241 God's Descent (IX)

We saved the world

In the dark, unknown room, Prometheus stood quietly, large patches of snow-white mycelium spreading from his body, and the battle scenes in Area 103 unfolded before him.

Zhu Ning had been out of contact for over five minutes. The camera on the wall that was still functioning zoomed in, but she hadn't shown any sign of fighting back.

She was not wearing an employee bracelet or a secondary brain, so her specific vital signs could not be monitored. She might have died a long time ago, but they didn't know it.

Instructions came from the airship outside Area 103, that Area 103 will be destroyed within ten minutes. The final bombing of the Kingdom of God is about to come.

There are only ten minutes left, and any miracle should happen within these ten minutes.

There are still fifty-four usable cameras on the first-level protective wall, which are like fifty-four eyes watching this area.

Suddenly, one of the cameras went dark and captured a black shadow.

Prometheus tilted his head. It wasn't that Zhu Ning suddenly resurrected, but that there were humans climbing on the first-level protective wall.

They were wearing black protective suits, two men and two women. The protective wall was as tall as the sky, and they were no more than scattered sesame seeds on it.

Behind him was a huge, wriggling tentacle, less than five meters away from the first-level protective wall. A blood-red light enveloped Area 103, and the debris falling from the steel dome was like meteorites, crashing down from ten thousand meters in the air, easily killing some unlucky person.

In this situation, there were actually people climbing the first level of the protective wall. Prometheus guessed that they were trying to seize the last bit of chance to escape through the loophole in the protective wall.

The most basic need of human beings is survival. This is nothing new. From a computational point of view, the probability of their survival is less than 0.0001%.

With a bang, a foot broke the stair partition and the iron frame fell from a high altitude.

The chain reaction caused by the iron frame caused the outdoor staircase to become shaky, and half of it was completely loose.

"Be careful!" someone shouted from behind. The communication device was completely paralyzed, and now we basically had to rely on shouting.

Her voice sounded like she was in her teens at most, definitely no older than fifteen.

This made Prometheus curious about them. He scanned the numbers on the protective suits, locked onto several faces in the helmets, and quickly got their basic information.

The four people are named Ouyang Jun, Xiang Ke, Ji Wenhe and Hu Xiu.

There was nothing special about them, even their names seemed ordinary. They had grown up in an orphanage, with an average age of fourteen. They were sent to a cleaning center, but because they failed the physical examination and were very young, they could not become witchers and could only do marginal jobs such as cleaners or logistics troops.

When the end of the world came, they had just been working for half a year, had no pass to leave, and only played a very small role.

Now that Hoven Creek's plan has failed, their communications equipment has failed, and they have lost command of their frontline commander, all evidence indicates that there is no need for salvation and that humanity should embrace the end of the world.

But they chose to climb the wall at this time, and Prometheus suddenly understood what they wanted to do. It lost control of the wall, but a large number of weapons buried inside the wall could still be operated manually.

This was a completely unexpected move, and the chance of success was not high, otherwise combat personnel would have come to initiate it personally. Prometheus had never fully understood humans as a species. He relied heavily on algorithms, imported data, and calculated the feasibility of this plan, but the data flow surged, and a few large words appeared on the screen.

[Insufficient calculation data, unable to predict]

It's rare that super budgetary capabilities cannot accurately predict the outcome.

She reached the highest climbable height, which was more than a thousand meters from the ground. The air became thinner and the oxygen supply in the protective suit was insufficient. She held on to the iron stairs with both hands. The wind was howling and she could be easily blown down like a leaf.

She didn't dare look back. A huge shadow was cast on the wall. Tentacles were wriggling behind her, making rustling sounds. Countless eyes opened on the tentacles, densely packed together. The large creature stared at the human without any emotion.

The pollutants destroyed the protective wall with just a slight friction, and the stones on it rolled down one after another. She was no different from these stones.

Bang——

Her feet slipped and she almost fell from mid-air. She frantically grabbed at her body and barely managed to control it.

She was so scared that she couldn't help shivering. Compared to the risk of falling from a high altitude, she was more afraid of being assimilated by pollutants.

Her mental state was visibly declining, she could hear mumbling, and felt like she was about to go crazy.

"Are you okay?" Xiang Ke heard Hu Xiu asking. She was only eleven years old and was right below him. What they did must have seemed very ignorant to adults.

