When bugs meet backdoors
Chapter 114 Killing the Gods
"Meow!" Ming Yi, who was watching the real-time video of the floating city below them on the floating shuttle, screamed.
It patted the back of Seqin's head with its paw, sending him some kind of message.
Regardless of the fact that they couldn't communicate, Xie Qin didn't have the mind to guess what he said, so he opened a tablet and handed it to it.
Ming Yi's writing speed this time has reached his limit, and when he wrote down a long list of words, it was almost as fast as a human's typing.
'hurry up!He is burning his soul, and when the flames on him go out, he will really die! '
Seeing this sentence written by Ming Yi, Xie Qin cursed loudly.
He also wants to go faster, but the current speed is already the maximum that the air shuttle can achieve. Unless they can immediately replace the engine with a higher power, everything is wishful thinking.
He couldn't help at all, this kind of situation that he knew what was going to happen but couldn't change it made him feel anxious, but also a desire to destroy everything.
He didn't care about the current situation in the Floating Void City anymore, he kept his eyes on the front and rushed there as fast as he could.
His body has been frozen by the high-altitude cold wind and he is almost unconscious.
There are too many buildings below, and it will undoubtedly waste a lot of unnecessary time to avoid these east and choose detours. Only by reaching this height can we ensure that the whole process will not waste a second.
Ming Yi's situation is a bit better than his. After all, he is a demon. Although the hair on his body is not long, it is very thick.
The cold wind can't touch its skin at all, allowing him to maintain his body heat as much as possible.
The influence from the Floating Void City spread, and Ming Yi's pine green eyes were locked on Bai Su, whose body became like a mountain.
The wounds on his body are still visible, but the flames rising from his whole body serve as a source of energy to support his huge body.
The flames burned, and everything he touched was burned to nothing in an instant. It was more domineering than his demon fire, and the golden flame completely enveloped him, as if a god had descended.
The building made of special materials melted little by little in the golden flame mixed with nothingness. Bai Su raised his front paw and swung it out mercilessly with the flame.
□□The huge power generated, carrying the regular power contained in the flames by burning the soul, completely destroyed the building.
Bai Su felt a vaguely invisible force in the air that made him extremely uncomfortable.
He hated this thing, opened his mouth and surrounded the power with demon fire mixed with golden flames.The void white light on the outermost layer of the golden flame flickered, and that power disappeared instantly.
At this time, a thunderstorm suddenly fell from the sky, and the barrier separating humans from Qatar's territory flickered a few times in the distance, and then disappeared without a trace.
The subtle overlapping of parallel spaces was completely split due to the disappearance of the gods. The Qatari people who were active on the planet all returned to their original dimensions overnight, just like when they suddenly appeared on the planet, silently .
The sky has not yet dawned, and most people on the planet are still in deep sleep, ignorant of all the happenings outside.
But there were quite a few people who were awake, and they all stared at the severely damaged floating city in the sky with a shocked expression.
Especially directly below the main body of the floating city, all the areas covered by it coincidentally support the protective net that has never been used since it was built, completely covering the area to which it belongs.
Countless building blocks fell from the sky, and many pedestrians and buildings were injured and damaged, but none of those who were awake had the idea of going indoors to hide. They all stood on the street and stared at the sky above. floating city.
The last time a small damage caused the game field to stop for more than a month, the scale of the damage this time is not 01:30 points larger than the last time.
Everyone's eyes were full of fanaticism, as well as excitement and anticipation that couldn't be concealed at all.
"Fuck! Look over there!"
Someone in the crowd suddenly noticed the strangeness in the distance. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. After confirming that he was really not dazzled, the tone of his voice changed.
Some people looked in the direction of his finger.
I don't know when the isolation barrier disappeared. Everyone's expressions changed instantly, and they didn't care about the excitement that the game field might be shut down. They all changed to a twisted expression of 'everyone is going to finish playing'.
"Fuck! Isn't the battle for the fucking territory once every six months?! How long has it been?"
"The point is not this, it is that it didn't have any warning at all this time!"
"And the time is not right, how can there be such a point to remove the barrier, isn't this a joke?!"
"..."
The crowd became restless, and some impulsive ones even planned to get together and go to the homes of the administrative chiefs of various districts to discuss explanations.
The good news of the destruction of the Floating Void City was not as shocking as the fact that Qatar was about to attack the human territory again. Almost all the people flocked to their homes, taking out their weapons and hiring people to protect themselves.
All of them looked like frightened birds, as if they had never seen such a scene before.
After spitting out the ball of demon fire, Bai Su clearly felt that the rules were excluding him.
The speed of burning his soul suddenly accelerated, and he didn't even have time to finish burning his soul.
Bai Su stood on the ground, the flames around his body shot up into the sky uncontrollably, and then quickly decayed.
The surface of the Floating Void City was completely melted by the flames he erupted at the end, especially the area where Bai Su was standing, a deep pit was burned out, and it sank deeper and deeper as his body fell. In the end, it even reached the position of the large anti-gravity engine at the core of the Floating Void City.
Holding his last breath, Bai Su struggled to keep himself awake.
He opened his mouth, and when the flame burned through the alloy shield at the bottom of the mouth of the floating city, he spit out a mouthful of demon fire with all his strength, and the target was the most important anti-gravity engine of the floating city.
The energy core was detonated, and the entire floating city exploded from the center, and the splashed building blocks hit the protective net above the mainland city without causing much damage.
There are also some surviving demigods who have urgently used the floating equipment, and are now manipulating them to avoid the falling floating city building blocks.
The flame on Bai Su's body was extinguished at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it began to shrink a little bit from its initial size like a hill.
He is falling, and along with the broken wreckage produced by the explosion of the floating city's anti-gravity engine, he is falling towards the endless abyss together.
Bai Su's breathing weakened, his chest couldn't be seen rising and falling at all, and his red-gold animal pupils were completely slackened.
He stared at the wreckage of the floating city scattered in the sky, drawing a perfect end to the disaster he created.
The rules have always controlled him, and his long-standing identity makes it impossible for him to escape the established fate.Fortunately, everything is over, Seqin is... safe...
Bai Su's vision began to blur, he could no longer feel the pain, the coldness spread to his whole body, and at the last second of losing consciousness, he seemed to hear someone calling him.
