Chapter 225: No longer human, no less than god
A little earlier.
Jeremy, who was squatting in a restaurant in the north of the city, opened his eyes and looked uneasily in the direction of the Kremlin Palace.
"Perhaps, Chengbei is just a cover."
"Is the state you were in trance just now a sign of demon healing?" Karl asked curiously while eating pizza.
Jeremy had no intention of answering this question. He seemed to vaguely know Augustus's plan: "I have an idea."
Hearing this, Karl randomly stuffed the pizza into his mouth, clapped his hands, and copied He put a square bottle of vodka into his arms and handed another bottle to Jeremy, who shook his head and didn't take it.
"What do you think? Have you discovered anything new? If you want to set off, tell me."
Jeremy hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Go to the Kremlin Palace, I feel Something will happen."
"It seems that you also have the talent to be a detective." Karl stood up with him without asking the reason, paid and left the restaurant.
Then he followed the stairs and came to a rooftop. It was not very high, but he could still see a whole city.
In the distance, the sun is about to sink below the horizon. The city at dusk is always noisy and quiet.
"It's too late to run over, Carl, let's learn to fly."
"Huh?"
Before Carl could ask more questions, Jeremy palmed his hand Lines appeared and he patted Karl's forehead gently.
Immediately, Karl felt dizzy, and the strong desire to vomit made him retching several times.
“This is awesome!”
Karl, who was about to say something, stared blankly at his arm, which was suddenly covered with black feathers. His fingers were missing and had no feeling. He looked again. The world in front of me suddenly became extremely vast, and the gate next to it also seemed huge.
Jeremy has disappeared, replaced by an owl that looks a bit like Jeremy in front of him.
He looked back at Karl: "Let's go, don't get lost, follow me."
After saying that, he jumped off the roof first, opened his arms and fluttered, and immediately soared into the sky.
[What kind of ability is this]
The little devil was also a little surprised.
"Interesting." Carl learned to flap his wings. Now he could see that he had become a crow. What was even more incredible was that all his clothes and items had changed with him. At least he could I felt that the bottle of vodka was still in my arms.
Without having time to investigate carefully, he jumped down, glided awkwardly and flapped his wings, chasing the owl.
"To be honest, I'm starting to envy you a little now."
"Can envy fly?"
"Yes, this is so cool! I can fly all day long!"
“Be careful, don’t be targeted by predators.”
“Woohoo!”
Soon, the two birds approached the greenery of the Kremlin Palace. The owl landed on the branch first, while the crow was not used to flying yet and had poor aim and hit the trunk of the tree.
"Hey, why do I feel like my ability has disappeared? This trick of yours feels like it can be used on the opponent, just like the sheep I used to play in the game. In reality, there is no need to say any rules about not attacking the sheep. "People." Karl touched his head. Logically speaking, this impact was nothing to him, but now it was quite painful.
". It can deal with ordinary people, but not the people in the Soul Gathering. They have defensive techniques." When Jeremy was investigating in North America, he had already fought against the Baron and Heath once each. The other party was very capable in actual combat. There are also defensive techniques, which are very tricky. The hidden wounds on his body were from fighting with Heath.
Jeremy's eagle eyes kept searching nearby, and soon he found three figures together.
".See you, Augustus."
Turning into ashes, he also recognized the special temperament in Augustus.
“Wait for me!”
Jeremy flew out instantly, followed by Karl hurriedly chasing after him.
Near the Red Square, Augustus felt something in his heart, stopped and raised his head.
"What?" Baron and Heath became alert.
"Stop them." A red light flashed from Augustus' palm, covering hundreds of meters in an instant. As he dived down, Jeremy felt his internal organs surge. He could no longer maintain his flight and fell straight to the ground.
At the same time, a helicopter exploded in the sky above the Kremlin Palace, and several fireballs flew into the sky.
"Old man, it's time to say something. I do admire your perseverance, but...that's it." The baron held a summoned transparent long sword and slashed at Jelle who had just fallen to the ground. rice.
