Chapter 543: The Unhappy Mercury Lamp

The abyss is an idea, an ultimate virus, a destructive tendency that can infect everything.

It is not only the mortal enemy of life but also the destroyer of non-life.

Not only animals and plants can be alienated and distorted under the influence of the abyss, but even thoughtless mountains, rivers, earth, rocks, and oceans will fall into madness when faced with the erosion of the abyss. When a planet is completely eroded by the abyss, its biggest reaction is self-abuse. Extreme self-flagellation, the kind of self-flagellation that makes every M-maniac tremble with fear. It will fall into storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, orbit changes, and even people who crash into the sun will act crazy. The idea of ​​destruction will control everything, not even the entire planet. survived.

For example, the Earth King in the current world of "School Apocalypse".

This is something that finally dawned on me, but why didn’t I think of it in the first place?

The raging dead bodies, frequent earthquakes and tsunamis around the world, thunderstorms, typhoons, crazy self-flagellation, and the Earth King who is trapped in M ​​mode and cannot extricate himself. Isn't this a living manifestation of being polluted by the energy of the abyss?

I didn’t think of this at first. There are many reasons. The first is naturally because I haven’t dealt with the Abyss for a long time, which made me forget Ya’s virtues. The second is because of what the world of “School Apocalypse” is currently experiencing. The abnormality is actually different from the normal abyss infection.

According to the knowledge that Sandora once forcibly instilled in me, if the entire celestial body falls into a state of frequent disasters under the influence of the abyss, it only means one thing: the infection it has suffered has reached its limit.

The so-called extreme infection is a very abstract concept. To describe it requires more than 300 subjects that I have never heard of and about 700,000 to 800,000 key values ​​​​that once almost caused me to have a schizophrenia. If anyone is full and wants to be a bricklayer, You can order a thirty-volume set of the "Encyclopedia of the Abyss" from the Imperial Ministry of Culture, but now everyone in front of the monitor only needs to know one thing: in this case, everything will be ruined, especially life—— If there had ever been life on its surface, they would have been completely destroyed within the first twenty-four hours of extreme infection, leaving not even a clump of protein behind.

But the state of the blue planet under our feet is a bit strange: it is prone to disasters, the sky is falling apart, and it is so mucky that it cannot extricate itself, but the life on its surface is still alive and kicking. Of course, this requires exterminating the almost dead human race.

And there is another point, and what puzzles me the most, is that until now, the painfully accurate energy sensing radar of the Imperial Admiral has not detected any abyssal reaction on the "Earth", causing the entire planet to self-destruct. In this case, there is still no abyss energy at all?

This doesn't fit in with Abyss' usual slutty character! They seem to be the kind of things that are afraid that others will not know their arrival, and they will be covered in black smoke wherever they go. They wish they could carve the words "The big boss is here" on every passing horse. But what do we do this time? No trace of abyss energy found?

Today is already the second day in this weird world, and it is also the second day in the rescue operation of human civilization. How can I put it, the situation is not optimistic.

The hundreds of New Eden Federation servant battleships brought by the imperial fleet, including a large number of Terran battlecruisers, Protos aircraft carriers, and Hercules-class transport ships, have now all landed on the earth, with millions of search troops We and nearly 100 million smart probes were searching the entire planet almost like a dragnet, but after two full days, we found less than 270,000 human survivors.

And there are 270,000 people who are dying.

I can't imagine what a desolate hell we would have faced if we had come to this world two days later.

Is this luck or misfortune for mankind? I feel that I am particularly messy and tangled right now, just like Prince Hamlet who studied death or life in the middle of the night.

But there is finally a good thing: as long as the seeds exist, civilization will not be extinct. Even if it eventually turns into another weird look, at least it will survive tenaciously. Perhaps earth civilization will end here, but human civilization may We can still stand up again. The most important thing for us now is how to let the 270,000 human survivors who are trembling and most of them are insane also establish such values. This is not easy. I think we need Some military chaplains.

So now I particularly miss Lilina who traveled through time and space and got lost in some nook and cranny - of course what I miss is not her evil ideas that are naturally dark to the bone, but that girl's little mouth that can fool Tang Monk into it. .

Speaking of which, I wonder if Elder Tang is used to living in Shadow City now. It is said that on the second day after he moved in, he met Laura Stewart who came to sell Bibles door-to-door. I hope they don’t have a fight after a confrontation of three views. Blood splattered five steps, and I have experienced the almost paranoid piety of that guy Laura - eh? Isn’t that girl bishop who is always seventeen years old the best military chaplain?

And she absolutely loves to preach to the 270,000 lambs who have just experienced the destruction of their racial civilization and are in serious confusion. This work has low risk and high success rate, and once it is completed, it will be a great achievement. Maybe it will make the cross religion become a certain religion in the future. The racial beliefs of the new civilization, this guy is definitely rushing to do this. She will not harm Elder Tang who finally took a break from the journey of learning.

