"So did you guys finally make up?" Wendy asked Erica after she came back from the hospital.
Erica hesitated and shook her head slowly: "I don't know."
She looked a little listless, but her eyes were clear. “If she is willing to continue to be friends with me, I will be very happy. But if she makes another choice, I, I can understand.”
“Many times reason cannot overcome emotion.”
After hearing her words, Azathoth nodded: "Humanity."
Everything has two sides. While we acknowledge its glory, we should not deny the shadow underneath.
The same is true for another intelligent life form.
Arthur opened his arms toward a river winding through the mist, breathing in the moist, fresh air, and sang softly as if he were on stage: "Wake up, wake up."
He called softly, and the river flowing through Keminting Town flowed silently on. Passersby glanced curiously at the man standing in the mist, speculating that he might be an actor rehearsing his lines, or a madman who had escaped from the hospital. No one knew what he was calling out, and no one wanted to know.
Behind him stood a magnificent and glorious church, bathed in the soft moonlight, beautiful and sacred. It was once filled with flowers and the corpses of the Zerg, and Arthur could even smell the stench of decay in the air.
Those tribesmen who died and were not protected and guided by his consciousness had to sleep forever on this planet that had just opened its eyes from a dream.
There are also traces of His stay here.
Just like every day and night spent in Arthur's memory of the distant past, Azathoth walked in Keminting as if he was walking in his past kingdom of God.
"Wake up soon." He closed his eyes in ecstasy, feeling his limbs stretching in the direction of his thoughts.
On a planet not far from the town of Kemingting, which is mainly blue and emerald green, on the vast ocean, under the stormy sky, something inconspicuous is stirring.
At first glance, it looked like a shapeless black smoke.
However, gradually, the "smoke" gathered and dispersed, revealing its true appearance - it turned out to be a dense swarm of insects the size of a human fingernail. They were of different species, and some seemed to be natural enemies, but at this moment they were extremely united.
But beneath the turbulent waters, there is something else.
Some life forms, some with hard shells and some in the form of mollusks, wriggle under the sea, gradually escorting a giant creature to the surface.
At this moment, the alarm in a federal research institute suddenly sounded a shrill whistle.
The administrator in charge looked incredulous, as if he had seen something incredible. He stumbled out of the room, shouting at everyone at the top of his lungs, "It's the 'God's Remains'! The 'God's Remains' have been moved!"
In a strictly managed and controlled mansion on the capital planet, where security was so tight that even the air was filled with tension, an old man, dressed in luxurious clothes with every wrinkle of his body carefully groomed, who had been lying motionless on the bed in the center of the room, suddenly opened his bright golden eyes.
In a residential area on the other hemisphere, Wendy, who was chatting with Erica, who was finishing homework after school, suddenly clenched her fists. The pupils in her dark golden eyes narrowed into a straight slit. Her shoulder-length gray hair was startled by some force, and the hairpin pinned to the side of her forehead looked even brighter red under the light. She hunched her back, like a beast suddenly confronted by an enemy, and an uncontrollable alertness erupted from her throat, a terrifying roar.
The dagger on Azathoth's waist suddenly jumped up at this moment, as if wanting to jump out of the window to escape, but was caught by the holder.
The god's gaze passed through the transparent glass window and fell on the round celestial body in the sky.
The light reflected from the capital's satellite is so bright and pure, without a single cloud blocking it.
He had originally planned to leave for Kemingting early tomorrow morning.
Igor has already bought the spaceship ticket. If nothing goes wrong, he will be standing on the planet by this time tomorrow.
However, Arthur was more perceptive than he thought, or rather, understood him better.
In another room, Yuri's ears suddenly blared with music. Before he could register what was happening, he saw the warning lights, often seen only in war zones, illuminate in the night sky outside his window. A red glow enveloped most of the city. Under the moonlight, the hum of hovercraft engines and shrill sirens filled the air. Then, the roar of fighter jets echoed over the nearest military base.
It was obvious that something big had happened that was beyond everyone's expectations.
Ford Hill worked overtime until nine o'clock tonight. Not long after he got home and was about to drag his tired body to bed to rest, he saw a series of messages from his boss on his mobile terminal.
