Chapter 199 World Tree Project
Kasha——
The glass doors swung open, and a group of young men in loose-fitting tracksuits walked into the training hall. They had just finished their nutritional supplements, which would allow them to begin a phase of intensive training before breakfast.
Lin Lang and Zheng Lu were also walking in the crowd.
However, one of them is a physical mutant, and the other is a non-alienated believer. They are the two types of people with the most different training plans, and they will have to separate and return to the team soon.
Beep beep.
The scanner's light screen passed over the students' heads. One by one, they stepped onto the pedals, walked through the isolated corridor filled with disinfectant spray, and walked straight to the dimly lit metal door.
This door has a similar function to the Red Door. After the Glorious Mastery of the Rule, these doors can be opened 24 hours a day with minimal energy consumption, allowing church members to quickly travel within the base.
Ta-da, ta-da.
The orderly footsteps were mixed with greetings and whispers.
"What are we going to eat in the cafeteria?"
"I heard there are fried chicken wings today. I want to order two."
"The fried ones are really delicious~ But I have to line up at the candy ball window first."
"That's right. If you don't line up early, you won't be able to get the sweets."
These young people are in excellent spirits and their faces are full of vitality.
After all, no matter where they came from, since they came to Taoli College, which was affiliated with the church, they had never lacked clean water, healthy food, thick clothes, sufficient logistical preparations, and orderly training.
Moreover, the church's recent operations have been very successful, with a mortality rate much lower than similar operations by other organizations. The gains from each operation can completely offset the costs of the attack.
Especially in the two consecutive battles for power, one successfully won the power of "rules", and the other successfully recovered the giant beast, the newborn snake, and a considerable amount of energy.
Most of those involved are very grateful for Chen Xiao'e's assistance. It was because of her presence that these operations were able to proceed so smoothly.
However, Chen Xiao'er herself was not among the crowd at the moment. She was holding her sister, lost in sleep. The early morning pre-class training was optional for her, and she usually chose to catch up on sleep.
As the students walked through the corridor, the whispers suddenly quieted down.
Because behind the door was not the usual training center, but a large auditorium used to announce important tasks. The circular stands next to it were already full of people, and all the students from Class AC were there.
Lin Lang and Zheng Lu looked at each other, then followed their classmates to the Class A area and took their seats in order.
About 5 minutes later, the screen behind the podium lit up, and a group of neatly dressed adults walked out from the left and right sides of the backstage.
On the left are Instructor Joshua and Professor Ding Pingsu, and on the right are not people from the church, but cadres from the Human Soul Front!
"What?" Lin Lang wailed as she watched the pink-haired old man on the stage. She wailed halfway through before biting her fingers with her teeth, her eyes wide open.
Dad, aren’t you a radical? If you “surrender”, then what I did before will be nothing.
“Wow—”
The students in the stands made a lot of noise. It was the first time they saw people from the Human Soul Front appear in public in the church.
Such scenes were very common in the old days. After all, both parties belonged to "serious human salvation organizations."
But everyone knows that with the increase in the concentration of weirdness, the pressure on resources is getting greater and greater. The two organizations are not going to fight to the death, but they are definitely competing with each other for every penny. Why would they get together again for no reason?
Ding ding.
Professor Ding Pingsu pressed the bell and said loudly while holding the microphone, "Silence, everyone, please be quiet. Let me briefly introduce you. These friends are from the Human Soul Front. They will participate in the upcoming World Tree Project."
“Wow—”
There was another commotion below, and Lin Lang buried his head beneath his shoulders. "Is this true? After all these years, the Human Soul Front is collaborating with the Church of Radiance again?"
Proposing cooperation at this juncture is more like shameless obedience than an alliance.
It seems that there is a big problem within the Human Soul Front, or the Church of Light has made an offer that cannot be refused, or maybe both.
There were not many cadres from the Human Soul Front on the stage. Led by Uncle Wolf, they stood aside without saying a word, watching Ding Pingsu perform alone.
Professor Ding seemed to be in a very good mood. He twisted his body and shook his left hand, and a large map immediately lit up on the screen.
This map spreads out from Taoli College as the center.
The first circle is a circular structure, and the part outside the second circle is more like a starfish, with a golden cross star at the end of each thin and long "tentacle".
"Please look, this is the improved version of the plan for the first phase of the World Tree Project!"
He clenched his fists with great enthusiasm and shook his right hand to quickly turn the pages of the PPT, showing everyone the beautiful vision of this plan. Unfortunately, most of the students looked very embarrassed.
Lin Lang had never considered pursuing research, and his eyes nearly swirled around like mosquito coils: "What the hell is this?"
Xing Shuyao, who was sitting in the row in front of her, whispered, "The World Tree Project is also called the Sky Tree Project. The technological version hopes to establish a red star ring with extremely strong signals in the universe far away from the abyss. It will be filled with energy spikes that can be both positive and negative. This will simultaneously intercept meteors and capture and extract abnormal energy."
Lin Lang recalled that there seemed to be a corresponding Abyss version that would place a binding ring around the underground star core. However, both of these plans were fantasies in the technological age, let alone now.
She asked curiously, "What's the deal with this improved version? Is Professor Ding planning to build several flying platforms at high altitudes?"
Xing Shuyao shook her head, looking at the plan pages that kept turning on the screen. She said with some emotion, "That's impossible. It looks like they're planning to use satellites left over from the technological era as sky signal stations and drive all the energy piles into the ground."
