Salvation equals death

Two months later, "the end" came.

The sudden outbreak of genetic diseases did not even give human beings a transitional respite. Overnight, black holes formed by genetic fission spread all over the earth, and it was devastated as far as the eye could see.

Even if Jiang Ming intervened and the Qishi organization took a series of countermeasures in a timely manner, it was only to save a part of the territory. As a last resort, in order to avoid sudden genetic fission, human beings with genetic diseases had to live with normal human beings. Being isolated, this also led to a series of conflicts and conflicts, and all parts of the world fell into turmoil for a while.

In the same month, the armored warrior unit "Blade of Stabbing" led by the Jiang family Jiang Ming officially changed its name to "Light Moth".

When the world was in danger, Zefern Kirupa, the youngest son of the Kirupa family, came up with a special medicine that could delay gene fission and even prevent the transmission of genetic diseases, and seized the right to speak in the family in one fell swoop.

In the following month, the patriarch of the Shicha tribe suffered a fission accident due to a genetic outbreak. His eldest daughter, Romischa, succeeded her father and established an armed mecha unit, code-named "Black Lion".

The disaster came suddenly. Although the Qishi organization had already been psychologically prepared, such a large area of ​​casualties still exceeded the expectations of those in power, and even some families were already unable to protect themselves.

"Compared to widespread death, the desperation of people's hearts is more distressing."

Those who did not die from genetic diseases, but lost their loved ones in the disaster completely lost hope in this world. They would rather fall into hell after death than choose to perish.

"What place is more hell than the world right now?"

Those who have already been crushed by grief raise the butcher knife to themselves and even their relatives. Instead of struggling and lingering, it is better to leave this desperate world together and pray that they can go to the ideal land in their dreams after death.

Vera has been staying in Zefern's base, and before the situation deteriorates further, she proposes to continue the "God-making" plan.

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Jiang Ming hurried back with a tired face. Her eyes were reddened in the short two months. When the power of one person was exhausted, she couldn't save everyone. This realization exhausted Jiang Ming physically and mentally.

"I know." Vera stared quietly at Jiang Ming. Those eyes, which were different from ordinary people but could not deny their beauty, revealed a calmness and peace that was incompatible with the world, making the people she watched feel like being dependent on cubs. illusion.

"Suppressing by force and appeasing with words are not as effective as letting the world see hope."

Jiang Ming is naturally aware of this, but the first step of the god-making plan is so dangerous, who knows what will happen afterwards?

"The compatibility between the Skystone and you is as high as 78.63%, but even so, you almost died for it." Jiang Ming kneaded the space between her brows, and her usually sharp black eyes became gentle with fatigue, " The second step of the god-making plan is to infuse magic energy into your body, so as to activate the power of the Philosopher's Stone, and at the same time transform your body into a god body. The pain involved is immeasurable, you can understand ?"

Vera was silent for a long time, so long that Jiang Ming thought she was quitting, and was about to excuse her, but she heard her ask: "So? Because it is too painful, so you are going to conduct other human experiments ?"

Vera's tone was calm, obviously not such a sharp question, but Jiang Ming felt her throat choked up and was speechless for a while.

"...He owes you this." Jiang Ming looked at Vera's immature and quiet face, couldn't help but pursed her lips, and impulsively said some words, "You shouldn't have to bear these things. , It’s enough, this step is enough. We all know that you have worked very hard. We have all felt your will and awareness to protect this world, Vera.”

"Stop the experiment, it doesn't matter even if the firmament stone can't be taken out, as long as you are alive. Although there is no way to restore your health, we can make exoskeleton armor for you to replace your legs, and you can still stand up ..." Jiang Ming spoke softly, but the words gradually choked in her throat, she clenched her teeth tightly, and she could no longer utter words of persuasion.

"...You can still live like a normal person. If you want to learn swordsmanship from Ji Ling, I can take you back to Huaxia; if you want to go to school, I can also send you to the best Tianqi Academy..."

