Chapter 121 Speculations about Power
Beep, beep, beep.
Get up, get up!
The dormitory bell rang, and Chen Xiao'er got up half awake, changed her clothes in her sleep, and stood on the ground like a little zombie.
"Good morning, Xiao'er." Two voices came from different directions.
Chen Xiao'er shook her head, hummed drowsily, and then suddenly opened her eyes. "Ah, you're back~"
Lin Lang was sitting in a chair peeling salted eggs. After peeling them, they rolled into a bowl with a gurgle and were pushed onto her desk. "Well, we got really dirty in the basement earlier, so the teacher sent us to take a shower and the infirmary for treatment..."
"Hmm, we were contaminated with a lot of strange things before. It seems to be related to the power? Anyway, we were taken to the processing room for cleaning..."
At this point, Lin Lang glanced at Zheng Lu, who was packing her backpack, and said pointedly, "We just got back this morning, and Lulu was dragged to the Political and Educational Affairs Office for a whole night of questionnaires for religious reasons."
"We didn't get back until morning. Lulu was questioned by the bishop about her faith. The situation isn't good."
Political and Educational Affairs Office? Religious issues?!
Chen Xiao'er was startled when she heard it, and it took her a few seconds to react.
Lulu is truly burdened by her family. Her family, using feudal superstitions to trick her into marrying a blind idiot, and when she finally manages to get to school, she's subjected to scrutiny from the teachers. It's truly tragic.
She picked up the peeled egg in the bowl and took a bite: "Don't believe in those feudal superstitions, and live our new life well from now on!"
Our new life... Zheng Lu smiled, her calm eyes clear of any gloom. "I know. I no longer believe in their gods."
I will believe in a real God who can bring happiness to me and more people.
That's good~ Lulu doesn't seem to mind.
Chen Xiao'er wiped her mouth with a tissue and looked up at the bunk above her: The senior sister went to the student union again, and I don’t know when she will be back.
The door lock clicked.
Ling walked in through the door, holding a cardboard box in her hands. "Good morning, Xiao'er," she greeted as she placed the box on her desk.
"Good morning~"
Chen Xiao'er leaned over to look inside and discovered a large pile of notebooks. She couldn't help but reach in and flip through them. "So many notebooks! Are these my old class notes?"
Puff, puff.
A bunch of wriggling shadows in the box were trying to avoid Chen Xiao'er's fingers, which made Lin Lang tremble.
No matter how you look at it, these things are rare objects that have been specially processed.
The church should have only taken the first step of dissociation and did not pay the price for "decryption". They wanted to try to see if Xiao'er could bypass the rules attached to it.
She glanced at the Pasteurometer on her wrist, which was as quiet as a chicken, and the needle was hovering between 12 and 14.
Zeroing is always in effect, otherwise with this level of radiation spillover, the surrounding area would reach at least 300-400 points.
…
Milo took a cup of coffee and sat behind the computer. The screen was connected to the screen in the monitoring center, showing the situation in Chen Xiao'er's room.
It stands to reason that secrets involving power shouldn't be leaked to any member lacking authority, but Chen Xiao'er is special. Her superpowers and cognitive errors are really suitable for dismantling secret objects.
Flutter, flutter.
The girl in the center of the screen reached her hand into the box. Her slender white fingers touched a dark, wriggling shadow, and she probed deep into it as it twisted in resistance.
Sizzle...
The black part of the shadow's surface kept sliding off like grease, peeling off layer by layer, with a clearly audible tearing sound.
The special storage object that originally required precise operation to decrypt was twisted and deformed by Chen Xiao'er's touch, and turned into the form of a paper notebook, which she gently took out.
Her clear voice came out from the speakers: "March 1st, sunny... Hey, this looks like a diary, can I read it? Okay~ Then I'll continue. My sister said she needed to plant lots of dandelions, so she and I agreed to bring the seeds to school... Um, information about my sister..."
Chen Xiao'er flipped through the diary page by page. There was no relevant content in this diary, and many pages were filled with graffiti that reflected a very strange mental state.
She put the book down and continued to search the pile, quickly pulling out another one.
"This one looks closer in color... Got it, here's the next diary entry."
Oh.
Milo looked at the screen and smiled: The memories of the dead soldiers and fanatics are often confused.
For people at the level of "God's Messenger", their memories will be cleared and changed from the very beginning. Their true memories will be shattered along with the magical objects that store their memories at the time of death, and dust will return to dust.
But this time it was different. The girl happened to fall next to Chen Xiao'er when she died.
The so-called "god" has a lower priority than Chen Xiao'er's "reset to zero", and even the memories of believers cannot be concealed. It's really - amazing.
The corners of her lips rose slightly. When humans realize that the power of "God" is not as good as that of another human, their fear of "God" will directly disappear.
It is precisely because of Chen Xiao'e's existence, because of the possession of humans who "can invalidate power", that the Church of Light was able to remain calm after confirming the birth of power.
The black-haired girl in the center of the screen flipped through the pages of a book, constantly turning her head to discuss the details with her roommates.
She tapped on one of the pages. "It says here that her sister was looking for a job and ended up in a town with lots and lots of red maple trees. There was a huge food processing plant in that town."