Very far away, as if coming from an illusory space, not real at all.
"Abai—!"
Xie Qin manipulated the air shuttle to rush into the falling wreckage, and grabbed Bai Su who was soaked in blood.
His body shape was about the same as Ming Yi's now, his eyes were still open, he looked at the sky motionless, and didn't respond to Xie Qin's call.
Xie Qin didn't know where to put his hands now, his whole body was frozen stiff by the high-altitude air-conditioning, holding Bai Su, he didn't dare to make any big movements at all.
He let the floating shuttle fly around in the air, and hugged Bai Su, who had lost his breath, tightly in his arms.
He started to disassemble the storage box under the air shuttle seat like crazy, and with Feng Jin's character, all vehicles will be equipped with emergency medical kits—even if it is very likely that they will not be used at all.
Ming Yi was thrown out because of his actions, the air shuttle was a little slippery, and it almost fell from it.
Its paws were tightly clasped on the edge of the fence, and its hind paws struggled to return to a safe position on the air shuttle.
There are not many things stored in it, they are all general-purpose therapeutic medicines, and there is only one first-aid injection, which is only for cardiac arrest.
But Xie Qin couldn't take care of that much anymore, only this thing can be used, anyway, there will be no worse situation than now.
He injected the injection directly into Bai Su's body, the guy's heart had stopped beating, even though his reason told him it was useless, he still stubbornly wanted to save something.
Holding Bai Su's body, he knelt on the ground motionless, losing all hope.
It's useless, it can't be saved, even if he takes out 'rebirth' now, it won't help.
All the emotions in Xie Qin's eyes faded away like a tide, leaving only the deathly stillness and emptiness of nothingness.
Trembling, he stood up from the air shuttle, and slowly but unquestionably raised his foot to step on the fence on one side.
Those he hated are dead, and those he loves...are also dead, so what's the point of him being alive?
There is nothing in this world worthy of his nostalgia, and it is better to die now than to live in a daze.
"Fuck! Xie Qin, please fucking wake me up!"
When Feng Jin, who was worried about chasing after him, was looking for Xie Qin, what he saw was him holding a bright red ball, standing on the edge of the floating shuttle, ready to jump off.
Fu Ran immediately threw out the explorer, tied Xie Qin tightly, and pulled him back a second before he jumped off.
"Are you fucking crazy?! If you're dead, there's no use for Bai Su to do these things!"
Feng Jin jumped onto his air shuttle and punched him in the face, then grabbed his collar and asked sharply.
"He can be ignored! But if he doesn't come, you will die, do you know that! The choice he made is to keep you alive! Let you-!"
Xie Qin's eyes flickered, and he opened his mouth, ignoring the blood from Feng Jin's beating at the corner of his mouth, and fell into a strange circle.
"It's all because of me...does it mean that without me, Ah Bai wouldn't have to die..."
"It was I who killed him... I was the one who killed him... From the last life..."
"If it weren't for me, he wouldn't lose a part of his body, and he wouldn't die because of me...he would have a good life...not what he is now. Why the fuck did I run! Why didn't I That guy was killed?!"
His suppressed emotions suddenly collapsed, which neither Feng Jin nor Fu Ran expected, almost made him break free.
"Fuck...Fu Ran, hurry up, don't let him run away, I'll find out where the tranquilizer is!"
Feng Jin cursed in a low voice, adjusted the air shuttle under his feet to follow mode, and then jumped back to the one he and Fu Ran were on and rummaged around.
Ming Yi, who was hanging outside the fence and was forgotten, finally managed to climb into the safe area.
He sprawled on the ground with his four paws spread out, looking as if he was dying of exhaustion.
The blood-soaked corpse in Xie Qin's arms bumped into its eyes.
A struggling expression that others could not understand flashed in its pine green eyes, and then it turned into firmness as if it had made some determination.
The air shuttle suddenly fell down for a short distance, Fu Ran was carried by the inertia and slipped outwards, almost falling along with him.
They have left the high altitude of the main city now, and they don't know where they are.
Xie Qin let the air shuttle run around without any purpose at all. The two of them followed the real-time coordinates of the shuttle and didn't pay much attention to where it went.
In short, it should be very biased, after all, it doesn't look so prosperous down here.
"What's wrong?!" Feng Jin hurriedly turned his head, thinking that Xie Qin had made something wrong again.
Fu Ran was silent and didn't speak, but just gave him a look, motioning him to come and see.
Feng Jin installed the tranquilizer he found into the launcher-type needle syringe, and when he was about to give it to Xie Qin, what happened there caused him to raise his hand.
A huge cat with nine tails suddenly appeared on it, occupying the entire air shuttle, and Seqin was being entangled by one of its tails and held high in the sky.
Bai Su's body was snatched from Xie Qin's arms. The man was going mad, struggling desperately as if he wanted to kill it.
Ming Yi laid Bai Su flat on the seat, leaned over and sniffed him twice.
It raised its head suddenly, and its pine green pupils, which were as big as bronze mirrors, stared straight at Feng Jin and Fu Ran.
They stared at each other for two or three seconds, Ming Yi suddenly flicked his tail and threw Xie Qin to them, and then a slightly dazzling milky white halo emanated from its body, and then spread to the whole body.
Seeing this scene, Xie Qin suddenly stopped.
Suddenly transformed back into an adult body, surrounded by the same white light...
His Adam's apple was rolling up and down, and an unrealistic guess suddenly popped into his mind.
Ming Yi is turning into a demon, it is saving Ah Bai!
"Third brother...let me go." Xie Qin opened his mouth, and said this sentence with infinite expectation.
Feng Jin doesn't believe that he has figured it out now, his basement has been prepared for him, and he will go back and lock him up for a few days, so that he can forget all the sad things.
"Let you go and let you seek death? Don't think about it." Feng Jin snorted lightly, opened the safety valve of the syringe, and was about to give Xie Qin a shot.
"Huh? Uncle Fu, what are you doing?" Feng Jin looked at Fu Ran who was clasping his wrist, a little puzzled.
The latter told him not to move, told him to back off, and then he untied the noose that bound Seqin with his own hands.
Feng Jin let out a low cry, and when he was about to take this thing back and tie Xie Qin up again, he was still a little puzzled when he found that the man didn't have the posture to jump off.