"But in that case, the smoldering hope of human beings will become weaker, right? After all, I am the closest to a successful experiment." Vera lowered her eyes and said softly, "Jiang Ming, why am I an exception? ?”

"Where the light shines, there are shadows. We all hate darkness, but we all know that this world cannot only have eternal light."

"For the happiness of more people, it is doomed to sacrifice the ego. Those cloned test subjects are like this, and those fighters who died in order to fight against genetic diseases are like this... Then, why should I be an exception?"

Vera wasn't asking anything, she was just simply confused.

Jiang Ming took a deep breath. The eyes of this powerful and decisive soldier were reddened by the turbulent emotions in her heart. She knelt on one knee, folded her hands together, wrapped Vera's immature hands, and gently pressed her brows.

"Because... you are what we are fighting for."

——Fight for all the good things in the world.

"It doesn't matter if you don't need to be so fearless, and it doesn't matter if you don't need to be so brave. If even a ten-year-old child has to make sacrifices for the world, then our battle is meaningless."

Jiang Ming has already gone through the vicissitudes of life, seeing all the good, evil, beauty and ugliness, but when facing this child who knows nothing and says "Why should I be an exception", the heart wall built over the years is like a dike defeated.

She couldn't stand those eyes that were clear and clean, full of trust and dependence like cubs, but fearless and clear in the face of darkness.

——she knew, she understood, she accepted.

But that's exactly what makes it so sad.

"We are not wrong, no one is wrong, Jiang Ming is not wrong for dirtying his hands in order to protect, Zevern is not wrong for sacrificing himself for the public, and there is nothing wrong with resenting the experimental products of this world because of pain."

"It's not you and me that are wrong, but this world that makes death an ordinary thing."

"Jiang Ming, please don't regard me as a child who needs your protection. I am a comrade who will fight side by side with you to protect the world."

"What you carry, I can do as well."

Precisely because no one did wrong in this tragedy, there is no point and no fruit in resenting such a thing.

Zevern sent someone to send the Soul Stone, but he didn't come to see Vera, because he already knew what choice this girl would make, so he didn't dare to come to see her.

The purer the light, the more it can see its own ugliness.

[So why do you want to transplant the Soul Stone?The inheritance between gods and gods is exclusive. Hasn't the inheritance of Fengshen made you suffer enough? 】The system babbled.

"Because the triangular relationship is relatively stable?" Vera gave a statement that made the system vomit three liters of blood, "It is impossible for me to abandon the inheritance of light, but the inheritance of storm is not stable enough and it always rages in my body. If this continues, I may It won't last long. If another Mind Stone is transplanted, the power in the body should be able to reach a balance under the condition that the three laws restrain each other."

[But it may also make your situation worse. 】The system is calm and eats melons, 【Gods are all self-respecting existences. It is basically impossible for you to let them coexist peacefully. They would rather destroy what they cannot get than lose to another god system the gods.Your light inheritance is not kind, it is not that kind of gentle cold light, but a light full of extreme purifying and destructive power, as unstable as a storm. 】

Legend has it that the God of Light hates darkness and tries to fill the earth with light, making darkness invisible.

"I understand, that's why I'm trying to fuse the Mind Stone." Vera quietly looked at the gemstone emitting soft white light in the petri dish, and said in a low voice, "If I'm not wrong, this one should be called the 'Holy Stone'. The Stone of Light' is right."

The source of belief in the Soul Stone is the Qishi Organization, which is the hope and beauty that sprouted from the hearts of the people. In this world full of sorrow, it is the immortal light of the sky.

"It is also light, but it is a new sprout that sprouted from the hearts of the people. If there is still a glimmer of life in this world, it must be hidden in this belief."

【...Are you sure you can fuse the Soul Stone? 】The system has to admit that the host's words have some truth,【Ah... sorry, I forgot, although it's just a reflection, you still have that part of the ability. 】

Although Vera herself may not care much about it, she actually inherited part of the power of a goddess. Her singing voice can drive away the darkness and sadness of people's hearts, and give people strength and courage.