The name of the village was not written in the diary, but the illustration next to it, which looked like a doodle, was a real map that Chen Xiao'er had materialized from the deceased's mind.
The odd item printing machine connected to the monitor started working immediately, spitting out a paper map with a red circle on it within a few seconds.
Zero on the screen also pointed at the illustration and said, "This is a map of Wasteland Valley - Maple Forest Town. Maple Forest Town is located next to the ownerless sand dunes, and people here rarely come into contact with them."
You're right, I'm very familiar with this place.
Milo had a bad feeling, because Maple Forest Town was the trap she had set for Xinnaya! They had just discussed this yesterday, and she could still recall Xinnaya's smug and arrogant expression after she instigated it.
Strictly speaking, Maple Forest Town is the territory of the Human Soul Front, but now that power has appeared, marginal plots like this will sooner or later be taken over by the church.
As early as the last time the Eye of God array - Eye of Glory was activated, the church discovered that Fenglin Town was an abyss rift that was incubating a huge anomaly. It was included in the first batch of elimination lists, but no one expected that it would be related to power.
Chen Xiao'er's cognition is filtered. That memory could mean "a powerful god discovered another powerful god and sent believers to explore the way." Or it could mean "a god who had generated power began to covet another newly born power and prepared to usurp that power."
Sure enough, the most unfortunate thing happened.
When Chen Xiao'er and her roommates were discussing when to go to Fenglin Town, a line of characters appeared on the screen, followed by another line of characters.
[It turns out that Maple Forest Town is not nurturing abnormalities, but rather nurturing power.]
[It could also be part of the body of a descended god.]
"Hey, are you yelling 'God, God!' now? Compared to my Lord, this thing is nothing more than a beast."
There was a brief pause in the argument on screen, and Miroku watched in amusement.
She could guess why the group stopped arguing. Wasn't it because Guanghui answered the question about power and honestly said "I haven't mastered it yet"?
The fact that the god worshipped by humanity's largest salvation organization failed to seize the initiative in the race for power naturally made them anxious and crazy.
Now that information about the prototype of power has appeared, even if there is a 99% chance that it is a fallacy, they will still take a gamble for the 1% probability.
[Don't argue. No matter what happened inside Maple Forest Town, our energy extraction operation was already planned.]
[Yes, all preparations have been completed.]
[It's ok here too. Although I can't send out a large number of apostles due to the distance, there's no problem with mobilizing personnel.]
The characters on the screen reached a consensus after several minutes of heated communication.
[It has been decided to temporarily suspend the energy extraction operation. Since there may be a prototype of power inside, we will first send students to explore, with the collection of relevant intelligence - obtaining the prototype of power is the top priority.]
【time? 】
[There is no time to lose, the training will last for three days at most.]
【yes. 】
Fenglin Town is within the territory of the human soul front.
Not to mention leaking the news, if the human soul front discovers the clues first and has good luck and seizes the embryonic form of power first, that would be a lot of fun.
Humph. Milo's expression was a little cold: It seems that I have to give up my trap plan.
The original plan was simple. They would let Xinnaya go to Fenglin Town on the pretext of "arranging Chen Xiao'er to go there", and then manipulate the internal schedule of the church to directly concentrate their efforts on extracting energy from Fenglin Town.
Pure energy entities like the devil are most afraid of being devoured by their own kind, so being dealt with personally by [Glorious] is considered a great honor.
She pressed the voting button next to the computer to vote in favor, and as soon as she let go, she saw two new lines of characters.
[The fragment of the Eye of God on Chen Xiao'er has been placed and is expected to function normally in the abnormal area.]
[As for power, Chen Xiao'e also joined this action.]
It's...reasonable. If the power falls into the hands of others first, or if a projection of a god with power is encountered, Chen Xiao'er's existence will be necessary.
“Tsk.”
Miroku tutted before realizing it, a sound she rarely made, so ungraceful that it made the devil chuckle in her head.
Now there is trouble. If her intuition and prediction are correct, Chen Xiao'er should meet Xinnaya in Fenglin Town.
I am the worst teacher ever.
【Milo: I apply to participate in this operation.】
[Rejected. The risk of this action is too high.]
【Milo: I have a reasonable suggestion. 】
[Milo: Have Apostle-0 carry the degraded energy stone to participate in this operation.]
[Milo: This will not only ensure Chen Xiao'er's safety, but also allow us to assess the combat effectiveness of the Apostle-Chen Xiao'er combination in a "fight against God" situation.]
…
The "debate" outside the screen became increasingly heated. Zero kept an eye on the data streams floating in his eyes and agreed with Milo's suggestion.
"Zero~?"
"I am here."
Hearing Xiao'er's call, his ice-blue eyes blinked and he looked back at the girl sitting next to him.
Chen Xiao'er put the notebook back, held her hand and said, "Come with me outside the school later. That Xu She insisted on discussing the deal in person and refused to say anything over the phone. I'm afraid he's a bad guy!"
Although I asked Sister Lan to help pay attention, I really want to go with Ling, so I will feel more at ease.
The girl playfully stared at her senior's expression while shaking her calves.
Devouring Snake - Classification - Neutral to Hostile (Yellow Text)
"Okay, I'll go with you."
While submitting the application, Ling held Xiao'er's hand.
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