I was the Heavenly Emperor in ancient times

Chapter 89 The Vanished Land of the Rising Sun
Previously in Japan.

Li Jun said that everything had not yet begun, and soon everyone understood what Li Jun meant.

The plane flew over what is now Japan, and you could see that the people on board were very tense, with distorted and strange expressions.

Whether it's the pilot flying the plane or the other crew members on board.

They looked down.

Yes, some were pale and their fingers were trembling; after taking one look, they dared not look any further down.

Others held their equipment and kept filming downwards without saying a word.

You can see that the other person's eyes are glazed over, as if their soul has been captured by what's below.

There are many kinds of horror.

Like ten suns sweeping across the sky in a mighty, overwhelming manner, or like a sudden, unexpected thunderbolt, or like a black, malevolent wind blowing from the northern sea that covers the world, it gives one a sense of the desolation of the end times.

But now, the people on the plane are experiencing a different kind of terror.

It's terrifyingly beautiful.

The terror of silence.

The plane flew over the land of the rising sun, and below was water so calm that there was not a ripple at all; it was truly without any ripples, so flat that it was more exaggerated than a mirror.

Looking down, you can't see anything except your own reflection, the endless blue sky, and the white clouds dotting the blue.

At that moment, a voice came from the device: "Please report your location and situation."

A white man in the passenger seat said in Kentese, “We have now crossed the boundary and discovered that there are towering mountains on the island border of the former Sunrise Country.”

"The mountain range is like a high wall, possibly encircling the entire country of the Rising Sun, as we have seen in previous satellite images."

The other party then asked, "What discoveries were made in the mountains?"

The passenger in the front seat said, "There seems to be some growing plants, but we can't be sure what they are right now."

At this moment.

Looking behind the plane, you can indeed see a row of mountains that seem to stretch endlessly to both sides.

Because of the mirror-like surface of the water inside the mountain range, it feels as if the mountain range is not situated on the ground, but rather floating in mid-air.

According to the conversation on the plane, such a mountain range does not appear in one place, but extends continuously, encircling and connecting together.

It is unimaginably large, almost turning the original Sunrise Country into a huge lake, or a pool.

The conversation on the plane continued.

The other party said, "Have we received any signals from our base, or discovered any trace of our members?"

The pilot replied, "Nothing has been found. No base in sight. No distress signal. There's nothing here. It's so quiet it's like there's not even the wind."

"Damn it, I feel like even the sounds we make are being eaten up by what's down there. There's definitely something down there that's devouring everything."

"It ate everything here, everything, everything..."

You could tell the pilot was extremely nervous, and his speech became somewhat incoherent.

The other party continued to press, asking, "Is the base underwater? Please investigate further."

He said, "Damn it, I absolutely will not go any closer than this. We are approaching a terrifying entity that wiped out the entire Sunrise Kingdom. It has devoured an entire country and hundreds of millions of people."

"You fucking know very well how dangerous it is."

"Right before our eyes, a fraction of the world's population has vanished, and an entire country has disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed."

"And it took less than an hour."

The other party said, "You are on a mission."

The pilot said, "I believe we have reason to refuse such an unreasonable mission before the hazard assessment is completed. We are just ordinary people. Please send superhumans to carry out this mission."

"If you have superhumans, and you still dare to come."

Finally, they flew to the other end of the entire anomalous region.

The endless "mirror" that made people feel like they were flying in a frozen frame was finally broken, and the people in the plane saw something new ahead.

In the distance, there is a towering, majestic peak.

On the summit.

With a waterfall cascading down, this is also the source of all the water for this huge "lake" or "pool".

"What it is!"

Just how tall is it?

"Did this water rush down from the clouds?"

The people on the plane were used to looking down, but now, as they got closer and closer to that giant peak, they actually began to look up at it.

The mountain pierced the sky, reaching a height of at least ten thousand meters. The water vapor it emitted enveloped the surrounding area, obscuring its exact shape.

From the perspective of the airplane, the water didn't appear to be rushing down from the mountain peaks, but rather falling from the sea of ​​clouds.