Just do it as soon as you think of it, you have nothing to do anyway, and it just so happens that the emperor’s private cabin has all kinds of functions, from a holographic projection of more than 600 inches of Tetris to fitness equipment that requires more than ten tons of radial pulling force to pull apart. A well-fed otaku girl prepared everything, and one of its functions was a coordinate-free teleportation system directly connected to the Shadow City: a device that could directly pull people in the Shadow City to her side. , I used it to tease Little Bubble before, but the result was that it took about two hours to coax the little princess who was scared to cry by me.

"Laura! Laura Stewart! Something is wrong with your boss!"

"Ah?" A certain "girl"'s startled voice rang out hastily. I could almost imagine the fox girl being frightened by the sudden voice in her mind and looking around blankly, "Lord God? Are you here?" Call me? Didn’t you go to another world?”

"That's why I called you - are you free now? There are more than 270,000 lost lambs here who need you to save them. Your task is to deceive them into believing that the world is still beautiful and that humans are not extinct yet."

Laura answered very happily: "Of course, Laura will serve her master at any time..."

"Okay, the transmission begins!"

"Teleport? Oh wait, I'm..."

A flash of white light flashed.

What did you think of at this time?

Combining the words "wait" and "I am" above with the yd gene in the bones of the general public, I estimate that more than half of the people have thought: Could there be a beautiful blond girl soaking in the bathtub with no hair on her hair? , or the greatest bishop who is humming a tune with bubbles all over his body, right?

If that were the case, it would be really worth looking forward to - but unfortunately, this kind of cheesy but also loving death scene is not for me...

What appeared in front of him was a... cocoon, to be precise, a big golden cocoon.

If there weren't a pair of girl's feet and a pair of arms holding a comb sticking out from under it, I would have thought that there would be a bunch of gourd babies standing after this thing was broken open - by the way, the gourd babies shouldn't come out of cocoons, right?

"What kind of monster is this!"

I didn't expect how this thing appeared at first. I even ignored the almost completely covered bare ankle at the bottom. Pointing at the cocoon-like thing that suddenly appeared in front of me, my first reaction was: Huh? Are there any who have traveled through time now? Is this a baby Pokémon?

"Lord God, if you have time to laugh at your servants, why don't you come and save me..."

Laura's muffled voice came from the monster's belly, "I was combing my hair just now..."

Ahem, in short, dozens of minutes later.

"Lola, let me tell you something." I said righteously after having spent a lot of effort to straighten someone's 2.796 Pandora's hair, "You really need to cut your hair!" "

The other party pretended not to hear.

Forget it, I no longer have any hope for this greatest bishop who is seriously inconsistent with the original work, and may even be coming out of a secondary setting.

I briefly told Laura the current situation. Although the other party didn't quite understand what biohazard and the M attribute were, she quickly understood what I meant.

"That's it. Now we have found 270,000 survivors. If there are no accidents, this may even be the total number of all human beings in the world. Moreover, their condition is very bad. It is not fair to say that they have a collective mental breakdown. However, at least half of the people we found are mentally ill. The self-mutilation and mutual harm caused by various mental disorders cannot be stopped. Many refugees firmly believe that sooner or later they will suddenly turn into dead bodies if they are with so many people. So I desperately want to kill the 'superfluous people' around me. They have no trust in our psionic protective force field - of course, this is normal. I just hope you can solve this problem now, even if it allows them to calm down temporarily. It’s okay to come down, I don’t want my spaceship to become the last lunatic asylum on earth. To be honest, I still hope that these last people can rebuild their civilization with their own hands.”

"So that's it, I understand." Laura listened to me quietly, with a calmness on her face that I had never seen before, even the faint smile that I called a fox's smile that never disappeared. The smile was now gone. After looking at me silently for a few seconds, the most scheming bishop suddenly lowered his head and clasped his hands in front of his chest.

"kindness??"

"Just praying..." After a long time, Laura raised her head, "Pray for the people who have died. Maybe in your eyes, the living people are more important than the dead, but for me, at least I have to pray for them. After all, I’m afraid this world no longer has a destination for their souls.”

I must admit that this is the first time in my life that I see sincerity and sadness in the eyes of this fox-like older "girl" in front of me.

"Huh, anyway, thank you for your hard work."

Suddenly, I vaguely felt that maybe this task was not something worthy of joy for Laura.

She is a devout Christian, no matter how dark her bones are, this is the only thing that cannot be denied. Even if she has a lot of hypocrisy, at least the Christian teachings are what she has always followed.

It is simply an insult to think that such a person would be happy because the human race is extinct and he has the opportunity to preach.

"This is your favor," Laura said calmly. "Seeing that you are working so hard for strangers in the distant world, I should not stand idly by in any case - then, please take me to see those poor people. People..."

Take Laura to the refugee gathering area of ​​the Imperial Admiral - almost half of the refugees have gathered here, and the most troublesome group of people are also inside. They are separated by isolation gratings, and each has its own small area. This makes people with severe crowd phobia feel somewhat better, but their external aggression is still there.