"He figured it out so quickly?" Feng Jin asked aloud.
"I don't know." Fu Ran shook his head, his eyes were strange, and he had never been able to figure out the brain circuits of people like them.
The white light completely enveloped Ming Yi and Bai Su, which lasted for almost half an hour.
During this time, Xie Qin had been obediently watching from above, without making a single sound.
Feng Jin and Fu Ran also stood beside him, looking at the scene below with a probing look.
They didn't know what was going on down there, but judging from Xie Qin's expression, it seemed that things could turn around?
As soon as this idea popped up, Feng Jin pushed it back on his own initiative.
What else is there to turn around?He was also stunned to see him.
When a person dies, even if his cat suddenly turns into a demon, there is no way for him to be revived.
Feng Jin didn't go up to disturb him anymore, and let him stand there and stare at the situation on the other air shuttle.
He suddenly thought of Xiao Shisi. When he died, he was in the same mood as he is now.But you have to get out, nothing can trap a person for a lifetime.
No matter how strong the feelings are, they will eventually become dull with the passage of time. Xie Qin, this guy...just get through this period of time.
He turned his head and gave Fu Ran a wink, telling him not to relax too much.
Especially when this guy's hopes are shattered, he must lock his mobility immediately.
Fu Ran nodded, and adjusted the lasso, which had been restored to its original form, to the activated state again.
The white light group began to shrink, and the light emitted gradually weakened.
Xie Qin kept staring at the seat of the air shuttle, not even daring to blink.
After the light faded, an egg that was too familiar to him lay quietly on the shuttle, while Bai Su, who was sitting on the seat, remained motionless, lying on the seat without any reaction.
The sudden appearance of the egg made Fu Ran stunned. After he realized it, Xie Qin had already jumped on the floating shuttle that he had robbed.
Xie Qin squatted down halfway, with trembling palms, he stroked Bai Su who was lying on the seat.
After the warm touch came from his hands and he could feel the slight ups and downs, he fell to the ground as if all the strength in his body had been sucked away.
Feng Jin and Fu Ran didn't know what was going on with him at this time. They looked at each other, and they both saw the signal of 'what to do next' from each other's eyes.
Two or three minutes later, Xie Qin suddenly reached out and hugged Dan and Bai Su into his arms.
He curled up and sat in the corner of the air shuttle as if he had been greatly hurt, refusing to communicate with anyone.
three days later.
"Uncle Fu...this...what should I do?"
Fu Ran looked at Xie Qin who had been staying with the floating shuttle in his garage since he came back, and talked to Fu Ran in a loveless manner.
This guy Xie Qin is now completely immersed in his own world. For three days, without eating or drinking, he just curled up there like a sculpture.
Fu Ran was silent for two seconds, and went back to the room to bring a nutrient solution.
"You can go on like this, anyway, Bai Su is the one who starves to death in the end." After he finished speaking, he threw the nutrient solution under his feet, dragged Feng Jin out and left him alone.
"Hey, can this work?" Feng Jin didn't expect his words to be so simple and rude, he thought this guy would make a long speech to persuade him.
"I don't know." Fu Ran said, "What does love to death have anything to do with me?"
Feng Jin: "..."
Okay, he forgot that this person was a soldier before, and the most annoying thing was Xie Qin's useless behavior.
After the two left, the garage became dark again.
Xie Qin stared at the nutrient solution under his feet for a long time, then stretched out his stiff arm, bent down, picked it up and held it tightly in his hand.
half year later.
The changes on the planet now can only be described as earth-shaking.
The floating city was destroyed, and the game field that has been plagued by humans has never been restarted.
And when the isolation barrier disappeared at that time, from the central to the local, the chiefs of various administrative regions had released the authority of the defense equipment, and rectified all the combatants to prepare for the enemy.
A day passed, quietly, nothing happened.Two days passed and still nothing happened.On the third day, someone finally couldn't hold back and sent a few small mechs with strong mobility to check the situation.
As a result, what was supposed to be all over Qatar saw nothing.
Except for the buildings they left behind that symbolize their civilization, there is nothing, as if they disappeared out of thin air.
It took some time for human beings to digest the fact that the Calamity Period has ended, but even after half a year, those who have struggled in the game field are still wondering if they are dreaming now.
The only worry is the birth rate. Recently, both the natural breeding rate and the success rate of genetic breeding have begun to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But fortunately, the death rate has also dropped to before the advent of the Calamity Period, and the population remains fairly stable.
Those demigods who survived on the floating city were in bad luck.
Those who are underage are all sent to the correctional center for ideological discipline, and they will never be released unless all the concepts they have formed before are replaced.
As for adults, the Security Bureau got the data of the game field they designed, and cooperated with the planet's highest criminal supervision bureau to arrange crimes based on the number of people killed in the game field designed by the demigods.
In short, except for Xie Qin, no one could escape, and because of his performance, he was awarded the pennant of an outstanding demigod representative.
That ugly pennant made Feng Jin laugh at him for nearly a month before turning the page.
The remaining demigods, who committed the least crimes, were also sentenced to 150 years in prison.
And this guy is already in his 20s, and he probably won't have a few years to live when he comes out.
These people don't have the so-called reduced sentence for good performance, they just stay in it for the rest of their lives and repent for their actions.
In a not-so-small house in the residential area of X21 district.
Xie Qin was talking on the phone while cooking.
"Hey Seqin, you really don't want to go?!" Will yelled, completely unbelievable that Sechin rejected him, "Do you know how difficult it is to make an appointment for his 'Nightmare End' track? It opens once a year, three days at a time, today is the last day, are you sure you won't come? If you don't come, you really have to wait until next year!"
"No." Xie Qin said calmly, turned around and poured the prepared baby food into a small bowl.
The housekeeping robot on the side restarted its baby-care function, a large crib protruded from the front of its belly, and then stretched out many mechanical arms to tease the baby inside.
The little guy's pine green eyes stared straight at the thing above, and he tried to grab it, but he just couldn't.
"Don't call me for such life-threatening activities in the future. I have to save my life to raise children." Xie Qin handed the small bowl to the housekeeping robot, took off the apron, washed his hands and dried them, and decisively opened the communication interface in front of him. turn off.
