Chapter 238: Steps Forward
At night, Chen Xiao'er helped her sister pull up the quilt, and suddenly saw Xiaotong's little face flushed, mumbling to herself and grinding her little fangs from time to time.
My sister seems very angry?
Chen Xiao'er deliberately asked in a nonchalant tone, "What's wrong? Did anyone bully you at school?"
"Hmph, no, nothing happened!" Chen Xiaotong evaded the question in an angry tone and buried her head in the quilt.
Chen Xiao'er patted the quilt and was about to ask, when she heard a muffled voice from under the quilt: "Sister, you're in a daze as soon as you come back. Did anyone bully you?"
Chen Xiao'ai choked up. She recalled the long list of things she had done that afternoon, including setting up the venue, accompanying Ling to the infirmary, and reporting to the student union together...
In the end, all those words boiled down to one sentence: "It's okay. I'm fine."
Linlang turned off the light with a click, plunging the dormitory into darkness.
Unlike Chen Xiao'er who couldn't fall asleep even with her eyes closed, Chen Xiaotong almost couldn't wait to fall asleep.
Humph, you bad guys, I'm going to teach you what it means not to bully the gods!
She pulled dozens of stars in her consciousness into the abyss and dragged them into the shaped body.
The newly born snake coiled in the pale night sky. She had made sufficient preparations before the students woke up, intending to teach them a lesson no matter how they argued.
Especially that annoying guy in a wheelchair. She helped him build a body that can run and jump, but this guy actually repaid her with evil!
The dark moon rose in the night sky, and the students opened their eyes in the abyss.
As soon as Xing Shuyao opened her eyes, she saw the Newborn Snake's malicious gaze. He spoke before she could, "In the next few days, I will fully support your plan."
"Hmph! Stupid human, huh?" Chen Xiaotong was stumped. She thought for a moment, then asked suspiciously, "You're actually planning to betray humanity just to avoid my punishment?"
Xing Shuyao shook his head. Just as he was about to explain seriously, he saw the color around his classmates change: from light gray to dark gray.
He closed his mouth bitterly: How can I explain it? It seems that there is no way to explain it.
The result was indeed a betrayal.
They have clearly joined the Church of Light and sworn to dedicate everything to humanity, even their lives.
So no matter what the church wants to do to Chen Xiao'er or any of them, they should not question it.
Moreover, power is a matter of paramount importance, linked to the survival of mankind. What right does he have to interfere with the church's decision? Compared with the Radiant Church's reasons for the greater good of humanity, his desire to save a classmate is truly selfish and ridiculous.
So when he saw many of his classmates' emotions turn dark gray, he felt inexplicably relieved.
[That's great. People like me who are selfish are only a minority.]
Even if I side with the Newborn Serpent, the Church's plan won't fail... So am I just seeking peace of mind?
"No." A clear female voice broke the silence.
Zheng Lu walked into the crowd and answered his question for him: "We're not just trying to save Chen Xiao'er's life. Most importantly, we believe no one is more suitable for Zero Power than her."
After she finished speaking, Xing Shuyao found that the dark gray of her classmates turned back to light gray.
It seems that even though everyone agrees with the church's position on saving humanity, they don't want to sacrifice Chen Xiao'er - especially when she knows nothing about it.
And Zheng Lu provided a good reason.
No one can understand Chen Xiao'er's extremely special kindness and love better than those who have lived with her day and night, which are qualities that not everyone possesses.
If someone else were to bear the burden of going back to zero, regardless of whether they had a cognitive filter or not, they probably wouldn't have performed better than Chen Xiao'e. She holds the lives of others in her palm, igniting a powerful hope in the darkness.
As for choosing abyssal creatures or artificial life instead of humans to carry the power... these super-powered people who don't follow the research route don't have much trust in these creatures.
After realizing this, helping Chen Xiao'er was no longer a selfish and narrow-minded decision, but rather a way to open a backdoor in the church's plan that might have loopholes.
We must at least ensure that Chen Xiao'er still has Zero Reset and survives until after the Power Ceremony. Temporarily helping the Newborn Snake is also a good idea.
Chen Xiaotong silently floated in the air and listened to them finish speaking.
She was surprised: how could these humans decide to help her sister in just a few days? But when she thought about the fact that they were helping her sister, it made sense.
It seems that these humans are not stupid.
The slight feeling of disgust in her heart disappeared, and she even felt that they were a little cute because they thought her sister was the best, just like her.
The students didn't pay much attention to the Newborn Snake's reaction. After convincing each other, they simply picked up the tools they had dropped and continued working.
They had to replicate a complete ritual array within half a month and let the newborn snake embed it. The workload was terrifying.
"Hey, humans. Um, um~" The newborn snake floated over with them and announced happily, "I'm going to reward you!"
"Really?" Lin Lang asked in surprise, "Can you give us a lot of power?"
"I can, but there are too many of you. Besides, it's not as efficient for me to make you stronger as it is for me to make you stronger! Hey."
The newly born snake twisted its neck proudly, pointed its finger at the ground, and all its tools instantly turned pink and were tied with small lace strips.
After she finished her transformation, she put her hands on her hips and smirked, "Hehe, don't be too surprised. I also learned a lot from my observations during the day!"
Lin Lang slapped his forehead as he looked at these meaningless decorations. "Excuse me, what did you learn..."
Chen Xiaotong answered confidently: "Humans like lace strips, cakes and candies, and lots of tables and chairs!"
