This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 129: Netherworld? Nuclear Bomb? Voice of Death
"The cross-section of the Lingguang Tower is an octagonal structure. Each corner corresponds to a secondary tower, and each secondary tower is connected to a building similar to an arsenal. Our only target is the Lingguang Tower, and we don't need to worry about the others." said Nie Weiyang.

He used a branch to draw a rough bird's-eye view of the area around Lingguang Tower on the ground.

The three of them did not ask nonsense questions like "How do you know the map?" After traveling together for more than two months, they could not say that they understood Nie Weiyang's thoughts, but they were also very clear about this person's abilities.

"We have too few people. Although this means that the target is small and easy to infiltrate, at a time like this, lack of manpower is fatal," said Nie Weiyang.

He was silent for two seconds, then said, "We need someone to draw fire from the periphery."

"I'll go." "I'll go."

Two voices sounded at the same time.

Gong Hanchuan and Yun Bowen looked at each other, the former smiled, and the latter also smiled.

"Xiliya's shooting is better than ours, and her target is smaller." Gong Hanchuan said, "When fighting against the Golden Angel, shooting skills are more important than pure strength, isn't it?"

Celia lowered her head in silence.

"Don't be sad." Gong Hanchuan rubbed her messy and dirty hair. "Let's go." he said.

Nie Weiyang waved to the two men and watched them go in another direction. He stared at their backs for a long time, then suddenly said, "You know how to ensure that the nuclear bomb destroys the Lingguang Tower, right?"

Celia shuddered violently.

"No matter how much the higher-ups think, they wouldn't casually send a child with such a delicate mind to carry out such an important mission. Not only would it be sending her to her death, it would also reduce the probability of the mission's success... even if she's a top-notch marksman," Nie Weiyang said. "A nuclear bomb is sometimes more than just a nuclear bomb. It's also power, deterrence, hope... and death."

For a relatively short period of time, the term "nuclear weapons" represented the most powerful weapons humans possessed when operating on the surface of the planet.

But Nie Weiyang had seen it in another way.

——The Voice of Death·The Netherworld Shockwave Generator.

In the new world, upon death, the souls of the living quickly pass into the Netherworld, an irrational, inanimate realm where the passage of souls through the barrier between matter and consciousness can cause minor disturbances—especially for Homo sapiens souls.

To ordinary people, this turmoil is just some visual and auditory changes...

But for those who know the business, as long as they make some arrangements with the departing soul in advance, they can trigger an energy explosion at the moment the underworld descends.

These explosions can be large or small, but they are sudden and unexpected. Larger ones require the soul to store more energy and can harm the soul itself. Smaller ones simply speed up the soul's journey to the underworld, preventing it from remaining in the human world and suffering for a long time.

When Nie Weiyang had previously provoked the Sun Lord, he had used a 'small' technique. Now, he was certain that what Xi Liya had brought was a 'big' one.

A large-scale netherworld explosion cannot be triggered by souls alone. It also requires a powerful material carrier related to death to trigger turmoil in a more forceful way and break the boundary between the material world and the netherworld.

Nuclear energy is one of the symbols of the advancement of human civilization, and nuclear weapons are the most potent weapons ever created by humanity to annihilate itself. They dominated human thought for a century, becoming the embodiment of death within the human realm. Even though humans clearly understand that hatred, desire, and blindness are far more terrifying weapons, nuclear weapons are unmatched in terms of direct lethality.

The impact of the Boundary War took place along this line.

In their previous life, the visitors from Earth realized a few years later that the concept of nuclear weapons had gone astray. Whenever the death they brought mixed with the souls of Homo sapiens, it would trigger an extraordinary necromantic explosion, permanently destroying a portion of the material world's spacetime structure and transferring some matter to the necromantic realm to exist in another form. The nuclear war within the Earth visitors destroyed nearly half of the new world's planetary structure; gravity and the observable spacetime structure themselves underwent massive changes, exceeding the expected chain reaction between the two. Moreover, nuclear weapons were not only possessed by major powers; many craftsmen could handcraft nuclear weapons once they obtained the raw materials. Although they couldn't launch them remotely, they could still detonate them at a fixed point.

When Nie Weiyang died, he warned his enemies that the New World could no longer withstand another nuclear war - and this statement couldn't be truer.

The critical point of the new world is approaching. If it happens again, the planet and everyone within the barrier will be killed and transferred to the underworld.

This was the consensus of all forces worldwide. However, some people were still hoping for a lucky break and tried to take a shortcut by using the Netherworld Detonation.

What the hell is there to leave for? What could be more important than the continuation of civilization and life? Nie Weiyang had been very puzzled by this, but when he learned that there was a faction within the Regression Cult that believed people should "return from existence to non-existence, from matter to spirit, and everything to the metaphysical realm," he smiled with relief.

The thoughts of people who are possessed by evil cults are really hard to fathom, fuck...

Nie Weiyang had originally thought that the nuclear weapons that became the generators of the Netherworld's earthquakes occurred in the final days of pre-civilization. After all, such events, no matter how you looked at them, seemed to indicate that the boundary between reality and illusion had been distorted to the point of no return.

However, the era of Shelter 0632 is earlier than that of Shelter 4701, because the 'current' Glory Space Station has not yet sunk into the Netherworld.

In the story of Vault 4701, the people at that time possessed the power to change reality with their consciousness, and this power even extended to the era of visitors from Earth...

...This road of no return is truly long. Generation after generation of Homo sapiens has followed the path of hatred, desire, and blindness, all the way to a dead end.

Back to the present, if a nuclear bomb were to be used to destroy the Lingguang Tower, the only thing Nie Weiyang could think of was -

"The Netherworld explosion was triggered from within, right?" Nie Weiyang asked.

He squatted down and looked up at Xilia.

"You said you were conceived on Golden Night..." he said slowly, "This identity is very special, right?"

Celia remained silent.

"I understand," Nie Weiyang said, "What is born must die. This is the rule of this world."

This world hides countless secrets...

"...No." Xilia said softly, "What follows will begin its death."

She looked at Nie Weiyang, tears welling up in her eyes, but she held back and didn't let them fall.

"It's all about a better future," she said.

Nie Weiyang stood up. He knew that people today wouldn't realize what kind of door they were opening, and he wasn't going to say too much, because he knew very well that the reason Homo sapiens were Homo sapiens was because there was always someone who would push open that door.

"Let's go," he said.

He did not ask Xilia how to trigger the Netherworld explosion. He just carried the nuclear bomb on his back amid the explosions in the distance and took her with him, running towards the magnificent building complex that was like a giant anchor.

(End of this chapter)