In the past, he teased Ming Yi, who hadn't digested all the memories in the eggshell and was no different from a normal baby, before turning around and going upstairs according to his daily routine.
The matter of a half-demon breaking its shell is really a metaphysics, Ming Yi broke his shell in about half a year, his uncle Bai was lucky, he stayed in the egg for 18 years.
And Will, who was hung up suddenly, is now in a daze.
Raising children?
When did this fucking Sechin guy have a kid? ? ?
Even genetic cultivation would take him 10 months to receive it. It's only been half a year now, where did he get the child? !
Why don't you come if you don't want to come, and give him such a nonsense excuse to treat him as a fool?
In a fit of anger, Will instantly blocked Xie Qin's communication number, and then entered the track under the greeting of a group of friends.
Heh, your Grandpa Will has plenty of servants, and you, the Great Buddha, are no longer serving you!
Xie Qin pushed away from the bedroom and habitually looked at the bed.
In the next second, his pupils tightened suddenly, and his breathing stopped for a moment.
Bai Su, who was supposed to be sleeping soundly on the bed, was completely gone now.
That guy has been sleeping in a monster form since he was rescued by Ming Yi. If he could not feel his breathing and heartbeat, he would have been unable to hold on for such a long time.
But now that guy was gone, Xie Qin was surprised and panicked after a long time.
He must have woken up. After sleeping for half a year, he finally woke up.
But the question is where is he now?Why not go to him as soon as you wake up? !
When Xie Qin saw the open wardrobe and the curtains blown up by the wind, his expression lifted.
He rushed to the floor-to-ceiling windows and pulled open the curtains in front of him.
Bai Su stood on the balcony outside with his back facing him, his clothes were hanging casually on his body, and when the wind blew, he lifted the hem of his clothes, and he could vaguely see the smooth muscle lines around his waist.
That person's ability to resist cold is indeed top-notch. It was freezing cold in January and February, and he was standing outside in only short-sleeved shorts.
The sound from behind made Bai Su turn around reflexively, Xie Qin threw himself into his arms, stretched out his arms to hug his back tightly, and buried his head in the crook of his neck.
The impact was a bit strong, and Bai Su took a step back and hit the fence before he could barely defuse it.
He clasped the back of Xie Qin's head with his hand, wrapped his left arm around his waist, rubbed his face against his hair, and said softly, "I'm back."
He also hugged Xie Qin with great strength and didn't say anything superfluous.
The man also didn't speak, just hugged him and cried, panic, worry, fear and joy were intertwined, completely uncontrollable.
The two hugged each other tightly without any unnecessary movements.
No more playgrounds, aliens, and floating castles, they can do whatever they want in the future.
The sun poured on the two of them, dispelling the coldness that had been lingering in their souls. Even though it only snowed yesterday, Xie Qin still felt unprecedented warmth and satisfaction.
postscript:
A few days after Bai Su woke up, the two were busy raising their baby.
After all, they just fell in love not long ago, and the two of them never had the idea of genetically cultivating a child.
One of them popped up suddenly. The two of them had no experience at all. Fortunately, with the help of a housekeeping robot, the situation wasn't too bad.
According to Bai Su, his memory is incomplete, and he remembered it when he was less than one year old.But Ming Yi is different, he will have to wait until he is at least four years old to recover all his memories.
When Xie Qin heard the news, he felt that the world was about to collapse, and he couldn't stand it after a few days. He didn't expect to wait until he was four years old, which was killing him.
If it wasn't for the sake of saving Bai Su, he would definitely throw him out now, so he wouldn't care about his life!
"Ahhhhhhhh, this is a four-legged gold swallowing beast!" Xie Qin stretched his hands to the top of his head, rubbing his hair into a mess.
Bai Su smiled lightly, not really wanting to remind him that the inheritance he brought back from the pit was more than enough to raise 100 four-legged gold swallowing beasts.
When the two of them were trying to plan the next situation, an unfamiliar communication number called Bai Su's personal terminal.
The two looked at each other, and finally accepted.
"Excuse me, is this Mr. Bai Su?"
It started with such an inquiry, a woman's voice, a voice they had never heard before, and they could guarantee that they had never seen this person before.
"Yes." Bai Su said in a deep voice.
"I am the diplomatic director of the Institute of Supernatural Powers. I am sorry to inquire about your communication number privately. We have contacted you many times before, but we have been unable to answer. We have encountered a big... trouble here. I don't know if you understand this situation..."
The man described the problems that occurred in the research institute to Bai Su, and it was probably that the vitality of the remaining five demons was rapidly declining. They tested with instruments, and their physical activity was already at the same level as that of humans of the same age. level.
The supernatural power disappeared, and they didn't know what was going on. They wanted to find out if he, an adult monster, also encountered the current situation.
Bai Su's eyes flickered, and he tried to wake up his demon fire, but failed.He has felt something leaving him since he woke up, but he didn't expect it to be his supernatural power as a monster.
And he was originally a half-demon, and his life span was the same as that of a human being, so he didn't encounter the situation where their life expectancy dropped sharply as they said.
He told the other side about his situation, and then ended the call.
"Your demon fire is gone?" Xie Qin leaned forward and asked in a low voice.
"Yeah." Bai Su responded, but didn't worry too much about it, "When the gods fall, the rules will be rebuilt. The supernatural power will disappear completely with our death, and the monster race... We should be the last survivors, and we will be the last survivors in the future." It's a world where science and humans rule everything."
"Supernatural power disappears... those exorcists..." Xie Qin's eyes flickered, and he muttered softly.
"Huh? What did you say?" Ming Yi suddenly laughed out loud, causing Bai Su to fail to hear what he said.
"It's nothing." Xie Qin smiled at him, threw himself on him and pushed him down on the sofa, "So can I still stroke my hair?"
Bai Su: "..."
He stared at Xie Qin's expectant eyes, turned his head away, and flicked his tail to him.
Xie Qin kissed him with a bright smile, held his face, lowered his head and kissed him hard.
Seeing the tail waving in the air, Mingyi babbled and wanted to grab it.
Xie Qin ignored him, hugged both tails into his arms, and threatened him, "Impossible, they are all mine, don't try to touch them."
Ming Yi stared at him for a while, then pulled the corner of his mouth, and the magic sound pierced his ears.
Xie Qin & Bai Su: "..."