As soon as she finished speaking, more than a dozen tables, chairs and benches with different styles of painting appeared in the abyss, and the benches were piled with candies and cakes.
Everyone's expressions twisted in pain: Damn, this is a complete misinterpretation! But... the candy, cakes, tables, chairs, and benches are all right?
In order to retain the "welfare tea break" after work, the students lowered their heads in frustration, gave up the right to complain, and continued to work under the smug gaze of the new snake.
......
There is no distinction between day and night in the abyss. In addition to the hardworking students of Class A, another group of people headed towards the shallower depths of the abyss a few days later.
They did not dare to approach the abyss well in advance, so as not to trigger the church's automatic defense mechanism.
But in order to sneak into the power ceremony before the doomsday meteor shower arrives, this group of people had to form a temporary alliance, with dozens of people moving forward as a group.
Most of the people who attended the mobilization meeting chose to sneak in on the day of the empowerment ceremony. Only a few warriors got a set of strange items used to disguise themselves from the organizers. As for how to sneak in, everyone had to use their own unique skills.
After all, this thing can only block detection, and it has a fatal weakness: regardless of its quality, once a living person is put in it, it is like being sealed and can do nothing, and can only wait for people outside to release him.
Then comes the awkward part. It can only ensure that people hiding inside will not be detected, but how can people outside get in?
Either it was a high-level psychic that the church was willing to accept, and he went to the underground shelter to gamble his life. Or there was an insider, someone outside quietly threw the ball in, and someone inside picked it up.
Of course, those who were groping in the fallout wouldn't give this question much thought. They were all trying to take advantage of the chaos to sneak in, and none of them had any way to use the magic item.
Dust was floating, and a team of super-powered people wearing old-fashioned protective clothing and their eyes covered with transparent lenses continued to advance on the sunken ground.
Each of them had a strong rope tied around their waist, connecting them one by one, for fear that they would get lost in the changing environment.
After all, they were all above-ground mercenaries before, none of them were underground, and they had no idea how to survive in the shallow desert. If they accidentally got separated from the team, the mortality rate would be close to 100%.
Click.
The man in the middle of the team poked the ground with his cane and asked in confusion, "Is there something down there?"
Rustle, rustle.
A shadow emerged from the bottom, rapidly forming a large dark gray vortex within half a second. Glint-like white teeth pierced the dust, and a deep red tongue swept towards the humans above!
"Run!" the captain shouted loudly, and the mercenaries reflexively activated their magic items and super powers. With their ability to escape, they could completely escape the monster's attack area in just a few seconds.
Unfortunately, they forgot the ropes around their waists, and the team, which had only been working together for less than half a month, kept wailing in despair.
"No--"
"Belt, belt—"
"Don't run in the opposite direction!"
The strong rope turned into a death noose at this moment.
The monster's huge mouth gradually rose, and more and more people were sucked into its tongue. In just a second, they would turn into a pile of broken bones and be ejected from the sand and dust, hitting other people's faces.
"Woo." The captain watched her lover turn into dry bones in front of her. She could do nothing while holding the gun with blank bullets.
I'm the next one... At least, at least let me hurt that damn monster!
She threw her rifle away, took out a dagger from her bosom and jumped up.
"Waaaaaaaaa——" Her withered yellow hair danced wildly in the wind, she screamed loudly with tears in her eyes, and rushed towards the monster's "lips" with powerful brandishing of the dagger.
Bang.
A huge force hit her spine cleanly and cleanly, and the woman was suddenly pulled into the air and rolled a long distance away.
One hand picked up the dagger she had dropped on the ground and tossed it around twice deftly.
The withered-haired woman spat out a mouthful of blood and a few teeth, and managed to raise her neck. She saw a blonde woman playfully playing with her knife, and then—stabbed it into the ground!
Dark grey blood flowed, and obsidian-like "blood beads" flowed back into the sky, only to be swept away by the blonde girl.
The mercenary captain couldn't see her method. He just saw the blonde girl wave her sleeves slightly, and the blood beads completely disappeared.
She stared blankly at the girl's radiant back, and when she remembered to say thank you, the girl's shadow had disappeared.
It seems that she just saved us by chance. Perhaps such a powerful being would not stop for anyone.
The mercenary captain shook his head, coughing up blood while putting the metal whistle to his lips and blowing hard.
......
"Yo." Xinnaya suddenly appeared from behind and slapped Lan's shoulder with her right hand.
Click.
Lan held her wrist tightly, and the place where he held it tightly made a crisp crackling sound.
Her purple eyes were full of disdain, but her tone wasn't cold: "Stop touching me. Are you full? If you are, get back to work."
Hmph! Sinaya narrowed her eyes dangerously. But besides Lan, there's also a masked anomaly here—Train. Honestly, it's a bit of a struggle to be in a 2-on-1 situation.
Besides, going to school to see Chen Xiao'er is the top priority. She is reluctant to kill even those humans who cause trouble, so of course she will not go against Lan at this critical juncture.
Xinaya's smile softened, and she said sweetly, her hands in her pockets, "Okay, I'll try my best to find the weak point in the church's defenses. And then? Will that train guy be responsible for getting us in?"
Lan took a bowl of instant noodles from Cheche, slurped it twice before saying slowly, "It can't get in, but I have a way to temporarily block my own fluctuations."
When Xinnaya heard her say this, her eyebrows raised: "What about me?"
Lan pulled out a familiar spherical object from his pocket, but the upper half of this object was painted red. "It's simple. Just get in."
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