Jeremy, who fell to the ground, had no time to concentrate his spell. He lay on the ground in a panic and turned around to avoid it. He then took the opportunity to attach the wind spell and apply a layer of acceleration.
“Boy, no one taught you to respect the old and love the young?!”
Just when the baron was about to pursue the victory, a black shadow struck in mid-air, forcing him to take a few steps back temporarily.
Bang!
The concrete floor cracked, Karl stood up gracefully, opened the bottle cap, raised his head and took a sip of wine: "Leave this guy to me."
Jeremy didn't say much. , time was running out, and he chased Augustus who had already reached the Red Square.
"It seems that you are quite confident." The baron watched Jeremy leave, not in a hurry, but smiled and chatted.
"Actually, if possible, I don't like fighting and killing. Otherwise, we can just pretend and we can handle it." Karl put away half a bottle of wine and suggested with squinted eyes.
“That’s what I meant.”
“Hahaha”
The scene was strangely quiet for a few seconds.
Suddenly, Karl jumped to avoid it, and the next second, the place where he was standing exploded with a bang, as if he had received an air bomb.
"Boy, you're a little dirty."
The two of them stopped talking nonsense and started fighting. However, Karl, who was not specialized in martial arts, would suffer a bit too much in the fight.
“Brother, give me some more strength.”
【.Please let me come out for air first】
“Give me first.”
【***】
Augustus had arrived at the end of the Red Square at this time. He ignored the battle not far away and gently stretched out his hand. The ground in front of him rumbled. After a while, a stone pillar half a man's height slowly rose.
The pillar has a strange shape, with three thick peristaltic blood vessels attached to the main body. At the top is a stone platform tilted towards Augustus. In the center, there is a circle with a black and red inscription. Ball inlaid mouth.
"Augustus!!"
Jeremy had arrived less than a few dozen meters away from Augustus, but Heath, holding a long knife, stood between them. In the meantime, Augustus only showed his back to Jeremy and did not respond to his shouts.
"Mr. Owl, please." Heath casually took off his robe, and a strange black limb was sewn onto his broken right arm at some point, which looked evil.
"Heath." Jelle took a deep breath, closed his eyes and opened them. All fatigue disappeared, his muscles swelled, and pieces of hair began to attach - "Roar!"
He transformed into a bear, roared and smashed the earth with his fists. The scattered cement and stones continued to condense on his body. In an instant, he transformed into an earth bear wearing rock armor and charged towards Heath.
His's black strange hand dyed the long knife in his hand black, and slashed forward neatly.
With a clanging sound, the long knife left a dark fire mark on Jeremy's arm, adhering to the armor, and continued to drill into the crack tenaciously.
"The same raccoon dog!"
With a sudden snap, the spikes of the earth exploded towards Augustus behind Heath.
Heath chopped several of them in succession, and could no longer keep up with the growth speed of the spikes. He took a few steps back in the air, only to see the spikes bypass him and run straight towards Augustus.
At this time, Augustus seemed unaware and just integrated the complicated techniques into the [Soul Filtering Device] in his hand. With a relaxed tone, he opened his palms to the incoming spikes.
Bang! All the surging spikes seemed to hit an iron wall one meter away from him, shattering into dust and emitting countless smoke, preventing them from advancing even an inch.
As the spherical device was put in, in the distance, black and red light pillars rushed into the sky one after another. Countless birds started up, and some small birds even stopped their heartbeats and breathing, and fell out with a bang. It fell to the ground like a rain of corpses.
A strange red color enveloped the dome, like the blood of gods soaking the heaven and earth.
".I already know what you are going to do. Do you know what price it will cost to disturb these sleeping souls?" Jeremy had already understood Augustus' purpose from the technique, and his scalp became numb. numb.
“I don’t need to bear the price. I just take some resources, just like humans extract oil and mine coal.” Augustus looked at the black-red flames that were getting more solid around him. Menzhao responded calmly, "When humans did these things, did they ask those ancient creatures?"
"Your current behavior is no longer worthy of being called a human!"
"Birth, old age, sickness and death, short-sightedness, so what if such a weak human being is inappropriate? From now on, my goal is no longer human, no lower than God."
