Chapter 366: The Shadow of Zeus, the Prophet's Message (asking for monthly tickets)
The instructor placed a tablet computer on the table, and on the screen there was a video waiting to be played.
The interface is all black, with a play button outlined with white lines hovering in the middle.
"Did you really send out Zeus? If I remember correctly, this should be the first time you sent him out." Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and looked at the tablet computer.
He knew that if he pressed the play button, a huge shadow covering the sky and the sun would appear on the screen. It was the figure of Zeus, the chief of the gods in ancient Greek mythology. The Salvation Society had obviously recorded the scene when he first carried out the mission.
"Indeed, this is the first time we've deployed Zeus. The situation came so suddenly. Zeus is the most powerful of the three children in our base who possess mythical anecdotes. However, his mental state is also the most unstable, so we deliberated for a long time before considering whether to deploy him."
The mentor spoke softly, took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, then took out a lighter from his sleeve, put the cigarette in his lips, and lit it close to the lighter.
With a "click" sound, the gun fell, flames rose, and then smoke curled up from his fingertips. At this moment, a cloud suddenly flew in slowly from outside the prison room and stopped under the silver-white ceiling. A little red-haired girl was sitting on it.
"Ji Minghuan, mentor, what are you two talking about? Why do you look so serious?" Sun Changkong asked with his head tilted.
The instructor was silent.
He adjusted the lenses on his nose, then unscrewed the lid of the thermos and took a sip of warm tea.
"Big sister, the instructor said he sent Zeus out, but they didn't call us out. Don't you think he's biased?" Ji Minghuan looked up at the red-haired girl on the Somersault Cloud and fanned the flames. "I'm almost suffocating being locked up here every day, and yet he won't let us go out to play."
"What can I do? The instructor must have his own ideas." Sun Changkong paused and muttered softly, "Although I also want to go out and play."
"Don't worry... In a few days, I'll apply to my superiors to let you go out for walks as much as possible." The instructor said softly, "Especially you, Ji Minghuan. You've been looking more and more haggard lately. This is not the appearance of a twelve-year-old child."
After saying that, he raised his head and glanced at Ji Minghuan's pale and thin face. His cheeks were slightly sunken, and only his pair of black eyes were still bright and lively, like a torch in the wilderness.
No one would think that this is how a twelve-year-old child should behave, but Ji Minghuan has been eating normally these days. The only explanation is that he has serious psychological problems. Thinking of this, the instructor took a deep breath.
"Nonsense... Using one brain to control five bodies at the same time every day, I wonder if you are haggard?" Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan sighed secretly in his heart.
"Apply to the higher-ups? Who are they?" He was silent for a moment and then asked.
"Leaders of the Salvation Society, do you have any questions?" The mentor looked up and met his gaze.
"So, apart from you, I don't seem to have met any other senior members of the Salvation Society. This is really strange." Ji Minghuan said, "Could it be that..." He hesitated to speak.
"What do you want to say?" the tutor asked disapprovingly, smoking a cigarette.
"They're not afraid of me, are they?" Ji Minghuan thought for a moment. "They don't want me to remember what they look like, so they stay out of my sight so they can escape after the base explodes, right?"
He paused for a moment, then looked up at his mentor. "Actually, I've thought of another possibility... You've actually brainwashed everyone in the Salvation Society. You may seem like a mere underling, but in reality, you've accomplished the feat of usurping power."
The instructor was slightly stunned.
Sun Changkong was also stunned by what she heard. She just clapped her hands while sitting on the somersault cloud, tilted her head and said, "Oh! Teacher, you are so powerful! Once you take control of the Salvation Society and kill those old guys, won't we be free?"
The instructor smiled and said, "If there is that opportunity, then I might really give you freedom."
"You said that a liar should swallow a thousand needles," said Sun Changkong.
"Of course, I never break my promise," the instructor said. "Xiaokong, you've become more cheerful. You used to tell me you wanted to stay here forever, but you've changed since you met Ji Minghuan."
"I just want to go to many places with him." Sun Changkong curled his lips, revealing his little fangs. "We can celebrate his birthday in many places: the North Pole, the South Pole, Australia, the Pacific Ocean. I want to celebrate my birthday on a polar bear and a whale. And then write 'Ji Minghuan and Sun Changkong were here' on their backs!"
"Big sister, I don't want to celebrate my birthday on the back of a whale. Besides, my birthday is only for one day. How can we go to so many places?" Ji Minghuan asked unhappily.
"What do you think I'm sitting on now?" Sun Changkong said, patting the somersault cloud.
"Oh, that's true." Ji Minghuan said, "Then why don't you take the others with you?"
Sun Changkong shook his head. "You are my first friend. This is the first time I celebrate my birthday with someone else. I only want to be with you. Is that not okay?"
