Chapter 416 435. Time is up
Xu Zhi vaguely guessed that this rally was probably to cause trouble for their poor performance, but she also felt that they could not be blamed. After all, they could not tie everyone up and bring them to Liancheng for a fight.
If we had this ability, there would be no need to use war as an excuse.
Sure enough, although He still did not show up, the moment His aura was revealed, the archbishops present clearly felt an unhappy emotion. Such an emotion was undoubtedly frightening, especially for the archbishops, who almost turned into quails in an instant.
He was slow to speak. In such an atmosphere, even Xu Zhi felt a kind of torment, as if the guillotine above her head was reluctant to fall. The [Cup] factor in her body made her feel fear and dread. Xu Zhi could hardly control her frown. She didn't like such involuntary emotions. After mastering the midnight rules, she could start trying to cut.
As if he had seen enough of his subordinates' suffering, he slowly spoke, and a rhythmic voice emerged from their minds, as if the person who said these words had not yet spoken, but the voice was transmitted directly into their minds.
[Get a large amount of high-level blood food as soon as possible and sacrifice it here, no matter what method you use.]
The deadline is ten days. If you cannot do this, you must offer your flesh and blood as a sacrifice.
Ten days is not a generous time limit. The outside world's vigilance against the [Cup] has reached its peak. The extraordinary people are unwilling to set foot in Lotus City, and the believers of Lotus City are to be sacrificed to Him with flesh and blood. It is impossible to waste them and let them leave Lotus City to capture blood food.
Even if the archbishops take action personally, the efficiency will not be high. How many can they catch in ten days?
We have to find a way.
What Xu Zhi cared about was the deadline of ten days. Why ten days?
What will happen in ten days?
After his aura faded, Pride's expression turned grim: "What should we do now?"
Xu Zhi was also a little embarrassed. Of course, her embarrassment was that she had to find a way to sever the connection with Him within ten days.
As if sensing Xu Zhi's absent-mindedness, Pride glared at her fiercely: "You're not going to hide and slack off again this time, are you?"
Xu Zhi blinked innocently: "But, does it make any difference whether I'm here or not? I can't think of any useful solution."
That being said, Xu Zhi was not completely without ideas. She did have a few sinister ideas in her mind, but they were too immoral to be spoken out loud.
Someone tutted, "You don't need to figure out a plan. Just stop hiding and being lazy. Otherwise, go to hell!"
The person who said this had a harsh tone in his voice, and it seemed that he was serious.
Xu Zhi nodded seemingly helplessly, but in fact she was thinking that she had no intention of hiding any longer. Lian Cheng's book had been finished, and it was time to see what people outside were doing.
Several other archbishops gathered together and discussed what to do. Xu Zhi just listened and did not give any opinions. Finally, they came up with a solution.
Ten days, how can we get a large amount of high-quality blood food into Lotus City within ten days?
After much thought, they came up with the idea of a transmission loop.
According to the outside world's current defenses against Liancheng, it is really difficult to obtain a large amount of blood food openly, so we can only do it in a sneaky way.
The transmission circuit is an extraordinary circuit that is almost essential for every city. The transmission circuit does not exist alone, but must have a connecting circuit connected to it. Most of the time, the transmission circuits are in pairs. Some higher-quality connecting circuits can carry multiple transmission circuits at the same time.
More importantly, teleportation circuits are generally built in the core locations of cities and forces. As important assets, they are surrounded by and traveled by higher-level extraordinary people. After all, ordinary people and low-level extraordinary people simply cannot bear the burden of using teleportation circuits.
Under the ground of Liancheng, there is a huge and extraordinary circuit that is rare in the world. Using it as a carrying circuit is enough to bear the load brought by the simultaneous operation of multiple transmission circuits!
Ten days were enough for them to quietly change the routes of multiple transmission circuits and expand their range to form formations. When that day came, they would forcibly activate the circuits and teleport all the people within them to Lotus City.
Planning is always easy, but there are many difficulties in implementation. First, the underground circuit is too large, and it is very difficult to modify it, even if it is just to add a one-time reception function. Second, it is not easy to modify multiple transmission circuits and expand the range without the outside world knowing.
If one point is accidentally exposed, it will alert others and make them check other circuits.
