Death Valley.

This place is named Death Valley because some powerful death claws once roamed here.

Death Valley is about fifty or sixty kilometers away from the Southern Cross. It was a mining area before the disaster, but was later abandoned. It was reopened once decades ago, but was abandoned again because of the active zombies underground and some strange events.

Today, this is one of the underground bases for secret cult activities.

In the underground mine of Death Valley, a group of mystics dressed in retro black robes are worshiping towards the strange altar on top.

In the center of the altar was a mass of black matter, like a crawling living thing, with tentacles extending from the corners, like a huge piece of black meat. When anyone under the altar saw Him, their expressions were full of fanatical worship and dependence. They chanted strange prayers, which sounded like a fusion of multiple languages, making people feel mentally depressed, but also gaining some kind of relief and release from the depression.

This wriggling mass of black flesh was very slow to sense anything in the outside world. It seemed that it was not a host, but some kind of immature man-made creature.

At the front of the altar are statues of gods worshipped by the mystics.

The mother of all old gods.

The breeder of the old gods, the mother goddess in charge of powerful reproductive power, the goddess of darkness and fertility, the supreme mother goddess, the black goat that gave birth to thousands of offspring.

The outline of the statue is a black goat with a humanoid appearance. Of course, this is not the appearance of the god itself, but an image of the god that can be observed by human mystics and created based on a certain imagination.

The entire underground mine was filled with faint fluorescent lights. There was no doubt that this place was also shrouded in serious radiation pollution.

But these mystics didn't care. Even in such a high radiation pollution environment, they looked like ordinary humans and did not produce any mutation reactions.

I don’t know when the strange sacrificial ceremony ended.

Suddenly, the huge piece of black flesh on the altar squirmed, and the tentacles on its body swayed gently, as if making some sounds that ordinary humans could not hear.

But the mystics below suddenly became excited.

Then, a priestess walked out from the crowd. She said to the mystics below in a sharp and excited voice: "A new one favored by God will be born soon."

“Please listen to the gospel of God.”

"Accept the gift of the gods."

All of a sudden, all the mystics knelt on the ground.

Then, thin tentacles were seen extending from the black piece of flesh on the altar. They swam slowly among the crowd. Every mystic who was touched by the tentacles trembled all over with fear and excitement, and stood still.

Suddenly, all the tentacles rushed towards a man in the crowd. Amidst his excited, frightened and excited eyes, they drilled into his mouth. All of a sudden, the man's mouth was stretched so wide that it seemed as if his entire face was about to be torn apart.

The man twitched, and then he was silent.

A few minutes later.

The skin on the man's body began to wriggle like an earthworm, and then tentacles extended from his mouth. Those tentacles were like human beards, pouring out of his mouth, falling gently, and then swaying and wriggling slowly.

“Retrieve the Gospel.”

At this time, the man's vocal organs had been completely distorted. His voice seemed to be emitted by black tentacles extending from his mouth. He stood up straight with a cold expression, straight from lying on the ground, without even bending his knees. He said slowly: "Catch those blasphemers!"

"Sacrifice them."

"Let them find salvation in the arms of the Supreme Mother."

With every step the man took, his skin began to peel off, and his hair fell off as well. After only a dozen steps, the surface of his body had turned into a deformed stratum corneum skin.

When he reached the entrance of the mine, his hands had turned into three thick black tentacles.

If Su Ziyu was present at the scene, he would definitely be extremely shocked, because when he first saw his own deformed appearance through his psychic vision, it was about 60% similar to the change that happened to the man in front of him, except that Su Ziyu's psychic vision deformation did not have black tentacles extending from his mouth.

All this happened shortly after the LN ship launched the nuclear bomb.

Almost just a few minutes after the nuclear bomb launched by the LN ship sent the group of mystics who were chasing Su Ying into the sky, the ceremony of selecting new God's favored ones began here.

It seems like there is some hidden existence controlling everything.

In the wilderness.

"run."

“Can’t stop.”

Su Ying's figure was running wildly in the wilderness. She did not look back at the rising mushroom cloud, nor did she have the energy to care whether the nuclear explosion would affect her own people. She only knew that she had to run as fast as she could and get the golden record in her hand to a safe place at all costs.

Because the moment she came into contact with the essence of the gospel, she knew that there was not much time left for mankind.

Madness is not a recent phenomenon.

It has existed since the beginning, a long, long time ago, but it has only now erupted completely.

