Simultaneous travel: I am a talented person in all the worlds

Chapter 547 The Lighthouse Falls
The indoor lighting suddenly went out after a period of unstable flickering!
The medical room at the very tip of the lighthouse was instantly plunged into darkness.

The next moment, a piercing alarm blared!
"Beep!—Beep!—Beep!—"

Jing Nan, who was standing guard beside the old city lord Morgan, immediately changed his expression and took out his personal data terminal!

When she saw the rows of blood-red warnings on the screen, such as "System crash" and "Connection interrupted," even she, who was usually calm, turned as pale as a sheet!
"Oh no! The computing system has completely crashed! The entire energy hub of the lighthouse has also been forcibly shut down! What happened?!"

"I don't know what happened."

Lottie, the female doctor who had begun performing emergency resuscitation on Morgan with her bare hands the instant the medical equipment was turned off, said coldly as she performed the treatment:

"All I know is that if power isn't restored within three minutes, the patient will begin to suffer irreversible damage."

“If these treatment devices haven’t returned to normal operation within ten minutes, then, Lord Jingnan,”

She paused, her voice devoid of any emotion, "You can give up on resuscitation and just wait to collect the city lord's body!"

Jing Nan gritted her teeth and immediately issued an order using her authority: "Support the medical room with all available backup energy!"

“But, Lord Jingnan! If we do this, the lighthouse will fall to the ground!” A subordinate’s shocked and questioning voice came from the other end of the terminal.

"I'm ordering you to immediately prioritize supplying backup energy to the medical ward! That's an order! Execute it immediately!" Jing Nan roared at the terminal, showing no intention of explaining.

The next moment, the medical room was instantly illuminated!
One by one, the medical equipment that had just fallen silent began to restart, emitting "beep" sounds.

Jing Nan glanced deeply at the old city lord on the sickbed, then turned to the still-busy, aloof female doctor: "Please, no matter what, you must cure him. Dr. Lottie."

Without looking up, Lottie said expressionlessly, "Maintaining the patient's life is my duty. You don't need to remind me of that, Lord Jingnan."

Jing Nan pursed her lips, turned around, and quickly left the medical room.

The floating city of Lighthouse was designed with the issue of crashing in mind from the very beginning.

Therefore, its power system draws additional energy as a strategic reserve during normal operation.

This is to ensure that, even in extreme circumstances like the sudden cutoff of power, the personnel on the lighthouse still have a precious period of time for emergency repairs or... escape.

This period of time will not be too long.

At most, ten to fifteen minutes.

She had to restart the lighthouse's damn energy system before anything else!
……

In the Hall of Light and Shadow.

Charles is standing on the pulpit.

Hundreds of priests, whom he had carefully selected and who were most loyal to him, were gathered below the stage.

"...Therefore, we must be soberly aware that those decaying old fogies are no longer capable of..."

The speech was halfway through.

"Snapped!"

Without warning, the entire magnificent hall was plunged into darkness.

"what's the situation?"

Standing next to Charles, the Lightbringer, Brahma, frowned and immediately asked in a stern voice.

“I…I don’t know, Headmaster! All the energy supply has…it has been suddenly cut off.” A member of the cult responsible for checking the lines replied in a trembling voice in the darkness.

Instantly, the darkness was filled with the suppressed whispers and commotion of the followers.

"quiet!"

The Lightbringer Vatican frowned, and uttered a rebuke laced with anger.

The chaotic hall was restored to a subdued calm.

On the pulpit, Charles was also very annoyed, but he couldn't show it. Instead, he laughed and opened his arms wide:

"Everyone! Do you see this?! This... is the warning given to us by the great Lord of Light and Shadow!"

"The lighthouse has fallen into its darkest and most dangerous moment! Those corrupt and conservative old fogies can no longer recognize the current situation. They will only use their rigid thinking to lead all of us, and this lighthouse, into an abyss of no return!"

"Only the Lord of Light and Shadow! Only I, chosen by the Lord of Light and Shadow! And all of us who believe in the Lord of Light and Shadow! Can make this lighthouse navigate better! Can lead all the people on the lighthouse back to the ground and rebuild civilization!"

Charles, leading his followers, roared hysterically in the darkness the dogma that was etched into their very bones:
"Light gives birth to all beings, and all beings follow in its shadow! I would rather have my body damaged than abandon the light and shadow!"

“Therefore I am!” Charles held the sign to his chest, making a solemn salute.