They had thought of similar methods before, but chose to give up because it involved underground circuits. Now that the "Lord" had ordered that no matter what method they used, they dared to set their sights on the underground circuits.
"But does this require consulting the Lord?"
"The Lord seems to be busy with something. Let's not disturb Him."
They all sensed a sense of impending storm from His several comings, and vaguely sensed that He seemed to be extremely busy. As close subordinates, they naturally couldn't ask too many questions about everything.
"Time is running out. You guys go fix the transmission circuit outside, and I'll add the receiving circuit."
[Pride] naturally gave the order. Several people looked slightly dissatisfied, but over the past few days, they had become accustomed to the archbishop's group being led by [Pride]. Now time was urgent, and staying here to add a receiving circuit was undoubtedly a troublesome task. [Pride] took it on voluntarily, and they didn't want to say anything more.
Xu Zhi was assigned to several cities where she was more likely to be exposed because her ability of [Laziness] was enough to help her conceal her whereabouts. This was her first time experiencing the feeling of being a thief. Every time she did something, she had to secretly make changes to other people's transmission circuits in the dead of night, and she had to use her extraordinary abilities to conceal her ability to make changes.
At this time, [laziness] comes into play. Whether it is a machine or a human, when seeing this modified circuit, they will subconsciously ignore the abnormalities and changes in it and not think deeply about it.
Thanks to his more powerful extraordinary affinity and talent in traveling, Xu Zhi completed his mission early, but did not intervene to help anyone. After all, this world has lost its agents, and the archbishops are already the most powerful among the named ones. Unless they deliberately expose their whereabouts and do not go to places like Luzhou, it is really difficult to be discovered.
These archbishops also showed their special abilities and fulfilled their missions in their own ways.
After completing the task, Xu Zhi even had the leisure to hide his body and secretly watch how the extraordinary people communicated with "God".
To her disappointment, they were just carving ordinary circuits, offering sacrifices, and singing hymns praising the gods. It seemed that there was no difference except that the sacrifices were not blood.
Xu Zhi was also discovered the moment the circuit for communicating with the gods lit up. Fortunately, she ran very fast, and the circuit did not seem very powerful, not enough for the gods to exert too much power. But even with many restrictions, the blood in her body surged at that moment, as if she had been severely injured, and the body of the archbishop did not even see clearly how the other party made the move.
I think that if God really came to the world, people like the Archbishop would be nothing more than ants that could be crushed to death with a single move of the hand.
Under the gods, we are all ants.
Fortunately, she had already completed her task and even had more than enough time. All that remained was to wait for the tenth day to arrive.
Midnight.
Ten days were obviously not enough for her to comprehend all the midnight rules, but it was enough for her to experiment on the little alien to see how to sever the connection with the [Cup].
Coincidentally, although the midnight rule is helpful at this point, more help comes from the wooden sign rule.
She had long noticed that the way the wooden sign worked was somewhat similar to the connection between the [Cup] and the believers. After comprehending the rules of the wooden sign, she had a deeper understanding of it. Therefore, she had been using the [Prying Eyes], [Authority], and the rules she had comprehended these days to try to eliminate any traces of Him and the inspector from the little alien's body.
The inspector's traces were eliminated quite smoothly, which further verified that the inspector was actually forged by the [rules], and the traces left in the little alien's body were traces of the rules. No wonder she couldn't eliminate them at all and could only cover them up.
The trouble is the part that belongs to him in the little alien's body. Although this part does not dominate, it is quietly hidden deep in the little alien's extraordinary abilities, following him like a shadow and difficult to get rid of.
Finally, Xu Zhi accidentally discovered that she could use the rules to create a gap in the breath belonging to Him that was attached to the little alien, and then use [Authority] and Xiaoju's flame to burn the separated breath, burning it completely, thus eliminating these influences and leaving only the most precise and original [Cup] attribute energy.
The process is a bit cumbersome and requires a lot of patience. This is because Xu Zhi has not yet comprehended enough rules and they are not complete enough. If she had already comprehended all the midnight rules, she would not need to use such a troublesome method, but it is a useful method after all.
On the eighth day, she finally completely eliminated the part of her aura from the little alien. At this moment, her spiritual body suddenly sensed that a "colleague" had disappeared.
