Aurora Priest
"Aurora! It's Aurora!"
They cried with joy.
"Aurora is here to save us!" They devoutly and excitedly drew the symbol of the sun on their shoulders and chests with their fingers in the direction of the pedestrians, which was an act of praying to Aurora.
"Aurora!" they cried.
Lou Tiannan turned a deaf ear to the cheers and joy of those people. He walked up to Lin Bai who was leaning against a dead tree and asked, "Are you okay?" His eyes drooped, and his gray pupils reflected the blood-covered Lin Bai. Until now, he still didn't think she looked like a military dependent.
"Something happened. I'm going to die." Lin Bai said casually.
Lou Tiannan frowned and was about to step forward to check Lin Bai's injuries when he heard Lin Bai say, "When I die, Captain Lou sees my partner and tells him that you were the one who killed me and ask him to avenge me."
Lou Tiannan: "..." She really looked more like a "tough" soldier in the army.
Lin Bai's tone sounded too much like a joke, but Lou Tiannan would not take it as a joke. Fighting with Tyke would make most people lose a lot of skin, not to mention that Lin Bai was covered in blood and did not look in good condition.
A white handkerchief suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
Lin Bai and Lou Tiannan both looked at the newcomer.
He was a young man wearing a hooded white religious robe, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with delicate features and a beauty that made it difficult to tell whether he was male or female. His hair and eyebrows were both silver-white. The only flaw was his misty eyes, which made people feel sorry for his appearance.
"Wipe it." The young man spoke to Lin Bai in a light and charming voice.
Lin Bai looked at her and raised his hand to take the handkerchief.
"Cise."
An elderly voice sounded, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.
There were about seven or eight people in this team. Each of them wore a white robe with a hood and held a bell in their hands. The sleeves of the white robe were rolled with gold edges with sun patterns. These obvious signs made it easy to recognize them at a glance. They were Aurora priests.
The bell of the leader was silver, with the body and the stem carved with intricate patterns. He was the one who had just spoken, a middle-aged man with short hair, a kind face, slightly graying temples, and a beard on his chin.
The man spoke, and the boy named Caesar withdrew his hand as if he had received some instructions, and slowly walked to stand behind the man.
The middle-aged man's eyes swept through the crowd indifferently, finally stopping at Lou Tiannan. He nodded and said, "I am Pastor Cook of Aurora, passing by on a missionary mission. Who are you?"
After the end of the world, there was no conflict between the Federation and the Aurora Church. Sometimes, the top leaders of the Federation even needed to rely on the power of Aurora to manage and appease the masses.
Therefore, even if Lou Tiannan is not religious, he will not lose face for Aurora.
He said to Ku Kebo: "Federal Army Building Tiannan."
Cook Bo did not show any strange expression when he heard this, as if he had heard an ordinary name. He placed his palm on his chest and made a blessing gesture, nodded to Lou Tiannan, rang the bell and was about to lead the team away.
"Lord Aurora!" someone suddenly shouted.
Cook paused. A hunched survivor stumbled out, knelt before Cook, and tearfully asked, "Believer, please ask Lord Aurora! Lord, please tell me, will the apocalypse end?! Do we still have a future?"
The man cried and asked so loudly that the other survivors couldn't help but feel sad. They looked at Cook with pious and expectant eyes, and asked silently: When will the end of the world end?
Kukbo's eyes drooped, and he looked at the believer with a look full of pity. He stretched out his hands to lift the believer up, and told him with certainty: "The end of the world will end."
The man clutched at Cook's fingers tightly, like a drowning man grasping at a lifeline. His knuckles turned white, and his eyes were filled with madness. He demanded, "When, when will the apocalypse end?"
The rain was still drizzling, and the white-robed priests stood in the rain, clean and calm without a trace of dust. They closed their eyes and stretched out their hands to make the sun sign on their chests.
Everything around him seemed to have fallen silent, and only the seasoned and profound voice of Cook could be heard slowly rising: "When the light is devoured, that will be the day when Enigma descends. He will become the king of the apocalypse and lead us towards new hope."
In the open space of the deserted village, the Aurora priests had already left, and the ground was full of muddy traces of wheel tracks. Lou Tiannan's convoy had also left.
The open space was littered with corpses. The rain grew heavier. Suddenly, a bloody right hand emerged from the corpses and grabbed the blood-stained white handkerchief on the ground...
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Thirty minutes later, the team led by Zhu Liang found a flat place with a wide view on the hillside to rest for the night.
With dozens of survivors, it would be best to find a bungalow, but in order to avoid encountering large-scale gatherings of zombies, Lou Tiannan and his group planned a route through remote mountainous areas, so finding a bungalow was not easy.
Even though the conditions were tough, none of the survivors grumbled. They had met Priest Aurora today, and from this brief encounter they seemed to have gained some kind of redemption or hope. After Priest Aurora left, most of them still devoutly drew the sun symbol on their chests and prayed.
Words like "Enigma" and "hope" were faintly heard murmured from the mouth.
This was Lu Jia's first time meeting Priest Aurora, and he found it quite magical. "Can Aurora really hear the words of God? Is that why she came just in time to save us this afternoon?!"
