Wasteland Echoer

"Huh? Do you know me, little brother?" "Ningyuan" tilted her head, slightly closed her sapphire eyes, and asked with a "warm" smile.

Unlike other lost people or "unintentional people" he had seen, the cardinal in front of Wright behaved too normally.

There were no signs of mental breakdown, no hint of domineering or bullying, no solemn and repressed expression, no hint of killing from a loser who was prone to anger, or any "abnormal" intention. The "obsession" complex.

On the contrary, it was very peaceful. In the battlefield of the front camp, in this huge space filled with filth, scarlet substances, and sour and pungent liquids, a smile appeared.

With a loving smile, as if he was looking at his biological brother, the smile on "Ning Yuan's" face was warm even in the eyes of Wen Deke, the captain of the "New Wind Team" who has been in the wasteland for a long time and is a superpower. of.

There is no "sorrow" that diffuses and lingers around the body, and there is no sense of confusion and cunning that is common to the lost.

normal!

Very normal!

On the contrary, it is not normal!

Instead of immediately responding to "Ning Yuan"'s "kindly" smiling inquiry, Feng raised the standard rifle distributed to him by the "New Wind Team".

Raise it to the level of your eyebrows!

His right hand hooked the trigger part painted with black paint, and with his light green eyes closing and closing, Feng chose to stare at the center of "Ning Yuan"'s eyebrows through the crosshairs of the simple sight with only one piece.

For the lost, that is the second most vulnerable part after the heart!

Following Feng's movements, Wright and Wendek also reacted quickly. They simultaneously raised their rifles and aimed at "Wish Ning", which even under the cover of black robes still had a rich and shining blue light. chest.

The two of them cautiously stepped back, and after a few seconds, they finally stood on both sides of the wind.

On the one hand, he half-blocked the relatively "thin" wind with his body, and on the other hand, he maintained an offensive posture and continued to observe the cardinal in front of him.

Wright's impression of the Cardinal remained basically the same as a few days ago. The "Wolf-Headed Heartless Man" and "Crazy Body" encountered in the ruins of the city of Donusk were naturally deeply impressed by his strength and absolute defense against firearms and attacks.

After all, Wendek is a member of the Zhinetsk Corps, a captain-level figure of the "New Wind Team". As a fifth-ranked hurricane, he has the qualifications to access the empire's "C-B+ level secrets".

In his mind, the internal document titled "The Response Methods of the 12 Cardinals of the Three Major Churches" jointly published by the Zhnetsk Council and Novalka University a year ago mentioned in detail Message from the seated Cardinal.

Because the personnel appointments of the three major churches are different from many of the current "customary" models in the empire, such as selecting talents and promoting talents, determining status based on pure strength and ability, etc., they have exceeded the upper-level ranks, which are also known as Those who have lost the strength of the three major offices of Pope, Cardinal and Purple Cardinal cannot be given higher status.

Therefore, after a long-term "meeting" through communication through magic source power, the three popes decided to give these 12 powerful lost ones, some of whom even reached the 4th level of the order, a special status, that is, the "right position". Cardinal".

Taken from the poems of Gurji, the poet of the old Crusad Empire:

"The truly strong choose to look up at the stars, and the giant eyes behind the deep sea will eventually gaze. The land of silence will eventually usher in the dawn, and endless light will be nurtured at the end of the long night."

And these 12 powerful cardinals who can almost withstand the empire's bullets, artillery, bombs, and even the brutal collision of giant machines with their own bodies are:

"For the Church of Giants, No. 1 is 'Palm Night', No. 2 is 'Song Nian', No. 3 is 'Condensing Wish', and No. 4 is 'Wu Sheng'. From the Church of Hope, No. 5 is 'Eternal Chao', and No. 6 is 'Luanjue' , No. 7 'Crazy Body', No. 8 'And Dream'. And from the Church of the Dark Night, No. 9 'Blood Wind', No. 10 'Heimeng', No. 11 'Mysterious Sound', and No. 12 'Snow Dusk'."

Most of their demon source orders are the same as the vast majority of the lost people in the entire Sune Empire, belonging to order 5: pain, and some of them have received guidance through the demon source potion and previous communication with the gods. After experiencing a mysterious enlightenment process, he was promoted to the fourth level of hope.

The difference between sequence 5 and sequence 4 is essentially the same as the difference between a flintlock rifle and a repeating rifle, a gap that almost spans two to three eras.

If we look at the year gap between the current science and technology in the wasteland world, it is at least a 200-300 year difference.

Moreover, Wendek still remembered that the document mentioned that the power of the 12 straight cardinals was strangely evenly distributed.