Augustus looked at the increasingly dense soul material on the device, his eyes blurred.
Finally, he finally witnessed the existence of the soul with his own eyes, and he finally had the capital to start the many experiments he designed for this purpose.
The immortality of the soul seems to be no longer an unattainable legend.
"Supreme, in your eyes, am I still an insignificant ant?"
It is a pity that Augustus is destined to not get the answer.
Heath attacked Jeremy again, breaking through the armor defense on his back, leaving a burning black flame scar.
Jeremy took the blow hard, then restrained Heath who wanted to continue the attack. He turned his head and looked at Augustus with a sad look on his face: "What they left behind for this land is More than sin."
"Good and evil are of no use to me. The difference is that good does not need a carrier, but evil must be carried. Let's go. What happens next is not something you can interfere with." Gusdu's words were filled with the last trace of emotion.
"Your spells are not perfect, don't forget." Jeremy shook Heath away, staggered back, and looked at the huge crimson door that was gradually pushed open, "Who brought you in."
After saying that, he stopped entangled with them and turned around and ran towards the other side of the Red Square.
Augustus watched him leave without stopping him.
The door to the ancient charm and evil spirit has been opened, and no one can stop it. The faint black air seeps out, the temperature drops sharply at a speed that can be sensed by the body, and black snow begins to fall from the sky unconsciously.
The door was completely opened, and there was a deep and thick darkness that was impenetrable. It greedily swallowed up any glimmer of light that dared to approach. There was no sound at all, only deathly silence.
"Jeremy!" Carl got rid of the baron and caught up with Jeremy who looked weak, "So what is the situation now."
"I already know his technique, the purpose is to extract For the souls buried in this land, sin is just a by-product. But this land is not only filled with sin, the good that he abandoned may be able to provide us with other help."
"Now, I will try. With the help of his current technique, he created a half-finished product that condensed good thoughts to stop him. From now on, protect me, for the sake of this city, for the dead, and for the living." Jeremy took a deep breath, and said, The other end of the Red Square sat down directly and closed his eyes.
".I'll try my best." The army is currently coming, and Karl doesn't know if they will allow him and Jeremy to stay where they are.
There was a faint roar in the sky. Karl looked over and could see little ripples on the blood-colored curtain.
It seems that the launched missiles cannot penetrate the blood mist barrier. Now we can only pray that President Vicky arranges enough troops internally.
In the darkness, a ray of light flashed, rushing towards the dark interior of the door like a meteor, and was immediately swallowed up completely, leaving no trace.
Ye Jie landed slowly, put away his bare bow, and gasped for air.
“I can’t seem to breathe.” Jennifer stroked her chest and came to her side and said.
"Our blood is used as a mark, and in this area, the power is restricted." Ye Jie looked at the healed wounds. The power from prayer has not weakened, only theirs have weakened. physical strength.
"That door"
"The Demon Lord is behind the door. I can feel that his power is constantly rising. He must not be allowed to continue like this."
During the conversation, the army The bombardment has been launched towards the gate, but all the artillery fire is like a dumb cannon. As long as it hits near the gate, it disappears without a sound.
"Deploy a defense line!"
Tens of thousands of organized troops defended the gate in layers, setting up lines of defense. In addition to this, there was a steady stream of troops rushing to catch up. Come.
Karl on the other side of the Red Square was originally worried that he would be targeted, but found that the two of them seemed to be ignored, and no one paid attention.
"You should have told me earlier if you had a backup plan." Karl simply sat down and guarded the surroundings for Jeremy.
Of course, what he is most concerned about is the movement of the giant door.
After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the battlefield commander stopped this waste of ammunition, and countless pairs of eyes stared directly at the door.
I saw ripples appearing in the deep darkness, and slowly, a skull with black fire poked out from it.
Soon, the second and third ones came, and densely packed black fire skeletons came out of the gate, holding simple weapons and looking at the group of living people in front of them with sadness.
