The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 718 Death Ritual (Two in One)

The sound of the flushing toilet was refreshing. Liu Sheng had seen enough of the bad taste of the low-profile version of "The World" and wanted to flush it down the sewer.

[You can't give everyone some really good rewards, right? Otherwise, how can we play this game? ] The low-profile version of "World" said aggrievedly.

Liu Sheng: ...

He raised his stiff hands and slowly put on the earplugs.

[But...are these tasks too easy? ]

[The main thing is that we are no longer the same as we were in the past...]

[And what we can show you is certainly not the kind of difficulty that can reach A level or above! ]

At this time, the system's voice sounded:

[It seems that some people have gotten carried away~]

【Then let’s make it a little more difficult! 】

[Start Mission 4 - The Truth of Ascension! ]

This has indeed increased the difficulty.

Liu Sheng searched the system over and over again, but still could not find any information about "Ascension". There was no relevant information about the "Ascension Room", as if this place did not exist in the organization at all.

At this moment, an alarm suddenly sounded in the room.

The red police lights flashed blindingly.

The almost dead silence in the office was instantly broken.

There was a rustling sound, and the colleagues who had been as calm as dead people immediately raised their heads, like alert meerkats. The chairs were dragged with a harsh sound, and they stood up and looked at each other warily.

"Is it my turn?"

"How come it's your turn? I came in earlier than you."

"But I work harder than you do. Do you want to see how often I go down there to check? You're a bunch of cowards!"

"Come on, you were just sneaking away. Otherwise, why didn't you volunteer when the alarm went off just now?"

"I just had a stomachache!"

"So, you all want to go?"

A hoarse voice broke into the quarrel, like a whisper squeezed from a rotten throat.

Everyone looked at the person who spoke - Liu Sheng.

In the dim light, her pale face looked strange and even a little dead...

And another colleague who came back with me...

He sat there motionless, his eyes fixed on the screen, reflecting a pale face.

They finally realized something was wrong, and when they wanted to scream, they were stopped by the tentacles.

The scream was strangled in her throat.

……

Alarms echoed throughout the institution.

However, the departments that need to be dispatched are the Execution Department and the Corpse Department.

Two members of the Execution Department walked quickly into the elevator, but just as the door was about to close, they saw two colleagues from the Corpse Department squeezing in.

"Why did you come just now? The alarm is almost over!" The colleague from the Execution Department said in a bad tone, "If I hadn't known you couldn't get up, I wouldn't have waited for you."

Another colleague from the executive department seemed more friendly and said with a smile, "Don't worry, just wait a moment."

"Sorry, just sorted something out."

The speaker's voice was a little hoarse, and it sounded as harsh as nails scratching on a blackboard.

The two people from the executive department exchanged glances, which was not surprising.

After all, there is always a big fight before the Corpse Department goes out every time, and I heard that fighting has become a tradition.

His eyes swept across the faces of the two people. They were frighteningly pale, with some bloodstains on them, like uneven blush, which made them look even paler.

More like a dead person.

"So it's you this time?"

"Yeah, hehe."

"That's good. This is a good opportunity. I wish you can ascend to heaven soon." A colleague from the executive department said lightly.

"Hehe, let me lend you some good words."

The more friendly executive member said with envy: "I really envy you. We are not like you. We have to work very hard to make enough money before we can ascend to the sky..."

Also concerned about one sentence:
"By the way, what's wrong with your voice?"

"Nothing, just an injury to the trachea..."

"Oh……"

I understand. It's normal to get hit in the trachea during a fight.

"Be careful. Although such an opportunity is rare, don't try too hard. Remember, your life belongs to the God of Light. Don't waste it in such a meaningless way."

"Thank you for your concern..."

The colleague whose voice was hoarse because he was hit in the trachea was naturally Liu Sheng.

She was not disturbed by the false concern and hidden sense of superiority shown by the other party. On the contrary, the obvious disgust and disdain in the other person's eyes were more real.

As he was speaking, Liu Sheng arrived at the ground floor without permission.

What came into view was a huge glass cover covering the outside, with three rusty cars inside, like antiques left over from a bygone era.