They looked at each other, and at the same time saw the deep helplessness in each other's eyes.
--Finish--
It patted the back of Seqin's head with its paw, sending him some kind of message.
Regardless of the fact that they couldn't communicate, Xie Qin didn't have the mind to guess what he said, so he opened a tablet and handed it to it.
Ming Yi's writing speed this time has reached his limit, and when he wrote down a long list of words, it was almost as fast as a human's typing.
'hurry up!He is burning his soul, and when the flames on him go out, he will really die! '
Seeing this sentence written by Ming Yi, Xie Qin cursed loudly.
He also wants to go faster, but the current speed is already the maximum that the air shuttle can achieve. Unless they can immediately replace the engine with a higher power, everything is wishful thinking.
He couldn't help at all, this kind of situation that he knew what was going to happen but couldn't change it made him feel anxious, but also a desire to destroy everything.
He didn't care about the current situation in the Floating Void City anymore, he kept his eyes on the front and rushed there as fast as he could.
His body has been frozen by the high-altitude cold wind and he is almost unconscious.
There are too many buildings below, and it will undoubtedly waste a lot of unnecessary time to avoid these east and choose detours. Only by reaching this height can we ensure that the whole process will not waste a second.
Ming Yi's situation is a bit better than his. After all, he is a demon. Although the hair on his body is not long, it is very thick.
The cold wind can't touch its skin at all, allowing him to maintain his body heat as much as possible.
The influence from the Floating Void City spread, and Ming Yi's pine green eyes were locked on Bai Su, whose body became like a mountain.
The wounds on his body are still visible, but the flames rising from his whole body serve as a source of energy to support his huge body.
The flames burned, and everything he touched was burned to nothing in an instant. It was more domineering than his demon fire, and the golden flame completely enveloped him, as if a god had descended.
The building made of special materials melted little by little in the golden flame mixed with nothingness. Bai Su raised his front paw and swung it out mercilessly with the flame.
□□The huge power generated, carrying the regular power contained in the flames by burning the soul, completely destroyed the building.
Bai Su felt a vaguely invisible force in the air that made him extremely uncomfortable.
He hated this thing, opened his mouth and surrounded the power with demon fire mixed with golden flames.The void white light on the outermost layer of the golden flame flickered, and that power disappeared instantly.
At this time, a thunderstorm suddenly fell from the sky, and the barrier separating humans from Qatar's territory flickered a few times in the distance, and then disappeared without a trace.
The subtle overlapping of parallel spaces was completely split due to the disappearance of the gods. The Qatari people who were active on the planet all returned to their original dimensions overnight, just like when they suddenly appeared on the planet, silently .
The sky has not yet dawned, and most people on the planet are still in deep sleep, ignorant of all the happenings outside.
But there were quite a few people who were awake, and they all stared at the severely damaged floating city in the sky with a shocked expression.
Especially directly below the main body of the floating city, all the areas covered by it coincidentally support the protective net that has never been used since it was built, completely covering the area to which it belongs.
Countless building blocks fell from the sky, and many pedestrians and buildings were injured and damaged, but none of those who were awake had the idea of going indoors to hide. They all stood on the street and stared at the sky above. floating city.
The last time a small damage caused the game field to stop for more than a month, the scale of the damage this time is not 01:30 points larger than the last time.
Everyone's eyes were full of fanaticism, as well as excitement and anticipation that couldn't be concealed at all.
"Fuck! Look over there!"
Someone in the crowd suddenly noticed the strangeness in the distance. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. After confirming that he was really not dazzled, the tone of his voice changed.
Some people looked in the direction of his finger.
I don't know when the isolation barrier disappeared. Everyone's expressions changed instantly, and they didn't care about the excitement that the game field might be shut down. They all changed to a twisted expression of 'everyone is going to finish playing'.
"Fuck! Isn't the battle for the fucking territory once every six months?! How long has it been?"
"The point is not this, it is that it didn't have any warning at all this time!"
"And the time is not right, how can there be such a point to remove the barrier, isn't this a joke?!"
"..."
The crowd became restless, and some impulsive ones even planned to get together and go to the homes of the administrative chiefs of various districts to discuss explanations.
The good news of the destruction of the Floating Void City was not as shocking as the fact that Qatar was about to attack the human territory again. Almost all the people flocked to their homes, taking out their weapons and hiring people to protect themselves.
All of them looked like frightened birds, as if they had never seen such a scene before.
After spitting out the ball of demon fire, Bai Su clearly felt that the rules were excluding him.
The speed of burning his soul suddenly accelerated, and he didn't even have time to finish burning his soul.
Bai Su stood on the ground, the flames around his body shot up into the sky uncontrollably, and then quickly decayed.
The surface of the Floating Void City was completely melted by the flames he erupted at the end, especially the area where Bai Su was standing, a deep pit was burned out, and it sank deeper and deeper as his body fell. In the end, it even reached the position of the large anti-gravity engine at the core of the Floating Void City.
Holding his last breath, Bai Su struggled to keep himself awake.
He opened his mouth, and when the flame burned through the alloy shield at the bottom of the mouth of the floating city, he spit out a mouthful of demon fire with all his strength, and the target was the most important anti-gravity engine of the floating city.
The energy core was detonated, and the entire floating city exploded from the center, and the splashed building blocks hit the protective net above the mainland city without causing much damage.
There are also some surviving demigods who have urgently used the floating equipment, and are now manipulating them to avoid the falling floating city building blocks.
The flame on Bai Su's body was extinguished at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it began to shrink a little bit from its initial size like a hill.
He is falling, and along with the broken wreckage produced by the explosion of the floating city's anti-gravity engine, he is falling towards the endless abyss together.
Bai Su's breathing weakened, his chest couldn't be seen rising and falling at all, and his red-gold animal pupils were completely slackened.
He stared at the wreckage of the floating city scattered in the sky, drawing a perfect end to the disaster he created.
The rules have always controlled him, and his long-standing identity makes it impossible for him to escape the established fate.Fortunately, everything is over, Seqin is... safe...
Bai Su's vision began to blur, he could no longer feel the pain, the coldness spread to his whole body, and at the last second of losing consciousness, he seemed to hear someone calling him.
Very far away, as if coming from an illusory space, not real at all.
"Abai—!"
