabeth, "Don't you have a lot of ambitions and want to make great achievements? Why can't you teleport people twice in a row?"
Mo Li glared at Wu Ming fiercely and was about to retort when he felt a reflux rush into his throat and immediately turned his head to the side: "Ugh..."
When Vincent saw them arriving, he calmly made a gesture. The elite guards of the Omega unit quietly changed their formation and included Wu Ming and others among the alert targets.
Of course, these small changes could not escape their eyes. Wu Ming just smiled and warned Brother Fei in the spiritual link not to make random moves, and then turned his gaze solemnly to the deep pit in front of him.
From the perspective fed back to him by the invisible probe - this deep pit is gestating a... creature that is about to break free from chains and restraints...