The most eye-catching thing is the yellow bus, which is so rusted that its original color can no longer be seen, and "Youai Primary School" is still written on the body of the bus.

The two people from the executive department walked straight towards the school bus.

Looking back, I saw two people from the corpse department, one standing there watching woodenly, and the other looking back at the elevator, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Hurry up and catch up!"

"oh oh."

Then the two of them slowly caught up.

After getting in the car, the friendly colleague asked, "Why, did you also hear that the elevator broke down today?"

"Um……"

"It's weird that it says it's overloaded when there are only three or four people sitting on it. Luckily it didn't show up just now. I think those people are just too overloaded after eating too much."

"Ah."

"If you ask me, this elevator is too old. I don't know how many times it has been bought, just like this school bus."

The school bus, which had been purchased by who knows who, started up with a roar, billowing black smoke, and swayed out of the protection of the glass cover.

"It's really a stingy company!"

"Ah."

Liu Sheng responded casually and looked back. The whole building was a transparent house with only one floor.

Looking around, the entire land is filled with low buildings like this.

The ground was barren and eroded by countless dark vines, exuding a strange and ominous atmosphere. These glass covers were like transparent beads embedded in this gloomy land.

【Are there no tall buildings? 】

Seeing Liu Sheng looking around curiously, the executive department colleague who had no one to chat with in front of three cold colleagues took the initiative to start a conversation:
"Why, you haven't been out on the ground for a long time, do you feel fresh?"

"Yes." "Your resistance is too weak, and it's easy for something to happen if you come out. This is to protect you."

"Ah."

"It would be great to live in the company. We have to run back and forth between the company and home every day, and we have to pay rent. I don't know when we can save enough money to go to work..."

The other party looked bitter and resentful, but there was a barely perceptible sense of superiority in his tone.

Above?

So Liu Sheng looked up, only to discover that this was a world where the sky could not be seen.

There was a deep dome above, made of translucent material but with a deep color that made it hard to see clearly. There were only vague, mottled black shadows falling down and projected on the ground.

At first she didn't understand what those shadows were, until she saw the moving dots of light and shadow among them, like black lice and long strips of shadows moving in an interlaced manner, then she realized that they were cars and trains shuttling between the tall buildings.

Occasionally, faint colorful lights penetrate the dome and fall on this gray earth, as if there is a more wonderful and bright world above, unlike this world, so gray, barren and desolate.

"But it won't be possible to get up there so quickly..." Liu Sheng said tentatively.

The other party didn't care:

"Oh, I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I'm already on the upper floor."

……

In a blink of an eye, we arrived at our destination.

What lies ahead is even more barren land.

The entire ground looked like the remnants of a disaster, with only broken walls and ruins left of the buildings, and a thick residual smell of strangeness filled the air, but there was no glass cover to protect it.

Colleagues from the Executive Department are wearing protective masks and protective clothing.

Seeing Liu Sheng looking at them with a blank face, they said, "You don't need it anyway, there's no need to waste resources. We are a small company so we have to be frugal..."

The school bus passed a bunch of black tents built among the ruins and finally stopped next to a relatively intact large building in the center of the tent group.

When Liu Sheng took a look, a vague memory flashed in his mind - this was a temple.

"Take your tools and go down." The colleague from the executive department who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke in a cold tone.

Liu Sheng and his "teammates" carried a heavy box and walked off the school bus unprotected.

"You go ahead."

Liu Sheng did not refute, but walked silently in front of his two colleagues from the executive department and was the first to step into the temple.

As soon as I stepped through the door, a strong smell of blood hit me in the face.

At first glance, ordinary people would probably scream or collapse on the spot. But Liu Sheng looked calm, her heart was not disturbed; and her "teammates" were even more silent, following behind her like emotionless statues.

"You're not afraid?" Another colleague from the Executive Department mocked, "Yeah, because that's how it is in your hometown, right? But at that time... you were not eligible to participate."

Liu Sheng ignored the meaningful sarcasm and just watched the scene in front of him which was like the reappearance of hell.

Fifty-eight corpses formed three circles inside and outside, all with their heads hanging down, blood dripping from the corners of their mouths, and no sign of life at all.

