Extraordinary pedigree

Heaven is an unknowable place.

Jezra, this is the second level of the [Unknown Land], known as the "World of Formation".

A majestic church stands in the wide square.

The church is spacious and tall, with a set of gorgeous sculptures on the front that vividly depict stories from the Bible and are fascinating. The bell tower of the church towers into the sky. Every hour, the melodious bells echo in the air, making people feel relaxed and happy. The interior of the church is even more magnificent, exuding a holy atmosphere, making people feel connected with the gods.

A huge white light flashed across the world, and a young man with blond hair and golden eyes was teleported to the square.

When the white light dissipated, the fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven who had just taken office subconsciously looked up at the iconic building of [Jezra] - the [Doomsday Clock].

When he saw the time above, Xia Xiu's golden pupils couldn't help but shrink.

[Doomsday Clock] was uploaded at the wrong time, it was three expansions faster than the previous one...

In the Kingdom of Heaven, the four floors of [Unknown Land] have their own unique landmark buildings. For example, the place where Xia Xiu awakened [Yanling] earlier was the symbol of [Asia] on the first floor - [Holy Ark] .

The boundary monument standing outside [Holy Ark] is inscribed:

[We create gods and establish beliefs to describe our salvation. 】

[We hold the genealogy and analyze the ether to become the all-knowing one. 】

The iconic building of the second world [Jezra] is the [Doomsday Clock], which is an imaginary clock face that is projected into the sky above [Jezra], and every angel can see it when he looks up.

[Doomsday Clock] is a metaphor for the threat that crisis sequences pose to humanity.

The clock is evaluated by Eden every January and marks the world's distance from annihilation: midnight at midnight signifies the end of the world. Eden will move the minute hand closer or closer to the night according to the world situation, to remind all walks of life and angels to face the problem.

[The Doomsday Clock] was originally timed as "seven minutes to midnight."

Each year thereafter, Eden evaluates and decides whether to adjust the clock time based on changes in the world situation.

The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer humanity is to disaster.

The time of the [Doomsday Clock] hanging high in the sky at this moment looks very wrong.

——[Doomsday Clock]——

Minutes remaining: 1

Current time: 23:59:00.

Weight adjustment (minutes): +10

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This time represents Terra entering the countdown to collapse.

In the previous life, when the fifth expansion pack "The End" was launched, the [Doomsday Clock] would enter the final sixty-second countdown.

And now, even before the second expansion pack "Apocalypse Deterrence" has been opened, Eden has started the countdown to collapse.

Xia Xiu seemed to have thought of something. He began to release his spirituality and interact with the ether in the more distant sky.

As he expected, there was no fluctuation, and the ether above the stratosphere was sealed.

This means that [Heaven Gate] and [Hell Gate] have blocked Terra in advance.

"During the three days I was away, something big happened outside..."

Xia Xiu couldn't imagine what kind of big event could actually make Eden move the minute hand closer to ten minutes.

He looked around and found that there were very few angels in [Jezra]. He seemed to be the only official battle angel. The other angels seemed to be in the lower three levels, and the angels who were engaged in clerical work looked a little bit... In a panic, they simply nodded and said hello to the arrival of the new angel, and then began to get busy with various documents.

Just as Xia Xiu was looking around, a ball of light began to gather in front of him. He looked at the slowly forming ball of light.

[Hugh Abraham, please go to the [Central Containment Room·Entropy Pool Management Facility] to assemble——]

"The Entropy Pool Management Center, isn't that one of the core areas of the central containment room..." Xia Xiu said secretly in his heart. Then, he followed the ball of light that led the way.

Led by the ball of light, Xia Xiu quickly arrived at the [Entropy Pool Management Office] site. When he approached his destination, the familiar warning sound and red pop-up window appeared in front of him again.

[In accordance with the order of the resolution meeting

The current location is a first-level confidential location.

Unauthorized access is prohibited and violators will be locked and necessary processing will be carried out.

You have been warned, this is the last time. 】

"Enable authentication authority." Xia Xiu said to the red pop-up window in a familiar manner, and then he summoned the Book of Heavenly Genealogy that became the "Book of Order".

[Recognizing authentication information...

Please point your pupils towards the biometric reader.

The quantum flow link test has been completed, taking 0.001s, the response rate is 98.5%, and the average trust time is 0.00314s, which is within the normal range.

Contact has been reestablished with the DE-16 subsystem.

Site status identification code: 002.

Certification passed, welcome.

The Fourth Sword Bearer in Heaven: Hugh Abraham——】

As the certification passed, a huge space rippled, and then layers of metal doors were opened.

Xia Xiu stepped in without hesitation.

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Central Containment Room and Entropy Pool Management Office.

After entering the management office, what comes into view is a curved passage lined with various high-end instruments and display screens.

The researchers in white lab coats were busy operating the console in front of the screen. They simply nodded to Xia Xiu's arrival, and then began to process the various data in their hands. It seems that [Doomsday Clock] After being pulled out, a huge shadow was cast on the hearts of all the angels.

The ball of light continued to guide Xia Xiu to the end of the passage.

There, there stood a huge metal door, which was one of the core areas leading to the laboratory.