Neither reaching the sky nor sinking into the abyss, this plan is no longer a great epic of mankind's conquest of the weird, but a purely defensive strategy based on survival.
Even so, the surface energy piles alone would consume a large amount of resources, including manpower, and looking at the punctuation on the map, one can see that the "Starfish" has tentacles extending deep into other organizations.
Some people came to watch the fun, while those who were paying attention to the situation, like Xing Shuyao, noticed that the church was expanding against the trend.
It seems that the gains from hunting "gods" deep into the abyss and the two battles for power have allowed the Church of Light to temporarily gain a foothold in a situation where one side is gaining while the other is losing.
Building roads was a must in ancient times and had many benefits.
But the end of the world is approaching, and humans can no longer fight against the trend of strange things coming. Why does the Church of Light want to expand the radiation area at this time, and how does it convince other organizations to agree?
Xing Shuyao had no access to relevant information, so he had to listen carefully.
Ding Pingsu had already explained the specific process: "...The apostles will first clear the high-risk areas along the route, and the subsequent cleanup work will be left to you. The major organizations in the area will assist in setting up energy piles, and you will also need to station here, here, and these few places."
He lowered his waving hands, bowed earnestly, and then stood up and said, "I know this mission is extremely dangerous. Once the energy pile is established, it will attract countless anomalies, but we must persevere until the energy pile is functioning normally. Please!"
Shalala.
The Ppt turned to the last few pages, which stated the most critical purpose of this plan.
[We must build a wall strong enough to withstand a thousand-level radiation storm]
It is not a weakening, nor is it a strange item that needs to be worn close to the body, but a giant barrier that can effectively protect ordinary people when a storm suddenly arises.
Everyone suddenly realized that no matter what the real purpose of this plan was, it was the church's last attempt to "save some ordinary people."
Nowadays, those who can survive to adulthood in the wilderness are either people with super powers or mutants with abnormal tissues implanted.
These people can barely survive outside the abnormal area, but once the predicted "super-large doomsday storm" comes, no one will survive except those with super powers above level 3.
Currently, all major organizations on the surface are configured with "superpowered personnel on the field, while ordinary people and weaker mutants provide internal support." Everyone has their own responsibilities: one provides armed protection, while the other is responsible for planting and production in the remaining safe areas.
Whether it is a family, a clan, or a church, when a storm or similar strange event completely strikes, these logistical personnel will be ruthlessly destroyed.
What kind of terrible situation will the surviving superpowers face? It is unimaginable.
The mobilization meeting ended quickly and text messages were sent to everyone's communicator.
【Attention all students, the World Tree Project has been included in the schedule】
[Please wait for the instructor and team leader's instructions at any time. It is estimated that it will take 2-6 weeks to guard the energy pile.]
The people responsible for setting up the energy piles are certainly not students, but rather staff provided by major organizations and school workers.
After a few brief closing remarks, the people from the Human Soul Front walked to the backstage from the side. Only the uncle with pink hair jumped down and walked straight towards his daughter.
"Hey." His broad palms pulled Lin Lang back like claws. "How have you been eating lately? Have your diets changed much?"
What kind of question is that!
Lin Lang looked at his father speechlessly for a while, then his eyes widened after a moment: "I-I hope you guys haven't run out of food over there." When he said the word "out of food", his voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.
Uncle Wolf's face darkened, and he lowered his voice, "Fissure blowouts are happening everywhere, and a new round of pollution has spread to farmland."
This is a big problem, right?!
If farmland is too polluted, apart from underground mushroom gardens and earthworm cultivation workshops, we can only eat expensive food grown in clean rooms.
In this situation, apart from the rations for the elite troops, the logistics personnel and their families would be doomed. No wonder the Human Soul Front agreed to cooperate; otherwise, people would starve to death.
She was about to say a few more words when she saw her father's meaningful expression, and she swallowed the words in her mouth: No, with Dad's personality, he would not just say these, he must have other plans.
Whether he plays the victim or asks me to find an opportunity to meet outside, he should be able to find out some more crucial information.
Lin Lang could only think of so much, but she quickly made up her mind not to tell her father anything: she would rather be loyal to the Church of Light than to the Human Soul Front - who knows if the old guys in the Soul Front will go crazy in the end and destroy the church's path to salvation.
"Hmph." Seeing his daughter's guarded expression, Uncle Wolf smiled. While the two of them were still confronting each other, the crowd around them suddenly became agitated.
The wolf ears on their heads moved at the same time, and they looked towards where the crowd had dispersed.
I saw a black-haired girl pushing open the door. She was waving a mobile phone in her left hand and holding a girl who exuded a strange aura in her right hand.
"Chen Xiao'ai." Uncle Wolf's eyes grew serious. All major organizations had established secret files named after Chen Xiao'ai, but no one could uncover the extent of Chen Xiao'ai's evolution under the Church's control.
Anomaly neutralization sounds terrifying, but such a terrifying ability has become a smokescreen on the surface. God knows what horrific news is hidden underneath.
As for the "girl" she was holding... Uncle Wolf's pupils kept shrinking, and his eyeballs were not the eyes of a wolf, but the eyes of an unknown ancient creature.
Now, he saw the outline of a human girl, but within that outline, he "saw" a web of twisting, overlapping, tangled threads of wool. Each hair on the thread had the illusion of a densely packed centipede, creating a rustling sound in his mind.
"————" Chen Xiao'er said something against the door, but Uncle Wolf, who was staring at Chen Xiaotong, heard nothing until the girl raised her head and said seriously to everyone present...
"Believe in me, poor mortal."
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