Chapter 137
As soon as Su Mingqi changed, Yun Shiqing immediately noticed something was wrong and stared into his eyes, his eyes full of a stubborn pursuit of the truth.
Su Mingqi seemed to be hurt by his expression. His expression twisted for a moment, and he avoided his gaze. His voice trembled, and for a moment he couldn't utter a coherent sentence: "This is my Heresy Monitoring Bureau..."
Yun Shiqing's expression was as resolute as it had been all those years ago. He wouldn't allow Su Mingqi to dodge. He grabbed his wrist and looked into his eyes, which were filled with pain. "I want to know, Mingqi. Tell me, okay?"
Su Mingqi's lips trembled.
"No matter what the truth is," Yun Shiqing smiled bitterly. He had already realized that the secret Su Mingqi was hiding was definitely not a good thing, but he still lowered his voice, maintaining a gentle tone, and said to Su Mingqi in an almost coaxing tone, "We will share it together."
"Don't leave me alone in this vortex of deception."
"Okay?" Yun Shiqing's voice was choked with sobs that he tried hard to suppress. He looked into Su Mingqi's eyes and asked again, "Okay?"
Su Mingqi couldn't withstand such a look. He almost collapsed in an instant, stretched out his arms, and pressed Yun Shiqing heavily in his arms.
Yun Shiqing heard Su Mingqi's unsteady breathing and heard him say in a trembling voice: "Okay, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything."
After a few moments of silence, Su Mingqi spoke again: "I have always been against the sacrifice plan. I even had a big fight with you over this matter. Do you remember?"
Yun Shiqing: "I remember."
At that time, H City fell and countless humans were in danger. The nine candidate monsters started a war of gods. The situation was too critical and humans had reached a dead end. Apart from the sacrifice plan, there was no better way to end it all.
As one of the high-level psychics, Yun Shiqing resolutely agreed to participate in the sacrifice plan.
Su Mingqi firmly disagreed, and even had a quarrel with Yun Shiqing when they met for the last time.
After the quarrel, they parted unhappily, but they didn't expect that this would be their last conversation.
"I know you're a very stubborn person. The only way to make you give up this idea is to find other evidence." Su Mingqi took a deep breath and said, "So after we separated, I persuaded Xiao Feng and sneaked into the headquarters with him."
"There, we overheard a top-secret meeting between high-level officials."
Yun Shiqing's breath caught in his throat. "What did they say?"
Su Mingqi's voice grew increasingly dry: "They tore up an agreement."
"protocol?"
"The New World Peace Treaty," Su Mingqi slowly read out the name of the agreement, "also known as the New World Armistice Agreement."
He clearly no longer felt cold, but Yun Shiqing could feel his teeth chattering.
Yun Shiqing felt dizzy and almost unable to process the chilling meaning of the eight words "peace treaty and armistice agreement." He had no choice but to tug at Su Mingqi's collar and ask through gritted teeth, "What do you mean by a peace treaty? Who proposed it, and why are they tearing it up?"
Su Mingqi looked down at him. At this point, there was no turning back. Su Mingqi said in a dull voice, "The one who proposed the agreement was Huang Liang."
"[Huang Liang] has agreed to a ceasefire. As long as the Heresy Monitoring Bureau signs this agreement, he will restrain the monsters and try to establish a balanced mechanism with humans, building a new world where monsters and humans can coexist."
But the Heresy Monitoring Bureau eventually tore up the agreement and chose the sacrifice plan. Why?
"If the New World Peace Treaty is established, the power of the superpowers will not be able to continue its expansive expansion, but will instead be constrained by the strange monsters." Su Mingqi's lips moved, and his voice sounded like an invisible doorway in Yun Shiqing's ears, buzzing in his ears and making him inaudible. "They think that instead of agreeing to the agreement, it would be better to initiate the sacrifice plan. Not only will it make the strange monsters disappear directly, but it will also eliminate the dissidents and eliminate a group of uncontrolled high-level superpowers."
Yun Shiqing let go of Su Mingqi's collar in a daze and took a step back.
It turns out that Cen Xun had already proposed a ceasefire agreement, and it turns out that everything really has a chance of turning around.
It turns out that the sacrifice of so many of them was just one of the means by which the top leaders eliminated dissidents.
Yun Shiqing looked at his hands in a trance. If the sacrifice plan was not necessary, then how many people had been killed by his self-righteous sacrifice?
Seeing Yun Shiqing's extremely blank expression, Su Mingqi said anxiously, "It's not your fault! How could it be your fault? The fault lies with those profit-seeking higher-ups, those officials who treat human lives like worthless. It's not your fault!"
The teeth chattered even more violently.
Yun Shiqing recalled the voices and smiles of his former comrades, the blood on the ground during the sacrifice, and the many monsters transformed from humans in the nightmare world.
Did God let him come back to life and face all this soberly? Was it to make him understand how many sins he had committed that could not be redeemed?
At this moment, Shen Yaoshan suddenly pushed the door open and said in a serious tone, "Come quickly, the warden is awake!"
What! Yun Shiqing and Su Mingqi were both stunned. After returning from Chiyuan Prison, the warden had been in a coma. Feng Jihan had given him long-term treatment, but the effect was not great. They had thought that it would be difficult for the warden to wake up again.
After the shock, Yun Shiqing quickly realized that when the maritime heretic detention center was lost, the warden was in the detention center. The warden must know something about the riot!
Without having time to think about anything else, Yun Shiqing and Su Mingqi immediately set off for the medical school.
When they arrived, He Zhan and others had already surrounded the warden's bed. When Yun Shiqing stepped through the door, the people surrounding the bed were working together to press the struggling warden back onto the bed.