Xie Qin manipulated the air shuttle to rush into the falling wreckage, and grabbed Bai Su who was soaked in blood.
His body shape was about the same as Ming Yi's now, his eyes were still open, he looked at the sky motionless, and didn't respond to Xie Qin's call.
Xie Qin didn't know where to put his hands now, his whole body was frozen stiff by the high-altitude air-conditioning, holding Bai Su, he didn't dare to make any big movements at all.
He let the floating shuttle fly around in the air, and hugged Bai Su, who had lost his breath, tightly in his arms.
He started to disassemble the storage box under the air shuttle seat like crazy, and with Feng Jin's character, all vehicles will be equipped with emergency medical kits—even if it is very likely that they will not be used at all.
Ming Yi was thrown out because of his actions, the air shuttle was a little slippery, and it almost fell from it.
Its paws were tightly clasped on the edge of the fence, and its hind paws struggled to return to a safe position on the air shuttle.
There are not many things stored in it, they are all general-purpose therapeutic medicines, and there is only one first-aid injection, which is only for cardiac arrest.
But Xie Qin couldn't take care of that much anymore, only this thing can be used, anyway, there will be no worse situation than now.
He injected the injection directly into Bai Su's body, the guy's heart had stopped beating, even though his reason told him it was useless, he still stubbornly wanted to save something.
Holding Bai Su's body, he knelt on the ground motionless, losing all hope.
It's useless, it can't be saved, even if he takes out 'rebirth' now, it won't help.
All the emotions in Xie Qin's eyes faded away like a tide, leaving only the deathly stillness and emptiness of nothingness.
Trembling, he stood up from the air shuttle, and slowly but unquestionably raised his foot to step on the fence on one side.
Those he hated are dead, and those he loves...are also dead, so what's the point of him being alive?
There is nothing in this world worthy of his nostalgia, and it is better to die now than to live in a daze.
"Fuck! Xie Qin, please fucking wake me up!"
When Feng Jin, who was worried about chasing after him, was looking for Xie Qin, what he saw was him holding a bright red ball, standing on the edge of the floating shuttle, ready to jump off.
Fu Ran immediately threw out the explorer, tied Xie Qin tightly, and pulled him back a second before he jumped off.
"Are you fucking crazy?! If you're dead, there's no use for Bai Su to do these things!"
Feng Jin jumped onto his air shuttle and punched him in the face, then grabbed his collar and asked sharply.
"He can be ignored! But if he doesn't come, you will die, do you know that! The choice he made is to keep you alive! Let you-!"
Xie Qin's eyes flickered, and he opened his mouth, ignoring the blood from Feng Jin's beating at the corner of his mouth, and fell into a strange circle.
"It's all because of me...does it mean that without me, Ah Bai wouldn't have to die..."
"It was I who killed him... I was the one who killed him... From the last life..."
"If it weren't for me, he wouldn't lose a part of his body, and he wouldn't die because of me...he would have a good life...not what he is now. Why the fuck did I run! Why didn't I That guy was killed?!"
His suppressed emotions suddenly collapsed, which neither Feng Jin nor Fu Ran expected, almost made him break free.
"Fuck...Fu Ran, hurry up, don't let him run away, I'll find out where the tranquilizer is!"
Feng Jin cursed in a low voice, adjusted the air shuttle under his feet to follow mode, and then jumped back to the one he and Fu Ran were on and rummaged around.
Ming Yi, who was hanging outside the fence and was forgotten, finally managed to climb into the safe area.
He sprawled on the ground with his four paws spread out, looking as if he was dying of exhaustion.
The blood-soaked corpse in Xie Qin's arms bumped into its eyes.
A struggling expression that others could not understand flashed in its pine green eyes, and then it turned into firmness as if it had made some determination.
The air shuttle suddenly fell down for a short distance, Fu Ran was carried by the inertia and slipped outwards, almost falling along with him.
They have left the high altitude of the main city now, and they don't know where they are.
Xie Qin let the air shuttle run around without any purpose at all. The two of them followed the real-time coordinates of the shuttle and didn't pay much attention to where it went.
In short, it should be very biased, after all, it doesn't look so prosperous down here.
"What's wrong?!" Feng Jin hurriedly turned his head, thinking that Xie Qin had made something wrong again.
Fu Ran was silent and didn't speak, but just gave him a look, motioning him to come and see.
Feng Jin installed the tranquilizer he found into the launcher-type needle syringe, and when he was about to give it to Xie Qin, what happened there caused him to raise his hand.
A huge cat with nine tails suddenly appeared on it, occupying the entire air shuttle, and Seqin was being entangled by one of its tails and held high in the sky.
Bai Su's body was snatched from Xie Qin's arms. The man was going mad, struggling desperately as if he wanted to kill it.
Ming Yi laid Bai Su flat on the seat, leaned over and sniffed him twice.
It raised its head suddenly, and its pine green pupils, which were as big as bronze mirrors, stared straight at Feng Jin and Fu Ran.
They stared at each other for two or three seconds, Ming Yi suddenly flicked his tail and threw Xie Qin to them, and then a slightly dazzling milky white halo emanated from its body, and then spread to the whole body.
Seeing this scene, Xie Qin suddenly stopped.
Suddenly transformed back into an adult body, surrounded by the same white light...
His Adam's apple was rolling up and down, and an unrealistic guess suddenly popped into his mind.
Ming Yi is turning into a demon, it is saving Ah Bai!
"Third brother...let me go." Xie Qin opened his mouth, and said this sentence with infinite expectation.
Feng Jin doesn't believe that he has figured it out now, his basement has been prepared for him, and he will go back and lock him up for a few days, so that he can forget all the sad things.
"Let you go and let you seek death? Don't think about it." Feng Jin snorted lightly, opened the safety valve of the syringe, and was about to give Xie Qin a shot.
"Huh? Uncle Fu, what are you doing?" Feng Jin looked at Fu Ran who was clasping his wrist, a little puzzled.
The latter told him not to move, told him to back off, and then he untied the noose that bound Seqin with his own hands.
Feng Jin let out a low cry, and when he was about to take this thing back and tie Xie Qin up again, he was still a little puzzled when he found that the man didn't have the posture to jump off.
"He figured it out so quickly?" Feng Jin asked aloud.
