In the deep, dark, pitch-black underground cave, only the cold blue light illuminates the way forward.
Fang Zheng walked among them, looking at the weathered buildings around him and marveling at them.
But then again…
"Why are you following me?"
Fang Zheng turned his head and looked at the blue-haired girl behind him. She was not Chtholly. Chtholly, Noft and Essia were helping the soldiers on the ground. Fang Zheng was going to go underground to find the node left by the Goddess of Order, but he was not acting alone.
Nephren and Landoruk also followed him down into the ruins.
Nephrine was easy to understand, as she had been following Fang Zheng around all this time, like a puppy following its master, and Fang Zheng had gotten used to it. But Landoru was a little surprising to Fang Zheng, as he had only met her for a few hours, and Fang Zheng had only answered a few of her questions before.
Unexpectedly, I was entangled.
That's right, unlike the always silent Nephren, Landoruk seems to be a girl who likes to learn and think. In fact, after learning that Fang Zheng is a human, she asked two questions.
How the beast appeared.
How did the golden goblin appear?
Fang Zheng of course answered this question without hiding anything. Perhaps for the people in this world, this was a secret that needed to be kept with one's life, but for Fang Zheng, it was no more valuable than a magazine or tabloid on the street.
Thus, Landoruk learned the truth about this world from Fang Zheng.
The beasts were transformed from the humans that once existed in this world.
The Golden Fairy is an imitation created by the remaining humans in this world in order to imitate the star gods who once created humans.
"Because you are of the same race as the humans who destroyed this world, I must monitor you and make sure you don't do anything dangerous."
Landoruke walked behind Fang Zheng, stared at him and spoke, while Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.
"I said, I am not a human from this world."
"I don't believe that."
"It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
Fang Zheng replied lightly again, then withdrew his gaze, and Landoruk stopped talking - Nephren, on the other hand, remained silent.
The three of them continued to move forward, and after a while, Landoruko asked again.
"I heard about you from Chtholly and Essia. Why are you so gentle to us golden fairies?"
"Hmm? What's wrong with that?"
"certainly."
Landoruk nodded.
"We are weapons, consumables. Is it really okay for you to treat us like this? Maybe one day, a golden fairy will say, 'I don't want to fight, I just want to survive.'"
"Hahaha……"
However, to Landulu's surprise, Fang Zheng suddenly laughed when he heard this.
"Isn't this normal? Wanting to live and not wanting to die is the instinct of life."
"why are you laughing?!"
Hearing Fang Zheng's laughter, Landoruke felt inexplicably angry.
"But we are not the living, we are just golden fairies, expendable."
"No."
However, she was interrupted by Fang Zheng just as she finished speaking.
"You are not qualified to be consumables."
"Varied……"
"I have a swarm army under my command. Um... you haven't seen them. In short, you can think of them as a race similar to beasts. They obey my orders completely and are not afraid of death. But do you know how many there are?"
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and pointed upwards.
"There are more of them than the stars, and they reproduce faster than rabbits. Their hearts and minds are connected in the Swarm network, sharing each other's thoughts. If you kill one, two will hatch. If you kill two, four will hatch, and so on and so forth. Because of this, every Zerg will fight to the death, and I will let them fight to the death."
Upon hearing this, Landoruk and Nephren were both stunned. Although they had never seen a swarm of insects, they couldn't help but shudder just by listening to Fang Zheng's description.
"Do you understand? Numbers are the basis for a war of attrition. There are only two or three of you golden fairies, and I also heard from Nigolan that not every fairy can become a fairy soldier. How can you be qualified to fight a war of attrition? The people in this world are really stupid. Only golden fairies can use relic weapons. At this time, they should be well protected and cultivated, and treated as consumables. I really don’t know if they are missing a string in their brains or what... Forget it, I have been to so many worlds anyway, and I have seen more stupid things..."
Fang Zheng walked in front, muttering to himself, while Landoruko's expression behind him became increasingly complicated.
"Wait, but you said you had an army of... Zerg under your command. Aren't they afraid of death?"
"The Zerg's culture is different from yours, but they also know the concept of death. However, in the Zerg, dying for the entire tribe is a very normal thing. They are not afraid of death, nor do they ignore death, let alone neglect death."
Having said that, Fang Zheng glanced at Landoruk.
"So, you don't have to have no concept of death to become a warrior. To be honest, if it were me, I would rather not be such a warrior."
"W-why?"