The warden gasped hoarsely, like an old beast cornered at the end of its rope. His eyes were wide open, spider-web-like red bloodshot in them. His bony body was twisted into a strange shape and he slammed heavily on the bed. Even with so many people together, they could hardly hold him down.
When the warden saw Yun Shiqing, his eyes widened even more. He opened his mouth wide, as if he was eager to say something, and patted the bed under him with one hand.
"don't want"
Yun Shiqing held the old hand tightly and leaned over to listen: "You speak, I am listening."
"No, no sacrifice." The warden's voice was almost tearful: "Agreement, prison gate, conspiracy!"
Yun Shiqing no longer knew how much more of a shock the truth he had learned today could have on him. He murmured, "What conspiracy?"
The scene in front of him suddenly changed. The old and ferocious warden on the hospital bed disappeared, and was replaced by a younger warden.
He was dressed in formal attire and stood at the door of the heretic detention center to receive officials who came to inspect.
During the reception, the warden keenly noticed something was wrong from the officials' words and actions; it seemed they were not just here for inspection.
His premonition came true. When they entered the internment center, the officials immediately revealed their true intentions and demanded that he dismantle the internal defense system of the internment center for heretics.
The shocked warden naturally refused sternly, but unexpectedly these people were well prepared. The psychics around the officials rushed forward, took the warden hostage, and used his authority to forcibly dismantle the internal defense system.
The warden finally realized that this was not a joke, they actually wanted to release the monster from the Heretic Internment Hall!
What's funny is that the warden at that time still firmly believed that it must be [Huang Liang] who controlled these officials with puppet strings, causing them to do such a thing, so he no longer hesitated, found an opportunity, and immediately launched his skill [Judgment of Sin] on these people.
Through the vision of "Judgment of Sin", the warden clearly saw the sins committed by these officials.
They tore up the "New World Peace Treaty" handed over by [Huang Liang]. In order to have sufficient reasons to start the sacrifice plan, they designed provocations and brought about the war of gods ahead of time. The nine candidate monsters fought each other, and the monsters under their rule lost their restraint and rushed into H City to hunt crazily.
Once the nightmare world is completed, the monsters will go away, there will be no powerful enemies, and competitors with different political views will be eliminated, and people with special abilities will be able to occupy a larger living space in the real world.
Almost all the top officials came from various superpower families. Therefore, the regime held hostage by the superpowers inevitably turned to the superpowers and was no longer a protective umbrella for ordinary people.
Even if tens of millions of people died, it would still be just a number to those in power.
The warden was shocked and angry when he learned the truth. He wanted to contact the outside world, stop the sacrifice and expose this atrocity, but the other party had already made sufficient preparations. A mutant blew himself up on the spot, and a crack appeared in the defense system.
The monsters imprisoned in the shelter immediately rioted and tried to break out. If they were allowed to leave, the disaster would escalate to an even more uncontrollable level.
The warden had to stay and use [Judgment of Sin] to forcibly hold back the escaping monsters.
But what should be done with those psychics who were sacrificed, and what should be done with the fallen H City?
With such a government, where will the future of mankind go?
He desperately wanted to convey the news. Perhaps everything had already happened and he was powerless to change the outcome, but at least, he had to let others know that the authorities who had caused such a tragedy could not be trusted!
This obsession supported the warden and allowed him to survive until ten years later, when he struggled to wake up from the chaotic nightmare and finally fulfilled his obsession.
"Save the innocent," the warden said, his bloodshot eyes fading as the light in them gradually faded. "Give peace to mankind."
His lifelong wish was condensed in this sentence.
These were the last words left by the warden.
There was dead silence all around, and no one spoke for a long time.
At the door, Feng Jihan held on to the door frame, he lowered his eyelashes and closed his eyes.
Cheng Feng suddenly woke up.
He still remembered that when he was in H University, he would be killed by monsters every evening, and the cycle would repeat the next day. This went on for many days until his mentor Cen Xun appeared and saved him from the monsters.
Later, a fire broke out at H University, and it changed its name and became Nightmare University. He became a low-level monster and lived in a daze every day.
Fortunately, even though he became an insane NPC student, the senior weird teacher of Nightmare University did not bully him. He was arranged to be an NPC classmate in some dungeons, a key clue figure in serial tasks, and a cannon fodder for the horror atmosphere group.
At first, he only knew how to follow orders, could not think, and only knew how to eat. Later, he listened to the conversations between players and gradually began to concentrate his thoughts and remember some things.
Those memories seemed to become very distant, but he had an inexplicable obsession and had to remember them all.
Until today, he upgraded.
The fog that shrouded his mind suddenly dissipated, and the vague connections were completely opened up. He finally remembered everything!
Cheng Feng came to the administrative building hesitantly with a nervous mood.
The high-level monsters coming and going were all surprised to see him come in.
“Isn’t this a student?”
"How did the students get here? Don't they have a set route?"
"I don't know. Is there a bug? Should I report it to the principal?"
After a discussion, a high-level monster finally tried to talk to Cheng Feng: "Classmate, who are you looking for?"
Cheng Feng mustered up his courage and said to them, "I, I want to find Teacher Cen."
The ghosts were shocked when they heard this and looked at each other in surprise.
"Classmate, do you have something to ask Teacher Cen?"
Cheng Feng nodded hesitantly: "It's not a big deal. If Teacher Cen is busy, forget it."
Cheng Feng didn't want to disturb Cen Xun so suddenly, but apart from his mentor who saved him from the recurring nightmare, Cheng Feng really didn't know who he should tell about this.
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