Following Captain Mu's instructions, Su Mingan came to the edge of the inner city, where there was a church.
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[Team Mu (21:45): It seems to have been blown up. It doesn’t matter, the emotional resonance device inside should still be usable.]
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The church had been destroyed in the war, with red tiles and rubble piled on the ground. It was a building built before the century-old catastrophe, standing in the Doomsday City for sixty years, but was eventually destroyed in the civil strife.
Su Mingan stretched out his hand, the Ring of Time shone, and his finger pointed at the church.
Suddenly, bricks and stones flew up from the ground, and the emerald green dome was automatically pieced together, revealing the outline of the church. In less than ten seconds, it had returned to its original magnificent appearance.
When he pushed open the door, Su Mingan saw many soldiers' bodies on the ground.
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[Team Mu (21:45): This side is close to several dungeons. I think there was an argument between the prisoners and the escort team.]
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Su Mingan passed by these corpses. There was a small back room at the end of the red carpet of the church. It was said that there was a resonance device inside.
I pushed the door open with a creaky sound, and saw a machine connected by red and blue circuits. Next to it was a simple chair, which looked like a room for confession or atonement. There was an old man sitting on the chair, half leaning on the chair, with his head drooping, his face paler than paper, like a dead body.
Several connecting wires were attached around the old man's head, and the machine made a slight roar. The old man was using this emotional resonance device.
Emotional resonance devices are not good things - most people don't need to experience someone else's life. For people, this thing is more of a torture device that destroys willpower and punishes prisoners.
Su Mingan quickly pulled apart the connecting wires, and the old man lost resonance and fell forward.
"...Why are you here?" Su Mingan held the old man's shoulders.
He had never expected that there would be someone here. He even suspected that Captain Mu had deliberately led him to see this person.
The old man's eyelids moved slightly, his pupils became scarlet and turbid due to the torture of resonance, and his hair was gray, as if covered with a layer of snow.
He stared at Su Mingan's face for a long time:
“I’m… dreaming?
Although you look different, I have a feeling... You are Lord Lewis, you came to see me, right?"
Su Mingan frowned: "Yes. Can you still walk by yourself?"
The old man held on to the armrests of the chair and tried to stand up, but failed.
Although the old man's face was haggard and as thin as skin and bones, Su Mingan still recognized him - the old man was Sen Celstia.
Sen was the original leader of Fenghuo and the target of their rescue this time. Just an hour ago, when Su Mingan sneaked into the building, he heard Sen tell the escort Rongyuan that he wanted to betray Lord Lewis.
Su Mingan still remembers clearly what Sen said, "If I provide you with information about Lord Lewis, can you give me my freedom?"
As for why Sen appeared here, it might be that the escort team was intercepted midway, which led to someone torturing Sen. Sen is one of the key figures in the main quest "Resurrection of All Things", and he cannot be allowed to die here.
Su Mingan put the wheelchair out: "Get in."
"No, no... How can I use your things..." Sen waved his hands repeatedly.
"Come up." Su Ming'an grabbed Sen's hand, pressed Sen into the wheelchair, and pushed the wheelchair out of the room.
The wheelchair had no power source and was no different from an ordinary wheelchair. The church floor was covered with sticky blood and corpses. Sen leaned on the creaking wheelchair, gasping for breath.
Cold sweat kept dripping down the old man's forehead, his pupils grew larger and smaller, and his fingers trembled unconsciously.
"How long have you been using the resonance device?" Su Mingan said.
"Ten...thirteen minutes," Mori replied.
"Why do you need to use it?" Su Mingan frowned. Noah lasted only fifteen minutes before he passed away. Sen was already old, and thirteen minutes...
Mori just gasped.
Su Mingan pushed the wheelchair, surrounded by the bodies of soldiers. The church was originally destroyed by artillery fire, and it was the Ring of Time that restored it to its original state. Most of these soldiers were crushed to death by bricks and stones. Only Sen, who was hiding in the back room, was still alive.
Not sure what's going on here.
Due to the cold weather, Sen's pupils were covered with a layer of mist. He looked at the corpses with eyes as if he was about to cry, but his expression remained extremely calm, forming a contrasting quietness.
Su Mingan pushed the wheelchair, bumping and rubbing along the way. Sen suddenly whispered:
"……sorry."
"What?" Su Mingan didn't hear what he said clearly.
"Lord, I'm sorry..." Mori said.
Su Mingan's expression remained unchanged, and even his eyes did not tremble.
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Su Mingan said.
It was just betrayal, he heard it with his own ears, but he was not angry.
He has learned to value what should be valued and ignore what should be ignored. If betrayed, it is common; if hostile, it is also normal; if loved, it is accepted as an extra gift. If you don't learn to be extravagant, you won't suffer too much pain. If you don't cherish a treasure, you won't be too sad when you lose it.
He looked straight ahead. The patterns on the church door were extremely gorgeous, as if they were painted with some ancient myths, containing the buried wishes of people before the century-old catastrophe. The old man in the wheelchair kept coughing, and his gray hair kept shaking.
"…I'm sorry, Lord."
Ke Sen's next words changed Su Ming'an's expression.
"You clearly wanted to give out false information so that they couldn't find you, but he was discovered by the Wei army and tortured to this extent..."
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