"It's okay!" Xiang Ke steadied himself. The higher he climbed, the greater the resistance became.

"Five hundred meters left." Hu Xiu shouted.

There are still five hundred meters left to the first central control room. There is a manual operation button inside the protective wall. Their destination is the control panel.

Their hands and feet were aching, and they could not stop feeling fear under the threat of huge pollutants. If the pollution continued, they would become pollutants, just like their former companions. Their mental values ​​were too low, and tentacles emerged from their eyes, eventually filling their entire helmets and attacking them in turn.

Watching their companions turn into monsters, they opened fire with tears in their eyes. The oldest of these people was 15 years old and the youngest was 11 years old. The first person they killed together was their good friend, with whom they grew up.

This was the polluted world. What were they supposed to do at their age? Study like first-class citizens? Take art lessons like piano or horseback riding? They couldn't imagine it, but at least they weren't killing their friend with their own hands and couldn't even bury his body.

Bang--

Xiang Ke kicked open the door of the control room. The manual control panel had not been used for a long time, so it was covered with dust and a stale, moldy smell hit him in the face.

Her body relaxed as she finally reached her destination, but before she could catch her breath, she reached out to grab her other companions.

There were seven people when we set out, but only four were left when we arrived.

They held their knees and panted, and when they wanted to wipe the sweat off their face, they found that their helmets were blocking their view. Many functions of their protective suits had failed under the influence of the electromagnetic storm. They all felt suffocated and had been suppressing the urge to take off their helmets.

They were all very thin, like four stick figures in the huge control room. Hu Xiu opened the control panel on his arm, pulled out a wire to connect it to the control panel, and a faint light actually came on.

Ouyang Jun looked around and asked, "How did we get in so easily?"

The control panel was unlocked, so they easily opened the door and were now able to open the control panel without any hindrance.

"Who cares?" Ji Wenhe's hands tapped on the keyboard, his eyes filled with madness. "They're all going to die."

They are about to die. When the end of the world comes, they will be as fragile as a grain of sand. What is there to worry about? No one in this world will harm these ants.

"Hahahaha," Hu Xiu echoed, "Yes, we would have died a long time ago."

Even though he was about to die, he still climbed up the high wall to look for the last chance.

Xiang Ke operated it, and a safety box popped out. She opened the box tremblingly, and inside was a button. What's the saying? Don't hand dangerous guns to children. This isn't just a gun, this is a big explosion.

She asked, “Do you want to use it?”

"Use it!" Ji Wenhe shouted, "Blow it up!"

"Blow it up! We're heroes!" The rest of the group responded in unison. They were no longer afraid of the noise disturbing the pollutants, so they shouted, "Explode!"

The Jiwen box made a bang, simulating the sound of an explosion, and it kept banging as if it was having fun.

Several people were amused. It was such a dangerous weapon, but they were not serious at all. In the eyes of adults, they were still children. They had to be as crazy as their age, have a second-year syndrome, and save the world when the end of the world comes.

Xiang Ke pressed the button with a smile, and the weapon of mass destruction was pressed lightly.

After pressing it, no immediate changes occurred. It's not like this is some magic button that will restore peace with just one click.

They turned around at the same time. There was a round window on the closed control panel through which they could see the outside world.

It was afternoon, near sunset, the steel dome broke, and orange-red light fell. District 103 was very different from usual. The tall and dense buildings and the prosperous city like a steel forest were half destroyed. There was no sense of technology, only devastation.

Pollutants that are more magnificent than skyscrapers are moving through the city. The blood-red tentacles have different shapes. Some are covered with scales, like wearing armor, and some are covered with densely packed eyeballs, which can make people lose their spirits at a glance.

The screams, the sounds of collapsing buildings, and the sound of gunfire never stopped.

From a macro perspective, this scene is actually beautiful. The afterglow of doomsday is falling. It is precisely because life is precious that being close to death seems beautiful.

On the protective wall, all the gun muzzles were opened and adjusted to the same angle. The control panel they walked into could only control weapons within a range of 500 meters, but these things were originally prepared to flatten Area 103.

The muzzle was focused on the pollutant, like thousands of arrows shot at the same time. After being fired, it hit the surface of a tentacle hard. The ammunition exploded with a deafening sound. After touching the surface of the pollutant, it was like a fireworks show.

It was the most expensive firework they had ever set off, and also the most dazzling one they had ever seen. The fireworks were reflected in their pupils.