In other words, they control different types of magic power, and there are even rare people with dual magic power. Their personalities are completely different, and even their fighting methods and areas of expertise are completely different.

Judging from the information quoted in the literature, the cardinal "Ning Yuan" in front of him should be good at using magic source power to fight, rather than relying on physical fitness and fighting skills to control the advantage.

Moreover, it seemed that his spiritual power was inexplicably strong. Therefore, predicting that the upright cardinal might exist in the old camp in the front area occupied by the Giant Church, Wen Deke explained the relevant information about identifying and trying to get out when he was near the camp gate. The content of hallucinations.

Looking at the three people in front of him who made no sound, were fully armed and stared at "Ning Yuan" with serious faces, the cardinal did not show much anger.

He still maintained a rare and innocent smile, straightened his head in a strangely stiff posture, then closed his right hand forcefully, making a fist, and then opened it suddenly, shining the light composed of blue flames towards the top of the big tent.

Suddenly, the gas lamp in the room became extremely bright, as if it had been filled with new fuel.

Just like the radiance splashed by the white, blazing sun at noon, which seems to melt people.

Immediately afterwards, he took half a step back, and his left hand slowly and rhythmically began to condense the two upper-level magic sources of darkness and light in his body. He did not forget to recite the incantation for spirit formation:

"I pray for the Lord of the Night's blessing."

"I command the goddess of light to gaze."

"Darkness and light are intertwined."

"The light that belongs to this era!"

"It belongs to the darkness of this era!"

“Bless me and let me touch the future.”

bump!

When the last word of "Ning Yuan" was uttered, a bullet mixed with tiny, hard-to-detect ice crystals suddenly shot out of Feng's gun barrel, hitting "Ning Yuan" directly between the eyebrows.

But unfortunately, "Ning Yuan" only raised his left hand slightly and waved it gently and quickly. A bright vortex of light shone on his forehead for a second, and the cold bullet disappeared.

"I like children very much, little brother. Even if you are a young man who was forcibly recruited by the empire, I am unwilling to hurt you from the bottom of my heart. You should run innocently in the fields and ride a horse in the grassland.

Either use your rich magic power to perform splendid magic tricks, or play the piano in a noble music classroom and immerse yourself in the ocean of notes.

Rather than on a cruel, bloody battlefield, right? By the way, when you saw the imperial soldiers who were introduced to the ‘Sea of ​​Wishes’ by me just now, and when you saw these plants, didn’t you feel a throbbing feeling in your heart? Isn’t there an emotion called ‘desire’ deep in your soul? "

The words "condensing wishes" are very tempting.

Wright knew that Feng was a semi-lost person and was born with a certain ability to resist the mental impact of the lost person, but Wendek glanced at Feng with some concern.

Seeing that his wolf-like light green eyes still showed a sharp and fighting aura, Wendek suddenly felt that his worries were unnecessary and unfounded.

"Like them? Facing death in this filth? 'Ning Yuan', you are too cruel." Feng asked in a young boy's voice.

"They? Aren't they already immersed in the happy 'Sea of ​​Wishes'? You see, they are so happy, with smiles on their lips that we have not seen easily for a hundred years, little brother." "Ning Yuan" As he spoke, he stretched out his slender, white and untouched right hand and pointed at the bodies of the four team members in the front view, not far from his floor-sweeping robe.

Wright and Feng looked along the fingertips of "Ning Yuan". The two soldiers whose chests were pierced by the slender stick-like objects full of eyeballs were in a strange posture at this moment. They were "adjusted" to sit cross-legged and kneeling at some point. posture.

Their eyes were closed tightly, and a scary smile appeared at the corners of their mouths. Although they had already lost their lives, when the small red blood vessels extending from the stick-like objects penetrated into the brain, their chests were rising and falling slightly, as if there was still life left. .

Although the two lost people whose necks were wrapped by the longer and thicker version of maggots still maintained a lying posture, if you look carefully, they actually had their hands crossed on their chests, their eyes were half blurred, and they were looking above blankly. The body presents a very peaceful picture.

Although this weird "sense of happiness" confirms "Ning Yuan"'s statement about the "Sea of ​​Wishes" to a certain extent, there is a petroleum-like viscosity flowing on the ground around him. The liquid that gradually enveloped the four dead team members still made Wright disdainful and disagree with the argument of "Condensing Wish".

"I thought that maybe when the stick-like object, at least the snake-like thing, entangled them, they had a chance to resist, but I smelled the smell of acid. 'Wish Ning', you are not only through the magic The source of power, and also eroding their spirits through acid, made them give up their instinct of resistance in an instant.