"So corny."
"It's corny to say it out loud, and you, the one listening, are not allowed to have any objections." Sun Changkong pursed his lips, his ears and face turned slightly red, and his little fangs trembled with anger.
The mentor smiled gently and tolerantly, holding his chin, smoking a cigarette and looking at the two of them.
Ji Minghuan turned around and looked at him, "If I were a high-ranking official in the Salvation Society, I would definitely get rid of you first."
"What do you mean by this?" The instructor put out his cigarette.
"Because the most powerful children in the world trust you and are willing to lend you their strength," Ji Minghuan said slowly. "If you wanted to rebel, wouldn't it be a matter of minutes? Who knows what evil plans you have in mind right now?"
The tutor was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed softly.
"You have a point, but I'm following their will to approach you, risking my life to become good friends with geniuses like you. If they turn against me, there's nothing I can do." The mentor smiled faintly. "Don't you agree, Changkong?"
"What?" Sun Changkong blinked and turned around. He hadn't been paying attention to what he said just now. He was still thinking about traveling around the Arctic on the back of a polar bear.
"If I were killed by them, would you be sad for me? Or... angry?"
"Of course." Sun Changkong was stunned for a moment, then frowned fiery red. "If they dare to bully you, I will definitely beat them into mooncakes with a stick."
Ji Minghuan held his chin and looked at the two of them quietly, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
Originally, he just wanted to make a joke, to see if he could guide the top leaders of the Salvation Society to pay attention to this guy with a wolf in sheep's clothing, and prevent the mentor's conspiracy from developing unchecked - judging from the red traffic light incident, the mentor and the Salvation Society were obviously not of the same mind.
But after the mentor said this, the top leaders of the Salvation Society took the risks into consideration and would never take action against him.
Ji Minghuan thought for a moment and continued, "If I were a high-ranking member of the Salvation Society, after I'd gotten rid of you, I might consider creating a safe artificial human to replace you. That way, I wouldn't have to worry about angering the children... He'd look like you and have the same voice, so he could gain the children's trust. But he'd also be safer and more obedient than you. Isn't that perfect?"
"Ji Minghuan, do you really want me dead?" The instructor took a sip of tea. "There's no need to say such incendiary words."
"Come to think of it, I still don't know the name of the person holding the Zeus fragment." Ji Minghuan said.
"I don't know either." said Sun Changkong.
"Wu Qingjie," the instructor said, "That's the child's name. He's a very pitiful child. Don't be fooled by his crazy appearance; he actually has a kind heart."
"Is he outside the Salvation Society?" Ji Minghuan asked.
"No, he's back," said the mentor.
"So what kind of major incident outside would force you to deploy Zeus?" Ji Minghuan looked into his instructor's eyes and asked curiously, "Didn't you say you wouldn't release him unless it was a critical moment? After all, a single careless move could lead to the destruction of the country."
"Just yesterday... we received intelligence that the light-eating bees that escaped the whale's garden actually had two queens. They were sisters," the instructor pondered. "Rainbow Wing eliminated the queen on the uninhabited island. But the other queen still survived. The first queen escaped to an uninhabited island near Japan."
"And then?" Ji Minghuan pondered, "Where did the other queen bee go?"
"It hid in the slums of India," the instructor said. "This was a very bold decision... This is a place many people would never expect to find, so no one has discovered it for all these years. This queen bee has been secretly eating."
He paused. "In the end, it gave birth to three queens in India, but they weren't as strong as the four in Japan. But as long as there are multiple queens, there's a risk of a queen being born."
"So, you urgently dispatched Zeus just to eliminate the light-eating bees in India in one fell swoop?" Ji Minghuan said without hesitation.
The instructor nodded. "On the uninhabited island, we saw what happens after a queen bee is born. It nearly wiped out Rainbow Wing alone. So, we must never take that risk again."
"Did you finish it?"
"Perfect! The three major bee queens in India were completely wiped out, and the queen was also completely killed."
"Although the result is good, isn't Zeus still not stable enough? Why not send out the big sister?" Ji Minghuan said.
"Yes, yes, why don't Ji Minghuan and I go? He's watching my performance from behind." Sun Changkong also said.
"He's become very stable," the instructor said. "He can now control his power with ease."
"Really?" Ji Minghuan looked at him unhappily. "Tell me, how many people were accidentally injured? Or did you kill everyone in the entire city?"
"Not really. You can confirm it with your own eyes." The instructor said quietly, "The power of God..."
Ji Minghuan hesitated for a moment, then looked at the tablet computer on the table. He got off the bed, sat down across from his instructor, and pressed a button on the screen.
The video started playing, it was only ten seconds long. Sun Changkong also flew over on the somersault cloud and landed next to Ji Minghuan. He put his head close to look at the computer screen with him.
