Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Relax, I'm not here to kill you, at least not now."

Han Zu sat leisurely on the chair, ignoring the other closely guarded places except this room. He even had the mind to comment on the taste of the tea, which formed a sharp contrast with Saori, who had a serious face and was conflicted inside.

"How did you get in? Didn't anyone notice you?"

"Of course, but they're all dead. It doesn't matter. That's not why I'm here. Sit down and talk?"

"How did you find me? There are special multiple barriers here that can distort cognition. Unless you know how to open the barriers, it is impossible to find this..."

"Okay, okay, I said, these are not the main points. What I want to know more is..."

"You can't find this place, this is..."

Han Zu sighed. Saori in front of him had begun to become a little paranoid. She began to repeat the same sentence over and over again. In Han Zu's opinion, this was also a troublesome thing.

"It seems we need to solve your concentration problem first."

A team of fully armed soldiers suddenly appeared in the room, raised their weapons, and walked out of the room one by one. After a brief shouting, there was intensive gunfire outside, as well as the sound of air compression caused by the burning of flamethrowers.

Soon, it became quiet outside. The roar of an airplane engine was approaching from a distance. The sound of an attack was heard again outside the room. After a brief explosion, bright flames could be seen through the gap under the door of the room. Occasionally, thick smoke produced by the burning poured into the room from under the door.

The many strange noises outside the room brought Saori back to her senses. Even though she didn't see what happened outside the room, she vaguely knew that her best choice now was to do as Han Zu said.

"Now we can have a good chat, so my first question is, what are you doing."

"Many years ago, we..."

"Please keep it simple and focus on the main points. I don't like to listen to those boring and long stories that have nothing to do with me."

"We are trying to turn everyone here into semi-spiritual beings so that they can achieve immortality."

Han Zu nodded, seeming satisfied with Saori's brief answer.

"That's right, let's get to the point. This is what we call a dialogue. So that means there are two forces in this... place. Those military guys want to have enough strength to rebuild Fuso by researching such weapons, right?"

"Yes."

"So, it's not 2040, and you lied about that."

"Yes, but my reason is..."

"It doesn't matter. Let's go to another place and talk on the way."

Han Zu stood up from his seat, pushed open the door of the room and walked out. Saori seemed to have no other choice and followed Han Zu out of the room.

The once magnificent temples and mansions have now become ruins, bathed in a sea of ​​fire. There are also many charred corpses on the ground, which should belong to the group of Onmyoji.

However, the monk who was with Saori and the five followers were not found on the burning ruins.

"So at the very beginning, you knew that the military couldn't do it, so you found another way to survive?"

"Yes, one or two weapons cannot reverse the situation. The destruction of the country is inevitable. No matter how much we do, it will be useless. It is better to find a way to survive."

"Can your... half-spiritual form give birth to offspring?"

"No, this is also a sacrifice to survive."

"So why did you attack me before?"

"You knew?! How..."

"Speak the key."

"We want to increase the success rate of the transformation ritual by obtaining your soul. How did you find out?"

"From the moment we met at the station, I felt that there was something wrong with you."

"Then why don't you kill me? And help me find those other uncontrolled spirits and replace my body parts?"

"At first I didn't know what those soldiers were doing. I thought this place was just related to spirits. Because I couldn't tell if I would come here again in the future, I needed to leave someone behind who knew this place well. Of course, this person must have a certain level of strength."

"So you are creating an obedient puppet?"

"Don't put it so bluntly. I prefer the word partner."

While talking, Han Zu and Saori walked along the road in Kawaki Prefecture and soon returned to the station where the train was parked. However, Han Zu did not board the train. Instead, he took Saori and started from the station and walked towards a mountain in the distance.

"So what are you looking for? Your actions seem to be completely illogical, or do you have a purpose behind these illogical actions?"

"I don't have so many ideas. I just do whatever comes to my mind. I hate unnecessary trouble."

"But when we hunted the Snow Girl before, it was very complicated."

"You confuse curiosity with trouble. In my understanding, the so-called "trouble" refers to things that I am completely uninterested in. If I think something is interesting, then no matter how complicated or tedious it is, I will complete it because I think it is interesting."

"If this place is really like what you imagined before, aren't you afraid that after you leave, I will completely disobey your ideas, or even betray you?"

"If that's the case, can't I just kill you the next time we meet?"

"But what if you can't find me?"

"That's totally impossible. Only dead people can't be found."

"Ah? What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean dead people can't be found? What if I get a stronger power that can block your perception or even kill you?"

"This blindly confident sense of humor is also why I kept you. Here we are."