Then this only ability was killed by that...

With Vera's longing and admiration for Alex, if Alex said not to sing in front of people, she would never sing in front of people.A good gold finger, rounding it up is useless.

The system is faintly more confident in the fact that the host can fuse the Soul Stone. After all, even the powers are so similar, there is no reason for the fusion degree to be low, right?

... A few days later, the system wished for a spiral kick to kill today's self in minutes.

The reason why the Mind Stone is called the "Soul Stone" rather than the "Stone of Light" is because it contains not only pure light, but also countless complex negative emotions.

Good, bad, sad, joyful, painful—these are all human "emotions".

Vera's heart is very empty, filled with pure but rare kindness, which also allows countless sludge-like negative emotions to take advantage of.

The infusion of a large amount of magic energy gradually activated the Philosopher's Stone in Vera's body, but at the same time, there was also the deep malice from the will to destroy the world in the void.

Vera was lying on the operating table with blank eyes, her pain had long been forgotten, but her soul was still wandering in the void.

A ghostly voice whispered in her ears, as if there was only herself left in the world, apart from despair, she was lonely.

"Hate, hate--hate the world that forces you to sacrifice, forces you to save."

"Why must it be me? What did I do wrong? Human beings are all human beings—who stipulated that I must die for human beings?"

"No one loves me, no one deserves to be loved, no one reaches out to me..."

"Those sad eyes are fake, those gentle encouragements are fake, those are all insincere lies spoken to deceive me into willingly sacrificing—"

"drop--"

The sound of the heart stopping was terribly long, and Vera felt her body getting lighter and lighter, and the pain was gone from her, but in contrast, her soul seemed to be trapped in a cage, and she couldn't get out.

"who are you?"

Vera struggled to turn her eyeballs, breathing out a white mist on the oxygen mask.

"Aren't you tired? I'm tired. I don't want to listen to you. Can you be quiet?"

The voice that belonged to Vera paused slightly, then smiled lightly, and murmured bewitchingly: "I am you, I am the pain you hide deep in your heart that you dare not speak of—"

"Haven't you thought about it? Haven't you ever felt aggrieved by this so-called fate? Look at the people around you, they say they love you, but they are always using you and treating you as a savior Sacrifice."

"Vera, Vera—the world is so big, where is your home? In this world, no one really loves you."

The heartbeat that stopped suddenly started beating again, and the powerful beating was like a clenched fist, causing the soft meat organs in the chest cavity to suffocate with pain.

"No one loves you—"

"Nobody loves you, Vera—"

Pain, hatred, depression, sadness, exhaustion, disappointment, jealousy...

Endless dark energy poured into the immature body, and the mind affected the physiology. She twitched and convulsed in pain, and uttered a hoarse, almost mournful cry with her already hoarse voice.

"You, who admire the light, are the shadows of the light. From the beginning of your birth, you belonged to the darkness."

Do not--

"Vera!"

The body that was so cold that it was on the verge of death was embraced by someone, the embrace that was too thin and not generous, but had a scalding and scorching body temperature.

"Calm down, don't let the Mind Stone affect you... Tell me, what did you see?"

Jiang Ming's hands are strong and powerful, and she embraces her like a rock that cannot be moved by mountains and seas, with a heavy sense of security like mountains.

She raised her hand and tapped lightly on Vera's eyebrows, and Vera felt her eyes light up, the surrounding darkness faded away like a tide, and beautiful and dreamy scenes appeared in front of her eyes one by one like a scroll.

The golden rice fields are glowing with waves, the sun is shining through the eaves, and the clear water and blue sky are cloudless and refreshing. A child is rushing across the street corner with sweet malt candy.

——That was really, a very beautiful and heart-warming scene.

Vera cried.

Her eyes were full of hopeless darkness, and the light of the world could no longer light up the sky in her eyes.

She said hoarsely: "I saw everyone smiling happily in the sun—"

— Only my bones are buried in the darkness that no one knows.