On the screen was a night sky, with a drizzle of rain breaking through the clouds and falling onto the barren earth.
"Boom!" Suddenly, a thunder that seemed powerful enough to tear the atmosphere apart came from the darkness.
Immediately, a light like midnight day illuminated the entire world, dyeing the entire computer screen white.
A moment later, when the bright white color faded away, a huge shadow with lightning flashing all over its body appeared in the night sky.
Cold and eye-catching.
He wore a helmet made of cast steel on his head, and his eyes, shrouded in shadows, were now flashing with the light of midnight. The armor he wore reflected pieces of dancing lightning, shining brightly in the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, a pair of wings of light like a giant bird unfolded behind it, sweeping away the rain with a clanging sound.
At this moment, against the backdrop of lightning, the sacred and inviolable figure in the night sky appeared even more arrogant and brutal.
He lowered his head and looked at the earth, like a monarch overlooking the world that belongs to him.
In the slums, countless light-eating bees raised their heads, absorbing the light showered from the giant figure. But the next moment, Zeus transformed into a beam of light and descended from the sky. The world was completely silent, and then, with a deafening roar, it lost all color.
The video playback ends here.
Ji Minghuan and Sun Changkong remained frozen in place. The instructor silently put away the tablet and walked out of the cell. It took a while for the two children to regain their composure.
"Is this... Zeus?" Ji Minghuan thought.
They turned their heads at the same time and their heads bumped together.
"What are you doing?"
"That's what I'm asking you."
They looked at the instructor's back and saw him waving at them without turning back.
"Go to the park and play, they are waiting for you." After saying that, the instructor disappeared in the corridor.
"Zeus looks very powerful, but I feel he is a little bit inferior to your Sun Wukong." Ji Minghuan was silent for a while and then spoke.
"Is that so?" Sun Changkong asked.
"Let's go, stop thinking about it and go play with them."
"Wait, I have a question for you."
"What's the problem?"
"Do you remember my birthday?" Sun Changkong suddenly asked.
"I remember."
"Then let me test you. When is my birthday?" Sun Changkong said, lowering his head and staring at him suspiciously. "Don't let me down, please."
"September..." Ji Minghuan paused for a moment, watching Sun Changkong's slightly open mouth, looking apprehensive. He suddenly smiled, "September 5th, right?"
Sun Changkong was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
"How could I forget? Stop thinking about it." Ji Minghuan said, "Let's go to the paradise to meet Xiaoling and the others." As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly a mercury color enveloped the entire world.
here we go again!
Ji Minghuan showed astonishment on his face, then raised his head and stared blankly at the world covered in mercury.
The smile on the red-haired girl's face suddenly froze, and the clouds that were rolling and swirling in the sky also stopped at this moment. Everything was so strange that it seemed like a silent movie, making people scream and scratch.
At this time, a blurry shadow suddenly appeared at the entrance of the prison cell. He looked much taller than Ji Minghuan. He was wearing a white cloak and his face was blurry under his messy hair, like a mosaic.
No... What the hell is this thing? Not only can it stop time, but it also appears so arrogantly under the noses of the Salvation Society? Ji Minghuan sat cross-legged on the bed, sizing up the figure at the entrance, lost in thought.
"Who are you……"
After a moment, Ji Minghuan murmured cautiously. At this moment, a name suddenly exploded in his mind, and he blurted out, "Prophet?"
The shadow, dragging a tattered white cloak, walked towards us step by step, like a lonely ghost from the desert, and each step was so reluctant.
"I'll come see you in two days... Wait for me, it's almost over." The hoarse and confused voice fell, "I won't... repeat the same mistake this time."
After saying that, the other person's figure suddenly disappeared, and then the world returned to its original color again, shrouded in a cold light.
"What's wrong with you, Ji Minghuan?" Sun Changkong sat on the somersault cloud and waved in front of Ji Minghuan, only to see Ji Minghuan standing there motionless. "Are you scared silly by that guy called Zeus, or do you have a fever?" she asked worriedly, then reached out and touched Ji Minghuan's head, and her palm was cold.
After a long while, Ji Minghuan came back to his senses, "I just suddenly thought of what to do for your birthday."
"Really?" Sun Changkong was stunned.
"Of course." Ji Minghuan said, "Let's go, don't waste time here."
After saying that, he stood up from his chair absentmindedly. Sun Changkong retracted his somersault cloud and followed happily.
As Ji Minghuan walked towards the exit of the prison cell, he pondered, "Two days? Will the prophet come to find me in two days? Should I tell my mentors this information, or keep it a secret from them?"
"Oh no... The situation is getting more and more wrong. Let's just take it one step at a time." Thinking of this, he walked out of the prison cell and disappeared into the light of the corridor barefoot.
(End of this chapter)
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