Pushing open the metal door, it feels like entering a mysterious time and space tunnel.

The inner walls of the laboratory are covered with smooth metal plates, and the clean environment is filled with complex circuits and equipment. The huge particle collider lies in the center of the laboratory. It is composed of dozens of ring magnets and particle detectors. It is huge and complex.

Particle Collider····

Xia Xiu just glanced at it briefly and then looked back. The ball of light was still taking him forward, passing through the gates one after another. He didn't know how many times he authenticated the permissions along the way.

After a long journey of certification, he was taken to the lowest area of ​​the management office.

This is a special observation room. This observation room is made of thick glass. At the top of the observation room, a huge circular skylight sheds beams of red light, shining on the constantly beating heart inside the observation room. "Red Heart".

Inside the observation room, a huge red round object is beating powerfully. Its diameter is up to thirty meters, like a huge heart, exuding a fascinating light.

On the surface of the round object, red light is constantly surging, like the beating of a heart, releasing strong energy fluctuations with every beat. The light flows on the circular surface, forming countless colorful patterns, as if telling some secret.

A researcher in his early sixties stood in the observation room. Different from the researchers outside who were wearing neat white research clothes and looked focused and capable, this old man looked wrinkled in his research clothes with many stains on them. There were stains, and he was holding a small wine bottle in his right hand, and he also smelled of alcohol.

When Xia Xiu was looking at the heart, the old man turned his head and asked:

"[Gaia], isn't it beautiful?"

His Mediterranean hairstyle revealed a light silvery white color as the years went by. His face was engraved with traces of time, and wrinkles intertwined into a somewhat cynical face. His eyes wearing black-rimmed glasses shone brightly.

Xia Xiu's golden eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't expect that he would meet the people who decided to meet here in advance, and it was the old man in front of him who triggered the second expansion pack.

0-03: Philosophical scientist, all-seeing one, initiator of apocalyptic deterrence.

"Yes, very beautiful." Xia Xiu simply replied.

0-03 continued to look at the blond young man in front of him, and then asked in a calm tone astonishingly:

"Are you Eden's illegitimate son outside?"

"·····"

This question left Xia Xiu speechless for a while, and he replied:

"Eden is a think tank and cannot have children."

"Who knows? I have solved many weird artificial intelligence problems. I also asked Eden if it could have children on its own, and it didn't say it couldn't."

"It's normal for it to ignore you." Xia Xiu couldn't help shaking his head. If he were Eden, he wouldn't want to hang this person up.

0-03 raised his bottle, took a sip of wine, and then continued:

"My secular name is: Ponte Bergamos. You can call me Senator Ponte or Professor Ponte. Eden asked you to come over to me to let you understand the situation. I guess he also plans to take you Incorporated into the newly established core organization, it is also compatible with junior researchers in the [Central Containment Room].

It’s still the familiar rush, every sword holder in heaven has to go through it, but you are not very lucky and have encountered the most difficult period; congratulations, you have become the new tool man of Eden. "

"Establish a new core organization?" Xia Xiu repeated the useful information with a hint of surprise.

"Although it is just a proposal, this core organization is expected to be passed. It will be independent of the [Resolution Assembly], only responsible to [Yahweh], and only subject to the supervision of Eden." Ponte said in a leisurely manner.

"How could this be passed? Excluding the neutral [Central Containment Room], the current five core structures are stable enough. How could it be allowed to continue to establish new core institutions, and directly under the jurisdiction of Eden? How could the hawks ···”

"Eden launched the Utopia Project agenda, and now the plan is under construction, and the program has been rewritten by Eden; it is expected to completely enter the plan implementation stage within three years. This is the first sequence of agendas, which will be voted on by all angels. , the discussion is passed, and all angels must obey."

The utopian project has entered the agenda stage. No wonder hawks will agree to the establishment of new core institutions. For the sake of utopia, they can tolerate many conditions that were previously unacceptable.

However, I only slept for three days, and I had just boarded [Virtual Crown], and even the fourth realm of [Crown] had not been constructed yet. Boss, you just gave me life to increase my strength. Xia Xiu couldn't help but sigh.

Life is not easy, workers sigh.

Originally, I was rolling in crazily and upgrading like crazy, intending to secretly amaze everyone; but the more I rolled, the stronger the version became. Before I could kill anyone else, the boss was about to turn up the intensity and kill him.

Sure enough, workers should be treated like salted fish.

Xia Xiu rubbed his eyebrows with a headache. The familiar smell of social animals began to brew in him, but before becoming a tool man, he had to sort out some information.

"I want to ask, what happened in the past three days?"

"It seems that you have been on a business trip outside the main world for the past three days. Well, to put it simply, a traitor appeared in the resolution meeting. He gave Eden a knife and robbed a lot of things."

"…………"

"The curtain is broken."

"…………"

"But it was patched and repaired, so it's still usable."

"..." The blond young man raised his eyebrows unconsciously. Looking at Ponte Bergamos who was about to continue speaking, he suddenly felt something bad.

"Daeva and Oletin launched a full-scale war. Five of the Thirteen Heroes were killed and four others were seriously injured."