Zhou Yu snorted coldly, "What a coincidence? If they could really hear God's words, why didn't they come sooner or later, but waited until Taike died before coming?!"
Hearing Zhou Yu's words, Lu Jia felt that Zhou Yu was a bit harsh and muttered softly: "This kind of thing is not something they can really decide..."
Zhou Yu tilted his head towards Lu Jia, put his arm around him, and asked suspiciously, "Xiao Lu, what's wrong with you? You didn't convert at first sight, did you?"
Lu Jia subconsciously avoided his gaze and chuckled.
Zhou Yu looked at Lu Jia as if he were looking at a rare creature: "Is Aurora really that magical? How come I don't feel anything at all?"
Song Yan's insight was a level higher than Zhou Yu's. She sneered, "What's the point of your Aba Aba? It wasn't Aurora that Xiao Lu fell in love with at first sight. It was the missionary."
Lu Jia was exposed by Song Yan. He touched the back of his head and felt a little embarrassed, but he still said seriously: "Sister Yan, it's not true. I'm just curious that there is such a young missionary among the Aurora priests. He is indeed good-looking. I wonder what his gender is, Alpha? Omega? Or Beta?"
Zhou Yu also remembered the boy named Caesar. He was so handsome. He recalled his face and said hesitantly, "Alpha? That can't be. He must be an Omega."
"Beta might be a possibility." Song Yan guessed.
"He should have no gender." Zhu Liang's voice sounded.
"No gender?" The three were stunned.
They all looked at Zhu Liang curiously. Song Yan asked doubtfully, "No gender? Hasn't he differentiated yet? There's no way he's the Enigma!"
All people have the outward characteristics of male or female from birth, but the most important glandular characteristics are only acquired during the differentiation period after the age of sixteen. Under normal circumstances, there are only three differentiation results: Alpha, Beta, and Omega.
Alpha and Omega have the ability to sense and control pheromones due to the secondary development of their glands. Beta, due to the incomplete development of its glands, can slightly sense the scent of pheromones but will not be affected by them.
But after the end of the world, the fourth result of sexual differentiation - Enigma - was announced from the Aurora Church. It is said that his pheromones are naturally endowed with nerve-stimulating hormones that induce absolute submission, and will be able to suppress everyone, including Betas who are insensitive to pheromones.
But after preaching for more than a year, such high-level gender differentiation has never appeared, let alone asking for His salvation.
So when Song Yan mentioned the word Enigma, his tone was somewhat ironic.
"No." Zhu Liang shook his head. "Didn't you notice his eyes?"
"Eye?"
Lu Jia looked at it carefully and said, "Maybe it's a rainy day, so it doesn't seem very... bright?" He thought for a while before coming up with this description.
After hearing this, Song Yan thought about it for a moment, a look of understanding flashed across his face, and he had a guess in his heart: "Brother Liang, are you saying that he...is not human?"
Zhu Liang met her gaze and nodded, "Yes, to be precise, he is a bionic man, or an artificial man."
"Artificial man?" Zhou Yu dropped a half-eaten biscuit to the ground. He picked it up, blew on it, and ate it again as if nothing had happened. He asked with interest, "Brother Liang, has the technology for artificial man reached this level?"
"Well, Captain Lou and I met them at 621 in the military defense zone before. The researchers there told us that android technology is much more advanced than we imagined. However, they are androids after all, emotionless machines. Therefore, it is difficult for their eyes to express normal human emotions, let alone primary sexual characteristics."
The 621 Pharmacopoeia Research Institute studies all sorts of strange things, and there is also a field dedicated to the study of artificial humans. Zhu Liang followed Team Lou and saw many artificial humans in the experimental stage in the institute, including men, women, young and old, low-level and high-level, of many types.
The most technologically advanced android in the 621 hospital, like Caesar, is no different from an ordinary person. He can run and laugh, but his eyes are dull and lifeless if you pay a little attention.
"Is the Aurora Church so powerful? It's the end of the world, and they can still research bionic humans?" Lu Jia asked in surprise.
"The Aurora Church has believers everywhere! How can it not be powerful?" Even though Zhou Yu looked down on the Aurora Church, he had to admit that the Aurora Church was indeed powerful.
As they were talking, Zhou Yu, who had sharp eyes, saw Wen Xia Xia passing by carrying two buckets and immediately called out, "Xia Xia, where are you going?"
"I'm worried that Lin Bai doesn't have enough water. Send her some."
"Lin Bai?" Zhou Yu's eyes lit up and he said enthusiastically, "I'll go, I'll go!"
Zhou Yu picked up the bucket and wondered, "But why is she still in there?"
As soon as they settled down, Zhou Yu and Lu Jia built a few washrooms using simple materials such as iron plates and wooden blocks to make it convenient for everyone to change clothes. Fortunately, with Wen Xia Xia, a water-based supernatural being, there was no shortage of water.
Lin Bai entered the first bathroom. The second and third bathrooms had been occupied several times, but she still hadn't come out.
Wen Xia Xia didn't find it strange. "Yeah. She's covered in blood, so it might be troublesome. I don't know if she's seriously injured."
Zhou Yu heard this and said enthusiastically, "I'll go ask!"
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