"Because if you don't know about death, you have no concept of death, and you don't have a proper understanding of what you should do."
Having said that, Fang Zheng waved his hand.
"I have many companions around me, many of whom have faced the threat of death. They have been afraid, cried, and escaped, but in the end, they still took up arms and bravely faced battle and death. Because they know what death is, they don't want to die, they don't want to die, and they don't want others to die, so they will burst out with powerful strength to fight. If it is a soldier who has no concept of death... I might as well use a grenade to blow him up."
Nephrine was already accustomed to Fang Zheng's weird statements, but Landoruk was speechless for a moment. After all, what Fang Zheng said was totally inconsistent with her own values. It could be said that after chatting with Fang Zheng all the way, Landoruk originally wanted to investigate this mysterious human race, but she found that her values were about to collapse.
"Um?"
At this moment, Fang Zheng stopped and looked forward. There, a corpse covered in blood appeared in front of everyone.
"I'm a member of the salvage team."
Landoruk immediately recognized this man as a member of the salvage team.
"He was attacked by a beast and is dead."
"Come to think of it, I did hear about this before I came here..."
Fang Zheng knocked his head. He remembered that before he entered the ruins, he had heard a salvage team leader arguing with the army. In order to save time, the army sent two salvage teams into the depths of the ruins. The salvage team leader was very angry. After all, according to tradition, if more than seven people entered the ruins, they would all die.
However, military officers apparently just thought it was superstition - well, this is also a necessary element of the death at the beginning of many horror movies.
So it's normal that if you seek death, you will die.
"Okay, let's keep going. It's just ahead."
Fang Zheng just glanced at the corpse and then looked away, continuing to walk deeper into the cave. Nephrine followed silently. Only Landoruk was a little worried - after all, this was underground, and if they were attacked by a beast here, the situation would be very dangerous.
But she couldn't change anything by herself, so she could only grit her teeth and continue to follow.
Along the way, the group discovered several dead bodies in succession. Apparently, just like in horror movies, everyone who violated the taboo died.
Finally, under Fang Zheng's leadership, they arrived at their destination.
"That's it."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng whispered to himself.
What appeared in front of him was a space that looked like a square or a religious hall. Of course, none of this mattered. What mattered was that in the center of this space, there was a human figure wrapped in crystal. It was a girl who looked about seven or eight years old. She was wearing a thin white dress and had long bright red hair. On her body, from her chest to her abdomen, there was a huge, dark wound.
"What is that...?"
Looking at the red-haired girl, Landoruk's voice trembled a little.
"I feel... something is wrong, as if something is calling me..."
"Don't get too close."
Fang Zheng stretched out his hand to block Nephren and Landoruk.
"Remember what I said before? Humans killed the Star Gods, and then tried to learn from them, using the fragments of the Star Gods' souls to create humans. But they failed, and you golden fairies are their creations, so..."
"So, is that the Star God?"
At this moment, Landoluko immediately understood what was going on with that indescribable feeling deep in her heart.
He is the product of the soul fragments of the Star God, and at this moment, the girl frozen in the crystal is the last Star God.
"Is she dead?"
At this time, Nephren asked.
"Dead. Technically, she was asleep. Those humans didn't really kill her. It's just..."
Fang Zheng walked forward slowly and raised his right hand.
"—Cold Queen of Steel, holy sword that slays demons and monsters—transform yourself into a sword of steel and appear here!"
As Fang Zheng spoke, a silver-white dagger appeared in Fang Zheng's hand.
That is the demon-killing holy sword - Esther.
The girl in front of him was the order coordinate left by the goddess of order, but she was already "dead". But this death was not real death. Humans created the holy sword and used it to curse the last star god with death, so she became what she is now.
The demon-killing holy sword Esther in Fang Zheng's hand can break all curses, even the curse of death.
Fang Zheng raised the silver dagger in his hand, and then stabbed hard at the crystal in front of him.
“Crack.”
The dagger pierced into the crystal easily. The next moment, the ground began to tremble, and the crystal in front of him gradually cracked and shattered. Finally, it exploded with a "bang" and disappeared into the air. At the same time, the red-haired girl also fell to the ground.
The huge wound on her body had disappeared, and Fang Zheng reached out and hugged her.
"Let's get out of here first."
The ground around them was shaking more and more violently. Fang Zheng's sword not only broke the seal, but also seemed to have awakened some dormant existence.
"We'll talk about the rest when we get to the ground."
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