"The [Financial Street] of the Edici Federation is out of control. Well, it has been repaired in the back, but New York has completely sunk and is hopeless. Oh, they are now in a semi-normal and semi-abnormal situation. It's a very strange equilibrium, and part of the new core agency's function is to control them."

"The four monarchs have invaded the main world. [Slaughter Sky], [Stagnation Sky], [Changing Sky], and [Bliss Sky] have been loaded into the main world of Terra."

"The stars are trying to align themselves, and there's a big problem in the sky."

"Oh, and Eden asked you to come here, but I still want to tell you additional information, that is, Terra's [entropy pool number] is about to explode, the ancient living gods are about to wake up, and all kinds of monsters and snake gods will also appear together, [ Gaia] can barely hold on anymore, Terra is going to explode.”

Ponte Bergamos pointed to the beating red heart and said his last words to the blond young man who was completely silent.

"I have to think about it."

"Well, let me help you, No. I have packaged the pheromone and shared it. You can use the genealogy to receive it. It is full of explosive information and first-hand information."

Xia Xiu ignored Ponte Bergamos's jump. He opened the pedigree interface and began to view the information content, first of all from the Edici Federation.

——Strategic Joint Agreement——

Purpose of the agreement

Summary of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Edici Federation Cooperation Agreement

Announcement time: August 8, 1590

Signing place: Edici House of Representatives·Third Office

Disclosure method: The information management departments of participating organizations will decide on their own.

Publisher: Kingdom of Heaven/Edici Federation/Mayflower Foundation.

Signatory List: Mayflower Foundation - (citing confidentiality upon request). Kingdom of Heaven - Charles Vernal (then a member of the Ethics Committee). Edici Federation-Moffett (senior official).

Description of the communique: In order to deal with the enemy's strategic intentions, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Edici Federation agreed to discuss and cooperate together and wrote this article.

1. Regarding the Terra situation, the two sides should abandon the zero-sum game mentality, be inclusive, consult and understand each other, stop direct hostile confrontation, avoid damaging the basic interests of all parties, and jointly build and share a two-way security pattern.

2. New York State is officially planned to be the strategic identification area of ​​Edici for both parties. The lists of members and prospective members in the two organizations' cities will be disclosed in real time, and arrangements will be unified. All infrastructures of both parties will provide two-way convenience for members on the list.

3. New York City formally established a strategic cooperation pilot area to carry out two-line intelligence, thaumaturgy and scientific and cultural exchanges, and built a cooperation demonstration base with the financial street as the central hub for guidance work, and allowed members of both organizations to invest in their own names. Work for other organizations.

4. Each side sends research teams and inspection groups to integrate into the life and work of the other party's organization. The number and qualifications of the personnel sent to each other are equal, and medium and low-level confidentiality rights are provided to carry out various cooperation and cultural exchanges.

5. Establish a joint task force and grassroots administrative forces to share strategic intelligence from both sides, coordinate actions, balance and complement each other, and give full play to superior forces to be responsible for clearing out the imperial forces (Diva and Oletin) in the Edici region and attacking and undermining their strategic intentions. , as well as local information security to safeguard the common rights and interests of both parties. The highest command authority belongs to the "Edisi and Tianguo Collaboration Command Center". Each party has three commanding leaders. The same level will discuss action deployment, and the specific administrative management measures will be decided by Tianguo. and the Edici Federation jointly finalized it on their behalf.

6. This Agreement only applies to both parties. All overseas units of both parties will not enjoy any most preferential treatment.

7. All funds in the agreement are valid for twenty years. Modifications and renewals are acceptable upon confirmation by both parties. The agreement shall be kept confidential to the highest extent. Except for the signatories of both parties and their respective signing agencies, no other person or overseas units of the two parties shall be aware of it. If the agreement is When the statute of limitations expires, the principle of confidentiality and other reciprocal relations will be terminated, and both organizations can choose the confidentiality method independently.

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All the above terms are initially scheduled to take effect on September 1 this year. If any of the terms is violated within the statute of limitations, the Edici Federation has the right to expel representatives of the defaulting party organization.

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"Communicate with each other? Mutual benefit?"

The blond angel didn't know how to evaluate the report in his hand.

The new strategy implemented since September 1st has undoubtedly brought the crisis on Terra to a stable side. This is a kind of political compromise and concession.

He moved on to the second report.

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——[Honkai Administration Bureau]——

Proposal: A summary of relevant opinions on the establishment of the sixth core organization of the Kingdom of Heaven [Honkai Administration Bureau].

Contents of the proposal: Combine the Heavenly Mystery Dissolution Team, the Reality Department, the Alchemy Department, the Amnesia Department, the Analysis Department, the Applied Parapsychology Department, the Cognitohazardous Department, the Concept Department, the Extradimensional Intervention Department, the Internal Security Department, and the Space Anomaly Department... {Subsequent expansion+}

The above departments will be included in the [Crisis Management Bureau], and a [Debt Collection Agency] will be established to handle the [Atonement Scroll] issue in "Crisis of 72 Hours" {Expand in detail+}

About "72 Hours of Crisis":

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