He suddenly had a foreboding premonition, and the red light that shone into the room confirmed his premonition. The blond man quickly walked to the window and pulled back the curtains. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of his boss's last text message: "Location: Benoshi Sea! Leave immediately!"
“What on earth just happened…?”
**
"The troops stationed at the sea fortress have been completely annihilated."
It was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening, but the lights in Maan Castle were as bright as day. Antonio rushed to Sabrina Guevera without stopping and found that she was already sitting in the conference room with a calm expression waiting for him.
"It's hard to explain this with a simple misstep or carelessness," Antonio said quickly. "Let's not even talk about how the Zerg managed to train a new vanguard in the capital in such a short time. How did they manage to enter the Benosi Sea so quietly, and how did they know there was a kilometer-long corpse buried there?"
Researchers from the Vatican have always called that thing the 'God's Skeleton'.
But Antonio followed Sabrina's wishes and called him "strange beast".
Sabrina did not answer him immediately, but waved her hand to connect the communication request from above the ocean.
Suddenly, a half-meter-high virtual screen appeared in front of the two.
The entire ocean, visible to the naked eye for kilometers, was overrun by a seemingly weak yet vastly outnumbered species. They were insignificant compared to the skeletons floating on the surface, yet they were so numerous that they stretched as far as the eye could see, like the endless sand beneath the surface. These stunted, spawned insects instinctively guarded the massive, pale corpses, showing no sign of retreating even when bombarded by grenades raining down from the sky.
The clouds above were blown away by the strong wind. Under the moonlight, the air was filled with the buzzing of more flies and mosquitoes, which charged towards the drones and airships like a black mist. Their corpses fell to the sea surface in batches, rising and falling with the waves. From a distance, it looked like a black carpet spread across the waves.
These bugs did achieve brilliant results in combat. They destroyed the muzzles and engines of several drones, which fell down in a spiral, burning with flames.
“…”
Antonio's expression went from confusion to surprise to blankness.
"Arthur is even more ruthless to his own kind than we are to prisoners on the battlefield."
"I'm afraid he wouldn't consider them his own kind," Sabrina said slowly. "They have no thoughts, and perhaps their brains aren't even fully developed. They're just instincts and a consciousness driven by Arthur. They're a small, dispensable army that can be discarded at any time, and can be quickly assembled."
Analogous to the cloning technology that humans have been discussing but have never reached a conclusion... humans still have to consider many messy factors such as ethics, morals, and social repercussions. However, Arthur is the absolute worst of the Zerg, and they rarely have goodwill towards their own kind except their own relatives, so such a result is completely predictable.
Unfortunately, the humans only had too little time to learn that Arthur was capable of commanding the entire tribe.
It is not short enough to change many arrangements based on intelligence.
"He may have had a more dangerous plan. Once such an army is fully developed, it will be difficult to resist. And at this time, he is throwing out the immature larvae in a swarm to die. It is very likely that something has provoked him." "You are right." Sabrina looked at the screen, "But this cannot cover up our losses tonight... I am going to the Benoshi Sea."
"What? No!" Antonio immediately rejected it. "It's too dangerous!"
"I have to go." Sabrina stood up. "The Pope of the Vatican has regained consciousness and will definitely go to the front lines. The eyes of the whole world are on that battlefield right now. If I don't go, the popularity of the federal government and the Vatican will be significantly tilted by tomorrow morning."
"But……"
"No buts." The consul took off her long skirt and threw it on the ground. When she changed into a battle skirt that was more convenient for movement, she stood on tiptoe and kissed Antonio lightly on the lips.
The Minister of Defense was completely stunned.
"Don't worry, Antonio. I've been to war too."
Antonio looked at her in silence, almost at a loss of what to do.
**
The moon in the sky suddenly turned blood red.
At first people thought it was the light of an alarm light, but the red color was too bright and dazzling. More and more people realized that something was wrong and craned their necks to look at the deep blue night sky.
The blood-red color stayed on the round celestial body for only a moment, and soon disappeared like a film of dripping water.
The silver-white light enveloped the earth again.
On the nearby planet, Arthur raised his head calmly and felt that the two natural satellites in the sky, one on the left and one on the right of the horizon, suddenly turned into two eyes full of hatred and malice, looking down at him from above.
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