As the conversation was cut off by Han Zu, Han Zu and Saori came to a mountain some distance away from Kawaki County. From here, they could overlook most of Kawaki County. The view was very clear and they could see that there were still some places with thick smoke.

"So what are we doing here?"

"Oh, I want to test something. Although it's not bad to watch it alone, it's still better to have an audience."

"Experiment? Experiment on what? Wait, you destroyed the military's experimental base, the experiment you are talking about can't be..."

"Shh! Stop making noise, look, the show is about to begin!"

Han Zu looked at the sky in the distance with a very excited expression on his face. His finger pointed to a certain place in the sky. Sazhi followed the direction of Han Zu's finger and saw something passing through the clouds and flying towards the center of the city at a not very fast speed.

The thing looked like a cylinder and seemed to have some kind of propulsion device. There was a flame coming out of the thruster at the tail, and it looked very familiar.

"Is it a... missile?"

Saori looked a little confused. The thing still flying in the sky seemed to be a missile. However, judging from its size, the range after the explosion might not be as large as the attack range of those bombers. But why was Han Zu next to him so excited? Something must be wrong.

The missile's flying speed gradually increased. When it reached the sky above the center of the city, it suddenly changed its course and fell vertically toward the ground.

Saori suddenly thought of something. Looking at the missile that was about to hit the ground, her pupils contracted. She didn't want to believe that the missile was what she thought of, but she soon realized that what she thought was correct.

The missile made contact with the ground a few seconds later. At first, nothing happened, but less than a second later, there was a flash, a huge flash, and a white light enveloped everything. The blinding light even made other places dark.

"boom!!!"

Immediately afterwards, a loud noise that almost tore the eardrums replaced all other sounds. Even at such a long distance, Saori's head was still buzzing with the huge sound. Then, Saori saw that the huge shock wave that was already visible to the naked eye destroyed the city that was almost intact a few minutes ago in an instant with its devastating force. The buildings in the city were like paper, instantly ignited, burned to ashes, and melted into molten iron. At the center of the explosion, everything was directly vaporized.

A huge shock wave came from afar, bringing with it rolling heat waves. It was so powerful that even on a mountain some distance away from Chuangu County, people could feel the dangerous heat waves brought by the distant shock wave. At the outermost edge of the explosion range, at the foot of the mountain, some trees suddenly caught fire, and something like rust appeared on some metal fences.

After the shock wave passed through Saori's body, Saori saw a huge mushroom cloud appearing at the center of the explosion in the distance, blocking the sky and shrouding the entire Kawaki County in darkness. The air was filled with a strong smell of burning, which could be smelled here.

Saori was stunned, as if her bones were pulled out, her whole body went limp, and she fell to her knees. No matter what was in Kawaki County before, nothing was left now. Saori understood why Han Zu next to her was so fearless and didn't even take her seriously.

Saori, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't say a word. She seemed to have lost the ability to think and knelt on the ground in a daze. Han Zu, who was next to her, was completely different from Saori. After a short moment of daze, Han Zu laughed like a madman, with uncontrollable joy on his face and an abnormally distorted expression.

His distorted voice sounded extremely harsh to Saori, like an undisguised mockery and sarcasm, which deeply hurt Saori's heart.

"Ultimate Skill: Tactical Nuclear Bomb (Primary, can be upgraded by the number of kills with the Ultimate Skill)"

"Kill count: 3209"

"Skill Description: A 2000 million equivalent "tactical" nuclear bomb"

"Cooling time: None"

"Number of charges: ∞/Current number of charges remaining: 0"

"Feature 1: You need to use other weapons or attack methods to kill people in exchange for charging times. The more kills you get in a single attack, the faster the charging rate will be."

"Feature 2: This skill will indiscriminately attack all units, including friendly units and itself. This skill has no safe detonation distance."

"Feature 3: If the interval between multiple attacks is less than five seconds, the multiple attacks will be automatically changed into a single attack with superimposed power according to the number of attacks. The critical hit rate of this attack is 300%."

“Ahahahahahahahaha!!!”

Han Zu, with a distorted face and wild laughter, was dancing on the side, doing a dance he had seen from somewhere. It was more like a shaman dance than a dance. It was not known whether he was too excited or what, but Han Zu kept saying something randomly, which sounded like a religious prayer from some place in Longguo, but it could also be just pure nonsense.

The mushroom cloud in the distance was still standing in the air, and a huge deep pit was left below. Looking at the ruins in the distance, Sazhi, who was kneeling on the ground, was numb. She lay on the ground. After a while, she also laughed, but compared with the crazy Han Zu, her laughter was full of helplessness, and one could even hear a kind of meaningless complex feeling.