The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 227 The Queen's Sound Waves

The Queen will protect us—

This sentence is like a stabilizing force, firmly planted in everyone's heart.

In this world, the Queen is a being more eternal than the sun.

Her spiritual power was focused on the first vaccine given to newborns, and her image holding a scepter was included in every early childhood education textbook.

People may question the gods, but no one can deny the Queen—

Perhaps with this belief, everyone stopped panicking and instead moved forward in a tight and orderly manner, supporting each other as they climbed to the top of the white pagoda.

Unlike the central white pagoda, the branch pagoda is not built too tall in order to increase the effectiveness of its top sound wave radiation. Compared to the central pagoda, which has hundreds of floors, the branch pagoda only has more than fifty floors.

Lin Nan was already in an isolation room on the 30th floor, so climbing to the top of the tower with the help of the strong and healthy sentries was not particularly difficult.

The escape team grew like a snowball, and even the guides who were resting in their rooms because their mental level was not high enough appeared. In the end, when everyone arrived at the command and control room at the top of the tower, there were nearly 500 people.

Su Ping knew the control room's password, so she led the team to enter this military hub, which normally required special privileges to access.

"Everyone, please stay here and hide for a while," Su Ping said. "Although we don't know why this happened, fortunately, the number of people infected this time is not large. Please stay here and leave everything to the military."

With her encouragement, everyone gradually calmed down. Lin Nan slid off Caesar's spiritual body, and the moment her boots touched the ground, a kind of static-induced chill ran up her spine.

Is this the core control center of the White Pagoda?
It was far more spacious and colder than I had imagined.

Its structure is somewhat similar to the central white tower, with a dizzyingly high, arched metal dome. In the very center, a jet-black energy stone, shaped like a heart, floats silently on the holographic projection platform.

Its surface is covered with dark red patterns, like the slow, beating pulse of some sleeping creature.

The patterns flickered in rhythm with the breath, each flash causing a subtle distortion in the surrounding air.

It was these spatial distortions that generated some extremely mysterious sound waves that no one had been able to decipher for hundreds of years. These sound waves spread out from the energy stone in visible blackish-purple ripples and resonated almost like sobs when they came into contact with the metal walls.

This is the eternal voice known as the "Queen's Whisper".

Since the great catastrophe struck, this sound wave originating from the first queen has enveloped every inch of human survival grounds, with the central white tower as its heart and the towers in various regions assisting it, like an invisible bloodline.

This sound wave requires a vast amount of spiritual energy to sustain it, but human lifespan is always limited. Therefore, on her deathbed, the first queen established a set of laws for the inheritance of eternal spiritual energy.

Whenever a new person ascends the throne, the spiritual power of the queens of the past is also reloaded into the image of the successor, making it a new energy left in the world.

It is precisely this special system of succession that ensures that every queen, upon ascending the throne, stands at the absolute pinnacle of spiritual power.

Royal power is not inherited, but accumulated over generations.

Humans revere the Queen—

At the same time, he was also afraid of her—

Outside the White Pagoda, the sounds of repeated artillery bombardments resounded.

Lin Nan walked to the panoramic floor-to-ceiling window, where the devastation of the entire city could be seen from a height of three hundred meters.

"My God, have these people gone mad?!"

"They've gone mad, they've turned into mutants..."

Everyone stared at the scene in the city, their eyes filled with fear. Almost all the mentally unstable residents had been mobilized.

They ran like human torches, their skin peeling away layer by layer like wax figures under high temperatures, yet they felt no pain. Amidst the crackling of burning fat, some laughed as they crashed into gas stations, while others opened their arms to embrace the gas pipelines. Each embrace triggered a new explosion, and waves of fire surged between buildings like a tidal wave.

But what's even more terrifying are not these people, but the Sentinels who were also infected and had completely lost their minds.

One after another, berserk, mutated monsters sprang up in the corners of various cities, targeting large facilities—oil tanks, chemical plants, and high-voltage power stations.

As their deformed claws tore through the steel containers, the towering flames resembled an ancient dragon awakening, the raging fire carrying toxic gases forming a massive mushroom cloud that dyed the night sky a sickly orange-red.

These monsters revel in the sea of ​​fire, bathed in temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Their charred skin peels off like a snake shedding its skin, only to regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Amidst the continuous explosions, the roars of wild beasts echoed, sounding like metal scraping against metal mixed with animal howls, instantly driving those who heard it to madness.

"This is terrifying." The staff, who had never seen anything like this before, huddled together in fear.

"what happened?"

"How could these people change like this in an instant?"

“It shouldn’t have happened ‘in an instant.’ It’s very likely that they were infected a long time ago, but it just hadn’t shown up before,” Su Ping said slowly, looking at everything below.

She had lived in this city since childhood and had a premonition of the unusual behavior that had been happening recently.

However, the central monitoring equipment had not reported any abnormalities, so she dared not think about it in that direction.

Perhaps everyone had already guessed it, but they were afraid of the outcome and dared not say it.

"If the mutation started when these people became manic, then it means that the pollutants have been lurking in the city for at least two months."

For two whole months, it evaded the Queen's almost seamless sound waves and countless detector probes—what a terrifying ability that is...

Su Ping took a deep breath, gazing at the city below, which was gradually becoming ravaged, her eyes filled with despair: "If I'm not mistaken, some of the alien species may have evolved new abilities. They can blend into the human world like ordinary people and evade the tower's monitoring."

"The human world is about to descend into chaos..."

How perceptive!

Lin Nan stood to the side, listening silently to her speak.

I sincerely admire him.

After a long pause, she spoke up: "The train I was on when I came to this city was attacked by aliens. There was an alien with this ability on the train."

"Its combat power may not be particularly strong, but it possesses extremely high mental strength, enough to influence or control other alien species. It's like—" Lin Nan paused, considering his choice of words, "its role is like that of a 'guide' among us humans."

"You mean they helped these monsters evade human detectors!?"

Someone made an incredulous sound.

“I think so,” Lin Nan nodded.

"So tonight's incident was organized and premeditated." A hint of worry flashed in Chen Ping's eyes. "But what is their purpose..."

　I'm a bit unsure how to develop the plot, so I'm writing a bit slowly. =.=
　　(End of this chapter)