Chapter 52

...Exam, exam time?

The three candidates' troops can be said to have their own strengths.

Douglas' Golden Clock only recruits the most talented extraordinary people in the world, and is unmatched in intelligence gathering and stealth assassinations.

With the support of the Academy of Sciences, Dunham's troops always have the most expensive and advanced equipment.

After the silver-eyed young man finished speaking, troops from both sides quickly rushed to the scene.

At the same time, Dunham also recruited a newly developed warship.

"This is the first time I've heard of an exam since I graduated from Imperial College." Dunham's emotions were mixed, but he managed to maintain a smile. "Does he mean to test us as examiners?"

"Arrogant people, unable to recognize their place." Douglas said in a cold tone, and glanced at Dunham dangerously, "Be careful with your warships, and aim carefully."

"That's hard to say. We're competitors now... Ah, I mean, that warship is still in the experimental stage. I apologize in advance if I accidentally hurt one of your people!"

At this point, Dunham was too lazy to deal with the other party and did not hide his desire at all.

Douglas gave him a murderous look. Now the two of them finally stopped pretending to be friendly - after all, if nothing unexpected happened, there would be a final result today.

"Sorry to interrupt you two." At this moment, Desmond's slightly solemn voice suddenly came from the side, "But you'd better look up now."

"?"

The two men, facing each other, secretly guarded against each other, glanced up, and then—

“!!!”

Dunham couldn't help but open his eyes wide, "What... is that!?"

What appeared in the sky was a huge monster that was looming.

Ninety percent of its body was still in a virtual state, and the remaining ten percent could only be roughly outlined through the blue light patterns that occasionally flowed through its body.

"..." Douglas, "Isn't that something your Academy of Sciences developed?"

Douglas didn't show any obvious expression, but upon closer inspection, he found that the other person's pupils were trembling slightly.

It was as if he was trying hard to find a reasonable explanation, and the Academy of Sciences, which symbolized the world's most advanced technology, was the only reason he could accept.

Dunham had a "are you kidding me" look on his face. "You think I could have created this unidentified existence in headquarters without saying anything, and it wouldn't be discovered until today!?"

Indeed. If Dunham really had the ability, why would he run for president? He'd just go out and start his own company!

Even if that unknown entity is made entirely of stone, what would happen if something bigger than a mountain fell down...

"Aren't you in charge of security at the headquarters?" Douglas took a deep breath and looked at the other person.

"..." Desmond was the first among them to recover. The man was now trembling all over - because of excitement.

"Don't you understand? This is the test question from our examiner!" Desmond looked at the silver figure standing in the shadow of the sky with burning eyes, and laughed loudly with his heart beating violently.

The two were shocked and couldn't believe what they heard.

Nowadays, more and more people are noticing abnormalities on the top of their heads.

An unknown existence, something larger than a floating island, was pressing down on their heads, looking like it would fall down at any moment.

More importantly, it appeared suddenly, and the headquarters' air defense seemed to be nonexistent!

Some ordinary headquarters staff kept looking up, looking up... following the shadow cast by the other party to find the edge. However, until they felt pain in their necks, they still could not see the end of the shadow even after looking back to the limit.

"Enemy, enemy attack!"

"Go and inform Lord Desmond! The guards! Where are the guards!?"

"Will it fall? The impregnable headquarters of the extraordinary people is actually..."

"What on earth is that?!?"

Various panicked cries were heard from afar.

The staff in each building ran out one after another, and the ground beneath their feet seemed to shake because of their full-scale emergence.

This time, it was as if the entire Extraordinary Headquarters fell into a boiling oil pan, and the ever-silent mountains were completely awakened as never before!

"Hey, Lu Mi..." Young Master Grant, who was also frightened, trembled and subconsciously sought shelter from the silver-eyed young man.

Lu Mi just watched the chaos silently without saying a word.

"Serves them right! This day will come for them!" This was also said by the people in Tartarus who were also shocked, but felt happy after coming to their senses.

Although I don’t know where the thing above my head came from, it is still a heavy blow to the headquarters of the Extraordinary People!

"Let's take this opportunity to leave here quickly." Someone immediately suggested.

An Bo and the others immediately agreed. This chaos came at the perfect time! Headquarters felt like something big was about to happen. Why didn't they just run away?

However, when everyone in Tartarus turned their attention to Lu Mi, who was making the decision, they found that the silver-eyed young man looked unusually calm.

That’s right…when everyone was shocked, Lu Mi seemed—not surprised at all?

Xiao Lun thought about the silver-eyed young man's arrival in Tartarus, and all the earth-shaking things that had happened so far seemed to be related to him.

He asked tentatively, his lips trembling slightly, with a mixture of surprise and reason: "Did you attract that thing in the sky?"

As soon as the words fell, everyone's fingertips trembled and they looked at Lu Mi with a look of "???!"