"I don't know." Fu Ran shook his head, his eyes were strange, and he had never been able to figure out the brain circuits of people like them.
The white light completely enveloped Ming Yi and Bai Su, which lasted for almost half an hour.
During this time, Xie Qin had been obediently watching from above, without making a single sound.
Feng Jin and Fu Ran also stood beside him, looking at the scene below with a probing look.
They didn't know what was going on down there, but judging from Xie Qin's expression, it seemed that things could turn around?
As soon as this idea popped up, Feng Jin pushed it back on his own initiative.
What else is there to turn around?He was also stunned to see him.
When a person dies, even if his cat suddenly turns into a demon, there is no way for him to be revived.
Feng Jin didn't go up to disturb him anymore, and let him stand there and stare at the situation on the other air shuttle.
He suddenly thought of Xiao Shisi. When he died, he was in the same mood as he is now.But you have to get out, nothing can trap a person for a lifetime.
No matter how strong the feelings are, they will eventually become dull with the passage of time. Xie Qin, this guy...just get through this period of time.
He turned his head and gave Fu Ran a wink, telling him not to relax too much.
Especially when this guy's hopes are shattered, he must lock his mobility immediately.
Fu Ran nodded, and adjusted the lasso, which had been restored to its original form, to the activated state again.
The white light group began to shrink, and the light emitted gradually weakened.
Xie Qin kept staring at the seat of the air shuttle, not even daring to blink.
After the light faded, an egg that was too familiar to him lay quietly on the shuttle, while Bai Su, who was sitting on the seat, remained motionless, lying on the seat without any reaction.
The sudden appearance of the egg made Fu Ran stunned. After he realized it, Xie Qin had already jumped on the floating shuttle that he had robbed.
Xie Qin squatted down halfway, with trembling palms, he stroked Bai Su who was lying on the seat.
After the warm touch came from his hands and he could feel the slight ups and downs, he fell to the ground as if all the strength in his body had been sucked away.
Feng Jin and Fu Ran didn't know what was going on with him at this time. They looked at each other, and they both saw the signal of 'what to do next' from each other's eyes.
Two or three minutes later, Xie Qin suddenly reached out and hugged Dan and Bai Su into his arms.
He curled up and sat in the corner of the air shuttle as if he had been greatly hurt, refusing to communicate with anyone.
three days later.
"Uncle Fu...this...what should I do?"
Fu Ran looked at Xie Qin who had been staying with the floating shuttle in his garage since he came back, and talked to Fu Ran in a loveless manner.
This guy Xie Qin is now completely immersed in his own world. For three days, without eating or drinking, he just curled up there like a sculpture.
Fu Ran was silent for two seconds, and went back to the room to bring a nutrient solution.
"You can go on like this, anyway, Bai Su is the one who starves to death in the end." After he finished speaking, he threw the nutrient solution under his feet, dragged Feng Jin out and left him alone.
"Hey, can this work?" Feng Jin didn't expect his words to be so simple and rude, he thought this guy would make a long speech to persuade him.
"I don't know." Fu Ran said, "What does love to death have anything to do with me?"
Feng Jin: "..."
Okay, he forgot that this person was a soldier before, and the most annoying thing was Xie Qin's useless behavior.
After the two left, the garage became dark again.
Xie Qin stared at the nutrient solution under his feet for a long time, then stretched out his stiff arm, bent down, picked it up and held it tightly in his hand.
half year later.
The changes on the planet now can only be described as earth-shaking.
The floating city was destroyed, and the game field that has been plagued by humans has never been restarted.
And when the isolation barrier disappeared at that time, from the central to the local, the chiefs of various administrative regions had released the authority of the defense equipment, and rectified all the combatants to prepare for the enemy.
A day passed, quietly, nothing happened.Two days passed and still nothing happened.On the third day, someone finally couldn't hold back and sent a few small mechs with strong mobility to check the situation.
As a result, what was supposed to be all over Qatar saw nothing.
Except for the buildings they left behind that symbolize their civilization, there is nothing, as if they disappeared out of thin air.
It took some time for human beings to digest the fact that the Calamity Period has ended, but even after half a year, those who have struggled in the game field are still wondering if they are dreaming now.
The only worry is the birth rate. Recently, both the natural breeding rate and the success rate of genetic breeding have begun to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But fortunately, the death rate has also dropped to before the advent of the Calamity Period, and the population remains fairly stable.
Those demigods who survived on the floating city were in bad luck.
Those who are underage are all sent to the correctional center for ideological discipline, and they will never be released unless all the concepts they have formed before are replaced.
As for adults, the Security Bureau got the data of the game field they designed, and cooperated with the planet's highest criminal supervision bureau to arrange crimes based on the number of people killed in the game field designed by the demigods.
In short, except for Xie Qin, no one could escape, and because of his performance, he was awarded the pennant of an outstanding demigod representative.
That ugly pennant made Feng Jin laugh at him for nearly a month before turning the page.
The remaining demigods, who committed the least crimes, were also sentenced to 150 years in prison.
And this guy is already in his 20s, and he probably won't have a few years to live when he comes out.
These people don't have the so-called reduced sentence for good performance, they just stay in it for the rest of their lives and repent for their actions.
In a not-so-small house in the residential area of X21 district.
Xie Qin was talking on the phone while cooking.
"Hey Seqin, you really don't want to go?!" Will yelled, completely unbelievable that Sechin rejected him, "Do you know how difficult it is to make an appointment for his 'Nightmare End' track? It opens once a year, three days at a time, today is the last day, are you sure you won't come? If you don't come, you really have to wait until next year!"
"No." Xie Qin said calmly, turned around and poured the prepared baby food into a small bowl.
The housekeeping robot on the side restarted its baby-care function, a large crib protruded from the front of its belly, and then stretched out many mechanical arms to tease the baby inside.
The little guy's pine green eyes stared straight at the thing above, and he tried to grab it, but he just couldn't.
"Don't call me for such life-threatening activities in the future. I have to save my life to raise children." Xie Qin handed the small bowl to the housekeeping robot, took off the apron, washed his hands and dried them, and decisively opened the communication interface in front of him. turn off.
In the past, he teased Ming Yi, who hadn't digested all the memories in the eggshell and was no different from a normal baby, before turning around and going upstairs according to his daily routine.