"I want to take a walk here first to see their situation," Laura whispered. "There is no need to worry about my safety. No matter how powerful the humans here are, they can't hurt the largest bishop of the British Puritan Church. You just need to prepare for me." Just some helpers, such as my attendants who stay in the Shadow City."

I scratched my hair: "I thought you could handle it alone."

Laura: "Jesus used twelve!"

As a prostitute, Aunt Laura, you are so tough.

According to Laura's request, after arranging to transport a group of Christian believers to come to help, I left the refugee area, took a taxi and returned to the command hall - eh? By the way, why is there such a suspicious thing as a taxi in my flagship?

Although a long axis is hundreds of kilometers long, most places need to rely on space transmission to complete intra-ship movement. Occasionally, individual fighters need to be taken to the command center next door for meetings. Even a "space battleship logistics department" will have "urban planning and construction". The giant space fortress of "Department" is full of all kinds of complaints, but in theory, the Taxi Shenma shouldn't appear in this kind of military ship, right? !

Which army was that soldier who was renting out to earn money in Lili, the flagship of the Interstellar Alliance just now? Well, well, it's probably no one else besides Sicaro's heavy defense corps.

"It looks like you're a little unhappy, stupid human being," I had just complained about the unscrupulous soldiers who rented cars in the spaceship to spend their days. A somewhat cold and distant voice suddenly sounded above my head. I just raised my head. When he came, he saw the mercury lamp falling from the sky, and then accurately sitting on his shoulder, "I don't like that woman named Laura."

Alas, just a moment ago I expected to see the beautiful scenery of Shenma, but then I thought, what do I expect from a doll... Although Luo Zhen's figures are realistic, I guess they are not as evil as those wretched otakus, so The moment I saw a pair of safety pants that was one size smaller, I calmed down completely.

Also, is the mercury lamp used to sitting on my shoulder now? It was obviously necessary to hold her down forcefully at the beginning.

"Laura, indeed, she is a very unpredictable woman. It's normal if you don't like her." I helped tug on the slightly wrinkled dress skirt of the mercury lamp, "But in most cases, she can do it well. The mission—it’s you, this is the first time I’ve seen you come to me, should I feel honored?”

"Stop being so sentimental, idiot," the doll girl raised her head arrogantly, completely unaware that she had subconsciously positioned herself in the doll's position, "I'm just here to inform you that something very disturbing happened. Unpleasant things.”

Something that annoys mercury lamps?

Sorry, that's too much, because a certain grumpy puppet spends most of his time looking unhappy.

"Hey! What's going on with that rude look in your eyes!" "Bang bang bang bang!"

This guy is really amazingly sharp, and his little claws are getting more and more skillful at slapping my head. I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but it seems that the mercury lamps now have changed a lot compared to the beginning, although they are still She habitually puts on a bad face, especially towards me, and she always shows a distant and mean attitude, but it seems like she was just... expressing her dissatisfaction in a coquettish way?

It’s such an alternative way, and I’m afraid even she didn’t notice it. Well, maybe I’m overthinking it. After all, she’s the first person I’ve ever seen who can’t even stand under the halo of a nanny. Characters.

Even with someone's expression of "I'm very angry", I roughly understood what made me unhappy about the mercury lamp.

To put it simply, they are human survivors, a group of survivors who suddenly emerged from the ground.

After the disaster, 99% of ordinary people on the earth can only choose to wait helplessly for death, but human beings will always have the one percent of "elites" who, without the knowledge of the ordinary people, Some already existing super shelters and some special bunkers built in a short period of time were activated to protect the so-called "key figures" at the top of human society.

This is understandable. When a race faces the crisis of civilization destruction, using this method to preserve the last hope can even be called foresight. Even Sandora will praise those who have always been "unscrupulous" in her eyes. The human beings of "Chinese Use" finally made an agreeable choice this time. In fact, when the landing force discovered such an ultimate bunker, there were still people alive in the bunker (most of the people in such shelters had already died due to the high density). It turned into a dead body, or turned into organic fertilizer in earthquakes and magma. However, a few shelters are quite small, or even only have a few dozen people, and their geographical location is advantageous, allowing the people in them to "separate" from the dead body. Many people who survived "airborne infection" and geological disasters were brought back to the spacecraft by the overjoyed Marines. They included a large number of scientists and scholars from various industries. These are the cornerstones necessary for the existence of a civilization. , and in the current situation where most of the survivors we found have mental problems, these people who are physically and mentally healthy are even more precious.

What the mercury lamp is unhappy about is another kind of person mixed in among these survivors...

Elites naturally include many, well... so-called upper-class people, such as politicians, wealthy people, successful people, leaders... Although after the end of the world, politics and money have become waste products, but after the disaster In the early days of the outbreak, these people still had a chance to find a way out for themselves, so they were dug out now and were disgusted by the mercury lamp.