At that moment they almost thought they were going to succeed, because they had never grown up, so they were always naive.

The tentacles squirmed rapidly and let out a roar. The sound waves were so powerful that they immediately shattered the small glass window of the control room. A huge gust of wind rushed in, bringing with it a scorching heat.

The tentacle's eyes were blown to pieces, and were badly damaged after being baked at high temperature. The mucus in the eyeballs burst open, and the remaining eyes turned around and soon found the child who made trouble.

They were trembling, with no way to escape, and could only watch as the door was crushed easily like a can. There was an earthquake in the control panel, and electrical parts and desktop debris fell down. They couldn't even stand up.

I'm going to die.

They all knew it was going to happen sooner or later, but none of them were afraid.

Xiang Ke held the button, knowing that the armed bombing was useless, but he still pressed it. If there was a button that could destroy the world when pressed, would you press it?

The answer is yes, no one can miss such an opportunity.

Unfortunately, this button cannot destroy the world. At most, it can destroy a tentacle of a monster, just like destroying a hair of the monster.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In desperation, Xiang Ke slammed the button hard. Once was not enough, so he slammed it twice, three times, and countless times until the button was broken.

The trajectory was reloaded with bombs, the muzzle was aimed again, and boom!

The explosions continued, the artillery fire continued, and the tentacles twisted their bodies and passed by the control panel at high speed.

boom--!

The muzzle was aimed three times, and after firing, it was immediately swept up by the tentacles, crushing more than half of the muzzle and trajectory.

Xiang Ke didn't stop. She continued pressing, knowing it was useless. But in this doomsday situation, people were almost going crazy.

She made thumping noises, almost in venting her anger, causing the wall to shake, and the remaining companions held her tightly to prevent her from sliding towards the exit.

She was so focused at the time that she didn't notice the new black lines in the air. They were very thin and invisible like cow hair, completely different from the lines of huge pollutants.

Black lines silently covered Area 103, and a new pollution spread, covering the surface of the tentacles, and then suddenly tightened.

When they noticed something was wrong, the tentacles that were so close to them suddenly stiffened in the air without warning, and it seemed as if there were invisible thin threads on the surface.

It's very similar to how humans hunted large animals collectively in ancient times, working together to tie up the prey and then pulling it from all directions.

The pollutant let out a painful roar. The evil boy was just a child who was suddenly interrupted while playing recklessly. He lowered his head and realized that the power came from below.

The human he was about to hang suddenly bit his own body. Zhu Ning was pierced through the heart and his body was submerged in a sea of ​​tentacles. Black lines spread out, as if he had opened up his own territory.

They are all pollutants, and their animal instincts have been stimulated to the extreme. Their current state can be described in one sentence: they are fighting for territory.

The black lines emanating from Zhu Ning's body were covering him. These tiny lines, which were not worth mentioning individually, could be easily overlooked, but at this moment they were devouring the black lines that looked like bridge piers, like an ant trying to shake a tree.

Outside the wall, when two polluted areas meet, the stronger one will devour the weaker one. This is the law of nature.

The pollutants moving through the city are not gods, but monsters.

The evil boy struggled hard, but all his struggles were meaningless. Zhu Ning bit him firmly and would not let go even if she died. There was no light in her eyes, and she couldn't even focus. Only instinct remained. Large amounts of black mucus flowed out from the back of her neck.

The black cube in the brain has been opened, like a corner of Pandora's box has been lifted, and black mucus is surging like a tide.

The essence of the Alpha experiment is that the system technology part controls pollutants, just to prevent them from getting out of control at ordinary times. In other words, the technologically advanced system is a safety lock for pollutants in Zhu Ning's mind.

Now that the safety lock has been opened, without the system's suppression, pollutants begin to grow wildly.

[Safe Mode Unlock…]

[Second activation in progress...]

[Alpha series No. 0999 experimental subject successfully activated...]

The mechanical sound of the system sounded, and Zhu Ning opened her eyes. Her pupils refocused, and black mucus covered her eyeballs. She sank into the ground, surrounded by wriggling tentacles, but unable to crush the tiny human. Zhu Ning was like a thorn stuck in her body, which could not be pulled out and could not be killed.

Zhu Ning had no expression and looked so indifferent. Everything in this world had nothing to do with her. It was as if another monster buried deep underground had been awakened, or another god had descended.