“Therefore, I am here!” Below the stage, hundreds of priests followed enthusiastically.

"very good!"

Charles nodded in satisfaction. "Now, heed my command! Come with me to save this lighthouse from destruction!"

After giving a pep talk on the spot, he did not personally lead the team.

Instead, the Lightbringer Vatican and another priest named Sharif each led a group of people and quickly rushed into the darkness.

After everyone had left.

Charles could no longer hold back, his face contorted in the darkness as he gasped for breath: "Damn it... what happened?!"

The current situation was also unexpected for him.

If this lighthouse really does crash.

Then all his plans and ambitions will vanish into thin air.

He'll have to go down with it too!
After checking the terminal for a while, Fanlu reported, "Chief, according to the current information, it seems that the Lighthouse's main energy system and central computing system were inexplicably interrupted at the same time."

"Lord Jingnan is already leading his men to carry out an emergency restart."

"Also, news has come from the Dust People's District that several small-scale riots have broken out. Should we send people to quell them?" After hearing the news, Charles suddenly asked, "Where is Victor and his city guards?"

Fanlu then took the terminal and checked for a moment: "Victor is personally leading a city defense force to guard the central medical room."

"The rest of the city defense troops were assigned to guard various important areas of the lighthouse to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to cause irreparable and huge losses."

Upon hearing this, a glint of madness flashed in Charles's eyes.

He suddenly realized...

This sudden chaos, which caught everyone off guard, truly seemed like an opportunity bestowed upon him by the great Lord of Light and Shadow!
……

The elevator platform serves as the only exit for the lighthouse.

Linglong Moyu still stood there quietly.

The priests who were responsible for guarding him, however, had lost their initial composure.

They looked back in horror at the now-darkened lighthouse and the slight feeling of weightlessness that kept creeping up their feet.

An emotion called fear is constantly accumulating and fermenting in the hearts of each of them.

Finally, someone couldn't hold back any longer and completely broke down.

"Lord Adam! It's too dangerous here! Let's retreat back inside immediately!" The leading priest squad leader approached in a panic.

However, Linglong Moyu stood quietly at the edge of the platform with her hands behind her back, showing no fear on her face.

Anyway, he can fly now, so he won't die from a fall.

The indifference on his face only aroused the awe of the priests behind him.

"Look."

Linglong Moyu raised her hand and pointed downwards.

The cleric squad leader was puzzled.

He mustered his courage and took a few more steps forward, coming to Mo Yu's side. Following the direction Mo Yu was pointing, he looked down.

"Then...what is that..."

He frowned.

Above the ruins of the tall buildings below, there appear to be several small black dots that are slowly moving.

Linglong Moyu pointed to the rifle he was gripping tightly in his hand: "Doesn't your gun have a high-powered scope? If you can't see clearly, use that to see."

The squad leader suddenly realized what was happening, quickly picked up his rifle, and looked down through the scope.

This time, he finally saw it clearly.

After a moment of stunned silence, it let out a piercing scream: "It's...it's Devouring Beasts! So many! So many Devouring Beast teeth!!"

"Calm your emotions."

Linglong Moyu spoke slowly beside him: "Intense emotional fluctuations will attract extra attention from the Mana ecosystem. You should have learned this most basic survival knowledge."

His indifferent reminder made the squad leader and the other dozen or so priests even more frightened!

That's just how humans are.

The more you try to stop him from thinking about something, the more he will unconsciously think about it.

Even if they all knew.

fear!

It has no meaning at this moment.

It might even bring about an even greater disaster!
This is also an important reason why Linglong Moyu, this "Adam" lord, holds such a high position in the Lighthouse.

Because his genes truly represent the choices of this era.

"Lord Adam... what should we do?"

In the midst of extreme and uncontrollable panic, humanity's primal instinct to worship the strong and revere authority was fully unleashed.

After the first person shouted that sentence.

The other priests, as if they had found their leader, also reacted and turned their attention to this indifferent figure.

"Yes, Lord Adam! What should we do now?"

Linglong Moyu turned around and glanced at them indifferently.

From their eyes, which held a mixture of fear, awe, and dependence, he could be certain of one thing.

The group of priests that Charles left behind to monitor him had, out of fear, temporarily become his supporters.

"Come all with me."

He finally turned back.

The squad leader quickly followed behind him and asked piously, "Lord Adam, where are we going?"

Linglong Moyu didn't turn her head back.

"Let's do what we're supposed to do."

"Fulfill our due responsibilities!"

(End of this chapter)