"I didn't invite them." Finally, Lu Mi looked back at them and replied, "I followed them."

Followed, followed? I don’t know why, but it’s terrifying when I think about it!!

"Wow!" At this moment, Grant suddenly rushed over, his eyes blazing wildly. "Too strong, too strong! I knew you, Lu Mi, would never be bored!! So what is that? What is it? Is it a mountain? Is it a floating island? "

"You want to know?" The silver-eyed young man looked at him calmly and seemed to chuckle.

Then, he stretched out his hand slightly, and a blue-silver spear appeared in his hand. In an instant, his wrist turned, and the tip of the spear pointed downwards.

——He tapped lightly.

The spear tip touched the ground, as if knocking away ripples on the surface of water. The purifying power, primarily from the fairy species, transformed into an invisible wave and spread out violently.

"Ugh!!" The troops who were surrounding them in confusion were instantly blown away by the airflow.

But the others had no time to be surprised by this, because the next second, a buzzing sound came from the sky - like the long cry of a whale in the deep sea, and a faint blue light suddenly bloomed from the sky.

"call----"

The long wind blew by, clearing away the years of filth in the air, and the lush trees between the mountains swayed, magnificent and majestic.

At this moment, people almost thought that they would be carried away by the wind.

...What does this feel like?

They heard the whispers of history, they heard the howling of the long river, they saw golden gods flying past before their eyes, and they... saw a city.

"Ahh..." Only meaningless mumbling could come out from his throat, and his pupils were wide open as he looked up at the sky.

What was captured by those eyes was an ancient civilization that suddenly faded from obscurity and arrived in reality.

——It is impossible to describe the specific appearance of the city in words, because before they can carefully observe even one corner of it, people have been conquered by the grandeur that does not belong to this world.

At just the first glance, you will be impressed by its thickness and breadth. It just stands there, as if a god who has walked for thousands of years is quietly lowering his eyes and questioning all living beings.

The originally noisy and bustling world suddenly became quiet, and the shouts of fear disappeared in an instant.

The soldiers who were driven back by Lu Mi got up from the ground again, covered their aching chests, and staggered to their respective masters.

"Deng, Lord Dunham..." the leader of the troops called out with difficulty.

For some reason, Dunham saw embarrassment for the first time on the face of this usually calm commander.

The other party seemed to be dodging something, avoiding something, afraid of the orders he might give.

"Do we really have to fight someone who summoned such a being..." These words seemed to be written on their faces.

Dunham let out a long breath. He didn't know what expression he showed at the moment, so much so that the captain opened his eyes slightly and looked at him.

"This is really... shocking." Dunham thought he was laughing. "A civilization that doesn't belong to this world?"

As the head of the Academy of Sciences, Dunham's knowledge and vision are definitely worthy of the title.

So after calming down a bit, he managed to maintain an objective observation for a few moments—whether it was the blue light patterns flowing around the city, the ark holding up the city, or the architectural style of the city itself...

The strange power and the unprecedented shape are definitely not related to any civilization known to mankind so far.

Even without any evidence, Dunham felt it must be from outside the world.

And for this world, there is only one place that can be called outside the world!!

He was about to spit out those two words when Desmond beside him suddenly hissed, "Dunham, watch your mouth, your expression is too distorted."

"...Really?" Dunham could feel the bitterness from the excessive trembling of his lips. "I'm also a researcher at heart."

Perhaps unable to control the excitement and trembling pounding in his chest, Dunham stared intently at the silver figure, but couldn't help but say, "Do you know why I want to be the president?"

Desmond was clearly in no mood to discuss this with him now. "Who knows what you think?"

Dunham said to himself, "Ever since I took over the Academy, I've noticed that headquarters' approach to the Abyss is far too conservative. They clearly have beings in that world that can communicate, but they've never dared to take the first step."

"Isn't it because those beings with the ability to communicate are too dangerous?"

"You're right. That's why I admire the original Tartarus. It's said that its creator was the first person in this world who dared to explore the abyss."

"Isn't that a rumor? No human has ever entered the abyss."

"...Who knows?" Dunham smiled, then narrowed his eyes and looked up. "I originally thought that Tartarus today is no longer the same as it was in the past, but..."

"but?"

"You won't understand, Desmond. You only know how to fight, so you have no idea what great achievements that man has made!"

Desmond seemed to understand, "You regret it."

"Yeah, I never thought that I would...what have I done..."

While he was still trying hard to climb to that position and build the first "rocket" that could explore that world, the person he had originally ignored had actually returned from the abyss with fruitful results.

"Humph." At this moment, a cold and sarcastic voice came from my ear, "You are scared like this, you are no more than Dunham."

Dunham suddenly came back to his senses. "Douglas, I advise you not to act rashly." His tone was unusually calm.