Zhu Ning caught the source of the pollution. The other party was a little boy wearing overalls and a very delicate black bow around his neck. He looked like an aristocratic child.

But his eyes were red, with a ferocious expression, and his fangs were bared, as if he wanted to bite Zhu Ning to pieces.

The black slime on Zhu Ning's body grabbed him, and in the battle for territory, she refused to give up an inch of ground. The evil boy staggered as she dragged him.

Then the pollutants on the ground staggered, the tentacles suddenly lost their support, and the huge body fell to the ground, smashing the tall buildings, like a child falling in a toy house.

The evil boy roared, and the pollutants also roared. The sound waves of the roar shattered the nearby glass, and some houses and street lights were shattered.

The evil boy was dragged to the ground, and the pollutants on the ground were strangled by his throat and smashed down. The evil boy wanted to stand up with his elbows, but he was restrained by the terrifying force and could not loosen.

The evil boy's game was interrupted. Beneath him were human buildings and human corpses, like scattered toy fragments on the ground. He felt a little uncomfortable, probably because he didn't understand why he was pulled down by the toys.

But pressing it to the ground was not enough, the tremendous force was still continuing, and Zhu Ning wanted to press it into the ground.

The body of the pollutant was out of control, and black lines like spring rain pressed down heavily. It was hard to imagine how such soft lines could have such terrifying power. There were cracks on the ground itself that were tens of meters wide. The pollutants came out from here and were going to go back from here.

Underground, Zhu Ning was submerged in the tentacle-like waves, her chest was broken, and her heart stopped beating. She kept sinking, deeper and deeper, as if she was going to the center of the earth.

She was connected to the pollutants, and countless lines bound them together, as if they were going to die together.

If I die, you can't live well either. This is Zhu Ning's life creed. She still follows this creed even when she loses consciousness.

The black sticky liquid gripped the tentacles, crushed them, and bit them to death, making a popping sound. The pollutants were torn apart by the fangs, dragged back to the cave, and rushed towards Zhu Ning's heart.

At the same time, the black lines on the ground were dissipating and the tentacles were drilling back into the ground.

All the survivors saw it. They raised their heads and looked towards the sky. Although the power came from underground, human instinct was to look towards the sky.

Tentacles from ten thousand meters high fell to the ground, shaking out a lot of dust. Su He crushed human corpses, and the dust swept like a sandstorm. A strong earthquake occurred in Area 103, and people were looking for a safe place.

Inside the wall control console, several children stared blankly, their faces covered in tears and their bodies covered in blood. They snuggled up to each other, thinking that they would die together.

Xiang Ke almost broke the button in her hand, and she punched down again and again, only stopping at this time.

The door and windows of the control panel were smashed, and the tentacles hollowed out the wall. Several children looked out at the outside world among the ruins, watching the huge amount of pollutants return to the ground. It didn't seem like they were going back voluntarily, but more like... being swallowed by some mysterious creature, biting it piece by piece and swallowing it mouthful by mouthful.

The kind of swallowing that won't let go, even if you die.

As the sun sets, black lines on the ground descend, like a black rain.

The devouring lasted for a long time, and they could not see the whole picture. They only saw the tentacles in front of them being dragged away. There was a crunching sound coming from the distance, like a monster chewing in the depths of the forest.

Finally, even the black lines disappeared, and the signs marking the polluted area disappeared without a trace.

There wasn't even a single contaminated spore, and for a moment everything was silent, as if time had stopped.

A huge setting sun hung in the sky, illuminating the ruins. Overlooking the entire area, the ground was cracked for dozens of meters, high-rise buildings collapsed, and black smoke billowed out of the main building of the cleaning center. The combatants on the ground still held weapons in their hands, but they could no longer see the enemy.

No one spoke, all still in fear, afraid of disturbing unknown danger.

It was not until intermittent sounds came from the communication channel, like a stone falling, that they came to their senses. Most people did not know what had happened, and the initial voices were all asking about the situation.

[Third Squadron, 600 men remaining in the Third Squadron, requesting rescue...]

[Patrol team reports...]

It's very chaotic, but the surviving humans are trying to sort out the current situation from the mess, and it's up to the adults to clean up the mess.

Inside the wall, several children were stunned for a moment. I wondered who said, "We saved the world?"

It was a question, and then they confirmed it and shouted loudly: "We saved the world!"

The author has something to say:

Children: We saved the world!

Ning Bao (high five): Yes!

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