This is not what you call being immersed in the "sea of ​​wishes" because of happiness, but an illusion imposed on them. From this point of view, they are pitiful and unhappy. "

Relying on the standard combat boots made of anti-corrosion and dirt-corrosive materials, Wright took a half-step forward, stepped half of his foot into the edge of the petroleum-like liquid, and kept aiming the "Imperial Z-01" rifle at the chest of "Ning Yuan" posture, said.

"Who are you?" "Ningyuan" asked in a low, youthful and protective voice, lowering his left hand.

"Wright, Wright Sugra. Currently a member of the 'New Wind Team', Red Earth Level 2. This time I participated in the 'Silence's Advent' campaign to fight against you dirty, evil, order-disrupting Lost Ones." .By the way, to complete my goal." Wright blurted out.

"It's not just to fight us, Mr. Wright, I also smell a strong aura of 'desire' in you. Moreover, there is also an unusual source of magic that permeates the energy of the plane and the power of the gods. As for my strength. I even smelled the breath of the sequence cards. By the way... you..., will you make a wish to me?" "Ning Yuan" kept smiling.

Without waiting for Wright to answer, he gently waved his hands up and down in front of his body. After a few seconds, the scene in front of him suddenly changed.

The stick-like objects and white "maggots" that attacked the team members before suddenly grew in size several times under the guidance of the magic source power. Under the guidance of the threads formed by the light and dark magic source power, they grew, stretched, and turned into The vines, in two tones of red, black, and yellow and white, took root downwards and penetrated deep into the cold concrete floor.

After only ten seconds, the vines formed a small "forest" in front of them, constructing half a barrier, a black iron-colored seat, and two poles from the "seat." "The white and straight scepter rushed out from the ground.

Naturally, after sitting on the "black iron seat", "Ning Yuan" finally changed into a proud look, mixed with contempt, and glanced at Wright and others.

Immediately afterwards, his right hand seemed to be grabbing the seasoning and swaying it on the empty meat skewers, waving it gently on the top of the scepter, squirming.

Then, the top of Bai Jie's scepter actually formed two round trays of the same color.

Their edges are regular and artistically curled inwards.

After another four or five seconds, they turned into two large bowls filled with clean water inside, exuding a holy aura, and with sharp ax patterns on the outside.

In fact, a pure purple violet quickly grew in each bowl. They exuded the sweetness and fragrance that Wright had inadvertently smelled when he was at the entrance of the camp, mixed with a strange feeling.

"Eternal beauty and love, endless simplicity and virtue, the slight coolness in the hot summer, and the unyielding will to obey the rules, Wright, I smell the breath of 'order' and 'inspiration' from you. This An emotion that has something in common with Violet’s words has completely exposed your information to me.”

"Ning Yuan" said, taking a sip of the air that was mixed with sour, fishy, ​​pungent smell, and the fragrance of flowers, his eyes were blurred and intoxicated, and he continued:

"Since you are not willing to follow your heart and make a wish after sacrificing your body and soul, then I don't mind fighting you, the superpower behind you, and that strange young man who knows me. Don't worry, it's just the beginning I will be very gentle and will not cause you unnecessary pain."

At this point, this article has actually entered the part of the continuous battle in the climax chapter, and the subsequent plot will gradually speed up. All the foreshadowing and rhythm will burst out in a concentrated manner, revealing as much as possible that belongs to Wright and the god "Daughter of the Mechanical Yuan" "The secret part.

This book has already written 700,000 words. I just wanted to write a single chapter to say something, but after much thought, I decided to wait until the first volume is completed before making a summary and saying something from my heart.

If any reader friends can read this, it means they have recognized this wasteland Cthulhu text, and they will keep reading until this point. I am extremely grateful.

Because this is the first book for a newbie at Qidian, and it is also a book that seriously focuses on the world view and plot. Although it is not an online novel, and may have a slow pace and a few minor bugs, it is still a work with my heart. Carefully constructed.

Coding, checking information, making backgrounds, etc. for several hours every day is indeed very energy-consuming. Of course, I feel extremely honored that readers are following it sincerely.

Having said this, I still want to emphasize my previous promise. Even if there is only one subscription for this book, and even if there is no recommendation and support from readers, I will finish it within 3-4 million words.

I am worthy of myself, worthy of every fantasy dream, and worthy of all the characters in my book, which currently number more than 80.

Giving the characters a destination, giving the story an ending, and seriously writing a great story from the perspective of a group portrait, I think, must be the ideal of anyone who sincerely wants to create literature.

Persevere, watch, and never give up!

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