Because the old god had completed His ritual, the eerie whispers had enveloped the entire earth. She didn't even dare to look up at the sky now. She was afraid that the moment she looked up, she would see the huge black shadow extending endless tentacles and covering the entire sky of the earth.

The final ritual of the old gods has been launched.

Madness is the sign of the beginning of the ritual. The sudden outbreak of madness around the world means that the "whisper of the old gods" has covered every corner of the earth.

She didn't know when the ritual would be fully completed.

But she knew that time was running out for humans, because the incarnation of the gods could now briefly descend into reality.

——"Whispers of the Old Gods: The blasphemous whispers created by the Old Gods through human voices can constantly erode human sanity, deprive them of their sanity, and cause madness to emerge. The more sensitive the mind is, the easier it is to hear the whispers of the Old Gods. All humans affected by the whispers of the Old Gods must make a Willpower Saving Throw every 8 hours. If the saving throw fails, the mind will be further eroded by madness."

Because of the mental barrier left by Su Ziyu, Su Ying was temporarily immune to the influence of the Gospel in her hand. She didn't know how long she had been running until she heard the calls of others and the sound of helicopter propellers above her head. She stopped panting.

"It's all right."

"You are safe now."

A woman wearing frameless gold-rimmed glasses jumped down from the plane. She landed easily at a height of nearly 20 meters. After raising her hands to indicate that she was safe, she said to Su Ying, "I am the person in charge of the academy."

"You are safe now."

"Give me what you have in your hand, and I will send someone to escort you to a safe place."

Seeing the other party's outstretched hand, Su Ying took a step back decisively, raised her pistol and said, "No. It's very dangerous."

"You can't touch it."

"I can only give it to the Brotherhood, or someone from Beidou."

Su Ying's action immediately caused the bionic people around her to raise their guns. They aimed at Su Ying in front of them, waiting for the woman to give orders.

Because of her childhood experience, Su Ying has never trusted people in the academy, or rather, her past experiences have made her distrust any outsiders. She can trust the Brotherhood because of its relationship with her father and its help to her, and she can trust Beidou because the people of Beidou have proved their beliefs with their lives.

But she didn't trust the academy and was even afraid that the thing would fall into the hands of the academy.

The woman frowned because of Su Ying's actions. She stared at Su Ying in front of her, her expression gradually became cold, and her raised hand might fall at any time.

drop.

But at this moment, a gentle male voice sounded in the woman's ear.

"Dr. A." The woman's expression suddenly became respectful.

The man called Dr. A obviously knew what happened here. He whispered, "Send her to the LN ship."

"You don't have to give this thing to us."

"But we can't hand it over to the Brotherhood either."

"You escort her to the LN ship, and Beidou's people will know how to deal with it."

"careful."

"Gaia has detected through satellites that multiple forces are approaching your location."

"Godmother Isolde has also shown up."

News of the Gospels leaked out.

No one knew which force had leaked the information, but at one point all forces knew of the existence of the Gospel and were convinced that it possessed some kind of magical power.

"Let's get on the plane."

"We'll escort you to the LN ship." The woman closed the communication.

Su Ying nodded after hearing this, sealed the black bag in her hand, and said in a serious tone: "Okay. But don't get too close to me."

"I'm worried you'll be contaminated by it."

The woman couldn't help but chuckle when she heard that. She carefully examined the other person's bag, raised her hand and glanced at the pocket watch on her wrist and said, "That thing has a certain amount of radiation contamination."

"I suggest you change it to something more airtight."

"I have brought with me only the most determined fighters. You can rest assured."

The helicopter took off quickly.

Su Ying sat in the rear cabin with the Gospel in her arms, very vigilantly, not allowing anyone to get too close to her.

A team of people escorted her towards the location of the LN ship. After being temporarily safe, Su Ying couldn't help but let out a long sigh and relaxed a little.

But I don't know when.

The pilot in front of the helicopter suddenly made a strange listening gesture.

He felt as if he heard something, but also as if he heard nothing.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself in a very weak voice, and then he flew the helicopter seriously, but he didn't know when, the corners of his mouth began to curl up slightly, and the curve became more and more obvious, and in the end it turned into a very clear smile.

He grinned and laughed, then suddenly looked up at his reflection in the windshield.

It was a strange smile with a hint of fanaticism.

“Listen to the Gospel of God!”

He murmured in a voice so faint that it was almost inaudible.

Su Ying underestimated the willpower of Beidou's warriors, while the woman overestimated the willpower of her men.

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