This is definitely not a scene that could appear in the real world, nor is it a terrain that nature could create.

"God!"

"Only a true god could create something like this!"

"But this god just destroyed a country and made a fraction of the world's population disappear."

"This is the end of the world."

"There's no such thing as a beautiful apocalypse."

The scene is indeed beautiful, quiet and lovely like a fairyland, or perhaps the heaven in Western mythology.

But here, there is no human presence to be found.

The plane circled the country of the rising sun once before finally issuing a report.

"report!"

"It has now been confirmed that the entire country of Japan has disappeared!"

It wasn't dark yet.

News about the Land of the Rising Sun had already begun to spread throughout the world. Unlike the calm surface of the Land of the Rising Sun, this news was like a tsunami.

After an earthquake, the entire country of Japan sank and caved in.

A strange mountain range rises and surrounds this place, shaping it into a valley, or perhaps a huge "pool".

The island is gone, a country is gone, and hundreds of millions of people are gone.

Everyone who heard the news or saw the images felt a deep sense of fear, because they truly felt and witnessed the signs of human extinction.

Even though the Candle Dragon displayed terrifying power on an apocalyptic scale, its power to sweep across the entire world was felt by everyone.

However, the disasters it brought were far less devastating than the silent devastation it caused.

There was no prior notice.

Before this, the only unexpected event was the two Li Juns with double pupils, and the subsequent battle of superhumans excited many people in the distance.

Many people even treated the news here as a farce, or as a TV drama to watch.

Then I woke up, and it was all over.

But what terrifies them even more is the possibility that they might wake up one day to find their world over.

No, it should be that they will never wake up again.
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Nangang City.

Since a large number of resurrected individuals appeared in Japan, the entire city of Nangang and the "Gate" base began to conduct self-examinations, and at the same time discovered that there were a large number of people within them who had been replaced by the resurrected individuals.

These people look exactly like normal people, and they themselves are unaware that they are fake.

but.

Once a collective consciousness issues a command, they become part of that collective consciousness.

After discovering that this event could have extremely terrible consequences, the "Gate" base and the entire South Port City, and even the East Country, began to deal with the matter.

They searched for these replaced people by examining their spirits, but at the same time, they also began searching for where these things actually came from.

Where did it first appear?
Why in Nangang City?

Finally, they found the place that might be the real source.
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The road was cordoned off.

Someone is directing traffic, and large engineering vehicles are passing by, along with other vehicles of various colors, which, judging from their signs, come from different departments.

"Road ahead is blocked, please detour."

Please show your identification when entering or leaving.

"Those undergoing emergency evacuation, please use this passage..."

And everything revolves around a small, unremarkable hill.

The mountain is quite small, and a park has been built around it, where nearby residents often come to take walks.

However, at this moment, there was a great commotion here, with a large number of vehicles heading here, and the surrounding residents were evacuated in an emergency.

soon.

Lu Gang also arrived by car.

After he got out of the car, he looked around and felt like he had been here before.

But this place is really quite ordinary. It's surrounded by a few old residential areas, and most of the area consists of ordinary people's bungalows and small buildings.

The streets aren't particularly wide, but there are plenty of alleys of all sizes.

Lu Gang couldn't find the problem: "Have we been here before?"

Zhao Nange said, "Li Jun's home is here. There's a street a few kilometers away where we ate before."

Lu Gang immediately realized, "No wonder."

He looked at a place not far away, where there was an inconspicuous house, but now it had been fenced off and converted into an official building.

For an instant.

Lu Gang understood why the anomaly had occurred here, which was also why he said it was no wonder.

"No wonder this place felt familiar, no wonder that thing chose this place."

Although they had guessed part of the truth, Lu Gang and Zhao Nange still needed to check out the so-called anomaly to confirm whether it was true.

They walked in from the park entrance, stepped across the stone path, and gradually entered a place with artificial rocks.

The area was already crowded with people; it appeared to be an artificial pond.

The water inside has now been drained, revealing a hole.

Lu Gang asked, "How long have they been here?"

A staff member standing nearby said, "I don't know, because it's hidden underwater and surrounded by a group of artificial rocks, so you wouldn't notice it normally."