This was within Xu Zhi's expectations. After all, the title of Archbishop was given by Him. To completely get rid of her influence also meant no longer accepting His gifts, and the title of Archbishop would naturally fade away.
But the power was preserved, and that was enough.
The reason she could do all this on the little alien was because the little alien was right next to her. His spiritual body was far away in Liancheng at the moment, and she could not help her get rid of his influence from a distance. However, she only needed to remove the [spiritual body] the moment she realized something was wrong.
All the abilities carried by the spiritual body, as well as the things on the body, will return to her original body.
She only needed to prepare herself for the shock the moment her spirit body returned, maintain a stable mind and not be assimilated, and then slowly refine her own [Cup] attribute circuit to eliminate His influence.
Soon, the tenth day arrived.
The injuries to the spiritual body have healed. The Archbishop's recovery ability is too strong. Moreover, she is in a place like Liancheng where the extraordinary energy machine with [Cup] attribute is extremely rich.
Xu Zhi hasn't visited Qi Yanxin in the past few days. She has a very subtle feeling in her heart, which makes her feel a little uncomfortable and she doesn't want to see Qi Yanxin.
In the past few days, her eyes often fell on a young man. His current position seemed to be guarding this area. Xu Zhi would look at him, naturally it could only be that this person made her feel suspicious. As the archbishop, she should probably kill the boy directly when she felt something was wrong, but Xu Zhi did not do so.
She even deliberately condoned some strange behavior of the young man, not for anything else, but because Xu Zhi just wanted to see what he wanted to do and how far he could go.
So, when this day came, Xu Zhi saw what he had done.
On this day, the omen appeared very obvious. The sky of Liancheng had been particularly dark since morning, and the swirling fog was more fierce than usual. Even those believers who didn't know what would happen today noticed that something was wrong.
At noon, the abnormality became more obvious. The light from the sun shining into Liancheng was scarlet. This scene made Xu Zhi think of the day when the Federation ended. It was the same. The red light shone on the earth, and the breath of death rose from the ground.
However, now only Liancheng has experienced abnormalities. However, Liancheng alone is not small. When the surging fog was dyed red by the blood-red sunlight, a voice suddenly appeared in the minds of all believers.
【Time is up. 】
Now is the time for sacrifice.
The archbishops activated the receiving circuits. They seemed to be able to hear the surprised screams of the extraordinary people in the outside world. The transmission circuits were all activated at this moment. By concealing their actions, they were not discovered.
"--No!"
Someone exclaimed, but it was not those extraordinary people, but [Arrogance].
“Who did it!”
"who!"
His face almost turned red, veins popped out on his neck, and he looked at the gap that appeared in the circuit that was supposed to be running!
This is impossible!
No extraordinary person can sneak in here. Who destroyed a corner of the receiving circuit?!
Xu Zhi immediately thought of the young man.
Of course, extraordinary people cannot enter, but what if the person who did this is one of our own?
Almost in an instant, Pride's figure turned into blood-red foam, and then the foam rushed to the missing corner of the receiving circuit. The circuit was completed and the transmission continued.
The other archbishops were silent at this moment, because they all realized that it was the "Lord" who killed the incompetent "Pride" and used him to fill the missing part of the guidance circuit.
But is that all?
The extraordinary people with uncertain, wary and terrified expressions were teleported here one by one, and then, in almost a moment, they would turn into blood to nourish this huge circuit.
Blood kept dripping in through the cracks in the soil from above, and it seemed as if a bloody rain was falling in this huge and empty basement. However, Xu Zhi knew that it was the believers of Liancheng who were melting, decomposing, and turning into blood that was flowing here.
Xu Zhi looked down at the circuit that was constantly devouring flesh and blood and extraordinary people like a glutton. What kind of sacrifice required so much flesh and blood and living beings?
What is this circuit connected to?
She raised her head a little uneasily, but could not see through the basement roof covered with dirt.
She couldn't see the people she wanted to see.
Thanks to the leader of kono black eggplant!
The plot has recently reached a critical point, so when I was writing, I was thinking about some of the lines I would write later, and thinking about what I hadn't laid out, so I wrote a little slower.
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