The soldiers swallowed their saliva. The low temperature made it difficult to bend their fingers. Every breath of cold air they inhaled seemed to lower their core temperature.
After the skeleton soldiers, there were skeleton heavy cavalry. They rode war horses wrapped in large pieces of white bones, and their bodies were also tightly wrapped with white bones as armor.
"Fire. For Mocheng!"
The contact with his superiors became extremely difficult under the influence of the blood mist, and he could not wait any longer.
Bang bang chu chu!
Tanks roared, machine guns roared, and the bullet storm was like a bone-crushing line, tearing a large number of skeleton soldiers into pieces.
But before people had time to be happy, the bone knight had already raised his heavy bone shield, driving the bone horse to charge.
The ground shook violently like an earthquake. Countless skeleton heavy cavalry were mixed with some skeleton soldiers. Like a chisel, they easily tore apart the front line of defense of the army in an instant, cracking a Festering wounds.
Hot weapons actually fall into a disadvantage in the face of such unreasonable cold weapons.
No matter how tenacious the soldiers were, it was difficult to avoid their flesh and blood turning into pieces, and the iron sheets of the tanks turning into cans.
"Brother, can you do it? If not, we will be safe." Carl urged, looking at the chaotic battlefield ahead, the increasingly approaching Bone Cavalry, and picked up a rifle from the ground , fired a few rounds, but could only splash a few sparks on the surface of the heavy armored skeleton.
"Okay." Jeremy opened his eyes with complex expressions, "Now, there is only one thing left."
"What do you want?! Say, I will die for you Come here!" Karl asked over his shoulder.
"No need. That's enough for me. Please help me and open the door."
"Open the door?" Karl was startled.
Jeremy sighed deeply, stood up, and his body bloomed with strange lines. Then his whole body slowly deformed, and gradually expanded and expanded under Karl's shocked eyes. Within a moment, another giant door appeared. , before the defense line collapsed completely, slowly rose up on the other side of the Red Square.
Since then, a huge door has been erected on both sides of the Red Square, one in the northwest and one in the southeast.
The difference is that one door is black with red in it, while the other door is pure and gorgeous red.
"How the hell am I going to open this door?! Does it open from the inside or from the outside?!" Karl usually rarely had this kind of speechless mood, but now he really didn't hold back.
Fortunately, maybe this was just Jeremy's joke. This door didn't need Karl's help to open it. It opened automatically from the inside out just like the other door.
Behind the gate, there was a dazzling bright red area, like a portal, and what came out of it were also skeleton soldiers. Karl looked at it blankly. They did not have the power of the Bone Knights, nor did they have the Bone Soldiers. They were so ferocious that many of the skeletons even had their limbs missing, but when they were put together, their momentum was so high that nothing seemed to be able to knock them down completely.
"You are" Carl already had the answer in his heart.
The leading skeleton nodded towards him and looked at the giant black door on the other side of the Red Square. The red light swinging in his empty eye sockets made his eyes look complicated.
In the collapsed defense line, a soldier ran towards the rear crying. His queue was torn apart in almost an instant. His teammates could not even find a intact head. At this moment, he had no trace of his body. Fighting spirit, just want to stay away from these monsters completely. No matter where he escapes, it's fine. Where can he escape? After all
When he was at a loss, a hand grabbed his shoulder. He could see clearly that it was the hand of a skeleton. But why, he didn't feel a trace of resistance or fear. He could only look blankly at the hand holding him. That person of his.
"Comrade, we have no retreat. The land under your feet is the city of Mo."
The skeleton's eyes were filled with red flames, and he patted the soldier's shoulder gently, looking towards The oncoming Bone Cavalry raised the gun made of bones in its hand high.
“Ula!”
“Ula!!”
"Let our broken bodies build another iron wall for our motherland!"
At the red door, countless red flaming skeletons rushed out, charging amidst shouts, using their broken bodies to attack the motherland! They withstood the attack of the Bone Knights and formed a group of Bone Giants. They picked up the Bone Knights and smashed them to pieces or threw them to the opposite side. On top of the numerous bones, they launched a massive counterattack.
(End of this chapter)