Lu Gang asked, "Has anything unusual happened recently?"

The staff member said, "There's nothing unusual; everything is the same as before."

Lu Gang nodded, then said to the team members behind him, "Take him down for a check-up."

The inspection, naturally, is to determine whether the staff member is a resurrected person.

However, as soon as he said this, Lu turned his head and saw that the man had melted away like a wax figure.

Lu Gang immediately retreated, and Zhao Nange also took out his weapon.

In an instant, everyone became alert, others began to retreat, and combat personnel took their positions.

Next came a completely new round of inspections.

After Zhao Nange returned, she said, "All the staff in the entire park have been replaced."

Lu Gang said, "It's basically confirmed now; this should be where she first appeared."

Afterwards, Lu Gang and Zhao Nange entered the cave.

However, it didn't take long for the water to reach the bottom before it was flooded.

It was unimaginably deep inside. The underwater robot traveled for ten kilometers and still hadn't reached the end.

Then, the connection was lost.

However, based on their current observations, they have confirmed that this cave and the one in Japan definitely originated from the same source.

He had just come out of the cave when he sat down on a rock and started smoking, looking as if he was deep in thought.

Lu Qing, a team member standing nearby, handed the collected items to a staff member wearing protective clothing, and then looked at Lu Gang.

He asked, "Team leader, why do you look a little pale?"

Lu Gang looked up at Lü Qing, who was standing there, and asked, "Tell me, which cave appeared first, the one here or the one in Japan?"

Lü Qing said, "Based on our current investigation, it should be from this area, although it's also possible that they appeared simultaneously."

Lu Gang took another drag of his cigarette: "You know about what's going on in Japan, right?"

Lü Qing nodded: "Mm!"

Lu Gang continued, "Perhaps what happened in Japan was originally meant to happen here."

"That Guhuoniao, the place she initially chose to create that terrifying and eerie area was in Nangang City."

"That giant peak must have appeared here, submerged everything here, and then taken it away and disappeared."

Lü Qing's expression immediately changed: "No way?"

Lu Gang said, "Of course they would. The other side had already made preparations and laid the groundwork here in secret before that."

“She created a large number of resurrected people here, and these resurrected people were created before those who came to Japan.”

“They touched on every aspect; the entire city of Nangang was a huge altar, a mountain and sea kingdom of her ideal.”

"She chose to give up, or rather, had no choice but to give up, for some reason."

The more Lu Gang thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth, and the more a chill ran down his spine.

The enemy lurked in the shadows, and when they struck, they devoured a fraction of the world's population without the enemy's knowledge.

Even as recently as yesterday, they were unaware that they were actually the initial victims of this disaster, just one step away from the so-called extinction catastrophe.

However, Lü Qing still didn't quite understand.

Why did she give up?

"Given her strength, she has accomplished this much. We shouldn't just give up so quietly. We didn't even discover her, or even this hole."

"Perhaps we're overthinking it; this wasn't the place she initially chose."

Lu Gang nodded firmly: "It's Nangang City. She wants to create her ideal place here."

"However, as she carried out this plan step by step, her consciousness gradually became closer to that of a human, and she even began to possess some human desires and intelligence, so she took a look at Li Jun."

"And Li Jun discovered her, and she also discovered that she could not resist Li Jun's power, at least not in the early stages."

"At that time, she needed a large number of sacrifices and time to launch this massive ritual to summon the demon god behind her."

"If Guhuoniao had chosen Nangang City from the beginning, her every move would have been under Li Jun's watchful eye."

"She might be able to devour a country in just three days, but Li Jun won't give her three days."

"That's why she gave up Nangang City and went to Japan."

"There, she had a wild party and even provoked Li Jun."

Lu Gang guessed based on his own assumptions. He might have been wrong in some aspects, but he felt that the general situation was probably like this.

Lu Qing stood rooted to the spot, even more frightened than Lu Gang.

"So, it was almost us?"

Lu Gang stood up and stubbed out the cigarette.

"It was really just a little bit short."

(End of this chapter)