Who knew that Glass didn't take the other person's words seriously at all, and turned to look at another person, "Desmond, no matter what, Tartarus has attracted such a thing without permission. As the head of security at the headquarters, why don't you take action! "

"You're right." Desmond grinned and turned to Dunham and said, "Sorry, Dunham, I don't understand what you mean by 'great achievements', but I was right about one thing at the beginning - that person is really amazing!"

“…”

Dunham watched coldly as the two men reached an impossible collaboration.

——Douglas was ambitious. Although the city was magnificent, intimidation alone could not make him give up his lifelong obsession.

Desmond's situation is even simpler. As long as the opponent is strong enough to arouse his interest, he will pursue him more madly.

But, that's too naive.

Dunham looked up at the city floating in the air, standing still. "How could there be such a city brought back from the abyss? How could it be the only one..."

During this period of time, without any orders from above, the entire air fleet of the Extraordinary Headquarters has been dispatched.

After all, a huge unidentified city appeared in the sky. Although it had not moved yet, no one could ignore the huge sense of oppression, and they had to find out what was going on.

"Are those all gun barrels?" Grant looked excitedly at the densely packed military aircraft in the sky.

An Bo: "Why are you so excited?" A sense of crisis is good! He then looked at Lu Mi nervously, "What should we do next?"

"Leave here." Lu Mi didn't care about the people who were gradually surrounding him.

"But they..." An Bo looked at the enemies around him, swallowed his original words and asked, "How do we leave?"

Lu Mi looked up at the city in the sky. As if sensing his needs, the city's mechanisms began to operate.

A staircase shimmering with golden light suddenly extended out from the lofty and huge city, winding all the way to Lu Mi's feet.

An Bo looked at this scene and said: Fuck. Because it was so awesome, I didn't know what to say, but when it came to Lu Mi, it seemed normal.

Lu Mi did not hesitate and stepped forward first.

The steps of the Ark powered by him contained the power of the fairy race. When they sensed the arrival of a familiar provider, they emitted a crisp humming sound as if a musical scale was being stepped on.

"We can't let him leave!!" Douglas, who had finally arrived close, suddenly changed his expression for the first time and shouted loudly.

The golden clock belonging to him is almost a deadly existence, and it executes the orders perfectly immediately.

At this moment, the people from Tartarus who were originally about to follow Lu Mi gritted their teeth and turned around to hold back the person with the golden clock.

Only Lu Mi can leave...!

Everyone in Tartarus now had only this one thought in their minds, while on the contrary, the people in the Golden Clock only had the silver-eyed young man in their eyes.

The silver-eyed young man who was walking on the golden stairs paused slightly.

He held a gun in one hand and looked down at the earth without any sadness or joy, as if a god with perfect merit was about to return to his throne.

——At the end of this staircase.

This sudden and absurd idea made Desmond, who was approaching him rapidly, stunned.

The next second, Desmond suddenly met the young man's eyes - in those silver pupils, a strange golden glow appeared at some point.

The other party had seen him, but there was no emotion. It was not like looking at an enemy, not even a human being. It was as if he was looking at a glimpse from a higher dimension, a higher world.

This "god-like" look made Desmond tremble from the bottom of his heart, fearful, and yet feeling extremely excited.

"This person..." He could hear his heart trembling. "This person is the existence I have been searching for my entire life. The figure I have been chasing for eternity has finally taken shape!"

At that moment, he thought he was about to reach the ultimate power, but the next second—

Golden wings of light suddenly spread out from behind the young man.

Everyone's eyes suddenly widened.

They watched Desmond leap high into the air and charge towards the stairs.

They watched as the man on the stairs suddenly radiated with thousands of rays of light, like the sun appearing suddenly.

One blow—Desmond fell heavily from the air, landing in the crowd of people fighting in the Golden Clock, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood while turning sideways.

“…! Lord Desmond!!”

Looking up the stairs again, the young man, whose appearance had completely changed, was wearing dazzling gold ornaments. He seemed to tilt his head slightly, and the pendant on his forehead gently brushed his hair.

It was like looking at an ant, or a naughty child, with a look of confusion and as if nothing happened.

——Like the gaze of a god.

The whole audience suddenly fell silent.

Everyone in Tartarus fell silent for a moment, feeling an absurd and empty sense of distance.

"Is that... Lu Mi?"

The voice beside his ear made Xiao Lun's heart sink. But at the same time, he also understood - is this what you have obtained?

At the same time, several figures appeared above the city.

Those were the aliens who finally couldn't contain themselves anymore and came to greet their king.

Dunham suddenly heard the largest "brass bell" at the headquarters ring violently.

That is not an ordinary bronze bell, but the oldest and most effective detector in the world.

Since ancient times, every time this silent bell rings, it means the arrival of a calamity-level abyss.

But today, the bells are ringing continuously.