But what is even more bizarre is that some strange structures have grown on these corpses, as if they no longer belong to human form.

Inside the temple, a tall statue stood. Its body vaguely showed the outline of a human, but its head was a ball of shining light, emitting a warm glow, and the soft light was sprinkled on this bloody scene.

The blood flowed slowly along the ground and merged into the roughly carved grooves, forming a huge and strange magic circle that just included the fifty-eight people.

No, there are two more positions.

As if it was prepared specially for someone.

……

When Liu Sheng and her teammates came out, they had already changed into protective clothing, which was splattered with glaring red blood, and bright yellow clothes were vaguely visible under the protective clothing.

Bodies were carried out one after another and placed on the school bus.

Sixty in total.

After carrying the body, Liu Sheng also took out a video recorder from the car.

She also said to her silent teammates: "They said we should keep a good service record... I'll try it."

The teammates remained silent.

Liu Sheng cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, today is January 23rd of the tenth year of the Era of Light. The villagers of Hall Village have gathered all the offerings and obtained the qualification for the Ascension Ceremony. It took a total of thirteen days from the application for qualification to the formal execution. It has progressed smoothly and has now been completed."

"That... the grooming has been done, the body has been filed, no, the death filing report has been written, and the colleagues in the corpse department... have heroically dedicated themselves and completed their mission."

"Sixty bodies are now being transported back to headquarters for grooming and freezing, awaiting the call of the God of Light."

She pointed the video camera at herself and her teammates, and added coldly: "Executors, PWAS3256 and TRXS0814, Hongsheng Feisheng Co., Ltd."

As the car started, Liu Sheng's eyes swept across the group of tents.

In the dark shadow of the tent, someone had been peering furtively, his eyes alert and timid.

She knew that these were people who were not even qualified to participate in the ceremony.

The corpses sitting in the back seat and swaying quietly in the car were all the so-called people from the lower class. They had accumulated enough offerings to be able to exchange for the opportunity to hold the ascension ceremony.

Ascension represents changing one's destiny against the will of heaven.

That's why they will do it at all costs.

However, the biggest problem is that the ascension ceremony is firmly controlled by large groups and the price is very high.

Therefore, some people who have no money can only find a small company like "Hongsheng" and do a pirated ascension ceremony. The price is lower, but the ascension time will be longer.

But as my colleague said, what’s the time between closing your eyes and opening them?
This is the truth about their institution.

Knowing this does not mean that Liu Sheng really understands the truth of ascension.

Therefore, [Task 4] has not been prompted to be completed.

But Liu Sheng already knew the direction.

She controlled the steering wheel and looked into the distance.

……

Hongsheng Feisheng Co., Ltd., B2 floor.

Liu Sheng drove the school bus into the company, and two colleagues from the cleaning department appeared. Together they carried the bodies to the processing room on the second floor below ground.

"Why did you bring the corpse section forward again..."

Someone from the cleaning department asked a question when they were moving the two bodies in gray clothes.

"It's in the way." Liu Sheng answered briefly.

The other party shook his head: "You can still come back and talk about it later. You can also help us carry the bodies and deal with the abnormalities. Then we don't have to do it ourselves..."

Another colleague from the cleaning department tugged at her sleeve. "Forget it. Isn't it said that dying in a ritual has a higher success rate? We haven't... ascended for a long time..."

"Okay, too."

"I hope the two corpses will be of better quality this time, and can catalyze it quickly..."

Next, each corpse must undergo a strict "cleaning" process - removing excess structures, restoring it to human form, and thoroughly checking for any remaining strange auras.

If anything unusual is found, use a purifier to force it to be treated.

Many colleagues are accustomed to using this "quick" method. Although the purifier can quickly restore the human form, the side effects are also clearly written on the bottle - excessive purification will lead to over-purification of the corpse.

A strange sentence, but I guess this is the origin of those "strange corpses".

After the cleaning was completed, the bodies were dressed in light blue clothes, neatly placed in the morgue, and the door was closed.

The underground second floor was empty again.

But behind every door, there was a rustling and scraping sound, and tiny tentacles stretched out from inside and spread throughout the corridor...