The matter of a half-demon breaking its shell is really a metaphysics, Ming Yi broke his shell in about half a year, his uncle Bai was lucky, he stayed in the egg for 18 years.
And Will, who was hung up suddenly, is now in a daze.
Raising children?
When did this fucking Sechin guy have a kid? ? ?
Even genetic cultivation would take him 10 months to receive it. It's only been half a year now, where did he get the child? !
Why don't you come if you don't want to come, and give him such a nonsense excuse to treat him as a fool?
In a fit of anger, Will instantly blocked Xie Qin's communication number, and then entered the track under the greeting of a group of friends.
Heh, your Grandpa Will has plenty of servants, and you, the Great Buddha, are no longer serving you!
Xie Qin pushed away from the bedroom and habitually looked at the bed.
In the next second, his pupils tightened suddenly, and his breathing stopped for a moment.
Bai Su, who was supposed to be sleeping soundly on the bed, was completely gone now.
That guy has been sleeping in a monster form since he was rescued by Ming Yi. If he could not feel his breathing and heartbeat, he would have been unable to hold on for such a long time.
But now that guy was gone, Xie Qin was surprised and panicked after a long time.
He must have woken up. After sleeping for half a year, he finally woke up.
But the question is where is he now?Why not go to him as soon as you wake up? !
When Xie Qin saw the open wardrobe and the curtains blown up by the wind, his expression lifted.
He rushed to the floor-to-ceiling windows and pulled open the curtains in front of him.
Bai Su stood on the balcony outside with his back facing him, his clothes were hanging casually on his body, and when the wind blew, he lifted the hem of his clothes, and he could vaguely see the smooth muscle lines around his waist.
That person's ability to resist cold is indeed top-notch. It was freezing cold in January and February, and he was standing outside in only short-sleeved shorts.
The sound from behind made Bai Su turn around reflexively, Xie Qin threw himself into his arms, stretched out his arms to hug his back tightly, and buried his head in the crook of his neck.
The impact was a bit strong, and Bai Su took a step back and hit the fence before he could barely defuse it.
He clasped the back of Xie Qin's head with his hand, wrapped his left arm around his waist, rubbed his face against his hair, and said softly, "I'm back."
He also hugged Xie Qin with great strength and didn't say anything superfluous.
The man also didn't speak, just hugged him and cried, panic, worry, fear and joy were intertwined, completely uncontrollable.
The two hugged each other tightly without any unnecessary movements.
No more playgrounds, aliens, and floating castles, they can do whatever they want in the future.
The sun poured on the two of them, dispelling the coldness that had been lingering in their souls. Even though it only snowed yesterday, Xie Qin still felt unprecedented warmth and satisfaction.
postscript:
A few days after Bai Su woke up, the two were busy raising their baby.
After all, they just fell in love not long ago, and the two of them never had the idea of genetically cultivating a child.
One of them popped up suddenly. The two of them had no experience at all. Fortunately, with the help of a housekeeping robot, the situation wasn't too bad.
According to Bai Su, his memory is incomplete, and he remembered it when he was less than one year old.But Ming Yi is different, he will have to wait until he is at least four years old to recover all his memories.
When Xie Qin heard the news, he felt that the world was about to collapse, and he couldn't stand it after a few days. He didn't expect to wait until he was four years old, which was killing him.
If it wasn't for the sake of saving Bai Su, he would definitely throw him out now, so he wouldn't care about his life!
"Ahhhhhhhh, this is a four-legged gold swallowing beast!" Xie Qin stretched his hands to the top of his head, rubbing his hair into a mess.
Bai Su smiled lightly, not really wanting to remind him that the inheritance he brought back from the pit was more than enough to raise 100 four-legged gold swallowing beasts.
When the two of them were trying to plan the next situation, an unfamiliar communication number called Bai Su's personal terminal.
The two looked at each other, and finally accepted.
"Excuse me, is this Mr. Bai Su?"
It started with such an inquiry, a woman's voice, a voice they had never heard before, and they could guarantee that they had never seen this person before.
"Yes." Bai Su said in a deep voice.
"I am the diplomatic director of the Institute of Supernatural Powers. I am sorry to inquire about your communication number privately. We have contacted you many times before, but we have been unable to answer. We have encountered a big... trouble here. I don't know if you understand this situation..."
The man described the problems that occurred in the research institute to Bai Su, and it was probably that the vitality of the remaining five demons was rapidly declining. They tested with instruments, and their physical activity was already at the same level as that of humans of the same age. level.
The supernatural power disappeared, and they didn't know what was going on. They wanted to find out if he, an adult monster, also encountered the current situation.
Bai Su's eyes flickered, and he tried to wake up his demon fire, but failed.He has felt something leaving him since he woke up, but he didn't expect it to be his supernatural power as a monster.
And he was originally a half-demon, and his life span was the same as that of a human being, so he didn't encounter the situation where their life expectancy dropped sharply as they said.
He told the other side about his situation, and then ended the call.
"Your demon fire is gone?" Xie Qin leaned forward and asked in a low voice.
"Yeah." Bai Su responded, but didn't worry too much about it, "When the gods fall, the rules will be rebuilt. The supernatural power will disappear completely with our death, and the monster race... We should be the last survivors, and we will be the last survivors in the future." It's a world where science and humans rule everything."
"Supernatural power disappears... those exorcists..." Xie Qin's eyes flickered, and he muttered softly.
"Huh? What did you say?" Ming Yi suddenly laughed out loud, causing Bai Su to fail to hear what he said.
"It's nothing." Xie Qin smiled at him, threw himself on him and pushed him down on the sofa, "So can I still stroke my hair?"
Bai Su: "..."
He stared at Xie Qin's expectant eyes, turned his head away, and flicked his tail to him.
Xie Qin kissed him with a bright smile, held his face, lowered his head and kissed him hard.
Seeing the tail waving in the air, Mingyi babbled and wanted to grab it.
Xie Qin ignored him, hugged both tails into his arms, and threatened him, "Impossible, they are all mine, don't try to touch them."
Ming Yi stared at him for a while, then pulled the corner of his mouth, and the magic sound pierced his ears.
Xie Qin & Bai Su: "..."
They looked at each other, and at the same time saw the deep helplessness in each other's eyes.
--Finish--
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